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I realized it's been a while since I updated so here you go! I had an exam this week and have another one next week so I've been busy but while stressed, I added 13 new chapters (not ready yet, but vague chapters) to keep me company and to de-stress.
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Chapter 7- the plan
FLASHBACK
I was walking down a stoned path along the stream to get to the pond at the end. My shadows of bodyguards close behind me. The only time of freedom I get from my captor are these biweekly baths I take by the freshwater pond at the reservoir. I started to come when I was 12. My memory wasn't with me a hundred percent, but I was able to get a portion of myself when I get in the water. I slowly gain my thoughts and slowly work in my mind the way to leave. I knew something in the water was special for me to allow this brief solitude of freedom but I never questioned the gift. That wasn't until I was 14. For two years. I went to this pond and would clear out of my muckiness and my cloudy eyes to gather my thoughts and think through the problem and solutions. After two years of silence, I was approached by someone in the water.
I was submerged all the way in to clean my thoughts faster when I saw something move from the corner of my eyes. Trying to stay calm, I look around slowly to hopefully glance what I thought I saw. Knowing it's not a shark or anything deadly I willed myself to stay calm. Slowly, in front of me, I see something approach me slowly, as if they thought I was going to get scared if they come too quickly.
Once they got 15 feet away from me, I was able to make out of a figure. It was a girl. She had long black hair and she had nice features for her face, around her neck were a bunch of necklaces of all different shapes and sizes and they were beautiful but not overwhelming. Her skin was colorful with tattoos but what was really interesting is her tail. She had the tail of a fish. I widened my eyes. A MERMAID. They're usually shy and do not approach humans because of the massacres and fishing that's been happening now a days.
She lifted her finger to her lips and pointed up. I look up and saw my bodyguards coming closer to the pond. I glance back and her and I give her the wait signal and swim up.
Taking a deep breath once I got my head up, I look towards the trees where they were coming closer.
"Stop. I'm fine. I want to be able to bath properly without someone glancing at my naked body. I don't think you want me to tell him that you saw something you shouldn't have seen?" I say sharply. Being a stuck up princess comes in handy sometimes. They blushed and got away from the pond and disappeared into the trees. Satisfied that I won't be disturbed, she emerges from the water 5 feet away from me.
"I've been watching you for 2 years. I thought that you were some stuck up girl that was taking advantage of the people behind you and didn't deserve the power of the water, but I saw something I never wanted to see again."
"What was that?"
"Your eyes. They were cloudy. As if they were being clouded in judgment and you weren't in charge of your actions"
"Yes. I'm being held hostage by this man and I do not know why I am here yet. The water here gives me my mind back"
"I see. Do you need help getting away from this man?"
"No, not yet. I do not know why he took me, and why he is taking good care of me. I need to know before I can even think of an escape plan"
"You are strong. I admire that. My name is Julie. What is your name?"
"Isabella, but you can call me Bella."
"Bella. Well until you figure out what he has planned for you, I will be here to listen to your problems and help you."
"Not to be rude. But why are you helping me?" I asked doubtfully.
She looked up at the rising moon and looked at it sadly. "Because I saw someone I love have their free will taken away and I do not wish it on another"
I became shameful in my doubt. "I'm sorry. I thank you for your assistance and hope we can become friends"
She smiled at me beautifully. "it's no problem. I will tell you about it another time. And I believe it's the start of a new friendship. But you must get going. You've been in the waters for too long and they are coming back."
I glanced back at the trees where my bodyguards disappeared. I could slowly hear them coming closer.
"goodbye bella. Good luck"
I look back and she was gone.
I swam back to the surface and put on new clothes and walked away getting my judgment cloudier and cloudier but walking away happy knowing I made a friend.
Bella's POV 5 Years and 1 Month 4 days after kidnapping
That was the first time I met Julie. From there, we shared stories. One day it was about me and my life at Phoenix. She told me her life growing up in mermaid city (not really the name, but I can't pronounce it). She talked about her best friend and confidant Kristinia and when I asked her if I could meet Kristinia, Julie got really sad and said "she isn't with us anymore."
Knowing when to be quiet. I said nothing. For a year, we discussed the stories He told me every night and when he finally told me what I needed, I knew it was time to leave.
He told me what I needed two months ago but I was biding my time to make sure he doesn't suspect anything and to get the escape to be foul-proof. It took 2 months of planning and reassessing everything. He had us have a 5-year anniversary last month and it made planning difficult and to not annoy him or make him suspect that I'm anything but an obedient child.
It was time for my bi-week dips in the pool.
Making sure the package is between my shirt and pants, I walked in a moderate pace to the pond, so I don't look suspicious.
Making sure I'm alone, I slowly started to strip to my bathing suit. Making sure the plastic bag is within my hands I swam to the middle of the pond where I know Julie is waiting for me.
Getting closer to the middle, Julie's head pops up. She takes a look at my eyes and glances at the plastic bag in my hands and she understands immediately.
"What do you need me to do?"
Smiling at her appreciately, "Could you swim to the closest area in the Phoenix area? And you can just say 'Bella Beesey Bacon Squeezy' softly a couple times and she'll hear you. There you will meet a redhead vampire. Victoria. Remember my stories? She won't harm you when you give her this" I hold out the plastic bag.
She takes it and asks me "what's in it?"
"It's a shirt that I wore for a week straight and inside is a necklace she got me for my 8th birthday. She'll know it came from me. Just tell her where this is and she'll do the rest. Tell her to be careful and to wear ear plugs. I don't know yet if his powers would work on vampires. But I don't want to take any chances."
She nodded "I got it. Bella Beesey Bacon Squeezy."
I started to tear up, knowing this might be the last time I see her again.
"Oh Bella. Don't cry. We'll see each other again. You gave me the strength and courage to find my place in my world again. Before, I was unable to move on from what happened and unable to forgive myself. But meeting you, you gave me hope for this world and I admire that about you. I will come back with your Victoria and we will get you out of there safely and we will keep in touch. I know the functions of technology as so many humans tend to drop them in the ocean. I might be closer than you think." She winked at me.
I nodded at her, trying to control my sniffling.
"I'll be back, and you'll be gone from this nightmare before you even know it."
With that, she took a dive into the water and left.
I took my time trying to collect my emotions and cleaning my body. Being nostalgic of the pond that bonded a friendship forever.
Getting to the shore, and putting on new dry clothes. I walked away from the pond knowing I will never have to come back again.
I walked back with the bodyguards to the car and hopefully by the time I go to bed tonight, I will be asleep in my own bed.
For the first time in a long time, I prayed.
Alright! That's the end of chapter 7. It's a short chapter but I bring in mermaids! There's going to be other characters and different creatures and this is how I interpret them with the help of google!
Alright till next time!
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