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Dangerously Alluring- Chapter 11
"Poseidon?" Beca echoed the question, confusion lacing every inch of her face. She glanced over to Jesse and Luke also, seeing that they were sharing a similar stare. "That dude actually exists?" Beca remembered hearing this name before, watching movies or listening to the fictional stories Jesse would always ramble to her. Never though would she of thought those things would end up being real.
She also didn't think mermaids were real and turns out they most definitely were so, that didn't really help her case here.
"Yes he's real," Chloe confirms softly, a single nod to her head that was hesitant. Beca could tell whoever this Poseidon guy is was nothing but bad news.
"That…dude-" Aubrey mocked in a dumb tone, "-is related to Demeter." Beca rolled her eyes at the sassiness in Aubrey's tone. For a fish, she was a total rag sometimes. It's not Beca's fault this whole mythology is new to her. She didn't have time to go around the entire ocean, traveling the deepest darkest depths to find mermaids and the….Kraken.
God, now that she has discovered already a handful of creatures in this mythical world, she really hopes that last part isn't true.
"He is God of the sea, earthquakes, storms and horses." Chloe chipped in, seeing Beca's confusion still at max. Jesse made the comment, asking if he was God of anything else, like ponds and lakes since he controlled so many other things and in return, he received three equally terrifying glares from each mermaid, including Cynthia. Beca didn't know what the woman was to be quite frank. An octopus? A squid?
"Unlike our father, who was the God of the longest river in Greece-which made him chief to all others, Poseidon, in other words, is a lot stronger."
Beca snorted under her breath, "well, duh. An ocean in comparison to a river is like a mouse compared to a lion….. and okay I'm going to shut up now." She zipped her lips and planted her eyes immediately into her lap, averting all attention away from the, 'I'm about five seconds away from ripping you apart if you don't shut up,' look Aubrey was giving her. She was really testing the waters with the amount of sarcasm dripping from her mouth.
"You said our father is dead?" Chloe asked, her voice wavering and bringing bringing all attention back to the sea witch. Cynthia confirmed this with a small nod with caused Chloe's eyes to sadden even more. This confirmation did the same with Stacie but as for Aubrey, she froze stone cold, the emerald color in her eyes now replaced with a blinding white.
"She's seeing something!" Stacie announced, scooting closer to wrap her arms around Aubrey's form.
"What is she seeing?" This was a question given by Beca, Jesse and Luke as they watched Aubrey staring off into the distance without flinching a muscle. As a reflex seeing her sister, Chloe reached out to grab Beca's hand, looking for any comfort she could find in the human. Wincing at the pain, Beca held it in.
Beca didn't really know the exact time it took before Aubrey's eyes returned back into a glowing green and her breathing was back to normal. But it had to be no less than a couple minutes. She almost completely forgot that Aubrey had certain powers that allowed her to have visions like this.
"He's not dead," Aubrey said this in between gasps and looked around at her sister's, gripping onto anything she could find. Beca could basically feel the relief spread through Chloe's body at the news as the hand clutching her's eased up on the tightness.
"He's not?" Chloe voice was barely above a whisper.
Aubrey shook her head, "No, I...I couldn't really tell where he was at in the ocean; it was extremely dark and the water wasn't blue like most is. The area looked unfamiliar though."
"Poseidon must've lied about killing Achelous then and instead, just kicked him out of the kingdom," Cynthia spoke up this time, processing everything but still connecting the dots. "Once you three left, I heard nothing but trouble was floating around your home. I just didn't think Poseidon was the mastermind behind all of it. God knows he loathed your father with a burning passion, only wanting the throne for himself."
"But how could he just get….kicked out? He was the strongest mammal down there." Aubrey looked towards Cynthia for this answer. Her words spoke in disbelief. Beca, Jesse and Luke all shared glances, trying their best to keep up on what was going on.
But everything right now was sounding like a foreign language to them.
"He was struggling intensely after you three left, the entire kingdom was going haywire." Cynthia shook her head, lowering her eyes. "Once word got around the sea that he banished his own daughters from their home, his once honored reputation turned to the most hated. Mostly all of the creatures down there believed what Aubrey and Stacie had was something special, nothing to be exiled for."
"Oh my God," Aubrey covered her mouth with a single hand, just under her eyes that were starting to get glassy and red. "We are the reason he's not King anymore," she finalized muffled underneath her palm, a single tear rolling down her cheek.
Stacie wrapped Aubrey in her arms tighter at the sight of her crying, "Sweetie, that's not true-" But wasn't able to finish before Aubrey cut her off with a hiss.
