"How is it that you're in a relationship for so long already and yet I'm still single and miserable without anyone? Where's my Prince Charming? Where is his white horse? When will he sweep me off my feet and ask my hand in marriage?"
I grabbed hold of my best friend's shoulders and shook her. She laughed and stood up. I felt tiny next to her, since she was 10 centimeters taller than me although we used to have the almost same height in primary school. I had been in a really bad relationship with a guy which started after PMR and ended after SPM. High school puppy love, much? And since then, I could never trust guys anymore. I mean, guys and their "sworn-love" were all bullshit.
"Chill, old lady. Your Prince Charming is coming. It's just that he might be riding a turtle instead of a horse and that is why he is late." My best friend wrapped her arm around my shoulders and pulled me down to sit next to her. Her phone beeped and instantly, she flipped open her phone cover, read through the SMS and giggled. That must be her boyfriend. They were like, Barbie and Ken. I always teased her with that because her boyfriend's name was Ken. She saw my annoyed expression and she quickly tapped few words to reply before turning her phone to silent mode.
"A turtle? How are you supposed to sit on a shell?"
"Well, he has installed this cool comfortable seat attached to the shell so you can sit on it with ease. It comes with a safety belt too so you won't fall off in case the road is bumpy. And don't worry, the turtle isn't that slow, your prince has installed a turbo on the turtle too."
Both of us ended up laughing with tears swimming in our eyes. "If that's the case, why hasn't he arrived yet?" I threw this question at her in between the almost died-down laughter. She looked at me with a straight face and said, "He has no sense of direction. You should buy him a GPS."
~*~*~*~
Somewhere at the other end of the globe, a guy sneezed. "Jeez, I'm in a desert and I feel cold all of a sudden. Hey, Mr. No, are you cold?" He patted his pet's head but it ignored him and continued to crawl at a slow pace. "Mr. No, answer me!"
"Shut up, PC." His pet turned its pink head around and looked at him. For anyone who could see them now, it was really a strange sight. The boy was sitting on a comfortable green chair with a striking purple belt which was placed on a pink moving boulder and there was something like a turbo underneath the boulder. Not to mention, the boulder seemed to have four legs and a tail. And for those who had the sense to inspect further, they would come up close, take a look at the boulder and run off screaming. The pink boulder was a turtle. And it could talk.
A year later...
My head was spinning, I felt like I was floating and sinking at the same time, and to make the matter worse, I couldn't expand my lungs properly to take in oxygen. My hand landed on something slimy and gross so I forced my eyes to open. The scene in front of me literary took my breathe away. I mean, I really couldn't breathe. I was underwater and there was a merman in front of me.
I screamed but there were only bubbles coming out from my mouth. It was too late to shut my lips since saltwater had already entered my lungs. The merman lunged and grabbed me by my waist. I struggled and pushed him away but it was too late. My brain was screaming for air. I had to breathe. I had to take in oxygen. I would die if I didn't...
When I opened my eyes again, I was lying on the sand. I must had fallen asleep when I was tanning at the beach. Yet, there was no towel underneath me. Maybe I had forgotten to take it with me so I lied on the sand. My skin felt prickly as though the sand had stuck onto my skin. That was weird, I was dry so why would the sand stick onto my skin? I scratched my head in wonder and my hair was wet. Okay, what happened? As if on cue, a head emerged from the surface of the seawater and I gasped. It was the guy I saw in my dream. Or was it a dream? I stared hard into the seawater and I saw him flicking his tail. Merman. My jaws dropped and I had forgotten how to breathe.
"It's rude to stare, you know." The merman opened his mouth and talked to me. I would have fall if I wasn't sitting on the sand already. "Are you alright now?" He swam nearer to the shore and something extraordinary started to happen. A transformation was taking place right before my eyes. As his lower body left the seawater, his tail started to shrink and a pair of muscular legs were forming in replacement of the tail. In front of me stood a really gorgeous looking man, naked. I blinked and tried to keep my eyes on his face. If he was my Prince Charming, I would go and live in the sea with him for the rest of my lives. A face flashed in my mind and I came to my senses. In desperation, I stood up and rushed towards the seashore.
Few hours ago...
