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OOOOO that blows I thought as I read Henry's storybook trying to conceal it by putting a big newspaper in front of it. I knew that if my mom saw me reading it she'd burst a blood vessel in her brain or something. For the last several minutes I had been reading the story about the Little Mermaid while I waited for my breakfast at Grannies. The story was absolutely nothing like the movie. However, I liked it, minus the fact that Ariel didn't realize that Killian was holding back on her. God what an idiot.
Oh great I'm criticizing a story book character on their love life. How sad is that? I realized. Somebody pulled down the top my newspaper and I saw some shocking red hair and realized it was Rachel's friend Marie.
"Hello and what are you doing here all by yourself?" Marie asked. I quickly stashed the Storybook in my bag and went for my notebook.
"Reading and waiting for breakfast" I wrote.
"Oh that's nice" she smiled as she sat down on the other side of the table. This was weird usually she was off doing her own thing or hanging out with Rachel. I was just their acquaintance that tagged a long sometimes so why would she even bother talking to me?
"So how's life?" she asked as she pulled her legs up to sit Indian style at the booth.
"Good. Are you ok?"
"Yes I'm fine just thought I'd check up on you. You seemed sad. That's what friends do after all" she stated.
"We're friends?" I asked.
"You honestly didn't think Finn was your only friend round here did ya?" I didn't know how to respond to that.
"So you doing anything today?" she asked. I shook my head.
"Wanna learn a new skill?" I raised an eyebrow at her now feeling very curious.
"I'm going to teach you archery" she smiled mischievously.
"Going somewhere?" Killian asked as I started to step off the boat when landed in Dun Broch which was a small little village on a cascading hill and at the very top of it was a stone castle. I pointed my thumb towards the town.
"Mind if I come along then?" he asked playfully. I bit my lip, nervously, and shook my head.
"No?" he asked. I nodded and then held up a finger as I went to go get something. We hadn't talked much since I accidentally held his hand. He had seemed distant and everything was awkward between us now. I grabbed his coat, which I still had for some reason, and then wrote down what I was going to say to him on my little sketchpad.
"I would much rather go alone. Have a good day" I showed him and then I remembered, I had forgotten to return him his coat so I stopped myself. I held his coat out to him and hung it on his hook hand. I patted him on the shoulder and then waved as I walked off. I felt myself start swaying a bit as I tried to get used to walking on land again after being on an always moving ship. I don't think I am going to ever get used to trying to walk properly.
"You sure you'll be alright then" Killian asked as he watched me try and stand my ground. I looked at him and gave him a harsh look. I turned back around and stumbled into a barrel. I heard him chuckle behind me and I glared at him. He backed off and let me continue my walk in peace. As I walked through the town I noticed that most of the people here had dark brown hair or shockingly red colored hair like mine. I felt very comfortable here. The people were so strange though the men were wearing these strange skirts with different patterns on them, not to mention everyone had long hair and strange accents, also there was some sort of strange music being blasted into my ears by these weird horns. I bumped into someone on accident and fell back a couple steps.
"Oooo my I'm so sorry I didn't see you there. I'm so so sorry" she apologized as she dusted me off. She was a girl of about my age, with red curly hair that resembled a piece of cotton, and bright blue eyes. She dressed much nicer than everyone else around the town, which must of meant she was a royal or something.
"Hello, I don't believe I've seen you before. I'm Merida" she shook my hand as she gave me this very large smile. I returned the handshake. She gave me a look when she realized I wasn't responding. Then it looked like a thought popped into her head.
"OH I'M SORRY CAN YOU NOT HEAR ME!" she shouted bursting one of my eardrums.
"No I can hear you, well hopefully still" I tried to write with a sarcastic air to it.
"Hmph interesting" she nodded at me. I nodded back. We both stood there awkwardly.
"So your new here then?" she asked. I nodded and pointed to the boat I had gotten off of.
"You came here by boat?" she asked looking very interested. I nodded. She let out this excited gasp.
