Tracy L. Darity

It must be an awful feeling to have love all around you and not feel loved, to be in need and unable to accept whats being offered, to see a world of possibilities but trapped inside your own mind.

Baby, God ain't gonna bless you with another woman's husband, not today, not tomorrow, not ever.

They drove back to her house in silence. Terrance pulled the car into the driveway and turned off the engine. Turning toward her, he said, __hadejah, I really like you a lot and I don__ want to hurt you. But I__ not a virgin and I like to have sex. If we__e going to keep seeing each other, you__e got to make a decision, because if I can__ get it from you I__l get it from someone else._ He looked her straight in her tear-filled eyes. __ need to know whether to get a room for after the concert. Let me know tomorrow._ He reached over and opened her door. Khadejah didn__ say a word. She got out of the car and went into the house.Terrance sat there for a few minutes wondering if he was being fair. She had to know that he was having sex. Damn, I should feel honored that she__ still a virgin, he thought. Shit, I__l just have my cake and eat it, too.Ten minutes later, Terrance was knocking on Adrienne__ door. __ey, can I come in?

Finally, her father spoke. __re you sure? I mean, I don__ understand how this could have happened. She__ only fifteen; I didn__ even know she was sexually active._ Mallory__ father, normally in control, was on the verge of tears. He refused to look at his daughter, his little girl. As much as he had preached abstinence to her, he still kept a watchful eye over her, yet here they were, facing the unthinkable. He wanted to know when this happened, and with whom__ut those questions would have to wait.