Mermaid in a Bottle

Chapter 4 ~ Cloaked in Darkeness

(Will's P.O.V. cont.)

My breath lurched into my throat as my tail hit a pot, causing it to fly around the corner and straight into the boy's backside.

"Ow!" he exclaimed, rubbing his back with his hand. "Do I have an assassin after me or something?"

Both MerLissa and this boy slowly turned around to where the pot came from, giving me enough time to hide behind a wall.

"Hello?' my sister asked. "Is anyone there?"

"Nice job assassin," the boy added. "You know exactly which weapons to use!" He pressed on, prattling on and on about how when he was little he was playing with a pot and it suddenly went over his head and everything was dark for a while. I could have sworn I saw him cry! Sissy.

I pressed myself up against, hoping that I could sort of mold in with the wall. Not having realized that I shut my eyes in the first place, I popped them open when an idea sprung to me. I could be invisible. Hell, I already was invisible! My Dark Cloak made sure of that!

Before I could test my theory, MerLissa and this boy turned back around and continued swimming. I let my breath out slowly. I let my Dark Cloak surround me as I stepped out of the shadows, unaware that I had left a piece of my tail uncovered.

A couple minutes after I'd been following her and that other boy around, I started questioning myself. How is she going to react? She doesn't know me at all anymore, probably. How am I going to explain everything to her? And how am I supposed to deal with that guy next to her?!

I was thinking tons of more things when I felt quite odd. It was very silent. Too silent for my liking. I swung around and realized I had lost them. I have to hurry before they are too far out of sight!

I swam as fast as I could in the direction they were headed last. My cloak managed to unravel a little further, showing off the whole bottom of my tail.

"Gotcha!" I heard a girl yell behind me.

Wow, so now I was part of a trap. I hadn't even seen this coming! The boy she had with her was trying to tackle me down, but I quickly tripped him with my tail fin and he fell through the water a couple of feet before gaining his balance.

"Hey! No fair!" he screamed.

"You sound like a little kid," I told him harshly.

"I changed my mind. He is no longer sexy." He mumbled.

What?! I thought.

"Nemo, calm down. Let's just talk to him. That's all I wanted in the first place." my sister helped him up and then turned her head towards me. Her soft eyes became hard and cold. "Why were you following us? Are you a stalker or something?"

My face remained neutral. My lips didn't utter a word. I may have seemed calm and collected on the outside, but mentally, I was gathering up my thoughts, seeping through which introductions were good and which ones weren't.

Hi, I'm your brother.

It's been so long since I've seen you.

I miss you.

Hi, my name is-

"And where did you get this cloak from?!" She pointed towards my cloak, not daring to touch it for fear that it was evil and would snatch her up. Well half of that was true.

I still didn't reply to her. I was still thinking about what I should say to her. I finally get to see her, but now what do I say? How will she understand?