All Grown Up Ch. 01

They avoided the real issue. She would be gone nine days before his eighteenth birthday. With everything else that the couple were so open about, this one subject seemed somehow too big to talk about. Even had they decided to push up the date - assuming they finally decided to have sex before she left - they had no time.

The flurry of end-of-year testing, preparing to take such a major trip and having to help her mom deal with the wedding and it's aftermath (who knew so much work was required After a wedding?) left them with no private time at all.

Even through all of this Sean was at the house helping however he could - getting plenty of praise from Lydia for being the "perfect son" as usual, with the added element of having to dodge Brittany's regular advances.

The pressure the teens placed upon sex along with years of expectations and assumptions made them come just short of talking about it time and again. That hesitation would cost them everything.