Hiya, this a new story I have been thinking about for a while but havent had time to write. Here is the first chapter, just a short introduction. Let me know what you guys think, I'm open to suggestions and will try to update as often as I can! Xo
The Beginning of the End
She had always known that music had a way of speaking that words did not, but in that moment it was as if she had never heard a song before. Never had she witnessed something so beautiful, so pure. So different was the man that sat before her now than the man she met just those few weeks before.
Maria could barely breathe, the gentle sounds drifting through the room from her guitar and the sweet melody of the captains voice. Had she been able to take her eyes off him, Maria would have seen that every person in the room was transfixed but none as much as she. There was something about him in that moment that made Maria thirst to know more, gave her a hunger to discover his deepest secrets and most outrageous desires. Immediately noticing her wayward thoughts Maria began to scold herself, but she hadn't even managed to put that thought aside before the Captains eyes met hers across the room, 'Oh help!' How could one mans eyes have such an effect on her, all rational thinking had gone out the window and all Maria wanted to do was be with him and only him every minute of every day. As a young and relatively naive postulant she may not have known much about this sort thing but she couldn't deny she could see something in those eyes and made her insides burn hotter than the sun.
Georg couldn't even remember finishing edelweiss, the moment he had locked eyes with that young rebellious woman he had come to know; he was drowning. She had been the one to ask him to sing, granted the children had made a compelling case and who was she to resist them. But that was understandable, they were children after all, but that fact that he had been unable to resist her was an entirely different matter. The Captain had tried so hard, begging himself to look everywhere but the corner in which she was standing, ever since that day by the lake her intriguing qualities had begun to drive Georg to distraction. But he couldn't help it, she was like a magnet and he was powerless against her. The deep blue of Maria's eyes pulled him and so unexpected was what he saw there, desire, raging desire and something else... no he must be mistaken! She is to be a nun, she has given her life to God, he needed to stop before his eyes gave him away but it was already far to late for that.
He saw the gentle blush rising in her cheeks, She saw the darkening of his eyes and both of them were acutely aware, this was the beginning of the end for both of them.