As the water follows the moon

1 (English version)

    Don't be so unhappy, life has just begun,

Don't be so unhappy, there're wars that can't be won...

With a bitter taste in her mouth Catarina found out that if she would glance one more time at the beautiful guitar with a long narrow fingerboard and a catholic cross on its belt, she would surely crash it. But she couldn't do it! This was the only thing Teddy left her. Besides, she couldn't blame the guitar for their parting. She could not blame anybody.

"If this will make you happy, you should go!" – she told him and only God knew what soul forces the girl had to gather to say these simple words. But she couldn't act the other way. Her love to that stubborn boy was too strong...

...Teddy liked very much that his new girl-friend never was a "The Reily family" fan and couldn't hum any of his songs. Catarina was not an expert in modern music at all. And she had no idea about the great number of the girls crying on Teddy's concerts stretching their hands to him in vain. They would give anything to take Catarina's place who unexpectedly for herself began dating with "cutie-pie, lady-killer and heart-breaker" (as the press called him) Teddy Reily.

Teddy hasn't been a lady-killer for quite a long time already but the journalists still preferred to call him this name (probably they just could not find a new hero whose face would draw the same attention). And he had never been a heart-breaker but how could he fight mass-media? Would they believe if he'd have told that he'd become a deeply faithful person looking not for short affaires but for simple human warmth? Catarina was very different from all the others because she had seen it at once and that was amazing. Teddy never met such girls.

She often thought then what would be if she hadn't come to her favorite book shop searching for something new. This must had been fate and although Catarina always told she never believed in this foolish stuff, there was something in it. Something that had made her come to that very shop in that very time when Teddy was there.

Usually she didn't pay attention to other customers, but this time everything was different. Near the shelf there stood a guy with such a long hair that any girl would die of jealousy. Catarina evaluated its beauty as well as the patience of its owner who must had never had his hair cut. His glance was jumping from one book back to another and the guy looked confused like a person needing an advice. But Catarina wasn't used to give advices to strangers. She has made her choice but reaching out she understood that the guy had chosen the same book - and their hands suddenly met. There was no electric current that could run between the young people and make them fall in love with each other immediately (how novelists describe it). The guy was just embarrassed and two crimson spots appeared on his cheeks and Catarina laughed.

- I hope it's not the last copy, - said the guy, taking his hand away.

But the book was the only one. Physically feeling the stranger's desire to add something Catarina raised her eyes.

- May be you could give it to me... after you finish reading, - he asked, so charming in his confusion. His eyes of extra ordinary color just fascinated the girl. At first she thought that they were deepest brown but having looked closely she saw them as saturated blue; they seemed to change their color and it was amazing. What was more - these eyes were surprisingly clear and full of a warm light. This light has heated Catarina who was desperately longing for warmth and she felt very good and easy.

- Don't you think that this is my way to get acquainted with you! – he added in a hurry. – I really wanted to read Whitman...

Catarina could send him to the shop near by, where for sure the unsold copies were laid on the shelves, but she wanted so much to see this long-haired stranger again that she would take any ground. So the book perfectly fitted.