The sun was sinking into the tree line behind her. The sky over the water to the east seemed to be on fire in hues of red and orange. It really was quite breath taking. It was exactly the thing that Serena needed most, right now. Everything was just in chaos. Her brothers would have been turning twenty-two this month. School was starting up, she was having these visions of things that just didn't make any sense to her... Meditation seemed to be the only thing to work for her but she could never find a decent place. No matter where she tried in her house, her grandmother was on her mind and, any where else it seemed, the rest of life was bringing her down. She really hadn't had any idea as to where she should go so she'd gone for a drive, instead.
That was when she'd come upon the beach. It was a little bit away from town so she really didn't think that there'd be too many distractions. Pulling off the road, Serena parked her car and locked the doors before making her way around to the trunk. From there, she grabbed a small cushion and a blanket from the trunk and slammed the top down. Hey, that beach was covered in rocks, not sand, she wasn't sitting on them with nothing to protect her oh so loverly booty! Carefully, Serena picked her way down to the beach and stopped just short of where the tide had been pulling out. The salty mist off of the waves was cold and biting and she had grabbed the blanket to wrap around her.
Sitting on the cushion on the black rocks, Serena gazed out over the water. The beach had always seemed to calm her. She loved water but it wasn't the same without a beach. You had to have a bit of land with the water for it to really put her in a serene place. She could forget about everything, here. All of her worries were pulled away from her by the tide and she found herself smiling, the blanket hugged to her body while she watched the fires die down to lovely shades of blue and purple and watched the starts turn on like tiny lamps.