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Chapter 6: Mermaid in the Black Lake.
Sitting in the Great Hall Hermione and Ginny were looking around for May. They both turned towards the Syltherin table, both Draco and Blaise shrugged their shoulders silently telling them they haven't seen May either. After the incident that happened in Hogsmead Ron, Harry and the others decided that they should call a truce, after all the war was over and there wasn't anything to fear any longer.
"She's been disappearing a lot lately, I wonder where she is." Ginny said to Hermione as she passed Harry the juice. Across the table Harry and Ron looked at each other.
"Do you think she's in the pool again?" Ron whispered to Harry, who nodded his head.
"She's been in there a lot lately; do you think she's home sick again?" Ron asked him again, Harry shrugged his shoulders again.
"Maybe we should go check on her." Harry said as he began to stand up, just then May bounced through the Great Hall doors she smiled at the boys and sat down next to Hermione and Ginny.
"Where have you been, we've been worried about you." Hermione said. May smiled and began to fill her plate with food.
"Oh I've been around; I needed to go pick up a couple of things, nothing to worry about." May said as she smiled at Harry and Ron. "So what's up?" she asked the group. The girls looked at each other and smiled.
"Well it's almost Christmas break and I was wondering if you wanted to stay at my house for the holidays?" Ginny asked her, May looked at Ginny shocked but then squealed and hugged her.
"I would love to! Just not the beginning of break because I promised my family I would go and see them, so I'll be around your place somewhere in the middle of break alright." May told them, she turned towards Ron and Harry next, who were looking at each other worried when she mentioned that she was going to visit her family.
"Looks like we're going to be housemates for the holidays." She told them smiling. "Anyways I don't have class so I'm going to go into Hogsmead and get the stuff for dinner." May said smiling with a light blush on her face, Ginny and Hermione snored and started making kissing noises. May stuck her tongue out at them before bouncing back out the doors.
"What was that all about?" Asked Ron smiling, Ginny leaned in and whispered into his ear. "You didn't, she going to flip out." He told his little sister, who shrugged her shoulders and went back to eating with an evil grin on her face.
May sat peacefully in the carriage, riding over to the village. She smiled as she leaned her head back on the bench looking up at the sun breaking through the trees.
Once the carriage stopped she jumped out, being mindful of any puddles she might step in, She took a deep breath as she walked into the village, when she got closer to the shops she stopped dead in her tracks. Standing there wearing a white shirt, winter jacket, jeans and his Gryffindor scarf was Fred Weasley, May blushed and turned around. She patted her cheeks lightly to stop it from growing hot. When she turned around Fred was standing less than three inches away from her. May gasped, her heart racing, as she started up at him. Shy grey eyes met smiling blue eyes.
"Hey." Fred said smiling down at her. May smiled up at him shyly. Fred smirked and placed his arm around her shoulders.
"So what are you doing in the village, shouldn't you be in class?" He asked her, May just stared up at him, her face turning pink while her heart raced and butterflies began to form in her stomach.
'Get a hold of yourself!' May thought to herself. She cleared her throat and smiled up at him. "I don't have any classes today so I thought I would go and grab some food, so the girls and I can cook dinner tonight." May told him, he nodded his head smiling.
"What are you doing here, shouldn't you be working?" May asked Fred he shook his head pointing out the closed sign on his shop window.
"Georgie is sick, so we probably won't be open till he gets better." Fred told her, May narrowed her eyes up at him.
"If the shop is closed then why are you in the village?" May asked him, she snuck out under his arm and faced him, poking her finger to his chest.
"I just wanted some fresh air and a walk?" Fred said, though to her if sounded more like a question. She raised her eye brow at him and looked him straight in the eye until he sighed and broke eye contact with her. "Alright you got me, Ginny wrote me telling me that you were coming to the village today, she asked me to come and make sure you were safe, you know since you can't really defend yourself." He told her, May looked at him angrily her eyes flashing red before she turned on her heel and began walking away from him quickly.
