It's You...

Chapter 1.

Early mornings and busy days are not really a thing for Jennifer. She loves her lazy days. She loves the weekends when she's off work. She has always been like this, even before she started working in Los Angeles. It's been a year since Jennifer left her hometown in India and moved to Los Angeles, CA, US for her career. Working in a publishing house was always a dream of her, and finally she got a chance to work as an editorial assistant in LA's Independent Publishing House.

Jennifer Diaz, is a twenty-two year old Indian girl, born catholic and passionate and dedicated about her career. She never thought of anything beyond her parents and her job. Only these two things are important to her. She never expected more from her life. It's like she has just accepted the way her life's going on right now and expects the same way to go in the future too. She is satisfied with whatever she has and is not even seeking for something more.

She is a jolly, cheerful, kind hearted girl and has instantly made quite good friends in Los Angeles within just a matter of months.

It's hard for her to live in a different country all by herself, leaving her parents behind who supported her in each and everything she did, but she has paid them back by giving them what they deserved. Jennifer loves her mother and her father and she misses them a lot, but her roommate Angela doesn't let Jennifer miss her parents much. Though Angela already has a best friend but still she considers Jennifer also her best friend and why not, after all, they share one apartment together.

Jennifer's life is being revolving around the same thing, around the same routine. There is not much happening in her life and she is kind of bored with the same regular routine, like she wakes up every morning at 6:30 am, do some workout with Angela for about forty-five minutes, take a shower, get dressed for work, have breakfast and leave home by 8:30 am and reach there at work by 8:50 am. And then work like she does everyday, edit manuscript, meet the authors, attend meetings and so on. She is tired of all this though she loves her job but she needs a break, going somewhere far and enjoying herself, like, on a beach. She loves going at the beaches. She loves the sea, but it's been years since she hasn't been to any beach. She doesn't even remember the last time she went on a beach or atleast a vacation. But how can someone go on a vacation in the middle of a February, not possible for working people unless it's a holiday. She's not even dating anyone or neither she has a love life. There is nothing, there is no one that will distract her and refresh her mood.

But today is a bit different from everyday. Today she is finally going travel after a really long time to Manhattan Beach City in the Los Angeles County, to attend her friend, Leah's parents 30th wedding anniversary party. She is excited because she hopes that maybe on the way she could get to see the ocean and feel the fresh sea-breeze, which she hasn't felt for years. She can't wait to call it a day at work and go to the party, but she's also nervous because she has just met Leah and she has already invited Jennifer to her party. She doesn't know how she's going to keep up throughout the party with a crowd of unknown people. But she needs a change and she will attend the party no matter what and also she can't break Leah's heart by not going. Leah is truly a sweetheart and Jennifer prays that all her other family members should also be the same.

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Yeah, Friday, another day with the same routine, not much happening---- I wonder as I walk out of the elevator and stride to my office. As I take a seat in my office, I look out through the floor to ceiling glass windows on the right side of me and I think, why has my life become so boring? It used to be so fun and playful. What happened now?........Maybe because I'm growing old?

Oh come on, I'm twenty- seven, how am I old then?

Yeah!! Okay!!....I am growing old but I haven't reached an age of a grandpa.