title: Sitter's Lost Innocence
author: Cole, Carmen
description: Mary just graduated from high school and can't wait to spend her last summer in town partying with her friends. She's hoping to get her first boyfriend, and she has her sights set on a few of the star athletes as potentials. But when her mother promises the neighbors that Mary will babysit for them every Friday night, for the rest of the summer, Mary could practically scream in frustration. When her mother introduces her to Mr. Thompson, however, Mary wonders if babysitting all summer might actually work out in her favor. Will Mary finally get the sexual education she so desperately craves?
  
  Excerpt:
  
  Mary looked around her room, finding a tank top and athletic shorts, and threw them on quickly. She brushed her hair and put it up in a ponytail, and dabbed a bit of makeup on to hide her puffy eyes.
  
  As she opened the door and stepped into the hallway, she sighed, bracing herself. She was acting like a petulant child. She needed to grow up.
  
  She ran down the hall to the living room, plastering a fake smile on her face, willing to bide her time till she could pay her mother back.
  
  Mary didn’t know what she had been expecting, but it certainly wasn’t the man standing there in her living room. He’d always looked so much older when she passed their house in the car. She eyed him up and down, cautiously. He was extremely handsome, with wavy brown hair, and dark eyes. He was muscular and tall, in a black t-shirt and jeans. He didn’t look at all like the golfing type she had imagined him to be.
  
  She couldn’t help but stare at him. He was so sexy, and she suddenly grew far more interested in the prospect of seeing him every Friday night. But he’s married with kids, she reminded herself. She quashed her fantasies as fast as she could.