"May come on, I came to make sure you were safe!" Fred yelled as he ran after her, May turned her head around to look at him quickly.
"I don't need you to protect me, I may not look it but I can take care of myself. You don't know me I'm stronger than I look!" May yelled once Fred caught up to her grabbing her arm and spinning her to face him.
"I never said you weren't strong, all I said was…" Fred began but was cut off by May.
"That I don't know how to defend myself. I can protect myself a whole lot better than you could. I've been on my own for two years, you learn a lot being on your own." May said as she wrenched her arm out of his hold, only to have him grab her wrist and pull her into his chest.
"I'm sorry alright. I shouldn't have said that." Fred said as he placed his hand on top of her hair, May nodded her head after a few minutes, her face buried into his chest. She pulled away, her face a light pink she looked up at him and found he was smiling down at her. May, blushing a deep red, pushed herself off of him before walking towards where she needed to go to get the food. Fred smirked before following after her.
"So what are you looking for?" Fred asked, she shrugged while she put the item back in the bin grimacing. She shook her head sighing.
"What I'm looking for is something edible, that isn't a dried lizard." She said waving the dead lizard in his face. "I guess I'll just have to London to get the food I need." She said blowing her bangs out of her eyes.
"I can take you to London, Can't let a pretty girl like yourself walk the streets all alone now can I?" Fred said as he placed his arm around her shoulders, May rolled her eyes but blushed as his arm wrapped around her.
"Fine, you can carry the bags." May said smiling up at him. Fred opened his mouth to protest only to shut it and nod. The two walked to the apperating point, Fred apperated them to an alley in London, looking around to make sure no one saw them.
"Hey you alright?" Fred asked her. May was leaning against the ally wall catching her breath, after a few minutes she looked up at him and nodded.
"Yeah, I just haven't quiet gotten used to that yet." May said as she pushed herself off the wall and began to walk along the sidewalk. She turned back towards him and motioned for him to hurry up. Soon they found the shop that they needed to get all the food. May smiled at him while he struggled to carry all the bags, she shook her head and grabbed two bags from him. He smiled and told her thank you.
"Sit here and I'll go get us something to drink." He said sitting her down on the bench, right next to a band who had just started playing. May sat there tapping her feet to the bands music but soon she was up dancing around bringing other people dance with her in the circle around the band. People on the outside where clapping along with the song. When Fred came back to see May dancing to the music, he took one look and began laughing. He looked at May, her waist long blond and pink hair swinging along with her as she twirled in circles and danced, her bright smile and shinning eyes.
' She's free. So innocent, makes sense she wasn't here for the war she never witnessed all the horror all the death. She's probably never even felt what it was like to want to die because people so close to you, people that you grew up with have died.' He thought to himself as he clapped along with the other people looking thoughtful, May looked over at him and smiled brightly. When the music came to an end, May came bouncing over to him laughing while he applauded her.
"That was great. Did you start up that little dance circle?" Fred asked as he handed her the drink once they both sat back down on the bench, May nodded her head happily.
"That was so much fun! I haven't had that much fun in a while." She told him as she caught her breath, laughing lightly. They both reached for their drinks touching hands, grey eyes met blue. They stayed staring at each other for a while holding hands, until May broke contact and pulled her hand away.
"Sorry about that." Fred said as he grabbed his drink blushing lightly, May shook her head saying it was nothing. Soon they finished their drinks and headed back to the apperation point. On the way there Fred and May both got hungry so they decided to stop and eat at a place nearby.
"I'll order for us, you want to save us a table outside it looks pretty crowed in here?" Fred asked her, she nodded her head going outside and sitting at a table, she hugged her cardigan and scarf closer to her as she sat in the cold waiting for Fred. While she was waiting a group of guys that were sitting next to her turned toward her.
"Hey, I'm Garret and this is Tony and that's Ricky." Garret said, May smiled politely at them and introduced herself to them and then turned back to staring inside waiting for Fred.
"You want to come hang out with us, you look a little lonely?" Garret said teasingly as the boys took the three seats that were at her table. May sighed shaking her head.