"Yes, Stacie, it is! If I wouldn't have fallen in love with you, we'd still be living back at home safe and not crossing our fingers just to hope that this stupid… fucking potion will work so we don't end up dead!"
Nobody spoke at this, not even Chloe; Beca was even scared to breathe if she was being honest. Aubrey was livid and maybe a little scared-and though the words took a sharp gash to Stacie's heart, she understood that the blonde didn't mean them because she kept her hold around her girlfriend's torso. Technically, it wasn't the mermaids fault that they were cursed.
It was Beca's. If she would've just...fell for Chloe's spell and went through the inevitable that Chloe had in mind, the mermaids wouldn't be fighting for their life. They'd getting back to doing what they've been doing for years, without any problems. And now since she realized this, the sight of them taking it out on each other was too painful to watch. It wasn't their fault.
It was her's.
But before Beca could speak up about any of this running through her head, she noticed the the current from the ocean was shallowing to a lower tide, now that it was later in the evening. All three of the mermaids tails were out of the water on sand and she doesn't know how long exactly they've been laying out under the sun, dry.
As she was about to tell the mermaids they should probably get back into the water before they fry under the sun's brutal rays, something was strangely happening to Chloe's fin in particular.
Chloe saw this too and she looked at Beca with a scared glance, not knowing exactly what was going on. Beca didn't really know either and just watching what was happening was freaking her out. "What's going on?" Now as Beca switched her attention to the other mermaids, even Stacie's and Aubrey's tails were doing the exact same thing.
Towards the end where Chloe's fin flailed like a fan, the thin corners of each point were slowly melting off in this sparkling, turquoise blue that dripped into a similar colored puddle above the sand until it vanished away. It was like someone was bringing a flame to a stick of butter and rolling back in like a fruit roll up. Or a popsicle dissolving off its stick on a hot summer's day.
Jesse and Luke shared equal panic, unsure of how to help but looked at Beca for at least something- a lead to stop the situation.
Chloe's eyes were laced with fear once her entire fin was oozing off and making its way down the body of her tail. Beca didn't know what to do and all the thoughts screaming inside her head were telling her that the potion didn't work and that the mermaids were dying- Chloe, was dying right in front of her. She scrambled to the end of Chloe's tail and tried to use both hands to stop the coiling track, not having a set plan, so really she didn't understand why she thought this would work. The shimmering blue dripping off of Chloe's tail was extremely cold and thick when Beca's hands came in contact but eventually it cleared. She casted her attention briefly over to the other mermaids who were just as scared that their tails were vanishing in front of them.
Fuckfuckfuckfuck Beca thought to herself, panicked as she tried to think of something else-anything else to help the mermaids. She was not going to let any of them die. She wouldn't be able to live with herself if she did. "God….Fuck!" She wasn't able to keep this one in, tears already present down her cheeks.
"It's okay." A gentle, cold hand caressed her shoulder and turning back to see who it was, Cynthia was giving her a reassuring nod. "It's working." Is all she said before crawling back on her tentacles into the ocean to look from afar.
What is working? Beca was about to ask but then noticed Chloe nor her sisters weren't showing any pain. If their flesh was really rotting like they'd said it would if the potion didn't work, wouldn't there be some excruciating pain involved? Suddenly though as she looked down at length where there once was a fish's tail, the scales were replaced by ten, individual toes, and then split by two legs with two thighs until connecting to one torso.
Chloe's eyes were sparkling when Beca made eye contact with her, the icy blue surrounded by red from tears and the worry washing away. Beca knew this time they were happy tears streaming down the mermaid's face as she stared at the two newly formed legs that replaced each tail.
Once the liquid like blue color from Chloe's tail evaporated off of each leg, the redhead reached down to touch the limbs, making sure what she saw wasn't some trick her mind was playing on her.
Feeling the smoothness of the skin, "it worked!" Chloe beamed a smile and pointed down at her newly formed pair of human legs. Her mouth was gaped and her eyes were stretched wide. "Oh my crabs it worked!" Beca could only chuckle at the excitement before she was submerged in sand after being tackled by a harsh bear hug. "I have legs!"
The shake to her shoulders was hard to register anything to respond with except for strangled grunts. Also, there was the shimmering skin now in an arm's reach of where Beca was laying. "You also have zero clothes on." After a while, she was able to wheeze this out, hiding her own pleasure under her tone at being this close to Chloe's nude, golden body.
At this, Chloe quickly got up and twisted her head to look behind. Beca bit her lip as Chloe struggled to keep her balance and trying not to laugh. The redhead looked a lot like a baby calf that was just born and this was the first time learning to walk.
