CHAPTER TWENTY
SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2003 1:14pm
Twenty-four Years Ago
Marcus stood there with his mouth open. His mother would ask him if he was trying to catch flies, but he was just dumbstruck. He was staring at the biggest pool he’d ever seen. It was humongous. Bigger than the city pool he’d been swimming in since he was little. He knew his friend Mike was rich, but this was crazy rich. Rich like movie stars.
“I told you it was the coolest, didn’t I?” said his best friend.
Marcus turned to him without taking his eyes off the towering rock mountain that hid the slide snaking down to the water.
“I can’t believe it,” he muttered. “How’d they even build this thing?”
“It was a blast, Marcus. They had these giant bulldozers or cranes or something. They dug that hole in about two days. Yo
