The Bad Boy And The Mermaid

Blue

I hated the way Hunter was looking at me, like I was crazy. He touched my ankles and pressed it gently. “Does it hurt here?”

“No.” I shook my head.

He touched some other part of my leg, his expressions concerned. “Can you talk about what happened at the beach?”

“I don’t remember anything.” I admitted.

“Where do you live?”

“I live in the west side of the Ocean near the Palm Island. I was supposed to get engaged with my best friend but I didn’t want that to happen so I swam away and...and I realized I’d swam into the deepest end. I thought a shark was chasing me so I swam harder and then...” I knew I was getting hysterical, I still continued. “Some fishermen caught me in their net.”

“Uh-huh.” That’s all Hunter said.

He didn’t believe me!

I could tell by his expressions.

I didn’t even expect humans to understand me either, but it still hurt my feelings.

“Let’s help you on your feet for now, okay?” Hunter suggested. “Here, let me hold your arm.”

Hunter placed his arm around my shoulders and the other arm slipped around my waist as he pulled me up into a standing position.

“I can’t. I can’t stand...” I said.

But then suddenly, my legs had a strange sensation almost magical like they were finally getting a grip of the land. I felt better, the pain was leaving my feet slowly and I stood on my legs without much effort.

“Put your right leg forward and then your left. Keep doing it.” He instructed.

I tried doing it and once again I was thrilled how I could walk like humans. I’d been swimming all my life and now I could walk like them too.

I laughed, feeling so wonderful. “I can walk now!”

Hunter nodded and then he let go off me and walked towards the cooking area, folding his arms across his chest, he watched me. “Try walking until here. I will catch you before you fall. I won’t let you get hurt.”

“Promise?” I asked, glued to the spot where he’d left me.

“Of course.”

Hunter

Blue seemed hesitant at first and then she started walking towards me in slow steps. Small steps, one at a time and she was doing it.I knew it had all been in her head, you know, since the poor girl had some kind of an mental disorder. It must have been sad to be alive in the world and not know what to do in circumstances.

For now, I probably looked like a parent of a one year old, waiting for my child to take the first baby steps towards me.

Daddy is waiting here baby, come to daddy!

I groaned. That sounded so wrong even in my head. I wondered what I’d signed up for the minute I’d picked her up from the beach.

Slowly, she took steps towards me and when she reached the counter, she smiled at me. A real, genuine smile. There were tears in her eyes. “Thank you, Hunter.”

And at that point, something riled up deep inside me. Why was she thanking me? She shouldn’t. She already knew how to walk, whatever happened to her earlier had probably just fogged up her memory. “Anytime.” I said.

Blue sat down on the kitchen stool and ate her sandwich in silence. She removed the top bread and ate it first, the ham next and the last bread followed after. She ate it all separately and I tried not to laugh but it was hard.

The next morning, I woke up to find Blue still asleep in bed. She was sleeping with her mouth partly open, snoring softly. She lay beneath the blanket that she was wrapped in last night. With her glowing aqua hair and her petite body, she was downright adorable. She would totally be game if circumstances were different and if she’d been right in the head and met me at some random bar. But Blue wasn’t normal. I gathered that much and it really was against my nature to have dirty thoughts about someone like her.

Someone so innocent and selfless.

at me with her clear blue eyes. Now that I looked closer in the sunlight, her eyes had

she look

you sleep well?” I

nodded, smiling and then ran her hand through Leslie’s

fall for him

and then sat up straight and the blanket covering her

Christ! Cover yourself, Blue!” I shrieked at

understand what the big deal was, like

what they taught you from where you come from, but you don’t show your assets like that to men you just met, okay? It’s private. Very

She tilted

Oh come on.

“Your breasts and your...your...”

words like that but it didn’t feel

“Your dark triangle.”

“My what?”

don’t just let people see you naked like that. It’s

the time and

men even from? Planet of

That could be a possibility, she ran away from him in some ugly circumstances and then hit her head on the rock bed and lost her memory. I knew I was drawing up conclusions, but there had to be

to do something. I dialed my best friend, Fred.

later, he answered.

head. I balanced the phone on my shoulder as I made my way to the kitchen and pulled out a cartoon of

which calls for some emergency. Ex-girlfriend try to murder you

who he was

The last thing I need right now is a restraining order

too cocky. So what’s

run an errand for me? It’s kinda urgent and I

what

Bracing myself for his smart-ass comment that would follow. “Women undergarments. Bra size thirty-four and a few other

not sure if I heard you right. You want me to buy you a

later. Just get me the

him before he could

on it. Waffles were the only thing I was good at making for breakfast. I missed

“Um, Hunter?”

voice call out to me. She seemed hesitant about something and

her to wet my bed. “I hope you don’t require instructions on how to use it, right?”

or I didn’t know how I would have survived the embarrassment of showing her

I had ran out of patience for teaching toilet etiquette. I pointed at the t-shirt. “Take a shower and wear this.” I proceeded to show her how the shower worked and asked her to help herself to my toiletries and spent the next ten minutes showing Blue the functions of a t-shirt. I wondered how long I was

realized I

well, I’ll sleep in for

street. I knew at once it was Fredricko’s. A few minutes later,

all out and bought stuff

“What the fuck, dude?”

“Well, I thought you’re going on a pre-marriage honeymoon to Hawaii so I figured

him the money. “You already know how broke I am. And I

had gotten everything I’d

Panties -Check

Bra-

control Pill

wasn’t ready to tell me. The pill would definitely avoid any unwanted pregnancies and she’d thank me later.The question was, how do I get Blue to take them without her asking me a gazillion questions. Fred was already giving me a questioning look, his expressions getting darker by the minute. I knew he was

mouth was a

believe me, do

runaway or perhaps a burglar? Check

“You’re being ridiculous.