Candy's Story: Part 6

The treachery of the sea began showing its ugly face. Aperture waged a war on three ends. The first was against the inhabitants of the world he lived in. They totally abandoned him for they felt that Candy had brought upon them a curse that disrupted their fragile bonds of friendship. The feeling of hatred was further engendered by one wily, rotten-toothed, sympathy seeking friend of no one but Aperture himself. The second battle that Aperture braved was against his ambitions that demanded a lot from him. He was failing his own expectations and that disturbed Aperture a lot. While all of this was taking a toll on him, the final blow came from the words of “his” Candy. She told him that she no longer loved him because he, Aperture loved her “as per his convenience”. She told him that Aperture was so full of himself that he could not love anyone. She told him she wanted more from him than to be a mere recourse to someone’s emotional stagnation. And this was his third war. The war wounded him fatally. He won the first two by an iota but lost the final one miserably. His world crashed. Aperture hung on to Candy with fear. The fear of losing. He became bitter than before. He hopelessly lost faith in everything. But a storm had taken root in Candy’s soul. Yet she stood by his side throughout his period of madness which thankfully waned in the due course of time but the remnants of which lingered until he left that dark world.
Candy, the lighthouse, braved all storms and still stood to show the light. In the face of a storm it’s the lighthouse that remains intact but it’s the ship that wrecks. Aperture had a shipwreck and was thrown off on an island within the territories of the world he trying to get out of. The lighthouse still stood; showing light to the other ships. One such ship belonged to Captain Kryptonite Arliss.


to be continued...