Yours, Since Forever(✔)

Part 13: I was scared

And I realized, they were tears.

you have become my family in this short period.

I need to find you, Bela.

Where will I find you?

Tears kept flowing from my eyes. I knelt down near the same waterfall, keeping both my palms on my face.

What should I do now? I don't even know magic.

I kept crying, feeling helpless. I felt a tug on my shirt, when I checked I found gracious pulling my shirt.

"Gracious it's not the time to play. We need to find Bela" I scolded her in my croaked voice, while she just scoffed at me and went more closer to the waterfall.

I followed her with my gaze and found something was coming up on the water surface.

When I looked clearly, I found

BELA

"Bela" I yelled elated. without wasting even a second, I ran to her. My pants got all wet in water but I cared least about them.

I picked up an unconscious Bela and helped her out, laid her on the grass. She looked pale.

I was tapping her cheeks but she would not respond. A drop of water fell on her cheeks and I realized I was still crying. Roughly wiping my tears, I again tapped her cheeks but she didn't respond.

I performed CPR, Water came out of her body. But she again lied there lifeless.

Bela

What should I do? I couldn't keep calm. I wanted to pull my hair.

Please help me, god. What should I do?

I kept sitting there in despair, while tears kept flowing my eyes.

Gracious

"Gracious can you do something? " I asked her hopeful.

She climbed on Bela, caressed her forehead with her tail, and closed her eyes. When she was done, she came and sat on my arm. But Bela didn't wake up.

"Bela please wake up" I tapped her cheeks again. I was controlling myself with difficulty. tears were pooling in my eyes but I kept wiping them desperately.

She didn't respond. I was feeling weak, helpless, and incompetent.

unable to see her in that state I sat facing another side. an unknown fear was slowly engulfing me. Tears were pooling every now and then and I kept wiping them heedlessly. I was thinking about how to get her back. at that time if someone would have asked for my watch in return for turning bela back to normal, I would have happily given it to them. I just wanted her to fine.

I was sitting there thinking of ways how can I make Bela fine again when a vigorous cough took all my attention.

I turned too fastly, that my neck would have come out of my body. I quickly dragged myself near Bela who was sitting and coughing vigorously.

"Bela" I rubbed her back.

When she calmed down, she looked at me. My heart clenched to see her like that. her magical face had shrinkled, she looked tired and weak. she gave me a weak smile and patted gracious's head who was sitting on my arm consoling me with a colorful tale a few minutes back.

overwhelmed with emotions, I hugged her tightly burying my face in the crook of her neck. i kept shedding silent tears while she kept caressing my back. We didn't say anything and that silence was comfortable.