9 parts Complete [Abandoned]
The year is 1989. Connor Franta is stuck in a dead-end job on the edge of a pier in a small town in North Carolina. Connor thinks this summer will be like every one he's had in the past. However, that changes when he captures a glimpse of something extraordinary one evening at the beach. Because hidden in the waves is a boy with a smile like the sun, curls that shine like bronze in the dying twilight, and electric blue eyes that make Connor completely and irrevocably intrigued.
Troye Sivan is a mermaid, forced to live within the confines of the mermaid settlement off the coast. The Council's strict rules aren't enough to keep him from exploring the surface world. He wants to prove the humans aren't as bad as everyone knows them to be--even if it kills him.
Cross-posted to AO3, updates every few weeks or so.
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