Destiny

Chapter 1

Lea Walton glanced up from her map, taking in the surrounding around her. The large Spanish town called Malaga was crowded. There were people everywhere. Tall buildings stretched up to the sky and all that Lea could hear was the blaring noises of horns and roaring car engines. Lea starred at her map again and frowned, giving a frustrated sigh. She should had listened to her parents, they had told her not to do this.

"You're too young," she remembered her mother saying.

"Mother, I'm eighteen," Lea had replied back.

"I know, but you're still my baby girl, and you're just so..." her mother's voice trailed off.

"So what?" Lea asked. She tried to sound strong, like she didn't even care what her mother had to say, but she knew there had been a tremble in her voice.

"I was going to say fragile," her mother began calmly. "You're so kind and sweet."

"And that's a bad thing?" Lea questioned.

"No, that's not what I meant. I'm just not sure you're ready to go out into the world on your own. And for such a long period of time. Please don't do this."

Lea had stood in front of her mother, unable to say a world. She knew she needed to say something, but what should she say? The truth? That part of the idea of going traveling round the world on her own for such a long period of time scared her. Because it did. But she was eighteen. Technically a legal adult. She had always wanted to go traveling. There was so much that she wanted to do in life. Find love. Have children. Maybe go to university. She could do it. She was definitely smart enough. She had got all A's and A stars in her exams at school. Her mother had always wanted her to go to Uni. Graduate from high school then go straight to university. And maybe she would, some day. But for now she wanted to experience the world. See what was out there. Get away from her room. From a world of books and board games that she played endlessly with her parents. She loved to read. She had always loved too. She loved how every story took you on new adventure. But now Lea wanted to find her own adventure. For years she had felt like Rapunzel, stuck up in her room. Sometimes she would go out onto her balcony at night and just stare up at the stars. Dreaming of what lied out there in the world. But she was not a little girl anymore and she knew it was time to finally leave the castle walls of her bedroom she had spent her who life in and go out and experience the world.

She had never really had much say in what happened in her life. Her life had always been decided, mapped out and planned for her. She had never had any friends. Her mother had always seemed to make it impossible. She was home schooled and spend most of her time studying or doing some piano practise. If she was lucky her mother might allow her an hour or two of free time to read a fictional book in her room, but that was it. There was never any television. Her parents didn't approve of the thing. They thought that all it ever showed was trashy programmes that made kids stupid which lead to failure in later life. "Kids who spend all their time in front of the television instead of studying will never get anywhere in life." She remembered her mother saying, and that was the end of it. Lea didn't really mind though. She had never really had much interest in television anyway.  

Lea was of medium high, she had long brown hair that went down to her waist and she was wearing a white sleeveless cotton summer dress, her long hair hanging down her back.  

Suddenly, she blinked, coming out of her thoughts she had been so lost in and looked up. And then she saw him. A guy. He was standing across the street from her. He was tall and had scruffy light brown hair and a grin plastered across his slightly tanned face as he glanced at the surroundings around him. He was wearing a creased cream coloured shirt with a dark brown faded waist coat over the top of it. His trousers had a rip in them and his shoes looked like they had seen their last days. Still, there was something about him. Despite the way he was dressed. He looked handsome. Suddenly the guy looked her way. Lea's eyes immediately flickered to ground, feeling embarrassed that he had caught her looking at him. Lea slowly raised her head, hoping the guy would have disappeared. But he hadn't. He was still there. His eyes staring into hers. Letting her eyes stare into his she felt something that she had never felt before. Her heart was beating fast and her head felt dizzy. She felt like it was fate. She knew it sounded stupid but in that very moment she felt like they were meant to meet. Meet at this very place. So close to one another. Starring into each other's eyes. Suddenly the guy started to walk over to her and her heart rate quickened, unable to draw her eyes away from his.