Summary

The lifeguards told Cox with the weather getting bad, it was too dangerous for her to be swimming alone so far from the shore. She could hear Steve’s voice on the lifeguards’ radio talking to a fisherman who believed he’d seen a mother whale near Huntington Harbor. They decided Cox and Greyson should wait near the pier and hope that Grayson would stay with them. Back at the pier, a group of people had gathered to help look for the whale. Cox heard Steve’s voice on the radio saying that a fisherman thought Grayson’s mother might be moving in their direction. As Cox watched Grayson swimming back and forth in the water as if he were pacing, she wondered if he was cold or if he was trying to make his breaths heard.

Frustrated with waiting, Cox decided to...