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"For the last time, I am not going in the water!" Danny shouted at Sam, his best friend he had known for nine years.

"Danny, you've been afraid of the water since we first met. You have to conquer your fear sometime," Sam glared with her arms crossed.

Danny sat on the cold ground of the cave him and Sam have hung out. Since Sam was a mermaid, Danny knew other humans would want to take Sam and use her as a prop or dissect her. To prevent danger to Sam, Danny had her meet him in this particular cave which was by the ocean. Sam would swim through a tunnel under the cave that lead to a pool inside the cave. This is where Danny and Sam met.

Sam sighed loudly and swam a little closer to Danny's side.

"I'm not gonna let you drown," Sam promised.

Danny sighed before taking his shirt and pants off leaving his swimming trunks. He sat on the side of the land and put his legs in the water. Sam took Danny from under his arms and slowly brought him in the water. He was holding onto Sam for dear life.

"I... I can't feel the bottom," Danny trembled with his arms around Sam's neck.

"You're not supposed to," Sam said. She plugged Danny's nose before whispering into his ear, "hold your breath and don't breathe."

Danny put on his goggles and sucked a gulp of breath before diving into the water. She swam through the tunnel to the open ocean. Danny looked around the ocean floor. There was white sand and sea shells. Sam showed him some corals, sea weeds, starfish, and a school of fish. There were even friendly sharks the two kids explored. For Sam, this wasn't anything new, but to Danny, this was an adventure.

Sam did have to take Danny to the surface to breathe every two minutes, because she knew humans couldn't breathe underwater and could only hold their breath for 2-3 minutes. Since Danny couldn't swim, Sam had to take him to the surface shorter than two minutes sometimes. This didn't stop Sam from having a good time with Danny, he was Sam's best friend. They always had fun together. Danny even had fun himself.

After a while, Sam returned Danny to the cave and pushed him back onto the floor. He was soaked from the water from the ocean.

"Now that wasn't so bad, was it?" Sam asked with a sassy tone.

"I still hate the water, but inside it was nice," Danny smiled while drying himself out with a towel he hung on the cave wall.

"So, aren't you gonna give me something?" Sam asked with a big smile on her face. Danny smiled and got out from the hole on the cave wall a piggy bank.

"I thought you might be interested in this."

Danny gave the piggy bank to Sam. Sam looked at it in curiosity. The item looked like a pig, but the pig was white and there were two holes on it. There was a round hole on the bottom which had a plastic plug and there was a narrow rectangle hole at the top. Sam tried to stick her finger in the narrow hole on the top, but it wouldn't fit. She looked at Danny with cocked eyebrows.

"What is this?"

"A piggy bank, it's where you can keep coins in."

"Cool."

Sam smiled and shook the piggy bank. There was nothing inside it.

"I'd put some loose change in there, but I don't think mermaids use our currency," Danny joked as the two friends laughed.

"I'll keep it in my collection," Sam replied as she put the piggy bank in her little bag where she carried human things.

"I also got you these."

Danny threw Sam some fingerless gloves. She put them on her hands and wiggled her fingers. There was a small giggle inside Sam that showed satisfaction.

"Thank you, Danny. How did you know I've been wanting these?"

"Since Halloween when I dressed as a pirate and you love them so much you wanted to try them on."

"Well, you can sure read my mind."

"No, I just know you so much."

Sam smiled and lifted herself up to sit on the edge of the ground. Danny took Sam and carried her to the wall of the cave next to him. Danny got out two bags and gave one of them to Sam. She took it and opened it to find a Burger from Nasty Burger.

Mermaids generally will eat small fish, plankton, or seaweed. Sam tried food the humans would eat since their diets were very similar to mermaid's diets. Sam loved burgers and other foods humans had. She didn't have to eat any meat raw and the veggies were not salty. Danny would lend Sam some human food for her to try since he had no other friends to share with.

"You know Danny, I wish I was human. Humans can run, jump, and climb on stuff, all I do is swim around."

"I think mermaids are cool. At least they don't have to worry about drowning. I'd like to be a mermaid anytime."

"You, a merman. That'd happen when I find a way to become human."

Danny chuckled at Sam's statement.

"You find a way to become human and I'll find you a boyfriend."

"HEY! I'm beautiful and you know it!"

"Sure, but you don't know how to flirt with a guy."

"Name one time I couldn't flirt!"

"You know that merman, what's his name? You crushed on him since you were 10."

"Randal?"

"That's him. You tried flirting with him by asking him his favorite coral."

"How was I supposed to know he was allergic to coral?" Sam glared in embarrassment. "He did date me at the end."

"Until he found your collection of human object and realized you lied to him about not having anything to do with the human world."

"Yeah, I don't think he's forgiven me for that."

"Nope and yet you continually stay single. Maybe you can sing and start dating a human boy."

"Danny, those are myths. They also say we ate their flesh. Yuck!"

"You liked Odyssey and you know it!"

"Yeah, but I didn't like how they portrayed us. I did like the one about the cyclops."

"That one was good."

"I gotta go before my dad kills me."

Sam jumped into the water and popped her head out of the water. She said goodbye to Danny and dived into the ocean.