Chapter 4

When we arrived at the dance, Jessica and I were the subject of many stares as we entered the gymnasium. Jessica was wearing a gorgeous gown that accented her body perfectly. I was wearing a tux that flattered me as well.

We went to the concession stand and I grabbed both of us a drink before leading her to a table. Just after sitting down, the band started playing a nice slow song.

I asked Jessica for a dance and took her hand as we headed out to the dance floor. I took a hold of her waste and pulled her in tight to me and ground my pelvis into her groin.

We seemed to be the center of attention as we were swaying around the dance floor. But to me nothing existed except me and her.

We had barely finished the dance when an up beat dance started. Jessica acted like she was going to try to sit down but I kept her up for the dance and many more afterward.

We ended up being the life of the party. Almost every friend of Jessica's seemed to want to have a dance with me. Jessica actually started to look like she was getting jealous, but she just kept on encouraging me to dance with every lady that asked. Although some of the ladies boyfriends didn't seem too happy with the situation.

I don't think I made any real enemies that night though because I didn't dance with anyone but Jessica more than once that night. I'll never forget that night because it was my first excursion into the height of teen romance.

It was nearing the end of the night when I asked Jessica if she had fun. She said she was having a real blast.

"I can't thank you enough for taking me." She told me. She then leaned in towards me and whispered in my ear. "The night is just starting still if you aren't too tired."

I stared at her with a startled look on my face at her remark. Now even my alien ways of thinking weren't able to keep me from knowing that I had just been given an open invitation to the kind of night I had been waiting for. How could I say no?

I looked her straight in her eyes. "Are you sure you want to do this." I asked Jessica. "There is absolutely no pressure from me. I do want you very much but I also would never do anything to jeopardize our relationship."

She wrapped her arms around my neck, to stop me from being able to move anywhere, and then she leaned in and kissed me for the first time. It stole my breath away. It was like magic. All the books I had read about romance couldn't have prepared me for the incredible feeling I was having as Jessica kissed me.

Jessica pulled back slowly with a dreamy look in her eyes. She smiled at me and I smiled back. I definitely wanted more of them kisses.

"What do you want to do now?" I asked her. "I should warn you about something though." I told her.

"What could you possibly have to warn me about?" She asked. "I trust that you will never hurt me." She told me.

I swallowed hard before I continued. "Well I think I should tell you that I am a virgin." I told her. "I have never even kissed a girl before. The kiss that we shared was my first." I told her as I started blushing.

She smiled and said. "That's ok." She told me. "Don't you remember what I told you before? I have never been with a man before either."

I smiled and said. "Well then I guess we'll both be learning."

The band said it was getting close to time to leave so they were going to slow it down now. They only played about four more songs. The rest of the time we were there, we were on the floor the entire time. Jessica was shy in front of everyone else on the dance floor but I pulled her in tight to my body and ground my genitals into hers.

After the band said its goodnights, we left and went to the parking lot to catch a ride. Jessica's long time friend, Sheryl, was waiting by her car. She waved at Jessica and we approached her. Sheryl was driving her fathers Chevy station wagon. Her boyfriend and I shook hands as the girls hugged each other. We all climbed in and headed out to an abandoned old mill that was a favorite make out spot.

Sheryl parked the car behind the mill. Her and her boyfriend stayed in the car while Jessica and I went into the mill to look around. We held hands the entire time. I was enjoying the time we were spending together.

Jessica was very obviously in the mood to take our relationship further but besides the fact that we were having no luck finding a place, I just kept thinking that it wouldn't be right to do anything in this place.

Everything I had read about romance and loosing one's virginity said that you needed to find the right place. I told Jessica that we should forget about this place and ask Sheryl if she would like to take us to a hotel. The next town over had a small little hotel that wouldn't know any of them.

When we returned to the car and filled Sheryl in on our idea, she was only too happy to oblige. We all piled back into the car and went to the hotel. It took us almost half an hour to get there but I figured it would be worth the wait.

We were however very disappointed to discover that the manager wouldn't rent any rooms to us. He said we were too young. I tried to bribe the man but he was having nothing to do with it.

We ended up having to drive home. I guess Jessica's and my plan to consummate our new relationship just wasn't going to be fulfilled tonight. We were both disappointed but we both still made out the entire way back to the farm.

Sheryl dropped us off at almost one in the morning. By the lights that were on in the house, it was obvious that both parents had stayed up waiting for us to get home.

We stole one last lingering kiss before entering the house. It still took my breath away every time Jessica kissed me. I didn't want this night to end but I knew the Killions would come looking for us very soon. I put my hand on Jessica's back and lead her into the house.

