This endless place filled with nothingness, but they are safe now. I looked around and hoped all would be well. I would do what I have to do. I will redeem myself and never get wrapped up anything like that again. And maybe in the future when all is better I...

~°°°~

Miracine N. Seaton

      After my scales finally dried, I headed over to where 7th period was now located.  Instead of being outside it was near swimming arena.  However, I overheard Kaisa and Seivon's friends talking about introducing someone to me.

      "Introduce me to who?" I found Kaisa by the beach ready for our seventh period.

     I began thinking about Seivon.  I hope I didn't upset him, he just wanted to be friends and get to know each other first before anything.  Why did I kiss him? I would be lying to myself if I did not enjoy it. It was amazing and everything I dreamed of. But I need to respect his wishes.
       Oh no what if he hates me now? I like him way too much than I should and he is a human. Better than any human, but still a human.

      "Ohh nothing." I looked at her raising an eyebrow. I know it is not just nothing.
      "Ashton, Melody...This is Mina.... I MEAN Miracine!"

     I was confused, only my family called me that.  I stared at her quizzically, "Mina?  Only my family called me that."

      "Is that not what everyone calls you?  I thought that was what most called you.  I forgot, how foolish of me," Kaisa laughed sheepishly.

Does every mermaid refer to me as that or something?

      Then again when I was younger.... Never mind that.

      "Anyway, we've already met Kaisa, we are in first together remember?" Melody answers nodding. "I actually invited you to lunch.  Not your thing?"  

      "Hey....again." I smiled.  Oh yeah that existed. "Kaisa was showing me around during lunch. And I.....wasn't hungry."

     "You know you are a hot chick, maybe I pull some of Sei's moves on this one...." I glared at him and Melody bonked his head. Well I suppose she isn't bad.

     "I am not someone to be played with.". I exclaimed, Stupid humans... How dare he! He is Seivon's friend too.

      "I-I'm...K-kidding! I'm loving you. It's a joke." He realized what he said and shook his head,
      "Sorry, I do that to everyone as an introduction cause I don't know what else to say," he lowers his head full of embarrassment.  "Uhh... I'm going to the nurse's with Seivon"

      "Seivon?" I suddenly look up at his words when he mentioned his friend's name.
      Will he recognize me? Do I look fine. I hope my hair is okay. I need to calm down first.  And I didn't expect to see him so soon.  Maybe I can introduce myself as a human and say I want to be friends.

"Uhh what?" Melody questioned.  "If I were you, you don't want to get involved with him.  He isn't a relationship kind of person."  He doesn't do relationships?  Is that why he said that?

      "The girl he wants he can't find.  His words not mine...." Ashton says before leaving to go to the Nurse's.  Oh.  Has he actually been thinking about me this entire time?  I was greatly surprised and mistaken.
      Maybe he does like me and just doesn't want to jump to desires right away.

       "I was just wondering because you all seem like good friends!" I show my smile closing my eyes.

    "Well for PE want to be partners, Mear-uh-sean?" Melody states, mispronouncing my name.
      These humanics!  Why can't they pronounce my name correctly?  It's My-RUH-sean!

      "Oh...." I trailed off awkwardly, "Uh I was actually going to sit on the sidelines with Kaisa, but you could come join us.  I don't really like swimming." She looked disappointed.

      "Oh....Oh, I'll join you both." She instead, decided.  "Besides Coach said he wasn't forcing anyone to swim after what happened today." I guess she is referring to the wave that the she-spirit daemon caused.

      "So what do you think of Wellington so far?" Emerald eyed asked me.  She honestly seems to care about her friends, but I have this strange feeling that she might not like me if she found out I kissed her friend.
      The way she looks at me it is like she is jealous me or envies me, especially when I asked that one question relating to her friend.

     "I think it is fine so far." I told her, "However, I haven't seen much.  I just arrived yesterday."

      "So is there anything I should know around here." I asked, grinning, "I don't know like the usual gossip or drama those school things with those annoying big mouth cheerleaders and not to mention those egoistic jocks."
      I know none of that is actually true everywhere, I just wanted to see her reaction.

      She stares at me blankly, "What cliche schools you've been to?  Never have this school experience as much drama as that.  Have you been watching movies or something?" She was clearly amused at my words.

