There comes a moment in the life of every young girl when she is poised on the brink of one of the most inevitable and vital changes that she will ever experience. The moment, the undefinable and ever unexpected moment, when she will cease to be a child and become a woman. When she will shed the innocent and joyful concerns that she has known from the time of her birth and begin life anew with interests that are far more sensual.

Vanessa is fourteen years old and at the very cusp of her moment. She currently finds herself at the home of her best friend Tiffany's sister. This is a huge event in her mind since she has never before been allowed to stay overnight without the close supervision f someone's parents. Tiffany's sister Anna and her husband Paul were in fact parents, their son was six and quite a boisterous child, but they weren't the girls parents. This fact made the entire adventure seem almost deliciously forbidden in Vanessa's mind despite the fact that all they had thus far was watch movies and eat popcorn in the living room.

Paul and Anna were the type of couple that enjoyed having people over so besides the girls there were a few of Paul's friends over as well. They were a noisy bunch and they annoyed Vanessa, her shy personality made it hard for her to interact well with people that she was not well acquainted with. If they had been younger, closer to her own age, she might have paid them some mind since she was after all not immune to liking boys and she had put in special effort on her appearance for her first stay here where the rules unbent just enough to allow for a bit of extra fun and freedom. The other guests were, however, quite a bit older than her, mostly in their early twenties, so she ignored them for the most part.

The loud bang the front door made when it was opened carelessly served only to increase her frustration. Not perhaps the banging in itself but the unwelcome addition of yet one more of Paul's friends. Not just any friend but the only one that she had ever met before today, she didn't just find him an unpleasant distraction from her movie, she didn't like him. She was not certain of why only that the confidence that surrounded him seemed to cause everyone else to like him immediately and she suspected that her own inability to accomplish the same irritated her.

His name was Nick, and all six feet of him grated on her nerves.

Vanessa heaved one great sigh and attempted to return her attention to the

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