"No thank you, I'm here with someone." She told them, she was getting more and more irritated with these boys the more they moved closer to her.
"Ah ditch that loser, we can show you some real fun." Ricky told her as he went to reach for her hand. May snatched her hand away before he could touch her and folded her arms across her chest.
"No thanks, I'd much rather stay here with him." May told him turning her head away from the boys, when the boys didn't take her hint and one put their hand on her leg May turned toward them again, her eyes blazing with anger. "Look I already told you I don't want to go, I suggest if you want to keep this hand attached to your body that you remove it from my leg." She warned the boy who only slid his hand up higher on her thigh. May was about to scream when Fred pulled the boy off of her with such a force that the boy flew onto the ground.
"She said no, now get out of here before I beat you within an inch of your life in for even thinking that you could try what you really wanted to." Fred warned them, he stood in front of May. She had the back of his shirt wrapped tightly in her small hand with her other hand on his arm. Unfortunately for the boys they didn't take his treat seriously and tried to take a swing at him. Fred later had the boy that touched May's leg hanging over the railing that was blocking the boardwalk to the ocean. They boy's face was turning red due to the blood rushing to his head, his friends sat on the passed out. The boy hanging over the railing was yelling begging to be let up. May grabbed Fred's arm and soon he had pulled the boy up. Fred grabbed the shopping bags and wrapped his arm around May's shoulder leading her away from the scene. May turned her head back to the boy that was just hanging over the railing with an apologetic face before turning back around and nudging Fred with her elbow.
"That was very dramatic you know, so unnecessary." May told him as they walked back to the apperation point. Fred said nothing his body language saying he was still upset. May sighed as they apperated back into Hogsmead. May rolled her eyes as he continued to brood about what happened; she grabbed the bags from his hand and began to walk back to the castle by herself. Fred narrowed his eyes at her and ran to catch up.
"Why did you walk off?" He asked her once he caught up with her on the outskirts of the town where you get picked up by the carriages. May looked up at him for a moment before climbing into the carriage and turning her head away from him.
"Are you going to ignore me the whole way back to the castle?" He asked moving to sit next to her, she turned toward him.
"Are you going to be upset and brood over the situation that just happened?" She asked him looking him in the eye, when he didn't answer right away she turned back away from him. He glared at her.
"Are you going to be rude and ungrateful for saving you from being molested… for the second time I may add." He shot back at her, May turned back toward him and glared.
"I hardly think over reacting, beating up two boys and dangling the other over the railing until he nearly passed out from the amount of blood rushing to his head is something I should thank you for, noble intentions or not." May yelled at him poking him in the chest repeatedly. Fred grabbed her wrist tightly in his larger and stronger hand, glaring down at her.
"Fine don't say thank you, but next time you're in trouble I won't come rushing to save you like I already have done." He told her as he tightened his grip on her wrist, May winced and began to pull her wrist out of his hand. "It's not even worth saving you." He said, May looked up at him her eyes wide, they began to fill with tears as her eyes changed to a dark and sadden blue. May ripped her wrist from his hand, and jumped out of the carriage, leaving the shopping bags in the carriage with him and began running towards the lake.
Fred groaned grabbing the bags and rushing to catch up with her. He called her name repeatedly with no answer. When he reached the lake, he followed the footprints in the sand along the banks. Looking down he saw that Mays footprints ended in front of a large boulder, climbing up on the rock he looked on the surface of the Black Lake. Without hesitating he threw the bags down and took off his outer clothes quickly, he jumped into the Black Lake and began looking around for May. He surfaced gasping for air, the water wasn't as dark as he thought it would be, he could see pretty clearly, he submerged his head under the water again and after a few moments he surfaced again. He climbed back onto the rock and cast a breathing and a warming spell along with a charm that would keep him from getting wet on himself before diving back into the water again. Fred did this over and over again for what seemed like hours, searching under the water while calling her name out when he came back to the surface.
