The glow of the setting sun spread across the beach, a warm, peaceful glow. Everyone was pritty much gone, only a few couples walking the beach and a few surfers still out, ridding the waves. Among the few was myself, just an average sixteen-year-old up and high school junior. I just moved from New Hampsire down to Mass., my dad is the manager of a car factory, so when they move, we move. This had only happened twice before, but it was enough times to wish that dad never had that job. I lost all the friends I had and the towns that I knew inside and out. As far as friends went though, I still talk to them on Facebook, Xbox, Playstation Network, and whatever else there is, but it would actually be nice to have some actual human contact. Mom stays at home and does, mom stuff. Cooks, cleans, all that jazz. Dad, working at the factory, normaly came home around five and weekends he had off. Yep, a typical normal family. They both were taking the move way better than I was. Sure, it was cool to have an ocean walking distance away, but with no friends to enjoy it, it was hard. But, I just needed to walk into school tommarow and see what I could to to find some decent friends. So, I walked back up the beach and headded home for the night.
The next day at school wasn't as bad as I thought it would actually be. I was introduced in homeroom, and everyone seemed friendly. There was only eleven people, twelve now including myself, mostly made up of girls, but they welcomed me like I was a regular. There were only three other guys in the class, now four. I took my seat and waited for the bell to ring so I could head of to my first class, messing around with my iPod. The girl next to me tapped my shoulder and had a sweet smile. She had amber hair, emerald green eyes, and she had the figure of a goddess! "Hey. I get how you feel about just showing up in the middle of the year. I moved from California a month ago. My name is Carla." I nervously smiled and compleatly turned in my seat. "I'm Kyle. Nice to know that I'm not a loner in here." Carla had the sweetest laugh too. It just seemed like we just clicked, not as lovers, but as friends. We understood eachother, knowing we understood what we were going through, leaving friends and family behind back where ever we came from. We talked the rest of the five minutes that were left in homeroom. As the day went on, we found out that we had the same English and Science class together! Not to mention the same lunch period. Coming home was the icing on the cake! On the ride home fromt he bus, I even found out we lived in the same neighborhood too! Right down the street even! Not even a day in and I felt right at home! This town was growing on me as the minutes went by.
It's been two weeks since Carla and I became friends and we have become the greatest of friends! We pritty much shaired eachother's notes in class, even copied eachothers homework in homeroom...well not that would have differed us from anyone else there, they were all doing the same thing!!! I eventualy walked down and saw her house, met her parents, and even stayed for dinner. And for the rechord, NO! We are not going out! I don't know absolutly everythign about her, but all I know is that she is from California, she's my age, she loves ice cream like there is no tommarow, and she is in love with fish. I don't mean the eating of the fish, but just fish and sea creatures in general. In her room, she had two fish tanks loaded with different fish! There were so many, I forgot how to count! Only thing though, is that when ever we just hung out in her room, talking or just sitting around, it seemed like she was distracted. Carla constanly peered over to the tanks and made a quick gesture to them, as if they were talking to her and she knew what they were saying...Otherwise, she seemed pritty normal.
Now catching up to speed and its the current day, Friday and the time is eight o'clock in the evening. It was a bright full moon and the stars were shining like spotlights. This is something that I couldn't resist. I just love looking at the stars at night, and now with the cool breeze of the ocean and the sound of crashing waves? Yeah, I'm doing this every night as far as snow isn't involved. I figured incase, I put on my bathing suit. Just a nice five minute walk later, I arived down at the beach. The moon lit up the entire beach, making it easy to see where I was going. It was so calming and relaxing, I felt like I went to heaven. The first few minutes I was there, I just walked along the shore, feeling the cool sand inbetween my toes. Nothing else sounded but my breathing and the crashing of the waves. That changed in seconds though, as the sound of a woman's voice broke that silence. Who ever she was, she was singing and she had the most beuatiful, aluring voice. I just had to find out who it was. The voice was in ear shot, though it sounded like it came from further down the beach. I started off down the beach, checking all around while rushing down the shoreline. From land to sea, I saw nothing and no one.
