The Mermaid Mate

Chapter 6: Cold Blooded

He just followed me, no questions asked. We walked to the schools pool and made sure no one was around. We locked ourselves in, into the swimming hall. Even their swimming pool was amazing.

"Are you ready?" I asked him. He gave me a puzzled look but before he could ask me, I jumped into the pool. I motioned for him to jump in too. The thing about being a sea nymph is that I could control when I wanted to shift as long as I was in water. Many people referred to us as mermaids though.

I wanted to scare him a little so I stayed underwater for a good minute and pretended I couldn't breathe. I acted dead. I'm a mean person like that. I could breathe through my gills though. They were along my spine. They were tiny and barely visible but they were there. A sea nymph is more of a cold blooded creature so I let the cold take over my body while I was pretending to be dead, which made me look paler instantly. It also can control their heart beats as not to be detected by other creatures of the sea, so I slowed down my heart beat to 1 beat per 5 minutes. So while I was pretending, I was ice cold, pale and he wasn't able to detect my heart beat nor my gills along my back. In my head I was thinking that this was the best prank ever but clearly I didn't think this through properly because the next thing I knew was, I was being dragged out with such great strength by him. He was shouting for me to wake up and I could hear his voice break as he was close to tears and about to lose his mind. He tried to do mouth to mouth on me which I gladly took although I didn't need it. As soon as his soft lips touched mine, I felt the sparks again. When his mouth left, I immediately craved more so as soon as he came back down to provide me with more air, I wrapped my arms around his head and kissed him. This wolf magic sure is weird. I thought to myself, before he kissed me back with tears sliding down his face. His warmth around me felt... nice. So much for being cold blooded. He ended the kiss quickly and abruptly looking at me with relief and hurt.

"Thank god you're okay" he said barely above a whisper. I clearly hurt him so I hugged him and apologized. He didn't know that it was a prank. I couldn't do this to him. "I'm sorry." I whispered into his ear. He looked confused.

"I was never in any danger. I wanted to scare you. I took it overboard." I jumped back into the pool so that I could prove my point. I motioned for him to come in again and take a closer look as I held onto his hand. Then I shifted into my sea form. My strong, long black tail started to form where my legs were and attached to it were shimmering silver white fins along the waist line down to the tip of my tail. My black tail shimmered together with the fins which highlighted the streamlined figure of my body. My tail was very long and powerful to swim through the strong currents underwater at high speed. Skin flaps also formed between my fingers which helped me to swim. My honey brown eyes turned into a bright light blue, the colour of the ocean whereas my hair tuned black like my tail. The scales from my body had intricate patters going to my upper body like roots that covered the sides of my waist and my chest. Honestly, I looked quite frightening because no one's heard of a black sea nymph. Even our kind believed that black represented death. I was always outcast when I was younger. Although I looked frightening I think I looked magnificent and powerful. To me, I wouldn't have asked for any other coloured tail.

"No freaking way, you're a mermaid" was all he managed to say before he used his other hand to touch my pale face. He looked into my now blue eyes and kept the eye contact before breaking it and looking at the rest of me. "Can I?" he asked me as he motioned for my tail. I raised my tail to let him touch it. It feels soft like silk not hard and painful.

"No I am not a mermaid. The right term is sea nymph.When I am in water, I can shift into my sea form. When I feel threatened, claws just like yours, will appear at my fingertips. Along my spine all the way down to my tail, spikes that look like mirrors will also appear together with my teeth that would look like fangs. I can control my shift as long as I am in water. Some perks of being a nymph is that every individual has different powers which will reveal themselves over time. By the age of 18, we should have all our powers but some people are late bloomers. I haven't turned 18 yet so I still have some powers I need to discover." I explained. Then, I also explained to him about how I was able to prank him.

Clearly he was not happy with me and tried to be angry with me but failed miserably as I teased him about the kiss.