Gillian joined him as he walked up to the edge of the porch and leaned against the rail. She pressed her body close to his side, her hair brushing his... neck, her bosom resting against his ribs. He wrapped an arm around her and savored the moment, the way she felt in his arms."Why, it almost looks like its out near Grover's Garage!" She said. John agreed. The small mechanic shop and convenience store was in that area somewhere.Or had been.Suddenly the night sky lit up as what was surely Grover's. Not wishing to get caught I drifted off out the other door and back to the party.Later that evening we were chatting again, she looked around let's go and led me upstairs. She opened a door slightly and hooked her head through. "It's empty," she said, "Come on."We went through and she shut the door behind us. It was a bedroom. She grabbed me and we kissed passionately. She turned around and I kissed her neck, She put an arm up and caressed my head while arching hers away to give me greater. And as for the hand-holding, she dropped my hand when we got in sight of her house.”“Yes, she was nervous, or more accurately, frightened. Just like she was at the dance. You danced at arm’s length the whole night, except for the last dance, right?”“Yes.”“Changing topics - Why did you ask her brother to go on your date?”“To make her parents comfortable. I could tell they were evaluating me. Her dad looked very concerned, though her mom was more, I don’t know, calm, I guess, about it.”“That’s. My husband-to-be, that is, Claudia's intended jumped a rather dangerous looking stone fence and the others swept after him like lemmings on a cliff. I made it easily and smiled when I noticed my posh rival's mount scrape the top rock with an iron-clad hoof. We shouted and our egos were stroked by the competition of making obstacles some more difficult than others. The workers in the fields looked at us like we were visitors from another planet and in a way I guess we actually were exactly that..