Ephemeral

Sweet Memories

Eva's POV 

No not at all, it isn't a great "love story" anyway, hahaha. Our first meeting was actually during a peace treaty meeting, he was the son of the King of Atlantia. Prince Thomas Alanciel. I remember every moment vividly...

*beginning of flashback*

It was early spring when the flowers were still blooming, as I would've mentioned before there are as many kingdoms as there are countries, some as big as continents and some as small as islands. This kingdom, Oceanna, is one of the three big kingdoms, the other two are Atlantia and Pacifia. These three major kingdoms form alliances with other kingdoms near them and as usual, during this process, there comes a small kingdom which is on the border of two major kingdoms. The soldiers sent by the two kingdoms had a minor fight and then they had to retreat because of the citizens of that country, so the leader didn't sign any of the agreements. Once the soldiers returned, King Aquaregia, my father, became furious and decided to visit the place himself. Of course, my sister and I had to go along cuz one of us would become queen - my sis was 11 and I was 7 years old. We have to start experiencing and learning about "Royal stuff" at an early age. 

Anyways, the same happened for Atlantia, the enemy kingdom that also wanted the small nation. And wow, what a coincidence, both Kingdoms visited the border kingdom on the same day, almost like fate huh? That was when I caught a glance of a small boy with fluffy black hair and those...beautiful... glistering... turquoise... eyes. My sister went ahead to the meeting hall with my father while I waited outside, turns out the boy I saw was the same age as me and he too had to wait outside. It was awkward at first cuz we were from different sides, enemies, but he approached me and put his hand out 'Hie, can we be fwiends?' 

Young Eva - FRIENDS? Do you know why we are here now? What our rewationship is? Who we are? Are ywu dumb?

Young Prince Alanciel *teary-eyed* - I'm not dumb! And that's not nice to say. And...and what did ywu ask? 

Young Eva - wow, ywo didn't ewen answer the rweally important qwestions, dummy!!

Young Prince Alanciel *verge of crying* - I'm not a dummy, I'm sowwy

Young Eva - wait wait! don't cry, I will ask one by one okay, so don't cry. Don't wanna be the cause of starting a foo scwale war.

Do you know why we are here now?

Young Prince Alanciel - fwo the pweace tweety 

What our rewationship is?

Young Prince Alanciel *happy* - enemies, soon to be fwiends 

Oh god. keep calm Eva, nwo war. okay . Who we are?

Young Prince Alanciel - I am pwince Thomas Alanciel of Atlantia and you are the pweety pwincess Ewangewine Aquawegia of Oceanna.

Young Eva - yes, wait what?! Pwetty? well of course I am. I am the pwettiest.

Young Prince Alanciel - hehe, you are

And that smile he showed me at that time was the prettiest one, very calming and genuine. 

Later, we started talking about our lives and what we liked. Our fathers came out at the exact moment and saw us holding hands and talking. Surprisingly they didn't scold us, rather they were smiling at one another and shook hands as well. The treaty was done!

*end of flashback*

And after a few months, our fathers even let us be friends and the 'I told you so' line he said while smirking, made me roll my eyes. But I agreed and became his friend, we even celebrated our birthdays together since we were just a few hours apart, cool right? On our 8th birthday, we found this place while exploring the Gardens, and we made a promise... *tears rolling down* 

Thomas - hey you okay? 

yeah, just... 

Thomas - I'm guessing you both carved this on that day?

Yeah, we promised we'd meet here next year and every year after, even when we became busy, but I guess only one truly wanted to keep it...

Thomas - one? what happened?

*wipes her tears* Well, I will keep that story for some other time, cool?

Thomas - Oki cool. Shall we head back?

Yeah, it's getting late, we should head back now. 

Thomas - Kurohoshi come here buddy.

*both of them get on Kurohoshi and swim towards the castle*

In the castle 

Thomas - Good night Eva and...thanks for sharing this with me.

Eva - good night, no worries, I wanted someone else to know it. It was like a burden off my shoulders.

Author's POV

That night both of them slept while wondering...

Thomas - Thomas Alanciel, the same name as the one engraved on the necklace. Should I have asked her about it? The scar doesn't seem to be disappearing as well, at least it stopped burning even when I put the necklace near it. Turquoise eyes and turquoise gem can't be more obvious, Thomas. 

That's it, I will ask her tomorrow, now then let's sleep. 

Gem glows