The Light and the Fire Ch. 01
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In trying to categorize this story, and deciding whether to break it into chapters or to go with a single story of multiple pages, I sought help. ElectricBlue66 stepped up and offered his; for that, I here express my thanks. I decided to place the complete story in EC, despite this first chapter's being better suited for First Time; the other chapters will balance it out to settle it into EC. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Every high school boy has one of two things: a girlfriend, or a girl on whom he has an unrequited crush. In the summer of 1979, I had the latter: Melanie Clayton, with whom I had graduated the weekend before Memorial Day. Five-two, one-oh-five, hazel eyes, brownish-blonde hair in a Dorothy Hamill pageboy cut, cheerleader, basketball player, my compatriot in the National Honor Society -- she was the total package, and every guy in Ashwood, Nebraska thought as I did. (To get you up to speed, Ashwood is ro