The Mermaid Life

Chapter 12

I dreamt I was walking down a hall in Atlantis. I don't know how I knew, but I was walking to Hunter's room.

I reached the familiar orange yellow door with the seashell handles.

"Oh, Hunter," said a familiar female voice from inside Hunter's room.

"What is it? What do you want?" I heard Hunter reply back.

"You," said the female voice.

I reached for the door knob, wondering wether or not I should open it. I hesitated before I reached to opened it. I had tears in my eyes already.

I opened the door to find, non other then Aquata and Hunter kissing. Hunter's hands were under her shirt, her hands under his shirt. I gasped. Hunter and Aquata broke apart and turned.

"Hunter," I whispered staring at them.

"Serena, it's not what-" Hunter didn't have to finish, cause I was already out the door running for my room.

"Serena! Wait!" I could hear Hunter calling after me to stop, but I just kept running.

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I woke up gasping and sat straight up. Feeling sick, I ran to the bathroom, still in my bra and undies. I flicked on the light, shut the door and threw up in the toilet.

I sat in front of the toilet for maybe a minute, then I heard a knock at the door.

"Serena? Are you ok?" Hunter came in still in his boxers and knelt next to me. He rubbed my back trying to calm my nerves.

"Ya, just a bad dream." I rubbed my nose. "I'm thirsty. Can you get me a drink?"

"Of course." He got up and went to the sink and filled up multiple Dixie cups, handing them to me one by one.

I drank all of them on under two minutes. "I'm sorry I woke you."

"No, it's ok. I couldn't sleep anyway." He helped me up, turned off the bathroom light and walked me back to the bed. The lamp by Hunter's bedside was on.

"Want to talk about the dream?" Hunter asked after we were back under the sheets. My head was on his shoulder and his arm was around me.

All I did was nod as I sat up and looked at him. I swallowed before I said anything. "I was walking down a hall here in Atlantis. It turned out I was walking to your room. I was about to open the door when I heard a girl say your name. It sounded familiar, but I don't know where it's from. Then I heard you reply 'What is it? What do you want?' Then the girl replied saying 'You.'"

I looked at Hunter and there was a look of hurt on his face but I kept speaking. "I opened the door and found you and Aquata kissing. I turned and ran. You chased after me but I didn't stop, I kept going." Hunter sat up and hugged me.

We sat there for maybe five minutes until I pulled away. Why was I upset over a stupid dream??

"I could never do anything like that to you. You know that." He kissed my forehead.

I sniffed. "I know. What time is it?" I looked around for a clock but didn't see one.

"It's about 6:30 pm."

"I'm hungry, can we get something to eat?"

"Ya, I'm hungry too."

I got up and put my jeans on from last night. I picked up the box and put the necklace on. It rested right against my collarbone. I walked over to Hunter's side to get my shirt. It was the plain black v-neck t-shirt. I slipped it on as Hunter was putting on his grey t-shirt that looked to small for him.

"Ready?" I asked as I put my hand in his.

"Yep," he replied squeezing my hand lightly. "That necklace looks pretty on you." He kissed me on the forehead.

I smiled up at him. "Thanks."

He grabbed my hand and led me to the door. He was just about to open it when there was male voice on the other side of the door. He sounded scared and upset. "Hunter! Open up! Serena's missing!"

Hunter up the door to find Neptune on the other side of the door. "Serena, she's-" He stopped abruptly when he saw me. "Oh, thank God." He walked towards me and hugged me.

"Um," I awkwardly patted him on the back.

"Why are you in Hunter's room and not yours?" He pulled away holding me at arms length, looking from me to Hunter.

"Um, she had a bad dream last night and I showed her my room yesterday. So she came here and asked if she could sleep here. I slept on the couch, she slept on the bed." He looked at me, a message in his eyes saying 'play along.'

"Ok, thank you, Hunter," he let me go and turned to Hunter.

"Your welcome." He bowed.

"Hunter, can I speak with you alone?" Neptune asked.

"Of course, I will see you around, Serena." He and Neptune went into his room leaving me alone in the hall, wondering what they are talking about.