You have been very worried about your little brother for the last few months. He leaves in the middle of the evening and doesn't come home until the morning. This started about six months ago, but that was only once every few weeks. Then it slowly because once or twice every week, then every single day. He never tells you anything about it.

You try to follow him one night, but you make yourself known by panicking when he jumps off a mini ledge. You hear lots of splashing and your brother calling for whoever it was to come back. He didn't talk to you for a week. He barely spent any time at home that week. Your father is almost never home either, so you never get time to talk to him.

Your best friend hasn't been at school lately because of college trips and you are just so fucking lonely.

Lately you have been going out to this one little pier and just sitting on the ladder of it. You are hidden from everyone on the land and just let your feet hang in the water. Fish and seaweed tickle you toes, but you don't mind, you just like pretending you aren't lonely.

For the last two weeks you have liked relaxing like this, hiding from the feelings for being hated and just completely disliked and being useless.

"…. Hey, are you alright? You look sad…" You startle so badly when you hear a voice come from seemingly no where. You almost fall when you hear a splash, "Hey, sorry, I didn't mean to scare you, you knowv."

You stare all over before your eyes lock with a pair of fully violet ones. You mouth opens but your scream doesn't come. You're frozen in fear, not even able to shake.

It's ears (fins?) droop and it backs up a bit, "Sorry, I didn't think I'd scare you. Vwowv, my people skills are crud. I'm just going to leavwe, I only came looking for my brother…"

You manage to react and squeak a bit, asking what it was. It looks so upset as you scramble away, making it up to the pier, shaking all over.

"I'm a merman. Um… I'm Cronus."

It… He keeps his distance. From the pier you can see his long, beautiful violet tail curling in the are thinking of making a run for it, but he sinks down a bit, looking disappointed that he terrified you. It, well, it was an accident… He was just asking you if-

"I-I… I'm fine. Er, thank you… Cronus…." he looks at you with those fully-violet eyes and he smiles at you as he rises out of the water. His fins flicker and he swims up hesitantly to you.

"… So, vwhy vwere you upset?"

You keep staring and staring before you scoot to sit on the edge of the pier. He rests his arms on the ladder and watches you, obviously waiting for you to talk to him. This couldn't hurt, right? I mean, no one else will talk to you, so you should be fine, right?

You never would have guessed in a million years that you would fall head-over-heels in love with this merman.


This is technically part two to a three part fanfiction I just wrote the first one months before.

Part 1: s/9413746/1/