It had only been two months since Emma had left home to go to college but she felt as though she had experienced a lifetime of changes in just that short period of time.

She sometimes wondered what it would be like when she went home for the first time. She wondered what her friends back home would think about the changes that had taken place in her and whether her parents would even notice - and if they would approve.

This was the problem that had preyed on her mind for some ...