I Found A Leather-Bound Case In A Tree And I Really Wish I Had Never Found It

One saturday shortly into my 11th grade year my parents went out of town, trusting that I was old enough to watch myself for the night. Sarah’s parents also happened to be out of town that weekend, and we naturally hatched a hormone induced scheme for her to come over. We hadn’t gone far past kissing before, but it was obvious what was on our minds that day as she nervously drove her mother’s car to my house hoping she wouldn’t get pulled over and be revealed to only have a permit, not a real license.

There was just one hitch in our plan: Sarah’s sister Hannah. Hannah was only in 9th grade, and Sarah knew that if she left Hannah alone and anything happened to her she would be held responsible. So, her only choice was to bring Hannah along. Hannah was in many way her sister’s opposite. While Sarah had a fairly soft, sweet demeanor, Hannah was a fiery tomboy who had gotten in trouble with the police a couple times already: once for shoplifting, the other time for trying to get an adult to buy her beer. I wasn’t thrilled with the idea of her sister coming along and making trouble for us, but it was obvious there would be no choice. However, I had a plan. Being a tomboy, Hannah was quite into videogames and I had a (still fairly new) Playstation 2 hooked up to a TV in my room with a decent sized stack of games. I figured Hannah could have my room to herself for the afternoon while Sarah and I explored each other in the guest room.

The plan was perfect. Hannah wasn’t thrilled at first, but when she realized I not only had this console she herself did not have access to but that I also had several “Rated M” games, she gladly shut up and left us alone for many hours while Sarah and I fell into the throes of awkward teenage love.

Many hours later, Sarah decided that, to be on the safe side, she should drive home rather than spend the night and I reluctantly agreed. She gathered Hannah up and left, both of us struggling to do more than giggle and blush at each other on her way out the door. It wasn’t long before I fell into a blissful sleep, dreaming of ever more things I wanted to do with Sarah should we ever have a chance like that again.