I asked “what is up beautiful?” She sat on the edge of the bed and began to explain that it didn’t hit her until returning from the restaurant ...hat she would have to head home soon and face her parents, and that her new experience would only be a fond memory. I asked Danielle to have a seat next to Bethany; I commenced to explain that the nice thing about riding alone it gives you plenty of time to think. I told them how I “May have a way that it does not need to end, but if it doesn’t work. "We could go skating at the rink." Well, there's another good suggestion," I said. "That would be fun, don't you think, Ali?" I'm not a very good skater," she said with a worried look."Not to worry," I said, wiggling my eyebrows, "I'll support you."She squeezed my arm and held me tightly to her. "Just practicing," she whispered.When we got back to Ali's home, I dropped them off after she said she'd call me later. I had a smile on my face I'm sure as I drove back to my townhouse. It had been. Right here in the classroom where I would have to spend the entire year looking at him and his friends. Oh god! His friends! They had been silent all of this time. I had all but forgotten all about them. They had watched me surrender to this horrible creature. I had let him stick his finger in my mouth like a little cock. I had let him caress me and move his finger over my breasts. I made no move to defend myself or resist his advances.Jamal broke the kiss for a moment and whispered in my ear.. Not anymore." “Beth, don’t do this-“ he starts, desperately, but I shake my head. “No,” I whisper and with that tiny word, my heart breaks. I will myself to look at Mark and it kills me to see the devastation on his face. Nodding, he gives me a hard kiss on my forehead before letting me go and steps back. “Okay. Let me take you home,” he murmurs. ************* It is one in the morning and I am lying on my bed in shorts and a vest, still milling over Mark’s words in my head. We didn’t say.