"HELP! PC has been kidnapped! Help, Cylviana!" A loud commotion was going on outside my lecture hall and I heard my name. Curious, I walked out from my class and saw something green and pink zigzagging up the stairs. Without warning, I was being knocked over and the thing which sat on top of me was a pink turtle. I screamed. "Shhh! Don't scream! Please come with me, I need your help! PC has been kidnapped!"
"What are you? And who the fuck is PC?"
"Just come with me, I'll explain as we go." He jumped down from me and told me to sit on the seat which was installed on top of his shell. I hesitated. He stared at me with great intensity that I had to oblige although I had doubts in my mind. I mean, a pink talking turtle with a seat on top of his shell? And oh my God, was that a turbo placed right near his tail? At that time, my best friend's voice flooded my mind.
"Your Prince Charming is coming... Riding a turtle... Installed this cool comfortable seat attached to the shell... Comes with a safety belt... Installed a turbo..."
My knees gave way and I fell right onto the seat. The pink turtle sped off after turning on the turbo. I felt as if it was a bizarre dream.
I came to know that the pink turtle was named after a famous K-Pop celebrity, No MinWoo, but he disliked the name and only responded to people who called him "Mr. No". He said that he looked nothing like that celebrity since he was way cuter and handsome than that Korean boy. I had to disagree, since that Korean celebrity was my K-Pop bias.
PC, short for Prince Charming, was his owner and he had been on a quest to search for his true love. There were a lot of accidents during the journey and they ended up gotten lost when travelling across the South China Sea because they had no sense of direction without the GPS.
A huge wave rolled over them and PC sunk to the bottom of the sea since he couldn't swim. Mr. No couldn't save him because the seat had light buoyancy so it floated on the water instead of sinking. Therefore, he went to search for PC's true love and need her help to rescue him instead. And according to Mr. No, PC's true love would be me.
"Uh... True love?" I sat upright on the seat and hoped I heard wrong. Mr. No nodded earnestly. "I don't even know this... this PC... and you're telling me that I'm his true love? That's... That's impossible. That's bullshit. I don't believe in true love."
"Even there's a lie in a believe, my dear." Mr. No started with his word of wisdom again. "You may not believe, but deep down inside your heart, you are hoping and wishing that there will be a speck of truth in what I told you."
I remained silent, partly because I didn't know how to reply him and partly because what he said was true. We reached the shore and he requested me to unbuckle the seat from his shell so he could swim better. I told him I couldn't swim and I'd died drowning if I slipped off from his shell. In the end, he gave up trying to convince me to take off the seat. I knew why he was so desperate to get rid of the seat. I'd rather die if I was found having a bed stuck onto my back, with pillows and blankets attached.
As we just started to cross the sea, something jumped out from the sea and stroke me on the face. I was hurled into the water as the belt snapped in half due to the strong force. Struggling to keep myself afloat, I saw Mr. No was being (I kid you not) tail-flapped and sent hurling towards the shore. He lost conscious immediately and I was screaming while drinking the salty seawater. A beautiful-looking lady with the lower body of a fish was glaring at me. I was staring at a mermaid.
She threw something directly into my mouth as I was screaming and I choked on the slimy item. Then she pulled me underwater, towards the bottom of the shore. My eyes were adjusting from the limited light under the sea and I saw a human figure was being bound and gagged. PC. That was the first name which came across my mind. The mermaid pulled me over and threw me onto him. I landed softly on top of him and I wriggled few inches away, so I wouldn't press onto him fully. He opened his eyes and turned his face towards me. He took my breath away.
It was only then I realized I could breathe underwater. Was it because of the thing that mermaid fed me just now? My eyes darted towards her and I heard her talking. "I heard that you are his true love. But I have fallen in love with this human and I want to marry him. If you agree to let us be together, I will reward you with another of my kind." Without waiting for my agreement, she punched my stomach and I vomited the thing she put in my mouth just now. My brain started to scream for oxygen.
"Argh!" A scream brought me back to reality. I turned and saw Mr. No headbutting the merman back into the sea again. He came to my side immediately and demanded me to take off the seat from his shell. I did what he told me to and he rushed into the sea, leaving me alone.