It was only seconds ago I heard this voice and I went mad to find the owner of it, but only to find nothing. I stopped and bent down, placing my hands on my knees. The singing had stopped, the sound of the waves and my heavy breathing was all I heard once more. I was just about to give up, but I heard a gental humming. It was the same tune as the voice I heard only moments ago. Looking back up and around, I saw something...that I couldn't honestly believe. At first, I thought that I was imagining things because I wore myself out, but as I walked closer and closer I realized that nither was I dreaming. Out only thirty-feet, sitting on a rock, brushing her long hair with her fingers...was a young woman. She wore what appeared to be a white-seashell braw, but she wasn't sporting legs...no, she had a shimering orange scaled tail! A mermaid! This just absolutly blew my mind! I just stood there, jaw dropped and shocked beyond beliefe. Merpeople exited! The mermaid looked twards the shore and stopped humming imediatly, a gasp escaping her lips. She just staired at me after that. From the mix of my tiredness and shock, I couldn't keep myself up any longer. I fell backwards and fainted right there on the spot.
What seemed to me like less than a second later, what was really five minutes, I felt a shaking on my arm, then a voice. "Kyle! Kyle, wake up! Wake up!" My eyes shot open, the left side of my face pressed against the sand, and peering up to my right, Carla was there, in a tie-die bikini, looking distressed and a bit frightened. When she saw me look up at her, a deep sigh of releaf escaped her lips. "Kyle, thank God! Are you ok? I was just walking down the beach and I saw you down on the ground. What happened?" Carla took my shoulder and helped me sit up, kneeling down next to me. I held my head as I recalled the unbelieveable sight. "Well uh...I saw...I saw uh..." I started shaking my head. "I don't know what I saw honestly! See that rock out there?" I pointed my finger straight out to the rock in the middle of the bay. She followed my finger and staired at the rock, looking a bit afraid as she looked back at me. "Yeah~..." Her voice had a nervous tone to match the expression on her face. "Well, I think I saw a mermaid! Honest to God I did! She had a orange-fish tail and and and....she had this voice as if she was a goddess! I can't have imagined what I heard and saw!" Carla seemed so be slightly releaved as I finshed my rambbling explination, and a bit of blush too. This seemed too weard...what was she hidding? A cute little giggle escaped her lips. "Sure you did! I also saw a birdman swooping down twards the lighthouse. Come on. Lets get you home." She helped me back up and carried me all the way back home. Though when my parents asked what happened, she just said that she found me passed out on the beach, not even mentioning what I said about the mermaid! I felt like something was up, but then I figured that I was really going crazy! All I needed was a good night's sleep and a huge breakfast in the morning. That night though, I couldn't stop thinking about the mermaid. Who she was, where she came from...I just couldn't the image out of my head!
That next day though, I was feeling so much better. I decided not to talk to anyone about what happened the night before. So it was time for another one of my lazy video game days. The entire afternoon, I sat on my butt, playing a whole bunch of games. From Xbox to PS3, from shooter to racing. Nothing but chips, soda, and cheese puffs! That all ended around five though, mom was inviting a few ladies from the neighborhood over so she would get to know everyone there much better. I thought about going down to the beach again, but I didn't want to halusinate anymore than I probably already was. A trip to the mall to hang out with the guys from homeroom maybe? Before another thought crossed my mind, the phone rang. I was in my room, half way dressed when my mom shouted up the stairs that Carla was calling. Why was she calling the house instead of just comming over to talk to him? She had done that plenty of times before, this was really the first time she had called the house. I walked over to the phone on my desk and answered: "Hello?" "Kyle, its me. Carla. Listen, I want to talk to you about something. Come down to the cove next to the lighthouse. This is urgent, so can you make it in about twenty minutes?" The sound of the wind and waves was also heard from the other end of the line. Was she already there? What did she need to talk to him about there that she couldn't just come to the house herself? Looking at the clock, it was almost six, the sun begining to set. "Uh, yeah. I can make it. I'll see you there." I hung up the phone and continued getting dressed. No swimming for me, so just a pair of grey shorts and a grey t would do. It took a matter of minutes and I was out of the house, dashing down the street towards the lighthouse.