Little did he know that May was several feet away from him hiding behind a pillar of underwater boulders, May watched him search for her desperately for what felt like years to her, and everything in her mind was moving in slow motion. This boy… no this man was looking for her, with such desperation in his eyes that May had to smile softly at him. Her eyes changed from their gray to a pretty magenta as well as her tail. May was so focused on how he was searching for her that she forgot that when her moods change color her tails glows the color it has changed into as long as she is feeling this feeling. Fred looked around under the water once more only to see a pinkish light coming from behind the boulders. He swam over there slowly, May sighed happily before looking over only to see Fred swimming toward her. May panicked and clenched her hand into a fist, causing the water to heat up and bubble, Fred looked around him as the water began to bubble, May took that chance to escape, only when she began to swim away Fred saw her and his eyes widened, luckily for her, the water wasn't clear enough to were he could see anything specific about her like her hair. The only thing he could see was her aquamarine glittering tail as it swam farther away from him.
'A Mermaid?' Fred thought as he fought to get closer to the creature, May didn't dare look back, as she swam away she began to form a plan inside her head. 'If I lead him to a spot that will take him awhile to reach the surface without him drowning than I can dry off and be back to my human form.' May though but then shook her head. 'No that would be too suspicious if I just appeared out of no where right when the mermaid got away… I need to think of something else, If I could lead him to a certain spot than I could dry off and pretend to be unconscious saying that when I was running away from him I slipped and fell into the water, the last thing I remember was something gabbing me before I passed out… that just might work, if I play it right.' May thought as she swam away faster.
When she got to a spot she thought would be good enough than she pulled herself out of the water and quickly steam dried herself, May out stretched her hand a made a current that was strong enough to pull Fred along and to drag him to the surface, she laid down quickly but not before swallowing a gulp of water. May waited until she heard him call out her name in what sounded like relief and fear all in the same, she heard his feet pounding on the dry ground near the bank. She felt him land next her and then his fingers on her neck checking for a pulse.
'Thank goodness she's still alive.' He thought to himself and he leaned down and began to give her mouth to mouth. Luckily this all went according to May's plan and without Fred noticing she twisted her hand back and forth, forcing herself to cough up the water she has just swallowed, her eyes fluttered open slowly as if she really was waking up, her eyes focused on Fred leaning over her. She blinked her eyes a few times before sitting up with his help.
"What happened? How did I get way out here?" May asked him as she gripped her head and leaned against him for support. Fred placed his hand on her head as he hugged her to him. "I remember our fight and then I slipped on one of the big rocks…. And then." May stopped looking up at him.
"Keep going, it's okay you're safe now." Fred told her as he held her closer to him. May smiled into his chest, but then slowly frowned she felt bad about lying to him but he couldn't find out that she was a Mermaid.
"The last thing I can remember is something or someone grabbing me and then I blacked out and now I'm sitting here with you… did you save me again Fred?" May asked, she pulled away and looked up at him gratefully. Fred however never got to say that he didn't save her, that a mermaid saved her, because he was caught off guard by May's lips against his moving softly. Fred's eyes widened before they shut and he pulled her closer to him. Fred groaned as he gripped May's waist tightly in his strong hands, his right hand sliding up her back slowly and making its way into her long blonde hair before he tightened his finger in her golden locks. Slowly May pulled her lips away from his and stared down at him trough thick black eyelashes.
"What was that for?" He asked dreamily, May giggled at him and pecked him on the lips once more.
"For saving me silly… so I guess this means that I've forgiven you for the comment you made in the carriage earlier." May told him as she pushed herself off of him and stood up. "Let's go back to the castle; I still have to start dinner." May told him as she kicked his foot, pulling him out of his daze before he rushed to stand up and continued to walk beside her, while walking Fred let his fingers intertwine with hers. May looked up at him shyly and blushed, he smirked liking the fact that he could still make her blush.
