Love Ness Creature

Love Ness Creature




Being dizzy of her routinities at home as a housewife, Heather McClahan needed the fresh air. Her husband, Sheldon, was too busy with his work because their little boy needed the nutritious foods as all the babies did. He worked all day long and sometimes until the late night. Otherwise, Heather was also busy with the home and, of course, the child. The world seemed very different with their life before the marriage.


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Heather held the lovely boy with her right hand while the other locked the house's front door. She planed to go out for a picnic with her son that evening. His husband couldn't join them for that termenduous plan but he suggested them to go not far from the house. There's a beautiful lake a mile away from their home. But don't be too close with the water, he said.

Ah, there they were. Heather took a long breath for the fresh air upon the lake, Loch Ness. It's a seemed deep and calm large water place. It's so colorful of blue and green from the sky and the plants on it's edge. It's misty a little but it's still fine for a brief picnic.

" Now Darling, it's your first picnic and also your first time I bring you to our Scotland's famous lake", said Heather to the boy in her lap while she unpacked the foods.

The boy looked at her with his round eyes. It's the time when Heather always can't stand to kiss his pink cheeks.

" Your father is so mean. He loves his job more than us, right?, sometimes I think so...," she said," and when he's back home from work, he thinks that he is the only tired person in the world!". Her fingers were busy, playing with Harry's nose while she kept on talking.

Not a long time after that, Harry cried and Heather was sure that it's not because of her muttering. Harry loved to hear voices. Heather gave him a bottleful of milk. He didn't really like cow milk but it seemed that he's already too hungry to protest. He's a very good kid, anyhow. Look at his innocent face, Heather...look at him.

" You're everything my dreams have seen, but what are dreams.... I'm walking where my dreams have been, but tell me what are dreams...?", hummed Heather. She had had dreams that seemed fading away as her marriage walking through the time.

She had had dreams that she couldn't reach, but then she seemed to catch something in her dreams that could be saved.It's for Harry..., what she and her husband had done in all those last months. Hmm, the annoying of her husband's business and her own routinities at home had gone away.... She remembered at a night after a bad storm and Sheldon hadn't arrived home yet. Fog was too thick, it seemed that black and grey were the only colours in the world. And when Sheldon had been seen on the home yard, she had nothing to wish.

Suddenly, the eight months old boy on her lap clapped his hands and then pointed his fingers toward lake where then Heather saw a big big long necked creature with three humps on its back rose through the green surface of water.

" Loch Ness' Nessy...", hissed Heather. She felt herself just like a lump of clay. Stiff but weak. The only thing in her mind was keeping her son stay in her rounded arms. The creature over there was not far from the edge, she could see more than half of its body, it's dark and surely gigantic. Lucky!, Heather and her son weren't so close with the lake.

It got a few time after the Nessy gone away to make Heather found her wit back.

" Harry...", she stared," that legend was here, many people really wish to be in our place. But now I understand that I have -we have- other Nessy. We have Lake of Love, and your father is its guardian. We have no legend but Love Ness," she said haltily. She tried to stand on her still-trembling feet.

" Let's go home Baby," she whispered. She threw her sight to the lake for the last time and smiled," I wish you will have a true Loch too,"

" It's awful eh. But I would rather see that creature again than waiting your father back home in a stormy night for one more time...," murmured Heather while walking home.


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