"Would you quit it?" Jake exclaimed, tilting away from her and scowling. "I'm on vacation, okay!"

That wasn't a lie necessarily. He was on a forced vacation so he'd left an important word out but it still didn't count as a lie in Jake's mind. He didn't even like admitting that much because his father wouldn't have taken a vacation. Not even when his mother had gotten sick had he stopped to really take care of her.

"Can't a guy have a few days off to be a fat, lazy slob?" Jake asked her. "That's what I'm doing. Being a slob with no commitments for awhile."