My Twisted Wonderland Trash Bin

After Party- Crack

Scarlet eyes met a heterochromatic pair of olive Brown and bright yellow. Ace did not know how to explain this to his mother. It was a myth, an urban legend. The idea that someone who drowns becomes a merperson was ridiculous; it was just something to explain why people were lost to the sea and never found; that's what Ace thought just a few days ago. But now? Now he was staring face to face with the now scarily version of his teammate Floyd.

The night prior, Ace hosted a party; his parents were visiting his brother in college for a few days, leaving the house to him. Like the self-respecting teenage boy, that meant it was party time. It started with just inviting the basketball team and a few friends, but he went a little overboard, sue him, he wanted to be popular. It was all fine and dandy till the punch got spiked, and he's pretty sure the brownies Cater brought were not from Trey. He woke up on the kitchen floor with a pounding headache and his house trashed.

The ginger took some aspirin and downed a bottle of water, he didn't have the pleasure of sleeping off the hangover since he needed to clean up before his parents returned. He started by cleaning up the pizza boxes, crumpled cups, and various bits of garbage. The amount of trash filled up two large garbage bags. He lugged the trash bags into the trash can kept in the backyard. Stumbling past the pool, he struggled to get the bags into the bin.

"Aww looks like Crabbys is having trouble~."

"Ugh, shut up Floyd!"
Ace grumbled, stupid Floyd in his stupid pool... wait.

"Floyd!" He turned to see the definitely not a human chilling in his pool. The now merman gave a sharp-toothed smile. Where his legs should have been was a long snake-like tail, and in place of ears were a pair of gills. His skin was scaly and had a teal coloring with white spots. Ace really needed a nap, but first, he needed to stay calm and deal with this.

"What's wrong, Crabby? Catfish get your tongue?"

"... what the absolute FUCK happened!?"
so much for staying calm.

"Well, I drowned and died."
That did not clear things up.

"The Devil didn't want me, so now I'm here, and I'm your problem."

"excuse me for a second."
Ace did not leave the room to scream into a pillow; anyone who says otherwise is a liar. Ace returned shortly after.
"Okay, give me the number of someone I can dump you on. I need you out of here before my parents get home."

"Awww, you don't want me around Crabby?"

"No."

Floyd pouted in fake sadness. "Fineeeee, you're so mean crabby. I'll give you Jade's number."

Ace got Jade's number from Floyd and dialed it.

"Ah, hello, Ace; how can I be of assistance?"
Ace would not dwell on how Jade knew it was him right away.

"I need you to pick up your brother."
Ace could hear Jade sigh on the other end of the line.

"Oh dear, what did he do this time?"

"He died and became a fucking fish in my pool."

" ..pardon?"

"Just come get him; I am too hungover to deal with this. I'll text you my address."

"Oh, there's no need. I already know where you live. I'll be right there."
Ace did not have time to question that before Jade hung up on him.

Ace grabbed a cooler and filled it with water.
"Okay, get in."

"Oh, crabby, you seem to forget," he lifts his long, scaly tail, "You're gonna have to help me."
Ace groaned, leaning down to get him out before being pulled in. By the time Jade showed up, Ace was soaking wet but had managed to get Floyd into the cooler.

"Take your brother and leave."