[Ayla]

I'm the ripe old age of 23, but if I think real hard I can recall my years of walking the halls of my high school. It's TOUGH being a teenager.

Being popular isn't always a good thing, IMO. Once you reach that level you'll do most anything to stay there. I watched girls become sexually active and experiment with drugs just so they could remain "tight" with the popular kids. If they went out with a guy from that circle and didn't "put out" they were quickly busted down in the social world.

Myself, I floated around all the circles. I was popular in high school, but on my own terms. I was 18 before I lost my virginity and that was after a long term relationship that I felt comfortable in. I was friends with the band nerds, the eggheads, the jocks....everyone knew me and love me. But then again...how could they not?