Masterpieces {Book 2}

Where the water meets the sky

Credit; sanfranciscos

Summary:

Calum looks down at where their fingers are interlocked and then back up at Luke. He wears a smile on his face and his eyes glisten in the sun. His hair is wet and it's dripping down the sides of his face. Calum loves this, loves seeing Luke in all of his natural beauty in the sun. Loves spending time with him even though he shouldn't. He loves every second of it, up until the minute he has to go back underwater.

or, Calum is a merman and Luke is a human. They fall in love.

First of all, i just watched the history music vid i am already too emotional and now thiS

enjoy :)

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There's this ritual that every merperson goes through when they turn 18, and it's long and boring but at the end of it you get to see the surface for the first time.

A year has passed since Calum's Rising, which is what everyone calls it, and to this day, Calum still doesn't like going to the surface.

It's not often he visits, but when he does, Calum only surfaces at the most remote place on the coast, one where he can frolic around in the water peacefully, where no humans are there to gawk at him.

Calum's not fond of humans, doesn't think they're as fascinating as they think they are, with their unimpressive tailless bodies and their inferior swimming skills. Doesn't like how they treat his friends like they're animals and objects, asking to touch their tails and questioning them about things that merpeople find degrading. He thinks humans are too full of themselves, and he doesn't like a single bit of it.

Which is exactly why Calum's chosen this specific spot, because no humans ever go this rocky beach. It's not what merpeople call a tourist attraction, which basically means that no human ever desires to go to it. It's human free and very tranquil.

But today, when Calum swims to the surface to find someone teetering on the rocks with some wooden thing in his hand, it's ridiculously frightening. He rushes to hide behind the rocks but the human sees him anyway, sees the little gleam of Calum's silver tail in the water. And the human looks scared.

Calum stays behind the rock for what feels like ages, breathing heavily and contemplating on whether or not he should just swim back down and pretend that this has never happened and just find a new spot to lounge around in.

He almost does when a voice interrupts him.

"You can come out, I don't bite," the human says, and it makes Calum wonder if humans actually do bite other humans. seems a bit cannibalistic to Calum, but okay.

He's not sure if he should trust this voice; he only got a glimpse of the human anyway, but it's too late now, this human's already seen Calum and his merman features.

He carefully swims out from behind the rock, trying to keep his tail as invisible as possible, and is greeted by a smiling blonde boy.

"I'm Luke," the human says. "What's your name?"

Calum takes a second to take in the view of the human—Luke, his name is—and finds nothing but innocence and curiosity in his beautiful blue eyes, the same color as the little cove near Calum's home, where the reflection of the sun shines through.

"Calum..." he says warily.

"That's a nice name. Are you a merman?" Luke asks, looking through the water to Calum's shining tail.
Calum nods, and Luke lights up.