My first post on Account Booster/ The island's treasure/ short storie by @gilliatt

Hello friends #stemians of the #accountbooster community, attending an invitation made by friends of @team-srilanka, I bring you this story of my entire authorship, which I wrote a while ago when I met a beautiful girl with a color of eyes that I still cannot distinguish and that his gaze marked me forever.

I hope you like it and they accept me in this beautiful community, that despite the language barrier, I really like meeting people from all over the world, and not just those standard models that Holliwood and large corporations leave us with.

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The island's treasure

She is like that, always thinking, out of reality, trapped in her quest to find that lost world that we abandon when we become adults, and we find that reality.

But she does not, she delights in her dreams, does not allow anyone to distract her, the great problems of life, for her are that: "life's problems, not hers."
She is Valerin, our brave dreamer, just past 30 years old.

I met her one afternoon in a port in Europe, I was going to pick up a package that was sent to me from South America, when I got on board and she said: "If you need something from those distant lands, let me know, I'll bring it to you."

I watched her get on her sailboat and set sail for any place, in search of who knows what adventures, it was the first time I saw her.

I kept thinking, why this adorable creature had noticed me, or at least had come down from the place where she was, to make that comment so absurd, so nonsensical.

But it would not take long for destiny to cross our lives again, and this time it would be in a way that would mark us forever.

A few months have passed since that first meeting, but in my mind and in my heart, those green eyes, almost honey-colored, had nested, something like, I don't know what color, but they made me fall in love.

We had traveled to Venezuela, to a small city in the east of that country, called Cumaná, when we found ourselves in that old port, in that old city, then I learned that it was the first city founded by the Spanish empire on that continent, around 1492.

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My cousin Eliecer and I were looking for some documents that would prove our relationship with our grandfather, that old adventurer who died, leaving all the money in the world, but who had not left a single document that proved that we had any family ties with him, and that soon all that fortune would pass into the hands of charity.

We were in that port where he worked a good part of his life and where everyone talked about him as a great sailor or a great liar, depending on who we asked.

Suddenly I saw her, she was standing at the customs, processing her departure again to disappear like that time, in the sea. I asked myself, how on earth could I find that woman in such a remote, distant place, and precisely she, the owner of those eyes. I knew that it could not be by chance and I told myself that this time I was not going to allow her to leave just like that, at least without even talking to her, maybe I would even dare to confess to her how long her eyes were in my thoughts, until that moment.

I approached her, like a pirate with the intention of surprising her and taking advantage of the surprise factor, but suddenly, she turned to me and I froze seeing those eyes that now not seemed to me to be neither green nor honey, but rather like grey, perhaps because of the rage that she had, since they were not letting her sail as a result of an approaching storm.

That night I invited her to dinner and perhaps because she was so far away and so alone she accepted my invitation. I had said goodbye to my cousin who was accompanying me and told him that I would see him the next day at the hotel, although I did so only to show off, to annoy him.

It was a very simple dinner, we ate some recipe from those lands, very strange, but exquisite, that's when she told me, that the best thing in life is to arrive at a totally unknown port, and taste totally unknown food, from totally unknown people, it is there where life surprises you, in every smell, in every taste and above all in how each specimen of that they call the "human race" treats you.

After that she told me a very strange story about an island that had a fresh water lake inside it and at the bottom of that lake were some of the most beautiful treasures, hidden by some sailors or pirates, because they were cursed. And that this island was barely ten days' sailing from the port where we were staying and that a single person could not visit that island without running the risk of being trapped by the curse. Even though she did not believe much in that legend, I was very much afraid of going alone and being trapped, without anyone ever knowing where their bones had ended up.

She asked me to accompany her through the city the next day, and so, without further ado, we said goodbye.

The next morning I went down to the hotel reception and found a note, in it she told me to look for her at the port at the end of the morning, that she wanted to make me a proposal, that would change my life.

Without thinking much about it, I went to the port, where she was indeed waiting for me. After saying hello, she signaled me to follow her in silence, which I did, since I was increasingly intrigued by that beautiful creature. I followed her, I think that if she had walked down the stairs to the same hell, I would have continued walking in silence, such was the attraction I felt for her.

She walked in side of me to an old church in the center of the city, there after greeting the priest, she led me to his residence and there we began to talk.

She told me that for days a stranger had been following her and that she was concerned for her safety, please help her get rid of him until the morning after she leaves to prevent anyone from following her on her adventure.

So we came up with a plan, where she would stay at night in our hotel, and in the early morning I would take her secretly to the port so she could set sail without any risk. She told me that many things were at stake on her new trip, including many riches, and that I should not worry, because if everything went according to plan, I would be very well rewarded.

That night she went to our hotel, giving me a big kiss on the mouth at the reception to take me by the elevator to my room. Once there, everything went back to normal, he got serious and apologized for that fake kiss, which when I remember it shakes my whole being.

