HalSer - Cursed Lovers

Prologue

𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐑 : 𝐀𝐬 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 "𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊" 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 in italic. 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠.

I had already published this part in my other fiction, the one about PoyHaz, but I republish it here for those who don't read the other fiction and therefore haven't read it.

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It is the story of two powerful families who each reign over a part of the city, parts divided by a well-defined and impassable limit. These two families have an immeasurable hatred for one another: the Gürkan and the Demirkan. Either you're on one side or the other. It had been that way for three generations and no one intended to change it. No one except the younger generation of these two families represented by Halide Gürkan and Serhat Demirkan.

They had always known they weren't allowed to be friends, it was a well-known rule, but back when they met, in kindergarten, neither of them understood the issues and the reasons. And, as if fate had stepped in, on their classes' call list, their names often followed each other, which meant they were placed next to each other during classes and get together during pairs. How not to become friends under these conditions?

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All the children were gathered in the schoolyard, playing happily with each other. They had already been divided into classes and the teachers had decided, in a first time, to let them play for an hour so that they could get to know each other. Only, for Serhat Demirkan, it was not an easy time. A very introverted child, he was never comfortable in this kind of loud and chaotic atmosphere. He didn't know what to do with him, how to approach the other children. Until then, he had only been used to staying with his family, at home.

For Halide, it was a little different: she didn't easily reach out to people, but things like that didn't upset her. On the contrary, she made her life on her own, playing in her corner without needing anyone. She was also very generous and always wanted to help everyone. So when, sitting on the floor in the sandbox, she looked up and saw this little boy who looked lost and scared, she did the only thing she knew how to do:

"Hey you, the boy in the blue t-shirt!"

Serhat looked down to his right to see a little brunette girl, with big blue eyes like he had never seen before, then she offered to come play with her. At first, he hesitated, but she handed him a shovel, giving him a huge smile, so he found himself kneeling in the sand playing with her. If his uncle Abbas had seen him like that, he wouldn't have been happy! Abbas amqa always said that a Demirkan should remain dignified at all times and look good on him because he represents family. So, to be sitting in the sand, soiling from the first hours the pants he would wear the rest of the day...

At the end of that hour, all the children of the class were gathered in the hallway outside their classroom door. They were told that they would be seated two at a table and that their neighbor would be determined by the alphabetical order of their last names of the call list. When Serhat was called, he waited for his neighbor by the teacher with a lump in his stomach, praying that he would be as nice as the little girl in the sandbox. He was so nervous, that he didn't even hear his name, but when the little girl appeared next to him, the ball disappeared and they shared a huge smile, before heading to the table the teacher was pointing to them. As she continued to call the names of others children, Halide turned to Serhat and asked: