" Then she looked at Jefferson and asked, "Did you really hit him?" Yes'm, Miss Caroline, I surely did. He was plannin' on hurtin' Seth here, chasin' ...im, so I stopped him." He clamped his lips together and looked worried. "Didn't 'tend to hit him so hard." We were thinking of tying him up and putting him in the barn. Would your father mind?"Caroline stared at Seth as though she had never seen him before. Was this the same boy she had known since they both were eight? The boy who rode to school. I leaned over and kissed her on the lips, I had been touching her now for sometime so seemed best for me to make the move. I moved to my knees as we kissed some more when she invited me upstairs to the bedroom. There she sat down on the bed, I kneeled kissing her some more and foundling and touching her body. Moving my hands across her breasts, cupping them through her dress, teasing her nipples as we kissed. I began unbuttoning her dress in the front exposing her bare breasts to my mouth. "You wanted it as much as I did, didn't you?" she asked."I had never thought about it." I answered."You're a liar." Don't call me a Fucking Liar. I hadn't thought about before." I'm sorry, I thought I was getting mixed messages from you." She said."I don't give mixed messages, either I want to fuck or I don't." I replied.A few minutes later, we saw Jason's lights coming in the driveway, she got up and moving to another chair. I was nervous when he came in as though he would know. He came in,. The moon and the stars and the branches overhead peered in through the fogged-up windows. For a second he considered opening the door, falling out, and running away. It was true, of course, that Isaac had never made it this far with a girl all through high school. Had barely managed so much as a kiss, in fact, to the point that he spent almost half the day sometimes thinking about it. His virginity seemed like a time bomb, set to blow up and humiliate him any day now. Or maybe like an anchor.