Falling For The Mermaid

SAVING HIM

GENESIS’ POV

My name is Genesis Lee and I am a mermaid. Yes, a mermaid. Some of you doubt of our existence but the truth is that we do exist. The entire ocean from beneath has all sorts of mermaid just as the way the world has so many people. Am kidding, for we are not that many.

My parents were murdered by the mermaid queen and king of the ocean when I turned ten years old. I will talk about them later because just thinking of them makes me feel bad. Yes, we also have emotions. Despite the fact that we live in the ocean, we also cry. Ocean to us is like the air to humans. It does not choke us or drown us. We are humans with tails just living under the ocean. The most interesting part of our lives is swimming. I wonder how you guys manage to live without tails and swimming.

So after being exiled form my community, I was marked and that made me incapable of going to live in another mermaid community. Don’t hate the entire mermaid community already. I don’t personally hate them. We all have rules everywhere and those rules are supposed to guide us. To me being exiled is something that was bound to happen. My parents committed treason and they had to be punished.

That happened ten years ago and now I am a survivor in the ocean. I have lived on my own for so long. I have also established my home at a particular ship that sank long ago in the Ocean. During the day, I look for my food to eat and also for some adventure which included looking for jewels to decorate my tails and my hair. I always wanted to look pretty. That was the wish of my mother. She believes that a pretty lady falls in love with a handsome man and they give rise to very beautiful children.

With that said, I always look forward to meet with humans. There are so many stores I read when I was a ten in our community library. They talked about humans having legs and most of them men are so handsome. I also read that a certain percentage of human men do not believe in mermaids. I doubt this. I mean, we are so real. This is a trick to kill our fantasy of having humans as our husband and therefore the leader mermaids who made the constitution insert this in good mermaid books so as to discourage us.

My mother told me so many stories and one of them is that long ago, some mermaids got the ability to go to land after a powerful witch cast a spell. The powerful which died later but the spell remained in the generations of mermaids he cast the spell on. The King’s grandfather and grandmothers had the ability to be a mermaid in water and the ability to walk when they are on land. That gift ended with the last son of the king who disappeared when he was still very young. We come to a conclusion that he probably died.

I wish I was born in that era of the powerful witch. I love land and adventure and getting the power to be a human is something that would mean a lot to me. I really wish there was a way.

If I go on land like this as I mermaid, it is not like I have not desired going out of the water and basking, but I can’t stay for more than a minute. I f I surpass a minute, my tail will start desiccating and it is so painful that I might die in a shore.

This particular day, I had gone to look for food. The food has started becoming scarce because of the increasing population as my friend whom we talked secretly once in a month said. He was a true friend who still stayed in contact with me to ensure that I don’t feel alone.

I hoped that my parents would protect him because if it is found out that he was talking with a person who was exiled, then there is a chance that he will be killed after being pronounced as a traitor.

Times has changed very much and that is why today I swam for a long time looking for food. Humans sometimes throw things in water like pieces of meat and some other staff that I don’t know the name but they are really sweet. I wanted to get one of those today. As I was almost at the shore. I saw a big mass floating from a distance and I really hoped it was food because I needed that.

When I got there, that was not the case since I reached there and found the mass was actually a human. I almost jumped out of my skin. How can a human be made so perfectly. Wow. My parents and the elders were right. If mermaid girls knew humans to be this hot, then most mermaid marriages would not take place.

We would be standing at the shore and wave to create the attention of human men so that they can fall in love with us more.

I ran towards the man and panicked when I never saw his pulse. I remember reading that when someone’s pulse is not there and he is a human, then the person might be drowning. I forgot to tell you guys that I have a superpower, at least that’s what my parents discovered when I was still young. The superpower was speed. With that said, I held the man had and pulled him to the other side of the shore where it is a bit warm

I knew his life might be in danger so I pulled him out of the water and laid him on the sand. I l tried slapping him to wake up but he dint wake up. In that moment, I was confused by his soft lips. I got out of water to kiss him. I started feeling painful on my tail due to the scorching sun therefore I ran back to dip myself in water. I couldn’t waste this chance. Good thing I remembered some first aid I read from a book. I kissed him breathing into him hoping his pulse would pick up. I did this for several minutes but nothing happened. I touched him more vigorously but the man would not move an inch.

I wished he would wake up but he didn’t. Seeing there is nothing more I could do to help, I dived into water and hoped to find my friend. He was older than me so he would be of help. Great thing I found him for he had been sent on an errand. I explained to him everything and we agreed to swim and save the man.

We arrived at the place as fast as possible. My friend looked at him and pressed his swollen stomach and a lot of water come out through his mouth. He kissed him and breath into his lungs before he left. My friend assured me to keep hoping because that is the worst care of drowning. That night, I slept by the shore and prayed to my parents to help this poor man who had just drowned.

I screamed in horror when I woke up and never saw him on the shore. I thought that maybe I was not so careful looking at him and he might have drowned again. I went deeper into the Ocean to look for him and failing to find him made me cry. I felt the same way I felt when my parents died earlier on.

It is like I had known him. I felt disappointed in myself for I felt like my parents had given me the chance to save someone and I was incapable of that.

I started crying louder like a mad mermaid and just after telling myself for a hundredth time that everything will be was okay, I went to where he was resting to say my goodbyes. There was a sea plant with a good smell that grew in the water. So, that is what I was going to do place where he slept last night so as to ensure that he will rest in peace.

When I got to the shore, I almost died in fear when I saw him seated at the shore. He was coughing and he looked very fatigued. He was not looking in my direction so I used every ounce of energy I had in me to make him face me so that I can tell him that I had saved him.

I waved towards the direction of his eye but he did not look at me. I flipped my tail towards his side and that is when he looked toward me but did not see me. Thank God, I knew how to make an interesting sound that will get his attention.

I sang and jumped up jubilantly. I swear the disappointment I felt when he looked at me was so draining. He almost ran away. Was he the type of men who never believe that we exist in the ocean? I really hope not because his lips were really sweet to taste.

I moved closer to him and he was sweating all over.

“Hello, my name is Genesis Lee. A mermaid who saved you,” I introduced myself as fast as possible with a smile etched on my face.

“I don’t know what you are talking about since the rescue team saved me and have already contacted my girlfriend whom I am waiting on,” He smirked and hearing the word girlfriend broke my heart.

“I am Genesis. I saved you,” I cried in a loid tone and I don’t know where he got the energy since he rushed out of the place he was seated earlier.

I tried to follow him out but I started getting hurt when the scorching sun dried my tail.