C--RETURN TO HAMILTON ISLAND.

The helicopter landed and
on her arrival Rosanna was escorted down from the bay on the school
roof and taken to her room to unpack her things.She was almost unpacked
when there came a knock on her door."Who is it " she called.The door
flew open and an African girl entered her room."Welcome to L A F Y L"
she greeted. my name is Jordon. This is the West wing, the best
wing.
"Welcome to WHAT" asked Rosanna."LAFYL----London Accadamy for young
ladies" the girl smiled."Oh l got you" Rosanna smiled. " Hi my name is
Rosanna"."Well Rosanna, thats a pretty name, mind if l called you Rose,
l won't have time to call you Rosanna."Well no---- not if you don't
mind me calling you Jo".Jordon laughed and shook her hand."Not at all,
mind if l sit down while you unpack, l have done all mine and am
feeling bored"."You can sit down if you wish, but just let me finished
unpacking". "Dam",- Rosanna had been looking through her case and now
shut it with a bang. "Is there any thing wrong"? asked Jordon. "Yes , a
Green Stone that was a gift from a friend, l must have left it in my
bedroom back home ",replied she repl;ied."Was it valuble"?
"No but it was given to me by a very dear friend and when l wore it l
felt close to him".
The two girls soon became firm friends and although they weren't always
in the same class, they spent a good deal of the time together. Rosanna
saw Lilian from time to time but mostly remained in her own circle of
friend's.
It must of been about a month when Rosanna started to have bad dream's
of images and dark shadow's. Finally one night she woke up
screaming.Jordon who was in the next room came running in to see what
on earth the matter was. "I have a friend back on my island called
Turak and he is in great danger and l have to go back to the island to
help him", Rosanna was in such distress. "Please can you get my sister
Lilian, she will help me". Lilian was quick to arrive at Rosanna's side
very concernd, but when she heard what the problem was she wouldn't
help. No matter how much sobbing and begging Rosanna, did Lilian would
not listen."Look Rose, Turak was some kid we used to pretend was from
out of space, he was deformed in some way with his ears . It was a
childs game, but not real. Stop this Rose it really is nonsense.As
Lilian looked at her, Rosanna noticed that she was almost pleading with
her to stop. In an instance she realised that Lilian believed every
thing that she was saying, but didn't want to aknowledge that
fact.
Rosanna suddenly wrenched herself away. "You can tell your lies Lilian,
but l see the truth written on your face " she cried "but l AM going
now to help Turak, somehow get to the island, he needs me l know it,
even if l have to swim across to the island...l will.She ran off down
the passage and out into the night. They found her in the morning
unconscious, by the Thames river laying on the sand. She was very ill
for 6 weeks, delirious calling out Turak's name. and half conscious
.
They were going toarrange to send her back to the island, when she
suddenly recovered.
She never spoke about the incident or mentioned Turak's name again.
Instead she worked really hard and began to enjoy her studies. Terms
came and went soon the time came for Lilian to leave school, she had
studied the art's and formed a group called Grass Root's and had
concert's at the School funtion's. She would be the lead singer in a
new dynamic group called STORM, her first tour was due to start one
week after she left.
The two sister's embraced each other. "I won't say good bye" said
Lilian " We will see each other in a couple of years, time goes by so
quickly Rose". "I don't feel sad Lily, there is so much to occupy my
time here it is a wonderful school" Rosanna smiled,"and Jordon is here,
l shall be O K ". As Lilian walked off Rosanna called after her "Be
successful Lily".
At the end of term school disco, Rosanna met Graham through the
introduction of another friend called Jenny Lang.All her friends
gathered around enjoying themselves. Rosanna was happiest when she was
at a party, it seem a natural part of her, to entertain and be
entertained. There was Jenny lang, Jordon, Deborah west, Felicity
English, Meloney Elton and Shannon kemble.
Graham seemed captured by her beauty, he hung around for every dance.
