Destiny

CHAPTER ONE

It is the beginning of the summer of 1989, and it is the most important time of the year. Everything good and everything magical happens between the months of June and August. But this summer, it was the summer when everything begins differently. On one lazy day on the beach, with Cattalya, Jalissa and Shekia, Sheena sat down and gazed out over the Caribbean Sea, feeling the faint breeze and enjoying the warmth of the sun on her face, shading her eyes with one hand, the white sand warm between her toes. The place was beautiful beyond belief.

In a few hours the beach would be packed with tourists lying on their towels in the hot sun, soaking up the rays. She got up and walked to the waters edge to let the tiny waves lap over her feet. The water was refreshing, but the beauty around her was unable to ease the grief she felt for her grandmother, who took badly ill of a heart attack. Sheena was asked by her family to take her grandmother's place in the market, putting aside her plans to finish university and stay home, where she was needed until her grandmother, Datilda was in better health.

Later in the afternoon at the market, while the sun slated down, Sheena was dazed for a moment, thinking what it would be like to live outside her little island and hoped she too will leave the island like many before her.

After a days work in the market, every afternoon at half four, Sheena decides to go for a relax in her natural quiet spot, away from everyone and everything just to appreciate what life had to offer in her swimming pool. Here she could relax and listen of the rustling of leafs between the tropical plants, the splash of water tumbling over the rocks. She lifts her eyes and stares up into the clear blue sky, listening to the calls and singing tunes of birds in the trees, such place we would call paradise because of its clear transparent water. Soon, she started to set back home as it was starting to getting late. Following the path home she started to ask herself while walking "what it must be like outside? Would it be better or worse?"

The following morning, the sun struck the edge of Sheena's pillow with potent brilliance. Sheena snaped out of her trance by the chirps and twitters of the early risers out of the doors. A bird looked in through the glass window and tapped its beak on the glass.

"Sheena! Wake up!" her mother calls out from below.

She slides out of bed and walks over to the window. Far below her window was her dog running around. A faint white cloud moved slowly past the window in the seren blue sky. She could have gazed out of her window for hours but she had to ge dressed and ready; it easy another day at the market, selling her grandmother's goods. The heat was unbearable, women were waving their fan to keep cool.

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