LOGAN'S POV

Me and Carlos just sat there in the best type of silence until some one came and ruined it. "Carlos!"

Carlos turned his head in the direction of the voice. I jerked my hand away from Carlos' arm. I had look of panic on my face but Carlos noticed and rubbed my arm for reassurance. "I need you to hide until I come and get you ok?" he asked me.

It took me a few seconds to respond but I did duck away under water. I could tell Carlos was talking to someone, now who that person was I wasn't sure. As I waited I just swam around for a bit while I think. Even though I've known Carlos for one day, it feels like I've known him forever. I knew he was fully human. He knew that I'm part human, and part something else and that part was fish. He knew that only because I kept touching his arm which showed my wrist fins. I felt this attraction to him the second I first laid eyes on Carlos.

I was swimming by the ledge, which I dubbed it as my spot. I found it a few years ago. Every person of my kind had their own spot. A place they can run away to and feel at peace. Carlos just happened to be there at the same time as I was. It also didn't really help when he put his hand in the water. It was an automatic reaction. Whenever a human places their hand in the area that we're in, we feel the vibrations that come off of them. Thus making us draw closer to the person. After so many encounters we start to get used to the vibrations, and we get used to the person who is calling us.

The truth of the matter is, even though I barely know Carlos I know that I can trust him with just about anything. All I have to do is man up and show him. I did shy away a little when he asked me to say something. But at that moment I just could not trust my voice. If I would've spoke I probably would've said something stupid and scared him away. Not that he actually would be but still.

"Logan!" I turn around I saw that my best friend Kendall was swimming to me.

"Hey, Kendall." I say nervously.

"What are you doing here, I thought your free roam time was over?" He crossed his arms over his chest.

"It will be in like five minutes."

"Well how come you're not at your spot?"

How was I supposed to answer that without him getting suspicious? I couldn't tell him that I was meeting Carlos, a human here. "I guess I must have slowly strayed from my spot and now I'm here. Besides this area is unclaimed so there's no harm in being here."

"I don't believe that Logan but I'll let it slide for now. And you have to come back home at some point."

I rolled my eyes. "I'm aware of that, Kendall, I know I can't stay out here long. I like the freedom that the free roam time gives us, and I'm going to use every minute of it."

"As much as I want to give you the 'be careful speech' I can see that you now what you're doing, but just come home soon, I can't keep covering for you forever."

"I will."

Kendall looked around a bit, he saw the palm tree's form from the surface. He swam up to the surface with me right behind him. We hid behind it, with our face peeking from the side. There on the sand was Carlos, and some other guy. They were talking, the other guy was sounding upset. Carlos was trying to reason with him about something. That's when Kendall just had to flip his tail, making a splash causing the guy to look away from Carlos towards the tree.

I noticed how Kendall started to drift towards this man, when I pulled him back by his shoulders.

"What were you doing that you couldn't hear me calling your name?" he asked Carlos.

"James, like I said I was distracted." Carlos responded.

So his name is James?

"By what this time? Coral?"

"N-no it was...starfish."

"Wow even better. Well if you had an eyeful, it's time to go and stuff our faces with food."

"Oh yeah, that's fine just give me a few minutes to finish up what I'm looking at here."

"You have five." with that James walked away.

I saw Carlos turn to face the water. I knew he was about to stick his hand back in the water, before I went to see him, I told Kendall to stay put and that I'd be right back. I let my head resurface.

"I'm sorry Logan, I have to go now." he said with pain in his voice. I looked at him with wide eyes. He can't be serious right?

"You're leaving?" I asked softly.

He sighed."Yes I have too. But I'll came back though, real soon."

"Promise?"

He nodded. "I...promise." He stroked my wrist fins once more before pulling his hand away and standing up.

I waved him goodbye.

"Take care Logan."

I turned around to dive off. Once I was completely under I went to Kendall, who wore this look of a mixture between disappointed and happiness.

"What?" I asked.

"What was that? What the heck was that?" he pointed up for emphasis.

I laughed nervously, "Oh that? It was nothing. Just a little get together."

"With a human? Logan do you know how dangerous that is? Other people could have seen you and then next thing you know you're stuck in a net, never to be seen again."

"Kendall relax, I made sure no one else was around. I only showed my head and my hands. I'm not dumb enough to show my whole body in a very populated area. And what about you? You flicked your tail causing the taller guy to look towards the tree."

"I was caught off guard." he cried.

"From what how he looked?" I smirked. "You like him don't you?"

"I don't know anything about him to like him."

"So? I don't know much about Carlos but I still like him." Crap. Should not have said that.

"Carlos?" Kendall came closer to me. "Which one was Carlos?"

"The shorter one..." I blushed a little bit.

"Aw it's ok Logie, he's cute."

I smiled. "So is James. That's who was standing there with Carlos."

"Oh I see. I'm gonna see him again I'm not sure when or how but it will happen."

