Alex
“What are they doing?” Gabe asked while they watched Nora and Katelyn got up and…
“I think they’re dancing.”
Gabe leaned forward and cracked the kitchen window open. “Is that P!nk?”
“Who?” Alex asked.
“Dude, you need to learn there’s more than doo wop and jazz out there.” Gabe shut the window while the girls paraded around on the docks like a couple of carefree teenagers.
Alex refused to take his eyes off Nora. She was just…he probably said it a billion times before, but how could anyone see anything beyond perfection? She was something pure in the world. People may have tried to break her but she was stronger. She wasn’t without the blemishes—the hard exterior and scars to show for it—but she used that to make herself stronger.
“You think Nora’s gonna be
