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Chapter 5

Kimberly was mad, she was very mad. She turned away from him and ran to the water knowing he would follow her. As she ran off the dock and into the water she could feel the transformation begin. Wondering where she went Tommy went out onto the dock near the end and waited. Then merging her head from the water Kimberly said "Look" and pointed to her mermaid tail. Shock was written all across his face as he looked and a bit of something else was there too. Then Kimberly got his attention again by pointing her finger at him and saying "and that is why I didn't tell you before"

After that she dove back under the water leaving a stunned Tommy crouching down on the dock.

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Tommy had waited on the dock for another half hour waiting for her to surface again. It was dark out so he knew that if he jumped inside the water he would never be able to find her unless she had wanted to be found. He had felt real bad about having made fun of her when she told him about being a mermaid. He should have known that she was serious as Kimberly would have never made something like that up. Its just… a mermaid? He thought they didn't exist. If he did he never would have said what he did to her. Sensing someone behind him he turned expecting to see Kimberly but finding Katherine instead. "Hi Kat" he greeted "What are you doing here?"

"I called your house but no one answered so I figured that I might find you here. I had remembered later that you didn't leave the same time that the rest of us did. Did you find Kimberly?"

"Yea I found her. She and I talked briefly." Tommy didn't want to mislead Katherine but for some reason he couldn't bring himself to tell her Kimberly's secret. It wasn't that he didn't trust her he just didn't think it was his secret to tell.

"Is she alright?" asked Katherine. "I was worried when we didn't find her."

"Yea she is okay. She wanted to get out of the way during the fight so that Goldar didn't realize that she was back and try to capture her."

"That makes sense and I probably wouldn't have thought of that myself" Katherine said out loud. "I wonder why she didn't come back after the battle was over though. We all would have loved to continue to hang out with her. I hope we didn't make her feel unwelcome."

"No it wasn't that at all. She felt very welcomed by all of us."

"Was she mad then about us being together?" Katherine asked

"In all honestly with everything that happened today I never thought to ask her. It's not that I am trying to hide our relationship but I don't feel the need to defend it to someone who dumped me. Besides I think I may have sent mixed signals and I should clear those up right away with her." Tommy said as he decided to come clean with Kat about him kissing the other woman.

"What do you mean? I didn't see anything wrong with the hug you two shared earlier. You guys had some serious feelings for one another and it was only natural for you two to have acted that way when you saw each other again."

"I'm glad I didn't hurt your feelings with that but that is not in which I was referring to. When I saw her after everyone left I guess I was kind of beside myself with relief that she was okay. Kimberly has never went missing like that before and before I could stop myself I kissed her. It wasn't a long kiss but it was a kiss just the same. I'm really sorry Kat."

Kat sat down beside him and thought about that for a moment. It didn't take her long after that to form her next question. "Why are you telling me this? Do you just want me to know or are you hoping to break up?"

Tommy looked at her and replied "I don't know Kat. I never really had closure when it came to the end of my and Kim's relationship. It just ended. Then seeing her again brought up all of these feelings that I should not have if I was truly over her. I don't want to hurt you and I don't want to be hurt by her. But honestly I think I may have hurt the both of you tonight and I am not sure that I deserve either of you right now."

Katherine looked at Tommy and said "Tommy you and I are not were you and Kim were. We are just starting out so we are still in the liking stage. I think that you need to take a break from me and just sort out what you feel for everyone involved. If this break up is permanent between us I will have no hard feelings and we can still hang out all of the time. It will be just the same as it is now only no kissing. If you do decide that you want me than you had better be all in because I won't take you kissing another woman while you are seeing me. Get your closure and then we'll talk. Either you will get back together with me or you will with her. Either way at least you will know what you want."

"What did I ever do to deserve you? " asked Tommy. "I will take your advice and I will let you know after I sort everything out."

"Okay Tommy" Kat said as she stood up. She looked as though she was going to walk away but instead she looked back and Tommy and said "I'm going to date other people. I am not simply going to wait for you to decide. However if you do want me than I will be with you and no one else and this way you don't have to feel guilty if you do any more kissing with Kimberly. Oh and by the way you don't deserve me. But if you want to be with me than you better shape up and start showing me that my faith in you isn't misplaced." With that she walked away.

After Katherine had left Tommy realized how right she was about everything. If he couldn't be fair to her than he certainly didn't deserve her. He wished that Kimberly would just surface again so that he could talk with her and apologize for what he said earlier. He also wanted to know where he stood with Kim as her already knew where he did with Katherine.

After deciding that nothing more could be done tonight about finding Kimberly, Tommy reluctantly got up and headed to his vehicle. He still didn't want to leave the last spot where he last saw Kimberly but he knew if she didn't want to be found than he wouldn't be able to find her. Sighing he started up his jeep and drove back to his and Jason's apartment.

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Kimberly half laid on a rock that was inside a cave she found. She was crying because of how mean she thought Tommy was. What is wrong with that man? She wondered. Would it really had been all that hard for him to hold his comments to himself? If they can call on animal spirits in order to morph was it really that far of a stretch for him to humor her about being a mermaid? She thought back to the first time she transformed. She, Noah, and Tasha had called upon the mermaid goddess named Atargatis. She had to ask the great goddess to bestow her ancestors great powers onto her. After that once she got into the water her legs seemed to form into this beautiful emerald green mermaid tail. At first she was topless though (and boy she could have lived without that part) but had sense then donned a beautiful emerald green kind of top that matched her tail beautifully. Oh how she loved to swim in the early days. Sometimes she would disappear for a week at a time traveling though the waters and exploring other lands. She loved to swim with the dolphins and whales. They would spend hours chasing one another around and playing a ocean version of tag-your-it. She never wanted her adventures to end. But one day she could not accept the loss of Tommy any longer and she climbed out of the water, packed up her stuff, and boarded an airplane headed towards Angel Grove airport in hopes of getting the chance to explain everything to Tommy. To get him to understand that this is a wonderful gift and perhaps he would understand enough to want her back. As much as she didn't want to admit it to anyone she didn't come back for her friends, she came back for Tommy. Being a mermaid she has the power to grant wishes for those who are pure of heart. She just wanted her own wish granted as well.

Note from the author: Let me know what you think. I hope this story is unique enough to be enjoyable for all of my readers. I wanted to say a special thank you to Young at Heart21, brankel1, and to grits who have reviewed on this story so far. I hope you all will keep enjoying this as it continues. hugs to everyone