"You just became my new best friend" she smiled as she intertwined her arm through mine.
"I did" I mouthed to her.
"Come along" she said as she dragged me towards the huge castle.
"Why am I doing this?" I wrote for Marie as she set up a little target space in this secluded neck of the woods.
"Because you need to let off some steam. I can see you have a wee little devil all coiled up inside you that's just waiting to burst. And frankly I think if we wait you're going to end up killing someone"
"Why would I be angry?"
"hahahahaha. Don't make me laugh" she said with a fake smile on her face. She handed me her bow.
"Why do you even have a bow and arrow Legolas?" I wrote.
"It was a gift from me mum and me dad. I sort of took it up as a bit of a hobby"
"Right I'm the one that might kill someone"
"Just take the damn bow Andi" She smiled snatching my notebook out of my hand.
"You need me to show you?" she asked. I shook my head. I pulled back on the string and let go expecting it to hit the target but it in fact flew off and we heard this loud popping noise. Marie and I looked at each other fearfully.
"Alright let me just pack up me things and I'll be ready" she told me as she sat me down on her bed. We had practically ran through the whole castle in a blur and had now ended up in her room. I have now idea how we climbed up that hill so quickly without one of us having a heart attack.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Right sorry I'm getting a bit carried away with meself. My parents have recently allowed me to travel the world because since they can't find me a perfect suitor there has to be something I should occupy my life with. Anyways the only way I can travel is if I find my own mode of transportation. I have to do this all by myself and this is where you come along. You have a ship" she stated.
"Not really my ship though. It's my friends, if friend is the right word to use"
"Well I'm sure you can sneak me on. Wait hang on a moment I've completely forgotten to ask what's your name lass?"
"Ariel" I smiled at her.
"Hello Ariel" I nodded at her. She threw a dress on the bed beside me.
"So forgive me for asking but why don't you talk?"
"Do you believe in magic?" I asked. She seemed trustworthy enough. I mean the girl already expected me to take her traveling with me, so she could probably at least keep on of my secrets..
"I turned my mum into a bear. Believe I believe in it" she said. I wrote her my story and she smiled at it when I had finished it up.
"Awww so you gave up your legs for this Killian bloke then" she smiled. I rolled my eyes.
"No I did not. I did it so I could travel and be free"
"And then some" she added.
"Ah your blushing! That's always the tell tale sign" she smiled. I nudged her on the shoulder. She looked at the pile of clothes she had on the bed next to me.
"Hmmm I think I'll just put in a couple more clothes, tell my parents about where I'm going, and then we'll be off" she told me. I nodded.
"I think this'll be fun" she smiled.
We looked at the tire. I had hit.
"I knew I should have shown you" Marie sighed.
"Do you know who owns this car?" she asked me. I nodded when I realized who's house we were at.
"Oh god we're dead. I don't have the money to pay this do you know how much a woodcarver's salary makes?" she asked me as she grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me. I grabbed onto her shoulder as well and looked her in the eyes. When she let go of me I got out my notebook.
"Marie just chill. The owner is not going to be that mad" I told her.
"Should I tell them or you?" Marie asked.
"Me, it's my fault" I assured her. We walked up to the large house and I knocked on the door to find Jefferson opening it, just as I expected. I waved at him.
"So we may have accidentally lodged an arrow into the tire of your car. I'll pay for it but just wanted to let you know" I wrote for him.
"Shooting an arrow? Andi you can't even walk and chew gum at the same time" he joked. I stuck my tongue out at him.
"So we're good then?" Marie asked interrupting us. Jefferson noticed Marie for the first time and smiled at her. It was a weird smile. I've never seen him look at someone like that before. Well except Paige obviously.
"Marie this is my friend Jefferson" I introduced the two.
"Hi" she shook his hand.
"Is that a Scottish accent" he laughed.
"Yeah not as strong as it used to be, but yes" she nodded. We all stood in silence again for a moment waiting for someone to say something.
"Well, you two care to stay for a bite to eat real quick?" he asked us.
