I had this story stuk in my head for days, so I just decided to write. Please ignore all my errors, english it's not my first language. I really, really hope you guys enjoy.
Quinn and her mother were outside the airport waiting for a cab to go to the hotel. Quinn was reluctant at first; she just wanted to stay home. But her mother asked her if she would like to go to Brazil so they could do dive, since it was summer in Brazil. Quinn thought a little about, but at the end she end up going. And here she was now, in front of her hotel for the next 3 weeks. It was beautiful, her mother said something about spend all her ex-husband money, so it was a pretty awesome hotel.
When they got the bedroom keys at the counter, the receptionist told them that they would have an interpret and that he would be at their room later. As they made to the room, Quinn observed every single person that passed by her. They were always speaking in another language, she understood some Portuguese, since her mother made she do a 2 week class for the trip, so she understood some, others she didn't even know that existed.
As they reached the room Quinn looked around. They were in a living room, with sofa, tv, and stuff. And there was a balcony. And a double door, what Quinn guessed it was the bedroom.
"Our baggage must arrive any minute." She said breaking the silence and looking at the door.
"Yeah…" Quinn murmured and went back to admire the room.
She was at the balcony admiring the beach behind the hotel (and in front of the veranda) and smiled to herself, she was happy she had come after all. Her thoughts were broke by her mother talking.
"Oh, thank you!" Quinn heard her mother say in a happy tone. "Quinn, come here."
Quinn made her walk back in the living room and looked at the door to see a blonde boy using the hotel uniform. He looked like her, he could have been her brother if wasn't for her big mouth, but she smiled at him.
"Hello, I'm Sam Evans. I'll be your interpret." He said and offered his hand for Quinn to shake.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Quinn." She said shaking his hand, and he smiled and turned to her mother.
"If you need anything, you ask for me. I'll help you with anything. I'll be at the hall whenever you need me." He said and excused himself.
Quinn looked at her bags and sighed, she wasn't willing to undo the bag, but seemed that her mother had other plains.
"So, we undo the bags now, and then we can do whatever we want." She said picking up the nearest bag.
"Can I sleep after we undo the bags?" Quinn asked picking up another bag.
"It's only 10 in the morning, Quinn!" She exclaimed.
"Time zone…" Quinn said with a weak smile and her mother smiled softly at her.
"So you can sleep later. Now come on…" She said going to the bedroom and Quinn followed her.
Quinn woke up a fill hours later and went to take a bath so she could go out and explore the hotel, she would even ask Sam to show her around. And then she got dressed with a white shirt and gray shorts, and went to the living room and found her mother sat asleep on the couch.
"Mom, wake up. Mom…" She said softly to her mother. Judy moved a little and slowly opened her eyes.
"What?" She asked looking at Quinn with sleep eyes.
"Go to bed, mom. I'm going out ok?" Quinn said and kissed her mother's forehead.
Her mother nodded and Quinn walked through the door.
She was walking at the hall for the lasts fill minutes looking for Sam but she didn't find him, so she went to the balcony ask for him. When she reached the counter she asked for Sam and the woman said he was at the pool and then called him, Quinn waited for him for five minutes or less.
"Hello, Quinn. How are you?" He greeted her with a smile.
"I'm fine, thank you Sam. I was hoping you could show me around you know…" Quinn said shrugging.
"Oh, of course! Let's go." Sam said and did a signal with his head for her to follow.
Quinn followed Sam at his side and they made small talk while she showed her around. Quinn laughed at a big picture of a blond woman on the wall.
"Who's that?" She asked Sam while pointing the picture.
"That's my mother…" He said casually and shrugging.
"And why does your mother have a picture on a hotel wall?" She asked a little confused.
"She's was the hotel owner, duh." He said obviously.
"Your mother it's the hotel owner and you work here?" She asked now looking at him with a raised eyebrow.
"She was the hotel owner. And she's not my birth mother, her name is Sue. She adopted me when I was 4, and she raised me." He said and they both started to walk around the hotel again.
"What do you mean 'was'?" Quinn said after a while.
They were at the west side of the hotel, which led to the beach and a small harbor.
