Joanna is gently continued going to the beach. 5:00 o'clock in the morning and the wind is so cold. The wide ocean is quiet. There is a fisherman in the middle.
She fully have an fresh air in her heart. The atmosphere was quiet, nothing to hear is only the group of the modest rubbish small wave at the beach. She picked up a piece of shell in front of her and she thrown into the water.
She had always love this place. She spent of her life in the part of Puerto galera.
Except, of course, those people who spent their life to educate in Manila during her collage. How ever there's no semestral break and vacation that she's not came back here..and most of them is together their classmates and friends.
This had been her father's birth place. His mother died giving birth to her. She inherited from her grand father and grand mother.
Was the district's veterinarian. And there' s not so much work at the clinic, in the downstair on the second floor of their house and far from the cottages, and driving one of the boat that they owned to travel the tourist around the island.
The bussiness of their parents seems like a seasaw. Mighty if summer and a lenten season started. When the month of August comes the cottages is vacant and waited for a vacation again. If there's a vacationers lost arrive from off season does one by one rarely rain drops during day time.
How ever their living comes there of their family and her study. First year college when she told to her father that she wanted to get a buseniss management.
"since this resort is a large size, dad" she had told her father one time.
"Perhaps we could put up a lodge. Your second floor only has a 10 room. you would know because the foods is delicious, clean and first class, among all the lodges here in Puerto galera."
We don't have enough to invest for our dreams.
"it's because my only daughter is pretty, probably will get a marriage than to reach her goal."
She pouted. "I will not getting married if I can't seek a man like you, Daddy,"
she whispered and she hugged her father from behind. And the handsome is like you. "She grinned.
Her father is native handsome because her father is American.
It's called handsome from their compatriots.
"You and your father are teasing again."
Anna said with lough.
Life had been so simple. Until the tragedy happened involving of her parent's. Her purpose is to find out a technique how to manage a beach resort, her parent's was decided going through the Boracay via Roxas town.
3 hours beyond travelling from Roxas towards Boracay to mediation a boat.
Her parents never made it to their destination. Her parents reached a strong wind and huge wave in the middle of the ocean. Her parents know how to swim how ever they are in the middle of the stormy sea. Their bodies was found out on the island together other passengers of the boat.
It had been too painful for Joanna. She didn't expect her parents lost earlier.
Both were strong and healthy, in the prime of their lives.
She deeply breath to ease her chest. She was nineteen when it happened. 3years ago that was happened. It still inside her heart the pain and hurt.
When her parents died, she was shocked to have found out that money had never been a problem.
Though she's not denied what ever she needs and her parents let her know that they have no money.
Besides she found out her parents leave her a trust fund and land covered of the resort, she could use when she reached 21 years old.
Years ago she has authorize to take the money made from her parents. But she not even take a one piso coin.
When her parents died her grand father adopt her and command her to open an account in the Manila that she can use everyday and for her university needed that she lacking a 3 semester. All of that it much needed.
Her parents money and her grand father putted in her bank, would allow her to live comfortably for life, even though she wouldn't work. She was actually a rich young woman.
She gently continued when she saw a private boat was a driver forced it.
And reached at the part of their island. It probably damage who's driving that. No rich tourist would come to their beach. Because they must choose a bigger and famous beach resort around the island.
She stop walking and she looked on focus to the man who fix a boat. He was naked from the waist above. She saw this worked forearm muscle while still forcing and fixing on the boat.
A minutes ago the boat was still damage he stopped and he stretch his body. Going down to the boat and to the water until his waist and walked through the island. He stopped mid-way when saw someone standing at the beach.
From a distance, their eyes met. Joanna's breathing literally stopped as the man's eyes raked through her body. Then he smiled at her. And if she wasn't mistaken it was a leering smile.
"" Morning, "" and heared this voice was deeper. "Your room woman was wide."
Joanna's was confused by a sudden. And she's out of her mind. Her eyes was bigger when she saw that she still wore on her bed dress. Though she was decently covered from her neck down to her knees, it was thin. Because of the strong wind passed by, she was whore on her bed dress on her body.
"Your so much pretty, dear, today was off season, no American's right?"
She felt shame and back her eyes to the man. There is a malace smiled. It was pretty sure under the sun her face was getting on red.
Mistaken on her as a bad woman.!
"Enough!" angry snap and fast turn away. She almost runned going to her house.
She reached her home with panting. That was a shameless man! That beach was private and there's no guest on their cottages she was knew being alone besides earlier.
Another thing, 2 kilometers away from other beach resort to their. Between of their beach was a forest and the corals.
She climed up on the room it was started to friction of her chest and going down to take a bath. When she took a bath she wore white t-shirt and blue jeans and canvass shoes. Went out through the resort restaurant.
"Good morning, aunt coring," greeting on the chef of their cottage. It was old woman and relatives of her father. She was young, this woman accompanied by her parents to manage on the cottages.
"I prepared your breakfast, Joanna," her dialect.
"It's too early going to the sea, you're not even drink a Coffee."
