Chapter 16 Does father know best?
The next morning John woke up to a dark night sky. He tiredly turned to his clock that read 6:23, he turned back around to see Aqua laying on her stomach, her hair was a complete mess. The covers stopped at her waist letting her bare back be shown, he smiled as he traced his fingers on the crevasse of her back. He crawled out of the bed trying not to wake her up and disappeared into the bathroom. Little did he know Aqua was already awake, she opened her eyes with a small smile and got out of the bed, she left out of the room into her own and changed into some clothes, she fixed her hair and put on her shell necklace. Walking back into John's room she heard the shower running, she walked over and opened his lyric book, with a pen that was beside it she wrote a note to john. Once that was finished she slipped on some flip-flops and left out of the house down to the beach.
10 minutes later
After climbing a bunch of rocks, Aqua scooted down to the water until she could no longer see the beach next to her, she closed her eyes to make her presence be heard, a minute later her father rose out of the water. She opened her eyes and smiled.
"Hi dad". She said, her father smiled.
"Hello beautiful". He greeted in his somewhat low voice. "How are you doing?".
"I'm doing fine, how everything down there?".
"It's calming down, we haven't seen that fisherman lately, but you never know with him". He said. "So tell me about what's happening up above, your mom wants to know".
"Well, the first day I came to land, I met a guy, his name is John. He took me into his home, he bought me an outfit, his friends took me shopping, dad he's so sweet, he's treats me so well. We went to Tokyo and Pittsburgh, I got to watch this thing they call wrestling, it's really fun, I even helped come up with an idea to have one of the biggest wrestling shows here in L.A.".
"That's great honey, so it seems like everything's working fine with you".
"That's not all". She said, she looked up at her father. "Dad...I'm in love with John".
Her dad chuckled a bit before answering. "What?".
"You heard me, I love him. We've already kissed and-".
"You kissed him?". Her father said shocked and not in a good way.
"Yeah and we've..had sex twice, one of them last night".
"Aqua are you crazy! Something could happen to you, you don't know what that could do to your body".
"Daddy look at me, I'm fine". She said looking down at herself. "Nothing has happened to me".
"There's no way you could be in love with a human". He said shaking his head.
"I am, and he loves me".
"Your lying".
"Dad stop denying it, we're in love!".
"He only loves you because he thinks you can walk on two legs, you're a fish!".
"I was a fish, I'm human now dad". Aqua said quietly.
"Maybe on the outside, but on the inside you're Aqua Kay Marina a mermaid, a human and a fish cannot be in love it's unnatural, those two species can't mix".
"Well they just did last night and two days ago". Aqua stated looking into his eyes.
"How dare you talk back to me like that I'M YOUR FATHER!".
"If you're my father why did you send me away?".
"Because I didn't want you to get hurt, I knew what was best for you because obviously you don't. Your dressing in those weird clothes acting like you've been that way all your life, you haven't!". He yelled at her. "And now your gonna tell me your falling for that human".
"His name is John". She corrected him. "Dad you always told me that whatever I did you would give me your support no matter what and now that I'm falling in love with someone who's not like us all of the sudden you wanna give me the cold shoulder, I don't understand".
"Aqua that man that you say loves you, doesn't. If you were to tell him that you were a mermaid he would dump you like that". Her father said snapping his fingers.
"No he wouldn't". Aqua said quietly. "He cares about me, he would never do that".
"Why Aqua, why!".
"Why can't you just be happy that I found someone, someone that loves me. That's all I wanted, all I wanted was to find adventure, I found it, I wanted to have fun, I did, I wanted to make friends, I have, I wanted to experience new things, I did that, I wanted to find happiness and love, I've found that in John, what's wrong with that?". The tears were now starting to well up in aqua's eyes.
"Your making a big mistake!".
"Dad, the first time I came up here I could have been killed!". She screamed. "Did you want that to happen, did you want to not ever see your baby girl again dad? If it wasn't for John I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you right now, the least you can do is give me your blessing that I found someone special".
"Aqua you have disgraced the Marina family, me and your mother and the entire city of Atlantis, I am ashamed to say you are part of this family!".
"Dad I'm sorry". She said tears running down her face.
"I'm sorry too". Her father said. "Sorry that I had to have you...as my daughter. Aqua, you are no longer part of this family". With those hurtful last words, he swam away. Aqua cried as she ran back to john house.
John's POV
I was sitting on the couch reading a magazine awaiting Aqua's return. She had left me a note saying that she went somewhere and would be back shortly, as I finished reading the last page of the mag I heard the front door slam shut. I looked up and I saw aqua with tears running down her face.
"Aqua what's wrong?". I said worriedly getting up. She ran up the stairs quickly, I followed her. "Aqua baby what happened?". She ran into her room and shut the door in my face, I could hear her sobbing on the other side of the door, I decided if she didn't wanna be bothered I would respect that, I left her by herself and went to see my friends.
Aqua's POV
I couldn't believe what my dad said to me, I knew my dad would be a little freaked about the news, but I didn't know he would go as far as to kick me out of my own family. I just couldn't understand why he couldn't be happy for me. I looked down at my necklace, I snatched it off and threw it to a dark corner in the room, I walked out onto the balcony and sat down looking out into the beach.
"Dad". I whispered to myself. The next three words that escaped my mouth was something that I thought I would never say. "I hate you".