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into the brightly lit hallway, and into his arms. That was when I knew Lucas Young really was my knight in shining armor, and I loved him.
    That was two years ago, and my feelings for him had only changed in the sense that my love for him had grown. I loved Lucas Young with my whole heart, and one day, he was going to marry me. He just didn’t know it yet.
    It stunk that he was outside, talking to that girl who looked at him like she wanted to kiss him.
    Olivia poked my arm because I wasn’t answering her then pushed me over so she could look through the blinds of her bedroom window, too. When she saw Lucas talking to the girl, she gasped.
    “Ooooooo … He’s talking to a giiiiiiiiirl! Was she out there when you came over?”
    Nodding, I answered, “Yeah. He told her I was just the kid across the street.” I tried to keep my tone even and failed. It killed me to think he didn’t see me as anything more than the neighbor.
    My best friend gasped again. “He didn’t!”
    Embarrassed, I mumbled, “Yeah.”
    She grabbed my shoulders then slowly turned me away from watching Lucas. “Ignore him, Ginny. My brother is a total punk. I don’t see why you like him so much.”
    I tried to hide how much Lucas’s words had hurt me, but I guessed I didn’t do a good enough job, because Olivia offered, “You want a hug?”
    I shook my head and whispered, “Ice cream.”
    Olivia giggled. “Because ice cream cures everything?”
    “Yep.”
    She smiled at me. “Ice cream is way better than my brother any—” Olivia turned toward the window as she was talking and then gasped at whatever she had seen out there.
    Wondering what it was, I quickly turned to see Lucas dragging the girl behind him down the sidewalk and disappearing into Johnny Whitmore’s yard. I wasn’t sure why they were going over there, yet I had a feeling it was something they shouldn’t be doing.
    Olivia turned and started stomping toward her door.
    “Where are you going?” I asked.
    Without looking back at me, she answered, “To get you ice cream and rat my brother out. Mooooooooom !”

Chapter
    5
    Lucas
    Sixteen Years Old
    Something happened after I turned sixteen, and I saw Ginny in a new light.
    One night, I went to bed grumpy because she had been blushing while my sister giggled half the day in our backyard pool while I had been shirtless in my swim shorts. Then, the next day, I had been walking with my friends down the street to the movie theater, and as we’d walked, we had passed Ginny sitting by herself under a tree in a local park. Once again, she had been oblivious to everything around her, totally focused on the pad of paper as she drew.
    The sun had made her blonde hair glow like a halo around her head, reminding me of the Christmas tree angel I had thought she looked like when I’d first laid eyes on her. Even in her slouched form, I could make out the delicate lines of her petite body that was starting to show the barest hint of curves.
    Something about the scene had hit me square in the chest. She was beautiful … and at that moment, I had the overwhelming urge to tell everyone she would be mine. Slowly, my mind had taken everything in.
    I’d almost groaned out loud when I had seen her straight, white teeth bite her bottom lip in concentration. The vision of her doing something else with those lips had made my dick harder than the first time I had seen a nudie magazine.
    Of course, my shithead best friend Johnny had to ruin the moment by saying something about how he thought Ginny would have a nice rack one day. The comment, something both of us had said more than once about other girls, almost caused me to trip over my own feet as a strange anger overtook me. Suddenly, I had wanted to punch Johnny in the face, knock him the hell out. The feeling was completely foreign to me. Why the hell would I want to punch my best friend over a girl who was like a sister to me?
    As I had ignored Johnny and continued staring at the girl who was