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Tords pov
"Oh come on, Tom! Surely it's not that bad." I said as I continued to swim with my blue tailed buddy, Thomas.

""Not that bad"?! It's awful! I have to go with my DAD. Not only that, but to meet the kings DAUGHTER. She like, has a huge thing for me and I. Don't. Like. Her. Who knows the things she could tell her dad to get me to be hers!" Tom shouted exaggerating just a bit. I stopped and turned towards him to cup his cheek in my hand. "No matter what happens, she can't separate us, love. Nothing can." I said giving him a soft smile and he returns it back. Tom put his hands on my waist as I wrapped my arms around his neck.

You see, Tom and I have been a couple for about 3 months now. Almost 4. We keep it secret though because we're scared of what the mer-people would do about it. We're scared about what will happen if people found out and told the king and the princess. I honestly hate her and she hates me.

I was 6 at the time and she was 9. Yes, we are 3 years apart, she spilled all of the pearls in the museum that was stacked up and had 9,862 pearls total. They were also fragile so most of them broke. My father was the owner of the place and had been collecting them ever since he was a baby. He got mad and I told him that it was her so he kicked her out. She told her dad that I told on her so he took every worthy and unique thing in my household. Since my father was the owner of the museum and kicked her out, the king fired him and forced him to shut the whole place down.

Two months after that I was still furious at her so I began sneaking into her place and stealing her belongings. Been doing that at 9:00 pm 3 times a week. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I still do it to this day and I'm 16 which means that she's 19. Shhh don't tell though, because that rat deserves something worse.

Forgot to mention that she hates me because I burned her crown made out of gold so now she has to use a crown made out of seaweed :D

~Time skip~ (Still Tord's pov)

I was on my way swimming towards my so called home. It may be trash, disgusting, and makes me feel unwelcomed, but if you compare me to all the people with no food, it's not that bad! I tend to look at the bright side of things a lot. My papa has told me that it's gonna get me killed some day. But, I don't see what can go wrong.

I swam inside of my 'home'. I don't necessarily think of it as a home, though. A home isn't just a place you stay in. No, a home is a place where some stories begin. A home is most likely said more than once inside a book. A home is a setting that holds family, friends, or just anybody you know just within walls.

Just then I heard my papa call my name. I instantly reply back. "Yes, Papa?" I ask swimming in front of him. "The king is hosting a party tomorrow!" I looked up at my happy papa with no clue why that's a good thing. But, he's happy, so I'll just go with it. Although it won't hurt to ask. I smiled a dorky toothy grin at him. "Heheh why is that a good thing?" I asked still smiling and he dropped his smile only slightly looking sorta dissapointed. "The king literally has anything he wants in his castle where the party is at! He is also greedy so whatever he or the guests don't eat, you get. Capeesh?" My dad looked down at me. "How are we supposed to get in though?" I asked confused. "You're gonna go in the party and steal all the food without anyone seeing!" He said excited. But I just looked down, feeling nervous already thinking ahead about the coniquences if I get caught. 'I would have to talk to the "princess." I thought to myself already feeling mad just thinking about her.

"I'm not gonna do it." I told my papa. He immediately looked down at me with a crown. Then all of a sudden, his smile came back. "Toms gonna be there." He smirked as I lifted my head up. 'Toms gonna be there? Oh yeah that's what he was talking aboyt earlier. Oh heck nah the princess is gonna be all over him and he's gonna be there all alone with nobody to save him. Definitely coming.' I thought. "Ok, ok whatever." I said to Papa. I started heading to my room, or, just a corner of the room seperated by curtains as my door.

As I laid inside my clam shapped bed I grabbed my shell phone from my mirror that was near and I started texting Tom. I scrolled down my contacts until I saw a contact named 'Mom🙄💚' I was extremely confused. Since when did I ever have my mom's shell number? I clicked on it read through the messages. 'Huh. Last sent 5 months ago.. Wait a minute..' I thought as I saw the fimiliar conversations. This isn't my actual mom's number, this is my friend, Edd's number. Dang has it really been that long since I've last talked to him? What even happened?' I decided to text him and ignore the fact that I was originally going to text Tom about the party to see if he was actually going or not, or if my dad was just saying that so that I could go.

Edd                                                       Tord

                             Hey, Edd! Long time no                                
                             speak

Oh hey Tord! Yeah, it's been a while
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