Replaced Wife of my first love

Chapter 22

Zian's Pov:

After finishing my work, when I came back to the cottage, I saw she was sleeping. A smile was on my face seeing her baby face, I caressed her hair, and she stirred a bit.

"You, when did you come," she asked in her sleepy voice when she woke up.

"A few minutes ago, I think you had a refreshing nap and you look energized too," I replied to her.

"Yeah, What's the time," she asked me and rubbed her eyes.

"It's 5 in the evening wanna go out for boating," I asked her.

"Sach me, okay give me five minutes, I'll freshen up," she said rushing towards the bathroom, Lie, lie, lie, I know how much time she'll take.

After making me wait for fifteen minutes she said, "I'm ready," to which I replied with a chuckle, "You shouldn't have said five," but I was awestruck looking at the beauty in front of me, she looked beautiful in both Western and in traditional outfits.

"This was the fastest that I got ready," she said annoyed, "Alright, let's go now," I said and we both went to the lake area.

"I got fat," she said when she wore the Life jacket, I grind and zipped her jacket and she moved to be towards the boat, "careful," I uttered when she was about to slip.

"There are so many fishes, I love the way they came towards us," she said making her eyes widen in amazement.

"Yeah, they are, you like fishes?" I asked her looking at her expression, and then we sat in one of the boats.

"Yes, I like them, once I had two goldfishes one was Goldie and the other one was Pebbles, I called her Pebbles cause she always was on the ground of the glass container, she was cute though, but my favourite was Goldie, she had something that attracted me, I loved her way too much but then I was hospitalized, I was suffering from typhoid and jaundice,  when I came back my fishes were not healthy as they were before, After few days pebbles died, at first I thought, she is laying on the ground like it's her habit, but when she didn't move, my father told me she died. I was not at all fine, I controlled myself not to cry but tears did find their way, after a few days I saw Goldie was also not okay, it looked like she was missing pebbles, so I thought to add a few fishes. But then days were passing by and it was Goldie's birthday, I was playing with her the whole day but the next morning, the unexpected thing happened, Goldie was found dead, she was just a year old and was now dead, I wasn't able to accept the fact, I broke down, my tears didn't stop, my parents consoled me a lot and my dad then buried goldie in our garden, my fishes are gone, their memory lives on," she said and had a tear that flowed from her eyes and she quickly wiped her tears.

"They were lucky to have you as their owner and best friend," I said giving her a side hug. I looked around to see we crossed the half of the lake.

"I think made the mood gloomy," she said with a sad chuckle.

"No, you didn't, btw look at those mountains, it looks beautiful," I said trying to change the atmosphere.

"Yeah, there is snow too, It is my first time seeing snow," she said astonished.

"Then we'll go there after boating," I said and she grinned happily, I tucked her hair which was falling on her face.  A soft song the boatsman was playing.

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