The New Love, Desire.
Eighteen years ago
When Steve was eleven years old, his mom had taken him on a boat ride off Catalina Island, on the Californian coast. It'd been kind of a present because Steve had missed so much school, being a sickly, frail kid growing up. He was doing better, he just wasn't all the way there yet.
Steve had hung out at the bough of the small ferry, avoiding other holiday-goers and sketching the small islands on the horizon as they passed. His mom was chatting to another single parent, so she let Steve be.
Too long under the sun had made him feel light headed, but just as he was about to seek the shade, he saw a flash and a shadow in the water underneath him. Maybe it was a dolphin; there'd been sightings of them earlier off in the distance. Steve leaned betw
