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Jul 10, 2015 06:00PM
"With the right people? How does that make a difference?" Adrianna asked, tilting her head to the side as she swished her tail around in the water. It was the strangest feeling but she found that she enjoyed it more than she thought she would.
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"Because if you have fun then you have the right people." He answered looking at her," so is it your mom That's a mermaid or your father?"
"I don't know. My dad died before I was born but if he was then my mom knew about it because she kept me away or else it's my mom. But yeah, I don't know," Adrianna answered with a shrug. "And I've never talked to my mom about it, clearly."
Galen nodded a little bit," Ueah it's fine but there's a way you can tell if she is or not you know."He said softly looking at her
"Please don't tell me your suggesting I push my mom into a pool or something," Adrianna said warily, laughing nervously.
Galen laughed and shook his head."How does she wash the dishes?" He asked," if she just lets the dishes soak you can put your hand in the water like this."
He said and stuck his hand into the water," An you should feel something like a pulse." He said
Adrianna's mouth dropped into an 'o' as she listened to Galen. "That almost kind of makes senses. I mean, as much sense as figuring out whether your mom is a mermaid or not can," she said with a small laugh. "Why do I feel like I have to swim? I feel all antsy."
Galen laughed softly," That weird feeling is what you get when you are in the water with another person like you." He said pulling his hand out of the water. He didn't know if she would understand what he was trying to tell her but she was still a little too new at being a mermaid to figure out what he had said
Adrianna nodded, trying to take in as much information as she could. She tilted her head to the side as she thought about what he had just said. "How do you know what it feels like?" she asked him curiously, swishing her tail in the water slightly once again. She didn't understand just what he was implying but she understood enough to be curious about it.
He looked at her," okay so you aren't understanding what I'm trying to tell you." He told her as he watched her reactions to him
Adrianna furrowed her eyebrows and took a moment to process what he was saying to her. "Wait, you're not saying..." she trailed off, looking at him suspiciously. "You're not a...are you?" she asked him.
Galen watched as she slowly understood what he was telling her. He nodded slightly," yeah well the water wouldn't have made you feel anything else if I wasn't." He answered
"I'm torn between being in awe because you're a merman or being angry that you didn't tell me that you were one and just told me that you studied myths and all that stuff," Adrianna replied, studying Galen carefully as if he could do something spectacular at any given moment.
Galen laughed softly." What should I have told you.. Ohh hey by the way I don't just study myths I am one." He said," you were already freaking out why would I make it worse?" He asked looking at her
Adrianna nodded reluctantly, seeing exactly where he was coming from. "Okay fair enough. Now are you going to teach me how to swim or whatever mermaid magic you were going to teach me today?" Adrianna asked Galen, looking up at him expectantly.
He nodded," Yeah but I'm not going to get in the water with you.. I don't do well in pool water after living in the ocean for so long." He answered standing up," and you are doing fine so far. It's in your blood to swim
"What's that like? Living in the ocean I mean," Adrianna asked Galen, not able to help herself. Her voice had taken on a dreamy tone as she asked. She wasn't too keen on fishes or mermaids or swimming but she'd seen the Little Mermaid and like a lot of people, she'd fantasized about what it would be like to live under the sea.
"I don't know how to describe it but it's pretty awesome to live there.. I'll take you once we get your lungs and eyesight used to the water.. Now go under the water and breath in." He told her
Adrianna nodded quickly, getting excited about actually being able to go with him. She let go of the edge of the pool and sunk down underneath, her eyes adjusting to the water, making it crystal clear. It was like watching the world in HD. She took a small breath in, worried about what might happen even though she'd done it already. When she felt better than fine, she took another breath and then another. After she'd been in for a minute or two, she decided it was time to try this tail and tried to kick once, propelling herself out of the water where she grabbed onto the ledge for support. "I did it," she stated, feeling pretty happy with herself.
Galen looked at her and watched as she just started to breath underwater. He grinned a little liking how he got to help out this little mermaid as he thought of her right then. He chuckled,"I know I was watching you." He answered
"Yeah but saying it out loud makes me feel cooler. More accomplished," Adrianna told him, waving a wet hand around as she spoke. "I've a question, does everyone have a different colour tail?" she asked, looking down at her own and then back up at him.
"Okay okay do whatever you want then sweetheart."He answered chuckling softly. He sat back down and nodded," yeah everyone has a different colored tail.. It's like your hair and eyes." He said softly," unique and just you."
Adrianna laughed airily and listened intently as he answered her question abut tails. "So what about yours? What's it like?" she asked, her mind gone off her shimmering, aquamarine tail as she wondered about his. She didn't realise that she had been accidentally swishing her tail under the water till it brushed against the wall of the pool.
He smiled at her and shrugged," mine is greenish blue and has some purple I think." He answered," I don't know I'm sure you will see it soon enough." He answered looking as her and watching her.
"How do you control your tail? I can't work it," Adrianna asked, a small frustrated frown on her lips, making a tiny crease in between her eyebrows. She tilted her head to the side as she waited for his answer.
"It's like using your legs.. Here get out and we will go out to the ocean as I will show you." He answered offering his hand to her to help her out of the pool.
Adrianna took his hand, using his strength and her other hand to push herself out. She did the same as the day before, imagining that she had legs and felt the almost familiar prick of pain as she got her legs again. "You know, I've never actually been to the ocean," she told him as she pulled her t-shirt over her head and shimmied into her shorts.
