When you’re starting out on the tortuous path to emotional maturity, it can be a challenge to sort your personal feelings from social expectations.

Seventeen-year old Faye Bennett has hit that challenge head-and-heart on in her relationship with her boyfriend Dave Muzzy.

They’ve known one other since third grade so Faye thought she knew him. But something’s not adding up in Faye’s heart, and it’s been difficult for her to admit that the Dave she’s always known may not be the Dave she wants to know.

You can read parts one (Just Zoom on By) two (Meanwhile in Another Part of Town) and three (Coming Back to Life) are here so that you can catch up.

And I hope you will stop by tomorrow to read the conclusion to the latest Carding Chronicle.