The time now six o'clock, slightly sweaty and almost out of breath, I finaly arived at the cove. The lighthouse itself was up on a hill about an eigth of a mile up. There was a rock path that curved around the water like it was an actual cove with a waterfall and all that cool stuff. It was a popular fishing spot, so there was a lot of fishing line, beer cans, hooks, and load of other things guys would leave behind. Walking down onto the rocks, I scanned the area. No sign of Carla anywhere. Though the only thing that I saw of her was her bag. I went to check it, and all her stuff was in there. Money, cell phone, and other things she normaly carried.
Turning around, I looked down at the water and Carla popped up to the surface. She only kept her head up though, looking kind of nervous. "Hey. Thanks for coming down here Kyle. Listen, there is something that..." She paused and took a deep breath in, trying to figure out how to get the words out. "Look, there is something that is eating me alive and no one knows about it. Not even my parents. I know we sortof just met weeks ago, but I want to know that I can trust you. This is something that you can't tell anyone about. Before I say anything else, do you swear not to say anything to any one soul about this?" Gezz, what kindof secret was this? This was like FBI top secret from the sound of it. Not knowing what to come, I nodded slowly and spoke breefly. "Yeah. It'll just stay between you and me. No matter how embarissing it is! I'll make sure that the kids on the newspaper at school don't even get a chance to blog about it!" She giggled, trying to seem calm and cool about it. I sat down on the rock and waited to hear what she wanted to tell him...as long as it was something to talk about. "Ok. I think you should brase yourself for this..." This was starting to sound ery, as if this was something I would have seen something coming.
Carla took a few deep breaths and lifted herself up onto the edge of the rocks, then...she plopped her tail along the edge with the rest of her body. It was an orange fish tail! Each scale reflecting off the sun! My eyes widened, as if they were going to pop right out of my head! She was the mermaid that I saw last night! Oh who am I kidding! She's a mermaid all together! I went from sitting all relaxed and cool, to crawling right up to Carla, shocked and slightly stiff. I looked at her, than back down at her tail. I did this several times, still very suprised at the sight! Her face was glowing, a smile reaching from nearly ear to ear. At first, I thought she was messing with me because of what I told her the other night, putting on a fake mermaid tail to freak me out...even thought it looked so rea. I asked if I could feel her 'tail'. She nodded, and so I slowly took my hand and slowly stroked the tipps of my fingers down the tail. It was real, feeling each individual scale, it was as real as it could get! Before I lifted my fingers off, apparently I touched a soft spot and she laughed, flaling her tail slightly, a bit of water splashing on me. "Ops! Sorry!" She continued to laugh for another second, meanwhile, I fell backwards, but then sat right back up, looking right in her eyes. "Your really a mermaid! Oh God! This is unbelievable!" I shouted, but she quickly covered my mouth and sushed me. Carla looked around, then looked back at me. "Keep it down please. I know your excited, but you just need to listen. So, will you stay quiet?" I nodded quickly. She took her hand off my mouth, placing her tail back into the water, sitting on the edge. I took off my shoes and joined her. "I've been a mermaid all my life. I can't remember anything up to when I was eight. My real parents...I don't know what happened to them. I found Liz and Dave and they took me in. They still dont' know to this date that I'm truly a mermaid. Its been so difficult lately to keep it all under wraps. All those fish you saw in the tanks? All the friends that I've made under the sea. It's stress full keeping this part of my life from the rest of the world , so I go where ever no one is around and quiet, and I sing. Its what calms me down. I was trying to think of something to do about my secret, but then I saw you." She looked up at me, a bit of blush comming up on her cheaks. "You have been the best friend that I have had ever. No one has treated me like you have. I know that I can trust you with this secret. No one else has to know about this! Otherwise I'm going to need to move like last time. I'm just amaized of how I conviced them to move here..." This was all so hard to take in. Sure, it was just a bit of information, but still the fact my newest and only friend at the moment is a beautiful mermaid was still sinking in. A small smile crept up on my face as I looked back up at Carla. "This is something the world should know. Its definatly take right out of a storybook..." I paused to create some drama. "But I don't want everyone suddenly asking my friend, the mermaid questions that I should only be asking." Carla's face compleatly lit up, she threw herself at me and hugged me, laughing in joy. When she did though, I wasn't ready for that, so I wasn't able to keep the two of us up. We both fell in the water, making a large splash. Before I had a chance to swim back up, I felt her hand wrapping around mine and she pulled me back up. We broke the surface laughing, then she hugged me again. I hugged her back, a glowing, happy smile that seemed to reach from ear-to-ear.
