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 Discovering Paige by pointless () it's my story.  i own it.  you don't. 
any and all feedback welcome and actively encouraged.  many thanks to
fluttertongue for her help in editing.

   This is a prequel to Getting Through to Paige.



   Before Ally there was Hailey.  Before Hailey there was nothing much for
Paige.  Just a couple of boys who had been willing to try, and who gave
Paige the chance to see if this sex thing was all it was cracked up to be.
If her experience up to point where Hailey changed everything were the only
evidence she were to ever collect on the subject of sex, Paige would've had
only one possible conclusion to offer: not really.  Not even close to
satisfying.

   It wasn't that she wasn't into sex with boys.  She was definitely into
that, but her boyfriends had not really been into it quite as much as she
was.  She would eventually learn that this was more their problem than
hers, but at the time she had absolutely no way of knowing that.

   And it wasn't that they didn't try.  It was more because they had no
idea what it took to make a girl happy in bed.  To be fair, both of her
boyfriends were about as experienced as she was up to that point.  Well,
almost.  Her second boyfriend technically had even less considering he was
still a virgin when Paige was going out with him.

   She could've had much more experience Paige was definitely not a late
bloomer.  From middle school she was considered one of the cutest girls in
her class and, consequently, a constant target of offers for everything
from simple dates to the more crass and obscene from boys often too old and
always far too low brow to arouse her interests.

   In a lot of ways, those types and their abundance at her high school
were a major factor in her shyness towards the idea of intimacy.  The other
factor was an restrictive home environment that would've stifled just about
any normal person with its wonderful mix of extreme religious sentiment,
anti-sexual fervor, and a ban on anything deemed offensive.

   The restrictiveness came from her mother, a woman who was very serious
about her interpretation of the Holy Bible much to the frustration of
Paige's father who was religious in his own way.  But he thought he'd
married a woman who believed in a loving, kind god who taught peace, love
and forgiveness.  Instead, she turned out to be a psycho conservative who
believed a vengeful god.  She was pro-censorship, commanded his children to
go to church whenever it's doors were unlocked, believed in sex for
procreation only, and thought that everything from MTV to football on
Sundays was an unforgivable sin.

   Actually, he had married the first woman and not the second but, after
Paige's older brother had died of a rare genetic condition only a year
after Paige was born, his wife had changed and it was not for the better.
Paige had been too young to remember what that woman whom she called her
mother was like before, but she could attest to the fact that the woman who
raised her until she entered middle school was a psychotic, paranoid mess
of repression who did a great job of instilling her repressed attitudes in
her daughter.

   When her parents got divorced she went through the usual painful
emotions.  Many were caused by her mother`s wholesale rejection of the idea
of joint custody.  She forced Paige`s Dad to seek full custody and
prolonged t