Hey :D so here's chapter 1! It's a little allow but I promise the next chapter will be way more exciting! Hope you enjoy it! Review please!
Chapter 1
5 Years Later, Rose's 19th birthday
Rose POV
I wake up bright and early, feeling excited and happy. Today, I will be turning nineteen. It's the day I will be allowed to actually walk among humans. I have practiced my shifting for over a year now. I am pretty good at it if I say so myself. My parents and teachers were all surprised by how quickly I learned how to shift, but I wasn't.
I smile to myself as I swim out of the palace and towards the small island our people maintain so that we can practice shifting without worrying about humans seeing.
No ones really up yet except a few people setting up their shops with different things they hope to sell to all the people coming in for my party. My parents are throwing my this huge party tonight, inviting people from all over the sea and animals as well. I was excited but I was nervous as well. It was basically going to be my first time being presented to the entire empire.
I swim past the guards, only nodding at them to them know who I am. I am actually pretty friendly with the guards, sometimes I even train with them, but I don't know these ones.
I swim up to the beach where the water is extremely shallow. I roll over so that I'm facing up and my elbows prop me up. I close my eyes and relax my whole body, letting the sun warm my face. Then I take a couple of deep breaths and start to will my body to change, to shift from fin to legs.
I soon feel intense pain travel down the middle of my fin and I bite my lip to keep from screaming in pain. My fin slowly starts to split itself and my gills fold in on themselves disappearing in my neck. My legs feel all slithery and I shiver as my scales sink into my now human skin. The scales at the top of my hips are the only things that don't leave, but instead transform into a bikini bottom of sorts making it look like I am just a human wearing a bathing suit.
After about a minute the transformation is complete. Wow, I am getting pretty fast at this, I think to myself. It typically takes people around two or three minutes to change. I slowly stand up and make my way clumsily out of the water. I quickly gain my balance and soon I am running and jumping and laughing. I stand with my arms spread and smile as I squeeze me toes in the sand, giggly at the sensation it causes.
Once I've calmed down, I walk into the little forest and find a coconut and break it open, drinking its sweet juices. Everything tastes better as a human. Once I finish I make my way back down to the beach and lay down face up. I sigh as I feel the warm sand against my back and I let myself relax for the last few minutes of peace I'm probably going to get for a while. I close my eyes and think about my dream. The same dream I've been having for the past five years. It's of the boy I saw at the beach so long ago. Every time I think of him, my body, no matter what form, responds, getting goosebumps and making me horny in human terms. The dream itself is quite simple. It's of me swimming up to him and transforming into a human and him sweeping me into his arms kissing me. I always wake up before anything else happens. I always wake up wanting more and I haven't been able to take on a serious relationship with anyone because I want only him. I go back to the beach as often as possible in hopes that I can see him again. Soon too, because I want to talk to him before my father arranges a marriage for me. I know my dad doesn't want to force me into a marriage, that he wants me to marry for love, but he will do what he has to for his kingdom.
Signing to myself, I decide to stop thinking about it because its only make me depressed and today is not a day I should be depressed. I roll over on to my stomach and let the sun warm my back up as I rest my head on my arms.
I must have fallen asleep because I feel myself being jolted awake by a splash of water on my back. I feel my body quiver with want but it doesn't change. See mer-people don't change if we get wet at all, only when we were being submerged in water. So we can take a shower as a human or walk in the rain and we shouldn't change. Our body will want to and it will be hard for us to resist but we can resist. Now as soon as we start being submerged, we can't stop it and our bodies will change on their own. Also no matter how long we are in our human form, our bodies will always call for the ocean, it will always want to return to what it knows best. In fact, the longest we can stay a human without changing at least once, is a week. If we wait longer, then we start getting really sick.
I feel another splash on me and I whip around to see a mermaid with pretty blonde hair looking at me. I laugh when I realize its my friend Mia.
"Mia, what do you want?" I say to her smiling.
"Lissa is looking for you. We need to start getting you ready for your party. It's almost noon." She says back to me grinning.
I hadn't realized how late it had gotten and I'm surprised I am just now being interrupted. I also hadn't eaten all day except for the coconut and as if on cue my stomach grumbles loudly. Mia hears it since our hearing is better than a typical human and she laughs.
"Plus we have food!" She says to me winking.
"I'm coming, I'm coming," I say to her putting my hands up as if in defeat.
I wade my way back into the water and by the time I am thigh deep I can already feel my scales pooping back out of my skin and my gills squeezing back out of my neck. My legs are glued back together and I shiver at the odd feeling. The process to turn back into a mermaid isn't nearly as painful as going to human form.
Soon enough, my tail has completely reappeared and I give it a sharp flick as I shoot through the water towards Mia, tackling her in a bear hug.
"Gotcha!" I say into her mind. She screams and laughs out loud pushing me away.
She gives me a strange look and says,
"You know it is so strange actually watching someone shift. I've never seen that before."
I just smile at her and start swimming back towards the palace. I think about all I have to do and figure today is just going to be another politically crazy day in my life of being a princess. Boy, I couldn't have been more wrong.
Dimitri POV
I groan loudly as I roll over in bed to hit my alarm clock. I sit up in bed rubbing my head. I try once again to remember my dream but it just slips away again like a wet bar of soap. I'm just left with the burning picture of long black and the most beautiful brown eyes I have ever seen. I've dreamed about this same girl for five years now. Ever since that day at the beach when I saw her hiding behind a buoy. I locked eyes with her but only for a second because she turned away and Tasha was pulling on my hand to get my attention.