All she really needed was for someone to know her secret. Someone with a good heart, someone who she could really trust. What ever she sees in me, she didn't see in all the other people she knew. I get that. Sometimes, you just need to wait for the right person to come along to help you out in life. Now I just hope that Dad's factory dosn't move again...because my new life here...is one I want to keep...so Carla, really doesn't feel alone anymore...and so I don't either...
The next day at school wasn't as bad as I thought it would actually be. I was introduced in homeroom, and everyone seemed friendly. There was only eleven people, twelve now including myself, mostly made up of girls, but they welcomed me like I was a regular. There were only three other guys in the class, now four. I took my seat and waited for the bell to ring so I could head of to my first class, messing around with my iPod. The girl next to me tapped my shoulder and had a sweet smile. She had amber hair, emerald green eyes, and she had the figure of a goddess! "Hey. I get how you feel about just showing up in the middle of the year. I moved from California a month ago. My name is Carla." I nervously smiled and compleatly turned in my seat. "I'm Kyle. Nice to know that I'm not a loner in here." Carla had the sweetest laugh too. It just seemed like we just clicked, not as lovers, but as friends. We understood eachother, knowing we understood what we were going through, leaving friends and family behind back where ever we came from. We talked the rest of the five minutes that were left in homeroom. As the day went on, we found out that we had the same English and Science class together! Not to mention the same lunch period. Coming home was the icing on the cake! On the ride home fromt he bus, I even found out we lived in the same neighborhood too! Right down the street even! Not even a day in and I felt right at home! This town was growing on me as the minutes went by.
It's been two weeks since Carla and I became friends and we have become the greatest of friends! We pritty much shaired eachother's notes in class, even copied eachothers homework in homeroom...well not that would have differed us from anyone else there, they were all doing the same thing!!! I eventualy walked down and saw her house, met her parents, and even stayed for dinner. And for the rechord, NO! We are not going out! I don't know absolutly everythign about her, but all I know is that she is from California, she's my age, she loves ice cream like there is no tommarow, and she is in love with fish. I don't mean the eating of the fish, but just fish and sea creatures in general. In her room, she had two fish tanks loaded with different fish! There were so many, I forgot how to count! Only thing though, is that when ever we just hung out in her room, talking or just sitting around, it seemed like she was distracted. Carla constanly peered over to the tanks and made a quick gesture to them, as if they were talking to her and she knew what they were saying...Otherwise, she seemed pritty normal.
Now catching up to speed and its the current day, Friday and the time is eight o'clock in the evening. It was a bright full moon and the stars were shining like spotlights. This is something that I couldn't resist. I just love looking at the stars at night, and now with the cool breeze of the ocean and the sound of crashing waves? Yeah, I'm doing this every night as far as snow isn't involved. I figured incase, I put on my bathing suit. Just a nice five minute walk later, I arived down at the beach. The moon lit up the entire beach, making it easy to see where I was going. It was so calming and relaxing, I felt like I went to heaven. The first few minutes I was there, I just walked along the shore, feeling the cool sand inbetween my toes. Nothing else sounded but my breathing and the crashing of the waves. That changed in seconds though, as the sound of a woman's voice broke that silence. Who ever she was, she was singing and she had the most beuatiful, aluring voice. I just had to find out who it was. The voice was in ear shot, though it sounded like it came from further down the beach. I started off down the beach, checking all around while rushing down the shoreline. From land to sea, I saw nothing and no one.
It was only seconds ago I heard this voice and I went mad to find the owner of it, but only to find nothing. I stopped and bent down, placing my hands on my knees. The singing had stopped, the sound of the waves and my heavy breathing was all I heard once more. I was just about to give up, but I heard a gental humming. It was the same tune as the voice I heard only moments ago. Looking back up and around, I saw something...that I couldn't honestly believe. At first, I thought that I was imagining things because I wore myself out, but as I walked closer and closer I realized that nither was I dreaming. Out only thirty-feet, sitting on a rock, brushing her long hair with her fingers...was a young woman. She wore what appeared to be a white-seashell braw, but she wasn't sporting legs...no, she had a shimering orange scaled tail! A mermaid! This just absolutly blew my mind! I just stood there, jaw dropped and shocked beyond beliefe. Merpeople exited! The mermaid looked twards the shore and stopped humming imediatly, a gasp escaping her lips. She just staired at me after that. From the mix of my tiredness and shock, I couldn't keep myself up any longer. I fell backwards and fainted right there on the spot.
