When Emilee met Josh, she thought that all he would ever be to her was some guy she hung out with for a day before heading back to her home in small town Wake. But when she goes home, all she seems to think about is Josh. She just cannot get him off her mind. She's never been in love, and she doesn't ever want to be, not with how her parents ended up, but there was just something about Josh that made her heart skip a beat. But Emilee should just forget about him, since she would never see him again. Right?
When Josh met Emilee, he felt something spark inside of him, something that he had never felt before, and he didn't want to let that feeling go. He spent only one day with her, but that was enough to make him fall for her. But those feelings were foreign to him, so he buried them inside of him; besides it was useless spending his time thinking about a girl he would never see again. Plus, Josh had more things to worry about, like how he was being forced to move in with his crazy aunt who lived in small town Wake, all because of the things that happened in his past. So he figures he better move on from Emilee, since he would never see her again, right?
As crazy as it seems though, Josh and Emilee do meet again-in the most awkward of all circumstances. Perhaps its just a small world, perhaps its fate, but either way the two are thrown back into each others lives. But will it really be a fairytale ending? With rumors, jealousy, and feelings arising will Emilee and Josh end up together, against all odds? Or will their pasts be too much for each other to handle?
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"'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.
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