The Slide

I liked the mountains well enough, from a distance, but they had never beckoned to me or been the stuff of my dreams. And to go there with the youth group? People I'd been working so diligently to avoid. It made no sense that I'd agreed to go, and that I was actually excited about it. But nothing in my life made sense anymore. Lost years and rejection are the only memories Taren chooses to focus on in relation to her father. But she never realizes just how comfortable she has become without him ...