It has been some time since our body has been violated. I have completed first form with flying colours and I am looking forward to the Christmas break. I’m to attend a camp for the youth group. I’m excited, and that’s an understatement. Jim and I are selected to complete the challenge to earn the coveted senior award known as The Camp Fraternity Badge. This is a big deal; we will be the only ones from our group competing. The challenge involves camp-craft, canoeing, bush walking, rope work, first aid and rescue and finally the cross-country run. Jim and I are equally tied for first place on the second last day. That night I’m awoken to hear Jim’s muffled voice pleading. ‘Don’t do it, please don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it.’ The pleas fall on deaf ears. I want to hurt the person that is forcing himself on Jim but I can’t. I am frozen stiff. Every ‘don’t-do-it’ plea that Jim emits cuts like a knife into my chest.
