Sirens Call

Fisher

"Its been a week..." Im laying at the bottom of the ocean, just looking up at the sky and thinking. Ive been a mermaid for a week and during this time I've been hanging around. I sigh, for as far as its possible to sigh underwater, im getting bored with staying in this one place without much to do. Ive already been looking for nice shells, collecting them in a spot or arranging them into a shape. Ive been trying to catch fish and other sea life and ive been getting a lot better at it. When I catch an animal I just hold it for a bit, studying its colors before letting it go and watching it get back on its way.

I look out over the bottom of the ocean, the waves in the sand that seems to continue forever. I think back on my parents and my brothers, I dont remember which direction my hometown is. I wonder if I get back to my village, would people kill me for being a mermaid now? Or would they bring me back to my parents? Then, I decide I'm going to swim in a direction and see where I end up. To make it a bit more of a game I close my eyes, spin around for a little, open my eyes again and I start to swim to that direction.

~~timeskip~~

After swimming in the direction I ended up in a river near a village I dont recognise, which makes sence because my village is the only village I've ever been in. I swim trough the big river to a smaller river, being very carefull not to be seen even though there is barely anyone around. I reach a large open lake and look around. I suddenly spot a person sitting near the edge of the water and I slowly swim a bit closer. I can see its a fisher because they have a fishing rod and a bucket but something seems off. I slowly swim closer as I study the person. They have baggy, old looking clothes and brown hair to about their shoulders. Its a girl. Most fishers are guys, but this is a girl. Girls almost always stayed at home to clean, cook and care for the children but this girl is fishing. She looks quite athletic, but I can't see her face well. I swim closer to try and see her face, but she suddenly looks up and her eyes meet mine. I'm frozen for a few seconds but in this time I study her features. She has brown eyes, a bit lighter than her hair. I see her rosy-pink lips form into a smile, causing dimples to form on her cheeks. She's pretty different from me, I have blond hair flowing down my back and steel blue eyes. Then, I snap out of it and quickly swim away, back to the open ocean.

A/N
Its kind of a short chapter but thats okay I guess. I wanted to update earlier but ive been procastrating a lot of things. I am going to try to publish the next chapter technicly today since its almost 2 am. I hope to see you in the next chapter!