Ellen jumped up at the sound of the door opening. Just by looking at her, I could tell that she had waited for us to get home. She was trying to look like she had been reading, but the evidence was wrong for that assumption.

"So did you guys have fun?" She asked us.

Jessica smiled a million watt smile then told her mother almost everything that had happened that night. She was interrupted in her dialogue by the entrance of Jason coming down the stairs.

Jessica ran into her father's arms and told him how much fun she had. Jessica then told both parents that she was very thankful that they had let me come with her. She said that the night would have not been even half as fun if I had not been there to share it with her.

They both smiled and said they were just glad that Jessica was so happy. Jessica started going into everything that had happened that night. While she was talking, I very quietly snuck out of the room and went upstairs to my room.

I guess Jessica kept them up for a while and they never noticed my absents, so I went to bed with a smile on my face. I guess I was turning into a softy because all I could think of at the time was what would be best for Jessica. When I awoke the next morning, I felt like a million dollars. It was my first foray into the life of a teenager and I had enjoyed myself immensely, even if I didn't get to have sex. It was still a lot of fun.

When I went downstairs I realized that I was the only one awake yet. I figured the others had a long night so they would wake up later. I wrote a note telling whoever read it that I was going for a run and that I would be back in an hour or two.

I put on my jogging clothes and stepped out into the cold morning air. I felt some fear again because of what had happened to me a while back but I stiffened my shoulders and headed out into the morning.

I ran about fifteen miles out. I had made it to the school before I turned around. I had regained my endurance very nicely so I never did tire from the run. I liked to run because it helped to calm me and it also helped me to think. Little did I know that not long after I had left the house I had woken up another one of the Killions.

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Little Christina woke up from the slight sound of the door opening. She went downstairs to see what the noise had been when she found my note. She wasn't very happy that I had gone on a run without her. She sat out on the front porch and waited for my return. She only sat for about twenty minutes before her father came out onto the porch.

"Hey there sweetie, what are you doing out here this early in the morning?" Jason asked his daughter.

Christina handed Jason the note she had found. Jason read it and at first had a quick stab of fear but he quickly reined it in. he gave the note back to Christina and sat with her for a few minutes.

"Dad, can I ask you something?" Christina asked her dad.

"Sure honey, what can I help you with? You look troubled." Jason told her.

"What does it feel like to be in love?" Christina asked Jason.

Well I guess she wasn't in the mood for the easy questions tonight. Jason just hoped he wasn't hearing what he thought he was. He also hoped that her affection wasn't aimed at who he had a feeling it was aimed at.

"Well honey it is kind of hard to explain." Jason told his daughter. "The best way to describe it is as a wanting. You want a person real bad and if you can't have them or if the person leaves you feel like your heart is being torn in two. You also want nothing more than to make that person happy for the rest of their life."

Christina got a real serious look on her face as she thought over what her father had just told her. How was she to know if she was in love? She kind of understood the answer that her father had given her but it also made her more confused at the same time. Christina turned to her father and asked him how a person knew they were in love with someone?

Jason thought long and hard about her question. He knew she wanted nothing but the truth from him but he also was scared to answer her for fear that she would use his words as proof. When he finally spoke he just hoped that Jakstar would return so that he wouldn't have to finish his sentence.

"Well honey, just look at that person and think about them as they truly are and not what you want them to be, if that image doesn't change then you go to step two." Jason told Christina.

"What is step two daddy?" Christina asked him.

"Well step two is to then walk away and try to picture that person not with you ten years down the road. If you have trouble imagining yourself without that person than try imagining the same scene without that person but think of twenty years down the road now, if that image starts to make you feel sick then you are more than likely in love." Jason told his daughter.

Christina thought it over very seriously and sat in silence for nearly twenty minutes while doing it. Jason was just about to get up to go inside when she asked him the question that he had hoped wouldn't come up. Christina asked Jason how old he and mommy were when they first fell in love.

Jason instantly thought back to when he was a kid. He remembered the first time he saw Ellen. Her family moved in to the house next door to his family. He was instantly taken with the young girl that he saw climb out of the car. She was so beautiful to him. He fell in love at first sight. Jason didn't want to tell his daughter that he was only thirteen at the time.

"Why are you so curious baby?" Jason asked her.