Pointing to her backside with an ever wider smile, "I have a butt!" Chloe announced, jumping on her heels and gladly showing Beca what exactly it was she was referring to. Don't look Mitchell! Avert your eyes! AVERT YOUR EYES. "Isn't it cute?!"
Beca ended up getting a glimpse, being extremely weak for a goddess like Chloe. But there was a blinding smile that focused Beca's eyes-which was a better alternative than other places she could have been looking at on Chloe's body.
With a few wiggles here and there, Beca had to tear her gaze immediately because the heat rising up through her neck was almost unbearable. And though Chloe's butt was very, very cute, Beca couldn't look anymore without feeling dirty. Chloe, obviously, had not a shame in the world and continued to flaunt her new skin for everyone on shore.
Aubrey and Stacie also did the same, joining Chloe's excitement as they each took turns admiring each other's legs. As the three did this, bouncing around with squeals, Beca caught Luke and Jesse watching the girls in awe, both of their faces resembling a teenage boy's who just saw his first naked girl.
Finding the closest hard object she could find, she tossed it over at her friends to break their focus. "Get your heads out of the gutters!" She warned sternly, not enjoying Chloe's body being watched as entertainment for two, horny boys who think with their penis. Chloe was captivating yes, but not a piece of meat. Unfazed by the rocks, they shook Beca off with a wave to the hand, eyes remaining on the girls jumping in front.
"Oh my goodness you're tall," Aubrey cooed as she examined Stacie's legs with a smirk. They indeed ran for miles; Beca noted from where she was at, being able to get a good look. Unlike herself, turned out Stacie was not only blessed with the boobs but also, the freakishly long legs.
Not that Beca was looking or anything…because she wasn't….damn.
"Yeah?" Stacie tossed Aubrey a wink and took the blonde under her arms. "You like?" Only Aubrey could swoon hearing this, and wrapped her arms around Stacie's waist, modeling their skin together before rising up to her tippy toes and stealing a kiss.
It was a nice change in aroma seeing the mermaids so happy about the potion working- less hostel that's for sure. Aubrey and Stacie were the cutest together and knew each other's love was indescribable. Seeing them at their worst was awful and something Beca never wants to see again.
Chloe bounced back into Beca's lap, still unclothed, bare, and as naked as a jaybird, straddling Beca's thighs for a full view show. Chloe's legs weren't as long as Stacie's-maybe a little longer than Beca's, a little shorter than Aubrey's. They were extremely toned though, and while Beca expected same paleness over her skin, the two new legs were quite the opposite, with their golden tan tint. She also had a shimmering blue over her toenails, the same color that her tail once was-which was kind of neat. Aubrey's and Stacie's feet showed the same thing.
Maybe Chloe wasn't blessed with Stacie's height but for one, she was blessed with a lot of other things.
"Look at them, Becs!" Chloe seemed to totally be ignoring the fact that she was naked, in an arm's reach of Beca and more focused about the legs but how truely happy she was made Beca forget about all those things.
"They are great, Chlo." Beca complemented genuinely and Chloe's smile only doubled in size. She searched for somewhere to place her hands, finally ending up with a two fist full of sand as Chloe was non intentionally rocking her body over her stomach to reach for her feet from behind. This was just pure torture. Truthfully, Beca wanted to share the hype and ogle at Chloe's (insanely sexy) body; she can't think of anything better to do.
But, she has respect, dammit.
Lord, if you're up there, help me. Beca looked anywhere but her lap that sat a giddy, nude redhead, more than eager to get away from these inappropriate thoughts.
Jesse being the asshole that he really is and only adding more to Beca's flustered state, called out a few cat whistles that were followed by Luke secretly dry humping the air behind Chloe to go unnoticed. Beca covered her eyes, knowing damn well she was blushing but luckily, Chloe was too focused on her legs that she didn't see anything else going on around her.
Eventually, she gave mercy on Beca and sat up to stand, reaching out a hand to pick Beca up, as well.
"Cynthia, thank you." Everyone directed their attention to the sea witch who was out in the waters, enjoying the three of them bounce around like children with a pleased smile on her face. "Without you, who knows where we'd be right now."
"We are family, remember?" Cynthia shrugged, smirking. "But you guys aren't in the clear yet. Poseidon is still after you guys. Lurkers are already on their way."
"Can't we just get away from water and up to the jungle part of this island?" Jesse suggested, gesturing up top where dry land was.
"Afraid not. Lurkers are creepy little things." Aubrey scowled her face in disgust, answering the boy's question. Though it was a good idea, it would be pointless. "They're half human, half crab, so they'd be able to survive on land."
