[🎶 What's Luv – Fat Joe ft. Ashanti.]
• TWO YEARS LATER, THE VIRGIN COAST, 29° OFF THE COLD SEA
THE SOUNDS OF SCREAMING rose up the cornered brown beach, causing the idle toucans in the surrounding ever-greenery to still their noises and toss up multicolored heads to spy the reason for the ruckus. It was very early in the morning. The sun was up, but had not broken, through the mist of the humidified clouds. Only predatory gulls scanned the seascape, to snatch up stupid fish daring to water-hop with the sturdier dolphins.
It was the time of the morning when sleep was best; that half-hour of daybreak—cool and quiet, before the full blast of golden sunlight hit the Tropicana beaches. The birds of Virgin island had hoped to slumber a few more minutes before their seed-picking ritual...but this noise was really a bothersome pest in the serenity of the paradise isle.
The birds peeked in, from the cover of palm fronds and iphiginia leaves.