Chapter 1

“Julie!”

That single loud shout that echoed up the well-worn steps of the carpeted stairway was almost immediately followed by a longer and even louder yell that penetrated Julie Costello’s tender ears like some noisy police drama on the wide-screen television in the basement recreation room.

“Julie Costello, get your teenaged butt out of bed and get down here for breakfast because mom needs to go to work right now.”

The young and extremely attractive brunette with the slender body of a cross-country runner turned over in the narrow twin bed and peeked with one eye squinted open at the small digital clock on the cluttered night stand.

At that very instant the dial flicked from 7:00 to 7:01 and the pretty young senior student bolted out of the sheets to reveal all she had worn in the nocturnal hours was a skimpy pair of pink and black pussy-cat panties and an almost invisible 14 karat gold anklet chain given to her by Josh Randell on her seventeenth birthday as a memento of his supposedly adoring friendship. It bothered young Julie to think of Josh so early in the morning because he was becoming desperate to taste more of her hot but totally disinterested teenaged body. She knew her almost eighteen year old runner’s body was in peak condition had no intention of gifting Josh with its use in a way that she was not quite ready for as yet.

In fact, the thought of carnal pleasures was distressing to her because it interfered with her studiously assembled program of muscle enhancement and stamina building that she needed for the grueling cross-county meets.

In fact, the hidden guilty truth was that she was a lot more interested in his older brother Mark with his college football player’s physique that had all the girls on Elm Street gaga with feminine daydreams of intertwined limbs and searching lips.

Still, it was nice to have a decent-looking guy like Josh willing to let his fingers and his tongue do all his wooing and knew enough to keep his nasty boy equipment inside his bulging trousers. She had absolutely no curiosity to investigate his masculine equipment because she was certain it was just the same as all the other so-called dates that pestered her to fondle their package well out of sight of any on-lookers. She had generally agreed to their request if they were well-behaved because she had a natural curiosity to compare the equipment lengths and sizes to see which ones interested her the most. In fact, she had become quite adept at bringing most masculine shafts to spurting release with a few tricks she had learned from her elder sister that had already joined the Army and was assigned overseas.

Julie ran into the bathroom and brushed her teeth whilst sitting on the unpadded throne like some queen in a pink and white realm of porcelain and tile in every direction. She smiled as the sound of her emptying bladder filled the small room with the unmistakable sound of a healthy urological system. Some nasty thoughts flitted though her mind. She pushed them from her consciousness like an unwelcome stranger. Julie wanted desperately to retain her perfect four point zero grade point average and win the cross-country contest on the coming Saturday morning. She was certain it would give her all the ammunition she needed to be accepted into State college the coming year.

Quickly, she whipped off the pussycat panties and washed her sensitive parts with the warm washcloth. Momentarily, she considered her status as a virgin and wondered if that helped her or hindered her in her finishing kick across the finishing line of the school district competitions. Whenever any of her friends asked her,

“Are you still a virgin?”

She would just look at them and smile a little mysterious smile to make them think she knew all she needed to know about boys and the things they could do with their business in the back seat of their parent’s car. Julie let them make up their own minds about that and most just believed what they wanted to believe and she could not be accused of actually lying about anything. She used that same process for most questions that she didn’t want to answer for fear of giving up too much information about herself that she would rather keep hidden.

Today was the day they were taking the photos for the yearbook and she took her limited stash of make-up with her to make her face pop with some added color. She seldom used cosmetics because they had ingredients that she didn’t quite trust and she was happy with the way she looked with just a hint of color on her lips from her mother’s favorite lipstick.

As she was running out the door to jump into the family car, she saw the mail on the porch table. Right on top of the heap was the letter she was expecting from the State College advising her if she had been accepted or rejected. She stuffed it into her back-back and decided not to look at it until after the photos were all taken. It would be a no-no for the photo op session to have her face look all teary-eyed if she didn’t make the cut.

The morning classes were all a bit boring because she had so many other things on her mind. Her best friend forever Elizabeth was sending her eye signals that caused her to join her in the ladies room to discuss the fact that neither of them had lost their virginity over the weekend. Sometimes, she just wanted to shake Elizabeth and tell her that it was no big thing and that whatever would be, would be and there was nothing either of them could do about it that would change the outcome.

To top things off, silly Josh was giving her an ultimatum about her putting out for him before the clock struck midnight on prom night. It was so ridiculous that she almost told him to find another date if that was his attitude. Fortunately, she calmed down enough to consider the fact that it would mean her missing the all-important prom that was only two nights away.

She gave him one of her best Julie the bitch smile’s and whispered,

“We will have to see what happens, sweetie. Just be sure to bring some protection because I plan to go to college after the summer.”

The photos were a big success and she was certain the lipstick and the eyeshadow made her face look a lot more interesting than when she went without any make-up at all.

She had missed the bus and decided to walk home because she needed the exercise anyway.

It was the perfect time to open the letter from State College and she skipped over everything just to read the last paragraph that welcomed her to the new class and wished her the best of luck in her studies. The entire day had been just perfect except for the silly position taken by Josh about giving up her cherry on prom night. She was well aware that a lot of other girls were already planning to do the exact same thing and had bragged about it in the gym class to the other girls to make them jealous of the exciting evening happening in the near future.

Julie almost skipped down the sidewalk knowing it made her look positively juvenile, but she didn’t care what people thought about her childish appearance. She planned to change into her running togs as soon as she got home and do the cross-country run that she loved more than life itself.