The Navy man was on leave, relieved to come home to visit his family and loved ones. As he board the plane taking him home, he kept seeing her, her heart shape face and long silky beautiful hair blowing in the wind as she was sitting on the hot sands after he told her he was enlisting into the service. His father and brother were soldiers and he is meant to follow in their footsteps. He remembered how she just crumbled and fell to the sands. Her legs went out under her and she just collapsed. Her face reflected all the misery of what she felt. Losing her best friend and soul mate to the military. They plan under starry nights their future together to go off to the same college, get engaged, married and have as many children their hearts could hold.
She knew his father was expecting him to walk in the family's footsteps and became a honour solider and then think of his future. She was being silly, thought their love since Junior High would be enough for him to defiant his father and live out their dreams. Today he was telling her that he could not disrespect his father and was abandoning her to be with another woman, the military. he was going to cherish, protect and even love her for her status and bravery. She was jealous and felt defeated. All hope was dying.
As he was station in the Persian Gulf. In his dreams, He saw her befallen vessel, looking so fragile and vunerable sitting on the dusty sands. The oceans was whipping large waves behind her as if it too senses her desperation of not wanting to let go of her first true love.
The first time he was dispatch he wished he had taken a picture of her to take with him when he had to first report to his post in a foreign country, far away from home..
The first time he make up his mind to enlist he did not know how to break the news to her. He cherished her and yet know that the country needed strong heroes to fight for her freedom and maintain democracy. He deny his future calling his dad has destined for him even before he was born. On his return home the second time he texts her telling her he had to see her, it was important. No response.
He texted another message " Let's meet at the haunting grounds and we will decided from there where to go with each other and our future together.
They first met at the haunting grounds when she was in junior high school. She was completing a project on sightings of ghosts and spirits. He was there visiting his departed grandmother. The national Indian reservation . It was a landmark and only someone with permission was allowed on the reservation. The grounds were declared holy. As the two young people where lost in their own worlds. The atomsphere became tranquil and the beauty surrounding them became more alive, vibrant as if Mother Nature and the supernatural powers to be knew these two were meant to be together as soul mates. The winds pick up blowing the trees tops and they were waving their leaves as to greet them. He listened to the winds he thought heard a whisper ; She is Here.
This is where the first place he saw her and fell in love with her, sitting on the ground and adjusting her camera to take a picture of an ancient tombstone. She appeared to be like an angel, her hair was the halo and she was wearing a long frilly white dress the bottom was spread out and her hair was flying all wild, the strands carassing her face. He was compelled to walked over to her and saw the antique camera in her hand.
He was an expert on cameras he relaized this one was an older model no longer in production. He was attracted to it and asked if he could see it. She was taken back by his assertive nature, but something deep in his eyes made her trust him. As she handed to him the object, they both felt the electric current that exchange between their hands. Stunned by the feeling it made them realized they should get to know each better and have not been separated since that day. So many years ago. He lost count. Now here he was again to ask for forgiveness and a second opportunity for her to accept his fate and be willing to wait for him.
