Cathrine Deven had lived in Miami for almost 12 years now. It had been quite hard to get used to the city and it´s vacation atmosphere. It was still a bustling city, like any other of course, but the citizens were always in a constant state of celebration. Especially the clubs were packed after 7 pm, but the people of Miami were still hard working individuals, and that showed itself in any profession performed in the city of constant exitement.

Cathrine had grown up in Elizabeth, Maine; a small village situated between Mooselookmeguntic Lake and Mt. Sugarloaf, a real hikers paradise. But she had always been drawn to the city, and therefore had left her hometown immediately after she had finished High-School. The extiement brought by the constant traffic, the laughter and music out on the busy streets at night and the sound of people coming and going around her apartment block was what gave Cathrine the energy to wake up and go to work everyday.

Not that life had been all that bad in Elizabeth. It had hadit´s exitements; a funeral here, a wedding there, an affair around the corner, but there were no possibilities of night life. No clubs, no discos, no pubs or bowlingbars, not even a cinema. Cathrines junger brother Eric had no problem with living a life out of the ordinary, a life that resembeld the everyday exitement of a senior citizen. He rather spent his time brooding over science books and literature articles given to him by his best friend, a librarian.

So Cathrine had left Elizabeth and gone to the big city in the south, another important factor. She hated the winter season, being cold, presenting herself with a runny nose and a cough everytime she came in concat with some one who only had the beginning symptoms of one. She had hoped that her amazing talent for catching anyones´ cold would take care of itself. And it had, wonderfully. She hadn´t been sick once since moving to Miami.

After she had found a nice little apartment for herself opposite the beach, which cost her a little fortune every month, Cathrine started looking for work straight away. She luckily found one in the same week, and started to work as a waitress in a cozy café just a few blocks away, ´The Sun´. It was a simple job that she liked very much. Not only did she serve the people what they ordered, but she also made new friends with the customers that came regularly, or even everyday. After 2 pm the place was always packed with teenagers that just got out of school, and ther was one girl that Cathrine had strated to feel affection for especially. Her name was Dana, and Cathrine viewed her as being her younger sister. They did a lot of things together, and Cathrine appreciated the fact that she had someone to talk to in this big city, far away from home, even though that someone was 17 years younger than herself.