Ben met Terry in a neighborhood movie theater, where Terry brazenly accosted the younger boy, frightening him, but at the same time, stirring in him feelings that were beyond anything he had ever previously experienced. Without even knowing or understanding what was happening to him, Ben found himself looking forward to a next, and a next meeting with the tantalizing stranger, who had promised that he would "take him all the way," if only he'd be patient. After several clandestine meetings, the contact was irreparably broken, when Ben was grounded. After a year of being severely restricted in his movements, and having lost all contact with Terry, Ben ran away to New York, where he would finally be taken all the way, time and again, but not by Terry. Terry would have to wait. And he did.