Imperfect Pearls Novels & Stories

“I should be the one worried. I don’t even want to ask how much your dress costs.” “Says the one wearing obvious designers.” I rolled my eyes as we entered the car. “Courtesy of Lara, the only woman to love me for my gold digging ways.” He gave a fake bow before starting the car. **** “Oh shit.” Vincent gasped. He was not exaggerating his reaction. As we slowly approached the huge ballroom, I began to feel out of place. Vincent stopped the car for the valet to park. We both alighted the car. Vincent took my hand and wrapped it around his and we both made our way to the entrance.

I had looked at it then and put it back and not taken it out again in all the months since. I took it out now. The pearls were still slightly discolored from the heat. Still fused at the clasp. Still on their strand. I had kept them exactly as they were found because I did not want to restore them. Restored things looked like they had not been through what they had been through, and that felt dishonest. I stood at the water’s edge and looked at them in my palm for a long time. I thought about the fountain. The mist settling over both of us like something that had been waiting to do exactly that. Her bare feet on the damp stone. The way she rose up on her toes to reach me when I kissed her.

" Trust me and I made sure they were horrible. You have to place a good price for them though." " Name your price...." They stood before a glass frame taking a look at each precious piece. "They are all so gorgeous." Matilda muttered as they went through another frame. "This." Andre said to the staff behind the glass frame pointing at a Jade jewelry. His mum had started collecting Jade pearls after a friend of hers introduced them to her. So Andre thought it sensible to get her one. He had looked up this very piece in the companies website and few others. There were only 5 of it currently available in the world so it cost a great fortune. The staff had opened her mouth partly in shock, she h

"No, no, no. I love this one more. No, wait a moment, let me decide." Marlin, the clown fish, had already found his lost son and the movie had ended, but Jasmine was yet to make a final choice on her wedding dress. "Help me decide on one, Zenia," she begged for the umpteenth time, but whenever I selected one, she differed. "Just pick one, Jasmine." "I want them all." "Well let's hope you don't get married three times." "I don't know which one to choose. Why do you have to make such beautiful dresses?"

"I know you don’t wear it while working in the lab, but as your elder, it’s only proper that I give you a gift." Tina thought for a moment, then pointed at the pearl set. "I’ll take this one, then. It’s simpler than the others." Marsha nodded, her smile warm. "The pearls are soft and elegant. They are perfect for you. This set was passed down to me by my mother-in-law. They’re South Sea saltwater pearls. Natural ones of this size are rare these days." Then she turned to me with that same gentle expression. "Eve, which set do you like?"

How deep is her thoughts about matters that make him feel flippant and indifferent. He expected to see the dirtiest condition. He had hoped to see the most inappropriate thing. He wished he could turn back time, and slap himself for once thinking that Jana is the most despicable person in school. He went down and kneeled on the canal, wanting to see the most unsightly garbage of all— but was confronted with a pearl. A gem not tainted with any stain and flawless to the extent of perfection.

"If only I were not waiting for tomorrow morning to use you all as bait to lure in pearl monsters, I would have already killed you." I heard whatever he said. Pearl monster, a super rare animal of the sea. It only came out once a year and reach the waters where we were present right now. Damn, how could I forget this? He planned to use us as bait to catch those creatures. Pearl monsters looked like dolphins but they were the size of whale sharks. They had an antenna on their forehead which contained a shining pearl at the tip. That pearl was one of the most expensive things on the planet. I could not imagine he was planning to do that.

But now, her pearl came alive with light, almost glowing from the inside. “One of the pearls of desire,” Ish said silently. The pearls of what? Lily nearly choked on her own breath. The other pearls were glowing as well — practically winking at each other, given the way sunlight bounced from one to the other. But they were under the shade of the porch, so it couldn’t have been the sun. “Wow,” Jenna breathed. “Another one.” anthony watched absolutely speechless. “Another one?” Lily stammered. “Another of the pearls of desire,” Rose said.

Joey smiled at the reporter and replied, "No, Leap Motion has already bought the copyright. Players will be able to own it whenever they want. "Besides, I don't believe limited availability is what makes something precious. The real value of a piece of clothing or an item lies in everyone's appreciation." "Are these one thousand pearls Calimarian pearls? But there seems to be a slight color difference. I'm really curious about the pearls' variety." This reporter's questions left Joey a bit bewildered. He seemed like a fake reporter hired by Melvin. "No, they're not Calimarian pearls. These are cultivated from Minville, our country's native peacock green pearls.

The moment I looked inside, my breath caught. Pearls. Delicate, glowing, Cloud Sea pearls, each of them milky white with a faint shimmer of blue, like moonlight frozen in crystal. Exactly the kind I had lost. Maybe even more beautiful. I exhaled, the tight knot in my chest loosening just a little. He came back. Even when he wouldn’t say it out loud. A small, involuntary smile tugged at the corners of my lips. Just a flicker. But it stayed a second longer than usual.