"Never go near the waters, that's what my mom always says"
Stay with your family, boys are trouble, remember the stories, and never go to the ancient, love waters
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Once upon a time, my mother, Hanada used to tell a story that involved what I wanted to know most about, the famous, historical "The Ancient, Love Waters!" She'd tell me about it so that I, a young woman would never go near it. Me, and my family walk past it every morning to learn tribe dances, and listen to olden stories, and eat food with other families on the island we live on called "Lovely Island" It is a beautiful, remote island far out that no one really knows about, and the island is full of total hypocrites based on these stories.
She'd tell us to stay really close, me and my dear brother Michael. She told me to stay even closer so that I wouldn't meet any boys, and she definitely didn't want any babies running around especially based on her experience. The story she'd tell us in our cabin was about two people a girl named Mina, whom she grew up with and is great friends with, and a guy named Shawn, they meet at the Ancient, Love Waters and fell madly in love to the point of one of their unknown deaths.
Mina ran away from home and found herself at the waters, she was tired of her mother, Savannah dictating her life, and Shawn was already there looking at the big, beautiful waves that crashed onto the sand. They caught a glimpse at each other as they both went further into the water, their eyes never left each other's.
"What are you doing here?" Shawn asked Mina as if the ocean belonged to him. He'd never been around a woman this long without supervision, his mother allowed him to come to the waters but advised him to leave if he saw any women, which is basically very hard and a double standard.
"I ran away from home, I can't stand my mother, she won't let me do anything. Why are you here?" She asked as she walked closer to him, and he began to panic. His mother told him about "The Ancient Waters" there were people way before Mina and Shawn, they both were eighteen and scared for their lives and didn't understand anything, the age eighteen was such a death factor around here for men, and you would be blessed to make it past that age and Shawn was a listener and one of the people that the island loved and needed.
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"Stop!" He asked her as he held his arm out, his heart beating out of his chest. Mina was absolutely beautiful, he thought about women all the time, but he didn't want to die. His mother told him that all men die if they try to mate with women, especially if they are in this water, that's why none of the families on lovely island have a father. The mothers are the protectors, and the providers and they are only a few men left.
