<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/U7UBPgl.jpg)</div>Returning home for the holidays was always a mixed bag for Anna Bell. She enjoyed seeing her family again, including her little sister Sue, but it was also a reminder of the kind of strict, conservative life she had somewhat escaped at college. It wasn’t that Anna Bell was running wild at college. But she had a few experiences with boys, enough that they would make her dad angry and her mother very uncomfortable. She no longer was the incredibly naïve girl who had left the house all those years ago. In many ways, she recognized a lot of her own naivety in Sue. Coming home had been the usual spiel of her dad greeting her and then inquiring into her romantic life, a usual spiel in which she always remained vague. The Pastor was so old-fashioned that even the fact that his daughter was dating several men out in the big city would have offended him. Her usual reply was that her job was leaving her too busy to find someone, which wasn’t entirely untrue. She still had time for short flings but not for a long-term, steady relationship.<br/><br/>She had arrived at her old home in the late afternoon. Sue had been on some sort of date with David, which amused Anna Bell. She still remembered David as the little boy who was always over to play with Sue. The thought of the two of them now old enough to date was still weird to think of. Eventually the young pair returned from their date night and her mom beat her to greeting the youngsters. After Tammy had informed them both of her presence, she took emerged from the kitchen. She gave Sue a big hug and then turned to David, who got a handshake and a kiss on the cheek. He had certainly changed a lot! David had only been 11 when Anna Bell had gone off to college and he had not been that much older – at least in her mind – the few time she had visited for holidays since then and run into him. The David in front of her now was a young man, no longer a boy.<strong>“Whoa, you’ve grown up a lot! I almost didn’t recognize you! I’m guessing you’re quite the heart breaker, aren’t you?”</strong>She then turned towards Sue.<strong>“But you better not break my little sister’s heart or you’ll have to deal with me!”</strong>She gave them both a wink to signify that she was kidding, in so far that it wasn’t clear enough by the tone of voice.<br/><br/>Tammy ushered everyone back into the kitchen and they were soon chatting away with a soft drink  in front of them. Anna Bell told them a bit about her urban life, the cleaned up version that wouldn’t offend the pastor, which mostly involved her talking about her job and how much she had to work. Which once again was mostly the truth, it just left out some late night activities with men, some of which would be the types her father would definitely have disapproved of. Not that Anna Bell considered herself easy, or promiscuous. It wasn’t as if she had dozens of sexual partners, but even just the fact that she was sexually active would be enough to anger her father. Sex out of wedlock was a big no-no for the man, which was very old-fashioned thinking. To Anna Bell, a woman her age who didn’t occasionally hook up with a man was an oddity, but that was an argument she would lose if she tried to have it with her father, so she preferred to not show that part of her life to him.<br/>