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,

“Really? I can

There’s nothing wrong with that, and I’m pretty sure

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

and dumped the contents onto the table. Finally she picked the phone out of all the junk. “Save my number. It’s double four...” after we’d successfully saved our numbers and she’d dumbed the

like the color of your nails. Can we paint

and then we’ll do some makeup for your face.” She declared with

them. Hannah insisted that it was fine but I kept refusing. In the end, they painted

her and tried to hand her the money that Hunter gave me but she waved it off and told me to keep it instead and use it when

some face painting that she called “makeup”. She assured me that she was good at it. When I looked at myself in the mirror for the final product, I really looked different. I had something called a lipstick on my lips. It was the color pink. I touched

I looked pretty, right?

Would Hunter like it?

to go back home and that Hunter would come to collect me after his part-time work. I was elated with the idea of going back to

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

staring at me, mostly boys the age of Hunter. I

“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

shop yelled. “What are

truck. “I was wondering if I can get that ice-cream.” I pulled

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

He continued to leer at me.

and started walking away. I glanced behind me but there was no sign of Hannah. Where was she? It was crowded and I couldn’t see her. I’d strayed away from her because I

Stupid Blue!

use. There was no

her. I remembered I had 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

knew I was going to cry. What if Hannah couldn’t find me and went back home? What if Hunter didn’t bother to come to the mall and decided I wasn’t worth all the trouble? What if he looked for me but failed

“Hunter.” I whispered.

tears had blurred

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

for my friend.” I said. “I’ve lost

“What’s her name?”

“Hannah.” I said.

help you find

widened.

nodded as

* * *

Hunter

terribly wrong or else she wouldn’t have called me

“Hey.” I said.

when she answered the call. Hannah answering on the first ring was a

“What is it?”

“Blue.”

into the 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

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

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

“Huh. For once,

eye-roll. I hated how she enjoyed teasing me. “Can I go? Will you cover for me? If Ryan asks

you agree for a coffee date with me.”

warned me that Stella had a thing for me and it seemed like everyone knew about it, excluding me. Sometimes when we were working together, she’d find a reason to touch my

size of watermelons, dark hair tied in a ponytail and eyes the shape of almonds. She was nice but

A date. It’s a

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