Deep In The Ocean

001 - Returning

In the silence of the class there was the girl studying, while her class made no hesitation to try and break the peacefulness. They threw paper planes, crumpled up paper, pencils, pens and more objects, she merely ignored the disruption, zoned out and thought about the ocean. 'When I die, I wish to see the ocean one last time and buried near the river so my body can descend into the soil and erode away into the river' the girl smiled, the door opened revealing the teacher and everyone continued to make a disruption.

"Please settle down class," the students continues to mess around not hearing nor seeing their teacher who entered the class, by this their teacher asked them to settle down once again and they in response did not respond to her order. The teacher breathed in and smiled, "PLEASE SETTLE DOWN" yelled the teacher, the students looked at the teacher and quickly took their seats, fearing the tone of their teacher's voice and her harden glare that was masked with a calm and collected one, except for our ocean girl who continues to stare dreamily outside the class room window.

"Thank you, today we will be learni-" our ocean girl mind went blank as she saw a glimmer behind the few houses and little hills, her body straightened and she could see the ocean's shimmer in her view. "-enity? Serenity!" the girl looked at her teacher who was standing next to the board. "Is there something more important than your education?" the teacher gave her a nasty look, the girl nodded her head, "and what is that, may i ask?" the girl smiled.

"I look flat, but I am deep, Hidden realms I shelter. Lives I take, but food I offer. At times I am beautiful. I can be calm, angry and turbulent. I have no heart, but offer pleasure as well as death. No man can own me, yet I encompass what all men must have" she said once again, the students murmured and whispered among themselves as the teacher looked shocked as what the girl has said towards her in a calm manner. A student put their hand up, "she said that when some of us were at the bus stop, she's speaking in some gibberish language," the boy spoke. The girl continued to smile, "it's no language but a mere riddle, you may insult me for the fact I am quiet and mostly zone out but I am thinking and seeing the beauty of things while all of you focus on social media. None of you know my name, none of you know who I am but yet you seem to already know me by looking at me but yet you don't, someone who seems strange does not mean they don't fit in and yet I see a new bruise on your skin," the girl said and continued to stare back at the ocean as she left some of her class mates in shock and the boy in embarrassment.

The lesson finished as the school bell rang, students packed their items and what not and headed out to their next lesson. 'Art' it says on the door the girl's favourite lesson, she walked into the class room and sat near the corner as always and continued to paint the ocean scenery that she has started a few lessons back. A few minutes into the class the teacher has called for their attention, normally the girl would continue to paint but this time she decided to listen and have a peek. A boy has walked into the class he had deep blue eyes that glimmer in the sun, black hair nearly black as a raven's feather, and white pearl teeth. "Everyone, meet Chris he will be in our class," Chris continued to give a warming smile to his fellow class mates, some of the girls fawned over him gossiping and saying how he looks gorgeous and how they would die to be with him, yet the ocean girl could not careless and continued her art. "Chris, go sit next to..." the teacher's eyes scanned the room and spotted the ocean girl, she pointed her finger at the girl, "her". The girls in the class sighed and whined for none of them could sit next to the new student.

Chris nodded towards the teacher and head towards the girl as he sat down next to her, he saw her painting and was amazed to her talent. "That's a amazing painting," he said to her, the girl looked at him from a side glance view.

"Thank you, Chris," the girl said and continued to paint, she painted a silhouette of a girl standing in front of the ocean. Chris continued to stare as her hand gently moved around and painted the small silhouette, he had never seen such gentleness before. The teacher has seen Chris focusing on the ocean girl so did the others, they went towards to the two and saw her art work. Everyone was at 'awe'.

"I didn't know you had this much talent," the teacher has said behind her, the ocean girl froze still.

"It's not much of a gift if I can't tell anyone, but yet I don't plan to," as she had said that the school bell rang, she packed her now dry painting and walked off to her secret place in the school.

As Chris looked at her walking off, he decided to grab some snacks from the cafeteria. He walked around the school saying 'hi' to people and try to socialise to make friends, as he walked down a hallway he heard singing from a room that was next to him. He looked through the door's window and saw the ocean girl from his class, he took a closer look at her for he couldn't see her during art because she was facing away from him. His eyes widen, looking at the angel in front of him, he leaned against the door but unfortunately the door was unlocked and he fell. The girl stared at him with a deadpan expression.

"A stranger has fallen into my ocean cave, yet he didn't drown nor swim upwards the land. Is he going to accept the sea or will he drown like the rest? Let's see"