She just said she wanted to know. "I think I am in love with a boy daddy." She said, sinking the knife into his heart. He really had hoped it was just curiosity. He tried to get her to tell him who the boy was but she said she wouldn't tell. Jason had a feeling he knew who it was. It wasn't hard to know since she had been acting different lately. He eventually got her off the subject, he thought, so he went back inside and started some coffee.

Christina kept thinking about what her father had told her about love and the more she thought about it the more she thought she might be in love. She told herself that she would not let him know, but she thought she would let him come around. She knew she was still young so she just figured that she would wait.

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While Christina was thinking about love, I was thinking about how good this run felt. I was also thinking about how I could go about loosing my virginity. I also started thinking about how I could go about getting my hands on some money fast. I had lived on this planet long enough to know that money was needed to make the rest come.

I made it back to the house with no problems. I noticed that Christina was sitting on the porch. I stopped in front of the porch to do my stretches. I could feel Christina watching me. When I had finished my stretches I went up to the porch and sat down.

"Hey there my little princess, what are you doing up at this hour of the morning?" I asked her.

As soon as I started talking I noticed her look away from me and start blushing. When she looked back at me I noticed that she had a very serious and thoughtful look on her face.

"I was just thinking about some things." She said. "Where did you go running to? You've never been gone that long before." She asked.

"I decided to go for a run and I just kept running until I reached the school. I hope I didn't worry you to much." I told her.

"Can we just sit here for a while and watch the sky?" She asked me.

I said sure and we just sat there for almost twenty minutes while we watched the sky. Or at least I watched the sky because I kept noticing that whenever she thought I wasn't looking she would turn and look at me again.

Just when I was starting to get really nervous, Christina got up and walked away, heading for the barn. 'Now what is she up to?' I thought to myself.

I went inside and asked Jason if he knew what was wrong with Christina?

"I wouldn't worry too much about it." Jason said. "She just has some thoughts that she needs to work out. She shouldn't take to long. I think she likes a boy but she doesn't know what to do about it." Jason said the last part with a bit of dread because he was sure he knew who the boy was but he knew it would never work the way she hoped.

I was stunned. I didn't even know that Christina even liked boys. If the boy decided to be an asshole to my little princess then I was going to have to hurt him. Well no time to linger on that thought, I had plans to make.

I went back upstairs and took a shower before going back down for breakfast.

Ellen was up by now and had already made breakfast. I grabbed a very large plate and worked to fill myself up. I had worked up quite an appetite.

It wasn't until I was almost finished eating that Christina finally came back in. I noticed she seemed to have a happier look in her eyes so I let her be and finished my food.

Everything seemed to be going my way so I was as happy as I had ever been. I continued to go to school and keep an eye out for my opportunity to take care of the last two boys that had accosted me. Little did I know that my chance for the last bit of revenge would present itself to me in such an inviting fashion?

It was nearing the end of October and it seemed like the whole town was gearing up for Halloween. Even the Killions were getting in on the festivities. The whole family was in a playful mood for the whole week leading up to Halloween, which happened to fall on a Friday.

All the girls seemed to especially like this holiday and their excitement was starting to rub off on me.

I started helping with all the decorations, even if I didn't understand any of them. By Thursday we had the whole house ready for a great night. The girls had all picked their costumes and were ready to go.

"So do you know what you are going to be for Halloween?" Ellen asked me.

"I haven't got a clue. Besides I still don't see what the whole point of this holiday is." I told her.

"Well it is just a fun day when you get to pretend you are someone you aren't." Ellen told me. "Plus you get candy from lots of people and you get to eat like a pig for a couple days. Besides all your classmates will be dressing up at school tomorrow so if you want to blend in then you better have a costume figured out for tomorrow." Ellen told me.

Ellen returned to what she had been doing and left me with a predicament. I didn't have the foggiest clue as to what I should wear as a costume.

I searched out Jason and asked him what he thought would be a good costume. I figured this man should have a good idea what would make sure I was cool without being to conspicuous.

"Well since you only have a few hours to put one together, I would suggest you only have time for maybe a ghost costume." Jason told me.

"But I thought Christina was going as a cute little ghost. I want something that will actually be scary." I told him.

"You don't really have time to make anything really good and all the stores are sold out of costumes already so I don't really see you having much choice." He told me.

"What if I worked really hard at it? What do you think would be the best costume for me?" I asked Jason.

"Well if we had the time and the makings for it then I would suggest..." Jason proceeded to whisper the rest into my ear. Stephanie had walked into the room and Jason didn't want her to hear his idea.

Jason smiled after telling me his idea and then winked at me and walked away. I smiled as well. His idea was very good and with a little work I figured I could pull it off with a little AI help.

