caleb half smiled. he still had his cowboy hat on. "you underestimate me to much" he said. he and his friends had gone through military training but didnt join. they all had more important things at the time

Caleb listened and whinces as she poked him. "It's nothing" he said trying to play it off. When she kept asking he had no choice but to tell her. "Jacob and his friends when they took me kinda pinned me down and beat me up. Now there's a really bad bruise on my torso" he said. He'd been wearing compression shirts more often because it helped with the pain

caleb looked at her "thats a funny way to ask me to take my shirt off" he joked. he took his short off revealing the bruice that started half way up his rips and down to where his belt sat. then to the middle of his torso.

Caleb winced. "It's fine just a couple of broken ribs" he said. Caleb half wanted to go to sleep as it was 12.00 at night.

Caleb stood there and tried to protest but stopped. "You can stay in my room I'll stay on the couch" he said. He wasn't letting Taylor go outside and catch a chill.