All American Mermaid

Welcome Home

The plane had landed and Megan's mother woke her up. When everyone got out, they sat down on the ground and breathed in the smell of saltwater.

"Hey, Aquata!" Marina exclaims, hugging Aquata. "Someone is here to see you!"

"Aquata!" Oceania yells, tackling Aquata.

"Hi! How have you two been?" Aquata asks, hugging both of her friends back.

Aquata and her friends start chatting up, meanwhile, the mermaid's parents start asking questions.

"I'm just going to say what we're thinking. How the hell did you four turn into mermaids?" Megan's dad, Stephen Gorgona, asks.

"Well, we fell into Devil's Den during a full moon, and here we are. We also have powers too," Julie explains, stretching her legs. "We also turn into mermaids anytime we touch water."

"I'm too happy to scold you now. Come here, Julie!" Julie's mom, Raven Andrews, exclaims, hugging her daughter not caring if her purple hair got in the way.

"That's good and all but why is Maria covered in hickies?" Maria's mother, Aphrodite Venus, questions, not noticing Brady, Brad, and Chad sneaking away only to be stopped by their parents.

"The government experimented with pheromones on me and Brady, Brad, and Chad kissed me a lot. They didn't mean to!" Maria explains, putting Chad's jacket on.

Brady, Brad, and Chad's parents walk up to Maria's mother and apologize for their son's behavior. Luckily, Maria's mother understood they didn't mean to do anything like that on purpose and were under the extreme influence of pheromones. Maria's father wasn't so forgiving.

"I'm sorry but why are we avoiding the fact they aren't showering? Like how are they getting clean?" Adrienne's mom, Vanessa Rosales, exclaims thinking about her daughter's hygiene. "Can you girls even have periods with tails? How do you wash your hands? Do you even wash your hair? Can you go to the bathroom in mermaid form?"

Adrienne's mom is a doctor. She's also a germaphobe.

"Well, as far as I know, I can wash my upper half fine. The mermaid bra is removable. My lower half somehow gets clean, when I dry off my legs smell like soap so I assume soap and stuff like that is absorbed onto my legs. I can wash my hands, I just have to dry them off quickly. Periods are just held off, while we're in mermaid form like the blood flow just gets heavier when we get our legs back. My hair is actually pretty soft and silky, turns out saltwater is great for the hair. For the last question, we haven't figured out that part, you can ask Aquata though," Adrienne answers, thinking about other questions that might need answers.

"We are taking you to a gynecologist," Adrienne's mom says, starting to visualize all the germs on Adrienne.

Everyone catches up with each other until a news van and a couple of different cars come flying into the neighborhood.

The CEO of Disney (Bob Chapek) and the CEO of Netflix (Reed Hastings) step out of the cars and begin talking to the parents along with the news.

"Mr. Venus, how do you feel about your daughter being a real-life mermaid?" A news lady asks.

"I don't feel anything negative. I'm just glad she's back," Maria's dad answers.

"Hi, I'm the CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings, I'm wondering if you would like to create a docuseries about your daughter and her mermaid friend's life?" Reed says, thinking of how this will be a bigger hit than Tiger King.

"I'm also wondering if Disney could make an animated movie about your daughters?" The CEO of Disney asks, taking out contract papers and giving them to the mergirls parents.

"We'll get back to you on that. Maria, don't answer that question!" Mrs. Venus states, noticing more news crews showing up. "Alright, that's it. Everyone get the children inside!"

Maria and the rest of the teenagers are rushed inside and have to sit down on the couch.

"It feels weird being inside my own house again," Julie says, turning on the tv.

"It feels weird being inside a house," Aquata states, looking at the obscure paintings on the wall.

Max, the Andrews's German Shepard, notices one of his owner's are home and he jumps onto Julie.

"AAH! What is that hairy thing?" Aquata screams, jumping off the couch.

"Oh, right. You don't know what land animals are if they don't naturally live near water. Aquata, this is a dog. He is fluffy and a good boy. He does not harm people," Julie responds,

"Oh. Ok," Aquata says as Max walks over to her, rubbing his fur against her legs. "You're right. He is very soft."

"Wanna order some Chick-Fil-La from Uber eats?" Oceania asks, starting to wish she ate before she came here. "Breakfast time is over."

"Yeah!" Everyone exclaims, mainly because everyone except Marina didn't eat breakfast.

"Oh, by the way, you mermaids won't mind if one of us eats a fish sandwich? I don't really want to upset you by eating one of your 'friends'," Oceania asks, earning a look from every mermaid.

"Why do humans think fish are our friends? We eat fish. The only things we don't eat are dolphins, otters, seals, etc." Aquata explains. "While we're on the subject of fish, can I have a fish sandwich?"

"Ok then, text me what you want and we'll just wait here. Julie where do you want the Uber Eats guy to drop off the food?" Oceania questions, looking at Julie who is busy petting Max.

"Tell them to drop the foods off in the backyard," Julie replies, leaning on a pillow.

Julie turns on the tv and puts it onto AMC where it seems there is a Jurassic Park marathon. Chad moves Maria onto his lap and she falls asleep, while Brady and Brad glare at him. Eventually, everyone falls asleep not noticing their parents walking back in after dealing with the horde of news reporters.

"It's crazy! It hasn't even been a full hour yet and I've been getting calls from MSNBC, ABC, and GMA! Oh, look! They're all asleep!" Adrienne's mom squeals.

"Why is Maria on Chad's lap?" Mr. Venus asks, looking at Chad's dad, Mr. Willhouse.

"They both look awfully comfortable. So there's no harm, right?" Mr. Willhouse meekly responds.

"Oh, there's no harm, yet," Mr. Venus responds glaring at Chad's dad. "You better hope she doesn't end up pregnant."

"You realize she's probably dating all three of 'em, right? Chad, Brad, and Brady both seem to treat her like she's their girlfriend. Also, she does have hyperovulation, so it's possible she could have babies and all three of those boys could be the father separately. I don't see a problem with Maria dating all three of them," Mrs. Venus responds, taking a picture of her daughter asleep.

"There's a guy jumping over the fence and leaving food at the backdoor...? Did someone order food while we were outside?" Mrs. Andrews asks, waving at the UberEats guy.

"Our food is here! Everyone wake up!" Julie yells, jumping off the couch and racing to the backdoor door.

Julie and the other teens run to the food bag and get their desired food and back to the couch within 10 seconds. Which was faster than the time they realized they were going to do pacer testing in gym class.

"Maria, can I feed you a fry?" Brady asks, putting his arm around Maria's right shoulder.

"No fair! Maria, can I please feed you fry too?" Brad asks, also putting his arm around Maria's left shoulder.

"Oh please, she doesn't want you fools fries. She wants my chicken nuggets and a sip of lemonade!" Chad says as he places Maria on his lap so Maria can easily access his food.

"Enough! Oh dear God, enough!" Mr. Venus screams into the sky, seeing his daughter dating three football himbos. "Why couldn't she date the kid that wants to become a doctor! Aphrodite why? Why our baby girl?"

Mrs. Venus rolled her eyes and started chatting with Brady, Brad, and Chad's mothers.