And so as I cuddled in post-coital bliss with my girlfriend and thought about my sister and Cherys together, on their own, I realized that it was all just a part of growing up. You move on with your life.

My new world was a whirlwind of excitement with my new girlfriend. I clicked so well with Amber in a way that that was vastly superior to anything I'd ever experienced. As happy as Ellie and then E-Beth had made me, those relationships just didn't compare to the happiness I was finding with my current paramour.

My big sister Danielle was finally going off to a place where she didn't have to mother over me. She was free to focus on building a career and an adult life for herself without worrying about her Little brother's mental condition or even how to feed a young man.

And Cherys was moving on to figure out her Life. She had stability and the Love of a beautiful, caring woman in Danielle. So she had a few too many beers and drunkenly decided to try and find out what a dick felt like. So what? She could put the past behind her and focus on her future.

At least, that's what I thought. Perhaps I should have known better than to think it would all blow over and we would all go back to the way things had been before. Life doesn't work Like that. Things don't go back. Everything... inevitably... changes.

And the events that happened at the end of summer certainly changed everything.

Despite having to schlep myself off to work while my girlfriend stayed home and sunned herself, I rather enjoyed the 3-month summer vacation.

Maybe it was because my old high school friends realized this was our last hurrah together, and we showed it by partying harder than usual every chance we got.

Maybe it was because spending 9-10 hours at work every weekday made the time fly by rather quickly.

Maybe it was because after 9-10 hours of sheer boredom at her house,

Amber was really, really excited to see me. Yeah... I think that was it.

For example, on a random Tuesday I went to her house and she met me by the door wearing a push-up red teddy, matching red stockings and garters, and no panties. The very next Thursday she told me her parents were home and she came to my house. And then I found out she was buck naked underneath her trenchcoat.

And that doesn't even go into the times when she pranced around topless in skintight black vinyl pants and boots, holding a riding crop.

After the first month or so, she couldn't even wait for me through the whole workday. I was hunched over the computer at my cubicle when a soft pair of hands suddenly covered my eyes. "Guess who?"

Of course, I knew the voice immediately.

“Amber?" I jerked and turned around. There she was, beaming at me and wearing a short sundress that showed off plenty of her cleavage. With her blonde hair up in pigtails and a smattering of pastel makeup, she was a pretty pixie in human size.

“Come on. I'm taking you to Lunch."

I sputtered for just a second. It was only 11:15.

“I've still got work!"

Amber grinned at me.

“I already cleared it with your boss." Sure enough, my boss was leaning against the door to his office, rather obviously drooling at Amber's ass. Engineers really don't see enough cute girls in their lives.

We returned to the front of my office building around 2pm. I sat back in the driver's seat and sighed. Amber sat up and wiped a glob of cum from her lips before leaning up and pecking my cheek.

“That should hold you until tonight."

SUMMER BREAK, PRE-SENIOR YEAR (August 2001)

It was a warm summer Friday evening and Amber agreed to meet me at the local mall/cinema/restaurant complex. A mindless PG-13 action blockbuster was opening and we were going to kill a few brain cells and make our eardrums go numb for a couple of hours, then find a nice dinner.