"She died a year ago…" He said in a small voice.
"Oh… I'm sorry…" Quinn said softly and he gave her a small smile.
"It's ok… Now Mike is the owner, and she let me work here." He said as he sat down on the beach sand. And Quinn sat by him side.
"You like here, don't you?" She said looking at the horizon.
"Yes. I love this place. Everything here it's beautiful, and peaceful." He said looking at the horizon as well. "Mike is my big brother. He's awesome. He is my only family now, and I love him. He was against me working here, but it's what I like to do, so he let me." He said with a smile.
"How old are you Sam?" Quinn asked now looking at him. She didn't look much older than she.
"Eighteen." He said and he looked at his cell phone. "It's almost seven, let's go inside, you can pick up your mother and we can have dinner at the hotel restaurant."
He stood up and help Quinn get up as well.
"So, how old are you Quinn Fabray?" He asked as they started to walk back to the hotel.
"Seventeen." She said walking by his side.
"You could be my little sister." He giggled a little and Quinn smiled softly.
"Yeah, I could." And they walked back to the hotel talking about nothing and laughing.
When Quinn got back to the room to call her mother to have dinner, she was still asleep, so she woke her up and waited till she got ready.
The dinner went fine, her mother and Sam interaction was good and stuff and she said that we were going to do dive tomorrow, and asked Sam if he could go. After he agreed and the dinner ended Sam went to his room and Quinn and Judy to theirs.
Quinn and Judy had a little chat about the stuff they would do tomorrow, and that they were excited to see the coral reef; they went to bed after that. Tomorrow will be a nice day, Quinn thought before exhaustion took over her and she slept.
Quinn woke up the other morning with her mother shaking her a little.
"Wake up, Quinn. We are going to be late for our dive class!"
Quinn got up and went to find some clothes she could use for today, but she end up using the same as yesterday, but this time she was using a white and yellow havaianas. Her mother was using a simple white dress and a hat. Quinn smiled to herself as she pulled her glasses on and went to meet Sam in the hall, and her mother was following close behind. When they reached the hall Sam was waiting for them at the entrance of the hotel.
"Hey you" He greeted them with a smile.
He was wearing the hotel uniform, and Quinn thought that it was not going to be the last time she see his using it.
"Hello, Sam! Shall we go to the ferry boat?" She asked so excited she was almost jumping in joy.
Quinn chuckled at her mother and Sam smiled graceful.
"Of course! Are you going for the dolphins or the turtles?" He asked as he started to walk with Judy and Quinn following.
"Oh my God! Do they have dolphins too?" She asked even more excited. And Sam let out a small chuckle.
"Yeah, they have. So you are going for the turtles." He conclude.
"Actually, we are going for the coral reef." Quinn said casually, but inside she was as excited as her mother.
"Yes, but tomorrow we are going to see the dolphins!" Judy exclaimed and Quinn shook her head smiling.
They walked a little more till they reach the harbor and the ferry boat was there. There were some more people inside, but it wasn't much, 3 or 4. When Sam looked at the ferry boat he sighed and Quinn looked at him.
"What's up?" She asked and followed his eyes to see a super tall boy.
"Finn. He's the diving instructor today. The good thing is that he speaks English, the bad thing is that he is annoying as hell." He said without looking at her.
When they entered the ferry boat Finn greeted Sam.
"Olá, Sam." He said without looking at him.
"English, Hudson." Sam said.
"Oh, hi." Finn said looking at Quinn. "I'm Finn."
"I'm Quinn." She said and he laughed.
"Finn, Quinn, cool." He continued to laugh and Sam face palmed. And then Finn looked at Judy.
"I'm Judy, Quinn's mother." She said and he nodded and Sam smirked.
As they sat on the ferry boat sits Finn started to talk about the coral reefs, and why they were so important, and how the pollution were ending they. After he gave his little class he started to give them the diving equipment. While Quinn was putting the wetsuit she looked at Sam with a confused look. She didn't find Finn annoying, he was normal instructor. He explained that since it was everybody first time they couldn't go to deep. They were waiting everybody to finish putting the suits when Finn started to talk again.
