Deluged - The Teenage Love ✔️

Chapter-41

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~Ivaan~

"Where did you find this waterfall?", Nova asked me, silently taking breaks in between her words.

We were sitting on the trunk of a tree, beside a beautiful waterfall that I had found the day, when the doctors had informed me about Nova's condition.

Since that day, this has been my favourite place to sit alone and think about life, just like that backyard I had during my teenage years.

"Destiny brought me here", I told her while she rested her head on my shoulder.

"It won't be for so long. My body is.. Draining", she told me and I knew we had reached the end.

It was difficult for her to speak, but she was still trying, sucking in deep breaths of air from the cylinder, that could atleast let her complete her sentences.

Her eyes had already said it all. She was on the verge of dying, leaving me alone, miserable, but there's something else going on in my mind.

"I don't feel like letting you go. I wish we could have stayed this way.. Forever", I said while her body was still against mine.

It was just her hard breathing that made me realise that my love is still alive, just resting her head on my shoulder.

"Take care of my kids. I am not crying...", she mumbled and I could feel the pain in her voice. It seemed that my tears were stuck in my throat.

We knew it was the end of it.

I softly let her sit back leaning against the trunk, in a way that I could see her face.. The sun was about to set and a cool gust of wind was blowing through her silky hair.

Her face seemed so serene, so pure that I cannot even think of anything that's more pure than her.. The pain that contorted her face was something that pierced my chest and I couldn't control, but place her jaw between my palms, embracing her feel, the touch and the serenity for the last time, I pecked her forehead and my tears followed down her head.

We held each other for a while and slowly released each other from the hold.

"I love you", she told me and my inner self broke into soft sobs.

"Ready for it?", I asked her and she nodded her head at that.. I could see her pale face, the pain that she was suffering and how her lips had started turning blue. How she was shivering since then and how her voice was slowly fading away.

"Wish to see me naked for the last time?", she asked me and a small smile escaped her lips.

The words 'last time', had pinched me to pain that knew no end, but I knew it was the last.. The last that she wanted.. The last that I could give her.. The last that we could have together.

"I love you.", I told her and held her in my arms, her body had stopped shivering and she nodded her head towards me..and her eyes, they were fixed with mine and I knew they are never going to leave my gaze.

I placed my foot inside the water and the chill ran down my spine.. But that wasn't something that bothered me at this moment. That's what I had wanted it to be.. That was what I had expected it to be.

It didn't take time for us to completely immerse ourselves inside the water... Her breathing had decreased and now our body had settled down with the temperature of the water.

It felt so light, so relieving that I had never imagined it to be..her fingers were laced with mine and out bodies were slowly surrendering our fears, anxieties and all what that surrounded our mind.

There was nothing that I could hear at the moment.. There was nothing that I wanted to feel, except for her in my arms. We were going deeper and deeper and that was the best feeling to ever exist.

Nothing mattered to me right now, it was just the purity and serenity that surrounded my body and the thought that I had never been this close to her.. This close to meeting her. Her touch had never felt this way.. So soft that I could just melt with it's feeling.

Is that was death felt like? So satisfying, so relieving that my mind was free of everything.. It was just the love that I had for her, that took me down with her.

Deeper into the water and I could feel my soul relieved of having the most beautiful death ever.

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~Nova~

As soon as my body adjusted with the temperature of the water, it felt that I've got the greatest treasure of my life.

My fingers were laced around his and I cannot think of any feeling that was better than this. The calm water was caressing my soul and my body felt incredibly light, felt as if the pain had all flew away like the light cotton seeds that get carried away by the wind.

All the memories came flashing in front of my eyes and I was glad that I had lived a good life with him.. From the time when I first met him till the time I could feel his fingers laced with mine.. The journey had been so seamlessly smooth, just because I had his hand to hold onto.

Ryan and Sophia.. I wish the best future for them. I've forgiven mom and I am happy that she atleast made some efforts to fix the things that had gone wrong between us.

I just don't want to take any bad memory with me, now that I have reached the last few pages of my life's story.

It seemed as if the world around me had stopped moving and it's just us.. Ivaan and I who trapped in our own little bubble, and that's all that mattered to me.

He didn't disappoint me even the last day of my life... He completed my wish.. My death wish and I know I'll die peacefully now.

There isn't any pain right now.. There's nothing that surrounds me besides emptiness. I love him and I know he loves me so much that he would never let me go..

I couldn't feel his fingers releasing themselves from my hold and I know it's my time.

His soul has already reached the stars and now I can feel the peaceful death that is surrounding me.

The stars wrote our story and we've lived it well and with that my soul got it's salvation. ______________

The story has reached the ending. How do you feel about Nova and Ivaan? Do you think they did justice to everyone? Do you think they did just to their love?

Who do you think was reading the diary?