I was standing awkwardly by the shore, staring intently into the seawater and a head emerged. It was the merman again. "Is he always that aggressive, even after he was being exiled into the Land of Charming a thousand year ago for being a disobedient turtle he always been?"
Still staring agape at him, he tossed his silky hair and laughed. His rich voice filled the silent surrounding. "Oh, let me introduce myself. I am Eduardo, King Howard's top one servant and confidant."
King Howard ruled the kingdom of turtle and Prince Norman, a.k.a. Mr No MinWoo, was his one and only son. Prince Norman was punished for always acting on impulse without thinking of the consequences others would bear and causing the death of his mother, Queen Jessie. The king missed his son dearly and wished he could return to his side again but he had to make sure his son had changed for the better before he could come back and rule the kingdom one day soon. Therefore, he purposely made Prince Charming and the prince to travel around the world to find Prince Charming's true love. If he managed to complete the quest, he would be welcome back to his kingdom again.
"Don't worry, Prince Charming is safe. He is being kidnapped by one of His Majesty's maids and as soon as His Highness is reunited with His Majesty, Prince Charming would be freed. And both of you will be escorted back to the Land of Charming for your wedding." The merman smiled as he ended his wonderful story-telling session and expected me to clap my hands and squealed like a girl who had just been promised a full set of Barbie dolls completed with clothes and shoes.
I blinked. None of these made any sense. What did King Howard, Prince Norman or Prince Charming had to do with me? I was just an ordinary person. How could I be a prince's true love? "I... He... What? How?" Great. I couldn't even form a proper sentence anymore.
"Um... Cylviana?" I turned around and saw a soaking wet Prince Charming sitting on top of Prince Norman's shell. Behind them, there were hundreds of merpeople escorts. He smiled weakly at me but I couldn't even curve my lips upwards and pretended to smile. It was more like a twitch. "Wow, you're really pretty. Even prettier than when I saw you underwater. You are really meant for me. We are really meant to be together. Your beauty and my handsome features will be an ideal look for our future children. Will you marry me? Will you be my soul mate? Will you bear my children?"
My breathing stopped. That was the most romantic verse anyone could have ever told me. NOT. I hated those cheesy pick-up lines, especially the one he just said. Fairy tales and happily-ever-after did not come to anyone with a snap of the fingers. I took a deep breath and looked him in the eyes. "Well, that escalated quickly. But, no. I barely know you and you have to work hard to prove yourself worthy. Ciao."
I fished my phone out of my pocket and to my amazement, my phone was not spoiled. I quickly texted my BFF and told her everything. Prince Charming tailed behind me, trying to court me with roses and romantic gifts and promises which would have won anyone's heart, but mine.
P.S. This post, as you might have realized by now, is written for your sake. I had written this more than two months ago but I had writer's block and didn't manage to finish the story until now. Hopefully you have fun reading this and no offences meant for anything I wrote. It was entirely fictional. And lastly, Happy a decade and a month and two days BFF anniversary, laling. I love you! Woooohoooo!
"Shut up, PC." His pet turned its pink head around and looked at him. For anyone who could see them now, it was really a strange sight. The boy was sitting on a comfortable green chair with a striking purple belt which was placed on a pink moving boulder and there was something like a turbo underneath the boulder. Not to mention, the boulder seemed to have four legs and a tail. And for those who had the sense to inspect further, they would come up close, take a look at the boulder and run off screaming. The pink boulder was a turtle. And it could talk.
~*~*~*~
A year later...
My head was spinning, I felt like I was floating and sinking at the same time, and to make the matter worse, I couldn't expand my lungs properly to take in oxygen. My hand landed on something slimy and gross so I forced my eyes to open. The scene in front of me literary took my breathe away. I mean, I really couldn't breathe. I was underwater and there was a merman in front of me.
I screamed but there were only bubbles coming out from my mouth. It was too late to shut my lips since saltwater had already entered my lungs. The merman lunged and grabbed me by my waist. I struggled and pushed him away but it was too late. My brain was screaming for air. I had to breathe. I had to take in oxygen. I would die if I didn't...
