The Bad Boy And The Mermaid

Chapter 8

Blue

“Hannah, where do your parents live?” I asked her since I’d never heard Hunter talk about their parents.

“We used to live together at first. Me, Hunter, Ryan. I’m still in high school so I live with my parents, Ryan has a condo downtown and he takes care of the family business. And Hunter, well. He’s not the obeying kind so Dad disowned him temporarily after a series of bad behavior. He’s the black sheep of the family.”

Hunter certainly didn’t seem like a sheep to me.

“What kind of bad behavior?”

I didn’t think there was anything remotely bad about Hunter’s behavior. Sure he was a little scary when he was angry, but he was still nice.

“He used to get kicked out of schools, the soccer team, getting into fights. That sort of thing.” She explained.

I nodded. I could ask Hunter about it later.

“Who is Ryan?” I asked.

“He’s our oldest half-brother. Ryan’s mom died when he was four and then Dad remarried Hunter’s Mom who...well, it just didn’t turn out well. They separated, and then he remarried for the third time to my mother.” She said taking a sip of her drink that she called a “slushie” it made her tongue look blue. “Dad’s been through some rough marriages.”

“So the three of you have three different mothers?” I was surprised. I’d never heard of something like that.

She nodded. “Yup, but we share the same Dad. My moms pretty cool though.”

“My mom’s cool too.” I told her.

Then Hannah started talking about music and some boy band that I didn’t know anything about so I continued to nod my head. I guess she was really tired of my nodding, because she suggested. “How would you like a nice haircut?”

“A haircut?!” I exclaimed.

“Yeah. We’ll just trim your hair a bit.”

I shook my head. “I can’t. I’m not allowed to.”

“Why not?”

“Mermaids can’t cut hair. It’s a sin.”

Hannah seemed suspicious. “Mmm-hmm.” She eyed me warily. “Oh, I see.” It was clear she didn’t believe me at all.

It’s a good thing she didn’t push about cutting my hair. I liked my hair long.

“Hannah, can I ask you something?”

“Go ahead.”

“How do I make Hunter like me?”

She laughed. “I think he already likes you, honey.”

I didn’t believe her. “I don’t think so. Whenever I ask him if we could kiss, he gives me his cheeks.”

She snorted. “Well in that case, you should take the lead.”

“What do you mean?”

for permission, just kiss

eyes widened. “Really? I can

nothing wrong with that, and I’m pretty

so that we can talk sometimes if I needed your help in these

table. Finally she picked the phone out of all the junk. “Save my

your nails. Can

a pedi and then we’ll do some makeup for your face.” She declared with a mischievous smile. “I’m

hour later, when the lady started dipping my feet inside water, I refused to let them. Hannah insisted that it was fine but I kept refusing. In the

me but she waved it off and told me to keep it instead and use it when I wanted to buy

from one of my purchases. Hannah did some face painting that she called “makeup”. She assured me that she was good at it. When I looked at myself in the mirror

I looked pretty, right?

Would Hunter like it?

go back home and that Hunter would come to collect me after his part-time work. I was

call and she excused herself. “It’ll just take a minute.” She said and

glanced around myself. People were still staring at me, mostly boys the age of Hunter. I didn’t know

shop with a huge ice-cream cone on it. “Ice-Cream!” I shrieked loud. I think some people turned but I kept walking towards the cone. It was humongous and lit up, shinning like a star. I stared at it in awe and reached

guy inside the shop yelled. “What are you

wondering if I can get

looked me up and down and I really didn’t like the way he was looking at me, it was similar to Hunter’s but also different. Hunter’s gaze

continued to leer at me. “Are you

of Hannah. Where was she? It was

Stupid Blue!

there was no use. There was no way she would hear me over the

a spare phone that Hunter had given me. I could call him and then he’d know where to find me. I reached for my pocket when I realized I was wearing the new dress. The

back home? What if Hunter didn’t bother to come to the mall and decided I wasn’t worth

“Hunter.” I whispered.

had

older man with a bushy mustache. He was tall and had a bulging stomach. He

for my friend.”

“What’s her name?”

“Hannah.” I said.

I’ll help

widened. “You

nodded as I

* * *

Hunter

call from Hannah saying that “there was a problem” I knew something was terribly wrong or else she wouldn’t have called me again when I’d already called an hour back to

“Hey.” I said.

said when she answered the call. Hannah answering on the first ring was a clear reason this was

“What is it?”

“Blue.”

staff room of the café, pulled down the apron and stuffed it inside the locker. Good thing my brother wasn’t around, or else I’d have to give an explanation as

I was going to talk to her and make up an excuse for an emergency, hoping like hell she’d fall for my excuses

my sister, Hannah. She’s in trouble, kinda.” I

me through her Harry Potter glasses with suspicion. “Huh. For once, she’s taken your position of falling into

eye-roll. I hated how she enjoyed teasing me. “Can I go? Will you cover for me? If Ryan asks about me, tell him it was

a coffee

find a reason to touch my hand or just playfully hit me, things like that. I’d assumed it was just a friendly thing

watermelons, dark hair tied in a ponytail

A date. It’s a

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