Dangers of the Sea || Byler Story ||

10 - Suspicion

Third Person POV:

Will and Mike were lying on his stomachs on Will's bed, talking and reading the Mermaid page.

"Will?" The brunette looked up and saw Jane at the doorway.

"Jane!" Will says, sitting up with a smile on his face. Mike follows suit. "How are you? What do you need?"

The princess looks at Mike. "Who is that?" She says.

"This is Mike Wheeler, a friend of mine." Will says. "He's the boy who uh.. almost got killed by the mermaids." Jane raises an eyebrow at him. Her eyes linger on the book in Mike's hand.

"Are you still obsessing over that book?" Jane says, fully walking inside the room and crossing her arms. She frowns at her brother. "I still don't get it, why are you engrossed by those creatures?"

Will sighs. "They're interesting, is all," He says. "Anyway, Mike, this is my sister, Jane."

Mike smiles at Jane. "Hi," He says.

Jane stares at him, waiting. She frowns at him before glaring at Will. "He's not from here, he has different customs," Will says, lying through his teeth. "Mike, usually you're supposed to bow before a royal family member."

"Oh," Mike says. "Sorry."

Will shrugs. "Well, Jane, what did you come here to say?" He asks, looking back at his sister.

"Jonathan is coming home tomorrow," Jane says. "And he's bringing someone from where he was. He hasn't told me if it's his girlfriend or not."

"Great!" Will says. He turns to Mike. "I haven't seen Jonathan in a few weeks."

Jane nods. "Okay yeah, I have to go now," She says. "But can I talk to you outside, Will?" Will nods and gets up, and follows Jane out the door and watches her close it. Jane turns to Will, and her serious manner disappears as she giddily smiles at him. "Why didn't you tell me you were crushing on a boy?"

Will blushed madly. "What?" He exclaims. "I don't like him like that."

"Oh, yeeeeaaaaahhh sure," Jane teasingly rolls her eyes. "Like I don't see the way you two look at each other." She grins. "I have to go, but-" She squeezes Will in a hug. "Good job, he's quite the catch." She whispers in his ear, before leaving.

The brunette enters the room again, smiling when he sees Mike was dozed off on the bed, sprawled out as far as he could be.

Will takes the book out of Mike's hand, closing it and placing it on his nightstand.

"I guess I don't need to fantasize about their beauty anymore," Will whispers, gently stroking Mike's cheek. "I have you now, and you're more beautiful than anything I've imagined."

...

"Okay, do you want to go to the beach now?" Will asks the next morning.

Mike nods his head multiple times, and Will laughs. "And I can run in the sand and see the ocean from above!" Mike says dreamily, twirling around as the two walk down a pathway.

"Are you sure you can run?" Will questions. "You only just figured out how to walk."

"I just mastered walking, you mean," Mike huffs, biting the inside of his cheek as he continues walking next to Will. "I did so well, I'll master running just as fast."

"Well, we're almost there," Will says. "Look," He points forward and Mike gasps.

The ocean was beautiful this time of morning, with the pink sky reflecting it. The clouds were perfect and fluffy, and the sand looked nice and warm. Mike dashed onto the beach, followed quickly be Will.

"Wow.." Mike whispered. "It's so beautiful.."

Will nods. "I knew you'd like it," He says. "Sometimes on special holidays the magicians of the kingdom come and perform magic above the water," He says softly. "I always watch it to the end, you should come on land then and watch it with me."

"I would love to," Mike says sincerely. "I think I've seen it before, from underwater of course."

"Huh, underwater star-fire lights," Will says. "Come on, there's a place I want to show you," He grabs Mike's hand and runs to the left, where a large village was.

It was bustling and loud, full of people and other things. There were tons of different stands selling different things. Will smiled at Mike and they continued running through the area before they stopped at a keychain shop.

"Which one do you want?" Will asks. "We can get any one you want."

Mike beams as he looks at the choices. "Can I get that one?" He points at the one he wants. The shop owner nods, and places it in his hands. It was a small golden chain with orbs on either end, one was blue and the other yellow.

"Thank you," Will says to the owner before walking with Mike through the shops again.

"Oh, what's that?" Mike asks, darting over to a scarf shop. "Ooh, and that?" He rushes to a hat shop. "Woah, that's so cool!" He rushes to a petting zoo.

Mike continues to dart around while Will follows, happy the ravenette was having a good time.

"Will! What's that?" Mike says, grabbing Will's shoulder and pointing at an ice cream shop. "It looks really good.." Will grins and walks over ordering two ice creams and looks at Mike.

"It's ice cream, it's a dessert we eat here," Will says.

The shop owner hands Will the ice creams, one chocolate and the other vanilla. "Take it and eat it with this spoon," Will says, handing Mike the spoon before handing him a spoon.

Mike took a huge scoop and stuffed it in his face. "Agh!" He says, gagging before swallowing it down. "It's so cold!"

Will giggles. "I know," He says, taking a small scoop and eating it.

They walked around as they finished the ice creams, before throwing the trash away and Mike continued to run around looking at different things.

"Mike, slow down," Will says, laughing. Mike immediately paused, waiting for the brunette.

"Okay, this place is amazing!" Mike says. "And can we go back to the beach now?"

Will nods, and follows Mike back up the hill, but pauses and looks back, feeling someone's eyes on him. He looked around in the crowd, but there wasn't- Wait. There was a red head girl and a boy next to her staring daggers at him. They couldn't be older than his age.

He frowns, before continuing after Mike.

<^> To Be Continued

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