the strings that bind us..

Chapter 9: The Umara lake

"do you think Anna is fine right now..?" ,poor girl.

He smiled "she is strong girl, she must definitely be feeling bad about today. "

We resumed our silent walking .

It was different , it was...."salty..".

"what did you say?" he abruptly stopped walking and turned towards me with a rather amused expression.

"salty, its salty here .humid and salty."

"why are you telling that its salty...".I cut him off in mid sentence.

"you told me its an underground source ."I probably must be looking like a dog to him, sniffing around randomly. "the lake is too deep for me tell anything but its salty for groundwater. Too salty."

"yes, its a salt water lake. "he said as a matter of fact.

"can we float in it.? ".It was weird I couldn't sense it much maybe i need to touch it.

"no. "he said chuckling ."not that salty. Do you know, you expect too much from Sirius.".

"It was a genuine doubt."

Weird country and weird people , who even make water feel weird.

It was beautiful actually. It was glowing.

Weird water.

"your glowing. "I turned to see him look into my eyes.

"just exited, it's like weird dreams coming true."

"weird dreams.??"he asked curiously.

"water in Sicily. "I said in an innocent tone.

"what weird about that ?"he asked in a rather mock hurt tone.

"salt water is more energizing than normal water. You know filled with minerals and stuff..".

I dipped my leg slowly into the lake.

God..!!! Energizing was an understatement.

--------------------------------

"we better leave , they must be waiting for us in the castle."

"we just got here." I replied distracted and fully wet.

"have you lost it princess, is your brain soaked up with salt water." he said in a rather ' non-harsh' manner.

"well lets what happens to people who get their brain soaked. "he was knee deep in the water.

Well lets keep it that way .i created a small whirl around him and with a matter of seconds and by the time he knew what hit him.

SPLASH..!!

"JULIA..!!".

God.. When was the last time i laughed like this.

"let me go ."he said struggling to move but i practically froze the water around him to move.

"no please, tell me how your now soaked brain feels."

"let go ....JU..LIAA".he said struggling to move.

"ok."i let go.

SPLASH..!!

"god..JULIA".he trip due to his own force and fell completely in the water.

"sorry , iam so sorry. "I approached him and helped him get up.

"no offence but i genuinely hate water or anything remotely flowing and slippery."

"I am really sorry." i said genuinely but couldn't control my laughter.

He stood up and in a few strides reached the land.

"COME ON..!!",he said distractedly motioning towards me to the land.

I slowly walked towards him.

"rub your hands together, fast and hard. "he said me rubbing his hand vigorously.

"why..??".maybe he lost it completely now.

"do it.. "he said slowly concentrating on something... His hands.

"fine ",I started rubbing .

"now give them to me."

"what.. ",and before I could complete my sentence he took my hand into his

and...

"concentrate and stay still", he said .

"its warm."

"well that is the concept."

I could fell the heat radiate through me. He move his hands from my palms to the sleeves of my dress.

There was now a thin veil of hot steam coming of us, our cloths where drying themselves.

It would have been cool if ...I wasn't starting to feel dehydrated.

"enough ....",I snatched my hands from him ."your also drying me of .the whole point of soaking myself up in water is getting lost ."I said smirking at him.

"oh.. Sorry ."he said backing further away from me.

"I mean... Thank you ."I said smiling.

"we should leave, its getting very dark ."he said and started sprinting towards the direction we came from ."you might need some 'water time ',ill leave you too it, come fast thou."

Weird. But when wasn't he weird.

"ok."I shouted back.

The whole point a 'trying to maintain a peace relationship' is lost and thrown out of the window when it comes to him.

I looked back at the water , glowing in the afternoon light.

Peace.

I soaked my feet in the water, i might not be a peace-person and maintaining it has never been my thing but something about water made me feel it.

I slowly turned and started walking toward the direction in which Charles left earlier.

I was dark in minutes ,it was a ten minute walk to reach the gates but the trees around seemed so similar and my pathetic sense of direction..... Well i guess I strayed away a little.

It is compounded area ,so I think am technically not lost... Yet.

"CHARLES...".."CHARLES",I started to shout.

"Charles is that you..."I turned around to see if he was standing. I bet I heard someone, well, rustling of leaves probably.

I better speed up, at least walk back to the lake so he might come back and find me .

I stared walking towards the water, well running actually.

The wind around me started to pick up , well i guess that is my queue to pick up speed.

"CHARLES"....shouting and running great .

The rustling sound behind me started to grow louder and I was just a few feet from the clearing . I stopped as I felt an arm wrap around me arm as i reached the clearing.

"well stop it Charles its not funny . "

"so is it always Charles right now for you these days..."the voice drawled on.

The voice....

He spun me around and before my mind could form a coherent thought a soft pair of lips crashed onto mine.

-----------------

do vote, share and comment.