It was all I could do to keep one or the other of them from calling to cancel. I bounced back and forth between the two of them all day until I felt l...ke a damned ping-pong ball. But finally Derek was on his way to pick her up. And, the last time I popped in on Penny, she was getting dressed and getting her make-up on. They were together finally driving toward a restaurant on the outskirts of town. I felt I deserved a break but their silence in the car screamed at me. They were both nervous. I. The Carriage House was truly nothing more than a old ramshackle barn type structure only large enough to fit two carriages in it with a work bench at one end and one to the side. It was about to fall down back in the early sixties and is probably returned to the dust by now. One of the two doors was ajar but neither would move as I recall. The door ajar was jammed and tearing anything up was out of the question so I never actually went in there. When I discovered The Carriage House I thought it. And he was my first. At that time I convinced myself that I was in love with him. But looking back I’m not even sure if liked him. He was hot, every girl wanted to be with him and he picked me… So I eventually thought that losing my virginity to him can’t possibly be a mistake. I remember thinking “Would you ever regret it?” But just as I was about to answer my own question, the outside voices rushed through my head telling me to go for it: “You’re so lucky!” “He’s the most attractive guy. Jane smiled to herself. It was a bit cruel to send him out in such alightweight dress when she knew it would come in cold, but it was the onlyway he'd wear the precious pink cardigan with butterflies stitched to thepockets.She placed the little bag of party favors Jason had been given by Jessica,and a piece of cake Mrs. Sanders had sent home for "her son" on the kitchentable. "Hi love," she said to her husband, giving him a long kiss. "How wasyour day?" She got the back of the house painted and.