And though Jenny seemed to be dancing with most of the guy's, Jo found
Hugo for the evening.Rosanna loved her school. All the lesson's were on
D VD's or C D disc's. There were no books, instead all information and
film's were on the C D 's and D V D's. Novel Disc's were in usage, with
computer access and enjoyed by all the student's. Terms came and
went-the influence of the school made Rosanna and she grew strong,
independent and more beautiful. Everyone loved her, the time with the
Accadamy had been successful. When the time came Rosanna was sad to be
leaving, but she had graduated in all of her subject's and had accepted
a job with her Father back on the island.
The Hovercraft landed in the harbour-Welcome to Hamilton Island.....the
Paradise where all your cares can be melted away as your dreams come
true...............the gentle computerised female voice on the tannoy
made Rosanna smile-I'm home again she thought, making her way through
the barriers.A familar face caught her eye. "Eddie Barlow" she smiled
at him, "You still working here for peanuts", they both laughed at the
old joke. They shook hands."Your Father wants you to come right away to
the office, he wants to go over your duties, so when you start here
next week you will know what your duties are". he said leading the way
to the car. Rosanna got in and they drove to the offices. The office
was a hive of activity, as Rosanna walked through the door. There was
two typewriter's on the go, a line of Seven telephone's with an
operator each all talking away, several photo copier's in action and a
few people rushing in and out. the rest of it she couldn't take in,
because her Father appeared greeting her warmly and ushered her into a
side room.He stood smiling at her for a moment, then he embraced
her,"It is so good to see you again Rose, my little princess and how
you have grown ". He offered her a seat, sitting down himself acroos
the desk from her. Now down to business. As you know l am not getting
any older and when l am no longer here,...."Father"-Rosanna butt in
"Don't talk like that", she said shocked. Her father shrugged "l don't
want this Island to get into the wrong hands, like private invester's
or such like, so l want you to sign up now into partership with me and
help run and maintain it. he looked at her with concern. Lilian signed
the agreement when she left school, just as now that you have left, l
am offering you the same. A little inheritance and an investment for
now. Rosanna looked lovingly at him, "Oh Father, you know that l love
this island and wouldn't want things to change. I will sign, l know
that there is an aweful lot of money in signing this agreement-but l do
it for the love of the island nothing else. Her Father got the document
out of the files and she signed.
"Your sister said the same thing, that was just before she left the
island on a world tour with S T O R M her famous singing group.Rosanna
laughed she is due back soon isn't she! "Yes-l believe so, she has put
a lot into STORM-but is taking a year out to help run things here. "I
want you to meet the new staff, and there are so many of them now", he
chuckled, there has been so many changes in the running of the island
since the eight year's you have been away.Rosanna had meet so many
people all in different office's as she was taken on a tour around the
Island. There was so much more activity, there was more buildings and a
new camp site had just been finished.
Though she was so relieved that the land near the private area had
hardly been touched .She surely must have meet up with every one now,
she was being to feel quite hungry.Eddie who had been with her mostly
suddenly said"Look its coming on for two pm, l am going to take you to
lunch."Thanks, l was begining to think l would never get away "she
smiled." l will drive you to the new star bucks" he said and then after
lunch you can met........"Eddie" Rosanna butted in putting her hand on
his arm," please no more meeting's today". Eddie laughed "I was only
joking".we will go to Star Bucks just for lunch- l promise you only for
lunch".
"What will you do with the rest of the day" Eddie ask, they had
finished lunch and sat drinking coffee while in the back ground piped
music played all the golden oldies. "I need to go back to the office
and collect my cases, l must get unpacked as soon as possible" She
nibbled on some cheese and biscuits. Suddenly "unchained melody", an
old song came on. It sturred Rosanna though she didn't know why.
"Hey-thats a very pretty song-- very haunting" she added.
The rest of the day Rosanna was finally left to herself, she went to
home to unpack. She opened the her little bed door and went inside. The
room seem so much smaller now. She stood by the bed. She felt that she
had lost much track of the past. There was a block in her memory, she
could not remember. She opened her wardrobe. All her childhood
clother's were there hanging up as if it were yesterday. She started to
get them all out, holding each one against her remembering when and
where she had worn it. There was the little wooden Chest that she had
put all her precious items in. She draged it out and opened it. Right
on the top was her Photo Album. She slowly reach down and picked it up.
