Nixie's P.O.V

I dropped my house key in the grass and ran over to him as fast as I could. "Cam!" I yelled on my sprint over.

I shook him trying desperately to wake him up. I searched his body for a pulse, but I couldn't find one. Where was a human's supposed to be again? Neck? Chest? Wrist? Foot? I didn't have time to check. I could tell the rising and falling of his chest was starting to slow.

"Lyla! Rita! Serena! Somebody please help me!" I called out desperately. I was no longer afraid of them finding out Cam and I were together.

But it wasn't any of them that came to my aid. It was Zac.

"What did you do to him?!" He practically yelled at me.

"I – I don't know. He fainted."

"Come on. Help me carry him into the house." Zac picked him up by his armpits and I grabbed him feet, together we made slow progression back to the house. On the front steps and bashed on the front door.

Serena was the one to open the door and as soon as she saw the three of us her eyes widened and she stepped out of the way to let us through.

We carried Cam into the grotto where we met up with Rita and Lyla.

"Lay him over there on the bench." Rita commanded. Zac and I placed him carefully on a pile of pillows.

"What happened to him?" Rita asked.

"He fainted." I started breathing heavy; I could bear to look at his lifeless form anymore.

"No kidding, Nixie." Lyla scoffed.

"Nixie," Rita placed a hand on my shoulder, "If you don't tell us what happened, we can't help you."

I sucked in a deep breath and blew it out. "He kissed me."

The room erupted in noise. I knew that this was a bad idea.

"You did what!?" Zac exclaimed.

"How could you be so stupid?" Lyla scoffed.

"Why Nixie?" Serena asked, a little bit softer than the others. And her words never sounded as harsh.

"Oh no." Rita breathed out.

I turned to her, "Oh no? Why 'oh no?' Rita what is going on?"

"It's probably nothing." She said.

"In my life probably nothing is always something. Please tell me. How do we save him?" I begged. By now there were big tears rolling down my cheeks.

"We can't help him. There is a legend that says if a mermaid kisses the one she is destined to be with then their energies will merge and they will become one with another. But nobody knows if it's true or not because nobody has had the gills to fall in love with a human." She explained.

"One with another?" I wondered out loud. "Wait does that mean that he'll grow a –" I couldn't force the words out of my mouth.

"Right now his body is deciding whether to accept or reject the new energy it has been introduced to." Rita said.

"And if he rejects it?" I asked quietly.

Without hesitation she replied, "He'll die."

Somewhere between a wail and a whimper escaped my lips. I rushed over to Cam and grasped his hand in mine; I faintly felt his pulse in between my tightly clenched fingers. Zac was looking extremely pale, after all his best friend's life was on the line because of me. Lyla and Serena still remained expressionless, they couldn't care less if Cam died or not.

"I feel a pulse." I said in a slow shaky voice.

"That is a good sign." Rita said calmly.

After a few minutes of silence Zac spoke up, "Can't your moon rings help him?"

"No that would be too risky. Just adding more foreign magical energy wouldn't help." Rita sighed.

After a while Zac left, saying his parents would kill him if he stayed out after midnight and he escaped through the make-shift moon pool in Rita's house. Soon after Lyla and Serena excused themselves to Mako so they could sleep.

It was just Rita and I left. She let out a big yawn. "I'm going to bed, Nixie you should go to Mako and join the others. I'll get up and check on him every hour or so."

"I followed my heart, Rita. And this happened."

"Everything will be alright I promise." She assured me.

"How can you be sure?"

"I can't but I know that if he felt the same way you do that it has to be love," she paused, that did make me feel a little bit better. "Come on, let's get you to Mako." She stood up.

"No. I'm going to stay here with him."

"Are you sure?"

I nodded. The rest of the night I spent with my hand in his patiently waiting to him to wake up. I always kept my finger on the pulse that reassured me he was still alive.

"I promise, I won't leave your side."