That one gay mermaid

I guess everyone's in love

Chapter 6
~Aron's P.O.V~
Would that be a good idea? Could they even help us? Were they willing to help? Hopefully, it's all we've got at this point. "I guess we'll just have to." I said with a huff.

Both Scarlett and I took our time looking around our now former home. I would miss this place. The one where I grew up, became the person I am now. That's not easy to just leave, as much as I just want to stay, I simply can't. Not with what he said, and yes, though not directed at me it still stings. Looking over at Scarlett I noticed everything looks blurry. When did I even start crying? Stopping in the entrance I grab her hand turning around to look back on everything, "Hey, wanna do it just one more time?" She smiles bitterly remembering all the times that when either of us felt down we would come to this exact spot and scream what we loved about ourselves.

"Yeah," she wiped away a tear of her own "Yeah, ok. You first." She straightened her back twiddling the ends of her hair like she did when she got nervous. I swam out just a bit further in front of her straining my back as well. 

" I am Aron, prince of the ocean, would be king, I am caring, loving, and.....," I turned looking at my sister watching another few tears float free. "And I'm nothing like my father." This time I turned fully looking at her as she passed me slowly taking my previous spot.

"I,...." she wiped a tear pulling her shoulders back "I am Scarlett, princesses of the ocean, I'm beautiful, a heart made of gold, the best pick me up, willing to help all, and have the greatest brother by my side to help me along the way." The words echoed off the castle walls and I smiled, and just by her body language I could see, she was back to being my annoying sister. "Let's go, I'm tired of this place" she swam out the front doors with not so much as a glance back. I on the other hand couldn't help but to look at our father as he watched us swim off, not so much as frown on his face.

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Not long until we made it to the beach, the first the thing I saw was Matt shaking his head with Erick running around with a white flag held up. Scarlett perched herself on the rock once again, as I dragged my body onto shore.

"Thank god you're here, I don't think I could handle much more of this." Matt said settling into the sand next to me. "Why, does she seem more dull today?" There was clear concern in his words. I looked up to where she'd laid on the rock face up, it almost seemed as though she was deep in thought, though she was talking to Erick. There was no smile on her face, but a deep frown. It was almost as if someone had drained color from her body, even the vibrant colors in her tail seemed to dull.

"Um, actually some things happened this morning, it wasn't pretty." I said looking out to watch the ships in the distance sail off to the curve of the water.

"What happened?" His hand came to rest on my own. Again, his words were painted with concern. "Is your father ok?" I scoffed at that asshole being ok. I hoped us leaving hurt like hell, just as it did us. 

"Actually, we may have just run away. So, actually you might not see us around for awhile, or forever." I said moving my hands to lie in the sand, looking up to the sky above.

In that moment both of the other boys stopped. "What do you mean? Is there anything that I can do to change your mind about this?" Matt looked defeated for some reason, that's the only way I can really describe it.

"Not unless you can find us a place to stay and some legs." it was Scarlett's turn to speak up. She'd sat up and Erick helped her down from the rock and in the sand besides me. I looked out to the water, looking but not really seeing. It was funny that the ones we thought cared the most don't really, and the ones we assumed didn't care, do. There was a sigh from Erick, he looked more serious than I'd ever thought possible. You could almost hear the gears turning.

"I'm not letting you leave without this then." Matt stood walking around the rock with two containers of red ball things. If I remember correctly, they were called strawberries. "I remember bringing these once and you loved them. You also told me that Scarlett would love them too." How'd he even remember that? I just faintly remember that day. It was the second time we'd met. I wasn't as shy that time.

"These are really good" Scarlett said breaking me from my thoughts, Her tone was still flat.

"That's sweet, really, but, I can't accept these and then leave like this."

"You can and you will" there was a steely tone to his voice that made my stomach flip, just slightly; his eyes seemed to almost beg for me to stay. Almost as if he felt the same as I did about him. It wasn't like he was taking no for an answer, not like I didn't like the idea of staying here, with him.

"Ok" it was barely above a whisper. We both let out a breath of relief.

"Ok good, because I was gonna just carry you two dopes inside" Erick said, whether he was trying to just lighten the mood or not was questionable. Scarlett laughed and I could see a small smile on her face. OH MY GOD she likes him!!!!!

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I officially have no schedule for when I'm posting and I'm so sorry about that, I just can't seem to get my shit together. Anyway thanks for reading this far.