"Mer wake-up you need to shower before Mommy and Daddy wake up." my little brother whispered in my ear. I sat up and took of my water pump and grabbed my bottle of water from the night stand and drank the whole thing before I spoke.
"I know, can you do me a favor and get my body wash and perfume please and a towel?" "Yeah I'll keep watch of Mommy and Daddy for you, Ill make them breakfast and talk to them to make them happy for you, just hurry please."
"Thank you"
I grab my long sleeve shirt with slits in them for my fins. I also get my pants with the same slits. My brother comes back from the cabinet near my bed with all my 'smell good' products and hands me my body wash and two kinds of body spray. My parents got them for me because they said I smelled too much like fish.
I hurried to the bathroom and turned on the water before I got dehydrated. I turned it on to cold to wake myself up. I scrubbed and then scrubbed through my hair and fins. I only showered for about five minutes then got out before my parents would find me.
I dried off and got dressed. I brushed my hair and teeth and put my towel on the hanger. Before I left I remembered to clean my scales from the shower and I went to my room, in the basement, and threw them away so my parents didn't know I was in the shower.
My little brother came down stairs with a smile on his face.
"They're happy Mer, they even want to go out to dinner tomorrow. They said they wont even drink a lot tonight because of the hangover they had this morning." He's not like me, he's normal. Our parents treat him like he's a prince, while I on the other hand get treated like a slave and when they're drunk a bug to be stepped on. I could never be jealous of him though, he's always treated me like a person, like I'm worth loving. Even the nick name 'Mer' he gave me showed that he didn't care what I was. A freak. A mutant.
"That's good, now lets go eat breakfast and get to school." He nodded and walked upstairs. I grabbed my school bag and ran up stairs. My mother was in the kitchen cooking, acting like everything was OK.
"Hello" my mom said to me with a disgusted voice. I sat down and she put a bowl of oatmeal in front of me, just the way I like it. She was making up for what happened last night.
"Do you remember what happened last night?" she looked at me with a sarcastic concerned face "No."
"You got a little tipsy and now I have three bruises on my ribs and I had a broken rib but I healed." When I said this I held up three fingers and she gave me a disgusted face.
"Put that disgusting hand down I don't want to see it, you're lucky your father is still asleep or you'd be in big trouble for waving that thing around and do not speak to me like that again."
I looked down at my hands, they were disgusting. She hated the razor sharp claws, webbed fingers, and blue, green, and shiny scales. I was disgusting I have light blue, translucent skin and fins on my arms and legs and my ears were fins themselves. I also have turquoise hair with darker blue streaks that are all natural. Even my eyes are weird they have only pupils and when I got mad they went all black.
"Now hurry up and eat, you need to walk Alex to school and back, your father has to work late." I start to eat and my little brother walks in "Hi Mommy, Hi Mer." My mother made a face at the nick name. She saw me as the mutant she can push around not a beautiful sea creature like Alex, his first word was mermaid thanks to T.V. but my mom didn't believe me and said she didn't need her son to speak to me that way. We both ate and got ready and went out the door.
"Good bye Alex!" was all she said while we left. I had to deal with that attitude for a whole two weeks thanks to winter break. Still the break would let me get away from school bullies. We don't live very far from both Alex's school or mine so we walk to his and I drop him off and walk my way to my high school.
I'm not the only mutant at my school but out of the seven thousand of us there are only five mutants and out of them I'm the only one who looks different. I'm a junior and I've been going here since freshmen year but I still get stared at. I only had one friend whose a mutant like me but no one knows, his name was Will. He was really nice but people started to make fun of him and he blamed me for it. He joined the football team and the whole team now picks on me and bullies me every day.
"Hey fish face come here!" I looked over my shoulder in the hall. It was Will and he was with about four other guys all walking towards me. I turned around and started to walk faster but they caught up.
"Where are you going sweetie?" his friend Victor said to me. The other three were Josh, Mike, and Leon. They cornered me against the janitor's closet's door.
"To class, what do you guys want?" They all laughed when I said it and Victor leaned against the wall coming real close to me, I could smell his body spray and it was gross. His face got really close and he leaned closer and I could fell his breath next to my ear.
"I want you" He bent back and laughed. I was wide eyed and had my mouth hanging open.
"No, y-you cant, please don't do anything please." They all laughed again and I almost forgot to get water before I dehydrated. I grabbed my bottle and drank half the bottle in one gulp. They all stared at me. "What, I need water you should know that." I looked over at Will. "Now will you guys just leave me alone I never did anything to you."
Victor grabbed my wrists and put them over my head. I whimpered because he grabbed my wrists hard and I knew they were going to bruise. When he did everyone backed up I looked at Leon and Mike, they were always nicer, and they both looked away. I felt a tear fall down my face and then Victor started to laugh and I whimpered again.
