Mermaid's Destiny by Samara Fitzgerald (if you give a mouse a cookie read aloud txt) 📕

I have heard of the little mermaid and it is a bunch of bull. I know because I am a mermaid myself. We do not swim around the ocean singing our hearts out. Unlike in the movie, we don't fall in love with humans... we feast on them. When we see a human, we don't think of "Oh he is so handsome" or stuff like that. We feed on their flesh and bones. The sight of the weak human's terrified faces just bring a smile on my face. We draw our prey through our voices when we sing and our looks. I have long, dark auburn hair and brown eyes with my beauty so its not hard.

There is another thing about us mermaids you don't know. We do not have to go running to "daddy" or a sea witch to turn us to humans. That is one of the powers that we hold as mermaids. Whenever we leave the ocean, we automatically change into a human form. That is how we are able to hunt for our meals. Of course we hunt at night because it would be weird for us to get out of the ocean and change in front of the people who walk by or the sailors on their ships.

There is one other thing you need to know about my world that you don't know. We are allowed to feast on humans, but we are not allowed to fall in love with them. If we fall in love with any human, we are sentenced to death if the court ever finds out. Just thinking about it sends shivers down my spine. I never want to be in that position. EVER. So now you know everything you need to know. I hope I didn't scare you off from the truth. The truth hurts.

"Come on Alana. We are starving." Nerissa my oldest sister yelled as her and Salacia, my second oldest sister, swam ahead of me toward shore.

"I'm coming." I said as I start to swim faster. They act like they haven't ate in monthes. I tried to enjoy the warm, salty ocean as much as I can before I go out into the other world. The moon light shone through the water, which helped us a little more to the shore.

"Stop being so slow. I can smell humans already." Salacia yells. I roll my eyes as I just kept swimming in the same pace I was swimming in. Nerissa and Salacia are so annoying. Nerissa is 19, Salacia is 18, and I am 16. Nerissa is beautiful with her brown hair and green eyes and Salacia with her blonde hair and blue eyes.  Nerissa is so bossy and she like to take control while Salacia just listens to her orders. That is the main reason why they get along better. So basically, I'm the odd ball in the group, but I'm happy with it. I rather be alone than Nerissa's slave.

We kept swimming until we reached a dock. Wel lifted our head out of the water as we searched to see if the coast was clear for us to get out. Once we checked more than once, we swam toward shore and I can already feel my tail splitting and forming legs. Once we got close enough to shore, our legs were formed fully and we were able to walk the rest of the way out of the water. Naked, we ran to our secret shed. In it, we have some clothes to put on every time we go out hunting. We dried ourselves off and went to our bags of clothes. I put on some jeans and a blue tank top while Nerissa put on her short pink dress and Salacia put on her baby blue dress. I know what you thinking. How could three mermaids own their own clothes when they spend most of their time in the ocean? Well, there are some mermaids who decide to spend majority of their time on land so they help us out for times like these, supplying us with clothes and whatever else we need. I mean, we can't just walk around with no clothes on.

"Time to hunt girls." Nerissa says with a smile on her face after we finished getting dressed. After that, we walked out and start walking the streets.

As we were walking, Nerissa stopped and sniffed the air. She opened her eyes and a smile snuck across her face.

"I smell our next meal." she says. Both Salacia and I did the same thing and I could smell it too. It was coming from the alley. We walked in the alley and I saw it was a homeless man, digging in the garbage. He looks up towards us and smiles. I could tell he was thinking dirty thoughts.

"You guys know the routine." Nerissa says as she start walking forward.

"You girls are some pretty girls. I bet ya'll are so sweet." the man said as he start checking us out, which disgusted me. Everytime the man smiled, it showed he barely had teeth and the teeth that he did have were rotten.

"You heard that girls. This man think we're sweet." Nerissa says.

"Yeah, I heard that. Maybe we need to show him how wrong he is." Salacia says as she giggled. Nerissa walks around the man push him against the wall. Now he looks scared. He tried pushing away, but Nerissa wouldn't let him get away.

"Aww. The man is now afraid. He wasn't afraid when he was checking us out a minute ago." Salacia says.

"Please let me go. I'm sorry. Please don't hurt me." He whimpers.

