Ugly Love

Corbin invites Tate to dinner with him, Ian, and Miles to celebrate Miles’s promotion to captain. Miles acts very humbly about the promotion, and he and Tate flirt in veiled ways during the dinner. After dinner, Ian and Corbin go out drinking. Miles goes with Tate to her car, which is a few blocks away in the parking garage near her workplace. They get caught in a rainstorm before getting in the car, where they have sex. They play a game to see who can stay quiet the longest since they’re trying to have sex in secret, and Tate loses.

They get back to Miles’s apartment where they have sex again, and Tate asks why Miles won’t make eye contact with her during sex. He says it’s because she might read too much into his emotions. When Miles asks her if it bothers her, she betrays her true feelings: “I’m shaking my head no, but my heart is crying Yes! ‘I’ll get used to it, I guess. I was just curious.’ I love being with him but hate myself more and more with each new lie that passes my lips” (163). She leaves his apartment but doesn’t want to go home yet. She heads downstairs to chat with Cap. Cap gives her the advice that love can be complicated, and he falls asleep in his chair.

Rachel takes a pregnancy test, and it’s positive. Miles goes out for the day, and when he comes back, Rachel has locked herself in her room and is crying. She believes that Miles has left her due to the pregnancy. However, he shows her all the pamphlets he got about family housing, so she can still go to college and pursue her dreams. He has even mapped out how to attend flight school while she takes courses. Miles reassures her that although life will have more challenges with a baby, they can still carry out their goals.

On Thursday during game night, Dillon approaches Tate in the kitchen and tries to make an advance on her. Miles, who she hasn’t seen or heard from in five days because he was flying, comes into the kitchen and demands Dillon leave her alone. Dillon gets mad and accuses Miles of liking Tate. Corbin breaks up the confrontation, and they kick Dillon out. Before he leaves, Dillon gives Tate his room number.

Miles gets close to Tate, and she thinks that he smells like “forbidden fruit.” He tells Tate to ask to use his apartment to study. Tate comes out and yells at the guys for being too loud and asks if they can go across the hall to watch the game. Ian reacts strangely because Miles has told her that he doesn’t have a TV. However, Miles offers her his apartment to study, and their plan works.

Tate goes to Miles’s apartment, and he texts her. He comes back about an hour later, and they have sex. She goes back to her apartment afterwards because she doesn’t want Corbin to suspect anything, but he’s in the shower. Tate and Miles have sex again, this time, without a condom. Tate says it's okay because she’s on birth control. Miles gets upset, slams the door, and leaves her alone.

Rachel is starting to show, so she and Miles know they’ll have to tell their parents soon. Rachel wants to name the baby Claire if she’s a girl, after her grandmother. She says Miles can pick the name if the baby is a boy. He knows the perfect name but won’t tell her what it is.