I snuck away and went out to the Elfbow. I asked the AI if we had the materials on board to make the costume I wanted. The AI told me it would actually be quite easy. It then proceeded to show me a diagram of what I explained and showed me the quickest easiest way to make it.

I spent the next two hors making what I thought was the perfect costume. I was quite pleased with myself when I was done. I took my costume and returned to the house.

I found Jason and told him I found some material to make the perfect costume and showed it to him. He was quite impressed. I then asked him if he would mind giving me a ride to school tomorrow so I could surprise the girls and everyone else with my costume at the same time. Plus I wanted to be able to see if my sisters would be able to tell it was me.

Jason smiled and agreed to take me to school in the morning. I smiled with him and hid my costume away so that none of my sisters would find it.

I went downstairs for dinner and acted like I had a simple costume to wear for Halloween. The girls all laughed at me and told me I shouldn't have waited till the last second. I just smiled at them and let them think what they wanted.

After dinner was the normal bit of family time. I begged tiredness and went to bed a little early so I could get some rest for the next day.

I awoke later in the night when I felt Christina climb into bed with me. I smiled opened my arms for her to climb into. She laid her head on my chest while I held her to my side.

When I awoke the next morning I shooed her back to her room and went into the bathroom to relieve myself. I then went downstairs and went out to my clearing and performed my Shurcram. I didn't have enough time for my usual hour of exercise so I only did half an hour.

I returned to the house and made myself a quick breakfast before anyone else got up.

I went up to my room and started getting ready. I knew it was going to take me almost an hour to get ready. When the girls came looking for me, wondering why I wasn't up yet, I told them to go away because I was trying to fix my costume which had somehow gotten ripped in the middle of the night.

The girls all laughed at me and caught the bus without me. As soon as I heard the bus pick the girls up I left me room and told Jason I was ready to leave. Jason whistled at how realistic my costume looked and went out to start up the truck.

Ellen told me to be careful not to break too many hearts with my costume. She was smiling when she told me this.

I went out and climbed into the truck. I had made my costume in such a way that it would actually take quite a bit to make it fall off.

We arrived at the school before our bus got there. I was able to blend into the crowd and watch the kids show up. Everyone that saw would do a double take when they would realize that I wasn't a statue.

I had created a mask that covered my head perfectly. My head looked like a skull. I had covered the eye sockets with a black clear plastic film so you couldn't see my eyes. I had separated the mask into two halves like a real skull so when I talked it looked like the bottom jaw would move. I had put a thin black cloth inside the jaw section so that it looked like there was nothing behind the jaw. The cloth went down my neck and turned into a shirt that had the top of a rib cage attached to it.

I wore a black cowl over the whole thing. I had used some of my synthetic skin gloves to create gloves that looked exactly like skeleton hands. The way the whole outfit fit it looked like I was a statue. No one believed that anyone could make a costume that realistic. Some of the kids were even to scared to approach me.

I stood very still and waited for the bus to come with the girls. A lot of people just stood by me talking like I was a statue.

When the girls finally got there I had planted myself at just the right spot to be sure that the first thing they saw as they got off the bus was what they took to be a very elaborate statue.

They were all standing around admiring the handy work. When Cassandra leaned in close to look at my skull, I couldn't take it anymore.

"Hello there girls. Are you ready for Halloween?" I asked them.

All four girls screamed and jumped away. In fact, everyone that was within about twenty feet jumped at my voice.

That was all I could stand and I started laughing. Hearing my laughter the girls all got mad and came over and started trying to hit me and say how mean I was for doing that. I just took their swings and continued to laugh.

I saw Christina standing back so I went over to where she was and put my arm around her.

"See little one, since you were a ghost I thought I would be your grim reaper." I told her.

Christina smiled up at me and gave me a great big hug. She had been scared that some of the kids might make fun of her but now she would be able to tell them that she would send her grim reaper after them if they didn't leave her alone.

All the kids did eventually admit that I had made a pretty awesome costume.

I went through the day enjoying all the compliments about my costume. I was even able to trick a couple of my teachers into thinking that someone had brought a statue to class. My science teacher was the best. He came into class and started asking who had put the costume on the skeleton? I sat perfectly still until he came over to move me. Just when he reached out to move me I turned my head to look at him and I said "Happy Halloween."

The whole class broke out in laughter when the teacher jumped. Luckily the mask hid my face because I was smiling from ear to ear.

At lunch I wasn't able to eat because of my costume but I was content to just sit with my sisters and the couple friends I had made.

