My mythical creatures~Mermaid

Chapter 16

I woke up in my bed in Liverpool. I ached all over and I turned over to see a note taped over my alarm clock. I reached over to read it.

Cassie, it's good to have you back and we're just so sorry that we have to say goodbye again. We explained the situation to your mum and she's willing to go through with the plan. Drake, Austin, Jaz and I have decided that you will be safer if you stayed with your Aunt Rosie in Wales. This won't be for long, just until we've stopped your dad. Speak later, Stacey xoxo

 

I roll back over to see Justin peering through my bedroom door. I sit up and signal him to come over. He jumps on me and gives me a big hug. I hear him sob in my mess of a hair. I stroke his hair to sooth him.

"I thought I'd never see you again." He admits. I move him into a position where I can see his face.

"I'll always return to you Justin, you're my brother. Mum was only doing what she thought was right." I tell him. I look past him to see mum standing at the end of my bed.

"I took the day off work to look after you." She tells me. "I also contacted your friends to let them know that you were up. They'll be here in a bit. Can I get you anything?" she offers.

"No but thank you mum, I know I haven't been easy recently." I tell her. She smiles and gives me a kiss on the check.

We sit together on my bed. I'm holding Justin in my arms and my mum is holding me in her arms.

"Mum? Justin? Cassie?" I hear Max call from downstairs.

"Upstairs!" My mum calls out to him. I hear a lot of set of footprints run up my stairs and barge into my room. Standing with Max is Drake, Jaz, Stacey, Andy and Austin.

"We'll give you some space." My mum tells us whilst taking Justin and Max out my room and closing the door behind.

"So, who's who?" I asked them. They all gave me a puzzled look which made me feel like I was a weirdo. "Who's who? Who's the angel, the Nephilim...?" I finish.

"I'm the angel." Drake tells.

"Wolf!" Stacey admitted.

"You already know that I'm a mermaid." Continues Jaz.

"Nephilim." Austin says. I nod taking it all in.

"What about you Andy?" I ask. He looks up at me and then looks at the others.

"I don't know" he admits. Drake walks to him and scuffles his hair.

"Not everyone is like us. That's why her brothers aren't like her." He tells Andy.

"That's why he wants me." I say out loud to them. They all turn to me in silence. "What?" I question, "It's true!" I tell them.

"We just don't like to admit it, that's all Cass." Stacey speaks for everyone. I look away and notice my favourite group photo of Stacey, Drake, Andy and I whilst Austin is in the background. It always brings me peace as it was such a great day. We swung Stacey off the old docks into the sea before Drake pushed me in and the boys jumping in themselves. Austin was only there as we saw him walking by. It was the only time Drake and Austin got along. They all made me so happy and since Jaz came, we had been getting closer (even though she was going out with Drake). I don't know what I would do without them; I wouldn't cope for sure.

"I'm not going." I tell them. "I've only just gotten back. I want to fight, you guys can't protect me forever and I can't keep running." None of them say something. I got out of my bed, put my muddy boots on and walked passed them. It was time for me to fight my own battles.

My time away from Liverpool was short lived and I hated it. I know my dad will return for me, he never gives up. I know he can't have a fight without an army so I have time. What if he already has an army though? What type of being will they be? What if I'm not strong enough? I quickly spin around to make sure no one is following me. When I felt like the coast was clear, I start running. I had no idea where I was running to but I know that I need to be away from people. I need to know my full potential.

By the time I stopped running, I was barely out of breath and where I knew no one was around. The old docks. Half of me reckoned that Jaz would turn up, splashing around trying to convince me to go back. But she doesn't appear. No one does. I sit on the edge of the docks, cross my legs and close my eyes. The feeling of solitude comes over me. I think about all my dreams and all the information I was finally told by the people I thought I could trust. Thought. That is how was able to fight the enemy in my dreams. I take a deep breath, hold my hand out and imagine some of the water hovering over my hand. I only decide to open one eye as I don't know what I'll see. Hovering over my hand, in a shape of a ball, is water. "Whoa!" I say to myself and the water drops out of my hand, splashing all over me. I laughed to myself. What the heck?! I lie back and looking over me was Stacey.

"Hey" she says in a tone which sounded like she hadn't had a good time. I sit back up again, turn to face her and smile up at her. "That was pretty awesome what you just did." I look back at the water and at my hand. I chuckle to myself again.

"Yeah it was." I agreed to her. She sat down beside me and gave me a hug. "Stace, why didn't you tell me in the first place?" I got mo answer. "It's just, all of us are in the same situation with not being human yet you all knew about each other. About me. And I had no idea!" She looks down at the water to avoid looking at me.

"Cassie, I wanted to tell you. It's just that when we realised what you were, we wanted to protect you. Drake and your mum realised you were something special after your dad left as you were doing weird tricks. So they went to Lady Adele to see if she could turn those memories into dreams so that you would think that they were all nonsense and to hide you..." She took a deep breath and wiped her eyes. This was Stacey's true self. "Your dad then realised what they did and started to make his way into your dreams and they were causing you to pass out. Everyone else thought that you were just weird." By this point she was crying. She covered her face with her hand and cried into them. I put my arm on her back to comfort her. She looks up, still crying. "Everyone was then treating you like a freak!" She continued, "Including myself. Drake told me everything that had happened and I felt so bad. Please forgive me Cassie!" She pleaded. I let her cry into my shoulder and I comforted her. I don't blame her for anything, she was my best friend.

"Stace, you never left my side through it all! You are my best friend and nothing can change that." She looks up at me and smiles.

"Show me how you did that with the water!" She asked. I laughed and I tried to do it again.