CHAPTER 1: PERMISSION TO ROCK“Hey Ash, guess what I got?”
I looked up to see my best friend and coworker, Amber, hurrying towards me. I grinned at her excitement. She was always amped up about something. She was short with dark blond hair and a quick smile. We’d been friends forever it seemed like. We met in high school when my parents divorced and I’d moved with my dad to the city. Amber had been one of the first people that I’d met and we became instant friends. She and I were both interested in going into medicine. Her mom was a nurse and her dad a surgeon. She never had aspirations about going into the military until she met me.
I’d known for a long time that I wanted to go into the Navy. My dad was in the service and still serves today. He never paid much attention to me until he an
