The Dark Secret Of His Mermaid

Chapter 4: The Mysterious Girl

A i d e n   C h r i s t e n s e n

I dropped my phone as it was loosened from my grip when the half naked girl turned to look at me.

S-She looks exactly like her and she is wearing my pilot's jacket.

"Mia?...." I really can believe my eyes as she was standing right in front of me.

She can't be her, right? I know that because I was there at her last moment.

She seemed scared and confused, and I have no idea how she got into my house.

I saw her took a step back when I went down to pick up my phone, "Hey, don't be afraid...I won’t hurt you, okay. "I'm trying to make a call....see...*shows her my phone*...." then called for Laura so that she could come here to help me to handle her.

Laura didn't believe everything I said to her through the phone and I asked her to come over to my house as fast as she could so she could take a look at the mysterious girl herself.

I tried to make her leave my walking-closet but it was hopeless. She just stayed there, looking so scared and confused with all of this. She didn't say anything...I mean, I didn't hear any voice coming from her mouth. She just remained silent in my closet with my pilot jacket covered her naked body.

I just stood at the doorstep, waiting for my friends to come over while observing the mysterious girl.

"Who are you, really?" I murmured to myself. "You look so much like her...."

Laura and Shawn were finally here, even they were in shocked when met that girl who has the same face of my late girlfriend, Mia.

"Maybe Mia has....." Shawn spoke out as both of us were observing Laura was handling that girl.

But I cut him in, "No...she doesn't have a twin..."

"Maybe she's her doppelganger....you know, I once heard there were 7 people who have the same face like us in this world." Shawn continued.

"I don't know, dude," I replied him. "She may has her face...but she will never be her."

Laura took her for shower, meanwhile Shawn and I, both of us were cleaning all the messes she made around my house. Surprisingly, most of my food I just bought were all completely gone, except for the raw food such as eggs, vegetables and meats.

I wonder how she could eat all of that by herself.

What a very weird girl.

I just can't believe my eyes when saw her coming out from my room, fully clothes with her hair was styling in ponytail. She looked so much like her...about 100% look alike and even made my heart skipped its beat for once.

Laura was standing right beside of her, guiding her to walk away from the room towards both of us.

"She's all clean up...and sorry about your uniform, Aiden. I think you should take it for the dry cleaning" Laura patted my shoulder a little as she gave me my dirty pilot jacket which that mysterious girl wore earlier.

"Aiden??" The mysterious girl finally spoke out, staring at me in confused with her beautiful chestnut eyes.

All three of us turned to look at her in instant, "Do you know him??" Shawn and Laura asked her simultaneously.

She shook her head, "No...." then curved a beautiful smile on her lips as our eyes met. "Your eyes....they're beautiful..."her words totally made me blushing and I quickly hid my face by turning away before my friends noticed it.

"So...u-mmm what should we call her for a temporary?" Laura suddenly gave me a weird look.

"Don't look at me like that," I quickly moved my eyes from her, but accidentally made an eye contact with the mysterious girl.

"I-uhh....whatever...."then walked away from them to the fridge to grab some drink. But unfortunately, I forgot that the newly bought juices and milk were already gone, which only left with the mineral waters. "I need to go for grocery shopping again..." I murmured to myself.

"So..."Laura started the conversation. "What is your name?"

The chestnut eyes girl turned to look at Laura, "I-I don't know."

"Ookayyy..."I saw Laura took a glance at me, maybe signalled me to ask that girl for the next question. But I just ignored her by pretending to stretch my back. "What about your home? Do you remember anything?"

The girl just looked at my friend in blank, seemed like she didn't know anything about herself either.

"Hmmm....this is hard," Laura murmured while half crossing her arms with her right hand touched her chin, as in thinking position. "We need to talk...come here," Laura grabbed my hand then brought me into my bedroom. "Are you going to call the police?"

I took a peek of that girl outside, "I don't know. She doesn't steal anything anyway."

"Seems like she's having amnesia." She explained.

"Hmmm...should we send her to the social service?" I asked for my best friend's opinion.

"It's weekend, Aiden," Laura quickly answered. "The offices are closed till Monday."

"...*sighs*....you're right. Looks like we have to wait till Monday, huh,"

Laura crossed her arms along with a smirk as she looked at me, "What do you mean 'We'??"

Uh-oh....I know that look. "Oh come on, Laura."

"I'm have to work this weekend, besides Shawn is on duty too, replacing your place remember?" She tried to get away from me even though I already blocked the door.

"Noo....you can't do that!!!" I complained, chasing her around the house. But I stopped later on when she cheated, using Shawn as her barrier. "What am I supposed to do with her???"

Laura grabbed Shawn's hand then walked along with him towards the front door. "Have fun...Aiden with your new friend....just call me whenever you need me, okay. I'll try to come if I wasn't busy...."

They already closed the door before I could stop them. The mysterious girl was completely confused with all of happens and we both just stared at each other for a few seconds.

*clears throat*

"Well...u-umm...are you hungry?" Stupid, Aiden. Didn't you remember she already ate most of the food in your fridge?

But, surprisingly, she nodded as for answering my question.

Wow....she's such a big eater.

"Alright then....let's cook some breakfast," I suggested while stretching my hands, then cracking both of my knuckles.

