Chapter 1: I'm Cursed?!
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"AAAHHHH!" screamed Gou as she flops around in the bath. The water swishes and splashes out of the tub, flooding the tile floor. The crimson haired girl lifts her 'legs' for a better view. Her legs were not there anymore; in place of them was a large light pink with a reddish shine fishtail, similar to a mermaid.
She notices her arms had patches of scales and her fingers were webbed with sharp nails. She flips her arms around to see fins that stretched up from her back wrist to the elbow. She starts to feel her body to find more scales. She felt patched of scales on her stomach, chest, back, and a little on her face. When she touched her neck, she felt three slits on each side of her neck.
"GILLS!?" she shouts, terrified of what she has become. Gou lifts herself out of the tub and ends up on the floor, unable to get up. She grabs the nearest towel and ferociously wipes herself dry. Then, she started to breathe heavily. She gasps and wheezes as if someone was taken all the air out her lungs. She quickly reaches the doorknob and drags herself out of the bathroom. "Air, I need air. Mom…oni-chan…help me…please…" She thought as she loses consciousness.
When she came back to her senses, the house was dark and quiet. Gou gets off the floor to find herself naked with only a towel covering her. "What happened? Was a dream? Did I have a hallucination? Or…did it really happen?" She asked herself, trying to figure out what happened. She quickly takes off to her room.
She looks at herself in the mirror to see those weird scales. Her skin was clear and her fins are gone. She quickly gets into her pajamas and lays on her, staring up at the ceiling.
"Where's mom when you need her?" she asks to herself. Her mother was on a business trip to Okinawa and her brother goes to a boarding school. Gou was left alone. Gou thinks about what has happened to her in the tub. Slowly Gou's eyes get heavy then finally, she falls asleep.
Next Day…
Gou walks to school, questioning about the events that happened last night. She looks at her hands and feels her legs wondering if it all really happened or if it was just her imagination.
"Gou!" someone calls but Gou didn't respond.
"Gou?"
"Gou!" the shout gets her out of her thoughts and back to reality. She turns around to see that it is her good friend Nagisa Hazuki.
"Are you alright? I've been calling you but you didn't respond." Nagisa says worriedly. Gou gives him a little smile.
"I'm fine."
"Well, no one wants our great president sick on the first day of their 2nd year of high school now!" He says energetically. He grabs her arm and runs towards the school gate. They head to the boring opening ceremony. During the ceremony, the swim club gets on the stage to get people to join. But, Gou doesn't pay attention and thinks more about last. 'I maybe it was just part of my imagination. But…it was just so real.' She thought. After the ceremony, Nagisa catches Gou and drags her to the main building. As they got in, they rush to the board to see what class they are in.
"Aaawww, we don't have classes together." He pouts."Hey! Rei is in the same class with me!" his frown quickly was turned upside down after finding Rei's name. Nagisa has always had a crush on Rei Ryugazaki since last year but could never confess his feelings to him because Rei has a girlfriend. Gou giggles at his reaction and looks for her class. They leave each other to go find their class.
Gou opens the door to see that her best friend Chigusa was there, waiting for her.
"Gou! Isn't this amazing! We are in the same class together!" she shrieks of excitement. Gou agrees with her and takes a seat in front of her friend. Then the bell rings and everyone gets into her seat. Then the teacher walks in. He was tall, young with brown short hair, and very handsome.
"Hello, I am Hishikawa-sensei! I am new here so take care of me! Now, let's introduce ourselves." He calls out to the students. He calls name after name. Gou looks out the window board out of her.
"Matsuoka Gou is not here?" Suddenly, Chigusa shakes her friend.
"What!?" Gou shouts and stands up from her seat. Everyone in the room laughs at her.
"Matsuoka Gou?"
"Y-Yes!"
"Please pay attention. Now introduce yourself."
"I'm Matsuoka Gou. I am the president of the swim club so please join!" She bows and takes a seat. The teacher continues to call names until he calls out a name that no one wants to hear.
"Watanabe Boboa?" he calls. All the students begin quietly whine and pout. A girl with blondish-brownish, really curly hair and yellow-golden eyes stands up.
"I'm Watanabe Boboa. Please call me Bo." She says politely and sits back down.
"All right let's get started." The teacher says and starts to teach.
Finally it was lunch time and everyone grabs their friends and leave. Gou stays with Chigusa and her other friends.
"The teacher is so hot!" cries Hana.
"I know right!" Chigusa agrees.
"But the bad thing is that she's here." Kairi says as she pouts
"Who?" asks Gou, wondering who they are talking about.
"Hello, Ms. Creepy and Weird over there." answers Hana who points to the girl called Bo who was eating alone at her desk.
"I heard she lives with her aunt who's a sea witch!" Kairi whispers.
"You mean Witchy Watanabe!?" said Chigusa. Gou stops paying attention to her friends and stares at the curly haired girl. For some reason, Gou felt entranced by the girl till someone shook her out of it.
"Gou!" shouts Hana. Gou apologizes and continued to gossip about the strange girl.
"I heard that she made a girl cry last year. I also heard that Watanabe eats sea animals alive! Just like her aunt." said Chigusa.
"I heard that Witchy Watanabe eats children and makes potions from sea animal carcasses." said Kairi.
"Maybe that's why her hair is so curly! From all those potions!" said Hana.