He pulled her out of the pool and set her down gently as she turned her tail back into her legs. "Well we are going to go to the ocean but you will have to concentrate on not letting your tail out until we are out far enough so people can't see us."He told her
Adrianna nodded as she slipped her flip flops back on. "I could probably maybe to that," she told him as a grin curled her lips. "I'm super excited right now. I always asked to go to the ocean but I was never allowed for now obvious reasons," Adrianna said, bouncing from foot to foot.
" well calm down honey everything will be better at the ocean."He told her softly. "Come in," he said going into the house and waiting for her
Adrianna blushed slightly when he told her to calm down. "Sorry," she apologised with a light chuckle and followed him inside the house.
He chuckled softly still,"You are just funny to be around." He said not in a bad way. He smiled at her as he put his shoes on. "Alright off to the ocean."
Adrianna furrowed her eyebrows slightly, wondering how she was funny to be around. She didn't think there was anything funny about her. "It's not far right?" Adrianna asked, bouncing on the balls of her feet.
Galen looked over at her and shook his head," No it's not like 5 minutes." He said," it's just easier to drive than walk." He said softly looking at I'm
"Can you speak underwater? Like speak normally?" Adrianna asked, cocking her head to the side as she thought about it. Now that she was going out with Galen she had gotten curious about it.
"Well you can but you might have a hard time understanding at first but you'll get it." He answered unlocking his truck and opening the door for her
Adrianna smiled at him, hopping into his truck. "That's just weird. I mean, science wasn't my favourite subject in school but this is something that I want to learn about. It's just weird," Adrianna told him, clicking her seat belt into place.
Galen got into the truck and raised a brow a little," What does science have to do with this?" He asked not understanding what she was going for right then
"I mean, it's pretty magic but there has to be some science behind how mermaids work. I'm just saying, I would have been a lot more interested in it in school if they taught about this kind of stuff instead. But I was given Disney movies and told they were a myth," Adrianna explained with a shrug.
Galen laughed as he started his truck," yes I suppose that is true but I'm not sure how to explain being a mermaid in a scientific way." He replied driving them down to the ocean
"Neither am I. That's the point. But that'll all never happen because it means coming out to the public which means discrimination and all of that which you are avoiding by staying secret and living in peace? Is peace right for merpeople?" Adrianna asked, glancing at Galen from where she had been looking out the window.
Galen nodded a little bit and looked at her," Did you spend all night thinking about how you now know you are a mermaid?" He asked," yes we merfolk live in relative peace... But you see there are some who think all of us for a little bit of our lives should live out here on land with the humans but other think we need to stay mostly hidden and only have a few of us merfolk out in the open"
Adrianna laughed, looking away sheepishly. "Maybe...But I mean, wouldn't you? Were you born a merman like in the water? How does that even work? No wait, I don't think I wanna know that one," Adrianna asked, stopping herself with a small frown. "That makes sense. Sounds like pretty regular conflict. They kinda predicted that in the Little Mermaid. Which is strange because who knew that they'd actually get something like that right?" Adrianna asked with a small laugh.
Galen laughed softly listening to her rambling." First off dear I've always been a merman and second how do you think you came Into the world?" He asked," It's not any different than that" he told her. "You know I've never actually watched the little mermaid so I don't really know what you are talking about" Galen admitted softly
"Yeah but I mean do you do it...Nope. I'm not getting into that," Adrianna stopped, shaking her head to clear that thoughts. That was not something that she wanted in her head, even though she knew that she was going to have to talk about it with someone at some point. "You've never seen The Little Mermaid?" She asked in disbelief. "Not even to laugh at everything they got wrong? Like if I was a werewolf, I'd watch werewolf movies just to laugh at it. It'd be the same with mermaid movies but I know nothing about mermaid just yet so I can't do that," Adrianna told him with wide eyes, still not sure how he hadn't seen the Disney classic.
Galen laughed softly and nodded," okay well I'm not going to tell you anything about it then... Until you ask or whatever." He replied. He just shook his head," Nope never seen it I've heard about it but never watched it. Adrianna I've lived most of my life under the sea." He said unintentionally using those words from the movie. "I don't have a tv in my real house and the people I'm staying with are older and don't have that stuff." He explained a little bit
"That sucks," Adrianna replied bluntly, shaking her head at the weirdness of it all. She had figured he had lived most of his life under the sea but it was still strange to think about how much pop culture he would have missed. "You realise that you're gonna have to come to my house for a movie marathon right? This needs to be fixed. What kind of person would I be if I just left you like that," Adrianna told him, not leaving any room for debate. She had her mind set on it.
He shrugged a little bit," it's not my fault TVS dont work under water." He replied looking at her then raising his eyebrows a little bit," you are going to have me come over to your house for a movie marathon?" He asked," Now that is something I've only heard of doing." Galen replied. He was being completely honest when he said he hadn't been on land for a while sure he knew how to drive and he knew a lot of other things but doing what normal teenagers and people in their early twentys did was something very new to him
Adrianna laughed at his surprise. "Of course I'm going to have you over for a movie marathon. You have missed out on like everything. In fact, we're going to have to have multiple ones. Catching you up on Disney, cult classics, classics, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wards, The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit prequels. There's more than that that you've gotta see but we'll start with those," Adrianna informed him with a nod, making the decisions as they popped into her head. "I see now why my mom says I need to get my priorities straight. I watch way too much."
Galen just stared at her like she was speaking in a different language. "You were speaking English right?"He asked looking at her. He really understood like half of what she was saying and it was a little strange for him