It was while I was waiting for the bus at the end of the day that I overheard my last two targets talking about what they were going to be doing that night. They were talking about hiding out between a couple houses and preying on unsuspecting kids that walked by them. This was the perfect opportunity to finally get the last two out of the picture. I just had to think of a way to get away from the rest of the family that I was supposed to be walking with.

The family was out walking from house to house when the opportunity presented itself. We hadn't gotten that far from the house when I said my mask was starting to fall off so I needed to go back to the house to fix it real fast. I convinced them to keep going while I made my repairs. As soon as I was out of their sight I contacted the Elfbow and had it pick me up as close as possible. As soon as I was onboard we went to where I had heard the two guys say they were going to be.

As soon as I was able to find them I put the ship down as close as I could with out tipping them off to my presence. I then snuck up behind them and when no one was around to hear anything I knocked them both out with a couple well placed punches. They didn't know what hit them.

I then dragged them both back to my ship and placed them in the same cell I had put the other two boys into. I decided to drop them in the same place I had dropped the other two hoodlums. I watched the same anger cross their faces at first until they realized that they weren't getting out this one. Then just like the last two had done they even tried to get back onboard my ship. I returned to the farm and hid the Elfbow again and caught up to the rest of the family. I had a great first Halloween. It was fun and I couldn't wait to get on with the rest of my life without the worries of the hoodlums hanging over my head.

Jessica was the only that noticed the disappearance of the boys. She was the only that had any idea of who had done the horrible things to me but she kept her mouth shut and so it was soon forgotten. Everyone else just assumed they had ran away to try to go somewhere else to cause trouble.

The next month rolled around and I started to get excited about my birthday because it meant that I was going to be able to start working but everyone else just figured I was getting excited because I was turning thirteen. The whole family was doing everything they could to try to make my first birthday with the best one I ever had. I wasn't going to tell them that it was actually the first one I could remember ever having.

Stephanie let it out that my birthday was on the twenty third and seemed to get a kick out of all the girls that were able to weasel an invitation out of me. I was definitely not ready for all the female attention so I gave in quite easily to them all. It seemed that almost every girl that was in any of my classes, with the exception of the A crowd, had gotten an invitation to my party.

When the Killion women found out about what happened they all started calling me Romeo. They all thought it was quite funny. I didn't know what to do about all the attention. Christina didn't seem as happy as the others but she still found the whole situation funny.

My birthday fell on a Saturday so I didn't have to worry about going to school. I was up early as usual and went out to my clearing to perform my Shurcram. I had a lot of nervous energy to use up so I was out there for nearly two hours. When I finally returned home I discovered that everyone else was awake already. The preparation for the party was well under way. I had no sooner walked into the house when everyone was telling me to go for a run for a while because they didn't want me to see any of the preparations.

I smiled and said I would go for a run. I even asked Christina if she wanted to come along. It surprised me when she said no. I shrugged and asked them when they wanted me to return? They said just be gone until about noon. I shrugged and went out the door and started running. I didn't really mind that much. I hadn't run for four hours straight in a while so I figured it would be good exercise.

I was out for the required four hours and when I returned home I was shocked to discover that they wouldn't let in unless my eyes were covered. Jason put his hands around my eyes and led me upstairs so I could take a shower. When we were walking through the living room I heard the sounds of many people trying to be quiet. I could distinguish that there were at least forty people there but I couldn't be sure.

Jason led me up the stairs and didn't remove his hands from my eyes until I was in the bathroom. He then left to get my clothes for me. I waited until he had returned with my clothes before I jumped into the shower. My legs were a little sore from the run and I was very tired but the shower did a lot to relax me.

My eyes were starting to droop when Jason knocked on the door to find out what was taking me so long. I had been in the shower for nearly an hour. I got out and got dressed after I dried off. When I stepped out of the bathroom Jason was standing there again. Jason covered my eyes again and walked me down stairs. He walked me to the couch and had me sit down. He told me to keep my eyes closed then removed his hands.

I was nervous with my eyes closed but I was trying my hardest to trust these people. I heard someone walk towards me. I flinched when I felt a soft hand touch my cheek. Then I felt someone sit in my lap. By the feel I figured it was Jessica. She bent forward and gave me a hug and a kiss on my cheek. "Happy birthday little brother." She told me.

She got up and each of the girls took turns climbing into my lap to do the same thing. I'm sorry to admit that all the soft females climbing into my lap was having an effect on me. I tried my hardest to hide the reaction but I could tell from some of the giggling going on that at least some of the girls had seen my predicament.