Eddie's Journey

Chapter One

Once, there was a water drop - his name was Eddie - who was floating in the sea. On a beautiful day, I guess it was sometime in May, he met a small fish which was so gorgeous that Eddie was just tongue-tied. The abundance of colours created a cheerfulness that vastly fascinated everyone in the near environment. Eddie, already feeling pretty nervous,couldn’t afford to get into a conversation with a stranger and thus began bouncing around hectically.

But the fish didn’t feel hindered because of Eddie’s behaviour and just swam across the next sea plant to introduce itself to Eddie. “Hey, I’m Shawn!,” he said, “how ‘r things going?”... Eddie, still being taken by surprise and having a touch of anxiety, didn’t really know that to answer but squeezed out a little “Well, couldn’t be better...” and went on swimming nervously around. “Doesn’t really seem so,” responded the fish, “you seem a little uptight...” - “I, ehm” - “... and maybe a little overexcited?” - “Well... ehm...,” stuttered Eddie, not really knowing what to say. “I’m going on a journey...” - “What kind of journey?” asked the fish, “I see you guys travelling in the sea all day long, so that’s why I’m asking”. Eddie couldn’t use this conversation by no means but now he had to speak out what depressed him the last couple of weeks. In fact, he felt a little bit happy, now to have this opportunity and share his inner fears. “Frankly speaking, I’m going on a long journey - I’ll leave the sea, and I can’t really  state I’m happy to..” - “Leave the sea..?” interrupted the fish, “nobody can leave the sea as long as you don’t have wings” - “that’s not right” said Eddie with a hint of a sigh in his voice - “Come on..,” said the fish grinning, “I assure you it is, I just learned that in physics. It’s because of gravitation - everything that has  mass is pulled down to the earth.” Eddie started laughing and he said to the fish: ”Then this is gonna be a big day for you.” He rounded off his sentence with a big smile and continued: “If something pretty energized hits me, it can lift me to very high altitudes”. “Makes sense”, admitted the fish. “Was nice meeting you,” said Eddie, totally interrupting the flow of conversation. “Wait what?”, said the fish, totally surprised by the sudden ending of their talk. “Well, I gotta go now” said Eddie promptly, “I would like to stay but I couldn’t choose the time. They don’t have any schedules whatsoever - it’s absolutely randomized.” - “Ah, I see. Will you come back?” asked the fish, apparently satisfied with the explanation Eddie gave him before. “I really don’t know,” said Eddie and swam around the fish. He usually did that because he was obviously too small for a proper hug. “See you!” said Eddie and was suddenly hit by a beam of light. He shot upwards and out of the water like a bullet blurring with the air so the fish couldn’t see him anymore. 

He didn't feel jealous but excited. And there was that inner feeling of loneliness; they just became friends and were separated unexpectedly - that was what made him sad.