The Bad Boy And The Mermaid

Hunter

The wedding was being held at my family residence garden. The altar was decorated with flowers and looked so beautiful that I started to wonder if I’d teleported into heaven all of a sudden. The trees posed as a good shelter from the beaming sunlight, lamps suspended from the branches.

The weather seemed perfect, and gave the place a romantic vibe.

Elaine had gone out of her way to give it a chic and an elegant look. She loved Pinterest and I had no doubt she’d copied some ideas from it.

People had already taken their seats, we’d decided to keep the ceremony private even though my step-mother wanted to do something extraordinary like a Disney themed wedding or something equally outrageous. I’d denied, we didn’t need a lot of people for the wedding to make it special and besides, I didn’t think Blue would appreciate a huge crowd gawking at her, and then asking her questions that she didn’t have answers for .

The only thing that mattered was that we were getting married.

My sister Hannah was the maid of honor, and a few of my cousins were bridesmaids, and groomsmen who’d flown here especially from other parts of the country.

Leslie was wearing a similar groomsmen suit, custom-made. One of the groomsmen, my college friend Oliver had been holding him in his arms, until the fur-ball ran off to smell flowers. I got the impression Les didn’t give two shits about my wedding.

I was nervous; I could literally feel my palms sweating. All I had to do was get through this wedding and I had nothing to worry about. From the last two days, I’d been worried that I’d be run over by a car or just shot by a madman in broad daylight. At one point, I’d been scared of slipping on soap and dying on wet tiles of my bathroom.

Now that I was standing here at the altar, I worried that the trees would suddenly fall and crush me beneath it.

It was already time! Why wasn’t Blue coming out?

Fred was my best man and stood beside me, looking through the entrance of the altar to see if he could spot Hannah.

“How do I look?” I asked him.

He passed me one look of appraisal and grinned, “Dashing.”

When I had looked at myself in the mirror, I knew I looked good. With my golden-brown hair seeming thicker since I hadn’t gotten a haircut for ages, the light freckles on my nose weren’t even visible until you looked closer. Blue always said that was her most favorite best feature of me, along with my silver eyes. And lastly, the cream white tux was tailored to perfection.

“What are the girls doing?” Fred muttered close to me. “I have a feeling the minister doesn’t like waiting.”

I shrugged. “Girls. You know how they are.”

Suddenly, Adrian was making his way towards me. He was hot on his heels and his expressions were giving me anxiety.

What happened? Was Blue okay?

“You need to follow me.” He said.

“Blue...where is she?” I asked.

“I can’t answer here.” Adrian said looking at the crowd. “Come with me.”

I excused myself, gave the minister some bullshit excuse that I wasn’t feeling well and needed some time, and somehow walked out of the aisle with my heart in my mouth.

Away from where the wedding was being held. I walked into a small tent, the place that I’d used for any final touches to the outfit. A large man was seated in a chair with shoulder length hair dark hair, if you looked closely, you could see the dark navy in it, but his features were otherwise roguish and his eyes looked familiar. He wore normal slack pants and a white shirt that expanded over his broad shoulders.

when he saw me walk inside. He

not trying to be

me, “This is Apollo,

of all the days that Blue had been here worrying about her family, her brother had a good

Note the fucking sarcasm.

walk in and declare that he wanted to take his sister back, I didn’t know what

went to Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania. Our younger brothers are touring South East Asia; two of them have split up between India

of hilarious

is your

know, last I heard she swam from the Pacific Ocean, I picked her up from

sent me signals

sister found her way into America. Maybe he would have much appreciated her in

something clear, Apollo. I did not kidnap your sister. I found her on the beach laying...well, without clothes on. I brought her home, gave her food and shelter.” I cleared my throat. “Taught her the human ways of life. During the time that I have spent with Blue, we realized how much we love each other. You had time before to find her and take her back, you didn’t. Now, I’m going

me a nod. “I spoke with Blue

“You did?”

says she wants to marry you and has threatened to

interrupted. “No matter how noble

don’t need your permission to marry Blue, because I’d marry her

patience, which was a good thing. I didn’t want to make enemies with my future brother-in-law, in

Badly.

you are. If I let my sister marry you, it would solely be a gamble made with what Blue has already told me about you, the fact that you are a good man, and that you took care of her

thing I wanted was to look arrogant and blow this. Whatever he had to say, I was going to listen. I knew I’d do the same way if I was in his place. If my sister ran away from here and say landed

and tell him how Hannah slept with her mouth open and drooled on her pillow in

continued, “We are ten brothers and ten sisters, a total of twenty and Blue is the fifteenth youngest child of our parents. I’m the sixth

was reeling

along with two of her friends from her school. When our parents matched her with Adrian they

“I understand.” I said.

her. I can’t think how she could

know how much I love Blue.” I said sincerely, “she’s everything to me. At first she was a mermaid that I wanted to help get back to her home, but things have changed now. I gave her a choice, to stay or to go back to her world, and she chose me in the end. I can’t say I deserve her, but I can assure you no other man can love her the way I do. If Blue asked me

as Apollo smiled in assurance. “You’re not lying, I can

human. How could you give

time, I just knew that Adrian had signaled Apollo to our location on purpose. The snitch! He’d led Blue’s brother here in hopes of

him.” He said. “There isn’t much that we can do now. He knows he’s risking his life

“I’m aware.” I said.

understand what they were saying, I knew Adrian was trying to convince Apollo to call off this wedding. Adrian was fuming; his hands were shaking as he passed me one resentful look, and walked out

similar to that of Blue’s even with his rugged features. They had the same warm blue eyes, and the smile. “Please don’t mind Adrian. He’s very hurt. He’s been in love with Blue since childhood, that’s for about a hundred years. It’s not easy for him to think that Blue will have another protector that’s

I

I felt

shells. It looked simple, like a charm bracelet. He put it on my wrist and secured it. “This is a token from our family. We give it to the spouse as a

this, but I assure you that even without the charm I would never cheat on her, or even look at

about you. It’s all Hunter…Hunter…Hunter…the rest of it doesn’t matter. I decided right then to let her do as she pleases. She looks happier

help but laugh. This first meeting with my future brother-in-law had turned

need you to promise