She went and sat on the bed.Opening it, she broused through, savouring
each and every photo.She saw a photo of her dear Mama,Catherine
Hamilton. She would always say to her ---- believe in yourself child,
and you can believe in your God.
She had died after a long struggle with a rare form of cancer- as they
children had been closer to her than Father. He was always at work in
the lab. Towards the end of the Album she came across two small photo's
of a little boy with strange pointed ears. The memory seemed very
blurred but also very shocking, Yes ----there had been a little boy
called Turak, but it shocked her that she could of forgotten such a
thing.Was there a bond that they use to have, what ever happen that it
was broken.Rosanna fell asleep laying on the bed.Rosanna suddenly awoke
from a restless sleep, it was 2 am in the morning and she sat up
feeling hot and sticky.She got up and went to her dresser and poared
herself a glass of water from the water jug and she stood sipping
it.What a terrible dream she had been walking with turak again in the
forest and a huge wolf like Beast sprang out and had killed Turak
ripping out his throat. She had screamed and turned to run, as she did
so she heard turak calling her, his voice was wailing from the blood
that sank into the earth.
What a really scarey dream. She looked into the mirror and saw that her
face was white and she was shaking.She took another sip of water. It
was then she noticed the green stone hanging on the window hook. It was
glowing.
She took it down from the hook, where she had left it eight years
ago.As she touched the stone she got a jolt from it and dropped it.She
bent down and picked it up. Something made her put it on and
immediantly she felt Turak's presence.It was so strong it made her head
reel and she blacked out.
The alarm went off, "Oh 6 .30 am," Rosanna sat up, time to get up, she
thought.
Then she remembered Oh the stone, she felt for it --yes it was still
around her neck.Did she dream it or had it really been glowing After a
quiet time with her thoughts peacefully meditating on her God, she ate
of small breakfast and headed to The Lily Hamilton Centre(the head
quarter's of the Island.)
Her Father wanted Rosanna to sit in on a board meeting to gain as much
experiance as she could about the running of the island.She was
introduced to a couple of gentlemen(Nicholous Percy and Martin Luke)
who were Seniar members of the board. A new proposal was being
dicussed, to enlarge a village centre, the site was ready for the plans
to go forward and be finalised.
Rosanna was sitting in the meeting, but her thought were not about the
proposal, it was hard not to think of whether she could get to that
strange place that she had gone to as a child,it was so vague to
her.There was the cave and the
teleportbridge, if such a thing existed.
"Do you approve or not"...she was suddenly aware that she was being
spoken to."ER.......sorry what" she stammered. Nicholous bent his head
toward her and whispered,"the proposal"."Sorry what was the proposal"
she muttered feeling really embrassed that she hadn't been listening
There was a suprised silence----eye brows were raised.The chairman
coughed and went through it all breifly again."Do you approve" he asked
After a moment of silence Rosanna answered,"Yes l approve".A huge sigh
of relief went through the room.The chairman stood,"I hereby conclude
this meeting forthwith".
That evening Rosanna found herself thinking too much about the teleport
bridge.With a sigh she got up,put on her coat and went out to the
forest.
It was evening, Rosanna was standing on top of the cliff. The peaceful
sound of the waterful and birds singing their evening song reminded her
of when she was a child. How she had always love to stay in the forest
at nights. She looked down over the cliff, it did look rather
dangerous. well l climbed up and down as a child she thought, if l take
it slowly l might just do it. It took just ten minutes to slowly get
down to the small ridge where she supposed the entrance to the cave
was. If l walk through here l will come into the cave, she counted 1,
2, 3, she rushed through the waterfall and found her self inside the
cave. The water behind her was like a curtain over the entrance of the
cave, keeping it hidden from all who walked past. She got out the torch
from her pocket and turned it on. The beams lit up the cave straight
away. So this was the cave that she had played with the strange looking
boy.
She continued to the back of the cave. It was remarkable , every thing
had stayed the way she had left it. But oh how dusty it had
become.
A memory came to her and she remembered how to get to the teleport
bridge. She left the cave and climbing down the steep hill she ran into
the forest.