A Mermaid's Tail (Harry Styles Love Story [kinda sorta maybe au])

Chapter Two: (Harry's POV) Come Away To the Water[By: Maroon 5 ft. Rozzi Crane]

Harry's POV

I'm Harry Edward Styles, I am a normal person, except for the fact that I, along with Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, and Zayn Malik, am in a (as the paps would call us) bubblegum pop boy band.. and we're quite famous. We're One Direction.

But anyways, right now, Brinley is trying to make me float in the ocean. In the bloody ocean!

"Harry, Just stay still and shut up!" Brinley demands, quite calmly.

"Brinley, I'm trying!" I say.

"Apparently not, Harry," she teases.

"Brinley Star, I am trying!" I hoot and holler.

"Do you want your friends to come out here, and discover my secret?!" she hisses.

oh yeah, I can't tell anyone! I think.

"That's bloody right you can't tell!" she says, as if she read my mind! "Oh and I read your facial expression, not your mind. I can read what people could be thinking by their facial expressions."

"That makes sense," I say. "But not complete sense."

"I can basically read people's emotions and thoughts like a book," she explains.

"I got it, I understood, its just uncommon up here," I say, emphasizing 'up here' so she understands better.

"oh..... oh, now I understand why you said 'but not complete sense,'" she murmurs loud enough for me to hear. "by the way, Harry, you've been floating since I said 'I can read what people could be thinking by their facial expression,'" she says, and I then realize I haven't felt her small hands on my back and under my knees since then.

"I'm floating! Briz, I'm floating!" I cheer.

"You have been the entire time, Harry," she says.

"Harry, where are you?!" I hear Liam ask.

"Briz?" Brinley asks, quietly, not noticing Liam could be here.

"Its just something I came up with, But my friend's probably looking for me. Can I see you again?" I ask. She nods. "Brinley, will I see you again?"

"You'd have to wait till t'morrow, Harry," she says, already a ways away. "You may want to get out, if you want to be taught by me." And with that, she's gone. I'm out of the ocean just as Liam is in view.

"There you a-why are you wet? I thought you couldn't-"

"I'm fine, I didn't drown," I say, while smiling widely, showing my dimples.

"Okay, mate, just making sure," Liam says.

You see, Liam is one of two that know of my inability to swim out of all the other four of the band members, only him and Louis knows. I just can't tell Niall because he would cry at my reason why. But I'll tell you. As a child, I was abused, verbally of course, and told over and over that I wasn't good enough to be able to swim with my family or even alone. So, as a result, I never learned. That is the sob story of why I can't swim.

~AN: I normally wouldn't have a vote/comment limit, but this is a story that would write itself, so I want at least one vote! I have faith in you guys! or should I say, Vous hommes.... Yes, I take a foreign language. Its French. I'm a junior in High School guys. anyways, fan, vote, add to library, and comment!~