Jackson McKiernan doesn't think he needs to be in a relationship, nor is he jumping at the opportunity to get into one. At the moment, he is more than satisfied with the single life and if he's being honest, he'd rather focus his attention on matter...
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Complications with Girl Scouts
It's been nearly four and a half weeks since the catastrophic lunch date with the fake Sage took place. Although Jack had been curious as to why the real Sage Chan chose to stand him up and send a decoy in her stead instead, he never did try to find out the reason. He simply had no incentive to. As he said before, he's already got a lot on his plate. He's got no time to be worrying about such trivial matters that don't really concern him. At least, not anymore. Family, school, work and the cage are the only things that are important to him.
The grades for the midterm exams he took three weeks ago are okay at best, and Jack doesn't find them the slightest bit satisfying. If he wants to make it onto the Dean's List for the semester, he has to study even harder, which means no distractions of any kind. It's not his fault he's never been a straight A student. Academics doesn't come easy to everybody. All that matters now, though, is that he's putting in the effort to do what it takes to become successful.
Besides, it's none of his business anyways. To be frank, Sage might have made his life a little easier. Well, sort of. The keywords here being a little. Sure, she could have sent someone more level-headed and more smooth around the edges, but Jack will take what he can get. He's in no place to complain. Things could have gone worse. As you can imagine, it had been rather difficult and tricky for him to explain the ordeal to Mrs McKiernan in a way that would make logical sense without him letting the cat out of the bag.
Since Sage kept her end of the deal and informed her mother she had a splendid time with him (despite the omission of a major detail—you know, the one about how she was never even there in the first place), Jack didn't have the heart to rat her out. He's the one who messed things up by complaining about how terrible the date had been because he assumed the girl had betrayed him. Therefore, it had been his job to fix it without implementing Sage and, well, fake Sage.
Jack isn't fond of lying. However, he made an exception specifically for this case seeing as he had no other choice. Thankfully, he managed to convince his mother that it had been a big misunderstanding. Yeah, Mrs McKiernan was skeptical but when her son asked her to set him up on another date, it was like Sage never existed. Unfortunately, saving the girl's derrière had been at the expense of Jack having to spend another evening with Dorothy, the apparent niece of Mrs McKiernan's good friend's second cousin or something along the lines of that. He doesn't remember.
Today, miraculously enough, Jack has no dates scheduled, thank heavens! His assignments for the week have also been settled and he doesn't have to go to work, which means he's got plenty of time to kill with his favorite, Charlie. Unfortunately for him, though, his cousin is not available to cause mayhem on the city with him. She is too busy doing god knows what with her boyfriend and the mere thought of the two of them leads the corners of Jack's lips to twitch upwards. He should be upset with her because she chose to blow him off for a boy but he can't blame her.
