"H'w long d' you intend t' keep waiting?"
The soft ocean winds blew along the shore, sounds of birds filled the air. It was near afternoon as Berwald decided to check up on his friend who, day by day, sat at the edge of the cliff near the lighthouse.
His friend has been doing this for quite some time now, he was starting to get worry. But everytime he asks that question, he would get the same reply.
"Until I see her again."
Berwald sighed.
He had always known Lukas to be a strange one, but waiting everyday for something that didn't exist, that really take the cake. Ever since that insisted out at sea, Lukas waited by the cliff edge.
Berwald didn't know what else to do with Lukas. Even if he tried to talk sense into him, it just never got through. "I'll b' waiting 't home." Berwald spoke to Lukas, who didn't reply. He closed his eyes for a few moments before heading home.
Waiting for someone who didn't existed, Berwald would always tell him that. But Lukas knew better. He knew what had happened that night and what was there was real, no one can tell him other wise.
Lukas could remember it clearly, on that faithful night. While being out at sea, a terrible storm brew in causing his ship to get shallower up by the waves.
He was quickly sinking to the bottom of the ocean, his life flashed before his eyes. Lukas could see his death coming.
But, as his vision was starting to fade he saw a figure swim toward him. Although he was near his last breathe, he could still remember the figure that swam toward him.
She has beautiful blue eyes, her shoulder length blonde hair flow in the water and she had a bright smile that would make the sun jealous. She had no legs, but a bluish-greenish fish-like tail. The jewelry around her waist, tail, neck and head brought out her colors as they shine in the water. Her slender arms reached toward him as he sank.
He could remember it all perfectly, all before it faded to black.
The next thing he could remember was that he ended up on the shore. He was soaked, but breathing.
Was he hallucinating that it all happened?
He was going to believe that until he looked out at sea. In the distance, he saw the same beautiful woman he saw in the water before passing out. Within moment, the woman gave him one last smile before she swam away, never to be seen again.
That all had happened awhile back, yet everyday Lukas waits at the cliff on the same beach he had woken up on from that night. Everyday he waits, in hopes to see the woman once more.
However, it's a slim chance that he'll ever see her again. Seeing as how mermaids are more just creatures in fairytales. And we all now that only fairytales have happy endings.
