Forbidden Water

Chapter 6

so,ultimately Leo has met Larissa,read to learn more....

Leo pov

I'm already late in my new job; so I rushed defying my new found love; but I was willing to while away  the whole day thinking of her, how her eye-balls move,how her rosy lips smile and how she moves her dewy body made me mad.....but I have to earn first,otherwise everything is joke.

When I entered the tavern,I saw only a few visitors  confabulating there and made a pretty mist from the smoke of cigars ; my breath choked inhaling the smoke but I controlled myself. Some of my waiter friends are absent today,a mettle of rainy day is hovering here. 

I returned home; a folk fisherman tune welcomed me home; my dad is singing being drunk. I didn't say anything. I deadly want to tell them, I've found my mate; it's so astonishing that in spite of being human,I felt the sparks of   finding soul mate  !! we are  blessed race !!!! it's very rare for normal human races. Myth says, the Mediterranean  fishermen are capable of finding mate this way.

I opened the wooden box to see if the sky pearl is alright; after all, it gave me a marvelous sign that someone can enter my life !! I took it on my plum, it's  smouldering  beauty is alive in dim evening lights. The reddish rays of setting sun is falling upon it,making it  bluish orange. I just found her and already I'm thinking of giving her this pearl.; but how would I meet her again? even if we don't meet,we are always under the same sky.

I never thought I would meet her again this way; I was just roaming around with my boat in the morning and trawling as well; some delicious fishes come near bank early morning ; the sun  is  shining making a golden  tapestry on the sky. Suddenly, my eyes fell on the shore to eye a beautiful girl collecting conch shells. When I observed again ,I saw it's the very waterbender of that day; my heart raced fast making soul excited ; what is she doing here ??

I reached the shore in a blink. On seeing me there, she smiled musically; her smile is amazing.

'Hey,what are you doing here? are you fishing?'.she asked; her words erased all the darkness of my mind.

'Yeah, what else would I do?',I sighed,'Lately I work in a tavern tough'.

'Do you come of fishermen family?',she asked with much curiosity; I felt a strange hatred when she pronounced 'fishermen'.

'I guess so; we live on fishes.....'

'But fishes live on someone else's water',she said almost stopping me; what did she indicate?

'What do you mean? is Mediterranean someone's property?',I couldn't resist myself.

'Once it was,but in the name of democracy the Mediterranean is snatched and robbed from us, the waterbenders' ,pure hatred was pouring in her voice.

I stood there motionless,don't know what to tell; I think she was also silent. Is she really my soul mate? I never thought the conversation can proceed any further, but something stirred us to speak again.

'You are not responsible for the incidents of remote past', she  broke the silence. I stood nervously.

'Do you hate me though?',I had to ask.

She shook her head slowly,'How can I hate those innocent, pure eyes?'

'What is you name anyway?',she asked me.

'Ohh...I am Leo Mara'

'I am Larissa Clearwater,nice to meet you,Leo',she greeted me.

'Are we friends now?', I asked nervously;

'I guess so',she said and broke into laughter; I laughed a bit with him.

'So.....arch rival fisherman and waterbender have crossed road',she sighed.

'Nice union, water is our life',said I holding her hand ;she eyed me with those expressive eyes and finally said,' Welcome in my water fisherman'.