Destiny Alyson Brown (escapingdestiny) wrote in low_tide, @ 2009-11-15 23:58:00 |
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At the beginning...
July 10, 2014
A destination wedding on the Jersey shore, white dress gathering sediment on the hem, shoes left under the banquet table at the venue beyond the dunes. Long after the guests had left, she and her new husband explored the beach, still wide awake from the excitement of the day.
Arm crading her new husband's hipbone, she walked into the sea. The water retracted, the shell fragments crunching under her feet as she let go of him and walked forward towards the shining object in the water. She remembers walking up to it, touching it with her foot, and... she left. Like light through a prism, her soul replicated into two streams. Destiny Alyson Brown-Anderson stayed there...
November 15, 2009
A new Destiny woke up in the sand, jeans and wifebeater caked in sand. Her eyes opened, blinking away the revelry of the night before. Or what would have been the night before. The memories faded, she drew a hand across her face. No longer did the engagement and wedding ring sit on her finger. A fully tanned hand, a younger hand without the burn from her first attempt of cooking for her father for the first time since she left his house. She got up and stretched, padding into the water to get a good look. A younger face stared back at her. She shrieked a little, splashing backwards from her reflection. She guiltily looked around, hoping no one heard that. A realization hit her. Who was she? Sticking her hand in her pocket, she pulled out her cellphone. The name inside read Destiny Alyson Brown. The date: November 15, 2009. Shaking her head, she reset the time on the phone to update to the correct time. No change.
She walked up to the small tiki hut that rented surfboards. On the outside was a calendar, posted to the wall. November 15, 2009. So. It wasn't a fluke. It really was five years earlier. This body was definitely younger. She had no idea what was going on. She had a feeling that the older Destiny was fine. She knew in her heart that there was no way to get back through time. Even in 2014, they hadn't marketed a personal time machine, so there was no way in hell she was getting back there.
Destiny was given a new life. A chance to, in essence, redo the years. And hoo boy, the years since 2009 had been difficult at best.
Wow, was this going to be fun...
Destiny pulled out her money clip, glanced at the address on her license, and decided to start there.