Justin Bieber and The Mermaid

6. Know You Better

A/N: This update is for you ShellyCavins  hope you like.

Lily's POV

I was overwhelmed by the pier's magical feeling. Previously I had only glimpsed it from the rocks below or viewed it from the ocean, miles away. And now it was within my reach. A huge white wheel with red and silver dangling chairs stood in the distance.

I wheezed from climbing the stairs and leaned on the boardwalk railing that overlooked the ocean, trying to recover my breath.

"What kind of coffee do you like?" Justin asked kindly, leading me into a shop with a freakish mermaid on the sign. "Latte, Frappuccino, cappuccino. The funny words I read meant nothing to me. I didn't even know what coffee was! "I'll have whatever you have," I said.

"Two vanilla lattes," he ordered.

I'd never thought I'd even visit Earth for a minute, much less a day, and here I was standing in a shop ordering drinks!

I ran my fingers over everything - drinking cups, bottles, hardened treats inside beautiful papers. I gazed at objects shaped like sponges and sea cucumbers beneath a glass counter.

"Want something else?" he offered, close behind me.

"Do you?" I asked, looking for guidance.

"Sure. But you pick this time. Anything in the store," he said proudly.

I was overwhelmed with choices and scanned the counter. There were mudlike squares displayed on a dish, a jar filled with red and white striped tubes.

"I'd love some tips!" I exclaimed.

"You're hilarious!" he said and the perky counter girl laughed at my choice, trying to get Justin's attention.

"Two blueberry muffins, please," he ordered, pointing to a puffy sand-colored round things inside the case.

He led me outside where we sat on a wide wooden bench facing the ocean. I drank the latte at the same time that I ate the muffin, as Justin called them. The latte tasted a bit like mud but I didn't mention it. I had never had a hot drink before and it burned my tongue on the first try.

Children ran along the beach, a young couple splashed each other in the water, two elderly humans walked arm in arm, an athletic man ran along the shoreline with his panting black dog. Justin was soon joined by a large guy who wore a hat. He kept a safe distance from us. He had a friendly smile though. Justin introduced him as his bodyguard Mikey but I had no idea what a bodyguard was or why he would need one, so I just went along with it.

"So tell me everything," Justin began between bites. "Were you swimming or surfing the other day? Where did you go so fast? Where do you live?"

"Uh . . . I live west."

"Downtown LA?"

"Closer to the beach . . ."

"Oh . . . ummm....Laguna Beach?"

"What about you?" I asked, as a seagull called out overhead and I used it as an opportunity to change the attention to him. I didn't want him to ask too many questions about where I was from. I didn't need anyone on earth finding out I was a mermaid. The repercussions could be deadly.

"I live in Calabasas."

"What about your parents?" I asked. "Do you ever see them?"

"Not as much as I'd like to...In fact, I see them sometimes when I'm not travelling."

"Where do you travel to?"

"You don't know anything about me, do you?" he said, laughing.

"No, not really, only that I saved your life; like I said, I'm not from around here. Where I'm from nobody ever leaves anyone - "

"What do you mean?" He asked cutting me off from finishing my sentence.

"Where I'm from is pretty different?" I asked.

"What's your story, Waterlily....your name is really pretty by the way?"

"Uh . . . me? I like to swim, my parents get majorly on my nerves, college sucks. And I have a best friend, Arielle. But my life is so boring! It's not worth asking about. Can't we just sit?" I asked. "It's been a long day."

"Oh, sure," he said, leaning back and staring off toward the ocean.

"Besides, I'd rather know about you. Do you hang here often?"

"Not really. As I said, I can get pretty busy with my work and all plus I can never go anywhere anymore without getting hounded by Paps and fans sometimes, so I try to stay close to home. Got pretty lucky today, no one has recognised me as yet."

I stared up at his honey colored eyes, the light in them made them look golden. I'd been so distracted with these spectacular earthly sights; that I failed to notice the gorgeous human sitting right in front of me. I had no idea what he meant by paps or fans so I just listened and I figured I didn't need to know about that anyway, I would never see him after today.

Justin caught my gaze and, embarrassed, I turned away. "Well, Justin . . . it's been . . ."

"Don't you like your coffee?" he asked, breaking the white plastic rim of his own cup into tiny pieces.

"Uh, sure," I said. I took a gulp and almost choked.

"Are you okay?" He worried, moving closer to me.

"It tastes like mud!"

His eyes sparkled when he laughed, as if I had said the cutest thing he'd ever heard.

"I'll get you some water," he offered gently with a smile. "You sit tight."

"That's okay. I have to - " I began. But he had already left to get me some water.

I leaned back on the bench and pulled my legs up and hugged them with all my might. Justin was really special. I felt drawn to him the same way I felt drawn to the ocean. I wondered what it would be like be with him like this every day, have him teach me to surf, lie in the grass and look up at the puffy clouds. But he'd be returning with my water and I'd have to get my necklace and leave.

Then I felt a tap on my shoulder.

"Yeah, Justin?" I said, turning around but it wasn't Justin at all.

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