Ocean Blue Eyes

"Finally! It is summer!"-said with utter happiness Lily, throwing herself to the small bed of the University residence.

"Yeah, this year was like hell."

" You know what? Soph...we need to spend this summer to the fullest."

"Why? and How? But, please, without your crazy ideas just once in hundred years,"- I said, knowing each thought of Lily.

"I swear you will like it!" -said Lily smiling widely.

Beginning:

My name is Sophie Raymond, and I am a final year student of a microbiology course at Neoland University. I have always been a girl interested in biology and science since my little steps as a toddler. When everybody watched barbies and robots, I was fascinated by plants, animals, seas, mountains, and rivers. My favorite book has been "About everything" encyclopedia. Yes, and of course, this love for knowledge made me an outcast in the school.

Talking about my teenage years, how I can say? Short story long, do you know that girl that always walks with a book in her hands and hears no one because her ears are busy with headphones? And she has a long ponytail on her head? And everybody seldom seen her lips flash a smile of hers? If your answer is yes, congratulations, I was just like her. It was back in my teen times; now, I am an elegant successful student of the academic field that stole my heart. Looking back, I see that girl working hard to get accepted to Neoland University, and I want to hug her and thank her for all her sleepless nights and broken friendships. Because with a dream coming true came real friendship and pure love. It felt like it had been paid off all that complicated and lonely twelve years of prison-like school.

Lily came into my life the first day I moved to the university dorm. She has been my roommate since then, and now three years have passed. We went through all the crazy ice breakers of our university community, fun days, and wild night. She is so energetic and vitamin-like in my life. I am just thankful for her for trusting me and being here for me in the most challenging times.

I only believed that pure love exists in books. But I met him in the second semester of my first year, and I did not understand what happened. His beautiful deep black almond-shaped eyes, soft voice, and coffee-colored wavy hair made me think of him day and night. It was soo annoying, frustrating, and tiring. But fear of being rejected did not allow me to come even closer until one day when he came and started to talk with me, then; we grew from strangers to friends and then to lovers. This summer it is going to be three years as a couple. I am very excited about our anniversary. Sometimes it feels like I love him too much because just his name, Ryan Park, makes me smile like there is no tomorrow.

The happiest day:

The first morning of the vacation season always feels different. Waking up to warn bright rays of the sun and getting ready for a date with Ryan makes it even better. Due to final exams, I have not seen him for two weeks, and I feel like I miss him a lot. A style that I chose for today was calm and sweet, starting from make-up, finishing up with delicate shoes. We went to our favorite coffee shop and got one blueberry muffin and black coffee for him and sweet vanilla for me.

"You looking beautiful as always, my love,"-said Ryan with a loving smile.

His words filled my heart with warmth.

"No, I look okay! You make me shy."

" Why? It is going to be 3 years since we have been together, and you suppose to be okay with it."

"Time flies so fast."

"By the way, do you have any plans for the upcoming week?"-wondered Ryan looking excited.

"No, I do not think so. Well, Lily did not have plans with me. So I am free as the bird in the sky."

Ryans eyes started glittering with excitement, and his smile widened, making his dimples visible. I always liked them; they made me feel so safe.

"Well, if you are free. I, Ryan Park, invite you to the beach date for 3 days to celebrate our love."- said he with a silly accent.

"Wow, it sounds so romantic. Well, I am, Sophie Raymond, do accept your invitation."

Sometimes I feel like we are kids inside grown-up people's bodies. We can act so childish with each other.

Beginning or the End:

We have reached the beach house. All the way to the destination, I had no mood, so we drove in silence. The moodiness was caused by Lily. Lily did not like Ryan, and she was upset when I chose to go on a date with him instead of camping with her. She yelled at me and said, "I hope you will regret this trip!!" and slammed the door on the room. But as soon as I saw the beach and beautiful sea, I had forgotten everything unpleasant in my life.

"I can see that you have cooled down a bit,"- said Ryan coming out of the building.

The building was an old wooden two-floored cottage. It had little patches of mold on the outer walls, probably because of the humidity outside, I thought. We entered the building and saw something like a reception table, and from the right of the table, there was a common area where we were probably going to have dinner and breakfast. It had nothing special in the style of old voyagers. The walls were painted in blue color, and it was covered in samples of dried fish and photographs of past achievements. I decided to walk through the room while Ryan was checking in the room. The people in the photos were smiling and happy, but something was odd in their eyes.

