Blue.

A primary colour of variegated hues- sapphire blue, dark blue, deep blue, light blue, powder blue, navy blue, sky blue, sea blue, baby blue, prussian blue, electric blue, cobalt blue, lapis lazuli blue, azure, cerulean, aqua, ultramarine, turquoise, teal, indigo, cyan, aegean, catalina and probably many more such...

A part of many phrases such as once in a blue moon, beaten black and blue, out of the blue and feeling blue.

A part of music; ever heard of "That song sounds kinda bluesy"? Yes, a genre itself is called blues.

For social media addicts, Facebook and Twitter logos are blue.

Also, I'm a Ravenclaw, so blue particularly appeals to me.

I love Wattpad and its orange and white design; however, the only way I could love Wattpad more would be if it were to have a blue design!

Sometimes I wish I had blue eyes (even though I love my light hazel/grey eyes!)...

All this points to me having a particular penchant for blue, the colour of the sky and the ocean. The colour oozing calmness and embodying truth.

It's only natural then that anything blue enchants me. Anything blue instantly attracts me.

When one of my favourite female solo singers dyed her hair blue, I was on top of the world every time I looked at her pictures!

Demi's video for 'Neon Lights' was a further step ahead!

Aside from the fangirling, I've got to say: blue is my favourite colour by leaps and bounds!

When I saw Elyssa Sparks for the very first time, I was enchanted by her. Her dark reddish hair stood out just as much as her blue eyes, but her eyes were my charm. I'd find excuses to look at them whenever I could.

Those two pools of blue seem to have so much depth in them and are unimaginably blue. Beautifully and enchantingly so.

We got closer and closer eventually, and I'd kept waiting for all the time I could. When I could no longer wait, I spoke to her of how much I liked her.

"Can I call you Aqua?" I asked her.

Her lips curled upwards as she asked if she could call me "Teal."

"That's a deal."

My fairytale with Aqua thence began. Every second I spent with her, I drowned further in those blue pools and flew higher in the blue sky.

Let me tell you all Aqua can do: she sings (quite effortlessly and in many genres as well!), she SINGS (her belting and riffing are too amazing to be true!), she raps, she dances, she writes, she plays the cajón, she's a flautist, I could just keep praising her all my life!

But other than all her crazy capabilities, Aqua is a good person at heart; if you've read or heard of her story, you would know...

I treated her like a queen, just like the way her dad treated her like a princess. True, he got insanely mad at times and would break her already broken heart again and again. And when he calmed down, he would patch her up again. He loved her so much.

Somewhere along the way, when my Aqua was completely devoted to her Teal, I changed.

Streaks of crimson shot across me and gradually increased until they took over every fibre of my being. I was no longer anywhere close to the shade of teal I was.

I began to colour my Aqua crimson as well. Aqua was bent on reverting back to her shade of pure aqua no matter how many times I tried to change it.

As I saw red, I began to lash out at her for absolutely no fault of hers. She faced it all, uncomplaining. But in the mirrors to her soul, I saw she was breaking more and more every time I imposed my crimson on her.

The change in those pools I used to drown in from their bright cheerful sun kissed ocean blue to the colour of a murky pond left ill- maintained scared me to my very depths. As the sun dawned, I found it no longer painted my sky an azure- sky blue; the sky hung heavy with its dark clouds threatening to burst open and rain crimson blood.

I realized I made it so. I turned the aqua sky black, and it would soon turn crimson if I did nothing about it. Her hair was better left red, and her eyes were better left blue.

At about this very time, Aqua lost her dad. She was broken far beyond anyone, even her father had he been alive, could patch her back up. I still had to do my bit in easing her burden.

Walking over to her place, I stopped outside the gate.

"Come on, Teal, you owe this to Aqua." I told myself. Steeling myself, I walked in and immediately saw her talking to another girl, smiling just a bit.

"Elyssa?" I called, unsure of how she might respond. Her smile dropped off her face as she told the girl something and walked over to me.

"Ryan." she told me stiffly.

It broke my heart to see her not calling me by her nickname for me.

"Aqua..." I trailed off. Her face lit up a bit when I called her Aqua, but only a tiny little bit. She still remained still and impassive.

I told her all about my new realization and she tells me what it looked like from her point of view.

"Aqua, I'm so sorry I left you feeling blue. I don't know if you can forgive me, but I'm going to try everything I can to be back in the blue."

Her face softened a bit but her walls were still high and intact. We spoke about her father and how much she missed him. She's healing, but it still hurt a lot. I offered her a hug and whispered words of encouragement in her ears.

Out of the blue, someone appeared and roughly pulled her away from me. It's her brother.

"Go away, Dachshund, before you spoil her life anymore!" he yelled at me.

"Em, it's Dashen, not Dachshund." Aqua said. Emmett ignored her and turned to me. It soon brewed into a verbal fight.

Emmett always drove me mad so I started yelling at him and blindly fought back. All of a sudden, he gasped and I stopped.

Aqua fell down on the grass, her arms crimson like my heart. She'd tried to stop us fighting, and, in the process, been stained red.

"Aqua-" I couldn't finish.

My precious Aqua was stained crimson because of me. I fell onto my knees to take a further look at her wounds to see how I could help her when he pushed me back.

"Emmett, stop! Look, I love Aqua with all my heart. My teal heart coated in crimson. Aqua's the one who can help me scrape away this coat and return to my teal self. Trust me, I want to. Bu-" I was cut off.

"Teal, why?" Aqua asked me.

"Because you deserve it."

"I don't even deserve your crimson self, Ryan."

"No, no, please, Aqua..."

"Go find someone else who's perfect for you."

And she ran inside, Emmett following her.

"NO!" my heart kept yelling. It grieved for its lost teal colour, for how I'd stained her aqua crimson. I couldn't face her for several days.

When I finally thought I could face her again, I went to the shoot of the competition she auditioned for. Emmett immediately noticed me and scowled.

I settled down near the back of the room and watched Aqua.

She spoke freely with a guy who seemed to drown in those blue pools as well, and enjoyed it.

I desperately wanted to go and push the guy away from Aqua when I realized she was better off with him. He was the shade of azure she deserved.

With one last glance at Aqua, I turned around and left, leaving her with Azure back there. She deserved him so much more than me, and I wasn't going to let my selfishness bog her down.

I knew what I would do. I wrote a couple of letters and addressed them to the right persons. I left them on the table in my house's living room, knowing they'd find them anyway.

And that's how I wound up here. Here, about to meet my destiny.

I still love Aqua so much, but I'm not endangering her with the dangerous crimson my teal has turned into. She turned my heart from hex code 000000 (black) to hex code 0E2AED (blue).

My last thought before flying out to embrace the blue sky is, "Aqua, thank you for colouring my heart 0E2AED. I love you."

Then I fly through the blue sky and meet the blue ocean below and my fate.

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My entry for Contests-Rants' 'Colourful Short Story'!

Word count: 1412 words.

Characters Ryan 'Teal' Dashen, Elyssa 'Aqua' Sparks, Emmett Sparks and Jake 'Azure' Mitchell are all original characters from my story 'Sparks'.

If anyone has any doubts regarding what some things imply, feel free to ask down below!

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