He WAS chivalrous though: at her request, he immediately stopped looking at her, or talking to her. Why should he try to interact in any way? - it was better for him not to, just to protect himself. She rejected him after an amorous kiss which signaled 'Yes', and I don't know about any other young man's reaction, but even giving her a ride home after such a startling rejection, might have been interpreted wrongly by herself - as in: "he kept on trying".

Some women also play the game of being frigid, in order to project an image of innocence. Of course the receiving end of such behavior can sense duplicity when this occurs. As people here confirm: she was not really that innocent.

But this was not by her own doing, which complicates the psychology of her feelings at the time. She says she had been in love with JFK Jr. since childhood. Such a crush can be frightening when meeting (and kissing) the person in the flesh. So she might have been trying to assimilate reality with fantasy, and this may have caused her to put on the brakes, perhaps too vehemently. The boy was startled. We don't know what really happened.

I must admit the timing is really weird, and we'd like to know why she is doing it NOW, especially because his very appropriate actions, prevented anything from actually happening.

The article is just salacious METOO-ism, without a cause. Cry me a river Brooke. So you missed out.