Part of Your World

Chapter 1- pArdOn?

Contrary to popular belief, most mermen do wear shirts. Living underwater is no excuse for anyone to swim around half naked.

Unless your name is Jeon Jungkook.

And had Jungkook worn a shirt like most merfolk do, he likely wouldn't have a gaggle of girls staring at his bare ass.

But...mermaids don't have asses, you say?

Well, sit your non-mermaid ass down and get ready to be told otherwise.

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Jungkook wasn't a stalker. It was merely coincidence that he happened to know a certain man visited the beach every Tuesday. And of course, it wasn't creepy that Jungkook knew he practiced beach volley every Monday and Friday. And it didn't take a genius to realize he and his beach volley team had a game every Saturday. Jungkook just happened to be a very observant person—which would also explain how he knew this same man took his parents out for a picnic on the beach on the second Sunday of every month. Like I said, he was very observant. 

Now could he tell you about anyone else that visited the beach's schedule? Well... no... but that didn't mean anything.

Admittedly, he had been watching this same man for about a year now. Which sounds creepy... and probably seems creepy, seeing as that man had no idea Jungkook had been watching him.

But all that changed today.

Today, he was finally, finally going to make himself known to the sweetest man alive. Today was the day he was finally going to introduce himself to Park Jimin.

Jungkook had had it planned out for some time now. This Tuesday he would poke his head up above the surface of the water and try to get the attention of Jimin. Okay, so he really didn't know how he was going to get Jimin's attention, but he figured it was best when these kinds of things happened naturally. Or something like that.

Jungkook was going over his plan for what felt like the millionth time that week as he slowly approached the ocean's glimmering surface, preparing to pop his head up above the water for the first time.

It wasn't a big deal really, he knew merfolk could breathe just fine above water, but the thought still frightened him a bit. It would be worth it. For Jimin, he told himself.

Jungkook with a deep breath to calm his nerves, Jungkook thrust his head above water for the first time.

Holy Gods, no one told me the dry world was so beautiful.

The ocean shone even brighter from above— everything in the dry world was so much brighter, really. There was a certain sort of clarity above water that Jungkook didn't think he would ever get used to.

"HEY KID!! YOU'RE TOO FAR OUT AT SEA!!"

Huh?

"KID, YOU'RE GONNA DROWN!!"

Please, I'm a mermaid.

"KID, CAN YOU HEAR ME?!"

"DON'T WORRY, I'M COMING FOR YA, KID!!"

What? Nononononono, this wasn't supposed to happen. He could swim just fine, if only he could tell—

"HOLY CRAP!!" Jungkook shouted. The lifeguard was grabbing Jungkook by the waist, doing a terrible job of keeping Jungkook's head above the surface as he quickly swam forward to bring Jungkook to shore—wait, nononono Jungkook couldn't come to shore (A/N: I know I probably messed up a ton of lifeguard procedures, I'm not actually a lifeguard and I wrote this in a rush, sorry :3).

"WAIT WAIT WAIT STOP!!" Jungkook shouted.

"I'VE GOT YOU KID YOU'LL BE FINE!" The lifeguard shouted back.

"NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, STOP!!"

"KID, YOU'RE ONLY MAKING THINGS WORSE!"

Jungkook's eyes widened with fear as he and the lifeguard approached the surface. Gods, he should've listened to his mom. Now he was gonna be chopped up and made into stew all before he had the chance to say hi to the one guy he'd ever caught feelings for.

As the shore approached rapidly, Jungkook squeezed his eyes closed, ready to be mortified as the glimmering navy lay below his waist was exposed.

"Kid, it's not that big of a deal. Everyone skinny dips every now and then."

...what?

"How the hell am I—I—" Jungkook spluttered, coughing up water unceremoniously.

"Do put on a towel though," said the bodyguard, tossing Jungkook a towel to cover whatever it was that had just appeared in place of Jungkook's tail. He'd worry about that later.

As of right now, Jungkook needed to figure out how in the hell he'd just grown a pair of legs.

TLDR; Jungkook the shirtless stalker merman grew a pair.

A/N: Hello everyone! This is my first time writing a fanfic, so I apologize if it's cruddy. English is my first language, so please point out any spelling or grammatical errors I might overlook. I promise the chapters will be longer, I just need to get into my rhythm (lol). Hope