Gina and David, two 18-year-old high school seniors, walk home from class holding hands. Both are dressed in their school uniforms. Gina has been secretly dating David for a few months now and is totally smitten by him: he is handsome, sweet, on the football team, and very popular at school. But she comes from an ultra-conservative family and is afraid of their relationship going public. Her father is a prejudiced man and, as the head of their house, if he were to find out about David, she doesn`t even know what he would do. She apologizes for her family being so ignorant and tells him she loves him. As she says this, a car pulls up behind them and screeches to a halt. The window rolls down and Jeremy, Gina`s older step-brother, yells angrily out the car for her to get in. David looks concerned and asks who it is. Gina looks petrified and, breaking away from her boyfriend, tells him she`ll call him later ... she must go. Why is it that you don`t want to spend any time with me anymore ... but I find you on some dirt road being fondled by a ... Gina cuts him off and pleads with him that it`s normal for stepsiblings to have other friends. The word step seems to ignite something in Jeremy and he explodes.