Nothing further was said that night, but I knew that this would not be the end of it. Helen had aroused something in me that I had no idea was there. I started to look at her in a different way. She was an attractive girl, that I already knew. But I found myself noticing the curve of her lip, the flare of a nostril, the gracefulness of the back of her neck as she bent over her studies in the classroom. And I began to think about what she might look like disrobed. She had a slender but feminine figure, and the more I thought of it the more I wished I might come to know it better.
I did not have long to wait. One night a week later Helen got out of her bed and padded barefoot across to mine. Lifting up the covers, she got into bed with me.
“Don’t you think it’s risky?” I whispered.
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