Friends Don't Let Friends Get Insulted by Jerks
"What did he say to you?" Jake asked.
Jenna sniffed again, directing her gaze upwards in an effort to avoid tearing up. "It was stupid," she tried to assure him.
She'd been eating lunch with Jake when Luke Baker had come up to their table and asked to have a word with her. Privately. That had made her happy.
But then Alli sought out Jake before last period, informing him that Jenna had been absent from all her afternoon classes.
His search ended in the music room, where he found his typically perky friend bleary-eyed and despondent.
"Was it about you wanting to be baptized?"
A few tears escaped as Jenna nodded. Jake rubbed her back comfortingly.
"I thought he was going to say he approves," she admitted. "But instead he told me he'd rather I didn't. That I should go to a different church, because he doesn't want the other church members to associate him and Becky with a girl with a past like mine."
Jake pulled Jenna into a bear hug.
"If Luke thinks he can speak to you like that, he's got a lesson coming," he assured her, anger blossoming in his heart. "I'll see to that."