Chapter 4
My breath stopped in my throat. A tail! Like a "The Little Mermaid" tail. I've got to be dreaming. I blinked my eyes a couple of times but the tail was still there, and even better she had one too! So merpeople do exist. Wow, never thought I'd see this day. But I wasn't disturbed the tail, if anything it was intriguing and kinda hot.
I stopped gazing at his tail and watched him converse with the beautiful girl. She also had a tail! This was all very over whelming that I began to feel dizzy so I laid my head back onto the rock and concentrated on breathing in and out.
Who was this mystery girl? Was she his lover? Well, duh, that would explain so much. I mean, come on, he's way too gorgeous to be single. This was upsetting. He was taken. Did I actually think I had a chance with him? I mean, I'm not the prettiest fish in the sea…oh bad cliché. I was just average looking, with my dark brown hair, brown eyes, and round face. I had small Asian eyes, compared to her big beautiful sapphires, and I was just kind of boring. The most appealing part of me was probably my…collarbone. I was thin, but not skinny; I was mostly muscle from all the exercise I do, so I was heavy, but slender at the same time.
I heard movement in the water and saw both of them coming over to me. My heart started beating faster, which only made the dizziness worse.
Kai looked at me with a cute crooked smile, "Eva, this is Cora Jean, she brought some supplies and can stitch up the cut on your stomach and bandage your head".
She flashed me a smile, "Hi Eva, you can call me C.J. Everyone does except for Kai."
I smiled back at her trying to be nice. If she was going to help me I couldn't act like a bitch. "Thanks".
From the water she pulled out a Ziploc bag filled with more gauze, some scissors, medical thread, and a vial filled with a clear liquid.
She pulled out the container with the clear stuff and applied it to some gauze. She looked at me, her eyes telling me she was sorry, and said: "I have to clean your wound so this is probably going to hurt a lot, but it won't get infected which would hurt even more".
I sighed and closed my eyes, "K, I can take it".
She took off the crimson gauze and firmly pressed the white, cleaning gauze to my gory stomach.
Holy . My cut had turned into fire. The pain was ridiculous; it felt like it spread throughout my whole torso. I clenched my eyes shut and gritted my teeth. I wanted to cry, but I DON'T cry. I felt a hand grab mine and opened my eyes a sliver to see Kai above me, looking at me with such worry apparent on his flawless features.
He started stroking my hair. Right in front of his girlfriend? Lover? Wife? But it felt so nice that I gave into his touch and started to relax as the pain dissipated.
C.J threw the now bloodied gauze to the side and brought out a clean piece where she again applied the clear liquid. She looked at me again with a kind smile, "Okay I just have to do it one more time".
She applied the cloth to my wound, and yet again, fire spread from my cut like a lighted match in front of a jet of aerosol hairspray. It felt as if someone had punched me so hard in the stomach that their fist went right through the skin and now their hand was groping around in my insides. I clenched Kai's hand tight and he continued to stroke my hair while looking at me like he cared so much.
C. J. wiped the rest of the blood from my skin and threaded a needle she had pulled from the baggy. She told me: "This might sting a little too, but not nearly as bad".
She was right. It did sting, but it was bearable. I only felt some tugging and several little stings. When she was done she wiped my stomach down with some gauze again. She took out a little tube of Neosporin and gently put it on the wound and then applied one of those big, clear, waterproof bandages.
After watching her work, I sighed and let my head drop to the rough surface of the cave. I closed my eyes for a quick sec and when I opened them I saw Kai's face hovering over mine. His lips were pursed and he looked right into my eyes.
"You alright Eva?" He queried.
I gave him a little half smile and nodded, my heart banging against my chest again. How does he have this power over me? No other guy has made me feel this way?
C.J. then put some more Neosporin on the tiny cut on my forehead and put some butterfly bandages on it. By this time I was feeling quite exhausted and my dizziness had returned. I glanced at C.J. and saw her putting her supplies back in their little baggy along with my bloody gauze which went in a separate smaller baggy.
C.J. looked at me and said: "I've got to go now, it was nice to meet you Eva".
I smiled, "Oh, thank you so much, it was nice meeting you too".
She smiled back and then turned to Kai, "I'll see you at home".
She then dived into the water and with a wave of her beautiful magenta tail, she was gone.
I looked at Kai.
"So, merpeople do exist", I stated.
He looked down and smiled, clearly embarrassed. "Yeah, I'm sorry. I just thought it would be hard to tell you".
"It's okay, I forgive you." I assured him.
He smiled at me, and I smiled back. "I need to get you back home before you're missed".
I was confused. "Yeah, okay, and how can you do that without me drowning?"
"I can swim above water you know."
Well jeeze, I feel dumb.
I let a silent "oh" escape my lips.
"Besides, I can swim really fast" He looked at me, his eyes playing with mine. He was so damn sexy, it wasn't fair. "You just have to promise me that you'll take it easy for a couple days".
That's so much easier said than done. "Cross my heart and hope to die", I promised.
He took one of my arms and wrapped it around his neck. He then put one of his finely toned arms beneath my knees and the other around my waist, careful to not disrupt my array of bandages. He slipped me into the water and now I was pressed against his warm, hard chest. Can anyone say heaven?
He looked down at me and smiled, "Take a deep breath and close your eyes".
I gulped in a mouthful of air and closed my eyes, resting my head against his shoulder/collarbone area.
I felt him dive into the water. His powerful tail propelled us forward, cutting through the water in swift strokes. I felt it when we resurfaced again, but my eyes couldn't open. They were to tired.
"Eva?"
"Mmhmm".
"K. Just checking. Good night".
"Night", I whispered as a let the blackness take over once again, and drifted off to a deep, dreamless sleep in Kai's arms.
Please Review, and thanks for reading. I need help on where to take this story. Should it just be a story of romance, or should I add some evil bad guy? Help me decide :)
-sarafinna
