Prologue

"Some times you don't realise how strong you are until strong is the only choice you have"

It had been years, but here they were, Darryl pressing his body into hers. They were against the wall of his house, where the lights from the street didn't reach. Darryl Curtis was laughing on the inside, the situation was funny, and the consequences wouldn't be if they got caught. She was an old friend, who'd done him a favour, but here they were, getting hot and heavy against the wall of his house. He'd been here before, with this girl, seen her eyes in the same lust filled light as he pulled away to catch his breath. He'd been younger then, barely seventeen and just looking for a good time. The seventeen year old in side told him he needed this, the Twenty-one year old, the guy he had become since the last time he'd had her pinned to this wall was giving a lecture to his brain about why this was such a bad idea

"Darry" she breathed, pressing her forehead to his, "I have to go" he grinned, kissing her again

"That's what you said last time, and then look what happened." The night before she'd left they'd 'christened' the bed of his truck. She stood on tip toes kissing him again.

"But this time, it's not an angry Mum I have to answer to, it's Tim Shepard." She smiled, squirming out of his grip and walking away, only looking over her shoulder to call out

"I'll see you round Curtis" Darryl lent back against the house, letting out a breath he'd been holding, trying to ignore the slight problem he was having. He could sit here in the dark for at least another hour before anyone thought to look for him. She had left and it had been his fault, then she'd come back because he needed her too, and now she'd walked away to sleep on her cousin's couch, leaving Darry wishing he'd locked her in his room and kept her there. Instead he'd listened to her boots clicking on the sidewalk as she left him again.

Author's note:

Gah, the weather in South Australia is shit house at the moment, right now its 49 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit I think) So there ain't a lot to do because we cant go out side, when its too hot to swim, you know its too hot. We got let out of school at lunch time on Friday, it's our first week back from Summer, which is why I haven't updated my other story, or posted this one. But as school was out at Lunch Time, and I had nothing else I could do to occupy my time, I got this finished. Tell me what you think, I know it doesn't make much sense, but that's the point I think.

xAsh