"What's up?" she asked."About to go out with the fam, u?" Movies." Cool, w/ who?"It took her a while to answer. I dusted on some blush, then was start...ng on my eye shadow when she answered. "Just some people." Like..." I dunno, Ben, Amy, Chris." Chris Jesuit?" She had liked him forever, but they never went out, because he was like obsessed with me."Yeah, didn't you know? We're going out now."My eyeliner pencil slipped and almost stabbed me from the shock. Sloppy seconds, I thought."Oh, who else. Kelly and Belinda started making calls to their friends to let them in on the gossip, but Susan said she would wait to hear back from Natalie’s visit before saying anything. As it turned out, it was the best choice made.Natalie walked over to see Ann around 8 PM. It had grown dark, but she wasn’t afraid. She was a bold and inquisitive girl who wanted to find out what was really going on behind the walls of Ann’s house. When she rang the doorbell, William answered. He certainly wasn’t. The rock was quite tall, and although I was plainly visible from the back by everyone, there was no way that they could see Peter who was standing in front of me. He took my legs and parted them. Bending each in it s turn at the knee, he placed my feet firmly on solid parts of the rock so that my feet had a firm foothold to keep my balance but my knees were bent and my legs spread wide. From the back it just looked as though I were sunning myself on the rock. But from the front, Peter’s face. "Her right hand left mine and moved across my tummy, pulling me backagainst her as she kissed my shoulder. "No one knows this, but I quitelike girls as well as boys," she whispered quietly, "and you seem to beboth of those right now."My free hand moved back slightly and made contact with her leg. She waswearing a dress made of soft cotton, with knee length leather boots, andI could feel the taught muscles of her thigh through the flimsymaterial. Her hand moved down my tummy and came to rest.