Texas.
Duncan's Home.
"Charlie!"
Amanda snickered. "I know you worship your brother Adam. So do I.
But come on!
You're eighteen, an adult. You'll be going to college after summer break. You can go wherever you want, so why are you still so old-fashioned?
We're going to Paris! There's the Louvre Museum, the Musée d'Orsay, the Picasso Museum... It's the City of Romance!
You're eighteen and still a virgin, which is already strange enough. Don't you want to have a romantic adventure in the City of Romance?"
"No."
Charlie immediately shook her head. "Adam said that the lang in romance and the lang in promiscuity were completely different concepts and couldn't be confused. Paris has the promiscuous kind, not the romantic kind..."
"Charlie!"
Amanda's face darkened.
"Sorry."
Charlie immediately realized she had poked her best friend where it hurt and hurriedly apologized. "I didn't mean to mock you.
But trust me, once you see what all that promiscuity can turn into, you'll think the way I am isn't so bad."
"I'm not looking at that disgusting stuff!"
Amanda said disdainfully, "Is Adam a little psychologically twisted? You're his biological sister, yet he showed you that?"
"He didn't show it to me."
Charlie explained, "My mom showed it to me."
"Then he was the one who compiled it and gave it to your mom."
Amanda interrupted, "What's the difference between that and him showing it to you?
Wasn't it all just to scare you into keeping yourself pure?
Don't you know about the romantic legends he left behind in high school?
He has completely different standards for himself and for you, his little sister. He's such a hypocrite!"
"No."
Charlie argued, "Adam never stopped me from dating, just as he never stopped Teddy from dating before.
He just didn't want my