Fixing Tanner (Second Chances Book 3) by Del Rachel

Author:Del, Rachel [Del, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-02-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

There are turning points in every person’s life. The day your mother passes away after a long battle with cancer. The moment you become a parent for the first time. The day you graduate from College. Good or bad, these turning points all have one thing in common: they forever change a person.

Tanner knew they were smarter than this, but the mix of weed and alcohol meant they weren’t thinking clearly. They should have kept a closer eye on the events.

“I can remember so vividly that someone was playing guitar all weekend.”

Empty bottles were flung into the lake and the boys wrestled to prove their physical prowess, the girls giggling by the nearby campfire. It had been one of those perfect weekends that you never want to end.

“Eventually someone stumbled across a canoe. It was so dark out that I don’t know how they even found it. We were just drunk enough that it was far too enticing to pass up. Manny and I took another hit from the bong and climbed into the canoe. Everyone was egging us on. We all thought it was hilarious.”

He became quiet then. With the exception of Elle, the only people who knew this story were locked safely away in his past. He wasn’t sure he was ready to bring everything into the present.

“What happened then, Tanner?” Dr. Schultz asked, gently nudging him forward.

“Do you believe in fate?” he asked, his eyes beginning to gloss over.

“You mean do I believe that everything happens for a reason and we have no control over anything? No, I don’t.”

“Neither do I,” he began. “There couldn’t have been less than twenty-five of us there that weekend. Any one of them could have stopped us.”

He should have known better. He knew Manny couldn’t swim, just like he knew that neither of them was truly cognizant of their surroundings by that point of the night. But they all let them go… encouraged them to go.

He couldn’t help but smile as he and Manny drifted off to a chorus of excited screams and taunting while they ducked whatever debris was being tossed their way from the rowdy crowd. But as they disappeared from sight and their friends’ voices trailed off into the darkness, he felt an uneasiness sweep over him.

“No one could tell me how long we were gone.”

Morning broke and the news travelled quickly. One boy had been rescued clinging to the side of a canoe the next morning at the far end of the lake. They weren’t sure he was going to make it; hypothermia had begun to set in. There was no sign of the other boy.

“That was nearly ten years ago.”

Tanner slowly lifted his gaze to meet Dr. Schultz’s. She sat silently, her eyes giving away no indication of what she was thinking or feeling. Her silence encouraged him to keep going. As if there was anything that could have stopped him.

“We were laughing,” he said, shaking his head slowly from side to side. “We were telling jokes and just waiting to drift to shore because Manny had lost our paddles.

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