This is a story that i made for a couple of days now. It's a short story with a few chapters. I wanted it first to be a one-shot but then again not. It's kind of like Tuck Everlasting, but not completely the same. If you haven't seen the movie then you should cause it's amazing! Reviews are very welcome! Hope you'll like this story. I should warn you though, it won't be a happy ending.

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To live or to die. I wish I had them both. I wanted to live like a normal human and die from its oldness. The life I used to have. It's not the same. Immortality isn't a life. It's a curse. A curse I wish I can undo. A curse I had to carry forever.

Forever. It's a big word to say when you can't live forever. For humans it is. I sometimes wonder if I am a human. I don't have any other special strength. I drink, I eat, I sleep like humans do. I even look like one. But does immortality makes me not human? Does it makes me and my family not humans? Some people say we're the followers from the devil. Some people say we're witches. What a joke! Being immortal has nothing to do with those things.

You wanna know when it all happened? It was the summer of 1780. I was 17 years old. My family and I got kicked out of our house. We traveled a long way until we found a peaceful place to stay in the woods. My brother, Aiden, was just 20 years old. He looked a lot older cause of his big muscle body. And my little sister, Kyla, she just turned 15 when we decided to live in the forest. My parents, Raife and Cristine, they have been married for 20 years. Now even longer.

It all started when my father was hunting in the woods. He found a deer-like animal and shot him. He went to check if the deer was dead or not. It was clearly that the deer was shot right in his neck. But the mystical thing was that the deer stood up. He was alive. My father stood closely and held the deer's neck with his hands. The bullet got in and got out again. How can it be that the deer was still alive after a shot that had to kill him? And how can it be that the bullet just got out of his neck right after? It was a weird and scary thing for my father.

He let the poor animal go. The deer ran away. But he followed him after to see where he was going. The animal stopped in front of a big tree. Water was coming out underneath. The deer was drinking it. This made my father curious about the spring. What was it that made this deer so special? So immortal? He walked towards the big tree where the deer was drinking from the spring. He kneeled down and touched the water. It wasn't special or anything. So he decided to drink out of it. He tastes the cool water. The cool water that has granted him immortality. Before he went back to us, he took a bit of the water in his flask and brought it back home.

When he got home, he told us everything what he saw. The deer, the spring, everything. He showed us the water that came out of the spring. He said he already drank of it. That made my brother curious. He took the flask and took a sip out of it. Nothing special happened. My mother and sister followed him after. I was the one who didn't want to drink out of it. It was stupid to believe something like that can give you immortality. I didn't believe it. But against my prudence, I drank the water. It wasn't different of all the other water's I drank. Only, it did gave us the immortality.

So that happened. 5 years later, nothing has changed. I should have been looking older. Like my brother. And Kyla should have been 20 now but she still looks like a fifteen year old girl. So what happened? It worked. We never got older. We still looked the same as we were 5 years ago. This made the people in town noisy. They called us for witches and something like that. Some asked us how we stayed the same in this few years. We answered; if you eat enough vegetables you'll stay young forever.

A lie. Our life is now a lie. Another 20 years passed by and nothing has changed. We were officially disbanded by the people from town. We didn't go there anymore. We all separated our ways. Kyla and I went to Europe together. Mom and dad were somewhere in Mexico. And Aiden got married. He found the one, although that's what he said he did. A girl named Madison Duarte. A Spanish girl who moved to America when her father got killed by her own mother. So she hasn't got a happy family like we did, but she was kind and lovely, though. They got 3 children together. 2 girls and 1 boy. One day, Aiden told his wife that he was immortal. His wife didn't believe him. Not a word. But it did explain how he never got old. He asked her to drink out of the spring that gave him immortality so they can live forever together. His wife refused him and called him a devil. She took the kids with her and left Aiden hurt and lost behind. The love of his life and his own children, gone.

We meet again after a 100 years apart. In our house in the woods where no one can find us. We told each other what we have been doing in this 100 years. Kyla and I separated for 30 years then we met again in Italy. She has been doing great. My parents traveled around the world. And my brother, well he's still broken-hearted. He searched for his family. He found his son 50 years later at a bar. They talked and he asked him questions about his family. The men who's in his late 30 told him that his mother died in a car accident. His mother, Madison Duarte, the love of Aiden's life, died. She could've been there with him and live forever, but she chose to live and die. The men's sisters died too. One died from a disease and one got killed by a mafia who was her boyfriend. They all died. Leaving one Duarte alone. Aiden saw the men who looked just like him. From his eyes to the way he talks. They turned to be friends. Aiden was glad he found his son, but he never told the old men that he was his son. Cause how are you going to explain a 38 years old you're his father? A young boy in his twenties. So that option was impossible. The friendship last forever. The old men died 30 years later. In his deathbed, he told Aiden how much he loved him and how often he wonders if they were related to each other. He also asked how Aiden never gets old. Aiden explained him everything. In his deathbed he told him he was immortal and that he fell in love one day. Got 3 kids. 2 girls and a boy. And how long he has been searching for them. And when he found his son. They got to be friends with each other. Best friends. He told him he was his father. Then he said his last words; "I knew it from the beginning." He died. His hand holding Aiden's.

He always wondered why he didn't tell his son about the spring. That could've saved his life.

My story isn't that special. I went to different countries, but never found the one. Until one day. I was laying somewhere in the woods, enjoying the peacefulness. Then I heard footsteps. Someone was running. I hid behind a tree. I watched a young girl tripping over a branch of tree. She fell and was hurt. I heard her sobbing, she was crying. Should I go there or not? I wonder. I was afraid to expose myself in this wood. Someone can take away our home and I won't let that happen.

"Are you ok?" I spoke.

Damn my stupidity! I spoke to a stranger in our woods.

"Who are you?" the girl looked around. I appeared from the tree.

"I'm - uh- no one." I stuttered out. She tries to stand up, but I guess her ankle is bruised cause she fell after again. "Are you ok?" I asked again. I was concerned about this girl. Is she that stubborn to deny her pain?

"Yes, I'm ok." She tried to stood up, but failed again.

"Here, let me help you." I offered and walked towards her.

"Don't!" she refused my help. I can't help it though, I am a little stubborn sometime. I took her arm and pulled it around my neck. My arms around her waist as I tried to pull her up from the ground. She cried out the pain she has on her ankle. "You really don't have to help me you know, I'm fine."

"Yeah, I can see that. You can't even stand on your own without me holding you."

"Yes I can. Let me go then." She demanded. If this little blond wants to play, I'll play.

"Ok, I will." I let her go. Ok, she can stand, but for how long?

"See, told you."

"Ok, now walk."

"W-what?" she stuttered out.

"Walk. How are you going to get out of this place if you can't walk?"

"I-uh, alright then." She said and tried to walk foot by foot.

She failed. She almost fell but I was right on time to catch her. I held her in my arms. We stood there for a moment. That was when I first met her blue eyes.