As Blue As The Ocean! [Merman] #thewattys2024

Chapter Twenty-Three

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"I had to let go of the pain. The pain of not being loved in return. Then my heart could heal!"

We had our old jobs back. I had explained to our boss that I had found my real father and I went to go see him. Then I came back. He had understood it was an emotional time for me. And he took back Kavan to.

We were working again. I was really not thrilled about working alongside Kavan today. Having to be around his cuteness. Knowing he did not love me the way I loved him.

He had feelings for me. But he was not fully in love with me. He was in love with a mermaid. Someone I could not compete with. That was always the way with me. Some guy always liked another girl a bit more than me.

Always chose someone else but me. What was wrong with me? Why could I for once in my life be loved in returned. Was that so hard? Was I unlovable? I felt like I was.

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"Hi Elissa, you were already up and gone this morning before we got up" Kavan mentions as I clean off a table there in the diner.

"I was busy. And I had to be in for work before you" I lie. I head on my way to the back. He follows me.

"Can we talk?" he asks me.

"We already had" I remind him. "I really do not want to keep talking" I say with a winced smile.

I head back out to wait on tables.

"Elissa!" I hear him call to me.

I ignore him and go to work. I head to the back to get the couple in the booth something to drink. As I do, I begin to slip on the greased-up floor. I gasp. It was to far for me to grab the counter.

I wave my arms about and try to regain my balance here. I was going to fall. I was going to break something. I could feel it. Panic settles in my chest.