John swam from under the dock and hauled himself up onto the boards with a wet splat. He sighed and looked at the nearly dark sky for a moment smiling a little. It was so great to make a new friend he had trouble doing that some times. He sat there and watched the stars slowly come to life above him as the sun-
"Crap!" He scrambled up and took off down the dock and along the beach. He had promised his dad he'd be home before it got dark.
He finally got home and tried to sneak in quietly as the smell of dinner and baked goods wafted from the kitchen. God he hated those damn Betty Crocker cakes his dad made but John couldn't bring himself to tell him that... The blue eyed boy managed to make it to his room where he stripped off his sopping wet clothes and pulled on some dry ones. The wet ones made it into the bathroom where they were draped across the tub.
Hours pass and John ate dinner and was lying in bed when events from earlier suddenly hit him.
"Did.....did I seriously befriend a mermaid? Oh god...I don't think I can do that...oh geez..." He started kinda freaking out about it. To calm down John sent a message to his friend who lived off the coast on an island with her grandpa her great aunt and her cousin Jake.
He was hoping she'd be up and moving but she was probably taking one of her many long naps. Oh well he finally gave up and turned his computer off before laying down. His thoughts wandered and eventually came to a rest on an elegant rare creature of pale skin and red gleaming scales. Was this Dave really real...or was John finally loosing it?
