Forbidden Water

Chapter 22

so you know about Larissa....now you'll get to see more of her...

Larissa's pov,

The prayer session seems extremely boring to me, still I have to pray every morning. This is the only thing I hate about this tour. Having prayed with friends I came out from the shrine. The sea mists  still kept the capony  over the sea. The chirping sound of gossips and confabulations gives me irritation sometimes.

When my eyes caught Crusoe I saw he's already swirling hands and removed all the sea mists; the sea view is placid clear now. His deed was excellent,I couldn't be silent......"Bravo".

'Larissa ! you were watching me',said he turning to me. I was going to reply but someone cleared his throat.

'Guys.......your lesson starts now', our sire announced; so we had to end the conversation. I looked at him,he seems really mad at sire. It's cheesy!!

We all stood in parliament style and started following body movements as our master is doing. It's not easy, can't be done swishing only hands. It needs immense body movements. I am enjoying the postures of movements, it's great to see all of us doing same at the same time; as if it's bizarre dance to make air and water dance together.

We moved our limbs like the ecstasy of soul being revealed through our bodies; as we moved, swished, swirled, whirled, whisked  our bodies , the auspicious aura created every time & the air and water moved together. The tango of water and air fed my eyes; though air can't be seen we felt it's presence, it's whims and whirls. Our master gave us 'Air wick' and 'Water wick' to practice individually. So,we toiled together constantly. 

I looked at Crusoe, he is so spontaneous, a natural waterbender; he goes on doing movements in own pleasure and never tires. He smiled at me and I knew I was watching him !! I try my best not to mingle with him but consequences lead me to him every time. I don't know what God wants. Leo was calm but Crusoe is rebellious !! his hair goes in every direction, his sea green eyes twinkle peeping from the hair streaks; he doesn't control his hairs. One day I saw his upper back tattoo of wings, that's so flamboyant. Oh no!! why was I thinking of him? it's not fair.

'Hey Larissa', I heard his voice, 'Did you love my stunt in the morning?'; he said  like a child wants to be applauded.  

'Now you were watching me', I pouted fakely and returned him the morning favor; and he laughed; to stop him I quickly said, 'What you did was really excellent but that can't be passed as stunt'.

'I love to remove the sea mists; I don't like misty sea',he explained, 'The clearer view of sea is most breathtaking'.

'I love blue sea, the color blue attracts me most',said I, deep in thought.

'If you really want I can show you numerous colors of sea, so many hues of blue , you can never imagine to be housed in the sea', he is going on talking softly, 'When the sun rises the sea changes color from reddish blue  to orange blue to cerulean blue to turquoise blue............'

'Oh Crusoe, you are such a smooth talker', I interrupted him, 'Do you like to attract people this way?' ; he gave me an innocent smile like a little boy being caught with a jar of chocolates !! 

'I don't love to attract everyone, see I'm introvert person', he paused, 'But I want you to drool over me'.

'What? how could you ever imagined so? still my heart aches for Leo', my rough voice attacked him. As soon as I said my heart aches for Leo, the spark of his face all gone in a second. I don't know I should react like this or not !

'But my heart is mentally dating my crush', his voice is soft, somber, serious. I didn't say anything, but I was happy inside, my love hungry heart already craves for him...