Noah and I were casually walking along the beach, talking about anything and everything. However, whenever he asked about my family, I would change the subject. I think he quickly realized that it was a topic I really didn't want to discuss, and he respected that by stopping his inquiries.
Then he asked what brought me to the island, and I launched into the whole story about Abel. He had heard about the party, where Abel's girlfriend caught him with another girl, causing a scene. He didn't realize that I was the girlfriend who went "nuts."
I told him I wasn't going to apologize for my reaction and that I had no regrets. At least this way, people knew I wasn't someone they could easily take advantage of.
But just as we started getting into that story, someone came running out of the fore
