"Do you love me?" he whispered, praying for an answer.
Her arms moved tighter around his neck in reply and she kissed him so hard that his lips were crushed back against his teeth and he could hardly breathe.
"I love you," she whispered softly. Patty Edwards' whole being thrilled with the words as she said them. She had dreamed of this moment nearly the whole two years she had been living in the valley. She had fallen for Danny Peters soon after she had begun classes in the small local school, but at first he had not seemed to notice her. She had been thirteen then against his fourteen, and she had to admit thinking back that there hadn't been much about her to notice. She had been a skinny kid, but about a year ago she had suddenly started to change. Her angular body had blossomed out with amazing speed. Many nights in the privacy of her room she had taken her clothes off and excitedly looked in the mirror to see how her breasts had swelled out high and firm and to marvel at the silky sheen of softly curling pubic hair that had made its appearance as a little sensuous triangle up between her long shapely legs.
And just a few months ago Danny had begun to notice her. She wasn't sure just when it had started but sometimes at school she had felt his eyes on her, and he seemed to keep appearing in the same places she did. She had been careful. The first few times he started to speak to her she had been cool and unresponsive, as if she didn't care whether lie existed or not. She didn't want him to get the impression that she was going to be an easy conquest for him, knowing instinctively that men never respected that kind of girl and would use them and quickly cast them aside. No, she had been careful and he had come after her, convincing himself little by little that this seemingly unattainable creature was the only girl he could ever possibly want.