The Storm

4.The ball

I put both hands around his neck and he does the same, but Thomas puts his hands around my waist. We close and our eyes and then it happens. Our lips touch for the first time. My tail fin pops up like a human's leg would pop up, and I realise that he might be my mate.

Our lips are like sparks and i feel like if i open my eyes, i will see fireworks.
I never wanted it to end. Everything in my world seems right, but then I
realize, I'm still a mermaid. Everything was almost perfect. Then that moment ends, he says" I love you Rose, but i must go before my parents get worried. There is a ball tonight and my father said that you all are invited, it's a maskerade party. I will find you there." " I understand my love... I mean Prince Thomas, I love you so much. I will see you at the ball tonight." I say calmly. I kiss him on the check and he swims away.

Violet and Alexis finally get out of the rooms they were put in, fully dressed like me. The maid returns and tells us about the ball I already know about.

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The ball has begun, and I swim in the ball room where I see hundreds of thousands of mer-people. I look around and see cream coloured walls with a high celing. The floor is soft brown wood like, polished surface. I look around the large room and see if i can find Prince Thomas.

With Alexis and Violet at my sides, it's had to look around without being obvious. "I'm going to go get some food, I'm starving."exclaimed Violet. "I'll come too." says Alexis. "Ok." is the only response I could find that would actually come out of my mouth.

As they swim away towards the dinning cart, I swim around looking for Prince Thomas. I finally find him in a corner staring at me like he was watching over me the whole entire time.

I bow. " Hello Prince Thomas." I say with elegence. "Rose, if it's just you and me, you can call me anything you want, but if  you prefer Prince Thomas you can say that if you want." Thomas says. " Thanks Thomas. I haven't told my friends about the... well my uhh....." I trail off. " What is it. You can tell me anything.Ok, I will tell you something that no one knows about me and I'm hoping that you'll do the same. Is that ok with you?" he says comfertingly.

"Ok. When i first saw you, I umm... knew that I have the biggest crush on you ever. Then when we kissed I thought that you could be my mate. Even though your a merman I didn't know if it was physicaly possible for you to be my mate. " I say embarassed. He looks over his shoulder and leans in close to me ear. "I'm a werewolf like you.I know it's hard to understand but I was taken away from my parents and was whoever took me, put me down here as a mer-prince. When I kissed you I knew that you were my mate, when I looked through your eyes, I saw that you are like me, a rare british werewolf. Your not american."He say embaressed as well yet curious.

"All this time, I thought I was an american werewolf in England when really, I am a true rare british werewolf. Wow. I have to go tell my friends please." I say pleading. "Now is not the best time to tell them. I can arrange for the 3 of you to stay at the palace tonight and them you can tell them everything about us being mates, a rare british werewolf, all of that." He says revealing a british accent. "

Thank you my love." I say in a british accent aswell. I flash a smile and tell him that I going to find them before they get suspicious. He agrees with me, but before I leave, I promise him at least 1 dance.

I swim twards the food cart, surpized that their still there.