The hotness in Beca's body began to fade and soon her mind was focused on a more important situation rather than three, super hot girls being butt naked right in front of her to daze at. This situation was big; life or death even, with how the mermaids talked about Poseidon. And now, with the added "lurkers" who knew what could happen to them.
It wasn't no longer the mermaids being in trouble.
It was all of them.
"No, what Jesse is saying is right." Jesse, as well as the others, seemed shocked that Cynthia agreed to his idea. But clearly, she'd be the best candidate to know what to do. "You guys obviously can't stay here. Now with Poseidon in charge, Demeter finding about the curse and an army of Lurkers coming your way, it's a matter of hours before this land is destroyed."
Everyone nodded their heads, listening. The thought of the mermaid's home being destroyed was obviously seen in the three but they knew staying here would be unsafe. Where would they go? It's not like Chloe and her sisters had the map of the jungle and knew the place by heart. Up there was new territory for them and same with Beca, Jesse and Luke. They'd pretty much be walking blind with six giant X's for the lurkers to hunt.
"Now that you guys are able to survive on land, the best thing I would do is get the Hell off the island before they find you," Cynthia's voice shook, imagining the possibilities of outcomes that could end with them.
"What about our father?" Aubrey questioned concerned. It seemed like majority of them forgot about the vision she saw earlier where her dad was still alive and somewhere in the ocean but why did she care?
"As much ask if love to tell give you an answer, your dad is somewhere that I'm not familiar with. For all we know he could be across the country and by the time he hears everything that's going on, you guys could already be in trouble. I don't think he'd be much help."
"If he'd help us." Stacie chipped in her two sense but with an eye roll. "This is the man who kicked out his own daughters because they loved each other. I honestly doubt he'd help us now when we are the most wanted in the sea."
"That's not true." Chloe shook her head, her once beaming smile now long gone and replaced with a small frown. Stacie was bitter towards their father and as far as Beca could tell by body language, so was Aubrey. But she gets it. Their relationship was basically a sin as it was for being gay in the real world but for mermaids, they were raised to marry mermans, not other mermaids.
"I don't know what to tell you girls about your father. But you all need to leave before things get worse." Cynthia warned, pointing up towards the other end of the island where instead of covered by water, trees surrounded the rocks and cliffs.
Worse? This caught Beca's attention again. Great. Now there was something worse that could be after them. What could be worse than half crab, half human soldiers chasing after them, and the strongest God of the ocean?
"Cthulhu." All the mermaids said in unison, fear lacing the words as it came out. A moment of silence, Cynthia didn't give them a verbal response but just weakly nodded her head.
"What the fuck is that?" Beca panicked, eyes wide and her heart rate starting to speed up. Whatever it was it was, the overall name of the thing was terrifying and she can only guess that the thing behind it is even ten times scarier.
"I've read about that!" Jesse stole the question, relieved that the name actually sounded familiar. "It's one of the greatest and oldest of the sea monster legends. It's part octopus, part human and part dragon." Jesus Christ Beca gulped at the description. "It's described as hundreds of meters tall but for humans, it's never been confirmed as it's still a myth."
"Oh the height is right." Aubrey snorted. "Cthulhu might even be bigger than that. My sisters and I have never seen it up close; it was imprisoned while we were still back at home." Well shit. Obviously the thing was locked up for a reason and that reason being he was a giant, destructive beast that could destroy anything it wanted if gotten in the way.
Scoffing a few huffs, Beca paced back and forth along the sand, one hand running through her hair, the other gripping at her hip above her black swim bottoms. Things were finally starting to hit her at how endangered they all were. "How are we supposed to survive out here?! We have zero weapons, barely surviving off of food and now, a giant fucking monster is going to be let loose to swallow us whole! I'm not fit to survive in a tropical forest!" It's about time her levels of panic about the entire situation made an appearance.
They were doomed. All of them were fucking doomed.
"Stacie, you think you still have your powers?" Cynthia asked casually, ignoring Beca's question as a whole. Also, the dramatics that came with it. Stacie shrugged her shoulders, unsure if she had them still or not,l but still, a little taken back at the random question. Cynthia bobbed her head, taking this in. "Use them on Beca." She demanded with a shrug.
Um, what? This stopped Beca right where she was at, pacing along the shore-but didn't have enough time to ask if she heard Cynthia correctly before a piercing pain in her gut plummeted her to the sand. Like before, her veins felt like they were on fire, her insides dissolving away, and she had no strength to get up.
"Stacie, stop!" Next thing Beca knew was she was in Chloe's arms, pressed up against her warm skin and still recovering for the excruciating few seconds of pain she just encountered. Stacie's eyes were her usual blinding white and the longer Chloe held onto her, she could start to see her fangs extracting with rage.
