Forbidden Water

Chapter 18

Guys,do u want to know about Larissa? or love to know about Lisa?

Leo's pov continues...........

Leo signifies strength,but of late I feel like weakest person,a pauper. I feel like I've lost enthusiasm in everything. The cool sea breeze is caressing me but I hardly feel the coolness. I am walking aimlessly through the beach and I drank after long; I want to forget my agony and monotony.So,right now I'm toddling more rather than walking, as if I'm some light sea weed and winds can take me away any time. A fisherwoman is milking her baby.A brunch of little boys  catching oysters,squids, girls are collecting shells. The sea is tempestuous now,so none is fishing.I feel like a wild creature now ,who has nothing to win, nothing to loose.

Suddenly a sharp sound of lament entered my ear. I heard some girl shouting, "I have lost everything,please help me". The sharp voice took me in my senses. Then by chance it seemed like Lisa's voice.Quickly I looked back and rushed !! a small crowd is already there,and Lisa is lamenting taking Fernando's head on lap ;Fernando is lying with eyes closed. Then suddenly my eyes fell on his chest,it's flooded with dried blood,a narrow hole on his chest.My heart nearly stopped seeing this.How could this happen?

'Fernandoooo',I shouted ! I can't believe my eyes; I sat down on my knees and touched him; he is utterly cold,as if died long ago; and the 'generous' sea tossed his body like a playing stuff and finally returned it to us . Deepest sorrow suffocated my throat,tears rolled down my eyes;  I saw all my friends lamenting surrounded his body.

'It's too late',an old man said,'The sea takes life like this,without giving us slightest  opportunity to save'.

'It seems, some fish having string pierced his heart',another man said,'It may be string ray or other fish'.

The air is already heavy with the sighs,sorrows,tears,sweats and blood of Fernando!! the Mediterranean is so cruel; I looked at Lisa,she is still sobbing and kissing Fernando's dead body; I blamed myself for being envious of them. I lost my jewel friend friend. 

Such a great loss! I'm speechless!! why did he go to swim? why is the sea so atrocious? where is the calm marine life? I closed my eyes and Fernando's smiling face fluoresced in my eyes,a innocent loving face.........but he is no more with us. Rest in peace my friend.

Myself and other friends took  his body to his home;how could we even tell his parents?how will they tolerate this? Lisa is already begging to the Mediterranean,"Please,take me with him".

I can't describe the heart-rending faces of Fernando's parents,they were so pathetic........everyone cried a sea,but nothing is going to come back; the magnanimous Mediterranean never valued the tears of people.

Finally the rituals were done, the body was about to be taken to grave ,suddenly Lisa came,'Don't send him to grave,give him to the sea,I'll know he will return someday'.Everyone became shocked on hearing her; some were dead against it.But,we Fernando's friends made it possible. Oh God! this girl still doesn't want to believe he's dead,never going to come back.

According to his soul mate's wish the body was immersed in the middle of  Mediterranean by the help of a trawler.Now,Lisa will believe Fernando has gone to fetch shells for her.