Quote by Dancing_Doll
This is not first person. It's called 'second person narrative'.
I don't take the story in the literal sense of putting myself into the other person's position. I can imagine myself as either the writer's perspective or as the person they're writing to/about, so gender differences don't bother me in that regard. Or I can just appreciate it as though I'm reading a letter that I have nothing to do with and watching a scene unfold.
I typically use first or third person, but my last story was in second-person narrative (I wanted to try something different). That perspective has a more intimate and immediate feel but probably is the least popular tense for readers. Having said that, if you can pull off a story, I don't care what tense it's in. I've enjoyed reading stories in all three.
Dancing Doll, your "Hard Candy" is a great story, worthy of a skilled writer like yourself. But it seems to me that it is a first-person narrative more than second-person. It is still voiced from the "I" perspective. Compare to that a novel like Michel Butor's "Second Thoughts" (original French title: La Modification). Butor replaces the first person entirely with "you": "You open the door, you lift your bag into place,..." The result is that a person the "you" interacts with becomes "he" or "she" etc.: "You telephone Véronique. She answers and tells you..."
This kind of experiment was all the rage with the French New Novel, but clearly never made it into the mainstream.