Lol...I know you know that song...
So I saw the 4th amigo black pants today...and was like *gasp!* those are so emo! And they were only 25g, so I bought.
Then I HAD to splurge on the emo glasses. The effect: my new emo avvi. Don't worry; it won't stay this way for too long. I'll get tired of it after a while.
Anyway, to give you something to read, I've been working on this story (don't call me childish for the subject) about mermaids. I was just like, "wow, no one has written any good stories about a mermaid since the Little mermaid. I'll try it out."
So here's the first bit of it that I've typed so far...
I think I fell in love with Mira because the first thing I saw of her was her feet. It sounds strange, to you, maybe, but to our kind, feet are a far-off memory.
But let me back up. I didn’t fall in love with Mira’s feet until I was seventeen summers old, and all that came before will not be left out, even if my retelling of that part will be brief.
I don’t remember much of my mother. I remember a pair of seaweed-green eyes, and iridescent blue scales. The elders of Mesephne said she had been caught in a fisherman’s net, was taken ashore and was never heard from again.
None of us really knew who our fathers were. It was considered rude in our society for fathers to reveal themselves to their offspring.. It was a secret for parents, and no merman took at wife, save for the king, who needed a partner to complete his rule. It was to preserve our dying kind, the elders said, since it is so difficult for merpeople to reproduce. The few of us that made it through birth were lucky.
There were a lot of orphaned merchildren like me growing up. It is the responsibility of the city elde4rs to look after us, act as our guardians. So I guess in that sense, I have many brothers and sisters, though none of them are close to me.
I do have a best friend, named Kodan. He’s a red-tail with brown eyes and red hair to match his fiery personality. His tail is nearly six feet long, from base to fins. My own powerful green tail is only 5’4”, but it’s still growing. We’ve been best friends since my mother disappeared fourteen summers ago.
I have other friends, but mostly it is Kodan I spend my free time with. He’s always getting me into trouble, like the time we ventured too close to the shore of one of the Hawaiian islands on a dare, and were nearly spotted by a group of tourists on a whaling boat. The slders were so angry with us that we were put on extra food-gathering shifts as punishment for weeks.
Other than my adventures with Kodan, my own life was fairly simple. Sometimes there is the occasional excitement when a ship goes down near our city, or scuba divers come near to explore the region.
So there. Be happy. More to come...later.
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