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In spite of the teachings of so many worldly wise people, ignorance is definitely not bliss. This was something Jo Ann Blame found out for herself in a hurry. The fact that Jo Ann was an imaginative girl aided everything considerably. Her parents, being the highly moral individuals they were, had kept her ignorant, which turned out to be the worst thing possible, because Jo Ann was the kind of girl who had to know.
But then, this is the way most parents are with their daughters, overly protective, shuddering at the thought of their young girls becoming sexually involved with the opposite sex, unaware that even though it is the female of the species who bears the consequences of an illicit affair, the female is no less desirous of knowing than the male. That Jo Ann was fortunate enough not to face such consequences had nothing to do with knowledge on the girl’s part, nor had it to do with care on the part of the various males with whom she became involved. Rather in this case she was simply lucky, and nothing more.
The most imaginative teenager at the high school in Colton, Indiana, was Jo Ann Blaine. It was this imagination that had made her the leading ingenue in school plays even though it was her first year in the high school. It was this same imagination that kept Jo Ann from doing well in the practical subjects such as math, geography, and languages, while she excelled in the various English courses.
If Jo Ann went to the movies, when she emerged, in her mind she was the heroine on screen. She had, in fact, sneaked into an R-rated movie, and for the first time had witnessed simulated intercourse, and all the way home, she dreamily saw herself as the woman on the bed being poked into by the handsome hero.
Once at home, a small two-story attached home on a street similar to countless other streets in the neighborhood, Jo Ann had to watch herself because her parents were very strict. They had done their best to guard her from anything having to do with sex, though once she had started high school it had been all but impossible for the young teenager to be kept ignorant of how babies were made, and the good feelings that went with it, so that so many girls in high school were already performing the ritual even if they were in no mood to accept the consequences.
At night, in her bed, Jo Ann listened to the silence coming from her parents’ room and imagined what was going on in there. Unlike other young girls her age, Jo Ann was quite willing to accept the fact that her parents still “did it!”
Fictional reading for entertainment purposes only.