A Merman's Wish

This is not a heart...

I can't believe Oceans brother came to tell me that. I hope everything's ok. I thought to myself as I walk down the steps back towards my house. As I was heading back I saw someone's upper torso on the beach. "Ocean?" And sure enough it was him. "Ocean!" I ran towards him and stopped. The man was laying on his stomach and he didn't have a tail he had legs. I knelt beside him and turned him over. It was Ocean, and he seemed to be unconscious. "Ocean wake up!" Nothing. I placed my head on his chest and heard his heart beating. "Ok he's still alive" I let out a sigh of relief and went to to move my head off his chest, but I felt a hand push it back down. "What?" I looked up and saw Ocean awake smiling at me. "Oh thank god you're ok, Ocean what happened to you? You have legs now and..." He got up quickly and looked down at his legs smiling brightly. "Ocean, what happened?" Ocean then started flailing his arms excitedly as if trying to say something. "Ocean why can't you...?" I stopped and realization dawned in. "Ocean did you talk to that sea witch?" He nodded his head. I felt tears begin to fall down my face. "Ocean why did you do that?" He looked at me sadly and lowered his head. "Ocean, think about your family! How will they feel when they realize that you are gone? Ocean they'll be heart broken". Ocean just shook his head and folded his arms as if saying 'no they won't' I looked up at him sadly and wrapped my arms around him. "Your brother Caspian was here and said that they don't trust me and they want you to stay away from me. Ocean what...?" He suddenly pushed me away and looked at me through wide eyes then they turned into a glare and he was no longer looking at me, instead he was looking behind me. I turned around and saw Aster standing there, he had a bouquet of at least a dozen red roses and his cheeks were tear stained. He took a step towards me which caused Ocean to wrap his arms around me protectively. I glanced at Ocean then I turned and glared at Aster. "What do you want?" Aster just looked at me then at Ocean.
"I want you back babe, I was a fool and I'm sorry I wish I could go back in time and fix everything..."
"Save it I'm over you and I don't need you. Now go away I never want to see you again" I said as I helped Ocean up onto his feet.
"Is that merman more important to you than me?" He said as he pointed at Ocean. I turned to him and smiled.
"Way more important, because he cares about how I feel even if he's an arrogant little twerp." I said as I looked at him. He gave me a small smile and shrugged his shoulders, I then turned back to Aster with a smile on my face. "All you care about is whether or not you have a trophy on your arm" I said sweetly, and we began to walk away.
"Winter please take me back. I promise I'll..."
"Don't you get it, I don't want you, and I never will. You tried to break me, but guess what I'm stronger than you think and I'm only getting stronger". And with that me and Ocean left him there, but as we were walking to my house Ocean patted my shoulder and pointed at Aster. I turned and looked at him, he was on his knees and he was crying. He kept calling to me. Ocean looked at me and I shrugged "He deserves it" and with that we left him there.

A few days after the incident...

Ocean seems to have adapted really quickly. I think to myself as I watch Ocean walk through my garden. His eyes are huge with curiosity and wonder. "Which do you like more?" He turned and looked at me, then he grabbed my hand and dragged me to the middle of my garden where I had kept a bunch of wisteria saplings around a beautiful water fountain. He stopped dragging me then and pointed to a small bed of crimson roses. "You like these?" He nodded and then pulled me down on my knees with him in front of the flowers. We just sat there and looked at the flowers as if waiting for one of them to sprout legs, then suddenly I felt Ocean's hand graze mine and I looked down and he grabbed my hand and held it. And as I looked up at him the soft expression on his made my heart skip a beat. He then pulled me closer and leaned his head to the side, and before our lips could touch a big silver bird came crashing between us. "Ow" I looked at the bird and recognized it immediately "Osiris!!" I ran to the bird and it flew into my arms. "I wasn't expecting you for at least another week!" The bird squawked happily and rubbed his head in my neck, at that moment Ocean reached around me and hugged me from behind resting his head in the crook of my neck. "Ocean what are you doing?" I started to blush the same crimson as the roses, and Osiris seemed content with just watching. Ocean stayed like that for what seemed like an eternity until I felt a pair of soft lips kiss my cheek. I turned around and saw Ocean smiling, then he just walked of into the house. "What was that about?" Osiris squawked and his feathers turned pink as he made little magic hearts appear. I looked down at him and smiled evily, "You know that's how the cat found you in the first place" and with that I went after Ocean with a very scared bird.
At first I couldn't find Ocean but then I saw him in the study and he had picked something up and I immediately knew what it was, "No! You can't read that!" I snatched it out of his hands and held it to my chest. He looked at me confused and made a gesture. "You want me to read it to you?" He nodded excitedly. "No I-I can't it's just..." Ocean looked at me with pleading eyes. "OK fine I'll read it" He smiled happily and sat down in a chair as I read him the poem I had been working on as a side project.
*note: this an actual poem th
at I wrote so it would be great if you told me what you guys thought of it*
"This poem is called This is not a heart..." I said as I sat next Ocean, before I could continue he wrapped his arms around me and layed his head on my shoulder. I looked at him and blushed, then I turned to my poem and began to read it. "This is not a heart this is an ocean that is full of life and light. Where new beings find peace and happiness.
If my heart is the Ocean then my veins are seaweed that feed and protect those hiding from prying eyes. If my veins are seaweed then my limbs are coral that house the living and decorate my soul. And my organs are fish that with their many colors brighten up my day. For this is not a heart, but an ocean so vast and blue that holds the secrets of my life like a box with a lock and key. "

Once I finished I looked at Ocean and he was just looking up at me. "Did you like it?" he nodded his head and sat up not breaking eye contact with me. He then took the paper out of my hands and put it on the coffee table in front of us. He then took hold of one of my hands in his and wrapped his free arm around my waist and pulled me closer to him. "Ocean?" He leaned down and went to kiss me again, and I was about to meet him halfway when he stopped and pulled away from me. "Ocean what's wrong?"
He looked out the open door and started towards it. "Ocean?!" I followed after him and when I caught up to him we were back at the beach. "Ocean what's wrong?" He pointed out toward the water where there were bubbles surfacing and as we stood there and watched a bottle came up to the top. Ocean went and got it. He opened it and read the note inside. "Ocean? What is it?" He crumpled the paper up and threw it back into the ocean, he then stormed off.
I watched him go and couldn't help myself from wondering what had angered him so badly.