photograph

Justin, a photographer, was having a shoot at a park. it was a sunny day, perfect sky, lighting was good and there was nothing but cool air. h walks around the park taking pictures of what he could see as art. and when he comes across the playground, he spots a girl playing on the swing. her head was tilted down as if she was looking at her feet swaying back and forth. her hair was layed down and was parted on the left. the other half of her black flowing hair was tucked in behind her ear and with this we could see her face. she was partly smiling and singing with the song that was playing on her ipod through her white earphones. "it was a perfect scene to capture." he said to himself. so, he sneaks in, crouching over one knee on the ground and steals a couple of snaps of her. then, a ball hit him in his head knocking him off balance. he turns around to see a kid walking towards him to say sorry and get the ball he was paying with. when he turns back to the girl, she was gone.
when he got home and scanned through the pictures he was taking, he couldn't help but stare at the picture of the girl on the swing. he just moved in the city so he didn't know a lot of people. the next day came and he saw her at the same spot, earphones and ipod on her, smiling while singing with the song that was playing. still, it was a perfect scene. as he was looking at her, he tries to remember if he saw her somewhere or if he just thinks he did. as he was stealing more pictures of her, Chris comes and said hi to him.Chris is a long time friend who lived in the area for most of his life. Justin was supposed to ask Chris if he knew the girl on the swing and he turns around back to the girl, she was gone.
three , four, a week and a month passed, he sees this girl on the same spot with the same perfect scene. at this point he already had a ton of photos of the girl without even knowing her name. so he decided to go and talk to her when he sees her again. the next morning, there she was again. and as promised Justin came up and asked her name. Hailey was her name. they talked for a while then Hailey said she had to go coz it was getting late. then after that day, they began seeing each other at the same place. after a while of getting to know each other, Justin found himself falling for Hailey. the day came where he had the courage to tell her how he felt.
there she was, sitting on the same spot with earphones on her and singing with a song. when Justin was walking towards her, he bumped into Chris again. he really wanted Chris to meet Hailey. but when he turned to see where she was, she was gone again. but this time he really wanted Chris to see her, so he pulled out his camera and showed the pictures of Hailey to Chris. as Justin was full of smiles and joy, the face of terror and shock was in Chris. Justin asked why he acted that way and asked if he knew Hailey. Chris then said yes.
Hailey was one of his friends. she loved to play on the swing while listening to her ipod. she was a very jolly person. a lot of friends always surrounded her. everybody liked her. but a month before Justin moved in, she died. she was diagnosed with cancer. they did everything to make her better. she even had an operation, but unfortunately that didn't end well. Chris and Hailey were best friends in high school. Hailey was always telling Chris that one day she would meet the love of her life on that swing. she was always saying that she'd meet her "destiny" here. that was the reason she always wanted to be there.
the next day, Justin didn't see Hailey anymore. Justin asked Chris to go where Hailey was buried. they went there then Justin pulled out a gift in his hands. an album full of Hailey's pictures on the swing and a note from him.
"I'm sorry for taking pictures of you without any permission. i hope its okay. you're beautiful Hailey..
yours truly,
your destiny..."

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