What seemed to me like less than a second later, what was really five minutes, I felt a shaking on my arm, then a voice. "Kyle! Kyle, wake up! Wake up!" My eyes shot open, the left side of my face pressed against the sand, and peering up to my right, Carla was there, in a tie-die bikini, looking distressed and a bit frightened. When she saw me look up at her, a deep sigh of releaf escaped her lips. "Kyle, thank God! Are you ok? I was just walking down the beach and I saw you down on the ground. What happened?" Carla took my shoulder and helped me sit up, kneeling down next to me. I held my head as I recalled the unbelieveable sight. "Well uh...I saw...I saw uh..." I started shaking my head. "I don't know what I saw honestly! See that rock out there?" I pointed my finger straight out to the rock in the middle of the bay. She followed my finger and staired at the rock, looking a bit afraid as she looked back at me. "Yeah~..." Her voice had a nervous tone to match the expression on her face. "Well, I think I saw a mermaid! Honest to God I did! She had a orange-fish tail and and and....she had this voice as if she was a goddess! I can't have imagined what I heard and saw!" Carla seemed so be slightly releaved as I finshed my rambbling explination, and a bit of blush too. This seemed too weard...what was she hidding? A cute little giggle escaped her lips. "Sure you did! I also saw a birdman swooping down twards the lighthouse. Come on. Lets get you home." She helped me back up and carried me all the way back home. Though when my parents asked what happened, she just said that she found me passed out on the beach, not even mentioning what I said about the mermaid! I felt like something was up, but then I figured that I was really going crazy! All I needed was a good night's sleep and a huge breakfast in the morning. That night though, I couldn't stop thinking about the mermaid. Who she was, where she came from...I just couldn't the image out of my head!
That next day though, I was feeling so much better. I decided not to talk to anyone about what happened the night before. So it was time for another one of my lazy video game days. The entire afternoon, I sat on my butt, playing a whole bunch of games. From Xbox to PS3, from shooter to racing. Nothing but chips, soda, and cheese puffs! That all ended around five though, mom was inviting a few ladies from the neighborhood over so she would get to know everyone there much better. I thought about going down to the beach again, but I didn't want to halusinate anymore than I probably already was. A trip to the mall to hang out with the guys from homeroom maybe? Before another thought crossed my mind, the phone rang. I was in my room, half way dressed when my mom shouted up the stairs that Carla was calling. Why was she calling the house instead of just comming over to talk to him? She had done that plenty of times before, this was really the first time she had called the house. I walked over to the phone on my desk and answered: "Hello?" "Kyle, its me. Carla. Listen, I want to talk to you about something. Come down to the cove next to the lighthouse. This is urgent, so can you make it in about twenty minutes?" The sound of the wind and waves was also heard from the other end of the line. Was she already there? What did she need to talk to him about there that she couldn't just come to the house herself? Looking at the clock, it was almost six, the sun begining to set. "Uh, yeah. I can make it. I'll see you there." I hung up the phone and continued getting dressed. No swimming for me, so just a pair of grey shorts and a grey t would do. It took a matter of minutes and I was out of the house, dashing down the street towards the lighthouse.
The time now six o'clock, slightly sweaty and almost out of breath, I finaly arived at the cove. The lighthouse itself was up on a hill about an eigth of a mile up. There was a rock path that curved around the water like it was an actual cove with a waterfall and all that cool stuff. It was a popular fishing spot, so there was a lot of fishing line, beer cans, hooks, and load of other things guys would leave behind. Walking down onto the rocks, I scanned the area. No sign of Carla anywhere. Though the only thing that I saw of her was her bag. I went to check it, and all her stuff was in there. Money, cell phone, and other things she normaly carried.
