Chapter 1:

I first met her on a sunny afternoon when I was 10, on my first vacation with my family. She was sitting on the edge of the cliff, staring at the waves.

She was about 5 years older than me and was the most beautiful person I’ve ever seen. Her skin was a little pale but flawlessly smooth and sparkling, as if it was reflecting the sunlight. Her long silky black hair that was falling freely over her delicate collarbones.Her elegant shoulders and her perfectly slender legs. She looked like a marble sculpture from the ancient Greek.

When she turned around, I was frozen by her gaze, it was dead cold, pained and full of hatred. But when it met mine, it just turned blank, piercing blank that made me shivered for no reason.

Her emerald eyes with deep shade of green and long lashes, like perfectly inlaid stone gems. Limpid pupils with light glows of sapphire blue reflected from the ocean and glacial glances that petrified souls. Her perfect nasal bridge, so perfect it looked like it was carved by an outstanding sculptor. Inviting juicy lips that would make others just want to deprive them and drown in their softness. As the sunlight danced on her gorgeous visage, I had to gasp for air.

She possessed that goddess yet alluring look, like she’d just came right out of a fairy tale, the beauty that could even make Aphrodite jealous.

For what seemed like hours of locking gazes, she finally asked impatiently, her icy cold voice startled me.

“What are you doing sneaking on me?”

Her browns furrowed, a little annoyed by my presence, as if I was some kind of nuisance.

“I was just hanging around when I found you, I thought you were gonna jump so I...” I quipped

“Well, thanks for your concern but that’s none of your business, I believe” She yanked and turned her gaze back to the stirring water surface, let out that suffocating despair again.

“I’m sorry” I pinned my eyes down on the ground, didn’t understand why my heart sank seeing her like that then.

When I turned back up, she wasn’t there anymore.

The next day, I found myself wandered to that cliff again. But this time her goddess figure was nowhere to be found. It came to my mind about the empty gaze she got the other day, I yanked to the edge of the rocky terrain and stared down. The waves were crashing ragingly against the rough hedge.

No! She couldn’t have done that stupid act!

“What the hell are you doing? I’m not gonna save your ass if it slips and falls down there you know!”

Her voice almost made me jumped, I turned to face her glacial glare with a sheepishly grin, couldn’t help but felt amazingly relief.

“Heck whatever, just get away from there.”

She grabbed my hand and pulled me back, her hand was cold like that of a marble statue. She was so close I could smell the scent from her hair, it was like jasmines with a slight of black orchids, mysterious yet seductive.

Her aroma still haunts my senses even till now.

She sat down, eyes stared blankly at the horizon.

Her empty gaze was like an indirect strangle at my heart, the suffocating tension it built up, so lost, so lonely and confused. It was like she was pulling all her emotions within, all the sorrow and despair, and let them slowly devoured her from the inside, like she was building up walls to conceal all of that chaos and withstand them all by herself.

I couldn’t stand the intensifying silence any longer as my mind kept telling me I must do something to fix the situation.

“Here, my mom once said nothing a good chocolate bar couldn’t fix”

I sat down beside her and stretched my arm to give her the little sweet bar. Every night until now I still regret that moment, I shouldn’t have done that, I shouldn’t have let the ignorance that I’d like to call my “kindness” to take over, then may be none of this would have happened.

She didn’t seem to give a damn on the chocolate bar nor on me, her eyes continued to pinned on the sapphire blue water surface.

I could have had my chance to walk away, to escape from all her chains and binds. Yet, I just sat there, stubbornly waited for her to response.

After a while, she finally gave in, with her frustrated tone and pissed off glare, she asked

“If I take the bar, will you please leave me alone?”

“Sure, if you finished it on my watch, I’ll leave...well, just to make sure you won’t throw it away; wasting food is a crime you know?”

“But I hate sweets” She frowned, didn’t seem so tensed up anymore, but annoyed instead.

“C’mon, a small bite won’t kill ya”

I still curse my stupidity now, every time the glimpse of that day got caught to my mind.

“There, happy?”

She groaned and mumbled before putting it into her mouth and took a bite, then handed the Choco bar over to me, showing the tiny missing piece.

“Good luck with finishing the rest cause I’m not gonna leave till every crumbs of that bar eaten up”

“Hell no!”

“A deal’s a deal”

“Urgh...kids are annoying!”

She grunted before turning back to lock her gaze at the rolling sea. We went back to silent as I found myself dumbly stared at her again.

Perhaps what intrigued me towards her most was her eyes, her glowing emerald spheres with gloomy shades of grey like an ashes storm swirled in the depth of the soothing green as it captivate your soul with its every blows.

It wasn’t very long till she caught me staring at her again, her jade green pupil look straight into mine that froze me for a while, I didn’t know why but my cheeks were just burning with heats, I could tell I was flushing.

Then her lips curved to form a smirk, the smirk I could never pull out of my mind even when I desperately wanting to.

So there you have it, how I successfully put an end to my peaceful days.Yay me.