"Well, I am a little bit disappointed in his choice of the place to stay,"- whispered I under my nose.

"Are you? Why? You do not like the ocean?"-the voice behind my back scared me.

When I turned, I saw a woman with red hair, blue eyes, and she was using an old wheelchair covering her legs with oversized plaid. She looked like a woman in her 40 s; her skin was dry and flaky. Also, she smelled like a pile of rotten fish. I could not hide my discussed face from her, at which I felt sorry for my chook. Because of the smell, I thought I would throw up, so I apologized and went to the toilet with a trembling voice. The condition of the toiled did even worse, and all that had been consumed went down the toilet. The acidity from my stomach was burning my throat. I wanted to get rid of it as fast as possible, so I washed my mouth with the water from the sink. I raised my head and glanced at the dirty mirror, where I saw, for a second, a lady who looked so sad and desperate; at that moment, I threw my body away from the mirror because it scared me. I fell to the ground, and it was so slimy, but it did not bother me because I was too focused on a whispering voice that said, "Save him! Protect him!". I flee from the bathroom and run in search of Ryan to tell him. But when I saw him, he was with the woman that caused my terrible feeling, chatting about something. I wondered how he is so okay with the smell and look in general. I called him and said to go to the room. When we reached the booked room, I felt so scared and paranoid that my body started to itch.

"Soph, where did you go? I searched for you but could not find you."- said Ryan looking so relaxed.

"I was in the bathroom; felt terrible."

"Which bathroom? They do not have a bathroom downstairs."

"On the right from the reception desk...through the hall?"

He came close to me, reaching out to my forehead, checking the temperature.

"Are you okay? Do you have a fever?"- he said worryingly

"I promise there was a bathroom! I saw it, and I have been there!"

"Calm down, baby. Maybe you are just overstressed and tired." - he said, hugging me tightly.

I trusted him, so I really thought that I was just tired and I needed to rest. I took a bath, and while taking a shower, I still heard the whispers, but this time they were louder. But I kept telling myself that it was hallucinations. After a bath, we landed ourselves in bed.

"I saw you talking to that middle-aged woman on the wheelchair. What did you talk about?" - I asked with curiosity.

"Middle-aged woman on a wheelchair?"

"Yes, also she smells terrible. She was in the common area."

"Oh! You mean that girl. Hm, she was nice."

"A girl? Ryan, baby, I know you have bad eyesight, but not to that extend. It was definitely a horrible-looking woman sitting in the wheelchair."

"And I know that you can get jealous. But do not offend people. It was a lovely young woman with cute ginger hair and ocean blue eyes,"- sarcastically said Ryan.

"I am NOT offending anyone! I clearly saw a witch-like woman in the common area."

"Hey, Soph! What is wrong? She was seated on the sofa"- now with an angry tone, he said.

"Why can not you believe me? There was a bathroom, and there was a woman!"- with panic, I shouted at him.

"Sophie! There was no freaking bathroom, and there was a nice-looking girl! Done!"

"Nice-looking? Hey! I am your girlfriend, not her!"

"Do not start that, Soph."

"What? Ryan Park. What?"- I raised my voice even higher.

"Please, you are just exhausted and need some sleep. Listen..."

I felt like my feet became so light, and I could not hear Ryan anymore. I have collapsed.

Was it a dream or reality?

I see the sea, but it is dark.

"It is night. What I am doing here?"- I thought.

The wind was playing with my hair, and sand went into my shoes. I hear people's voices from afar, and I turn my head to see.

"No! Let him go! Tom!"- screaming woman running after a ginger hair woman and her lover.

They stop before the shore, and ginger hair girl starts to kiss 'Tom' passionately and asks him whether he wants to stay or go with her. He says that he wants to follow her, and he calls her Molpe. After those words, during another kiss, she returns back to her natural physical state. Her feet disappear and turn to snake-form tail. Her hands turn into claws with long and sharp nails. And her body gets covered with orange and green dermal denticles. She places her hand on Tom's chest and cuts clutches through his it taking out his heart. When the core is still beating, she drinks up the blood and, in one bite, swallows a still warm heart. This disturbing image leaves me speechless. And when I turn around to run away, my face meets Tom's lover.

"Save him! Protect him! I couldn't, please, you do!"- she said, taking my hands into hers and looking right into my eyes.

