Love Like Water

Chapter 1: Captivating Eyes

3rd Person

Your eyes widen slightly as you looked across the little stream. There you saw two boys sitting against a tree, one with brown hair, and one with beautiful pearlescent silver-blue hair. The silver-haired boy had beautiful features that glowed in the sun's rays, strands of hair flowing in the light wind. His unique features took you into a trance, making want to look longer. As you did so, you met a pair of beautifully colored orbs.

Violet eyes. It paired up perfectly with his porcelain skin and the silver hair that accommodated it. It was like a painting, with his palette consisting of light and airy colors and moved along with the surrounding nature.

Though all of his features were like eye candy, his eyes were those that were part of another world, insinuating his features to the fullest extent.

You watched the small figures from across move and jolt around, occasionally shaking in laughter and patting each other on the back. You look at them in admiration wishing you had a friendship as such, but as a slave you couldn't do that. You continue to silently watch them when it was interrupted by a harsh voice coming from behind you. Your head quickly turns and you look into the face of the person you were stuck with for probably the rest of your life.

Your master.

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Five years ago...

Years ago, your family gave you up to work as a slave when they were not able to pay off their debt when you were a young child. You definitely thought about it often, considering that you travel around with your master, and watched children play in the town with their parents. The journeys consisted of working endless hours in fields and traveling from city to city, serving him with what he needed to be done to make his business prosper. You would see children running around freely playing with each other with no care in the world. If you even tried to talk to one of them, you'd be punished severely for straying off. It's not like you were living in good conditions either. He'd make you walk beside the carriage while traveling miles, making you carry pounds on your back. It's been 5 years since, and life wasn't becoming any easier.

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Looking straight at your angry master with frightened eyes, you start to profusely apologize so you wouldn't face harsh punishment. Little did you know, it caught the attention of the two boys from afar. Their eyes look at your cowering form and then to your master. At the time, they were forbidden to have any contact with humans, so they did the most they could do; stood across the stream and watched from afar, not leaving until making sure that the girl was safe from any form of abuse.

After a harsh lecture from your master, he left and made you prepare supplies by yourself for the long journey. Your punishment? Not being able to eat for 2 days. You turn around looking across the stream for the two boys, but only one of them were now present. You didn't think much about it until you noticed that the brown-haired boy was talking, but to whom? It was as if he were talking with a ghost. The boy's mouth continued to move, facing toward the tree and looking at it.

A strong gust of wind then blows your way, making you stagger and messing up your already-messy hair. You brushed the hair away from your line of view to look again, and there he was. The silver-haired boy was back, as if he didn't disappear at all.

Now pondering on the appearance and disappearance of the silver-haired boy, you get up, parting from the luscious green grass, to start gathering water and supplies for the trip ahead.

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~Hours later~

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