Our Complicated Love

Chapter 8

Hey guys, sorry it took so long but ya know life. So without futher ado (is that how its spelled?) the next chapter the song on the side is just what i was listening to while writing this so enjoy!

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It wasn't until we hugged for a few more seconds that I realized how incredibly awkward it suddenly was. I gently pulled away from him and softly punched his arm before turning away so he couldn't see the blush that was on my cheeks. "We should probably get going." I said and started swimming away. "Um Iris?" I stopped and looked at Tyne from over my shoulder, he had on a small grin and was pointing with his thumb the opposite way of which I was swimming. "The kingdom is that way."

I nodded and tried to smile through the embarrasment I felt, "Right, you should probably lead the way then." He laughed and started swimming and I pushed my tail a little harder to catch up with him. "By the way how do you always know which way to go?"

"Well when a merman and merwoman have a baby it isn't a live birth because we aren't mammals. Instead we're eggs and because most eggs looks the same aside from royals there is a bond that forms between the parent and the egg so in case the egg was ever lost or stolen the child and the parent could always find each other. Since I know that my father never leaves the kings side and the king barely ever leaves the palace I know where to go."

I nodded, "So since I wasn't an egg will my father still think it's me when I meet him?" Tyne furrowed his brow lost in thought. "I'm not completely sure. I mean you still have his blood running through your veins, there's probably a chance that there is a bond it just isn't a strong as it usually is." I suddenly thought of something, "Hey what about my brother Josh? Him and I are twins."

He stroked his chin thinking. "When was the first time he was introduced to salt water?" I searched my memory. "Well you know when people say with toddlers when they're two it's supposed to be the terrible twos? Well it was like that times fifty with my brother. One time when we were spending the day with our grandmother he snuck out of the house. My grandmas house sat directly on the beach and when he snuck out he almost drowned in the ocean if my grandmas neighbor didn't come outside at the time."

Tyne shook his head, "Then I suppose he isn't of our kind. I told you before that you had to be exposed to the ocean at a very early age and your brother achieved that." I furrowed my brow and shook my head, "That's impossible how is he not a mermaid like I am?"

Tyne swam close to the ocean floor to pluck some blue sea weed and handed it to me. "Chew on this it will calm your nerves." I took a deep breath and munched on the plant that tasted kind of like blue Hawaiin Punch. "Have you ever heard of a something called Superfecundation?" He said and I shook my head although the word sounded slightly familiar. "It occurs when a women is pregnant with twins but each of the babies came from a different sperm or in other words different fathers." Oh it was like what happened in the first season of American Horror Story.

I closed my eyes as all of the memorys of my brother and I flashed through my mind. How we shared a crib as babies, how I stuck close to his side the first day of kindergarten, how we would sleep in the same bed after mom died trying to help our tears stop, and the day when he left for Europe and I realized that was the farthest we've ever been away from one another.

Then I thought of how different we looked. We were twins but we didn't exactly look identical. Well with different genders you could never really look alike but you could always tell. However with us most of the time people could never believe it. Where Josh had pale skin my skin seemed to permanently have a tan. Where he had crystal blue eyes I had eyes so brown you would think they were black, and where he had obsidian hair that was curly all the time I had straight brown hair. We were twins but we didn't look alike at all. Was my entire life a lie?

I saw the bubbles again that held my tears float around my face but before I could say anything to Tyne a high-pitched scream pierced through the water. I was completely sure I had never heard the voice in my life but for some reason when the scream rang out again and I felt what almost felt like a jolt of electricity run straight through my heart I couldn't stop myself from swimming as quick as I could towards the sound with Tyne calling my name to stop me.

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Whoa look at that cliff hanger! lol so sorry for the wait guys but I have an amazing excuse. I'm now the aunt of a beautiful baby girl named Karleigh. I have also brainstorming and playing around with the idea about maybe doing a Harry Potter fanfic and since you guys know I don't like doing things by the book (ironic) I was thinking maybe a hufflepuff and Neville Longbottom love story. yay or nay? Anyways vote (like those), comment (love those), and until next time -Lily out! ;)