It was three o'clock in the morning when she woke me up telling me it was time to leave, so I jumped up and we snuck out through the back of the hotel. So we arrived at the port, and when we were saying goodbye, I saw how it was moving away towards the sailboat, as well as too a silhouette that was moving behind she, I followed them and when the subject was about to pounce on she, I took an impulse and with a push the man ended up in the sea, The waves shook him and he disappeared, it was then when I saw in the distance, a band of men who were rushing at us, we ran towards the sailboat and we sailed praying to God that no shot would reach us, when we got up I felt a blow and I fell into the sailboat, it is the last thing I remember.

I woke up because of the swaying of the waves in the middle of the storm, these reached up to eight meters and lifted that small sailboat almost to the sky, then I felt like it was bursting until it almost broke with the surface of the water, I never liked sailing, but while I was remembering what happened the previous night, and I was placing myself in the current situation, it was when I realized where I was and more importantly, with whom.

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I watched her for a long time, admiring how such a beautiful creature maneuvered over the storm, moving from one side of the sailboat to the other, undeterred, as if she was born for that, I am sure that three normal sailors would not. I have been able to weather that storm with such dexterity and skill, considering how delicate her figure is, in the midst of that storm.

I realized that with each maneuver of this beautiful creature, I was more in love with her, I no longer cared about the storm, the wealth, the old man's fortune, or my return, I only thought of her in her eyes that changed color according to the occasion.

After the storm we began to make a summary of the damage, and we concluded with great regret, that apart from some cookies and preserves, we only had the blue sea and our souls, for that unique adventure.

But that was not just any woman, in those days Valerin showed all her skills, not only in fishing and surviving in the sea, but also showed her qualities by giving me all the care when I was shot in the middle of the race to save our lives, and that the bullet had lodged in my shoulder, causing me to lose consciousness on that blessed sailboat.

At dawn on the fifth day, already in better conditions, I set out to help my beautiful companion, to which she told me to rest and try to recover, that we were going to need that energy when we arrived at the island of the lagoon, as she called it, to forget about all those macho complexes and that there were two sailors there, not a gentleman and a lady, as I had been sown by that sick society from which we came.

From then on the trip became more peaceful, we began to talk in confidence and I discovered that this woman had a serious problem with society, and that all that search for adventure was nothing more than an escape from all that she hated so much.

Almost without realizing it, we arrived at the island, in the middle of a second storm that shook us all night long, in our small ship, and that when we arrived at the island's grounds it became so violent that we ended up crashing on the cliffs, there we could see how at that moment, That small ship broke into a thousand pieces so we had to swim, or rather she was dragging me along the surface, preventing me from drowning, since my wound was still very fresh and it was still very difficult for me to swim, so as we could, we reached the shore.

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That night, in total darkness, perhaps the darkest of all nights, I felt her naked body on top of me, trying to warm me between the chills of fever and a terrible cold, perhaps the most horrible I have ever felt, I clung to his body as the only lifeline.

The next morning we walked towards the center of the island and began to put ourselves in situation; We were on a desert island, who knows how many nautical miles from civilization, alone, with nothing but the rags that we were left after the shipwreck and the uncertainty of how we would get out of there.

That morning I collected some fruits while Valerin rescued from the shipwreck some fishing implements and some materials to build a shelter for the night, there, without further ado we ate as we could, that's when she told me that we were very far from the navigation routes and that it would be a long time before we would see the face of any mortal, apart from us.

But she was wrong, the next morning we saw a sailboat on the horizon, approaching the island where we thought we would be trapped for a long time, I began to scream and jump despite my wound, until I felt a hand that closed my mouth after a sign of silence, I understood everything, I understood that in all that time those men from whom we escaped that night from the port, had followed us to that island, and that surely if they found us, that island would be our grave forever.

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So we hid and just watched them, while these modern pirates went around the island and piled up in a makeshift cabin those treasures that Valerin had told me about and that were the cause of that strange adventure we were living.

This is how that second night of castaways and fugitives passed, since we kept well hidden, observing their every move, at that moment Valerin made a sign for me to come closer, saying: (Now everyone is in the lagoon, drunk, celebrating the discovery of the treasure, on the sailboat there is the viewpoint, taking care of the boat, the moment it leaves to do anything, we'll take the ship and leave them here to their own luck, so don't let your guard down).
It was at that moment, when we saw two sailors calling the lookout and he was going with them after a bottle of rum.

We approached the sailboat with all the caution in the world, we got on board and quickly Valerín gave me some indications, since this boat was larger and she could not maneuver it alone without my help. We released the moorings and when we hoisted the sail we saw how they ran terrified to the shore shooting like crazy, but it was too late, Valerin had already taken control of the ship and we were moving through the Pacific Ocean, leaving those Freshwater pirates, desperates on that desert island.

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Once we were safe, Valerin approached me kissing me with the same passion that she put into everything she did, and for a second I felt rise and fall from the same sky, every time I felt his breath on my face. After several passionate kisses, Valerín stopped for a moment to regret that we had left that island in such a hurry, that we could not bring back any jewels from that immense treasure, but deep down, I knew that I had found the greatest treasure of all those who had that blessed island.

The end

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