Yours, Since Forever(✔)

Part 11: Traitor Gracious

We stood there watching the serene Waterfall.

Gracious dipped her head in the flowing water then took her head out, Shaking off the water, she squealed in joy.

We chuckled looking at her enthusiasm.

I looked at Bela, who was smiling like an innocent child who has been gifted chocolate.

I grinned at her.

She looked so dreamy in that beautiful white dress suiting perfectly to her soft body with a precious smile.

Feeling a strong gaze towards her, she turned towards me, questioning my sanity.

I just shrugged and pretended to focus on gracious while she stared at me, making me conscious.

Gracious came back to us after playing in water enough.

We moved further to the next destination.

"How did that creature disappeared suddenly? Did you perform some magic? " I questioned her being curious.

"Yes. I did. When you were fighting with him. That magic took all of my energy" she sighed.

"That explains very much why you collapsed after that".

She just nodded.

" Why I was not able to perform the magic? " I asked again.
I was sure she knew the answer.

She chose to stay quiet and ignore my question.

She tried to move faster.

I grabbed her wrist, caged her between me and the tree.

"What... "

She wanted to speak but I didn't let her complete.

"Answer me. You always run away from our conversation. I feel so dumb"

"That you are" She rolled her eyes.

"Answer me"

"I don't know"

"I know you know"

"Mahir Ji... "

" Please Bela trust me and include me in this fight. Don't abandon me like this" I whispered to her, moving my face closer to her.

"Mahir Ji you never performed magic. It was me who took the power of fire from gracious and made it look like you did it " She said looking at the ground.

I made her look up by lifting her chin.

"Why? "

"Because you feel so underconfident about yourself. I want you to trust yourself first. This journey is going to be very long and very exhausting. I don't want to see you giving up "

"Bela I will never give up. I want to go to my family and I will do all this wheel shit with pleasure"

She just kept looking at me with an unknown emotion, her eyes were turning glassy.

"Good. never change that will" She spoke. It felt like it was difficult for her to speak.

"Bela one thing I didn't understand if it was you who was performing magic then how you mistook? I mean how did you know I was planning her powers to get replaced by water? "

"Because I was performing magic on your words. Magic was mine but words were yours"

"Oh! And how was gracious able to heal you? "

"She is a part of me. even when I denied you to give her any other power, you still chose to give her the power to heal herself. that is something more than a usual wish. that is a special kind of wish and in order to fulfill that wish, I had to connect her heart to me. that is the reason why she was able to heal me."