"Of course it will Kendall. Come on we got to get going before we really get in trouble." I said swimming off only to have Kendall catch up.


The one thing I hate about swimming home during the afternoon is, that the short cut we take through the rocks that poke out to the surface is that there's always fishermen everywhere. We have to take breaks every so often. And by breaks I mean hiding behind the rocks. But there's this one boat that I'll always be terrified of. That's the S.W.I.M boat. The Sea Water Investment team for Mythical creatures. They were always over here. Every time time they saw a tail they would assume it was one of us. I have no chance of getting passed them with out making noises. Kendall was a pro at diving off without making big splashes with his tail. I had the tendencies to do that when I'm nervous. And you can never tell when they were watching either.

Me and Kendall went behind the closest rock to hide behind. "This really sucks." I simply said.

"I know, but if you want to get home faster this is the way you take."

"Because faster is better." I mocked him. "More like dangerous."

Kendall rolled his eyes. "Lighten up Logan, the chances of these guys catching us is five percent, so quite your worrying."

"Five percent that can still happen, so therefor I will worry."

Kendall looked around before saying, "Coast is clear, now come on." When he moved I followed him to yet another rock.

"In all honesty, this is not faster. The hiding slows you down." I pointed out.

"Exactly, so from here on out we're done taking breaks, so get your last breath now because we won't be stopping anytime soon." with that he dived of with out me.

"Kendall!" I quickly followed him. I wasn't an inherently fast swimmer like Kendall was, but that didn't give him the right to leave me like that. But try as I might I couldn't catch up with him. I felt like I was being pulled back. I kept trying to push off harder with my tail,and I wasn't going anywhere. I was being pulled up to the surface.

"We got somethin' sir." a voice said

"Well what are you waiting for? Pull it up." another

If I wasn't so scared right now I would be really mad. Don't these guys have lives or wives to go home too? As I got closer to the surface I had to to think quickly. I saw that right next to to my left arm there was a hole, about two feet wide.

"What do you think it is?"

"Quit asking stupid questions. It's one of them. You should know this!"

While those two were arguing, I grabbed each side of the hole and pulled to make it rip even more than it already was. With the hole getting bigger in size I knew that I could slip through it. I was half way out of the water by the time it was big enough. Then plunged back down leaving the net in the air. However when I did this, I made a big enough splash that it could have been a dolphin jumping about. Gasping for air at the sudden insert of water in my lungs,I resurfaced. I saw the two figures screaming at each when one of the noticed me.

"Hey, he's getting away do something!"

"What am I supposed do to?"

"Get the net back down there!"

"What could I possibly do with a broken net?"

I just sat there for a minute before realizing, that I recognized this guy. He was always trying to hunt me down for his own sick reasons. I started to panic once again, the fear freezing me in place. He saw me and I saw pure hatred on his face. I knew that I had to get away before he tries anything. I wasted no time trying to dive back under.

"YOU CAN RUN ALL YOU WANT BUT I WILL CATCH YOU!" he screams at me.

I kept swimming and didn't stop until I reached my destination. The city of La Merra. (1)


I was still a little shaken up by the time I arrived at my house. Of course when I came in, I was pulled into a big hug.

"Ma, let go, you're squeezing me too tight."

"Oh, sorry honey." she pulled back from me slightly. "We were so worried, that you were taken. Nothing on you is broken on you right?" she started to look around me making sure I was ok.

I just chuckled at her antics."I'm fine. Nothing's broken. But I will say I'm a little ticked because Kendall kinda ditched me on the way home."

"Kendall left you? That doesn't sound like something he would do."

"Trust me he does it all the time." I sighed.

"Oh well, I'm sure he doesn't mean too." she went into the kitchen. I sat down on the rock like chairs that were in front of the counters.

"I'm sure he doesn't either but he does it anyways."

"So how was your free roam time?"

I smiled. My thoughts were instantly of Carlos. His voice. His touch. And his appeal to my better nature. "Fantastic. Just fantastic."

"Glad to hear it. Oh by the way your father is coming home tonight." she said as if she was talking about the weather.

My smile faltered a little bit. "G-great. That's just great." I say trying to sound happy. My mom noticed this, she looked at me, trying to figure out the reason for the sudden change in my voice.

"What's wrong, Logan? You love seeing your father."

" I know...it's just that I'm so excited that I can't even form a proper emotion for it." I gave her a sad smile. She reached over and patted my right hand.

"Don't worry, once you see his face you'll be happy for sure."

"You're right because I won't" I said as a matter of factually. I reached over and grabbed a fish cookie and munched on it as I got up, swimming to my room. I sat down on my fluffy coral bed,thinking about today's events. So I met up with Carlos, twice. I sorta met his friend James who Kendall has a crush on. I almost got caught by those dumb S.W.I.M agents, and my mom just told me that my dad was coming home. So I guess all in all today wasn't too bad. I would have liked for it to be better, but whatever I can't really complain.

I just can't help but wonder what is Carlos doing right now?