And, she just followed me, making me burst out of laughter for the first time after 5 years.

"Breakfast?" She asked in confused, followed me towards the kitchen from the back.

"Yup...something you eat at the morning..." I was planning to make English breakfast for her, so I grabbed sausages, bacon, eggs and tomatoes from the fridge.

"It tasted so bad...." She said while pointing her index finger to the eggs in front of me. "And that too..." then to the bacon.

I laugh, "Really?" I looked at her then cracked another smile when saw her made a funny face. "Alright then, I promise I will make it taste better..."

She seemed so excited, especially when she looked at me with those beautiful chestnut eyes. They were just like Mia's...and that look too.

She exactly looks like her, no doubt about it.

Oh come on, Aiden. She isn't her....stop thinking about it, man.

She just observed me cooking the dish from the start till the end, and sometimes I could see her trying to steal the tomatoes from me. But she stopped whenever I made eye contact with her.

As I finished cooking, I put an egg, 3 well-cooked bacon and 3 slices of tomatoes on two plates then brought it to my dining table followed by that girl from my behind.

She wasn't talk much instead just kept observing every of my movement.

"Well...we only have water left...since you already drank all of my juice and milk..."I poured some of water into her glass. "But it's okay, I'll buy more later on..."

"I'm sorry...." she seemed like she was actually sincerely when apologised to me.

"Nah...it's okay...."I said then curved a smile when saw her stared at the fork and knife on both side of her plate.

She seemed so much like a little girl, a cute little girl to be exact.

"Here...follow me," I took the fork and knife then slowly showed her on how to eat by using those utensils. The clueless girl stared at me, then followed what I demonstrated to her. "That's great..."

She smiled, "Thank you..."

Looks like you still know how to say 'Thank you' and 'Sorry' even though you are having amnesia.

I guess she must be a really nice person before losing her memories.

"So what should I call you?" I asked her. "It's kind of rude when I kept calling you, 'You', you know."

She stopped from eating, then lift her head a little so she could look at me, "I really didn't remember anything....but you called me Mia, right? Maybe you know about me."

Her words just made me swallowed hard especially when she said my late girlfriend's name. "I-I...u-uh...actually, that's my girlfriend's name."

"Oh...I'm sorry, I thought you know me after all," she really has no idea that she has the same face as Mia's. "She got a nice name...and sounded so familiar too anyway."

Should I just call her with that name? But if I did, she will keep me remembering of her...

I curved a small smile when saw her was playing with her food after being in a deep thinking about Mia's name.

She looks so innocent.

"Alright then," I finally made my mind. "I'll call you Mia....but only until you remember your name again, is that okay??"

She nodded with a big smile curved on her lips.

"So, Mia..." I continued, getting her attention from playing with the fork. "How did you get into my house anyway?"

I saw her looked onto something from my back side, as she was trying to show something. "What is it?" I actually didn't get what she was trying to show me, but my eyes caught with the piano in the middle of my living room. “The piano??"

"It was the most beautiful sound that I ever heard," she continued. "So I followed where it came from and saw you was sitting there by that thing...and you looked sad."

I was lost at my words as I stared into her beautiful chestnut eyes. I didn't expect that her interest was exactly like Mia's.

"Aiden??" Her voice snapped me out of my thought.

"O-oh y-yes..." I quickly answered her, faking a small smile on my lips. "Sorry about that...."

"Can you show me, like you did last night?" She asked, with her eyes were glimmering as if like she was putting high hopes for me to play the piano for her.

"I-u-umm..." To be honest, I never play to anybody before, beside I promised myself last night was the last time I will play it.

"Please, Aiden..."she practically begged for me.

Should I just break my promise for just this random girl?

God, I never did this kind of thing before. Actually, I never look, care or interact with other girl since Mia's death. Yeah, well…maybe you can say that I was loyal to my late girlfriend. But she's different, she was like changed me...but how??

She's just a stranger....but with Mia's face.

I stared into her chestnut eyes, sometimes imagined that I was looking at my Mia and I really wished that so. But I snapped when heard her voice again, calling my name with a worry tone.

"Are you okay, Aiden?" She asked. "It's okay if you don't want to show me. I really don't mind it..."

Uh-oh....I just made her disappointed of me.

Fine....I will break my promise, but only this time.

"M-Mia...." God, she made me stuttered when called her with that name. "Come, let me show you how I play the piano." I quickly scoot away from my seat then walked towards the piano in the middle of my living room, with Mia was following me from behind.

I gently removed the piano’s fallboard then taking a seat on the piano’s bench with Mia beside of me.

“So this are the keys…*presses random piano’s keys*… every keys have different melody, do you hear that?” I explained to her about the piano.

She nodded as a reply with her eyes never stop looking at me.

*plays notes*

“Right now I’m just playing notes,” I continued. “But when I put this all together….*plays a song*…”

She cuts me in, “It becomes a song…”

“Yeah…a song,” I smiled while still playing her a song. “Seems like you know about piano too, huh…maybe you used to play it before having amnesia.”

She didn’t replied, instead just watching me playing the piano as if like she was so mesmerized with the melody.

She is indeed sharing the same interest as my late girlfriend, but still, she isn’t her.

Keep that in mind, Aiden.

To be continue…