Tiana bent down to pull up her soccer socks. She was wearing a stylish Green, puffy hat with the brim in front. She also had on a Renaissance type of shirt, falling from her shoulders. Her short pants were low slung and she had pockets everywhere.
She didn't quite fit into the Newport Beach spoiled kids' crowd. And the spoiled ones continued to remind her and let her know it. She could have felt offended or hurt, but her heart wasn't as thin as her waist...she was athletic and on the girls' soccer team . People knew not to mess with her!
Tiana lived in Newport as well, but in a single family home. She lived with her father ( a well meaning, successful man), but not very knowledgeable about 18 year old girls.
Tiana didn't know how she made it through three plus years at Newport Harbor High School. People were incredibly snobby and sometimes she felt like their insincerity had rubbed off on her. She felt bad when her father asked her about her day and she just rolled her eyes and looked out the window at the sunset.
They lived in a two bedroom-about a block from the beach. The place had an ocean view! It wasn't a house like some of her friends had. It wasn't bad though even though her dad rented. She could sit on the porch (they were upstairs) and look out at the blue, sometimes gray ocean.
Today, Tiana was home early from school. She didn't have a sixth period this semester. It was March and and she only had three more months until graduation. She couldn't wait...not that she had any solid idea about what she wanted to do after graduating...
She was sitting on the beautifully wooden planked porch after school a few days later. She was not dressed as alternative as she usually dressed. She was wearing a sea green tank top, a jean miniskirt and her dark, brown hair was colored with light brown highlights. She pulled her hair back in a bun. She had a natural look going and wasn't wearing much make-up. She had the looped earring in her brow, but besides that, she was piercing free. She had her visible tatoo in full view-the small, glittery dolphin on her right back shoulder.
She decided to stand up and go to the edge of the porch and look over the ledge into the sun-slowly setting into the water. in no time at all, the sun would be a little sliver and she would move back inside and start making dinner for her father and herself. Her mother left them when she was only 4 years old. Some of the hurt from being left toughened Tiana, but she was also extremely sensitive and saddened in her heart by never finding her mother and feeling the pain of loss-even after all these years.
She started really missing her mother from tenth grade onward-only a few years ago, when a mother's touch could have helped her in the fashion and boy department.
Tiana stool looking at the sunset. As she looked, she saw a sole figure; it looked like a surfer. it was a beautiful silhouette against the backdrop of the ocean. The figure started walking toward her...closer and closer.
She was staring off and then suddenly he was two feet from her face. He was a looker for sure but his eyes were what mesmerized her. his eyes looked like wheels turning, kaleidoscopes Suddenly, Tiana was in a tall, tall building. She awoke and saw that she was on some kind of massage type table. in a chair beside the table was the guy, the looker.
"What am I doing here?' asked Tiana aggressively. she bolted upright and raced to the door. The man blocked her without saying a word. it seemed as though he couldn't talk. He had this pleasant expression on his face, a plastered smile. Tiana remembered her karate. She was a black belt for Godssake! She kicked him and knewhe really was a man, not some mannequin robot, because when she kicked him in the crotch, she could see that it hurt!
He screamed out, "Arrgh! What is your problem?"
"Oh, so you talk? Why did you bring me here and did I faint? Let me go..." She said.
She ran out the door, escaping him and she could hear the tender voice now:
"I brought you here for your best interest. Don't go, there's danger!"
Tiana didn't heed his warning. She screamed and was outside finally. The building was called, "Second Chances." Second chance or not, she had to get back to her father! She noticed though that she wasn't in Newport. It was another place entirely...the sky was a deep shade of purple and the clouds were a sparkling blue. She felt transfixed, haunted by the beauty around her.
She started walking, but she walked about 300 feet and she hit a plastic wall. She was puzzled. How could this be? Where am I? She looked upward into the purple sky and when she looked really hard, she could see a plastic ceiling that covered the sky. it looked like it was very far away, but it was actually closer than she thought..even the stars. The strangeness was that she didn't feel trapped by her plastic surroundings (even though she realized she was inside a giant replica of a snow globe basically). Despite the awkwardness of this scenario, she felt...for the first time in a long time, like she really could breathe!
Inexplicably, she walked back into the building. The receptionist mentioned floor 3. She took the elevator up..right back to where she was...as if in a dream, the man, who was probably a robot, glanced at her like he expected her to come back. His eyes were dancing. They were now a deep violet.
She sat down right in front of him.
"You have come here for a reason, Tiana."
She liked the way his tongue rolled out her name. She didn't feel self conscious suddenly. It was like the sun was radiating all the way through her. He looked at her..not with attraction or lust. He was about twenty and normally that feeling would be there, but he looked at her with an understanding that only she, God, and the Earth had of her. And breathing deeply, she discovered in front of her was the Earth and God and despite that fact, she knew she had to get back to her dad and school, that was her home.
The man smiled and in her heart, she felt forgiven, loved, inspired and passionate about her life ahead...
the bubble lifted and the man said with the kindest smile, "Run through!"
...And she did. When she was at her human home again, she never again felt ungrateful, but instead, she embraced all of it!
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