The Bad Boy And The Mermaid

Chapter 51: Bonus Chapter 1

Please note* The first half of this chapter is a prequel of the events that took place in the book.

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Blue

I often swam to the shore late at nights when I knew no humans were going to be there. I liked to sit by the rocks and stare at the stars in the sky. Sometimes, I liked to roll in the sand and collect sea-shells to make necklaces and today was no different.

When the lights in the beach houses went out, I swam to the shore towards my favorite spot on the rocks. I made sure no human was there just like my brother Apollo told me to and sat down on the nearest rock. Apollo was my most favorite out of all my other siblings because he understood me on a different level. While I sneaked on the beach some nights, Apollo would cover for me and tell everyone that I was meeting my friend Oceana. If it weren’t for him, my family would never allow me this alone time on the beach under the stars.

The sea was calm tonight, and the moon hanging just above the water. It was perfect. I stared at the moon mesmerized by its beauty.

I brought my long blue hair to my left shoulder and squeezed the access water from it.

“Who the hell are you?”

I froze in place.

The number one rule for mer-people was to never be seen by humans.

I slowly turned out and found myself staring at a tiny creature.

What kind of creature was he?

And why was he so tiny? No! That had to be a child of a human. And he didn’t speak Greek. It sounded like English; he must not be from around here.

I looked down and made sure the scales were covering me and my tail was immersed underwater.

Maybe my night vision wasn’t very clear and I was seeing things. Maybe I was imagining the boy.

“Hey, I’m talking to you.” He said again, pointing some kind of weapon at me. A red-colored weapon that was tiny like him, and he also had a box full of those weapons. Maybe I could die if he threw one of those at me, Apollo said humans were cruel and could kill merfolk if they discovered them with spears and other weapons like that.

“Don’t kill me!” I said jumping back into the water.

The human boy hopped off from the high rocks, stepping on the lower ones, he walked towards me holding the weapon in his hand. It didn’t look…sharp from where I was below…

His pudgy little hand was raised towards me as he leaned into the water. “It’s a Crayola. See?”

I looked up at the boy who was adorable with golden-brown hair and large silver eyes that kind of glinted like pearls in the moonlight.

“W-what’s a Crayola?” I asked.

He blinked, “It’s a crayon, dummy.” He answered waving a flat white board at me. He pointed at it. “I was drawing.”

His palm was still open; the weapons or as he called them crayons were in different colors. Red, Yellow, Green…

Humans sure had interesting stuff on the land.

The boy was putting it back into the box when his little handles fumbled and the box emptied into the water.

He stared at the last one that plopped in. At first, I heard soft sniffling until he began crying, wailing loudly. Fat tears rolled down his rosy cheeks and I was pretty sure he was producing a heavy amount of snot. The child wanted his crayon weapons back.

The water wasn’t so deep so I went underwater and collected all the crayon weapons and handed them back to him.

He stopped crying and stared at me in awe with those big doe eyes, “Thank you.”

“Who’s there?”

I gasped.

I heard someone call out; lights flashing close by so I dipped back underwater. I could get caught.

“What are you doing here, kid?” The man asked, “Who were you talking to just now?”

If the boy told them I was around, the guards would come after me.

And they would probably kill me.

Or the tiny human could sell me for human money.

“No one, I talk to myself sometimes.” He declared.

“Where are your parents?”

“They are sleeping inside.” He was pointing at one of the villas at the distance.

“I’ll take you back, it’s not safe here and your mom might get worried.

“Elaine is not my mom!”

The guard laughed, “Whatever buddy.”

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boy and thank him for not telling the life-guard about me. He seemed adorable and it was my only chance to talk to a human. The thought of making a new friend who didn’t belong to my world was exciting, but

“Hey, you!”

thundered so I

higher rock and stepped down again. “Are you a

“No.” I lied.

tail. Dad says

you keep

get in return?”

I laughed, looking up

you grant it and then I have to pay the price by

harder, “I’m

probably eat me.” The

would taste nice, to be honest, and I don’t

means you

you a gift soon, I promise.

“Hunter.” He told me.

fishes?” I

at me like I was crazy. “Of course, I don’t. And Dad told me not to talk

Hunter. I’m your friend.”

name. How

one eighty-five. What about

a while to recover. “You’d be my great-great-great-great grandma. I’m…I’m…well, five

must be around eighteen,” I explained. I don’t know why I was offended because he

go Blue, it’s late and my dad might get worried. Can we meet again tomorrow, same

sad that he was leaving; it was fun talking to him.

me a two-tooted grin, “Great! See ya later,

I had a feeling the boy was

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book together with the crayon weapons and I

Blue. I drew

scribbles of blue on top of it. The

sea urchin?”

face fell. “It’s

didn’t think I looked like that…but, okay, I

you live here in Greece?” I asked him on

a sandcastle. “I came here

“What’s a vacation?”

has lots of money. I can ask him to build a huge fish tank the size of a room in our house and you can stay there with us, and you can sleep in my room too. We’ll be able to play every day; I have lots

could feel he was sincere. “I really appreciate the offer, Hunter, but the ocean is my home. I can’t leave

said, a beat later and his bottom lip began trembling and

friend, but I can’t

towards the villa he was staying in. He tripped over something and fell face-first into the sand,

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his country for the next few days and I assumed he’d forgotten about it. He spoke about his friends and school and how he

you have a

what that is. I have a fiancé, his

“Well, I’m glad.”

I giggled, “Why?”

showed off his cute dimples, “Because then I

turning red. I couldn’t imagine it, the chubby little boy that looked like a doll and wore swim trunks that had brown bears on it wanted to marry me. I

have to come back to the island though, to

be old enough to travel alone. I’m

years do I have to wait

go to college maybe. I’m five and a half right now. It won’t take too

said, smiling. “Oh, I almost

him but he didn’t seem happy to receive it.

I

and was surprised when he found the pearl inside.

for that just so I could give it to

he continued to stare

leaving tomorrow.” He

going to miss spending time with you. You’re my first human best

first mermaid best

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bags into a van and I knew that Hunter was leaving. If I could just say goodbye to him one last time. I saw his brother

mother walked around the beach crying with a baby in her hand, “Hunter!” She turned to her husband and

Hunter was missing.

in my throat. Where was

of the beach and looked around for him. When I came back to his

rocks, he sat there alone with his

into the cramped space, there was still water sloshing from the waves so there was no

“Hunter.”

his tear-stained

be like

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