When they reached the bags, they picked them up quickly and then began to walk back up to the castle. The walk there was silent the two of them holding hands. Fred was thinking about the mermaid while May was feeling bad about having to lie to him, she was going over her actions in her head and whether or not she should be honest and just tell him that she was the mermaid he had see in the lake. Right when she was about to open her mouth, a loud voice interrupted them, turning around May's eyes widened when she saw Snape stalking towards her, May winced and handed the bags back to Fred, who was looking at her in surprise.
"Can you take these back to the head dorm room, the password is Mistletoe, the others should be there by now, tell them I had to do some things and I'll be there shortly." May told him, he nodded his head wondering what Snape could want with her.
"Amelia Marie Dumbledore you come with me this instant!" Snape hissed at her, she nodded her head.
"Coming Uncle." She said as she made a move to turn back to Fred to tell him more, only to be cut off by Snape again.
"Now you silly girl!" Snape yelled at her, May jumped slightly at the volume of his voice, she already knew what he was mad about, May walked behind him with her head down the whole way down to his office, she was worried about what would happen though she doubted anything serious would happen whether he admitted it or not, Snape loved her. Snape was seething, this silly girl, this girl he called his niece had almost got herself caught. He tried to calm himself down as they reached his office. He took deep breath as she walked into his common room quickly, she stood there waiting for him to speak.
"Sit." He told her shortly May sat down on his chair next to the fire softly, she looked up at him her normal grey eyes a dark blue color, Snape sighed as he stood in front of her, his anger falling instantly looking into her eyes. He placed his long calloused hand on top of her head, she looked up at him through her thick dark lashed and smiled.
"You need to be more careful, especially here in the Wizarding world. A person would kill to be able to capture and sell a special girl like you, you know that. You can't let people you don't trust fully know the other half of you." He told her, she nodded sadly as she leaned her head against him.
"Am I really that special here uncle?" she asked him quietly, he nodded his head as she sighed sadly. "Alright I won't let anyone know." She told him as she turned her head to look into the fireplace.
"I'm sorry I made you mad at me uncle." May whispered which made Snape turn his head toward her quickly, he placed himself in front of her and kneeled on the floor so he was eye level to her.
"I'm not mad, I was worried you silly girl." He said as he ruffled her bangs, May smiled brightly at him, her eyes turning a bright yellow-gold color before she hugged him tightly. Snape awkwardly patted her back before gently pushing her away from him. He nodded toward the door and nudged her toward it, May smile widely before running out the door and back towards the head dorms. When she walked in she was knocked over by two bodies, looking down she saw Hermione and Ginny clinging onto her tightly.
"What's this about?" She asked them once they let her up she looked at Fred from the corner of her eye.
"Fred said that a group of boys tried to come after you are you okay?" Ginny asked, May nodded her head slowly before sitting on the couch. They girls looked at her before sitting next to her. May looked at them smiling before standing up and heading into the kitchen to start on the food.
"May why don't we just make dinner another night, you look so tired. We'll all understand if you want to do it another day.' Hermione said, May turned to look at her thankful. She walked up to her room to grab some clothes and came back downstairs.
"I'm going to take a bath." She mumbled, before she would walk out Fred grabbed her wrist and turned her back around smiling playfully.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" he asked her May looked up at him confused. Fred chuckled at her innocence, he put his hands on her waist before leaning down and kissing her softly on the lips. The girls stood there looking at the pair in shock. May blushed at all the attention before rushing out of the common room to the Prefects bathroom.
Instead of heading straight to the bathroom, May maid her way down to the Great Hall to check to see if Harry and Ron where still there, she walked towards the Gryffindor table stopping behind Ron, Harry smiled up at her across from her. She tilted her head towards the door.
"I have something I need to show you both." She said before turning back towards the door, the two boys stood up quickly catching up to her.
"What do you have for us?" Ron asked before Harry hit him in the side with his elbow. When they reached the bathroom, the boys turned their backs so May could undress. When they heard the splash of water they turned around and sat at the edge of the pool. May was swimming around in a circle in the pool humming softly to herself.
