"Who was it?" Melissa said too quickly. The spike of jealousy she felt surprised her.

"It was a girl… a woman I had had a serious crush on all through high school."

Melissa felt the envy course through her veins. She wanted to know who this woman was.

"Her name is Tracy Dunleavy. I first saw her when she moved to our school from another state. We were both fourteen years of age. I was a goofy kid living in a trailer park with his mom and two screwed up little brothers; her parents had money and lived in the most upscale neighborhood in town. That was always the downside...