Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
“When the Juranian author, Romulus Adelmund, was still teaching Edanian in school, he requested his students to translate a line from a book-the ‘I love you’ the male character blurted when he was strolling under the moonlight with the female character. His students translated word by word, but Romulus thought there was no flavor to it. He believed ‘the moon tonight sure is beautiful’ was a better translation. It was gentle, subtle, and touching, and it merged the love into the moonlight that the two basked in.”
“It is indeed beautiful.”
Callum smiled gently after catching her intention.
“If someone tells you ‘the moon tonight sure is beautiful’, it means that they love you, and if you happen to reciprocate the feeling, you can reply with ‘and the wind is gentle too’, meaning I like you just as much.”
“I understand now,”
said Callum thoughtfully, leading the young woman to sigh.
“What have you understood?”
At that, Callum cupped Elspeth’s cheeks and riveted his eyes on her while saying,
“The wind is gentle too.”
A Cupid’s arrow struck the young woman’s heart at once.
She blinked her eyes, looking as bewildered as an innocent girl.
The couple had forgotten they were still filming a scene at this point, and Callum lowered his head to plant a gentle kiss on her lips.
The kiss was devout, passionate, and intoxicating.
Meanwhile, a breeze blew against Elspeth’s hair, tickling Callum as it brushed against his face.
“I love you, Callum,”
declared Elspeth emotionally to receive an even more passionate kiss in return.
As the kiss ended, Elspeth was panting slightly as she leaned in his arms.
“Alright, we still have a scene to shoot.”
With that, she rocked the boat suddenly and deliberately fell into the lake.
She flopped around in the water and shouted for help a few times before getting ready to reach her hand out to Callum so that he could pull her up. But the next second, something odd suddenly grabbed her leg and yanked her deeper into the water.
A long while had passed, and Callum began sensing something wasn’t right when Elspeth still hadn’t surfaced from the water.
By right, the young woman wouldn’t pull such jokes on him, especially in deep waters and late at night.
The rowboat had already taken them to the center of the lake at this point, and the crew at the shore couldn’t even see them, so shouting for help wouldn’t do much at all.
Their only way of communicating with the crew would be through the video cameras around them. With that, Callum waved at them to draw the crew’s attention.
Meanwhile, at the shore, excitement surrounded the crew as they shied away from Elspeth and Callum’s passionate kiss. Amongst everyone, Yelena probably reacted the most dramatically to the scene as she gushed,
“Oh, sweet baby Jesus! No, they’re so sweet together! Ah, I can’t take it anymore! Calysie forever!”
Contrasting to Yelena’s excitement was Eric’s sadness as a hint of frustration flashed across his eyes when he saw the two leaning in each other’s arms.
Max, on the other hand, patted Yelena’s head and said,
“Keep it together, will you? You’re still a girl.”
“Why should I? It’s not like I don’t get to experience this. Blake and I have a kissing scene too!”
Max instantly turned grim, recollecting the fact that Yelena and his brother indeed had a kiss scene.
“Will that be your first kiss?”
“Yeah, it’ll be my first on-screen kiss. I guess it will have to be Blake’s-hey!”
The young man yanked Yelena to him and attacked her lips before she could even finish her sentence.
“What the heck, Winthrop?!”
Panic enveloped her face as she wiped her lips.
“I’m just preparing you to kiss a guy in case you get all shy in front of the camera.”
Max bulled so justifiably that Yelena couldn’t do anything despite feeling exasperated.
“Well, since you’ve already kissed me, will you be my boyfriend?”
“We’ll see,”
said the young man, cool as a cucumber. She was livid as she wanted nothing more than to mangle him.
Suddenly, Aiden shrieked, stopping the two from arguing further.
“What is it?”
they asked as they approached the director, who quirked his lips as he looked at the blank monitor screen.
“Now what? The camera’s dead. Who knows if we can salvage the shot just now?”
“Well, I guess we can only reshoot.”
Yelena spread her arms out with resignation.
“Besides, scenes like these aren’t difficult to shoot, and I get to ship my couple a few more times.”
Just then, Eric lifted his head.
“Should we tell them to come back, then?”
“One can destroy everything but marriage.”
The young woman rolled her eyes at him.
“It’s not like they’ll get lost. Why ruin their moment when it’s such a perfect chance for a date?”
At that, Eric nodded gloomily, saying no more. However, he still snuck away, put a lifejacket on, and drove a boat toward the couple.
They’re not getting their chances, not on my watch!
Back at the center of the lake, Callum knew the cameras were likely broken when zaps came from inside of them.
Elspeth was last seen about a foot away from the rowboat. Callum gritted his teeth, removed his jacket and shoes, and jumped straight into the water.
However, there was no one there.
Could Elspeth have sunken to the bottom of the lake?
Callum wasn’t an expert swimmer, and he had difficulty diving further down the lake. In fact, his limbs began feeling numb when he went three feet down the water.
Elspeth had clearly jumped into the water. There’s no way she could’ve disappeared into thin air just like that!
With that, he swam around, and just as he wanted to return to the boat, he felt a stinging sensation coming from his leg that forced him further down the lake. Sh*t, a cramp!
He frowned, for even a professional swimming instructor would fear a cramp underwater, but there was no one else around at this time, and he would only swallow a few mouthfuls of the lake water even if he called for help.
As panic-stricken as he felt right then, he couldn’t do anything but allow himself to sink further down.
Suddenly, an arm extended toward him and wrapped around his waist.
Surprised, Callum looked up and found a steadfast Eric, who rolled his eyes as he dragged Callum back to the surface with difficulty.