"Remember how I told you I could make it so you could swim with me?" She asked the boys, who nodded their heads. "Hand me that container over there by my clothes." May said sticking her hand out. Harry handed her the container, May opened and showed it to them. The boys looked at it wincing.
"It stinks. We don't have to drink that stuff do we?' Ron said as he covered his nose, May giggled up at him while shaking her head. She clenched her hand heating up the goop than began to freeze it before heating it up again. She placed a little bit of the goop on her finger and then rubbed it on her cheek, the boys looked at her strangly but shrugged their shoulders.
"Make a wish, something that easy like food or something." May told Ron, He looked at her and nodded his head, the goo on her cheek vanished and before the boys knew it a plate full of candy was in front of them. May rolled her eyes before gabbing some of the sour candied worms off the plate. She took a bite of the candy and squealed in delight "See so now you can breath under water. We should swim before I go see my family for Christmas…. The only problem is we can't swim in the lake." May told them sighing.
"Why not?" Ron asked, Harry shook his head at him.
"It's dangerous down there, not all mermaids are nice like May, don't you remember 4th year?" Harry asked him. Ron nodded shuddering, May shook her head.
"That's not the only reason why. Fred almost saw me as a mermaid, so I can't risk it, we'll have to find somewhere else to swim." May told them as she pushed herself away from the ledge.
"He almost saw you! What happened?" Ron asked her, May shrugged her shoulders.
"We got into a fight and I ran away from him, I jumped in the lake to get away and he jumped in after me thinking I had fallen in or something. So when he started to swim towards me I had to make something up, I had to pretend that I fell in and something pulled me back to shore… so if he says something about it to you just go alone with it alright." May told them both as she pulled herself back onto the ledge and started at them both in the eyes, the boys sighed but nodded their heads.
"One good thing did come out of this though…. Fred kissed me." May told them before diving back down into the pool. The boys looked at each other shocked before smiling, they both waited for her to come back to the surface when she did, her cheeks were flushed with color, her eyes were a magenta color as well her tail.
"Its Saturday tomorrow, do you want to go swimming then?" Harry asked, May sighed shaking her head.
"I promised the boys that I would spend some time with them and then Sunday I'm spending the day with the girls shopping…. Maybe next Friday, neither of you have classes right?" She asked them, Harry and Ron nodded smiling, she nodded happily. "Then we'll swim together next week, that gives me time to think of a good place to take you for your first experience." May said happily, before frowning
"Do you think I should tell the girls? And Draco and Blaise?" May asked them suddenly becoming very serious. Harry and Ron looked at each other for a few minutes before turning back to her.
"Well we can tell you that Hermione and Ginny are two of the most trust worth girls that we know. As for Malfoy and Zambani, we don't trust them…but they seem to really care about you, almost like a little sister it seems." Harry told her, Ron nodded his head. May smiled up at them thankfully.
"I don't think I could have hid it from them anymore…. Ahhh I know maybe we could all go out tomorrow to the beach in Hawaii. The water is great there we could all go swimming together, I went there once with my sisters and parents its beautiful there….. I think I might go back to the room and tell them now." She told the two as she pulled herself up onto the ledge and out of the water, she waited for them to turn around to she could put her clothes on but when they didn't she looked up at them questionably.
"We'll go get them. You just sit tight and prepare yourself…. In case you don't like their reactions alright." Ron said as he and Harry walked out of the Prefects bathroom. May sat there biting her lip; she sank back into the water and frowned. She swam to the bottom of the deep pool and waited for the boys to come back with the girls along with Draco and Blaise. Soon she heard voices, she looked up from the bottom of the pool to hear Harry talking to the group.
"Look, you might be shocked at first but just remember that how you react to this can really hurt her." Harry told the small group, Draco and Blaise were getting irritated.
"Where is she Potter?" Draco asked him. Harry sighed and sat down near the ledge of the pool next to Ron, he motioned for the others to sit down as well.
"She's here, she's probably just afraid how you all will react, just give her some time." Harry told them. Hermione and Ginny nodded their heads and sat down next to them. Draco and Blaise rolled their eyes and turned to leave. May listened to their footsteps sadly.