"I'd love to" Marie nodded. I smiled to myself. Aw these two were actually hitting it off.
"I actually have to go. I have my first class to teach since you know…"
"Good luck" Marie hugged me. When her back was turned I gave Jefferson a thumbs up with a silent laugh and he returned it as Marie walked in.
Killian watched as Ariel leaned against the front of the ship looking up at the sky, which made her red hair stand out beautifully against the grey storm clouds. He wanted things to not be awkward around them again. He liked that brief moment he had spending time with her. She made him happy again, truly happy. What had happened when she grabbed had his hand had sparked something within him that he hadn't felt since him and Milah had been together. He didn't know how it was happening all he knew was that he enjoyed that feeling but felt scared and guilty about it. He felt guilty at the thought of starting to like another woman almost as much as he loved Milah, when he had thought at the time that it would be her and only her for the rest of his life. Then he felt scared at the thought of losing someone close to him again. If there was one thing he had learned through his life it was that people were breakable like glass. One minute they could be standing there right in front of you looking as beautiful as ever and the next they could be gone out of your life, becoming just dust in the wind.
Taking the risk of letting Ariel in seemed worth it though. She had trusted him with her secret and told him her story. Now it was time for him to tell her, his. He walked up behind Ariel and noticed that her hair had somehow gotten, wild and curly while she was gone.
"Ariel, there's something I need to tell you" He started. She turned around and wh he saw wasn't Ariel.
"Sorry mate wrong girl unfortunately"
"Who? Who the hell are you?" he asked. Looking at her.
"Sorry I sort of snuck on. Ariel said it'd be alright. She said you were quite the gentleman for being a pirate"
"That depend on who I'm talking to. When it's a stowaway on the other hand, my manners don't qualify"
"Oooh you are sexy and dangerous. No wonder she likes you" the girl commented. Just then a thought popped into his head. Ariel was nowhere in sight. Had she left him and sent this other girl to replace her. Had he been so unkind to her that she had decided to wander off knowing the consequences of never coming back to him again.
"Where is she?" he asked the girl.
"You mean your little mermaid friend I wouldn't worry to much about her. She was talking to a little fish down by the docks. She said she was helping him find his father" He ran off at her answer.
"So does that mean I can stay then?" the girl asked him. He gave her no answer.
"I'll take your silence as a yes then" she shouted back.
"Alright kids now when we play beach volleyball do not aim for people's faces as tempting as that may be" Finn instructed the kids as I walked into the pool. All of them looked at me as I walked in.
"Andi's back!" this one kid shouted and then they all stampeded towards me and enveloped me in a big group hug asking me lots of questions. After several minutes of hello's I managed to tell them to get in the water and they obeyed. Finn and I looked at each other now for the first time since our little fight.
"Hi" he smiled at me. I waved.
"What I said, was completely wrong of me. I was jealous and if you want to be friends I'm ok with that" he smiled at me.
"And we can still be close? Like brother and sister?" I signed. He nodded and we both came towards each other and hugged.
"Alright let's get this over with then. I know you want to do it and you won't feel satisfied until its done" Finn sighed as if he read my mind.
"Are you sure?" I signed.
"Go ahead if it'll give you sense of closure to this fight" he said with a smile. I looked at him and pushed him into the pool with as much force as I could.
"Feel better then?" he asked as he came above water. I nodded.
"So you really think he's going to come?" the baby clown fish asked me as I sat on the edge of the dock trying to communicate with him. I had noticed him when I was walking Merida to the ship and immediately knew who he was. I nodded. I had sent Flounder and Sebastian out to search for the blue tang and older clownfish as quickly as possible.
"So your name's Nemo right?" I wrote hoping he could read.
"Yeah but some of my friends call me shark bait" he said. I smiled at that.
"You're very nice for a human" he complimented.
"Well anything to help out a little missing fishy like you"
"NEMO" the older clownfish shouted as we spotted him. Nemo swam to him and they hugged each other.