"So, in the cylinder have air for 25 minutes or so. So please keep an eye on it, because if you see your air is ending you do a signal to me and we all come back to the surface, ok?" Finn asked and everybody nodded. "Just be careful with the mermaids ok? There's this legend about mermaids here. I never saw one, but my father swears that he saw one once."
Quinn saw Sam face palm behind Finn and she smiled. She had hears legends about mermaids and stuff, but they were only that, legends, she thought. Finn broke her thought line.
"On the count of three, come on." As Finn counted three everybody jumped in the water.
"Rachel, you know you can't be here!" Santana said as she positioned herself beside Rachel.
"I know, but its diving day!" She said looking at her sister.
They were hidden behind a big coral reef. Their tails dancing while they were swimming.
"You know you can't be here, Rach. If dad catches us here, he would end us!" Another voice come from Rachel's other side and she turned to see her other brother, Puck, looking at her. "I think we better go back, before he misses us."
"Or somebody see us." Santana said and was about to leave when another mermaid came to join them.
"Hey guys, someone cool yet?"She asked and everybody looked at her.
"Britt, not so loud, they could hear us." Santana whispered and then turned her attention to Rachel again. "15 minutes, no more than that!" She said and then turned to leave but stopped. "Do you want to stay Britt-britt?"
Rachel rolled her eyes and Puck face palmed; he couldn't believe how whipped his big sister was. Brittany clapped and went to stand by Rachel side. Her gold yellow tail was dancing with Rachel's bright red. Brittany's tail was longer than Rachel and Santana's, but not longer then Puck's. Santana's tail was bright red and yellow, and since Puck was Rachel's twin brother her tails were identical.
"Let's just watch." Santana said positioning herself beside Brittany and holding her hand.
Rachel observed the humans jump in the water and start to swim. Something about the humans attracted her, and Puck as well, but he would never admit. This time it was just 8 people, it was better, she could she everyone. They started to go deep, and she, Puck, Santana e Britt started to move so they couldn't see them.
10 minutes has passed and they were still watching the humans swim, and a blond girl caught her attention. She observed the girl for the most time. And the blond guy with the blond girl caught Puck's attention, but as always he wouldn't admit. As the time went by the humans got back to the ferry boat, and Rachel found herself following the blond to the surface. When she was close to the blond Santana held her hand and smiled softly at her and started to down. Rachel gave her a small smile but them stopped.
"Can I see her one last time? Please?" She asked.
"Rach… I don't think it's a good idea." Santana said looking around. Puck and Britt were nowhere to be seen. She rolled her eyes and then released Rachel's hand. "Go quickly. I'll wait here."
Rachel smiled at her sister and started to make her way to the surface, she was under the boat when she looked at her sister who gave her a nod.
Quinn was talking with Sam and her mother about the corals and how beautiful they were. Her mother excused herself to ask something about corals to Finn. Quinn looked at Sam who was putting his diving mask off.
"Finn is not so bad, you know." She said raising an eyebrow.
"It's because she didn't talk about the mermaids so much. He swears his father was seduced by one." Sam said.
"And you think they don't exist?" Quinn asked taking off her diving mask as well.
"It is not that. It's that he is so obsessed with that, that he can't even talk about something else! He only took his job because he could at least try to find something." Sam said without look at Quinn.
"But that doesn't answer my question. Do you believe?" She asked again.
"Yes, I do. I just don't believe that they something bed with his father, you know. And he is out of his mind about this." Sam continued to talk about Finn's obsession with mermaids when something beside the boat caught her attention.
It was not, really. Just a red light, and Quinn titled herself to the side of the boat and she saw a… tail? She titled more, and more, and more, and at some point she fell in the water.
She held her breath and tried to open her eyes, and when she did she saw a red tail swimming away. It was too big to be a fish, and fish doesn't have red tails, do they? Did she just saw a mermaid?
Her thought line was stopped when someone pulled her up so she was out of the water. She opened her eyes slowly to see Sam holding her.
"Quinn! Are you crazy?" He said with concern. Quinn shook her head and whispered to him.
"I think I just saw a mermaid."
