The mermaid hybrid

5. ERMERGERD! I'm a mermaid

I woke up and groaned.

My head ached probably as a result of sleeping late.

I looked at my bedside clock.

9:36 am.

I touched the other side of the bed and found it empty.

Emily had obviously woken up and walked out of my room without waking me up.

God bless her soul.

I walked to the bathroom and turned on the tap and filled the bathtub with water.after removing my clothes I slipped into the bathtub.

After a while I started to feel weird then I looked down at my body.

I was wearing a bra-like thingy that hung onto my body with vines,the bra-like thingy was covered in aquamarine (blue-green) coloured scales.

I looked further down and screamed in a loud pitched shrill voice.

ERMERGERD!

A Tail....there was a tail where my legs were supposed to be,it was covered with blue-green scales too in exactly the same pattern as the bra-like thingy.

The scales were patterned exquisitely on the tail and bra-like thingy.

If the tail had not being on my body,I'd have said that it was beautiful.

I continued screaming and I heard footsteps as my father,Aunt Claire and Emily ran upstairs to my room to see the reason for my scream.

"Erica where are you and why are you screaming...I swear if this is one of your pranks I will...",she was saying as she entered my bathroom.

"Oh. My. God.",my father said.

Emily gasped.

"You are a mermaid",Emily said in an amazed voice.

This snapped me back into reality.

My eyes widened,I'm a mermaid...just like my mother.

I looked up,everyone was staring into my eyes like...uh I don't know how to explain...like as though it was the most awesome thing they had ever seen.

"What's wrong?",I asked.

Apart from me growing a tail,I mentally added.

"Your eyes",emily said.

"What's wrong with my eyes?,you know guys now is not the right time to joke around",I asked.

"There are blue ringlets around your green eyes",Aunt claire said.

I scoffed and said,"Very funny like as though that's even possible"

"Look in the mirror",my father said as he shifted away from the mirror at his back.

I looked straight at a stranger with green eyes that had blue ringlets.

"Oh no this is not good",I said in a panicking voice.

"Its okay honey,calm down,everything will be alright",my father said in a calming voice.

He put his hand into the bathtub and carried me out bridal style,he dropped me on my bed gently.

"I'm out of the water but the tail hasn't gone,am I going to be like this forever,am I going to have to go live with fishes?",I said very much panicked now.

Then it hit me,grams had known that I was going to turn to a mermaid that's why she had sent me my mother's diary.

"Emily please get the book grams sent me from under my pillow",I said.

She brought the book and I tried to open it but it was sealed with a magical lock that was open demanding for something.

"What does it want",I asked aloud.

"Erica cut a little vine off your shoulder and put it there",my father said.

I obeyed and the vine I cut off was immediately replaced by another.

I put the vine in the cup-like part of the lock and it was covered again when it opened again there was nothing there then we heard a click and the diary opened.

I asked my dad how he knew what to do and my father answered,"Your mother always wrote her diary in mermaid form and I used to see her cut off the vine"

We started scanning the diary and then we found out that if I dry my body the tail will go.

After sending my dad out of the bedroom,my aunt dried my body with a towel and all of a sudden my legs appeared and I was naked again.

"We'll leave you to read it all and find out all you can",Aunt claire said leaving the room.

I looked up at emily.

"I'm sorry Rikki,I have to go home okay,I'll see you tomorrow",She said pecking my cheeks.

"See you",I said as she walked out of my room.

I sat back down and continued to read the diary.

I finished reading the book and I found out a lot.

I was walking down the stairs when my aunt crashed into me.

She was laughing hysterically and was been pursued by her boyfriend when she crashed into me.

Unfortunately for me she was holding a cup of water which poured on my body when we crashed,her boyfriend came running while I ran to my room counting the seconds mentally.

I crashed into my room at exactly 14 seconds and fell to the ground as my tail appeared a second later.

Yup I grow a tail within 15 seconds if water touches me and when I'm dry I come back exactly the same way I was before the water touched me.

I went to the drawer and took out the necklace grams gave me and went to the front of the mirror to wear it. As soon as it touched my skin it glowed momentarily and changed its colour from dull silver to blue-green.it looked just like the colour of my tail.

That evening I explained everything to my aunt and dad and they promised to support me and help me keep my secret.

My life as a mermaid had just began.

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Hi readers,I hope you like this chapter and its interesting,I apologise if you think its short and I promise to write a longer one next time.

Pls vote and comment,I would love that a lot and it would encourage me to think of the new chapter.

Tnx.

Eunix.