Facing her Fears
Abbey had so been looking forward to summer. It was a nice sunny day during the summer recess, and today she was going to grow up! She could not stay a girl forever, so today she would risk it all. For a week now, she had let some boys show her how to use her body in the best way to get it to do what they wanted. They first took her to a test wall, but that was too easy, so they tied her up with ropes and tested how flexible she was in her mind as well as body. Cold sweat ran down her back as they forced her to walk backwards towards the edge and the long drop below. She placed her heels over the edge, staring directly at her “tormentors.” She could not move a single muscle as she pivoted, balanced on the very edge over a drop that could so easily kill her.
A bird shriek
