In the Eyes of the Mermaid - Taehyung x Reader

Chapter 13

About an hour into your shift you were starting to feel much better. Surprisingly you actually did enjoy bartending sometimes.

You picked up a few different liquors and started mixing up one of your own creations to relax. 

As you were finishing up you heard someone clear their throat behind you. You turned around to pour your drink in a glass and get the order of the next customer when you recognized the face of the man standing at the counter. 

You dropped the glass, having it shatter at your feet, never taking your eyes off of Taehyung. 

The liquid narrowly missed your legs as you jumped out of the way, snapping you back to reality.

 You quickly bent down to clean it up, trying to distract yourself as you shouted from under the bar.

"What can I get for you Tae?" you asked innocently.

When you stood back up and met his eyes you noticed he still hadn't moved yet. Frozen in place like a statue before he whispered out, "Its you, Y/N"

Your breath caught in your throat before you could force out a laugh, slightly hysterical, in his direction. 

"Yup, I'm me!" You replied, turning your back to him to throw out the glass you had picked up off the floor. 

"It's you, you're the mermaid that saved me." He said again, a little stronger than before. 

"You're drunk Tae, go back to the cabana." You said, surprising yourself with how calm you sounded despite your heart threatening to beat itself out of your chest. 

"I'm not drunk. I saw the article! I saw the picture of the tail, the same tail that the mermaid who saved me had," emotion flooding into his voice as he shouted, "and I would remember your eyes anywhere, I know its you! It has to be you!" He said, slamming his hand onto the bar, startling you slightly at the sudden desperation in his voice. 

"Don't be ridiculous, mermaids aren't real and you know it Taehyung. Now leave me alone." you said harshly, grabbing your bag and jumping over the bar to land in the sand, deciding you needed to walk away from this situation before it got out of hand. 

One glance back had you quickening your pace when you noticed Taehyung had turned to follow you. 

You weaved in and out of people, trying to loose him in the crowd as you heard his voice yelling at you to wait. You broke into a jog as you heard his yelling getting closer, looking back to see where he was and knocking a tray of margaritas out of a waiters hand, spilling them all over yourself...

and onto your bare legs.

You froze in fear at the sudden realization that you were about to go fish in front of an entire festival. 

Adrenaline took over and you sprinted as fast as your legs could take you towards the closed pool area, deciding that you would never make it to the ocean without being seen.

You vaulted over the knee high gate and onto the pool deck, missing the sound of footsteps that had picked up and followed close behind you. 

The tingling reached your knees and started the change.

You dove head first into the pool, your tail appearing behind you as you glided into the water. 

You let out a sigh of relief under water, thankful that you made it to the pool before your tail appeared. 

You swam to the poolside and rested your head on the concrete, breathing heavily and closing your eyes.

"I knew it." a whisper came from above you, startling you away from the pool edge and closer to the middle.