The Deep Blue

7. Winter Forecast

As the night lives on outside of the walls within my own home. The sun moved to the other side of the globe leaving behind darkness as the once busy streets of Paradise Square are all empty as a cold front from the Arctic hit, dropping temperature's below average. Houses by ocean all are quiet with the lights turned off.

With most upper class people heading back to their native countries. With a few days until Christmas winter has decided to pay a visit to our island and the arrival bringing with it snow. On average we only get summer and spring seasons as the temperature always remained at a minimum of 70 to 80°. And as a result all of the houses do not have central heating inside. As that would be unnecessary to have since it is always hot outside.

In my cold room wrapping myself around the blanket shivering as the inside of the house continued to grow more cold. Shivering in the cold room under the blanket shivering. Some leaves out shutting the front door and locking it. As the maids have left the house leaving me and the merman alone in the cold house together.

"Are you feeling cold Takeshi?" I asked looking down at him from my bed.

"Not really I'm use to it being cold especially when I lived in the ocean" Takeshi answered me with with a sigh as I placed my head back on the pillow.

"Do you by any chance want to cuddle underneath the covers with me?" I asked quickly blushing as my heart fluttered at the idea of me and a merman cuddling together.

"Are you sure about that Nagi?" He asked himself out of the water as he placed his shoulders on the foot of my bed.

Sitting myself up in the covers as he smiled at me with his bluish green eyes staring into mine. A gust of cold air from the vents hit my forehead as I retreated within the covers just for a minute.

Its been a week since that day I almost drowned in the pool and still. He has been always around me every second of the day. Like a clingy child or a dog who doesn't want to leave its master. But.... I know that he truly cares and wants to keep me....

"Hey Nagi" Takeshi says looking out the slide door in my room. "What is that falling onto the ground out there?" He ask as I get up from my bed looking at the beach covered in white snow as more fall from the sky.

"Wow!"I said out loud to myself in excitement as more snow fall on the sandy beach. "This is what Grandma meant by snow"

"Your Grandma must have been as sweet as you?" Takeshi asked as a tear fall from my already red cheek.

"Yea, she told my stories as a kid whenever she visited about snow and that its raindrops that freeze and fall into the ground forming snow."

"Whatever happed to her?" He asked as I paused for a minute, trying to keep it all together for him.

"She died not too long ago and my parents refused to at least fly out there and say goodbye to her"

"I'm sorry"

"Its ok, I still have good memories of her when she would always come to visit me" I said to him in a cheerful tone.

"I want to go outside to at least make memories with you" Takeshi said me as I starred at the closet.

"But your part fish and also what if your tail ends up freezing from the cold and plus what if someone saw you outside." I tried to explain to him causing his facial expression changed.

He looked down toward the floor with a sad expression on his face. I couldn't help but feel sad as I'm afraid that he may catch a cold or worse. But at the sometime I didn't want to make him not know what its like to experience snow as this was my first time as well. Since this island never snowed throughout the many years I was trapped here. The only knowledge that I ever had with snow was that the United States had it a lot more rough along with the remnants of Australia.

"F-fine You can go but I have to layer you with several coats and wrap several blankets around your tail got it."

His head comes back up as his eyes light up in excitement."Thank you Nagi Thank you so much" he says cheerfully wrapping his arms around my waist nearly crushing my body.

"ok you can let go now"

"Oh I'm sorry Nagi" Takeshi replies as he run his hands through my hair.

"Hey how many times have I told you not to touch my hair" I shouted out at him irritated that my hair has been defile while he continued to just simply chuckle at my despair.

"I love the way your soft and yet moist hair is I cannot resist touching it as it is nothing like the ones from the sea" He said as he stopped fiddling with my hair.

Putting him down on the bed for a minute as his wet body soaked the covers. I went into my closet to pick out a couple of jackets just for the two of us. With a limited amount of jackets due to the fact that I never needed to wear a coat. Even those old itchy sweaters that my Aunt would send during Christmas. She would always pour her heart and soul on making the best sweater for me but I never had need for them until now. All the way at the end next to a couple of more clothes I out grown were the jackets and old sweaters.

After several minutes of layering him along with me with several coats and jackets. We go outside through the slide door and down the cold slippery snow. As several snow flakes hit the ground Takeshi touches them with his tongue looking at the dark sky. Looking at him with a smile on my face as he catches several snow flakes. I walk him down and onto the beach.

"Um Takeshi I was wondering about something" I asked him walking down the beach as more snow accumulate. "How do you know when you begin to you feel for a person but your heart kinda finds it hard to love when you never experienced it before"

My heart then began to flutter a little as he did not immediately respond to me. Looking behind my shoulder as Halloween lights began to shine bright outside as he took a deep breath and looked toward me. Placing his hand on my own heart as he then put his head on my chest.

"You just simply follow that heart Nagi" Takeshi said softly as he continued. "Because your heart can make you do things that you never thought you could ever in your life do"

Moving his head up as he looked toward me slowly leaning forward me almost while rubbing the my lower back.

See you at the next Wave...

Sorry for the long delay guys I have college and had to focus on studying for exams. I just hope that you could forgive me for delaying it for so long. So what are you thoughts of the chapter?

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