The Bad Boy And The Mermaid

Hunter

When I informed Blue that I was taking her back to her home, she was excited and sat right up on the bed, rubbing her eyes. She was ready to go. Leslie continued to bark as if he has a premonition that Blue wasn’t coming back home once she left.

Stupid dog. He got attached to every person that walked into the house but Blue was the first that he’d taken a liking to in such a short time.

She smiled at him lovingly and ruffled his ears. “He loves you a lot.”

I nodded. “Yeah, I can see that.”

She shook her head. “I can feel it, and Les told me that himself. He loves you and cares for you, but he just wishes you didn’t date bitches.”

I stared at her incredulously. “What?”

“He said all the girls you dated before were lying bitches.”

I stared at Leslie, looking at me with gooey eyes, his pink tongue lolling out.

How could Blue be making some of these stuff up? And what the hell? She looked so innocent yet she said something like this without even batting an eye.

“Leslie’s a dog. He can’t speak!” I said, I couldn’t keep the frustration off my voice.

“But he speaks to me.” Blue said defensively.

“Huh?” I folded my arms across my chest. “Okay. Prove it to me then. Tell him to tell you something that you don’t know.”

Blue touched him, and the way Leslie was looking at her was suspicious. She then looked back at me and said. “He told me you’re really careless and left a full cartoon of milk out on the counter for two days until it went bad.”

“That’s something that you can guess. Tell me something else that only Leslie and I would know.”

“He says last month when you got another girl on a date, he was in the front seat and you thought he was sleeping but he saw how badly you fucked that chick in the backseat.” And as if that wasn’t enough, Blue added. “He says real smooth.”

“Okay! Okay enough. Does Leslie know something else that’s not explicit? Something that doesn’t include me and random girls.”

I was starting to wonder if she even understood the meaning of it. From the looks of it, she surely didn’t.

She glanced at Leslie and back at me, her fingers caressing the dog. Her eyes suddenly turning sad. “He says that...even though you are a manwhore, he’s really thankful that you picked him up from the dumpster that day. It was raining and his previous owner had dumped him there because he was sick.” A few more tears grazed her cheek. “He says he would have died if it wasn’t for you, Hunter. He says Thank you.”

And as if Leslie could hear what Blue just said, he approached me and stood on his hind legs, clawing my legs with his paws. When I reached out to him, he licked my hand.

There was no way Blue could find out about that bit of information in just one day, and I was pretty sure I hadn’t said a word about how I’d met the dog.

“Oh god!” I whispered, putting my hands behind my head and looking at the ceiling. I was going to cry.

powers to talk to animals? How was that

Blue was looking at me curiously. “Do

“For some reason, I

to ride shot-gun in

“Ready?”

beach so followed her, Leslie was on his heels on a leash trudging through the soft sand. He went wild and began rolling in

and then Blue turned to me. “This

with me for just over twenty-four hours. It’d been nice to have someone around

any beach house around here. Where do you live? I could walk

to swim there. You stay here at the store okay?

she reached for the hem of my t-shirt, pulled it over her head and dropped it on the sand below, clasping her hands to her breasts and began walking into the ocean slowly.

the t-shirt in

hell did she think she was

she must be bluffing and then when she didn’t didn’t stop, I went right after her but she continued to walk deeper into the darkness. I caught

so stupid. I should have known. She kept talking about going into the ocean, what I’d seen yesterday wasn’t her getting wild at a party, but she had probably tried to kill herself by walking into the ocean and somehow managed to

are you doing, Hunter? I told you not to follow

was doing as I pulled her into a hug. Maybe all she needed

all go through that at one point of our life but

“What are you—”

we aren’t that familiar with each other but giving up like this is so wrong. There’s more to

killing myself!” She

arrangements. You can stay at my place or my father’s. My sister is a nice girl, she’ll help you

You’re being ridiculous.” She shrieked. “I’m a mermaid, I can swim

be neck deep in and it would only be a matter of time before the water level rose up to her mouth. She would stop breathing eventually. Just then, I felt something graze my feet. I let go of my hand holding her hair and let it dip into the water. My hands were shaking

Fucking fish scales.

pulled my hand out as if I’d touched a hot pan. Blue continued to stare at me when I dipped my head inside the water and saw it with my own

and completely freaked out. I totally lost it and ran in the opposite direction, panting. Leslie was barking in circles in the sand and howling in the distance, whimpering at the waves where the mermaid had been in. I sat up straight and tried to see through my watery eyes. Blue wasn’t in view. From a distance, I saw a tail flutter once before it

into

I slapped myself.

Hunter! It’s a

myself even

Wake up goddamnit!

happened which proved Blue wasn’t lying. It also meant that she wasn’t mentally ill. She hadn’t known these

really was a

beautiful half fish, half women species we’d always heard about and

picked her up before

made

assumed she was swimming back home. Leslie continued to bark in the oceans direction, like he was calling out to Blue asking her to come