"Are you referring to me, miss?" Pierce replied saucily as he sauntered over. "Lighten up. You're much too beautiful to be frowning."
"Kids these days and their awful manners," Stefanie muttered with a frown of disgust.
Pierce leered without restraint. "I'm not that young anymore if you know what I mean. I know just as much about how to please you as you do yourself. Would you like me to try?"
Smack!
Seized by blind rage, Stefanie slapped him across the face. How dare a kid like him speak to me like that!
Pierce reeled from the impact of the slap. He could not believe that he had just been slapped. The other boys who had been flanking him leaped forward to hold him steady. One of them pulled out a knife.
Stefanie was taken aback at the sight of the armed and hostile teenagers. For a moment, she appeared at a loss for what to do.