~*~*~*~
When I opened my eyes again, I was lying on the sand. I must had fallen asleep when I was tanning at the beach. Yet, there was no towel underneath me. Maybe I had forgotten to take it with me so I lied on the sand. My skin felt prickly as though the sand had stuck onto my skin. That was weird, I was dry so why would the sand stick onto my skin? I scratched my head in wonder and my hair was wet. Okay, what happened? As if on cue, a head emerged from the surface of the seawater and I gasped. It was the guy I saw in my dream. Or was it a dream? I stared hard into the seawater and I saw him flicking his tail. Merman. My jaws dropped and I had forgotten how to breathe.
"It's rude to stare, you know." The merman opened his mouth and talked to me. I would have fall if I wasn't sitting on the sand already. "Are you alright now?" He swam nearer to the shore and something extraordinary started to happen. A transformation was taking place right before my eyes. As his lower body left the seawater, his tail started to shrink and a pair of muscular legs were forming in replacement of the tail. In front of me stood a really gorgeous looking man, naked. I blinked and tried to keep my eyes on his face. If he was my Prince Charming, I would go and live in the sea with him for the rest of my lives. A face flashed in my mind and I came to my senses. In desperation, I stood up and rushed towards the seashore.
~*~*~*~
Few hours ago...
"HELP! PC has been kidnapped! Help, Cylviana!" A loud commotion was going on outside my lecture hall and I heard my name. Curious, I walked out from my class and saw something green and pink zigzagging up the stairs. Without warning, I was being knocked over and the thing which sat on top of me was a pink turtle. I screamed. "Shhh! Don't scream! Please come with me, I need your help! PC has been kidnapped!"
"What are you? And who the fuck is PC?"
"Just come with me, I'll explain as we go." He jumped down from me and told me to sit on the seat which was installed on top of his shell. I hesitated. He stared at me with great intensity that I had to oblige although I had doubts in my mind. I mean, a pink talking turtle with a seat on top of his shell? And oh my God, was that a turbo placed right near his tail? At that time, my best friend's voice flooded my mind.
"Your Prince Charming is coming... Riding a turtle... Installed this cool comfortable seat attached to the shell... Comes with a safety belt... Installed a turbo..."
My knees gave way and I fell right onto the seat. The pink turtle sped off after turning on the turbo. I felt as if it was a bizarre dream.
~*~*~*~
I came to know that the pink turtle was named after a famous K-Pop celebrity, No MinWoo, but he disliked the name and only responded to people who called him "Mr. No". He said that he looked nothing like that celebrity since he was way cuter and handsome than that Korean boy. I had to disagree, since that Korean celebrity was my K-Pop bias.
PC, short for Prince Charming, was his owner and he had been on a quest to search for his true love. There were a lot of accidents during the journey and they ended up gotten lost when travelling across the South China Sea because they had no sense of direction without the GPS.
A huge wave rolled over them and PC sunk to the bottom of the sea since he couldn't swim. Mr. No couldn't save him because the seat had light buoyancy so it floated on the water instead of sinking. Therefore, he went to search for PC's true love and need her help to rescue him instead. And according to Mr. No, PC's true love would be me.
~*~*~*~
"Uh... True love?" I sat upright on the seat and hoped I heard wrong. Mr. No nodded earnestly. "I don't even know this... this PC... and you're telling me that I'm his true love? That's... That's impossible. That's bullshit. I don't believe in true love."
"Even there's a lie in a believe, my dear." Mr. No started with his word of wisdom again. "You may not believe, but deep down inside your heart, you are hoping and wishing that there will be a speck of truth in what I told you."
I remained silent, partly because I didn't know how to reply him and partly because what he said was true. We reached the shore and he requested me to unbuckle the seat from his shell so he could swim better. I told him I couldn't swim and I'd died drowning if I slipped off from his shell. In the end, he gave up trying to convince me to take off the seat. I knew why he was so desperate to get rid of the seat. I'd rather die if I was found having a bed stuck onto my back, with pillows and blankets attached.
As we just started to cross the sea, something jumped out from the sea and stroke me on the face. I was hurled into the water as the belt snapped in half due to the strong force. Struggling to keep myself afloat, I saw Mr. No was being (I kid you not) tail-flapped and sent hurling towards the shore. He lost conscious immediately and I was screaming while drinking the salty seawater. A beautiful-looking lady with the lower body of a fish was glaring at me. I was staring at a mermaid.
