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The next three weeks were both amazing and frustrating to Makayla. She was enjoying learning how to sail the Defiance. For the first time in her life, she felt a sense of peace and excitement. When they were under full sail it felt like they were flying. She enjoyed the challenge of learning how to anticipate the wind and waves.
Brian often made an excuse to join them and she couldn’t help but think things were going well with him, too. The only dark cloud was the calls from her mom, but even those were getting a little better. Her mom had been released from the rehab center a few days before and was working with her counselor to find a job. The test would be if she could stay clean and not fall back in with the wrong people, including Rob.
“Watch the wind off the front quarter, Maka
