Proof The Bible Is True

A young woman is threatened on a deserted beach by a man she’s only just met. With no one else around, how could she escape unharmed?

I saw him among the sea of partyers on the beach at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Blond hair. Athletic build. Total jock. Not my type at all. I usually went for the quiet, geeky types, like me. But this guy kept glancing my way, and I had no one else to talk to. I was standing awkwardly by the bonfire. My older sister, Elizabeth, and I had snuck out of the bungalow our family rented every summer. She’d disappeared the second we got to the party. Maybe she didn’t want to be seen with her lame 16-year-old sister. I wasn’t exactly the life of the party, though sometimes I fantasized that I was.

The guy walked right up to me as if he knew I wouldn’t walk away, then handed me a beer. “How’s it going?” he said. “I’m Jason.” I sipped the beer while we made mindless chitchat. His family owned a time-share on the beach. He was in college. I couldn’t help but wonder why he was interested in me. Then again, I needed a distraction. Anything to take my mind off my father.

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