But as soon I turned my head to the scene where 'Tom' heart was taken away from him. I only see ocean blue eyes and feel the smell of the dead flesh. She, Molpe, puts her hand on my shoulder and says:

"You are too weak to do so." -and turns away by scratching my hand with her dermal denticles.

I woke up from the pain that I felt. My hand automatically started to search for Ryan on the bed. I felt shivers, and my heartbeat started to rise because I understood that he was not there. In a panic, I run out of the room, forgetting to put on my shoes. The voice in my head started to scream louder and louder, saying, "Faster! Faster! You can still save him!". In the cold rush of the sweat, I reached the common area. There was no one, only cuts from old newspapers with the heading of missing young men on the beach. I started to worry more and more, uncontrollably, shouting his name, running around cottage and beach. When I reached the wild end of the beach, I saw them together. Ryan was holding hand with the Molpe. He was smiling, but the smile was almost drunken. It was not his genuine smile. I ran as fast as I could to reach them.

"Ryan! No! Let go of her hand!" - I screamed, almost out of breath.

"Here you are, and it is going to be more fun,"- said Molpe.

She looked, indeed, as a lovely young woman. Her eyes were shining bright as stars in the sky.

"Do not do that! I am warning you! Let him go, please!"

"Please? You are way too polite to be afraid of you."

"And you are too old for him. Why do you keep doing that? All these years, you were snacking on hearts of the young men leaving their loved ones to morn."

"Yes, the heart that is in love is the sweetest"- with a smile, Molpe said.

"You have not answered my question!"

The wind started to blow harder, and the moon was up high. The waves were high and loud. The cold reached my bones, but I was only thinking of how to save him.

"I know you want Ryan back, but I am starving too."-said Molpe.

"He is not your dinner or breakfast!"

"You are in love for the first time in life. Once I was also in love, but he betrayed me for the bag of useless coins."

"But it was only his mistake, not all men."

"You do not understand! All men are the same, and there is no exception."

"I am so sorry for your broken heart, but will you feel better after killing another love."

"Let's ask your precious Ryan. How hard he loves you."

"No, you are asking him under the spell"-tears started to come from my eyes.

She looked up into his, and her eyes started to shine even more. Then her lips began to kiss his. At that moment, I felt like something tearing my heart.

"No, please! Do not do that!" - on my knees, I cried.

She asked him, "Do you want to go or stay here with me?"

"For your beautiful ocean blue eyes, I will stay and drown in them," -said Ryan under her spell.

I started to look for something to defend us, but nothing was coming into my mind. Molpe began to kiss him a second time and turned into her natural physical form. At that time, I saw a metal stick that was a few meters away from me. As I turned to get it, her hand was rising towards his chest. But when I picked up the metal pole, I understood that I was late. I saw the picture where her claws went through his chest, and I could see the tips of her nails coming out of his back.

"RYAN!" -I screamed my lungs out.

"His heart is so tender and sweet,"-Molpe said while munching on his heart.

His body dropped dead on the white sand. I felt fear, anger, and rage. Uncontrollably, I took the metal stick and ran towards the demonic creature. I saw no purpose to live on; only one target is to kill this Molpe. While she was so concentrated on consuming the flesh of my lover, I attacked her by scratching her right eye. She pushed me away, and my body rolled down on the sand. My chest started to hurt badly. But I stood up and attacked her again, but this time her claws were around my neck. She picked me up from the ground. Her smell was making everything more terrible.

"You are bold. It is, indeed, entertaining. I do not usually take away the life of a lady, but it seems like you are the exception."

I was ready to give up, and tiredness hit my body. But when my eyes closed, I saw Ryan. I saw all the happy moments we had together, I heard his laughter, and tears started to fall from my eyes. But I was not ready to die yet.

"This freaking monster should die first!"- I thought.

"Well, I believe I am not the exception. DIE MONSTER!!"

The metal pole went right into her left eye in went out the back of her head. She dropped me on the ground, but her sharp nails scratched my neck. Her body fell right in front of the shore, where the ocean took its creature back to the deepness. I run right to Ryan's body. On his face, I saw a slight smile, but his body was so cold. His dimples were there on his face, but his eyes were no more bright and shiny.

"I am sorry, I was late. Oh, I wish to hear your voice saying that I am just overthinking, and we need to just rest."- I said, hugging Ryan's lifeless body.

"Can I just rest here with you for a while and watch the sunrise?"

I lay down on cold sand and closed my eyes.