Falling For The Mermaid

AM ALIVE

THEON’S POV

Well I couldn’t believe I saw a mermaid. How comes they exist? Can Tessa be right all this while?

I scampered off for safety. She scared the hell out of me, I mean, how can someone be half human and half a fish and expect me to be okay with all of that?

By the time Tessa come to my rescue, I was still dragging myself away from the ocean. There is no way I was going to sit there and be entertained with a mermaid.

The white ceiling board, the white sheets and light is what greeted my eyes when I woke up. The pungent smell of medicine and reagents could not make me miss the fact that I was in a hospital environment.

When Tessa noted that I was awake, she rushed to get the doctor. The doctor come and monitored my heart rate before he went back in his office to conclude his judgement alongside the results obtained from the lab after my blood was tested.

Tessa hugged me tightly after the doctor left and she even cried a little. News had already spread that I was missing and Tyler had already told her that since I was missing, he was going to take over the managerial position so that the company would not lose direction.

For Christ sake, how long did I take in the ocean before they saved me?

The doctor warned Tessa against talking to me much so that she can give me the ample time I need to fully recovery. She accepted and that is how I ended up getting a good rest.

Days dragged by so quickly. The doctors continued monitoring me and in the long run, they finally discharged me and I went ahead to live with my sister Tessa and her boyfriend Nicholas in the mean while. They were so keen to keep all this a secret because if Tyler found out about what had happened to me and how I had recovered from the death penalty he had set for me, then probably he would have come to kill me right  there and then.

Of course I had to give up on my job. Three was no way I was going to put my life on the line because of the inheritance that brought us to this.

This whole thing scared the hell out of Tiffany and she actually fainted the first time Tessa told her that I was missing. Don’t worry about her right now because she is in a stable condition. She was attended to and since her job is so strict, she is hoping to create time on the weekend to come over and be with me. Also, take care of me.

Tessa was beyond angry and she would have avenged for what Tyler had done but I told her to try and stay sane. If she goes to confront him then maybe he might have killed her and as we know our brother, he will never care about what he had done.

I knew there is no redemption for him and stating that he had changed was just a trick to make us believe him so that he can turn against us and kill all of us. A snake is just a snake even if the skin is shed during hibernation. Tyler will still hurt us and there is no way we can take him as a friend.

Anyway, thanks to how our mother raised us, the only good thing to do right now is just to give him space and not to meddle in his life anymore.

 Most of the time, Tessa takes care of me the entire time and she keeps telling me that I did not die for a reason. My mother protected me for a reason. There is something greater than our understanding that made me to be alive. I was sure by that she meant that my parents, sorry our parents were watching over us from above.

The week dragged along and I was just patiently waiting for my lover to come and see me. I had really missed her and I just wonder how she could take it if by bad luck I could not be saved by the rescue team hence pronounced dead.

Thank God it is just two days to the weekend and I was sure I will be with her sooner or later so that I can be with her and feel her.

Tessa told me on Friday night that she was thinking of finally getting married to Nicholas because they loved each other so much and I told her to go ahead and do it. If you love someone for Christ sake make it legal. Allow them to put a ring on it. Enjoy them as the time allows. Look at my case, what if I really died yet I had not spend quality time with my girlfriend Tiffany?

I was going to support my baby sister because I knew the man will make her so happier than the way she had been all her life. The two of them are so adorable together and they are basically soulmates.

I was almost forgetting this part but here it goes, I remembered telling Tessa that I saw a mermaid. It was her time to laugh at me because she thinks I have somehow managed to go gaga after my all drowning thing.

“Brother, with due respect I have listened to what you said but I am here to tell you that mermaids can never exist. In fact, they have never existed. I understand that I was so into he little mermaid staff and that is why I come up with that weird hypothesis that mermaids do exist,” She scoffed.

I never knew that based on our talk, I would change her mentality just like that. I mean, when I finally believe in mermaids after seeing one who introduced herself as Genesis, she does not completely believe in mermaids. Oh no!

I tried convincing her I saw one but then she said that it us all the beer I drank before being drowned in the ocean.

It is such a shame that after all this time, we would never afford to mention what to exactly do with Tyler. Every day I keep convincing tessa not to think of killing him for our mother would not love that sort of thing and finally she agreed to let that go, although for some time.

We told each other to be patient but Tessa was already sick of my brotherly love to Tyler and letting things go in the name of that is what our dead parents want from us. However I was going to change and in the near future it will be my time to show Tyler that I could make him pay for what he did to me. I am even sure that mother would never let him go Scott free after what he did to me.

I was going to carefully plan the whole thing and before he knows it, he will be in jail paying for an attempt to kill me. I would ensure he gets jailed for a lifetime. He is a bad person and he is not worthy of being around good people.

The night passed real quickly and Saturday finally reached. Tessa went to the airport to bring my love home and s for me, I remained in her house waiting to see her beautiful face.

She come thirty minutes later and we embraced each other with tears in our eyes. It was clear that I would never see her again. I just thought that the special love we had could go to waste since I was dying. But needless to say, look at God.

We kissed and we went together to bed. We never did that special thing we always do when we meet but at least we took a nap together embracing each other.

I love this woman and I will marry her in this life and the next. I had thought that I was going to wait for the right time to propose to her and marry her but I was going to do it soon enough.

We had a huge dinner that Tessa and Nicholas prepared and we talked about so many random things.

The next day, we packed our bags and guess what guys. I was finally going to live far way from the ocean. Since the drowning thing the doctor who was also my therapist advised me to stay away from the sea and that is what I was going to do already.

I was afraid of the waters. I used to like them before but now its not actually hate but it is fear. I really fear getting drowned and just looking at the mermaid’s tail gain. If that is a thing.

Tiff was staring away and wondering off in her own world when I finally decided to ask her this one question that had been bothering me

“Tiff do you believe that mermaids do exit?” I implored and patiently waited for her to reply.

I expected her answer to be like Tessa’s bit but that was not the case. It is clear that I did not know my girlfriend that much. Technically she believes in mermaid’s existence.

She even said something unusual that she had read somewhere in an article that long time ago some mermaids come to land to become humans and experience our lives. When they get bored, they go back to the ocean and become mermaids once again.

 Well, that f****d my mind pretty much. I didn’t know what to think of mermaids anymore.

We never stopped holding each other’s hand when we got to her place. Tiff was happy that we are going to be together. I was excited too. I was not that kind of man to let her do l the work on her own and that is why I chose to go and look for a job that I will get. Any even if it is gardening or dog walking so that I can help her take care of the bills after seeing how hard she works for the sake of us.

Letting all the pressure to pay for everything on her own would demoralize her and make her feel bad about everything that is happening.

All I wanted was for us to be together because I can’t afford to lose her, I love her very much.