[This story is probably going to eternally be on hiatus, so maybe at some point during the summer, I'll stare at myself in the mirror, scream, "Stop procrastinating!" and finish this. For now, just imagine, giant hiatus.]
Why isn't Alana like the normal girls? You know, like the ones who, never have to struggle in order to have gorgeous flowing hair, or who don't hate the beach, or I don't know, DON'T have a mermaid tail!
When summer rolls around, Alana's parents decide that heading to the beach is the best idea for one of the hottest days of the year, which Alana is completely against. Though one little incident causes disruption throughout her whole life. She learns that something that had happened gave her a mermaid tail every single time that she came into contact with water. Of course, since Alana was into reading fantasy books, she would just listen to the obvious rules that they had said about semi-mermaids!
Wrong. It's as if all the basic rules aren't true, and she's stuck to figure them out. Maybe she could figure it out with the one mysterious girl she met when it happened.
So Alana's adventure begins soon, but risks will come in the way. Someone out there doesn't want other semi-mermaids around. The deep blue isn't as safe as they had hoped. Can Alana take hold of her abilities, or will things twist so far that it's too late?
[Wattpad's Summer Reading Checklist 2022 Pick]
"'Hella heavy' is your response to seeing me with a literal fish tail?"
"Sorry. Should ... should it be something else? Wait, does this mean that you can't eat sushi?"
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When Alyssa shows up in Hulhazy Front a week after wiping the memory of her partner, she's terrified of ruining everything again. Her brother and dad are convinced she'll be okay as soon as she's able to "move on", which makes no sense to her, because they sound like the exact same thing. Alyssa doesn't care about moving on--she just cares about hiding the fact that she's a mermaid from this new small town, and especially her new coworker, Elliot.
Elliot has spent the past year trying to figure out how to be out. It seems that every time she finds some kind of balance, something has to happen. Her parents say something homophobic before she's about to confess her "big secret," or her old friends from the swim team make some jab about all the things they're convinced Elliot did sophomore year. She's planning on her summer consisting of working at the public pool, hiding her sexuality, and third-wheeling it up with her best friends, Neema and Duncan.
Until, of course, she meets Alyssa.
*cover created using graphics from freepik*