Lost & Found ✔ ~ trixya

Calm Under The Waves

15 and a half years ago

They didn't speak for a while after that day, the conversation weighing heavily on both their hearts. Despite not knowing each other long, they weren't the same people when they weren't around eachother. Those weeks was their first taste of being apart and it felt for both girls as if a piece of them was missing. 

Trixie walked down to the edge of the water, closing her eyes as she felt the sand move beneath her feet. Her bare feet moved closer to the ocean, right down to where the water drowned the sand. The ocean waves were crashing, so loudly that she was certain that no one would hear her if she called out to them.

She let her worries wash away just as the water brushed away the grains of sand on her feet. A quiet breeze was in the air, and it along with the cold water felt like a reminder that she was alive. On the horizon she could see a boat passing by and she wondered for a minute what it would be like to sail away on it, what it was like to go wherever the waves carried you.

Trixie had always loved the ocean, spending much of her childhood dreaming of being a mermaid. In the lake near their old home she'd splash around and sing Part Of Your World as she pretended to be Ariel, feeling trapped in a similar way as The Little Mermaid had. 

But lakes could not match the beauty of the ocean. The green-grey waters were no match for the endless deep blue sea. The muddy soil no match for the clarity of a calm ocean with soft sand underneath it. Under lakes there was only mud and the dangerous stems of pretty water lilies, but the ocean, the ocean had a calm under it's waves and entire kingdoms yet to be discovered. 

She loved the serenity it brought her, and she needed that more than anything now, even if she could not let herself sink and be completely emerged by it's cold water. She needed the comfort, needed her mind cleared and her lungs to be able to breathe freely, the salty air fueling her with new energy. 

"Barbie!" She heard a faint voice call, but the waves were muffling most of the noise.

Had she turned around, she would've seen Katya running down from where she had parked her bike, pulling off her shoes and socks so she could run into the water.

"You gotta get out or you'll get sick!" Katya yelled as she moved closer to the shore.

"What?" Trixie yelled back, surprised that the girl was even interacting with her again. Katya stepped closer, not stopping until she could speak normally again.

"I said; you'll get sick, the water's fucking freezing." 

"Why do you care? You haven't spoken to me in weeks." Trixie said.

"You're my friend." Katya simply answered, not wanting to let herself reveal what she really felt for the doll. "Look, I'm sorry I've been acting weird, but you've seriously gotta go get warm. Now come on, Barbie." 

"Okay mom." The pink-haired girl joked.

"Trix, just let me be worried about you."

Trixie didn't say anything more then and instead just followed Katya back up to the dry sand, letting her feet dry off in the sand before she put on her socks and shoes again. They rode back home together once again that day, Trixie's arms wrapped tightly around the bikers waist until they reached her house, and then it seemed as if someone hit a reset button. The song was never discussed, nor the day they'd started talking again, instead they just returned to how they'd been before Trixie sang the song, both loving each other from the shadows of the crowds, and neither one saying a word about it.