Chapter Nineteen: Jack, Jill and Jealousy.

Jill is still looking for a Vet, but her next date is with Jack, Captain of the Cougars’ football team. He is doing well in his business classes. He was interested because she was said to be a “baller,” or one who will “put out.” This was unavoidable because of what she said about the Chess Club President. It also represents Jill fishing with unfamiliar bait (remember chapter one?) As such, she has caught a different kind of fish, and should investigate how well she likes it. Jill shares the truth with Jack who in this case agrees with her. There will be guys who will not believe her and think it is a ploy to keep them out of her otherwise sexually active pants. Truth is the first casualty of war, and this IS the war between the sexes. Having obtained her confidence, Jack is very trusting with Jill when it comes to other guys. He wants to be sure he is not smothering her and gives her all kinds of latitude although in his mind they are a couple and dating. Jill unfortunately comes to an all too familiar conclusion: She concludes that Jack doesn’t care about her deeply. If he cared, she reasons, he would be jealous. She is correct in her syllogism. If a guy cares, he will be jealous. As a result, by tautology, if he is not jealous he does not care. In point of fact he is painfully jealous and overcompensating. Jack needs Jill to know that he can be jealous, and Jill needs understand that he is not “pimping her out.” In this case, the only people who understand are reading the book. Jack and Jill have a fight, and Jack’s last act in Jill’s best interest is to introduce her to Dick.