hey! Been a bit! Got a couple chapters I'll be posting tonight. Hope y'all enjoy them.


Lela found Mack outside, sitting close to the water's edge, and quietly joined her.

"Sorry about earlier." She apologized. "I really did try to contain my excitement."

"Don't worry about it. It wasn't you." Mack told her, not taking her eyes off the shoreline. She saw herself and that young blond boy again, wet from being in the water, holding hands and surf boards. They were talking about 40 foot waves the next day, though she had something on her mind she needed to tell him. But that didn't take away from her excitement. "It was more the notion that someone like you had given this to me."

"Someone like me?" Lela questioned, unsure about what Mack meant.

"Someone nice and good-natured." Mack replied, catching the look on Lela's face. "Let's just say, I haven't been around people like that lately."

"Oh!" Lela realized. "Well, thank you for the compliment. So have you been surfing yet?"

Mack looked at her funny. "I tried, remember? Brady had to give me CPR."

Lela pushed her a little, giving her a smile. "You're just out of practice. Hey are you staying anywhere?" She asked, changing the subject.

"I have a room at the hotel."

"Well, we're going to cancel it. I will not have my long lost friend pay to visit her home." Lela insisted, grabbing Mack's hand, pulling her along to her car. Mack still could not figure out her connection to this nice person, but she really liked her and enjoyed the hospitality Lela seemed to give her. But a part of her still thought it all could be an act, and deep down Mack desperately did not want that to be true.

After they check Mack out of her hotel, Lela drove the long stretch to the beach house she and Tanner would inhabit as soon as they were married. The house wasn't very big, but looked perfect for someone who would be thinking about starting a family. According to Lela, they had enough room for at least two kids and a couple guests, should they need two separate rooms. Inside, Mack noticed the living room was decorated in 1960s memorabilia. The furniture was the only modern thing in the house, aside from some of the appliances.

"Until Tanner and I grace the world with our children, you may have any room you like." Lela said with a smile. "We both can't wait, but marriage comes first."

"You are so different than the girls I've been friends." Mack told her, smiling.

"Is that good or bad?" Lela asked, still unsure how to take Mack's statements. She told herself she'd be a fool not to be worried and not to recognize that the Mack before her was definitely not the same girl who had left Wet Side Story with Brady on a surfboard ten years ago. Sure people change over the years, especially after they had initially met in the movie; but Mack seemed as if she were at odds with two sides of her: one that enjoys life and one that trudges through it just to make a name for herself. Least Brady had remained Brady; otherwise Lela wouldn't know what to do with herself. Mack was no longer Mack. Lela couldn't help but wonder how bothered Brady was by all this.

The worry diminished a little when Mack replied that Lela being different was a good thing, giving her another smile as she loaded her suitcase onto the bed she'd chosen. The window faced the ocean, something Mack found she really enjoyed seeing.

"Well, since the guys are doing their thing tonight, how about you and I spend the night getting to know each other again? We don't have to do anything crazy, unless you want. Given the events of the day, I'd say relaxation is the best thing."

"Thanks." Mack smiled. "We can do something crazy tomorrow." She promised.

"Sounds great. Did you have anything in particular in mind that you would like do to?"

Mack thought for on that question for a good minute, before coming to a conclusion.


Ok. kinda obvious what she's decided, I know. I'm writing the chapters as I come to me. Hope y'all like it!

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