30 -THE FRILL OF IT ALL!

eyes closing, then his lips touching mine.

I did as Margaret had suggested, pretended that I was kissing her. But I had never kissed a guy before. ..the kiss seemed to last a very long time. With my eyes closed I pictured myself kissing my beautiful Margaret.

My arms went around his neck and the kiss got more ardent. It continued until I felt his short hair and the spell was broken abruptly.

I opened my eyes and saw that the 'girl' I was kissing was Ted!

"I have to go," I said breathlessly.

"Please write soon, Jackie," he said as we parted. "I shall be thinking of you every minute even when we're not together because you are my girl now."

When Ted had gone and I put my key in the lock, the door opened to reveal Margaret and Susan right behind it. They had watched everything.

"Why Jackie," Margaret said in mock surprise. "Your lipstick is all smeared. How did that happen? And whatever is that heavy gold ring on the third finger of you left hand. It looks a little big for you. Perhaps we should put some tape on it to make it small enough for a pretty little finger like yours. And what a KISS!"

“I was just imagining that I was kissing you Margaret. .not Ted.. .that's what you said to do," I groaned.

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"Pretty long kiss!" Susan said.

"How should I know 'how long' a kiss is supposed to be? I've never been on a date before with a guy!" "I'm just joking," Susan said, "You did just fine." "Okay, girls," I retorted. "Go ahead and kid me. As an actor, I was brilliant and it was kind of fun. In a week, one of you is going to write Ted in my name and tell him I'm too young to be tied down so I'm returning his ring. In the meantime, I just might point out that he's a lot more handsome than most of the boys you girls ever dated----so don't get too smart."

And that is the bizarre story of how I was going steady with two people at once. . .one a girl...and one a boy.

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