Holly awoke that next morning to find the sun beaming down on her through the slightly parted curtains. She hesitated for a moment as she looked over to the bed where she had surrendered her virtue. The memories of her and Parker remained in her mind for a moment before she recalled the way he had spoken to her with such dismissal. It pained her heart all over again as if the words were being newly verbalized to her. Tears formed within her eyes as she felt that perhaps she had made a mistake in agreeing to be his. Having been her first time, or at least what she knew for a fact to be s*x, the way things had ended had made her feel guilty for relinquishing something so precious to someone so distant. It wasn’t that she had wanted to wait until marriage or even being engaged-but she did wan
