“Yeah, well, I’m glad your glad,” I said. She smiled.“They’re inside. I’m supposed to shepherd you in to them as soon as you arrived, if y...u were willing, of course. Well, you’ve arrived. Feel like being shepherded?” she said. I swallowed. I shrugged.She took me by the arm and led me into the execution chamber; well that’s what it felt like to me.The two of them were standing not sitting in the den, well, I thought it was the den; I was about to be reeducated.“Welcome to the library of casa. We checked-in to the small boutique hotel just a block away from the ocean. Angie changed into her two-piece bathing suit and they both headed out to the beach. The first day on the beach, Angie and I took the time to get comfortable with the atmosphere and the people. As they walked on the sand southward, the bathing suits got smaller and smaller. Guys were in banana hammocks and the girls were sporting thongs. A lot of skin exposed for a couple of Midwesterners. Needless to say, the beach. Even though neither of us had kissing experience, I can't imagine a better kiss in my wildest dreams. I released my grip on her head, and turned around quickly. I grabbed my tooth brush, said "hurry up", and went downstairs to brush my teeth. We always walked to school together, just the two of us. Our siblings (Rick and Amanda) drove together in Amanda's car. I was so confused about what happened, that I finished brushing my teeth, and just left without RyRy. I got to school. We were in first. All through my youth and teenaged years I had longed for adulthood and the freedoms and responsibilities it held, somehow imagining that all my problems and suffering would cease to be when I passed eighteen or twenty or twenty-five… That was the other problem, the goal posts kept moving, because I still felt like a child, even when I reached those magical ages. Last May I turned twenty-nine and fear struck suddenly at my heart, because to the whole world thirty is very definitely grown up. I.