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servants to take up to their room, Nick grabbed her hand and headed out the back towards the sea. The property was built on a cliff, and the walk was not too long. There was a long wooden stairway leading down to the beach.
    Selena was breathless when she finally reached the bottom, but her heart ached at the beauty she saw there, so different to the flamboyant lushness of Hawaii. It was more ethereal. The overcast sky had turned the sea into a dark emerald green, while the almost whiteness of the sand was cast in hues of grey. The few grasses that grew in the dunes stretched upwards, as if in supplication, and the only sound, besides the smooth rustling of the waves, was that of an intermittent  seagull’s cry.
    “This is so beautiful! The different shades of green and blue and grey! I wish I could paint this!”
    “Why don’t you?”
    “Me? I can’t paint! Hell, I can’t even draw!”
    “How do you know Selena? Have you tried since the accident?”
    Selena shook her head. “Nope, never had the urge to try, to tell you the honest truth. To sing? Yeah, I even taught myself to play the guitar, and I love writing! But drawing never entered the equation.”
    “So your parents never told you that you wanted to study fine art?”
    She shook her head, a bewildered look on her face.
    “You know, Selena, I wonder just how much of your life they conveniently forgot to tell you.” He held out his hand. “Come on, sun is going to set soon and I want to show you the folly. We can watch the sunset from there; it has a beautiful view over the ocean.”
    Selena took his hand and followed him down the beach back to the stairway, her mind mulling over his words. Just what had her parents told her? How much had they kept from her? How much of her life was not only wiped out, but been conveniently forgotten by them since she had lost her memory? She needed to talk to her mother.
    The view he had promised was spectacular. They stood leaning against the stone wall of the old cottage, gazing out over the sea. The clouds had parted slightly and their tips were edged in various shades of orange, yellow, and red, while a ray of light penetrated through it onto the calm water below. The difference between the grey of the setting and the hues of the sunset were incredibly beautiful.
    “I wish I could capture that!”
    “Why don’t you, Selena? You have the talent. I saw some of your drawings when you lived with me all that time ago. You have so much talent!”
    “I might just give it a try some time.” She turned to smile at him, her nose reddened by the chill. She had never looked more beautiful to him than at that moment. He kissed the tip of her nose, and she smiled her special smile, the one he liked to believe was reserved only for him.
    “So what is the story, Selena? What happened?”
    “Well, my parents told me that we had moved to California a few months prior to my accident and that I had been involved in an accident. They have never mentioned the specifics and I never really went into it. Suffice it to say I don’t remember my life before then. They called me Lena and I just accepted that as gospel. The music came later, though. I saw this guitar in the window of a pawn shop and I just had this urge to buy it. I taught myself, and the songs, well, they just started coming, if that makes any sense? They sort of pop into my head and I have to write them down, no matter the time of day or night. My dad died two years later and mom…well, we don’t really get along too well so I upped and left to Hawaii, got a job singing at the bar, and that is my life story as I know it in a nutshell.”
    Nick stood staring at the gathering dusk, deep in thought.
    Suddenly, she escaped his embrace and started running. “You can’t catch me!”
    Laughing, he started after her, his longer legs eating up the distance between them. “Come here, you!” He pulled her behind an oak tree, out of sight of the house and prying eyes, and kissed