he looks away , a small muscle in his jaw tightening . `` read what it says they believe i was wearing when i left . '' and youre gon na see this crap one way or another . my parents would n't be caught dead with one , though . `` i know , it seems- '' `` too good to be true ? '' already accepted at a college near his mothers home town , he would have started there in the fall had he not convinced his parents to let him wait . 