Seeing this, all of the mermaids still had their powers, minus the tails.
"Just like I thought," Cynthia tapped her fingers against her chin, pleased to see that Stacie still had their powers but dismissing the groans of pain from a huddled up brunette in the arms of a very angry redhead. "These three are your guys' weapons." She announced, pointing to Chloe, Stacie and Aubrey who only furrowed their brows confused. "The potion I created was a lighter dose, one that wasn't strong enough to cure you of all your siren capabilities."
Chloe calmed down after a while, her teeth returning to normal and Beca was able to catch all the strength in her body back to move properly. Glancing up, Stacie seemed genuinely sorry for hurting Beca by the look in her eyes, guilty that it was Beca who experienced the power. Couldn't Cynthia of asked like….Chloe to test her powers? It would've been a Hell of a lot less painful that's for sure.
"So, we have all our powers still?" Aubrey asked, still closely glued to Stacie's side with her arms hooked around the taller girl's torso.
"Yes and that will help you guys if faced any threats. The longer you wait here, the closer the lurkers are to finding you. They already destroyed my home looking for me, I'd hate if the same happened to you. The best thing would be leaving at sunrise."
"We could find help.." Chloe trialed off, realizing that if walking the island, not knowing how far it ran could run them into someone else. Though her hopes weren't set high, the farther they got away from the ocean, the less likely it would be for Poseidon to find them.
"As far as I know, this island-your home is enormous. There is miles of land to cover and a higher chance of making it far enough that you'll be bounced back on the map."
"What about you?" Aubrey asked genuinely curious. "Where are you going to go?"
"Well for a start, I'm going to take a trip back to your kingdom to figure out what exactly is going on. Maybe adventure out, rebuild a new home for myself." Cynthia listed with a smile. "I've always wanted to live in the deeps seas of Italy."
"It beautiful there." Chloe commented, her shining smile back to flaunt. Beca missed that thing. Aubrey and Stacie both agreed with Chloe.
The atmosphere was thinning around them, The air less tensed about what to do since now they had a plan to leave the beach tomorrow morning. And though they all were still in danger, the slim chance they'd be rescued, or running into civilization outweighed their doubts.
Cynthia started sinking back into the ocean, getting farther and farther away from the group. "Promise us something?" Chloe called out before Cynthia made it too deep, yielding her from going any farther.
Cynthia at first was hesitant at this question from Chloe. But soon she nodded her head to whatever it was she was promising to.
Looking for approval from her sisters, "you'll at least find our father."
"Did it hurt?" Beca's hand was resting on the inside part of Chloe's leg, just above her knee as they sat onshore watching the sunset cast over the ocean. There was a slight breeze around them that was flowing Chloe's hair and now that it had the chances to dry, Beca noted that the red was a tad bit curly. It almost looked crimped in a way. Nonetheless Chloe still looked gorgeous.
All of them searched around and managed to find some pieces of clothing scattered in the cave, left items from shipwrecks and well….other reasons. Chloe found a dark blue bathing suit that she settled on, white swim shorts and a loose black t shirt that hung off her shoulders in case the weather got cooler. So far though, it was still pretty hot and didn't feel the need to wear it.
Not that Beca minded.
Stacie and Aubrey found something similar to wear but instead, the bikinis were different colors; Stacie's was a dark violet and Aubrey's was yellow with white pinstripes. Also, Aubrey wore a white, half cut sarong to match the top.
Cynthia departed not too long ago, hoping to resolve some of the tension going on back in the kingdom before it gets too out of hand. She made a promise to the mermaids and that was to find their father. Even though she herself wasn't to fond of the ex King, she kept her promises and loved the mermaids like her own sisters. Finding him was still up in the air but she'd try her hardest if it meant the mermaids would be happy.
"Did what hurt?" Chloe hummed, switching her attention from the sky to Beca who was watching her intently.
That moment, Beca's heart nearly stopped at the sight. God, Chloe is beautiful- that's a no brainier. Anyone would say that if running into the girl on the street and getting a look for themselves. But now, with the sunset's glow adding to the blue in her eyes and making her skin shimmer under the light, words don't even come in close to describing how alluring Chloe truly is.
Chloe glanced down at where Beca's fingers were delicately drumming across the skin on the inner part of her thigh. "Losing your tail." Beca said after snapping herself back from being wheeled in at Chloe's beauty. "It looked like it hurt."
"No it didn't actually." Chloe shrugged with a smile. "It probably looked like I was in pain because of the crying and the look on my face but honestly, it wasn't bad. The feeling was weird though. It was like…..tingling. Like if your arm fell asleep or something."
