Sitting along side the pool of murky water, fishing rod in hand, you feel contentment towards life while focused on the calm waters. Besides you sat two beautiful women chatting away in a matter of fact tone about life, choices and the acceptance of what is.
Either you join the conversation from time to time, or a certain intensity in their voice caught your attention, pieces of the story slowly drifted into your mind.
“If you think you'll not have any regret at all, none whatsoever”
“Only then can you leave him”
“He's got potential, more than you”
“If he pairs up with another girl, they'll surpass you soon”
“Because the limiting factor is him, whereas you…”
“You'll be limited by your new partner”
“And I can see, no matter what, he'll be on the top one day”
“Even if you pair up with a top dancer…”
I felt the faint movement of the rod, indicating a shrimp biting the bait. For a moment, I flirted with the shrimp, playing, luring it in, making it think that the bait is actually alive and running. Playing with its instinct to chase… to chase whatever it cannot get.
With a flip of the hand, I drove the hook deep into its flesh… the fishing rod felt heavy and I heard the girls scream in delight.
“Yeah, but after that incident, he's attitude changed compeltely”
“He's not nice towards me anymore”
“Of course he's cold towards you”
“Guys don't like to be limited or nagged”
“When you two first started there's that chemistry”
“But nagging… guys can't take it. It's their nature. Right Pete?”
You nodded
You said that it make your whole body heats up, and it takes the man of men to not react especially towards a non love interest.
“I mean, fuck, would you stand all the nagging from someone you don't even like normally?
“See? It's the same for me. How did you think my previous partner treated me?”
“Him too, he treated me like a queen when we first started together.”
Your gaze drift to him… You don't know how to describe it, but you feel a total sense of respect. He's not rich, nor is he the top dancer of the world. However, his composure and the non charlant air about him with a smirk and a half jokingly way of speaking that sounds serious. His almost chidish character which you can see at first sight caused by the hardship he endured during his life.
“Ok, say for instance now you take one of your student as your partner instead”
“You wouldn't like how he'd follow your every command would you?”
“You want someone with character, his own mind”
“That is what dancing is all about.”
“I used to nag him all the time as well”
“But I've grown… especially after one incident”
“He just, took off”
“He dissappeared for a whole month, no contact with anyone he knew”
“He abandoned dancing completly”
“Finally, after a month, he appeared back home”
“And it took all our teachers and parent's persuation to make him come back into dancing again”
“Since then, I've learnt and grown.”
“You have to learn and grow too.”
“The time is better used for practicing instead of arguing”
At this moment, you wonder about just how close your two teachers are. They live together, have sex together, spend their days together and they even cook for each other… but they are not lovers. Perhaps once, they were, but that is caused by the proximity of the bodies. You understand that very well youself. Pretending to love each other while on the dance floor, will often carry on off the floor. Humans cannot tell, truth from pretense, because we can feel it either way.
They are togehter, becaues everything they do, will affect the other person. Cursed by god to be together, yet shares no love for each other. This is their partnership.