Prologue-Changes in Motion:
Katey looked up from her suitcase for a moment, and into the mirror. In almost three years, she'd hardly changed. She sighed. It wasn't just her physical appearance either. Her opinions, her feelings, her perspectives were all the same. It's funny, she thought, how you can change so much so quickly, and then not change at all for so long. She was in college now, it was a prestigious one too-she'd fulfilled her former dream of going to Radcliffe! College was supposed to be a time to find yourself, to change yourself! But she hadn't changed. At least not as much as she'd thought she would. Not as much as she had that year, there.
She silently reprimanded herself. She had said she wasn't going to dwell on the past. She'd told herself again and again that there was nothing she could do, that it was over. She'd told herself to forget about everything there, she even stopped herself from saying any specifics. But they kept floating around in her mind. Cuba. Javier. She didn't want to remember. But she couldn't escape it.
And now-I'm going back? She thought. How am I supposed to deal with it? Maybe I can just stay in the Oceana the whole time, or maybe The Palace if I really have to get out. There was no way he would be there. No way she would end up remembering everything in those places.
She hadn't meant to go back-ever. She'd gotten so upset when she'd returned to the States that after half a year of utter misery and trying to cover it up, her sister, Susie, finally decided that she'd had enough. Susie had been the one to bring her to the senses, the same Susie that Katey had always seen as silly and carefree. The same Susie that was now making Katey go back. Katey had wildly protested. "I can't do this! I've gotten over that stage of my life Susie. You know how hard it was, you can't do this to me now! My life has just started getting better!" She'd continued on in a similar strain.
But Susie would have none of it. "Katey just do this. You know this meeting is really important to Daddy. You know Mom would have a fit if you didn't go. We've missed you while you've been off at college-Mom especially. They want to spend summer vacation with you. It just happens to have to be in Cuba. You know Mom will drag you down there by force if you don't go."
This passed back and forth. In the end, Susie's guilt tripping had been successful-and true. Their parents pushed for Katey to go to Cuba too, stressing how thrilled they would be to finally spend time with their "grown-up daughter". And so now there was no way Katey could get out of it. She was bound for Cuba.
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