Dan had just turned eighteen and was starting a working gap year before university. He’d moved to London from the small town in the Devon where he grew up and he knew nobody in the big city. But he need not have worried because the mountain biking shop he’d landed a job in was full of people of his age and equally keen on extreme biking.
One of his jobs was to run beginners’ mountain bike courses at the weekends and it was at one of these that he met Jess. She was just sixteen and she walked into the shop with one of her school friends, Claire, to book for next weekend’s session. Jess caught his eye immediately, though she wasn’t really his ‘type’. His previous girlfriends had all been petite, blonde and blue-eyed, but Jess was the opposite. She had wavy dark hair, dark eyes and olive skin and although she had a 16 year old girls’ slim waist, she was really quite curvy with bigger breasts than any girl he’d been out with.
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