Beca scrunched her face, imagining how it felt. She hated when her foot, or arm would fall asleep after neglecting it for so long. The feeling was almost like tiny little prickles against the area. Uncomfortable. "Are you going to miss it?" Chloe lowered her eyes, pursing her lips; Beca knowing she hit a soft spot. She can't even imagine how Chloe felt after losing something that meant so much to her. After living her entire life with it, hundreds of years, the absence must be hard to deal with.
"Maybe every now and then I will." Chloe said after a couple seconds of silence. "It was definitely a….part of me and it's hard to not look down and see it but, I've lived so many years as a mermaid. It's time I've spent the rest with something new."
Chloe wiggled her toes, still fascinated by the tiny little things and it made Beca laugh. She leaned her head on Beca's shoulder when she was finished poking around with her toes and enjoyed the peaceful showtime ocean was playing.
They sat comfortably for a while, Chloe's head rested against Beca's shoulder with her fingers still brushing the inner part of Chloe's thigh. It was a nice change for one, Beca registered at the position. It seemed like lately they have just been experiencing problem after problem and not able to just sit back and relax. Be stress free for once in the past few days. Of course, once morning came around, they'd be back to scrambling for their lives.
But until then, Beca wanted to enjoy the peace and quiet with an amazing girl by her side.
As they watched the sun descended lower, listening to the waves crash into the rocks, whistle through the leaves and water flowing against the sand, Beca heard a deep growl erupt from Chloe's stomach. Chloe peeled her head away from Beca's shoulder shocked at what she just heard and Beca laughed when she knew exactly what the noise meant. She offered a hand to pull Chloe up and once they were both standing, they started to walk.
"Let's get you something to eat."
Both of them walked along the shore; Beca looking around for this so called fruit Jesse and Luke were talking about the farther they went up on land. She also tried to not show the amount of flutters that were going on inside her stomach when Chloe causally connected their hands together to swing against their legs as she studied all the nature she wasn't able to as a mermaid.
It was adorable whenever Beca stole a glimpse. Chloe looked like a little kid on Christmas morning, tearing open their presents and finding everything they asked for. Instead of gifts though, it was a new shell, or a rock that she was unfamiliar with when stumbling upon.
Again, Chloe was adorable. How many times has Beca already said that? Probably a lot. She doesn't even bother to keep track since chances are she'll end up saying it later on. Justine stating the facts, you know?
Continuing to walk in comfortable silence, keeping the spark contained whenever Chloe would brushed her thumb against the back of her hand, or casually lean her head in briefly to rest on top of her shoulder, she gave Chloe a boost up on a nearby rock that lead to a palm tree where possible fruit could be growing. She hummed when examining the trees and being right, she found a couple of coconuts scattered along the soil that must've fallen from above where a group of them were growing.
Taking a good look at the ones up top, their color around the shell were still an apple green, unlike some of the ones that have fallen which were a chocolate brown. These must be the ripe ones out of the group-which in other words means delicious.
"What in the world is that?" Chloe eyes stretched wide when Beca bent down to pick up this fairly large brown sphere, not ever seeing anything like it before.
Shaking the coconut up to her ear, Beca listened for any present sounds of liquid coming from inside, and found none. The maturity of this one might be a little more difficult to eat but nonetheless still edible. "A coconut." Beca answered, twisting the fruit around in her hands for a hole, or dent to possibly break it open. "Here." Handing over the fruit, she was startled and almost dropped the thing when Chloe instantly pulled her hands back in disgust with a high pitched squeal when her fingers connected with the shell.
"Why is there hair on it?!" Beca laughed when she tried to have Chloe touch it again and the girl only backed away like the coconut was a bomb.
"It's not hair," Beca said in between laughs, rubbing her fingers across the fuzz. "It's called coir."
Chloe eased up at the name and her face returned back to neutral and no longer disturbed by what she just touched. "Whatever it is, why is it on a fruit? You can't expect me to eat that thing, Beca."
"Coconuts have coir so they are salt water resistant. Typically, palm trees grow around salty oceans so this 'fuzz' is what keeps the meat inside protected." Beca explained as Chloe listened. With another try, she handed over the fruit for Chloe to hold and smiled when Chloe's body lit up at the sensation. She was also relieved that the girl took the thing inside of flailing it away. "You sure you don't want to eat it? The inside is super yummy." Scavenging the ground, she found a greener looking coconut with liquid in the inside as she shook it to next to her ear.
