TV: What about you? What do you think your life will be like post-Affair?

KB: I know I want to do projects that will help me grow as a person and as an actress. Beyond that, I'm not sure. Hopefully a restful vacation will help me figure out the rest.

Family Affair airs Sunday nights at 9 PM EST. Kaitlin's next film, Pretty Young Assassins (PYA), costarring her ex, Drew Thomas, hits theaters this May.

One: The Great Escape

"Okay, Kaitlin, just relax."

"I am relaxed," I insist.

Okay, that's a lie. I'm petrified.

"There's no need to be nervous," Pierre says soothingly.

I'm starting to think my Greek God of a parasailing instructor, Pierre, is a mind reader. He's sitting in the driver's seat of a Winch boat that is seconds away from pulling my parasail chair off the back of his boat and hundreds of feet into the air above the waters of Turks and Caicos Islands, where I'm vacationing. Pierre may be used to doing this, but I'm completely freaked out.

Pierre starts the motor. "Ready, Kaitlin?" he yells over the humming. My bodyguard, Rodney, and my brother, Matty, are sitting behind Pierre, their heads bobbing as the boat rocks back and forth in the relatively calm ocean. "If anything goes wrong, just pull your cord and we'll bring you down," Pierre adds. "Got it?"

I attempt to say yes, but when I open my mouth, it feels like I ate a fistful of cotton. I fidget in my chair, which is thankfully still grounded on the back of the Winch boat. When the boat takes off, a suspiciously thin tow cable will be my only lifeline as the air catches my parachute and sends me flying.

How did I get myself into this?

I try to calm myself by focusing on my outfit. I adjust the straps on my cute white lace Dolce & Gabbana bikini, which feels itchy under my life jacket.

Oh God. What if this all goes terribly wrong and this is the last piece of clothing I ever get to wear? I can see the tabloid headline now: Teen star Kaitlin Burke plummets to her death parasailing in the Caribbean wearing this season's sold-out lace bikini by Dolce & Gabbana. I grab my straps and prepare to unhook myself.

"Hey, Kates!" my younger brother, Matty, yells over the loud engine. "You look like a ghost!" I glare at him. "Listen, if you wimp out, I won't tell anyone -- except Celebrity Insider," he adds with a devilish grin. "Rod, hand me my cell. I'm sure Brian Bennett would like to hear that Kates chickened out of parasailing."

WHAT? Over my dead body. Maybe literally. Ha, ha. Ahem. I will not be tomorrow night's lead story on Insider! I take a deep breath and close my eyes. "GO!"

I hear Pierre rev the boat to full-throttle and I scream as my chair begins to lift off the back of the boat. Within seconds I feel the wind pick up and my parachute rises into the air. After what seems like an eternity of screaming, I open my eyes and look down.