Elias Voorhees spent his entire school year plotting on how to nail Pamela Love. She was younger than he was. He was eighteen, and she was only fifteen. She was shy and sweet, and very pretty. Elias was tired of being the only boy at Lakeview High in Crystal Lake, New Jersey, to not have been with a girl. He tired of his father's many, many sermons on the sins of the flesh. Reverend Malachi Voorhees's voice would boom from the pulpit, warning of God's wrath. In private, he always told his son, "You are damned, Elias. You must pray harder than everyone else, for you are damned. Hellfires await you, if you don't."
For many years, Elias tried to obey his father. He believed him when Malachi said he was damned. The beatings that accompanied such pronouncements made for even more incentive. After all, his father insisted that he had to beat the devil out of Elias. It was good for his poor damned soul.
But Elias began to get angry over it. How did his father know he was damned? Who did he think he was? By his senior year of high school, he hated and feared his father. He was going to show his father.
He did it by getting a younger girl to have sex with him.
It took the entire school year and most of the summer to get it to happen. Pamela was stubborn about staying true to her values. But he told her that he loved her, and that if she loved him, she would give in. She finally succumbed. They began finding all the places they could sneak away to. Which, given that Crystal Lake was surrounded by woods, made it very easy.
It made Elias feel powerful, as though he were getting back at his father. You might believe me worthless, but someone loves me.
At least until the guilt began to gnaw at them both.
On a Sunday, when they were both at church, both Elias and Pamela were hit by the same wave of guilt. They caught each other's eyes, and turned away, embarrassed and ashamed.
I was naked and I hid.
Their encounters became less frequent. They saw each other less and less.
Elias was relieved. He and Pamela would go their separate ways, and no one would ever know.