(http://www.myselfanand.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Adriana_Lima_wallpaper_45.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>Isabella McBride<br/>At the Pier<br/>Blowing off College homework</strong><br/><br/>It was her last year of college. Well her last year before she started her Master's degree. She still hadn't decided whether she was going to leave the island or not.  The island was comfortable.  It was home.  It was safe.  Which explained why she was on the pier people watching, instead of at home on the computer working on her research paper that was due before winter break.<br/><br/>Isabella still hadn't decided which way her career was going.  Her father was devoted to marine biology, his specialty being marine mammals.  It was his love, but not his passion.  His passion was Victoria Batrez-McBride, an archaeology professor currently on sabbatical so that she could spend time with the family.<br/><br/>She considered herself lucky, her parents were happily married and still in love with each other.  They were comfortable with PDA's, romantic gestures, and generally being happy in each others company, despite their children's embarrassment.  There is nothing worse than grocery shopping with the family, and finding your parents giggling and kissing in the frozen food aisle like honeymooners.<br/><br/>Her parents married young.  In fact, they met in their first year of college, married by the end of that first year. Her mother was pregnant by their second year with Isa.  Isa's grandparents were thrilled, taking Isa while her parents continued their classes. Four years, after Isa was born, her sister Angelica was born, two years after that was the arrival of Jasmine.  You would have thought her parents were done, but oh no....her mom waited 6 years and had the twins.  Life was interesting but her family loved it.<br/><br/>She looked up as she heard a woman talking in a loud voice, there was something going down with her and a man.  Lover's quarrel?  No. It was something else.  Especially when she heard the word 'rape'.  She wasn't one to stand around and just watch, so she stood up and made her way to the pair.  She had her phone out just in case she needed to call the police.  Half way there, she called out to the woman, "Damn girl, sorry I am late.  Got caught up at home.  Everyone is waiting for us in car, come on."<br/><br/><br/><br/>