Four years earlier…
Under no circumstances was I stepping out of the car with the way I was dressed.
I was seated directly in the middle of the back seat of the car, knees and legs pulled up snug to my chest with my arms wrapped firmly around them. I had darted back into the vehicle after mommy had made me remove my shorts. She had said it was so that she could be thorough with the sunscreen, but as soon as I had gotten the shorts off she had tossed them in the trunk, telling me that I wasn’t going to need them since it was a warm summer day at the beach.