Julia had not finished half her shopping but suddenly she was in a hurry to be out of the store. Twice she had caught the stranger looking at her with obvious interest.

The two girls paid their bills and left the store. They packed the groceries in the back of Julia's station wagon.

"Just a second," Carolyn said. "I forgot something. I'll be right back."

Julia gave her friend a suspicious look, but Carolyn was already going back into the store.

Carolyn's heart was pounding as she walked back into the store again. She didn't really know why she felt she had to get to see the man again, but she knew she had to. She knew it could never amount to anything serious. She flirted with other men but she had never carried it any farther than that. This was going to be another flirting episode and she just didn't want Julia around spoiling her fun.

She found the man on the second aisle looking at some canned peaches. He smiled when he saw her.

"Maybe you can help me," he said. "I really don't know anything about peaches."

"That's a good brand," Carolyn said.

Carolyn couldn't think of anything else to say. She suddenly had a feeling that this was not the kind of man a girl could flirt with. He was the type who took things seriously.

"I have to be going," she said.

She started past him and he grabbed her arm. He didn't grasp her tightly but she couldn't seem to pull away.

"Where's your friend?" he asked.

"Julia?" she said. "She's waiting."

"Why don't you tell her that you have something important to do?"

"I don't know what you mean," Carolyn said.

"Yes you do," he insisted.

And she did know what he meant. Never before had anything happened so fast with her. It had taken her a long time to get really in tune with Bobby and even then her sex life wasn't skyrockets. She somehow knew this man could make skyrockets.