~*~*~*~
She threw something directly into my mouth as I was screaming and I choked on the slimy item. Then she pulled me underwater, towards the bottom of the shore. My eyes were adjusting from the limited light under the sea and I saw a human figure was being bound and gagged. PC. That was the first name which came across my mind. The mermaid pulled me over and threw me onto him. I landed softly on top of him and I wriggled few inches away, so I wouldn't press onto him fully. He opened his eyes and turned his face towards me. He took my breath away.
It was only then I realized I could breathe underwater. Was it because of the thing that mermaid fed me just now? My eyes darted towards her and I heard her talking. "I heard that you are his true love. But I have fallen in love with this human and I want to marry him. If you agree to let us be together, I will reward you with another of my kind." Without waiting for my agreement, she punched my stomach and I vomited the thing she put in my mouth just now. My brain started to scream for oxygen.
~*~*~*~
"Argh!" A scream brought me back to reality. I turned and saw Mr. No headbutting the merman back into the sea again. He came to my side immediately and demanded me to take off the seat from his shell. I did what he told me to and he rushed into the sea, leaving me alone.
I was standing awkwardly by the shore, staring intently into the seawater and a head emerged. It was the merman again. "Is he always that aggressive, even after he was being exiled into the Land of Charming a thousand year ago for being a disobedient turtle he always been?"
Still staring agape at him, he tossed his silky hair and laughed. His rich voice filled the silent surrounding. "Oh, let me introduce myself. I am Eduardo, King Howard's top one servant and confidant."
~*~*~*~
King Howard ruled the kingdom of turtle and Prince Norman, a.k.a. Mr No MinWoo, was his one and only son. Prince Norman was punished for always acting on impulse without thinking of the consequences others would bear and causing the death of his mother, Queen Jessie. The king missed his son dearly and wished he could return to his side again but he had to make sure his son had changed for the better before he could come back and rule the kingdom one day soon. Therefore, he purposely made Prince Charming and the prince to travel around the world to find Prince Charming's true love. If he managed to complete the quest, he would be welcome back to his kingdom again.
~*~*~*~
"Don't worry, Prince Charming is safe. He is being kidnapped by one of His Majesty's maids and as soon as His Highness is reunited with His Majesty, Prince Charming would be freed. And both of you will be escorted back to the Land of Charming for your wedding." The merman smiled as he ended his wonderful story-telling session and expected me to clap my hands and squealed like a girl who had just been promised a full set of Barbie dolls completed with clothes and shoes.
I blinked. None of these made any sense. What did King Howard, Prince Norman or Prince Charming had to do with me? I was just an ordinary person. How could I be a prince's true love? "I... He... What? How?" Great. I couldn't even form a proper sentence anymore.
"Um... Cylviana?" I turned around and saw a soaking wet Prince Charming sitting on top of Prince Norman's shell. Behind them, there were hundreds of merpeople escorts. He smiled weakly at me but I couldn't even curve my lips upwards and pretended to smile. It was more like a twitch. "Wow, you're really pretty. Even prettier than when I saw you underwater. You are really meant for me. We are really meant to be together. Your beauty and my handsome features will be an ideal look for our future children. Will you marry me? Will you be my soul mate? Will you bear my children?"
My breathing stopped. That was the most romantic verse anyone could have ever told me. NOT. I hated those cheesy pick-up lines, especially the one he just said. Fairy tales and happily-ever-after did not come to anyone with a snap of the fingers. I took a deep breath and looked him in the eyes. "Well, that escalated quickly. But, no. I barely know you and you have to work hard to prove yourself worthy. Ciao."
I fished my phone out of my pocket and to my amazement, my phone was not spoiled. I quickly texted my BFF and told her everything. Prince Charming tailed behind me, trying to court me with roses and romantic gifts and promises which would have won anyone's heart, but mine.
P.S. This post, as you might have realized by now, is written for your sake. I had written this more than two months ago but I had writer's block and didn't manage to finish the story until now. Hopefully you have fun reading this and no offences meant for anything I wrote. It was entirely fictional. And lastly, Happy a decade and a month and two days BFF anniversary, laling. I love you! Woooohoooo!
Hahaha!! Thanks for the dedication! Love you! :D
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