The feeling blinded her as her vision turned to white and she ceased to feel or hear or taste. Just when she thought she could take no more of this ec...tasy, she pulled out of Aria’s grip, throwing her head back in an exasperated gasp for air. The sensation flowed gently out of her body, like cool water being poured over her head. Panting, Isabelle laid back on the flat rock and brought her hand over her eyes, her breast heaving up and down with heavy breath. A splashing sound brought Isabelle. Frightfully, like a young deer in a clearing, she darted her head around, looking into every corner, but like everyone else in her life, her parents were gone. She reached out to find that the duvet had gone cold, her parents had not been here for some time. The frightened girl fell to the ground, her knees upon the cold floor, and she began to pray, stuttering out, ‘Why me, Lord? What did I do to cause you to leave me behind? I pray every day, I’ve followed every commandment, and I’m the only. Then, her mother had become separated from the other women while tending the herds, a storm had blown in and she had become disoriented and lost. Before they could find her, she had frozen. Pioneer worlds are cruel worlds.Now Holly was the woman of the house. Her eyes closed as her hand lay on her belly. She began to see an image, a man above her, moving into her. She gasped as her hand touched her most sensitive places. Her hand insinuated itself between her legs, stroking her. The image. What was wrong with her? Even in tenth grade her friends seem to snicker behind her back and she'd catch glimpses of boys laughing among themselves and pointing at her. She was nearly always alone at the lunch table in high school.The only friend she had who would stick up for her was Candy Namo. Candy was almost as smart and pretty as Helen. Candy had scored just below her on every spelling bee and math contest, had second honours ( Helen always won first place ) at the Science Fair year in.