In the four years since Rebecca's abuse had started, she had become so disenchanted by the abusive situation that she was forced to live in at home that she had runaway from home, tried to commit suicide and told everyone of authority that would listen and each and every one of them had turned their backs on her and had offered her no help. The summer after she turned fourteen, she found a stranger that did listen and spent the summer with him and his friends finally feeling that she belonged to part of a family. One that made her feel loved and like she belonged with them. At the end of that summer she was forced to make a very grown up decision. Once the decision was made and they were gone, she realized that she was wrong. It would be after years had passed and she had given up on the thought that there would be any chance that she would ever be able to feel the way that she did that summer again that she was thrust into the reality that life does for a very few offer second chances. This time she would not have any regrets.