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Chapter One

Sweet sixteen is a day that every girl should remember as special in their lives In soe into wo but sweet; it was e into hell on earth March 12 was the day my drearief and terror My sixteenth birthday left an irrevocable scar onof events that I would see repeatedly in htmares

Right noas standing in the cold of the night, queuing for ad for in The balls of h heels that I wore The cool hipped aroundbillow aroundin line for the club for almost an hour, and finally were quite near the front

“Jack, I’o watch athe door at the line suspiciously

“Anna, it’ll work You askedexactly that,” he replied, cupping his chilly hands around my face

I looked at hi I had in htful, and not toblue eyes, he was every girl’s dreairl I kneas in love with my boyfriend, but he had only ever had eyes for me We’d irlfriend the first tiether ever since He was ether forever We already had everything planned – finish school, then college, then Jack would become a doctor like he’d alanted to be, and I would becoet married and have kids Perfect

Three o, Jack had asked me what I wanted to do to celebratein the world and ould do it So I decided to go out to a club, and then I wanted to stay at a hotel, where ould have sex for the first ti, we had finally convinced our parents to let us stay out Jack had gotten us both a fake ID card, and I was so excited that I could barely contain myself

Now that ere here though, in the cold, surrounded by half-drunken people, all I wanted to do was go back to the hotel and have him run his hands all over ether physically

I s in anticipation He sainst hi, like irl in the world His hands slipped down toat the corners of my mouth

When he broke the kiss, he pulled back, grinning at hts “I love you, Anna”

My heart throbbed again as oosebu out of histhem even after all these years

“I love you too,” I replied, and I did I loved hi my body closer to his

A gentle tap on my shoulder made me jump and break the kiss