Beauty Of The Deep

Genesis : 12

"I might have to meet up with Moon tomorrow."

Arlo tells himself, still staring at those beings evacuating the island to return to wherever they came from. He stood at the same place till the very last one steps off the shore.

Bringing up his hand and throwing it on to his face, a red temporary print remains on his cheeks.

Yes, everything that is happening right now is very real.

"Pretend as if nothing happened. You didn't see anything." He attempts to convince himself, but honestly he knew better than anyone that he can't just act normal from the event that happened earlier.

It must be around four in the morning, that means he still has an hour and a half till daybreak.

Arlo turns to the scene of the soundless people sleeping still, like a collection of corpses.

"Hopefully, when the day breaks, you will all wake up." He whispers, as he set himself on to his bed. The whole phenomenon wiped out the memory of the journal from his mind and now that all has passed momentarily, he get to have a short time with the book.

He flips the page accordingly, til where he lost it and stops once he read the first word it wrote.

"Threw my sword away along with the heavy belts--okay." Arlo read the words aloud for confirmation before resuming to where he was last interrupted.

"I threw away anything that may seem like a threat to her and kicked them to where I can't reach but that still didn't wipe out the fear in her eyes. Suddenly, I thought of an idea to gain her trust. It was stupid but at the same time brilliant in a way that she can understand." Jungkook was attacked with anxiousness and curiosity at his Mom's idea.

He flips to the next page and continues. His curiosity were fulfilled however they were now replaced with shock.

"I hope I'd still see her once I get back and bring my baby Arlo with me."

"He just turned two and I don't think seeing a mermaid would be a surprise to him. It was an hour after midnight and I was surprised to see him still awake in his bed. He asked me with a broken sentence on where I went and if he could come along with little gestures, and I couldn't help but smile. And yes, I was absolutely deprived of his cheerful presence."

The boy couldn't help his eyes from getting glossy, since he get to read the point of view of his mother from a past he doesn't even remember. He exhaled deeply as he resumes to see what happens next.

"I row back to the island with Arlo on my lap and carried him all the way to see her. I was happy to see that she was still at the same spot I left her at."

"Arlo squirms in my hold so I placed him on to the ground and without a second wasted he immediately ran towards the mermaid. From my observation, the mermaid did not seem threatened by him."

"He stopped beside her, and was entranced by her sparkly pearl charm, and my heart in the very second, burst with emotions when she brought her hand up to caress his cheeks and looks at him softly with a motherly expression."

"Something I failed to do." That sentence reached Arlo's emotional limits and a tear drop rolled freely down his cheeks with shaking hands. So she knew.

"'He's beautiful,' was the first thing she says to me. Yes, he was. Very precious and beautiful."

"She's beautiful too, I replied and gestured towards her newborn. I saw her smile and she looked at me. She asked me where I came from and what was I doing in their island. I told her that I wanted to meet her kind after that one encounter I had earlier with my crew mates."

"Upon the mention of 'crew mates', her smile instantly vanished. And she spoke with anger laced in her voice, 'So you're a pirate.' Immediately, I knew that she had a bad history with pirates. I reason out to her that I had no intention on hurting her or her friends and that is why I came here alone with Arlo."

"She immediately apologised, and told me how her husband was mercilessly slaughtered by pirates. I told her that, that was something I could relate to since my husband were ambushed and killed by pirates as well."

"Wait what!" Arlo exclaimed, registering another information.

"My father is a pirate too?" He says, bewildered. The boy never met his father, he knew absolutely nothing about him other than the fact that he died before he was even born but he didn't know he died from an ambush by one of his kind.

"She said she was sorry to hear that and that she thought all pirates were like family. Ironically, it was the opposite. Brutal slumlords who sail across the sea leaving a trail of blood wherever and whoever they collide with."

"But sometimes you end up loving what you fear." A smile crawled up Arlo's face. He sensee a love story from just those words.