*This is NOT a tale about some mermaid business. This is a Shape of Water fan fiction, so please don't get them mixed up.* Storm Bailey Perez never really got to live a normal life. For as long as she could remember, she had a best friend. She called this friend, her mermaid. This friend would leave her baubles and gifts handmade from the riverside. Fast forward thirteen years. She's twenty years old and has suffered changes in her life she will never recover from. Her life's passion, marine biology, has become her obsession as she tries to find this mysterious being that has watched over her since childhood. When she finally captures it, she finds something very far from any childhood dream she had. And her life is launched into the wildest adventure that even Storm has ever dreamed of. NOTE: For my readers that I happen to know in "reality", the experiences that Storm suffers in her life do not reflect my feelings about my life. Storm is her own person in this book with her own character, and it's not meant to represent me in any way.