"Daddy" Nemo said as he hugged him.
"Hey look I found Chico" the blue tang commented.
"That lady over there found me. She helped me" Nemo told his dad. I just waved it off as if it was nothing. I watched as the two fish talked to each other and I felt a little tug at my heart as I thought of my father. He was probably a nervous wreck also looking for me. Would he never give up like Nemo's father did? Maybe I should at least tell him where I was? I looked down at Sebastian, who had found a spot next to me, and he gave me a look as if he knew what I was thinking. I glared at him.
"Go ahead flick me off the dock if it makes you feel better" Sebastian sighed. I smiled at him and flicked him off, which actually did make me feel better a bit.
"Ariel?" I heard someone shout my name. I stood up, looked towards the voice and saw Killian. What was he doing looking for me?
"Ariel" he sighed out of relief when he saw me. What was he worried about? Surely it could not have been me. I nodded at him as he came towards me and waited for him to say something.
"You must be freezing" he said noticing the overcast weather as he draped his coat around me.
"You know you might never get this back if you keep lending it to me" I wrote. He shrugged.
"You pull it off much better than I do, darling and besides I've got another. We could match" I smiled at that.
"Goodbye Ariel" Nemo shouted at me as him and his family swam off. I waved back with a smile on my face.
"You ready to head home then?" Killian asked. I froze on the spot. Was he going to make me go back to the ocean? He wouldn't. At least I don't think he would. Killian noticed my worry and corrected himself.
"The ship" I relaxed a bit and nodded as it started to rain. We walked slowly in silence for awhile and suddenly the little drizzle of rain turned into a downpour. Killian broke open the door to a closed up shack and we hid in it from the rain. To warm ourselves up we sat close to each other and I draped his coat over us.
"Ariel, I think you deserve to hear my story" Killian looked down at me. I nodded at him asking him to continue. He told me this story of how he used to be in love with a woman named Milah, who he had stolen away from her husband, and how he had promised her the world as well and they had gone on many adventures. They had been in, what I believed to be, true love. Everything was wonderful for them until one day when Milah's previous husband had come back for revenge. He had taken not only Milah away from Killian that day, but Killian's hand as well. This explained why he had been so distant. It all made sense now and I had felt terrible for judging him earlier. I looked away from him a bit ashamed with myself .
"Oi don't you feel guilty for a second. You didn't know any of this" he said looking at me as he raised my face up to level with his. I nodded and he gave me a small smile. We waited for the rain to stop and somehow I had fallen asleep with my head in his lap. I remember being in a semi-consious state after that. I believe Killian had cautiously carried me back to the ship and tucked me into my bed in my little room, which I now shared with Merida, on the ship. The last thing I remember him doing before going back to sleep again was that he leaned down and whispered.
"Sleep well my little mermaid" with a little smirk on his lips and then he kissed me very lightly on my cheek. I made a small smile to myself as I went back to sleep.
"So how was your day Henry?" Regina asked as we sat at the dinner table after we had finished eating. I let out a little bored sigh as I picked up my still clean and barely used salad fork.
"It was good" Henry said bluntly.
"Didn't get into any trouble did you?" she asked. For some reason I started brushing the fork through the tips of my hair like a comb just for the heck of it. I laughed to myself at the oddness of it.
"Nope" Henry answered and then he saw what I was doing and smiled to himself as I tried to twirl my hair into the fork.
"Ariel stop that" Regina snapped at me, scaring me a bit and making me drop my fork.
Wait hang on what'd she call me? I thought.
"Ariel?" Henry asked.
"I meant Andi, I said Andi"
"You said Ariel" Henry pointed out.
"I said Andi" she tried to cover herself up. Henry and I both gave her strange looks.
"The point is do not play with your silverware like that, that's disgusting" she ordered. Henry and I made eye contact. Parents don't usually get their kids names wrong like that. If I had a twin that would make sense but since I didn't that meant she had slipped up and said the wrong thing as if it was a secret. What was she hiding?
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