Ceiling Walker

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Chapter 1
"Mom, I'll be in the pool!" I yell out as I exit my room in shorts and shirtless. Swimming is amazing, I'm thankful I even get to swim in it every day and when I'd like to! I sound like a five-year-old but who cares!

"Okay, sweetie! Just be careful." She replied from her bedroom. I smiled and ran without having to avoid any obstacle in my path and to the back door. I opened it and loved the smell of nature and the sense of bodies of water all around me. I grab the rope that leads to the pool and start to climb it downward like a sloth but way quicker. I'm just happy the rope doesn't burn from the sun, or can even handle my weight. Luckily my mother works at a... sorta like a Home Depot... whatever that looks like, it's what she told me.

I step onto the heated cement and hurry into the pool heading straight down to the deepest end. I can only hold my breath above water for two minutes but underwater it's three! I was so proud of myself but so out of breath when I timed myself. I do it every day and try to get better even though it isn't all that safe. It changed drastically every few days or a whole week, all I needed to do was stay as calm as possible and tell myself that I could do it. I would also practice sinking, losing air and learning to go without it for a while. It was harder than I thought but it did get easier the more time that went by.

25 minutes went by.

"Dinners almost ready! Here's a towel, I'll leave it on the rope, kay." My mother said as I laid on the hard ground.

"Okay."

"Oh, I forgot..." I had remembered I left something in the pool since the first swim today.

The pool was pretty big, it seemed bigger at night, and deeper. It's a large oval but like a rectangle, hehe it's both. The floor goes five feet then to seven the farther you go in and straight down to twelve feet with bars that you can also use to climb straight down on. My mama knew how much I loved swimming in the deep end when I was younger, she knew I wanted to improve my skills so I was grateful to have the chance.

I hurried to the bottom to take the water darts out. It was really dark, I couldn't see properly, sorta creepy but cool. It felt like I was in the ocean swimming somewhere unknown and could sorta see the moonlight shining in, it felt endless so I also loved the feeling. (I was thinking I was gonna turn into a merman under the full moon. hehe) I couldn't find them so I decided to lose some air and lay down to feel them. I felt some underneath me and in the corners. My shorts have pockets so I put them in and used the bars to climb up upside down (my hed is facing the ground as i go up) and losing air in the process.

I finally face straight upward towards the surface and hop out hurrying to the rope, grab the towel quickly drying myself (mako mermaids could never) and slicking my hair back from my face. I climb onto the rope and hang upside down taking out all seven darts from my pocket and head inside, take a shower, eat dinner with my mama, and pull an all-nighter listening to music. The first one that came up set a whole mood, "The Good, the Bad and the Dirty", it's not like I understood it really, or any music unless it's simple.  My mama lets me listen to music and tries to keep me away from any harm and keep my innocence. I mainly watch youtube and am never allowed to search for meanings afraid something will come up and she'll be mad at me.

I'm on various restrictions, but trusted. I try not to let curiosity cross me. It can be a problem.

But then soon my Lofi track ends and I've run out of skips so I'm stuck listening to a sad but beautiful piano song with another favorite instrument, the violin. "Shinsou no, Ojousama desu" I love it, but my moma knows it isn't from a very kid friendly anime.

I sit next to my window with my side touching it. Trees above me, the lake above me, a sky below me along with the moon and it's glow. I've always wanted to travel, have friends, and be able to walk on the sand for as long as I wanted. Do everything as any other person would, like going to school. I've seen on mako mermaids how people are also not able to do what they want because of some natural reason but mine doesn't seem to be all that natural. I've gotten used to it over the years but it's not something I enjoy very much.

I sigh and open the window. I look out as i sit over the edge.

"What if-... the world turned upside down and I didn't?... Why does it have to hurt every time I stand up straight for too long? I understand why no one can know I exist but... Still. What if people don't want to run tests on me or... something now." I continue sighing and a tear goes up my face and into my hair.

"I mean, at least my hair doesn't hang down right? It would wanna stay spiky or something..."
I sniffle and clean my face with my palm. I look down and wonder what would happen if I were to move over this edge.. Would I plummet down to the dirt or could I drift out into the starry sky...

and get lost.

July 3, 2019 Please like it! It'd be really appreciated!(=^x^=) It's actually March 28,2020 but that's when I wrote this chapter hehe

July 22, 2021 (fixed) 😀