Turning around, I looked down at the water and Carla popped up to the surface. She only kept her head up though, looking kind of nervous. "Hey. Thanks for coming down here Kyle. Listen, there is something that..." She paused and took a deep breath in, trying to figure out how to get the words out. "Look, there is something that is eating me alive and no one knows about it. Not even my parents. I know we sortof just met weeks ago, but I want to know that I can trust you. This is something that you can't tell anyone about. Before I say anything else, do you swear not to say anything to any one soul about this?" Gezz, what kindof secret was this? This was like FBI top secret from the sound of it. Not knowing what to come, I nodded slowly and spoke breefly. "Yeah. It'll just stay between you and me. No matter how embarissing it is! I'll make sure that the kids on the newspaper at school don't even get a chance to blog about it!" She giggled, trying to seem calm and cool about it. I sat down on the rock and waited to hear what she wanted to tell him...as long as it was something to talk about. "Ok. I think you should brase yourself for this..." This was starting to sound ery, as if this was something I would have seen something coming.
Carla took a few deep breaths and lifted herself up onto the edge of the rocks, then...she plopped her tail along the edge with the rest of her body. It was an orange fish tail! Each scale reflecting off the sun! My eyes widened, as if they were going to pop right out of my head! She was the mermaid that I saw last night! Oh who am I kidding! She's a mermaid all together! I went from sitting all relaxed and cool, to crawling right up to Carla, shocked and slightly stiff. I looked at her, than back down at her tail. I did this several times, still very suprised at the sight! Her face was glowing, a smile reaching from nearly ear to ear. At first, I thought she was messing with me because of what I told her the other night, putting on a fake mermaid tail to freak me out...even thought it looked so rea. I asked if I could feel her 'tail'. She nodded, and so I slowly took my hand and slowly stroked the tipps of my fingers down the tail. It was real, feeling each individual scale, it was as real as it could get! Before I lifted my fingers off, apparently I touched a soft spot and she laughed, flaling her tail slightly, a bit of water splashing on me. "Ops! Sorry!" She continued to laugh for another second, meanwhile, I fell backwards, but then sat right back up, looking right in her eyes. "Your really a mermaid! Oh God! This is unbelievable!" I shouted, but she quickly covered my mouth and sushed me. Carla looked around, then looked back at me. "Keep it down please. I know your excited, but you just need to listen. So, will you stay quiet?" I nodded quickly. She took her hand off my mouth, placing her tail back into the water, sitting on the edge. I took off my shoes and joined her. "I've been a mermaid all my life. I can't remember anything up to when I was eight. My real parents...I don't know what happened to them. I found Liz and Dave and they took me in. They still dont' know to this date that I'm truly a mermaid. Its been so difficult lately to keep it all under wraps. All those fish you saw in the tanks? All the friends that I've made under the sea. It's stress full keeping this part of my life from the rest of the world , so I go where ever no one is around and quiet, and I sing. Its what calms me down. I was trying to think of something to do about my secret, but then I saw you." She looked up at me, a bit of blush comming up on her cheaks. "You have been the best friend that I have had ever. No one has treated me like you have. I know that I can trust you with this secret. No one else has to know about this! Otherwise I'm going to need to move like last time. I'm just amaized of how I conviced them to move here..." This was all so hard to take in. Sure, it was just a bit of information, but still the fact my newest and only friend at the moment is a beautiful mermaid was still sinking in. A small smile crept up on my face as I looked back up at Carla. "This is something the world should know. Its definatly take right out of a storybook..." I paused to create some drama. "But I don't want everyone suddenly asking my friend, the mermaid questions that I should only be asking." Carla's face compleatly lit up, she threw herself at me and hugged me, laughing in joy. When she did though, I wasn't ready for that, so I wasn't able to keep the two of us up. We both fell in the water, making a large splash. Before I had a chance to swim back up, I felt her hand wrapping around mine and she pulled me back up. We broke the surface laughing, then she hugged me again. I hugged her back, a glowing, happy smile that seemed to reach from ear-to-ear.
All she really needed was for someone to know her secret. Someone with a good heart, someone who she could really trust. What ever she sees in me, she didn't see in all the other people she knew. I get that. Sometimes, you just need to wait for the right person to come along to help you out in life. Now I just hope that Dad's factory dosn't move again...because my new life here...is one I want to keep...so Carla, really doesn't feel alone anymore...and so I don't either...
