M i a O ' B r i e n
I'm doomed!
I just broke the rule and might be punish if the council knew about this.
"Well...well...well," a voice suddenly approached from behind as I was sitting on the big rock near the shipwreck. "What's the newbie mermaid doing here? I wonder if she committed something bad??"
Yup, both of us are mermaids; half fish and half human.
I rolled my eyes when identified the owner of the voice. It was from none other than an annoying mermaid ever, Tia. She always mocked me since 4 years ago, saying that I was a disgrace and dirty blood just like mother.
"Leave me alone, Tia," I was trying to get away from her but she just stopped me by swimming in front of me, blocking me my way with her body.
"I saw that, Mia...." she said along with a smirk. "You are with human..."
Oh God!
"No I wasn't..." I quickly turned to my backside, completely avoiding her eyes contact.
"Hey...." she suddenly grabbed my arm. "Don't you dare turn your back on me!"
Aiden's face suddenly crossed my mind, with a playback of my memories when I tried to save him earlier.
"...*scoffs*...what a liar." Tia just read my mind with her sudden touch and saw everything when I saved Aiden from drowning.
"Please don't tell anyone, Tia," I never thought that I actually begged for her.
"Wow...the new side of Mia...." she said in sarcasm. "Was that your old boyfriend? He's kind of handsome."
I just remained silent, biting my lower lips while holding my anger from her.
"Anyway, what if I did tell to anyone," She then swam in circle around me with her annoying smirk never left her face. "Especially someone from the council?? I wonder what your mother will do to save you in trouble again?"
Tia is kind of person who seeking for attention and love to take advantage of people.
So I need to be careful so she will never see my flaws ever or else, I might be in so much trouble for sure.
"I know you didn't dare to do that either..." I purposely challenged her so that she would stop her nasty behaviour.
"Hah...*scoffs*...Of course I dare to that. Just wait and see...." I could tell she was lying by looking at her behaviour whenever she tells lie.
See...just look at the way she was reacting. Tia will move away her sight whenever she was lying.
"Whatever, dirty blood..." she swiftly swam away from me while murmuring gibberish, leaving me alone at the big rock.
*sighs*
"I guess, I should go too...before she tried to do something stupid again," I said to myself, then swam back to my new home.
Yes...home.
The place which you guys couldn't never imagined at all. Even I couldn't not believed my eyes when I first woke up in a big shell-clamp in the mermaid city.
None human couldn't enter the city since we have to go through a secret passageway and the most important is that person must be a mermaid or you will never pass through the passageway.
Anyway, at first I thought I was dead...I remembered I was dying in his arms. All the memories of the incident were still fresh in my mind especially when I saw him in so much in pain when Aiden thought I left him forever.
My mother was the one who brought me here. I couldn't believe my eyes either when saw her as I woke up from the coma for almost a years. I thought she was dead in a car incident when I was 10 years old, but I was wrong.
Honestly, I was kind of hate of my mother at first for leaving me, my little sister and my dad after all this time, but when she explained of everything, now I understand.
Us, as the mermaid, we actually has two life, one is as a human form and the other one is as a mermaid. Therefore, in our cases, both of our human forms were already dead.
Besides, there was a rule too, made by the high council of the mermaid and we have to obey it no matter what or we will face the consequences.
So that was why my mother never went back to us even though she was alive after all these years. It was painful for me to accept it at first but when I think of it once again, I was lucky for getting another chance to live my life again even though I have to watch him from afar.
I swam back to the town, deep down in the ocean but stopped right at the end of the passageway when saw several high council mermaids were waiting of me with serious expression.
Oh God, Tia! She told them!
"Mia, daughter of Clarissa...you have been caught for showing your mermaid form to a human in....." one of the mermaid council couldn't finished her statement as someone stopped her by calling out my name loudly. With a blink of eye, the merman grabbed my arm then brought me along with him away from the council.
It happened so fast and the council couldn't stop us since both of us were swimming so fast. There was only one mermaid that I knew who can swim this fast and he is Dylan, a merman and a close friend to me.
Dylan is always helping me and never left me alone whenever I have trouble. He also helped me adapted with this new life beside of my mother whenever she was busy.
He's a really a good friend to me.
Dylan has a pair of beautiful brown eyes and has a unique tail as he once got attacked with a shark long ago. There was a big scar of the shark bite on the left but he seemed proud instead of embarrassed of it.
He used to said that the scar might be hideous but it was the trophy for his bravery in fighting the mightiest creature in the ocean.
Yup, he is kind of self-praised person a bit, but he is actually a very nice and sweet person. You will never get bored of his clumsiness and his humour at all if you guys ever met him.
"You have to leave....Mia," he sounded serious as we both stopped in the half way. "I heard that the council want to punish you and I don't want something bad ever happened to you. Y-you are my best friend...Mia," he continued, with his voice sounded a little bit crack.
"Hey...hey...calm down," I held both of his hands, while looking straight into his eyes beautiful eyes. "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine..."
"No...I have to," he insisted. "You should go...." but someone suddenly cut him in, stopping Dylan from finished his words.
"I know someone that actually can help her...." it was Tia who suddenly interrupted us.
Dylan and I were both surprised by sharing each other looks then turned to look back at Tia.
"What do you want, Tia?" Dylan raised his voice a little when asked her.
"You actually told them, Tia?" I said to her in disbelief. "How could you!!" I tried to grab her but Dylan just stopped me.
"Heyy....relax newbie mermaid," she raised both of her hands on her chest level as if like she meant no harm to me. But I know she was just faking it.
It's Tia, for the God's sake. The most cunning person that I ever met.
"I'm trying to help you, Mia," she continued but her face didn't show as she was lying to me. "I wasn't the one who told the council."
"I don't believe you," I practically glared at her, totally not believe with her acting.
She rolled her eyes, "Oh come on, Mia. Just believe me for once. Don't you want to meet your handsome boyfriend again?"
"You met him?" Dylan interrupted.
I nodded. "He was in danger and I-I have to save him,"
"Oh no, Mia....we can't meddle with human, you know that right," he seemed so disappointed of me. "So that was the reason why the council were looking at you. I thought you did something else..."
Oh God, Dylan. I just hurt him. What should I do??
"You committed a big mistake...I-I shouldn't have meddle in it," it was the first time I saw this side of Dylan. "I'm sorry....I have to go...I'm so sorry again..." Dylan left both of us without I couldn't even say anything to him. He acted so weird which from the way he used to be before.
"Dylan...." I called for his name, but it was too late for me to stop him.
"Didn't he tell you, Mia, about what happened to his sister?" Oh, I completely forgot about Tia was here with me.
I turned to look at her, "What about his sister?"
Tia sighed heavily, "How can you call his friend if you didn't know anything about him," that was the real Tia I was talking about.
"Ughhh....don't start it, Tia," I replied while rolling my eyes.
"His sister has a history with a human long ago. She fell in love with him, but got betrayed. So what do you think after that...."
"The council took her...." I continued.
Tia nodded, "Yup, newbie mermaid. You're definitely right,"
I swallowed hard, trying imagining what the council did to the Dylan's sister. "Where did they take her? Do you know about it?"
"No idea about that," Tia replied along with a shrug. "But since that day, we never saw her again....like ever."
Her words really surprised me when knew the truth. Poor Dylan for losing his sister like that. And now, he's going to lose me as a friend too.
"You said that you wanted to help me," I just remembered that she offered me her help earlier. "What is it? But first, why?"
"I admitted that I don't want you to be here since the beginning, but I wasn't that bad person, okay" she started. "So, I know a way to save you from the council,"