"If you leave now she'll never be able to trust you." Harry told them as he turned towards the door. "You both care about her like a little sister don't you? If you do then you should sit down and show her that she can trust you with her secret." He said before turning away from them. The two boys sighed but walked back over and sat down next to the pool. May smiled up at them and swam towards the surface quickly. She broke the surface of the pool smiling
"I knew I could trust you guys." May said smiling happily she looked at her friends to see that Draco and Blaise were looking away with their cheeks red.
"May cover yourself up! What are you doing inviting us to see you while you're taking a bath honestly?" Blaise said. May laughed at them before swimming backwards keeping her tail hidden from their view.
"I'm not naked, look at me all of you." She said once she reached the other side of the pool. She let her tail break the surface of the water and smiled shyly at the group. Hermione and Ginny were smiling at her while the Draco and Blaise looked at her shocked. "So now you know, I'm a mermaid or more specifically I'm an Oceanid." May said as she swam back over to the group and sat on the underwater ledge, her aquamarine and pink tail in full view of everyone.
"I knew this was your secret when Professor McGonagall talked about them in class." Hermione said as she leaned forward to hug her. "Thanks for trusting us with your secret. She told her, May smiled up at Hermione happily before turning to Ginny.
"Took you long enough to tell us…. Hermione told me her hunch and obviously we were right in thinking you were a mermaid. I'm glad you realized you could trust us." Ginny told her reaching for her hand and gave it a quick squeeze.
"May I can't believe you're a mermaid." Blaise said as she leaned in closer to her. May nodded her head at him smiling. "It's so awesome." He told her grinning; May looked up at him thankful. She turned her towards Draco only to see that he was staring at her tail.
"Draco, you're staring at my tail." May said. Draco nodded at looked at her as if to say 'well yeah.' May giggled. "Do you want to touch it?" She asked him as she raised her tail a little higher, Draco looked at her shocked before reaching his hand out and running it up her scales. He pulled his hand back slowly before turning towards her.
"It's slimy." He said quietly. May looked up at him and laughed, her laugh echoing off the walls in the bathroom like a sweet jingle.
"Thank you. I try to rub it with Kelp but since I'm not in the ocean anymore I've had to rely on the potion Uncle Severus made for me." She told him smiling, her arms on the ledge of the pool and her chin resting on her wrist. "Are you sure you guys are alright with this… with who I really am?" She asked them, they all nodded their heads.
"I just have one question. Why did you tell Potter and Weasley before you told us?" Draco asked.
"Well I didn't really tell them, they kinda found me when I went for a swim in the black lake. They thought I was drowning so they were going to jump in to save me and then I came back up and that's when they saw my tail…. Couldn't really deny it could I?" May told the group quietly. The boys nodded their heads while Harry and Ron grinned at the memory.
"I need you guys to keep this a secret. I don't want anyone else beside you guys to know that I'm a mermaid alright." She told them the group nodded their heads promising that they wouldn't tell anyone.
"That reminds me, I was wondering if all of you would like to go swimming with me tomorrow since its Saturday. I haven't been in the ocean for a long time and I would love you guys to see what it's like… don't worry about being able to breath, I got that covered." She told smiling as she swam around the pool happily. The girls nodded their heads immediately after she asked, the boys seeing as the girls were going nodded their heads in agreement as well.
"Maybe if we're lucky we'll see some dolphins." May told the girls who squealed in excitement.
"You know what May?" Ron began as he turned towards her, she looked up at him telling him to continue. "This is easily becoming the worst kept secret of all time." He said grinning. May looked at him before giggling and nodded her head saying he was right.
"And something in my gut tells me that it's going to get a lot more interesting." May said mysteriously while she swam around in circle. The group all looked at each other in wonder before shrugging and going back watching May swim around the Prefect bathroom pool.
Ahhhh took me forever to re-write this with school and the holidays going on. Well I hope you like it please review!