Chapter 2 The Sun

The morning began with the flutter of newspapers and radio chatters, the once simple island, was yet falling into another scandal with their hometown hero. It was so simple the island that everybody knew someone that was directly connected to Rihanna. Now the news personal began to fly in to hunt for the musician to get her side of the story.

The sun rose early and shine her light on the beat up Monte Carlo, that sped down the dirt roads of island with ease, as if the driver knew all the wrinkles of her beloved island.

"Motherfucker!" Rihanna repeat beat the staring wheel...

She began to take out all the her anger on the road, the heat of the morning island mixed with engine began to cause her to sweat under here hoodie. She grab her ray band throw it at the back seat and began to look in the rearview, as if seeing a sea of her past trouble wave coming crashing into her from the back.

A wave trouble and I unknow reality, all she could think of was her two children and how the hell she going to shield them from all this chaos!

Tears began slide down her face mix with sweat, she try to open the window and could not find the handle.

"How the hell am I going to roll down the window, fuck I can't catch a break today!"

The tall man look out side and adjusted his glasses, and gentle tap the window with his left hand. A sense of a deep calm was in his presences.

"Security, no windows down!" Simon said slowly looking out the window, the darkness of the tinted windows made the light of island fight to get in .

"Fuck security! I going to die of heat stroke!" As she pulled her sweatshirt reveal her tight white tight tank top. 

Simon point towards the beach

"Pull under a Palm Trees, there is nobody around here we should be ok for a bit."

Rihanna looked at her rearview and saw that she had drift into some unknow path. She pulled under group of palm trees.

The car halted with into the sand, as she slammed the break and push, repeatedly push the door open, cursing under her breath. 

With the fourth push the door open with a rusty sound and she fell to the ground and began to puke what she had left of her empty stomach. She then got up and ran toward the shore of beach.

The sun reflected with all it's awe and power. Refracting the beauty of the Sun in love water, and the water wave in to say high and, and gently crash on the wave on the sand. Rihanna ran with hard pace and through her shoes out to side... Bair foot she slowly walked on the sad, ready to let the sea embrace her. As her feet touch the water, it felt as if she was one with the water, all her trouble began to slide out of her. 

She curl up in to a ball, sitting where the sea and sand met to meet for their daily battle... She look down to the crystal water and began to cry and let her heart cry all the pain and years of so much abuse and mental abuse, was this normal in life. She had no answer and still had a cancer that ain't away at every moment. 

Her greenish eyes look to the horizon and see could see something a future, a future of endless loops. A roll, a puppet to whatever this place is for her. How can she show love to her children, when life showed her no love ... Her thought drifted as she held herself tight. And tears that were unchecked.

"Yo Only Girl in the world!"

Her eyes turn a blaze and look to her right shoulder, and yelled!

"Fuck you! Treat me with a respect, you work for me! On this day you had to show up! What the hell you want?"

Simon stand tall, began to fall bended knee and pulled out a pineapple and army knife.

"How about we leave the water work for the sea, and lets have some pineapple instead. I know I'm hungry, and guess you are too. Know how to work a knife."

"Give me that, I think you know my back ground."

"Yo know Only Girl, I see life as two thing the good and the bad times. If there was no bad times how we know what are the good times are. And sometime we must embrace our darkness because in that darkness is where the stars shine the brightest."

"Look wow, I got security filled with college degrees. I hope you understand my life is breaking apart."

"I understand more then you think, and also no college. Call me a drop out but I never stop searching for peace in all books. From all sacred texts to war texts. You know what I found out?"

Rihanna began to cut the pineapple with a skill of a killer. She began to calm down and look to her right side where Simon sat on the water not worrying his all black wear...

"So, did you find peace?" ask while eating a piece of pineapple.

A silence filled the air and you can the sea call to ocean for something to help her broken heart a love potion to heal her currents. And the silence broke when Simon began to speak in a slow cadence.

"I found out from a master that peace is not even a word, and then my dream crash, I search so hard for every angle to bring in peace somehow, twenty-one years in South America. Walking and searching. Living but to no avail. When you realize there is no peace, that the peace is with in you and The Bible help me to realize the other half of the puzzle. If we all consume and not give. If we all take and not care we become a animal in this world... Just feed on basic instinct."

For the first time Rihanna did not feel sad but was ready to hear Simon story that seem more sadder then hers. So, much question in her brain. What is this random guy show up in her life? And this time drops treasure of information. She lower head and ask:

"Did you lose hope when, you realize there is no peace...?"

"Ha Ha Only Girl that the funny thing, it was a relief it made me realize like King David we will all have to face giants and are life is a constant battle and that what makes life worth living for. Now the question is who are you going to fight for?

She look hard to the sun in the early morning and she knew the answer before it came out Simons lips.

"I'm going to fight for my kids." She said in a stern voice.

"Then I think we got everything set for our next move, so Only Girl you going to pass me the last piece of pineapple...Hell a greedy!"

Rihanna push Simon over and felt guilty.

"Don't call me Only Girl, I was just hungry..."

She toss him the last piece and Simon took a bite.

"Damn that was good, Only Girl wish I had more."

"Shut Up!"

As they both began to smile under the sun!