Chapter 21
Sometimes it was surprising just how many friends they had. Never more noticeable than when Scooter got them all together in one relatively small location. Dockside’s staff, who were more family than co-workers; Raniesha and her mom; the crowd of friends Scooter had picked up in college and who now mostly lived in Ghent, some of the kids from the S-bend who surfed with them. And then there were all of Andy’s friends from college and New York, more than he would have thought he had a few years back when he’d arrived in Dockside with nothing but a backpack and a bad situation. Wesley Rutledge and his son had, thankfully, sent their regrets. (Andy hadn’t even wanted to invite them, but Eleanor had put her foot down.)
Mark Johannson was there, mostly because his father owned the S
