Secrets of the Mermaid (UPDATE: ON HOLD)

Sandy Sweatshirts [X]

The mist from the sea was sprinkling across the sand like rain. Now that yet another person has gone missing my mom has barely let me and my brother out of her sight.

My brother came to the beach with me today to meet up with his group of friends. I simply just like the beach. I sat a distance away from them, the group of boys were a bit raunchy and I'd rather not interfere with their horseplay. Kai is the same age as me, fraternal twins, though he's definitely a brother. Meaning we always have competition, we call each other names, punch each other randomly. It's how we get along. He always pulls the 'Im being cool because I'm around my friends' card. He pretty much rejects me when his friends are around, typical, but his friends don't seem to mind me as much.

Christopher Jock was one of the boys who was closest to my brothers friend-group. They were not best friends, but it still concerned Kai that someone he knew went missing. It's been a few months now since Chris has been gone, but I haven't seen him this energetic since everything was..well, normal.

It started to get chilly with the weather being sort of off today, and not to mention the cloudiness of the sky. I don't understand how all the guys are in the water and not freezing to death. I'd probably head back sooner than later, of course that means I'd have to pull Kai away from his friends to ride the bus home.

My phone buzzed from my pocket and I immediately pulled up the text from my best friend, Ara.

Ara: Im at the beach, wanna join?

Sienna (Me): Already there. Look for the grop of

guys practically drowning each-

other in the ocean with a girl

Sitting and watching them

Awkwardly. :)

I put my phone back in my sweatshirt pocket and a few minutes later I heard the faint sound of flip flops sinking into the sand.

"Hey Sie"

"How do you do that?!", I sort of raised my voice at her. She looked at me like she did something wrong and asked,

"Do what?".

"Walk in the sand with flip flops on! Do you not have nerves in your feet!?".

She smiled again, now knowing I wasn't angry at all with her...more disgusted I guess with how she can walk with sand flipping up on her while she's walking.

She plopped down next to me on the sand. Again with the sand. I was sitting on my brothers sweatshirt which he didn't know about, and she was just on...sand. Eww.

"I kinda wanna go home", I stated.

"That's fine with me. My brother is with Erik at the beach entrance. They'll be coming down in a few minutes to hang with your brother".

"Okay. Lemme tell Kai". We both got up and I picked Kais sweatshirt up off the sand and it naturally shook off due to the wind.

We made our way over to the guys and I started screaming his name,

"KAI! WE'RE GOING HOME BY THE BUS!".

He Yelled back, "OKAY SNOTRAG". That's one of my many nicknames to him.

"OH KAI I HAVE YOUR SWEATSHIRT AND IM THROWING IT ON THE SAND HERE!"

He had already turned his back to me and was talking to one of his friends. Something caught my eye in the distance, something splashed into the water almost like a dolphin but the shape looked longer and thinner than a dolphins tale, but it was grey. Probably just a...fish jumping out of the water. Or maybe I just stayed up too late last night.

Hello all! Welcome to the first chapter of "The Secret of the Mermaid" (SotM). Liz and I have been planning this for about a month now and decided to start putting it on Wattpad for you guys to be able to view and possibly give us feedback on this work. We both really hope you all enjoy this work and it will eventually be edited by Zelda (But shes a procrastinator so it may be awhile).
-Liz and Z