RI-III-NG!

A hand shot out from underneath the covers and brought itself down on the alarm clock, there was a groan as the figure underneath the duvets moved about before sitting up.

The figure was a boy of around eighteen and had honey coloured hair, he was dressed in some boxer shorts and a plain white shirt.

Rubbing his hand on his head he let out a large yawn before opening his eyes to reveal two emerald like pupils.

"Daniel!" a male voice shouted from below, "Are you up yet?"

"Yes!" the boy shouted back.

Letting out a sigh he turned around and proceeded to get changed.

x-X-x

"Here you are Dan my boy."

Daniel grunted as he took the three empty crates, "Why do I have to do this?" he muttered, "I thought you didn't even like me going near the sea."

The man Daniel was talking too was his grandfather Harold who was now around seventy years old. Daniel lived in a large house a quarter of a mile from the ocean; he lived with his grandfather, mother and younger sister.

His parents had divorced when Daniel was five and so his father lived in a hotel not so far away who he visited twice a week.

Back to the story…

"No I said its fine as long as you don't actually go into the water." Harold replied, "Those seas are rough and can easily drown you, so you're fine on the pier and beach but do not go near the sea itself!"

Daniel rolled his eyes, his grandfather always repeated this every week. He had drilled this rule into Daniel's father, who had passed it on to his mother. So together, Daniel had his grandfather, father and mother all reminding him and his sister non-stop to avoid the sea.

You'd think there would be a giant sea monster in it or something.

"I got it, I got it. See ya." He said walking through the back door which he pushed open with his foot.

Going over to the bike he had he groaned, he hated riding this stupid thing in public, let alone with a trailer attached.

But knowing the fish wouldn't deliver itself to his house he placed the three crates into the trailer and hopped onto the bike before riding down the road.

x-X-x

"Thanks Rick." Daniel said putting the crates that were now full of fish back onto his trailer.

He was currently stood on the pier with another man.

"No problem." Rick replied who had sold him the fish, "How's your mum by the way?"

Daniel shrugged, "She's alright, maybe a bit lonely. Who knows, you might be able to help with that." He said hinting.

Rick laughed nervously, "Yeah… well see ya."

Daniel nodded and as Rick walked away he began pushing the bike along, he still needed to rest in order to pull the much heavier weight attached to the bike back home. He was still tired from riding here.

"Oi Rick!" Daniel yelled, "I'm gonna go buy some food, can I leave my bike in your truck?"

Rick who had walked half way down the pier yelled back, "Sure!" without turning around.

Daniel quickly placed the bike and trailer inside the truck at the end of the pier that belonged to Rick; he didn't want to carry it around all day.

"What to do…" he muttered, looking down the beach he saw some guys playing football.

He frowned and shook his head, he wasn't good at making friends and he had already had an encounter with those guys which had ended up in them fighting.

Looking onwards he suddenly spotted two girls in bikini's playing on the water's edge; it was quite warm today so it made sense.

Knowing he was very handsome indeed Daniel walked down the beach with his hands in his pockets, as some of the guys spotted him they merely sent him nasty looks before continuing with their game.

When he was a few feet from the girls he spoke, "Hey ladies."

The girls stopped and looked up at him, one of them was around his age with long blonde hair and quite a revealing red bikini. The other had a brown bob and was wearing a blue two-piece outfit attached to one another by two silver rings on each side.

As Daniel mentally sized them up he knew for sure who he was picking, the blonde easily. With that rack she was indeed top, plus the brown haired girl wasn't as slim so that lost her some points.

He had to admit though, the brown haired girl looked very familiar…

The less beautiful girl frowned, "Who are you?" she asked nastily.

Daniel shrugged, "Danny, I come down here all the time and surf."

Obviously this was a lie.

The brown haired seemed unimpressed but the blonde smiled at this.

"I'm Alexia, this is my friend Robin." She said in a sweet voice.

Daniel was mentally congratulating himself, now that he had her hooked all he had to do was reel her in.

"Alexia, this guy's a jerk. Come on, let's go." Robin muttered.

Alexia frowned, "Stop being like that Robin."

"Yeah, be nice." Daniel taunted in a way that only Robin could tell he was taunting, he was eager to get rid of the friend so he could be alone with big-jugs.

Robin glared at him then looked back at Alexia, "Lexi, he's just another big-headed guy who's only interested in getting into your pants. Let's go."

Robin grabbed Alexia's arm and tried to pull her however Lexi resisted.

"Oh because I'm such a whore…." She said sarcastically pulling away.

Robin's eyes widened, "I didn't mean that."

"Well fine then!" Alexia snapped, "If you think that way then why don't you piss off! The only reason you say these things is because you're jealous you can't get a guy!"

Robin gasped and glanced at Daniel who was staring with a smug expression, throwing him an angry look she yelled, "Fine, be deceived. Just don't come crying to me later!"

With that, Robin ran away angrily along the beach leaving Daniel alone with Alexia.

Perfect.

"Sorry about her." Alexia said walking over to Daniel and wrapping an arm through his.

Daniel smiled down at her, "No problem."

His eyes drifted down to her chest and he had to hold back a grin, her red swimsuit was wet and so it clung to her skin.

Result!

"So where should we go, the beach up there is more… quiet." He said.

Alexia shook her head, "Let's go play in the ocean."

Daniel frowned, it wasn't because he was scared to go in the ocean due to his grandfather's warning but… how dumb could this girl be? He had clearly pointed out a deserted place and he was showing all the right signs for he wanted to do. Were blonds really as dumb as this girl made them out to be?

"Come on." She said, "It doesn't matter if your clothes get wet."

Standing on her tip toes she whispered into his ear, "If they do you can just come to my house which is empty right now, I'll take your clothes off and dry them for you."

As she spoke her lips brushed against his ear and Daniel's ear and by the time she had finished speaking his eyes were wide.

"O-okay then." He said turning around, "Let's go!"

Alexia nodded and pulling his socks, shoes and jacket off Daniel stripped down to his jeans and shirt.

As both of them ran into the ocean Daniel intended on getting his clothes VERY wet indeed.

Completely ignorant of his grandfather's notice he was unaware of what figures were about to come and drag him down.

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So this chapter is basically just introducing the human male character, the mermaid will be in the next chapter.

Oh and yes, Daniel is indeed a stuck-up, perverted, selfish guy.