"She looks like that singer Lorde but her hair is more controlled." states Kairi
"Yeah, like the right side is more layered with hair than the other side." describes Chigusa
"Whatever, it looks nice but doesn't change the fact that she is a total freakazoid." Hana says harshly. As if Bo heard them, she gets up loudly and leaves the room.
"Come on guys, that isn't cool." Gou says as she gets up and follows Bo to the hallway.
"Bo!" she shouts as she grabs Bo's shoulder. Suddenly, a wave of electricity hits them as the touched. The shock stops them in their tracks. Bo turns around quickly to look at Gou. Both of them look at each other, unable to look away. Gou looks at Bo carefully. The girl really did have controlled hair and golden eyes, but there was something different about Bo. She seemed…strange and different somehow.
"May… I help you? She asks Gou. Gou looks down to embarrassed.
"Um…I'm sorry about what my friends said about you and your aunt." Gou apologizes sincerely and bows to Bo.
"Hey! Don't bow!" Bo shouts. "Besides, your friends should apologize to me, not you. You didn't do anything wrong." Bo says bluntly as she crosses her arms. Gou stops bowing and is shocked how straight forward Bo is. Gou wanted to know more about Bo for some reason. Bo smiles and turns to leave.
"Hey!... Do you want…to have lunch together!? Today is a nice day! So, how about it?" asks Gou. Bo looks at Gou for a while and finally nods her head. Gou smiles at her and goes back to get her lunch box.
They both went outside and sat at on a bench near the grass. They get their lunch out and started to eat. Bo's lunch catches Gou's eye. It was sushi with some pickled ginger on the side. Gou's mouth watered for it. Bo sees the look on Gou's face and picks up a tuna sushi. She holds it near Gou's mouth.
"You want some?" Bo asks. Gou quickly eats the sushi like her life depended on it. 'Strange…I do not like sushi but…some reason I'm craving it.' Suddenly, Bo starts to laugh.
"What's so funny?"
"You're an animal Gou!" Bo says, laughing really hard.
"That's not nice! You're a bitch Bo!"
"Slut!"
"Whore!" They both stop shouting at each other. Then, they both burst out laughing. 'Calling each other names feels so right for some reason. It's like they have been friends forever' thought Gou. They continued to eat and tell funny stories.
On the Rooftop…
"Nagisa! Stop stealing my omelets!" shouts a boy with red glassesi.
"But, Rei-chan I'm hungry!" whines Nagisa with a mouth full of omelets.
"Come on guys, share." says a tall boy with green eyes and brown hair.
"Thank you Makoto!" said Naigisa. "Haru-chan, are you going to eat that?" he asks the quiet blue-eyed boy, pointing at his mackerel. Haru nods his head making the blonde pout.
"Nagisa, you know better to ask for Haru's mackerel." said Makoto.
"I know but I'm so hungry. I already ate all of my bread!" Nagisa whines. "Where's Gou? She always has food or me." Everyone shrugs. Makoto suddenly starts to blush, getting everyone's attention.
"You still love her Makoto?" asks Rei.
"Don't say it like that!" said Makoto as blushes even more.
"I found her!" shouts Nagisa.
"Where!?" Makoto shouts.
"She's down there, on the bench with some girl." answers Nagisa as he looks over the railing. Everyone gathers around and looks down. They all see Gou talking with a brownish-blonde girl.
"Oh my! That's Bo!" shouts Rei.
"You know her Rei-chan?" Nagisa asks.
"Y-Yes. She was in my class last year." He said as he fixes his glasses with a shaky hand. "She's a really scary person! I heard she told someone off last year, making them cry!" he hides his face in his hands. Then Makoto notices Haru looking away with ears all red.
"Haru what's wrong?" Makoto asks him. Then, Nagisa gasp as if he figured it out.
"You like Bo-chan!" shouts Nagisa. Everyone seems shocked at this. Haru doesn't respond and gets up quickly.
"I have to go." He says quiety and walks out.
"I guess he does." said Rei.
After School at the Pool…
Gou runs to the school pool trying to get there on time.
"I'm here!" she bursts into the pool.
"Gou you're here!" shouts Makoto as he gets up from the pool. He walks up to go with his big smile.
"Are you okay? Why were you late?"
"Oh, my friends interrogated me about Bo."
"Really?"
"Yeah, Bo is really nice and she's cool and funny!" Makoto smiles at her and Gou smiles smiles back. They looked at each other till someone splashes water on them.
"Get a room!" shouts Nagisa.
"Nagisa!" they both shouted. Suddenly, Gou felt legs start to tingle. Gou grabs her leg and as it starts to shake. She qu8ckly runs to the changing room and locks the door. She falls over as her legs mmorphed into a tail.
"Gou! Are you okay?!" shouts Makoto.
"I'm fine. I just…got cold is all." She answers worrying about this tail. 'I can't tell them about this. They'll think I'm weird. How am I supposed to deal with this?' She thought as she covers her face with her hands.
"I knew it!" said a familiar voice. Gou looks up and sees Bo sitting on a bench. Her legs were scaly as a tail but they were actual legs! Bo's feet were bigger and webbed like flippers.
"So you're cursed too." She asks as she leans over.
"I'm…WHAT!?" shouts Gou as she starts to lose air.
