Cincinnati, 1998-1999:

Jon had decided to stay home from school. Adriana tried to ask him why he was staying home but Jon didn't tell her why. Instead he lied to her and said he didn't feel good. What he was really going to do was go smoke at a friend's house.

"Yo!" Jon's friend said as he opened the door for him.

"Hey, Rob," Jon said, stepping in.

"So you decided to ditch after all huh?" Rob said.

"Yeah, for a little while."

Deep down Jon felt bad for lying to Adriana. She warned him about peer pressure. Jon tried to listen but this time he didn't.

"You need to take a hit," Rob said.

He had lit a cigarette and smoked some of it. He was coughing.

"Go on!" Rob coaxed Jon.

Jon took the cigarette from Rob and stared at it. It smelled horrible but Jon took a puff anyway. He went into a fit of coughing.

"I can't..." Jon said through coughs.

"You'll get used to it the more you keep smoking," Rob said.

Jon continued smoking the cigarette until he put the butt out.

"Well?"

"It's...ok," Jon said.

Jon stayed at Rob's house the entire day playing video games, eating junk food, and smoked two more cigarettes. Jon lost track of time. He saw that it was 3:15. Adriana was already home.

"Shoot!" Jon said. "Hey man, I gotta go."

"Take these," Rob said.

He gave Jon a pack of cigarettes.

"I don't know about this," Jon said, shaking his head.

"Take it. It'll change your life," Rob said.

Jon stuffed the cigarettes in his pack pocket and headed home.

Sure enough, Adriana was at home waiting for him. And she was pissed.

"Where have you been?" she said.

Jon's palms were sweating. He didn't know whether to lie, tell the truth, or do a combination of both.

"Just out," he said.

"I thought you didn't feel good, Jon."

"I did feel a little better later on. I just had to get some fresh air is all."

Adriana frowned.

"Why do you smell funny?"

"Adriana, please. I'm back home safe and sound alright?" Jon said.

He tried to make his way to the room but Adriana stood in front of him.

"Why do you smell like smoke, Jon?"

"Adriana, move!"

"I'm not moving until you tell me where you were!"

"Don't you have some homework to do?" Jon said.

He shoved his way past Adriana and went into the room. Adriana followed him.

"I'm not going to leave you alone," Adriana said. "We have been through too much together for you to start acting like this. I don't want you to do something stupid and get hurt or in trouble. Just tell me the truth, Jon. That's all I ask of you. Where did you go?"

Jon closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He sat on the bed and looked at Adriana.

"I went to Rob's house to smoke," he confessed. "I lost track of time. I wanted to get back here before you did but it was too late. Obviously."

Adriana walked up to Jon and slapped him across the face.

"You idiot!"

"What the hell was that for, Adriana!?"

"For being stupid! You know how I feel about that, Jon! And on top of that you lied to me! You promised me you'd never lie to me! How could you!?"

Adriana then ran out of the room and out of the apartment.

"ADRIANA!" Jon called after her.

He chased her out the apartment building.

"Adriana! Stop! Let me talk to you!"

She was power walking furiously ahead of him.

"Leave me alone!" she said.

Jon quickly caught up to her.

"Adriana-"

"Shut up. I don't want to hear it," Adriana said. "I trusted you, Jon. I really did. Of all the people, I can't believe you lied to me."

"Adriana, look. The peer pressure got to me alright? You know for a fact I would never do anything to hurt you. Ever. It just happened this once. I promise I'll make it up to you. I'll do anything for you, you know that. Just please, forgive me. I messed up. I'll admit it."

Adriana listened to Jon. She did start to feel less angry and more forgiving. Ever since they were little kids, they always told each other everything. There was nothing they didn't know about the other. Jon did mess up but he was truly and geuninely sorry. He didn't like seeing Adriana upset.

"Ok...I forgive you. But you have to promise me you'll stay away from the bad crowd and never lie to me again!"

"I promise," Jon said.

He took Adriana's hand and kissed it.

"Let's go home," he said.

