The lake

The author

~ Abdullah.M

Main Characters:-

1) Julie: wife of Marcus

2) Marcus: husband of julie

Near an ancient sacred cathedral in Alaska, in a small beautiful cottage a Lovely couple lives

The cottage was covered in ivy, much like a husband's love for his wife.

It all started on November 1st 2000

Julie and Marcus got married, their love had always been unconditional they met in University in L.A when they fell in love on first sight. Their marriage was simple and held in Alaska where they both decided to live after their university studies over even though Julie was rich and had her parents money along with her degree in finance could had given her a nice job in L.A.

In Alaska

Since Marcus was broke, they decided to spend their honeymoon at a lake in a remote area

I love this lake Marcus! "Julie exclaimed with great excitement and joy"

Marcus said "yeah,had you ever been here before?"

Julie said with extreme sorrow "yeah... With my parents when I was 15" tear dropped from her opal eyes

Marcus said to her while he hugged her "calm down. Let's not remember that they are in a really good place now"

Marcus then gave her a tissue paper to wipe off her tears.

Julie said while wiping her tear with tissue paper in subdued voice"yeah, let's go for boating anyways"

Marcus said "yeah sure"

Julie and marcus sat on boat

As they reached the middle of the lake.

The sudden silence of the water.

The boat started rocking despite the absence of wind

Marcus noticing something in water but suddenly,

Boat started trembling

Julie screamed and asked," What is happening Marcus?!"

Marcus exclaimed with extreme fear "I don't even know myself!!"

They started losing balance and slowly the boat started sinking good thing they both knew swimming but in that hurdle Julie's engagement ring fell in water she didn't know that but they both reached shore (fully wet)

"yeah HoNeY mOoN , that's what I deserved" Julie said with a disappointing voice

"come-on babe... I didn't do that"Marcus said with a convincing voice

Julie exclaimed with anger and said

"I know, I shouldn't have been there at the first place, should have said no!! I forgot that this place was loved by my deceased parents and coming here would probably my mistake and and and..."

"you need to calm down, it's not that much of a big deal and your parents had nothing to do with this damn incident, let's go home" Marcus said while hugging her.

Marcus took her to their car which was some meters away from the lake.

Marcus drove the car and the road surrounded with tall trees was looking spine-chilling.

They reached home after an hour drive.

After arriving home, Julie went right to bed to rest. Marcus comforted her with a warm hug, staying by her side until they both fell asleep.

Julie woke up early,and looked at Marcus with a smile who was still sleeping, she went to kitchen and prepared breakfast for him and herself

She made avocado toast for herself and french toast for her husband

Her husband woke up and went to kitchen and asked Julie what is she cooking

Julie said with a warm smile"an avocado toast for myself and french toast for you"

All was normal until Julie looked at Marcus's eyes which were disturbing because those were complete red like they are filled with blood or all blood vessels in his eyes blasted

she exclaimed with shock and said

"what happened to your eyes Marcus !!"

Marcus said "what?"

Julie yelled"GO AND LOOK IN THE DAMN MIRROR!!!"