"Victor what are you doing?" asked Josh. He put a hand on Victor's shoulder and he just shrugged it off. Victor turned to face him keeping a good grip on my wrists. I whimpered again. Leon looked back at me when I did and gave me a 'he'll kill me' look. I gave him a pleading look and he finally did some thing.
"Victor leave her alone she doesn't need this, she gets enough from her parents." That's right, he lives close to my house. He would have heard the screaming and hitting from last night, or any other night.
"And?"
"And I don't think she needs any more crap, leave her alone already, we did enough."
"I don't think so."
Right when he said that he turned to me, smiled, and kissed me. Right on my lips and he darted his tongue in my surprised mouth.
"Victor!" Screamed Leon and Josh. While Will tried to pull him off of me. Victor wouldn't budge.
"Well some one do something." said Mike and I did. I bit him with my 'shark' teeth and I tasted blood, that was not good. I felt my eyes turn all the way black.
"Ow you son of a-" he stopped dead. He saw my eyes and I felt reality shift, I was in power now. This part of me loved blood and this part only showed when I tasted it. The last time it happened I put my father in the hospital.
"Son of a what?" He let go of my wrists and he backed away. I followed, I saw the clock and it read eight forty-five, no one would come looking in this hallway for strays so no one would catch us.
I walked up to him at his back hit the wall. I wanted to taste his blood again and I smiled as I saw blood welling up on his lip.
"Did you know sharks can smell blood from miles away under water? That's how they catch their prey." I stated. Victor stared at me with a horrified look and I laughed "Did you also know that I love the taste of blood but it makes me like this, I can hurt a lot of people like this." I stand right in front of him and grab his collar. I pull his face close to mine and I lean into his ear and whisper "If you don't do anything stupid I want hurt you." I leaned back out "OK?" I say and he nods his head yes. "Good."
I lean in and kiss him. The boys behind us gasp in surprise. I start to suck the blood and feel all my wounds from last night and just before go away. Victor groans and puts his arms around me I lean back and laugh.
"What's so funny?" asked Will.
"Oh I just remembered you guys were here, will you leave please?"
"What are you going to do to him?" asked Josh.
"Nothing…he wont get hurt I promise." I meant it to I wasn't going to hurt him. I was going to make sure he didn't hurt me again.
"Yeah guys, leave" said Victor. It was my kiss, it made people do as I tell them, like a Siren.
"OK, whatever see ya at lunch."
When they left I wrapped my legs around Victor and kelp kissing him while drinking his blood. I stopped when the bell rang. He was put under my spell. I looked him in the eye and whispered "You will stop bullying now, you will only protect do you understand?"
"Yes" he said with a dazed look.
"Now go to class and tell the teacher I needed to get water and you helped me get some. And tell the others you cant hurt anyone else anymore."
"OK." was all he said and then went the way to class.
After he turned the corner my knees felt weak and I fell. I put my head in my hands and cried. I cried and leaned against the wall even after hearing the bell ring a second time. I hated using my powers I hated it so much because I could end up killing some one, or worse. I got up and ran to the bathroom and went to one of the stalls. I pulled my sleeve up and lengthened my claws out and cut four lines across my arm. I do it a total of six times for twenty-four cuts.
After awhile I clean the blood off my arm and walk out the stall. I pulled my sleeve up and looked into the mirror and I looked terrible. I wiped my face with a cold paper towel and left the bathroom and made my way back to class. I walk in and everyone's just chatting away and the teacher isn't even in the room.
"Hey, I'm sorry about what we did to you earlier, I should have told them what I heard last night." Leon said behind me. I turned around and looked at him.
"It's OK, but I might want to warn you, he wont be making fun of anyone anymore." He gave me a look and shrugged.
"Good I didn't like it anyways." I smiled at him and walked to my desk.
After awhile no one really talked to me so I started to read a book. Before the lunch bell rang a strange man in a wheelchair and a man with a flannel shirt and leather jacket came into the room.
"Hello I'm Professor Xavier and this is Mr. Logan of the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. We are here to see a student." Everyone looked around and all stared at me. I could feel the blood rushing to my face, turning it blue. They both look at me, the man in the wheelchair smiled while the other scowled and sniffed the air. He knew I was going to run, he could smell the nervous heat role off of me. I bolted for the door and so did the man.
"Stop! We wont hurt you." the man yelled and I stopped. He caught up with me as I turned around, I had to admit he was hot but I was scared out of my mind. I had no where to go and I was getting weak from no water. My knees gave out and he caught me.
"Need…water…" I whisper before I lose consciousness.