Mark lay on his bed with the journal clasped tightly in his hands. He wasn't sure if he should read it. Courtney and Mark usually read them together. He'd mentioned it to her, but she hadn't seemed too excited about it.
This wasn't like Courtney.
She was a girl of extremes. When she was mad she was furious. And when she was happy she was overjoyed. But not recently… recently it had been a sort of lukewarm happiness.
Only about the journals though. She seemed pretty darn happy about the arrival of Skyler, his apparently "cute" cousin. Of course, she didn't show it in an outward way. But Mark could see it in her eyes. It didn't help that Skyler looked like Bobby's identical twin brother. No one could argue with that.
All you had to do was take one look. Even as a little kid Mark had seen it. To be honest, it had always kind of freaked him out. He's made it a high priority to make sure his best friend never met his cousin.
But the thing was… looks were deceiving. Bobby and Skyler weren't the same at all.
Bobby had a confidence that Skyler didn't have, and probably never would. He let himself get overrun by people too much.
Bobby stood up for what he knew was right.
That's what the fight for Halla is all about.