Beca switched coconuts with Chloe while the mermaid looked at the new green one placed in her hands the same way. "You crack them open and there is usually coconut water on the inside and white meat to eat raw."
Which reminds Beca, how the Hell was she going to break this thing open? "You wouldn't happen to have super strength would you?" Beca joked, searching for a nearby by rock to smash the fruit against. As she was doing this, she wasn't fully expecting Chloe's teeth to start transforming into fangs before ripping a good chunk out of the fruit in the matter of seconds and spitting it into the ground. Well, looks like she doesn't have to worry about cracking it open to make a hole. "Or you could do that." She was actually surprised at the strength Chloe's jaw was able to produce, breaking through the husk plus the coconut inside-which usually needed a knife but for her, she breezed right by.
Beca chuckled when Chloe's teeth returned back to their human form and she was holding a half eaten coconut in her hands. See? Something like that should've scared Beca shitless, seeing this innocent looking girl hulk out and take a bite out of something so hard like she was eating a marshmallow. But truth is, it didn't
And should she be concerned if not only did the sight not scare her but also, turned her on a bit? Yeah, she might have a problem.
Licking her lips, Chloe's eyes nearly bulged from their sockets when she got a taste of the liquid layering her mouth. "Oh wow this is good!" She lifted up the shell to her mouth and drank the coconut water inside.
"Told yah." Beca started picking up some more coconuts along the soil to bring back down the beach for everyone to eat. She was excited to see how the other two mermaids would react to eating something new for the very first time. "Wait until you try a pineapple." Chloe raised her eyebrows to her hairline at the name. "Has to be my favorite fruit."
"What is this white stuff? You can't tell me I only get to drink the thing."
Beca looked over to see what Chloe was poking around at. "Oh, that's coconut meat. Here-" She reached out and tore a piece out from the middle-luckily the inside was soft enough to scoop out- and dropped the piece of coconut in Chloe's mouth when she opened.
Immediately, Chloe's eyes rolled to the back of her head and killed her head back, savoring the taste. It was a sweet, nutty taste when Beca licked her fingers, bringing back all the memories when Jesse and her would go out to the beach and pick up coconuts to cook back at home. Coconuts had tons of potassium, as well as sodium and electrolytes, which would come in handy if they planned on adventuring through this island for who knows how long. At least now they'd stay hydrated.
Chloe helped carry some coconuts with her free arm that wasn't holding the already cracked open shell and once both of them got enough for their friend back on shore, they started walking back.
"Now that you guys will be joining the human world, what do you plan on doing with your life?" Beca asked suddenly curious.
"We just got our legs, Beca," Chloe giggled, shaking her head at the 'duh' Beca responded with. "I doubt any of us have thought about our futures."
"Since you guys have amazing voices, you can work around the music industry. When I'm not out surfing, I make my own mixes that hopefully one day will be noticed by some big time music label. We could totally collab on something for demos…..or better yet!" Suddenly, a lightbulb flashed inside Beca's head. "You guys could be like….the next Spice Girls or something! Fifth Harmony or Little Mix!"
Chloe was laughing at the way Beca's entire five foot body lit up at the suggestion but she had no idea what Beca was comparing her and her sisters to. "Beca, I don't know who any of those names are."
"Just some of the most famous girl groups." Beca shook this off though. Again, it was stupid to be referencing certain things to a mermaid who has lived her entire existence in the water. "Too many boy bands around nowadays. I think you three would be a hit. Not only are you insanely gorgeous but also, have raw, melodic voices that can swoon anybody if listening."
"As much as the idea seems great, I honestly haven't had much time to think about what I want to do when we experience the real, human world." Beca watched, studying how Chloe was looking off into the distance. "Stacie is insanely smart; same with Aubrey but her personality is different. She is authoritative and bossy. Is there anything in particular where my sisters could fit in?"
Beca bounced some ideas back a forth. "Stacie would be pretty neat as some mad scientist, runway model and Aubrey could be a mean Dean somewhere at a university that nobody likes." Beca blocked the shove she got at saying this but was happy to get a chuckle from Chloe. Whether she likes it or not, Aubrey can be a little controlling.
And by a little, she definitely mean a lot.
An unholy amount.
"I'm sure we will find something for you guys that each of you want to do when the time comes."
"That is if the time comes." Chloe mumbled this, her voice lower than normal but Beca heard it loud and clear.
Her smile instantly dropped into a frowned and she hooked her foot around Chloe's legs since her hands were occupied by the group of coconuts they were hoarding. "Hey," she stopped, signaling Chloe to do the same where her foot caught Chloe's ankle. "Let's not think negative."
