As usual, Jake was on the school roof, smoking to kill time while he waited for his girlfriend to finish whatever she was doing at that student council. In fact, he found himself thinking about how he had changed in the last few months. His horrible grades had increased to average and he was even attending classes more.

Well, the promise to quit smoking hadn't been fulfilled yet, but he was trying!

He was changing, as she was too, but Jake liked that the essence of both of them was still the same. Pfft– he was even starting to think like her! Those fancy words...

Upon hearing the stairwell door open and her calling him, the delinquent quickly threw the cigarette as far away as possible, disguising it as he swallowed the smoke in one go, mentally praying that she hadn't seen it. With one or two half-choked coughs, he turned to her.

"Er... Yo, my beautiful. Is the meeting over yet?"