The Promise by Jane Peart

Author:Jane Peart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Zondervan

In her room, Jana gathered up her paint box and a small tin cup for water, then unwrapped the package containing the new sketchbook and brushes, put them in her canvas bag. The encounter with Bayard had upset her somehow. It had stirred up something that still bothered her. She felt they had unfinished business between them. Seeing him again had brought it all back.

Down at the beach, she settled herself under a banyan tree and, backed by the dunes, propped her sketchbook against her knees, wiggling her bare toes in the warm sand. She always felt happier, calmer, near the ocean. Its vastness, its blue stretch to the horizon, seemed to make whatever was troubling her seem smaller, less important. She squeezed out some blue from the tube, dipped her brush into the water in her cup and stroked a horizontal line across the top of the page. She squinted out at the sea and saw that there were at least three shades of blue to be somehow captured and translated to her picture. How could she ever make it look as beautiful as she was seeing it, as it really was? She bent forward, moving her brush across the rough, textured sheet of paper.

Looking up again, she saw a surfer riding the crest of a wave, his bronzed body glistening in the sun. Immediately she was reminded of Kimo. How he must miss Hawaii, long for the sun-streaked skies, the curve of beach, the blue swells of the ocean. Did he miss her?

Did he have drifting dreams of the Big Island, its valleys, bamboo forests, the beach where they had walked so many times together? She thought of the sandcastles they had built as children, and her throat swelled and tightened. She closed her sketchbook, rested her chin on her knees, and watched as the surfer came ashore in a shower of foam, then turned and remounted his board and began paddling out past the swells again.

Kimo had been gone only a few months, and yet those days spent together on the beach, the days of childhood, and even the days of the Christmas before last when he had come home seemed a long time ago. They were fading even for her, who was trying to hold on to them. For Kimo, they may have disappeared entirely.

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