(Dear Readers, This is a novella-length prequel to my new, New Adult series McRaes/Next Generation. It's a look at Dana & Peter during their junior year in high school and includes strong language. The prequel doesn't end in a cliff-hanger, but it's not a stand-alone novel, either. It's where they are spring of their junior year. The next Dana & Peter book, Making A Fool of Myself Over You, begins in their senior year of high school and will be out in Spring 2015.) Saving Myself For Her Not that way. Not sexually. Saving my life. Trying to be smart about what I do. Actually giving a damn. Because I matter to her. It’s something I’ve never had—anyone who cares like she does—and it’s absolutely amazing. She’s amazing, this very good girl I can not have. Her dad made that clear the night he caught us together, but that’s not enough to stop me from me from wanting her. Still, it would be a completely selfish move on my part to draw her any deeper into my life. I just heard my mom’s getting out of prison early. Not for good behavior. Because of overcrowding. Life was always crazy with mom. If she comes back, if she wants me back, my life turns to crap. I know that, and at sixteen, I don’t think I can do anything about it, except maybe run as far and fast as I can. Even Dana, my very good girl, won’t be able to save me. (If you read The McRaes Series, you saw a bit of Peter & Dana as children in Bed of Lies and the novella, Welcome Lizzie, which is part of the box set Christmas with the McRaes)