Summer was hot and Adriana and Jon were dying.

Unfortunately, the air conditioning wasn't working. It would be fixed the next day. In the meantime, they would have to use fans to get cold. Adriana had a small hand held fan that she carried around with her. With it, she could fill it up with water, spray it on herself, and keep herself cool while the fan blew in her face. Jon completely had his shirt off and was in nothing but shorts.

"It's too...hot," he said.

His brow was sweating bad. Some of his hair was in his face. He pushed his hair out of the way.

"Guy is supposed to be here tomorrow to fix the air conditioning."

"Not cool. Where's your brother at?"

"Over at his friend's house. He won't be back for a while."

Jon had asked where the whereabouts of her brother because he wanted to try something with Adriana. He got up and went to the freezer. He pulled out an ice cube tray.

"What are you doing with that ice cube tray?" Adriana asked.

"Come to the room and see," Jon said.

Adriana followed him into the bedroom.

"Seriously, this better not be another "science" trick," Adriana said. "You almost killed a cat last time!"

"This isn't a trick," Jon said. "I want to keep you cool."

"I am keeping myself cool," Adriana said.

Jon shook his head and smiled slightly.

"I want to keep you cool, Adriana. By smothering you with an ice cube, one at a time."

"That's...strange. But it is hot, so what the heck."

Adriana layed on the bed. Jon took an ice cube out of the tray, lifted her shirt up to expose her stomach, and placed the cube on it. He rubbed the cube all over her stomach.

"That feels good...but it tickles!" Adriana said, giggling.

Jon smiled and continued to rub the ice cube over her until it had completely melted. He leaned down and kissed her belly button which made Adriana giggle more.

"Take off your shirt," Jon said.

"My shirt?"

"Yup."

Adriana had a slight feeling that she knew where Jon was going with this but the ice cubes did feel good.

Jon rubbed another ice cube over Adriana's chest.

"Feel better?" Jon asked.

"A lot better." Adriana replied.

Adriana was starting to feel relaxed. Jon joined her in bed.

Jon couldn't help but stare at Adriana's breasts again. Her purple bra was covering them up. Jon had only caught a glimpse of them the last time he walked in on her accidently. She let him touch them but he only felt them through her t-shirt. This time he wanted to see them up close and personal. Jon lifted up the strap of Adriana's bra.

"Jon! What are you doing?" Adriana asked.

"I honestly can't help myself," Jon said. "I really can't."

Adriana sat up.

"Jon, look..."

Jon silenced her with a kiss. It caught Adriana off guard but she kissed him back.

Jon unhooked Adriana's bra. Adriana shrugged it off, exposing her breasts.

Jon broke the kiss and stared at Adriana's marvelous breasts. He reached over to the nightstand, grabbed another ice cube, then rubbed it over each of her developing breasts. Once the ice cube was melted, Jon then completely took each breast into his mouth and started sucking on them. Adriana moaned a little.

"Oh, Jon..." was all she could say.

He was on top of Adriana. She had her hands into his curly sandy hair. The two forgot about the heat. It seemed like they were in their own little world, on their own private island. Any worries that they had before was now completely washed away.

Jon knew what he was doing then again he didn't know what he was doing at the same time. Same went for Adriana. She was 14 now and he was 13. They shouldn't have been doing this. But then again, tt was probably their hormones out of wack.

Whatever it was, they were enjoying it. It was all apart of growing up. Being close to the person you love. Never leaving their side. Making them feel great. Telling them that you loved them with all of your heart.

No heat wave or blizzard would be able to tear these two apart.

Author's Note: I got the ice cube idea from one of my favorite movies. Two the characters were hot so one got some ice cubes from the freezer and rubbed them on the other character. I tried to keep Adriana and Jon's encounter to simply them making out, even though Jon managed to go a little further. It was an idea that I had to put into the story. :o I couldn't help myself! But hope you enjoyed this chapter. Because things shall start to get interesting.

Second Note: Adriana and Jon are about to enter high school now.