The Bad Boy And The Mermaid

Hunter

Blue had been upset for the next few days and I didn’t understand the reason why. Normally, she was very cheerful, talker non-stop, made me laugh and constantly asked me to strip from down below so she could see what all the fuss was about. But since the time that she’d been back from Hannah’s she’d remained aloof. I asked her a question, and her head was often in the clouds.

This was very unlike of her.

And now her behavior was bothering me because it continued on for another week. When Blue asked me one afternoon if she could hangout with Hannah, I said yes. I didn’t understand why she needed permission from me to go with my sister, and the same evening she said Alec invited her to go to the movies with him.

Say what?

“You said yes?” I asked Blue as I watched her dump her shopping bags into her space of the wardrobe

She was earning a lot at Max’s club, way more than what I was making at my family restaurant. She didn’t even ask me for cash anymore, and I would be kidding if I said it didn’t hurt my feelings just a wee bit.

“Of course I said yes. It’s just a movie. I haven’t been to a movie theater before.” Blue explained. Her expressions read ′duh, who turns down an invitation for a movie.′

I wanted to tell her that if she was wasn’t so fucking busy with her work schedules; I would have gladly taken her out to one. And now Alec had beaten me to the punch. Literally fucking asked her out on a date, so casually and she’d said yes.

What if Blue thought Alec was a better option then me? Maybe she liked the whole rough around the edges look he had going.

I would kill myself before I let Alec take Blue out on a date all alone. What if he had other intentions towards her? I couldn’t take any risk.

“Do you mind if I join you?” I asked.

She gave me a very bright smile. “Of course, Hunter. That would be so much fun.” She genuinely wanted me to join Alec’s date.

Take that Alec Rogers.

* * *

I went with a blue ripped denim jeans and a black t-shirt which I’d dressed on purpose to match with Blue’s black t-shirt that had a cat print on it, so now the two of us would end up looking like a couple. She took her pink colored emoji poo bag with her that consisted of a perfume, lip-gloss and her phone. I tried to change her mind about the choice of her bag but she insisted about taking this one.

The look on Alec’s face when he saw me climbing into the passenger seat of his car was priceless. Blue sat in the backseat.

“Hey man, hope you don’t mind me tagging along, Blue invited me to go with you guys.” I slid that in.

“No problem, man.” He said with a tight smile.

“I’m so excited for this movie. I can’t wait.” Blue said from the backseat.

Apart from the music, there was an awkward silence in the car. Blue was humming a tune in the backseat. She fiddled with the power window buttons, rolling it up and down, up and down. She stopped when I asked her to.

When we stood in line to buy snacks for the movie, Alec raced to the other counter, dodging through people and bought a large bucket of popcorn and he presented it to Blue like an Oscars trophy.

Blue smiled and shook her head. “I don’t eat popcorn. Last time I tried to, it got stuck in my throat.” She looked at me shyly. “Hunter promised to buy me nacho chips with a lot of cheese. Right, Hunter?”

“Right.” I agreed with her.

At least ask the girl what she wanted, doucheface!

Alec’s face was like a glass window that had begun to start cracking into pieces. “Oh, I can buy you a drink then.”

Blue shook her head again. “My head gets woozy with drinks. I don’t want that again. Hunter says I shouldn’t drink.”

I snorted. She clearly didn’t understand he was talking about soda. Alec started saying something and then shut his mouth. He waited at the door until we’d gotten our snacks. I got a ticket that I hoped was close to Blue and Alec’s because I ain’t gonna never sit in the back or the front keeping an eye on these two.

“Where’s your seat, Brantley?” Alec asked, obviously teasing me.

“Guess I’ll just have to go sit at the back. You wanna trade seats with mine?”

Alec laughed. “Hell no, but you’re lucky to get a seat far up at the back even though you bought it at the last minute.”

“But, why can’t Hunter sit with us?” Blue asked.

his seat isn’t

She ain’t no one’s honey.

sat down in the backseat disappointed and frustrated with the entire

even eat

was looking at the two in the front. I couldn’t see much in the dark, but I saw how

with me. He

beside Blue and whispered, “Hello

surprised for a moment and then gave me a wide smile. “Hunter! How did you...” she looked behind and back at me. “There

I can

of doing magic.” She said genuinely and that made me

off his face. He grimaced and

with the actor. I’d told her I would try my best one day. So basically, the entire island was infested by zombies, the hero and the heroin of the movie were trying hard to

the screen and she continued to slurp the drink until there

Sluuuuuurrrrrrrpppppp.

loudly. And someone shushed her from

supposed to do that. If the glass is empty, we need to throw

“Okay.” She said.

glared at him, but he ignored it. I wanted to tell him to back off and I could feel the veins in my neck starting to burst with the wrath starting

arm off it,” I took my hand off the armrest that I was using, “Here. You can rest

her hand from beneath Alec’s innocently. “Sorry for using your armrest, Alec.” She

God, or whoever you are, if you’re really up there, thank you for sending this mermaid-angel to me.

while later, Blue said. “Hunter, I want

come

“I saw where the bathroom was.

come.” I

“Okay.”

girls who passed gave me appreciative glances, even the ones who had a date. I ignored them all. Gone were my playboy days. I watched Blue

asked giggling, as

her. “You can’t find

you left me at Hannah’s. I don’t want to do the

took her hand in mine, and laced our fingers. “I will not leave

you of that.” She said

will leave me in one month. Tell me, Blue,

didn’t mean to hurt her feelings, but I’d asked her a question that continued to bug

still finishing his popcorn. At the end of the movie, the character played by Colby Cooper dies tragically.

Why are you

offered her

just gotten married in the last movie, why did he have

laughed. “You’re hilarious,

acting, Blue. They are actors. None of this

“Acting?”

They get paid to

are no zombies?”

“No,

happy Colby is alive in

* * *

back home, and stopped the car right in front of my apartment building. Blue was sleeping peacefully in the backseat, snoring softly.

the engine run, and we stared straight ahead. This was the moment

Alec, I really appreciate you asking Blue to go out for a movie, she’d been wanting to for a while

not your girlfriend; neither is she your cousin sister, so why

almost yelled at him. “Who

“Hannah did.”

a laugh. “She’s not my cousin, alright. Hannah is bullshitting you. She was obviously

guys acting like a couple, more like

Dude, you must be blind! She’s got feelings for me, she just

she even

of your