"Don't worry. Its only going to hurt... alot." I said as I laughed.

"Besides, you have nothing to live for anyway." Nerissa says before she broke his neck. After that, Salacia and Nerissa dug in. Salacia looks at me.

"Aren't you hungry?" she asked.

"No. I'm still full from yesterday's meal." The good thing is that us mermaids can actually go without eating for monthes without starving. Its a good thing for humans because thats less people getting eaten up.

Once they finished with the man, there was nothing left of him. We never leave behind any leftovers behind after every meal. I looked between the both of them. There was no traces of blood on them and their clothes and hair was still in place.

"I'm stuffed, even though that guy left a bad taste in my mouth." Nerissa says as we left the alley.

"Same for me too." Salacia says as she made a face. We were walking back to the beach until we passed this beach house. Music was blasting and I can see people crowded in there. Nerissa and Salacia noticed it and stopped.

"You thinking what I'm thinking." Nerissa says with a sneaky smile on her face. Oh no. Whenever Nerissa has that smile on her face, it usually mean that she have an idea that involve us doing something dangerous. She is like the rebel out of the three of us.

"What?" Salacia asks.

"Let's go in that house. I want to see what these humans do for fun." she says.

"No Nerissa. We can't. That house is filled with humans and we can't risk ourselves. You know father wouldn't approve of this." Nerissa rolled her eyes.

"Of course miss sweet Alana want to do the right thing. We only going to be in there for a few minutes to check it out. Either both of you with me or without me.

"I'm with you. I mean, what harm can it do. We only going in there for a little bit." Salacia says. I thought about it. Salacia is right. What harm can it do?

"Fine. Only for a few minutes like you said." I said. A huge smile came across Nerissa's face. Oh gosh, what did I just put myself up to.

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We walk up to the door and this guy is standing in front of the door. He is kind of cute with his short brown hair and brown eyes and his tall, muscular structure.

"Hold up... wow." He says as he checked us out. Nerissa smiles at him.

"Are you going to let us in or keep drooling." she says.

"Yeah, sorry. I'm just amazed of how hot ya'll are." He steps aside and we walk in. The place look much crowded than it was outside. Everyone was talking and drinking. Some people were kissing too. I knew this was a bad idea.

"Can we leave..." I turn around to see Salacia and Nerissa gone. I can't believe they just left me like that. They could have at least told me where they were going. I start walking around until something caught my attention. I start walking until I got to the living room. People were standing as they listened as this guy was singing, playing his guitar. My breath was taken away by his smooth voice as he sang. He was also cute with his short curly blonde hair. At first he was looking down at his guitar, but he looks up and his blue eyes connected with mine. My heart skipped a beat. He kept playing and singing until he finished. Everyone clapped and left. I start to leave, but a hand touched my arm. Startled, I jumped and turned around to see it was the guy who was singing.

"I'm sorry if I startled you." He says. At first, I wasn't going to say anything but what harm can it do if I just talk to the guy.

"Its okay."

"I saw you in the crowd and I saw you. I was like, you are so beautiful. My name is Alex." he reaches out his hand. At first I just stared at it, but I finally shook it. His hands were so soft.

"Thanks. I'm Alana."

"Alana. That's a beautiful name. So, do you go to the university?"

"What university?" Alex looks at me confused. 

"Oh. I'm new here. I'm here with my sisters and we just decided to check this party out." I said as I push a strand of hair behind my ear. 

"Oh. Cool. Well, since you're new, I'm thinking that maybe I can show you around town." He look a little nervous, like I am the first girl he ever talked to. 

"Show me around?"

"Yeah. Well, if you want to..." Before he got to finish saying what he tried to say, Nerissa comes out of no wher.

"Alana! Come on!" she says as she  grabs my arm and nearly drags me away from Alex towsrds the door. I turn to see Alex watching me leave.

"Is that a yes?" he yells over the loud music. Before I could even think about answering, Nerissa has already pulled me out of the house. Salacia was already standing outside.

"I never want to do that ever again. That place was crowded with humans. I had to control myself so I wouldn't eat anyone." Salacia says, trying to get Nerissa's attention, but Nerissa was too busy glaring at me.

"Alana, what were you doing talking to that human. We said we would only go in there to check things out and you end up