The atmosphere was peaceful for once. Everyone was having a good time and dancing and all the worries were gone for the moment. Peyton Sawyer loved living here. After finding out her senior year in high school that her mother was Colombian she felt a need to go visit. When she got to the city of Medellin, nothing was how she expected. She found out her birth mother had died in a shoot out between the paramilitaries and the guerilla.
Luckily for her, she looked a lot like her father and the people were able to direct her to her grandmother, her name was Blanca Consuelo Aristizábal and she was a kind old woman who suffered a great deal with her daughter's death but when she saw Peyton she knew she had a second chance.
Her grandmother told her the story of her mother. How she was a free spirit and an artist. One day a man named Larry Sawyer came into town, he was a journalist and he had come to investigate the violence that seemed endless in Colombia. Larry had come into a bar where Peyton's mother, Carina had come into for a drink. There was a man who would not leave her alone so Larry went over and posed as her boyfriend and they left together. It had been love at first sight for the two but Gonzalo, Carina's father was opposed to the two of them together and when Carina became pregnant with Peyton Gonzalo kicked her out of the house and told her she couldn't come back unless she was alone. Carina loved her daughter dearly but she knew that Colombia was no place for a child so she sent her back to the US with Larry even though Larry tried to get Carina to go with him but smuggling two people into the US was nearly impossible and so he left with his daughter and Carina stayed all alone. A year later when Larry tried to come back for Carina he had found out that she was shot by a stray bullet and because the ambulance wouldn't come, bled out to death. Larry was devastated not only for himself but for his daughter who never get to meet her mother.
Peyton remembered the day her father told her the truth. Peyton had cried for days. After finally understanding the reasons behind her father's lie, she learned to forgive him and on that same day decided to leave Tree Hill, North Carolina and head to Colombia. Larry, knowing he couldn't change her mind let her go, but he called her everyday.
She realized her love for dancing as a result of the nightly dances in the streets but they would always end soon as a result of safety issues. Peyton loved drawing these dances even more. Plus she felt the sketches connected her more with her mother and once when she saw a picture of her mother (picture of Carina: this is actually Catalina Sandino Moreno http/us.movies1. she realized that her mother had always been in her dreams. Peyton learned Spanish and although she wasn't that great, she was good for never speaking it before. Peyton wished she took more looks from her mother but her striking hazel eyes and curly blonde hair attracted many people of the town.
Peyton had also become a fan of the music from Latin America, but especially the Spanish rockstar, Juanes (ok this is me. I love Juanes, he is just so awesome!) Despite all the problems, Peyton felt at peace here and she was always protected by her cousin Miguel (picture of Miguel: http/images. really Diego Luna, such a hottie Peyton loved Miguel and she was happy for him because he had recently gotten engaged to Brooke Davis, a school teacher from the US who came to teach the children English. Peyton was good friends with Brooke, but her best friend was Haley Scott. Haley came to Colombia 2 years ago with her husband, Nathan Scott. They were both doctors and came to Colombia to try to help the people whose situation was not getting any better. Peyton lived with them in a cozy house. She now was 28 and was the owner of bar, helping out with the music. And although Peyton found what she had been missing in high school she wished there was more. She was happy with her life but she felt she was missing something.
Lucas Scott sat in the plane watching as aeveryone slept or watched movies and he couldn't help but feel he was weird for writing his thoughts down on paper. Lucas was an investigative reporter and was headed to Colombia to write a piece on Colombia.
Lucas knew where he was headed. His brother and sister-in-law were already there. They had joined doctors without borders and had been living in the city of Medellin for about 2 years now. He was going to be living there for whatever amount of time it took him to write his book there. He was going to keep a diary about his time there: the people, the government, the violence, the drugs, it was all going to be there.
Lucas loved travelling and Colombia would be new, exciting and something completely different from New York. Lucas Scott didn't know what the future held for him but he knew Colombia was going to change him forever.
So this was really short but it was kind of an intro/prologue type of thing. Reviews get me going and going and going. I miss the Energizer Bunny commercials.