I go back to the beach every chance I get in hope of seeing her beautiful face again but no such luck so far.
I'm pulled out of my thoughts when my phone goes off. It's a text from my best friend, Isaac, reminding me that Tasha and I promised to come over and help plan his wedding.
I mutter swear words under my breath and groan as I remember how Tasha wont leave me alone about asking her to marry me and I know today will just make it worse. I don't know what's stopping me but I just don't feel like I should marry her. Yes, we're happy most of the time but sometimes it just doesn't feel right.
I reluctantly pull myself out of bed and hop into the shower. I take the fastest shower ever and then I am out of the door in less than ten minutes.
I am almost to Tasha's house when I realize she's probably not even awake yet. So I reach for my phone only to find it not there. I swear out loud when I realize I left it at home. Dammit that means I will have to wake her up and that's always a dangerous task.
I pull up in front of her apartment and make my way up to her door. I dig around in my pocket and finally found the key she gave me awhile back. I open the door and instead of being greeted with silence like I was expecting, I was welcomed by the sounds of moaning and groaning and skin slapping together.
I storm into her bedroom, slamming the door open. I find a man laying spread eagles on the bed and Tasha is straddling him like a horse, her head thrown back on ecstasy. They both turn and look at me when they hear the door slam into the wall. Tasha's eyes go big as she tries but fails to scramble off of the man.
"You fucking whore!" I scream at her, "Don't ever talk to me again! I can't believe after all we've been through your do this. You little slut. I never want to see your face again!"
I throw the key I am still holding at her and storm back out of the house like a raging bull. Not even giving her a chance to speak. I drive the whole way to Isaac's well over the speed limit. I'm honestly surprised I don't get pulled over.
Once I pull up, I sit there in the car trying to calm myself. Things may not have always been right between Tasha and I but I did love her. We'd been dating for almost six years now. I feel tears roll down my face but I quickly wipe them away. I'm not going to cry over that slut.
I take a deep calming breath and climb out of my car making my way to Isaac's front door. Isaac opens it almost as soon as I knock, greeting me with a big dopey smile until be sees my facial expression.
"Hey man, what's up with you?" He asks me, a concerned look in his eyes as I step through the door way.
"Tasha is a little cheating whore. Let's leave it at that," I say keeping my face neutral.
Isaac gives me a sympathetic look but drops the subject like the good friend he is, he doesn't push things.
"Hannah!" He calls out to his fiancé, "Dimitri is here! Lets get down to business we have a ton to discuss."
I follow him as he leads the way to the living room, as Hannah comes out of the kitchen with a plate of black bread. I smile a little, as she places the plate by me winking. It was no secret I absolutely love black bread. I start eating it right away and listen as Hannah and Isaac start talking about guest list.
We sit there for hours discussing everything from food to guest lists. I don't give much input, mostly I just help settle disagreements but at least it keeps my mind off of things.
It's finally around 6:30 PM when we finally call it quits. Isaac invites me to stay for dinner but I decline needing some fresh air. I give Hannah a hug goodbye and Isaac a pat on the back before leaving, promising to come back soon.
I get in my car about to go home when I get this gut feeling telling me to go to the beach. So I decide to follow it. I arrive at the beach about twenty minutes later. I pull into a spot in the nearly empty parking lot. I slip off my shoes and leave them in the passenger seat as well as my shirt not needing them here. I then lock the car and make my way down the beach to a spot where I can't hear anyone or anything except the ocean. The tide is just starting to rise and I walk along the edge of the water squishing the sand between my toes and just letting the cool ocean breeze wash away my stress.
After a bit, I decide to take a swim even though the sun is setting. I look around and see that I am completely alone. I quickly strip down to nothing and then wade out into the water.
I shiver a little as I enter the freezing water but my body soon gets used to it. I swim around a little bit just loosening up my muscles and blowing off steam.
Eventually, I stop and float on my back watching the beautiful reds and pinks and golds of the sunset. What a beautiful end to such an awful day, I think to myself sighing. Then I think about the girl in my dream. I wonder what her name is? Will I ever see her again? I can feel my heart rate accelerate a little as I think about her.
A loud clap of thunder pulls me out thoughts. Shit I think as I quickly swim to shore. The wind is picking up like crazy and I can tell a crazy storm is coming in. It's completely dark now as the pitch black clouds roll in. I walk blindly back to the car. Suddenly, my foot hits something and I face plant into the sand. I sit and spit sand out of my mouth and wipe it off my face. I am about to get up and keep moving when the object I hit moves and moans a little. I gasp out loud when I realize it's a body. I crawl over to it and see the outline of a women lying there. I know I can't just leave her here with a storm blowing in, so I stand up and scoop her into my arms.
As quickly as I can, without falling or dropping the girl, I make my way back to the car. I finally make it back to the car and beep it to unlock it. I open the back door of the car gently place the girl in the back seat rushing like crazy to beat the storm.
I slam the door being careful of her head and jump into the front seat. I start the car and start driving as fast as I dare home. I arrive thirty minutes later just as the rain starts pouring down.
"Awe fuck," I say out loud to no one.
I scramble out if the car and run to my door unlocking it and opening it. I then bolt back to the car, scoop the girl up and gently bring her into the house, beeping the car to lock it on the way in. I slam the door closed with my foot and then take the girl to my couch. I lay her down gently and take a deep breath finally getting a good look at. My heart almost stops. I push the girl's hair out of her face and I am looking right into the face of the girl from my dreams.
