Life isn't always as it seems

The Meeting

It's been a couple of months now and life here sucks. I mean Robin has been sweet yet flirty but I don't know, I guess we can be friends but one thing that scares me is the fact that his father wants grandchildren. So that means that once Robin and I get married we will have to have children. I am so not ready for that. Anyways, I'm there sitting in my favorite spot in the palace and decided a little swim in the sea would help ease my mind. I take off my dress and I'm in my undergarments. I jump in and I was just enjoying myself. I was swimming around and that's when I bump into someone. "Ow." I heard the voice say. I look up and I'm staring at these gorgeous blue eyes. They were the same eyes I saw the day of the storm. Wait could it be? Was this the person that saved me? I look at him and my was he handsome. He just stood there still like if he was too in shock. I smiled and he smiled back. "You're real!" He gives me a confused look and stays quiet. I was confused. Did he not understand me? "Do you understand what I'm saying?" He smiles and nods. "My name is Emma." He smiles. "Killian." "Yay you can understand me!" He's just floating there and smiling. "It was you wasn't it, that saved me from drowning?" He stayed quiet and looked away. "I'm sorry for being so talkative and nosy." He turns back around and smiles. "It's ok and yes I was the one that saved you." I smiled. "Thank you so much Killian for saving me, how can I ever repay you?" He sighed. "By not seeing me again." I gave him a confused look. "Not seeing you?" He nods. "Why?" He stays quiet. "Ok um how about we change the subject, where are you from? What kingdom are you a part of?" He smiles and shakes his head. "You never listen do you?" I shake my head and smile. "I'm Prince Killian of the kingdom of Blue Diamond." My eyes shot open. "You're a prince?" He nods. I couldn't believe it, first I thought I had just imagined this man and now it turns out that one, he is real and second, he's a prince. "Sucks doesn't it?" He gave me a confused look. "What sucks?" "Being royalty?" I say as I look away. He swims towards me. "You're a princess?" I nod. "Yeah it sucks to be royalty." He says and laughs. I sigh. "What's wrong?" He asks in the sweetest way ever. I look at him and I couldn't help but feel attracted to him. There was just something mysterious in his eyes. This man came out of nowhere and saves me. Then pops back into my life miles away from where he saved me. "Nothing just life I guess." He smiles at me then gets my hair and puts it behind my ear and I blush. I hear music and him and I turn around because it startled us. "I should be going Emma." He says and starts to swim. "Wait.." I say as I grabbed his arm. "You can't leave just like that; can't we be friends?" He smiled and blushed. "There's a reason why we can't be seen together not even as friends." I scoff. "I don't see why we can't be friends." I say and smile. He smiles sweetly and sighs. "Don't get scared but..." He swims even closer to me and I'm shocked at what my eyes see. "You're a Mer...m..aa..." He nods. "I'm a merman." I was honestly shocked but it didn't freak me out. I had been talking to him for all this time and I didn't even notice his tail. "See this is why we can't be seen together; I'm not supposed to talk to a human." I gasp. "I'm sorry Killian." He shakes his head. "But do you want to see me again?" He looks at me and smiles. "Of course but it's going to be hard to keep this friendship going." I laugh. "Doesn't sound too impossible." He chuckles. "You sure are something else Emma." I smile. "How about tomorrow we meet here at the same time?" I smile. He nods. "Then we will go on from there." He smiles and nods. "Thanks again for saving me, see you tomorrow." "So you're not freaked out at the fact that I'm a merman?" I laugh. "It was a bit shocking but hey I didn't even notice you had when we were talking so why would that be an issue for us to be friends." His face lit up and we swam up to the steps. I went and sat on the last step. "See you tomorrow Emma." I nod. He dives back under and disappears into the deep. I sat there pondering on everything that happened. I can't believe that the man who saved me is a mermaid well merman. It was so bizarre, I thought they didn't exist. Not going to lie I was a little freaked out like maybe he could have drowned me but no he was really sweet that's why I continued to talk to him and plus if he wanted to drown me he wouldn't have saved me. I grabbed my dress and walked right back to my room.

Killian's POV
I couldn't believe that I saw Emma again and she was better than I had expected her to be. She's so beautiful and I was honestly surprised that she didn't go crazy when she found out that I had a tail. I get to the palace and tried my best to not be seen. I swim up to my room and I just sat there pondering on everything that happened. I caught myself smiling so many times. She wants to be friends and that was awesome. I hear some commotion outside and my mind comes back from where it wondered off to. Belle comes swimming in and sits next to me. "Where were you at?" I sigh. "I was just out counting snails by the reef, why?" She lifts her eyebrow. "Well don't you want to come and help me for the wedding arrangements?" I sigh. "I'm not feeling too well." She caresses my cheek. "Ok babe well I hope you feel better." I nod. She swims away and leaves me alone. I felt bad for lying to her but I didn't want to go. I wanted to stay and just be by myself. In all honesty I was excited to see Emma again. As I was sitting there I thought what if she goes and tells someone about mermaids? I start to panic, no Emma's not like that. She won't do that, my head starts to spin and I just close my eyes and tried to get that idea out of my head.