A Mermaid's Kiss (ON HOLD)

Chapter 4-Myths

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Chapter 4

Jake

I sat quietly, not talking to my friends who whispered around me. I had stayed up all night with Maia at the hospital and now I was tired, so so tired. All I wanted to do was sleep, but Mrs. Parton was a detention giver at the mere sign of droopy eyes, especially while people were presenting projects, which we were doing at the moment. I had faithfully not done mine. I wouldn’t even be here if it hadn’t been for Maia threatening not to talk to me the entire day if I stayed with her and if Maia was one thing, she was stubborn. That’s what made her such a good mother, to her daughter and to me all those years ago. Our mother was never around so she, being seven years older than me, she had stepped up and taken that role in my life. Sure we still teased each other and had fights like every other siblings, but whenever I had needed her she was there, whether I needed someone to console me when I cried or someone to scare away all the nightmares when I woke up screaming. She was my constant, the only one there when our parents were gone, off to some random country, or when we had switched nannies for the tenth time in a row. She had always been there to take care of me and for that I could never thank her enough.

I rested my head on my hand, unseeingly looking forward as each new person came up to present. When my name was called I told my teacher I didn’t have it. Usually I paid someone to do my work, it’s not like I didn’t have enough money for that, and coasted with a low-b. A grade that proved me not to be smart enough for the teachers to call on, but one that wasn’t close too close to failing so if I ever actually did my work and failed I wouldn’t be worried about it bringing me down to an actually failing grade. I mean, I had football to think about and if my grades weren’t up I wouldn’t be able to play Friday night.

Mrs. Parton sighed and shook her head disappointedly at my answer, making a mark near my name on her ever present clipboard which she kept all record of all worksheets and projects not turned in.

I really don’t know why she made us do this myth project in the first place. All the myths that our classmates came up with were stupid. They always ended up being about something like big foot, unicorns, or even the chupacabra, the legendary goat sucker.  Like everyone didn’t already know about those legends. It was nothing new and always boring. How I dreaded listening to another one of my classmates drone on and on about the lockness monster. Couldn’t they have at least come up with something better than that? There are other myths if they had just at least did a little more searching than that. Then again I guess I couldn’t complain since I didn’t even do mine.

Thalia came up and I groaned inwardly, not wanting to hear another stupid myth. Only this time, it wasn’t. I eagerly sat up straighter in my seat as I listened to her speak.

The paper shook in her hands as if she was nervous, but her voice was steady. She started out with this simple line, “A mermaid’s kiss can grant you any wish, but it comes with a price.”  She paused glancing around the classroom and it took all my self-control not to yell at her to get on with it. Finally she did and without even glancing at her paper she spoke.

“The mermaids are said to live in a hidden lagoon which you can usually only find in a cave. You walk through this entrance and into and world that looks nothing like ours, made out of magic of the mermaid’s alone. There are challenges though, three to be exact, that prove whether or not you are worthy. These challenges tend to test your strength and intelligence. Though no ordinary human can go, you have to have powers, unheard of by our modern world. Powers that set you apart from the normal human race, and only with these do you have a chance to pass these deadly challenges. The price for your wish is high, and the few that make it that far aren’t even able to pay it. Every time a person achieves the goal of getting their wish granted the lagoon moves and new challenges are put into place. In the last forty years, it is said only one man has gone in and come back out, with his wish granted. No one but a few people today know who this man is and where he lives. He hides out to keep his secret safe and the tale of a mermaid’s kiss forever a myth.”