It Started With a Kiss Abbey lay back on the piled-up mats in the training hall as she rested with Zoe and Jilly after the evening training session. Abbey’s mind wandered; she was sure that a glorified week or two of work experience was not the best thing to be doing during summer vacation, but it was the American way in this state. Sponsors and sponsorship were the best way to get through college, as scholarships in the martial arts were non-existent. Besides, even if they had existed, people like Jilly would have been the ones getting them. Abbey knew that Jilly did not have to worry about money; an Ivy League college fund had already been set up for her due to her Daddy’s money, and her work experience was to run one of Daddy’s smaller enterprises for a couple of weeks. “Knowing her