"I'm not thinking negative, Beca. I'm thinking realistic. I don't want to set my hopes up too high just for them to come crashing down." Without connecting her eyes with Beca's, she spoke into the sand, head smuggled in her chest.
Understandable. If Beca was being honest herself on the side, she was scared whether they'd make it back to Santa Cruz or not. She didn't like to let it show of course, thinking it'd be weak to show how she really felt but the possibilities were still there. Nagging in the back of her head.
"Let's talk about something else?" Beca offered her a smile though it was fake. She hoped it would at least budge by Chloe, lightening the mood. Before this whole topic came around, she was enjoying the time spent with the redhead. She didn't want to ruin the moment by talking about something so serious.
When the time came, they'd talk about it then. But for now, she wanted to keep the doubts at a minimum.
Brushing this off, Chloe kept walking with Beca in tow. About a couple minutes of silence, she spoke up again. "What are we?"
Beca was trying hard not to trip on something as they walked, which most of her focus was set on. But even hearing this took her off guard. "What do you mean?"
"What are we?" Chloe repeated with zero clarification, like Beca thought she was going to do. "Like are we friends, acquaintances, buddies or pals? Or are we like Stacie and Aubrey?"
"Girlfriends?" Beca finished, the word by itself taking a toll on her insides. She could feel her stomach coiling at the label and especially at the chance to be able to call Chloe her girlfriend, whew.
"Yeah!" Chloe chirped at the help, bringing back her megawatt smile. "I mean, I've only know you for a couple days, four to be exact and technically the first day I tried to kill you so," Chloe trailed, her smile getting smaller as the memories came back to her.
"I mean, true. But what better way to break the ice than a good ol' scare right?" Seeing the change in behavior, Beca was quick to retort with a joke, easing the conversation up a bit. "Sure saved me from a lot of awkward shit I tend to say and do when talking to a pretty girl." Beca caught the blush in Chloe's cheeks, smiling proudly to herself to be able to be the one behind it.
"Anyways, what I'm trying to say is I like you a lot and we kissed….twice and both times were amazing. You were amazing-that is at kissing. Well, I think? You were the first person I kissed so I don't really know what a good kisser is-"
"Oh-kayy." Beca intervened Chloe's mess of a ramble to save the further bruising to her precious ego from going anymore. She was a good kisser. A great one in fact.
Or at least she hopes. Oh no. Was she a bad kisser?
"What do humans call this-whatever we are doing right now?" Chloe continued, breaking Beca out of her thoughts.
"Dating. To be short" Beca shrugged, all of a sudden nervous once she processed what she just said. Clearing her throat, "I mean, if you want or….whatever."
"Is that whatever you asking me to be your girlfriend?" Chloe teased, amusement laced in her eyes as she was witnessing the level of fluster Beca was in.
Shrugging, "uh, yeah. I mean, I saw you naked so.." Beca winked and Chloe rolled her eyes playfully, nudging her shoulder into Beca's gently, cautious of the coconuts. "What do you say?" This was probably the most nervous Beca has ever been before, the anxiety eating at her stomach like acid as she waited for the answer.
"I'd want nothing more than to be your girlfriend." Chloe smiled the response, not even a second later. For Beca, she was able to keep the smile at a reasonable length and not the face splitting grin that she wanted to split. "And to seal the deal…" Chloe stopped in her tracks, Turning around to place a their, soft kiss over Beca's lips that seemed to be only getting better and better as they came. Pulling away, she giggled at Beca's dumbfounded expression before she started to walk again.
"Cool." Was all Beca could muster up but on the inside, she was exploding with happiness. Honestly, it was very uncharacteristic to be feeling this way about Chloe. So giddy and full of emotions. What is wrong with her?
"I promise to be the best girlfriend ever and I'll have you know, mermaids never break their promises." Chloe said before the others on beach were seen huddle by a fire set up, chatting about something. Jesse was going on about something passionate towards the mermaids- God only knows what- but Beca was surprised to see the both of them actually listening intently.
"Beca, my girlfriend?" Chloe dangled the words, biting her lip in deep thought and savoring how they sounded, or how they felt coming out. "I like the sound of that."
And then she was gone, jogging up to her sisters, exclaiming something about tasting these big, brown balls of pure heaven that made Beca cringe as it could be interpreted as something completely different.
Watching Chloe run away, bouncing with an unholy amount of energy when she made it and dropped the coconuts in front of her sisters, Beca released a swooning sigh at the sight.
Girlfriend.
Yeah, she liked the sound of that too.
Who liked the coconut facts?! Ha I don't even know if they're right TBH. I tried a coconut once and it smelt like alcohol and tasted like death. But that's what Google told me :)