     I was hoping for that reaction.  I didn't want her to hate me exactly.

"...I was home schooled at my other country" I sheepishly smiled.

     "Oh it's okay." She just grins back, "But I say the most drama here probably revolves around S-"

      "Actually!" Kaisa interrupts very loudly.  "I'm going to see Ashton.  Want to come?"

      "But...." The honey haired looks down, frowning a bit.

      "Oh come on the bathroom excuse always works and they would hardly know that we went to see them." Bathroom?
     You takes baths at a school?

     "You been hanging around Ash and Sei too much." Was Melody talking about her friends?

      "What? I hardly know them." Kaisa suddenly resorted, looking away

      "And you want to see Ashton?" Melody narrows her eyes in a suggestive tone.

      "Wait do you like him?" I spoke up.  It made sense why she want to see him.  But she shouldn't have gone crazy over the fact I like Seivon.

      "What?!" She was shocked.  "No!  I don't.  Look I just want to see how they are doing."

     Uhuh.  She doesn't fool me, but it is fine.  I understand if she doesn't want to say anything.

     The rules.

     "Awww, how cute!" I cooed, smiling cheekily at her as she frowned in response.

     "I'm just going to stay here, but you both can go I guess." Melody stated, laying back by the benches.

     "Let's go!" I exclaimed, throwing my hands into the air as I skipped off to the inside of the school's hallways.

~~~

      "Do you even know where you are going?" A tiny smile showed on my face as she halted me to a stop.

      "No." I admitted, my face turning a bit pink. "But I'll find it regardless"

     "Oh my...." She shook her head. "Little Pacific."

     "Young Atlantic?" I exclaimed back.

     She was like an older, wiser sister to me.  I never had a sister.  All I had was my brother.   Sometimes I wonder how he is now.  Something happened to him a long time ago, but because of my meris then I was too young to understand.  Since then he changed a bit.  It was around the time, I saved Seivon for the first time and when we first went to land.
     I remember when my brother found out I broke that rule, he was so furious with me.  He has the most mermaid pride out of any I ever knew.  He despises humanics and hates this situation we are all in.  I hear from him at least once a human month.
      He sends a bubble to check up on me.  Apparently its water they swim in.  Of course there is Azurine. I haven't forgotten about her.  She is my guardian and I care about her.

      "You can wait here...." I was confused.  Why did she ask me to come then?

      "Why...?" I tilted my head to the side.

     "Kaisa?" A masculine voice said.  "Awww you came to see us in the nurse's office.  I was going to use the restroom, but then I saw you.  And you're way better than a restroom any day!"  

     "Oh shut up!" She lightly slapped his arm.  I couldn't help but smile at the two of them.  I am honestly surprised.  The Rivalkai mermaid actually get along and likes the humanics.
     Most of the mermaids don't like them.  I always thought they are interesting and what is there to hate about them.  The only thing I could understand for hating them is how they steal fish from our food to eat and pollute the seas.  Not to mention how some humanics hurt us merphans. And they can be incredibly annoying.

     "Ashton!" A too familiar voice breaks my thoughts.  Seivon.  Oh no.  I can't face him yet.  Maybe that is why Kaisa suggested me to wait.
      "Wait for...." He stopped when he looked my direction. ".....me."

     "I found something better than a restroom." Ashton glances at me, smirking.

     "What?" I asked a bit confused, "I don't understand." Kaisa just smacked her head and Ashton just smiled.

     "Nothing," he just smiled, "This is Mear-uh-sean.  She's new and-"

Why can't people pronounce my name correctly?

    "We already met." He says looking straight at me.
    He recognizes me!  So he can solve things and isn't entirely stupid after all!

     "Hi..." I whispered, feeling extremely nervous and shy again.  "I seen you around...and y-you seem nice and uhh.  Actually my name is pronounced like My-RUH-sean and everyone keeps on mispronouncing it.  This place is nice and uh. I'll like to get to know you. We should be friends," I nodded my head,
     "Oh and thanks for showing me around You-Kaisa!" I felt nervous and laughed afterwards.  I must of sounded insane with ranting that long.  If I was too obvious, I will be cursed eternally into a sea slug.
     Then I won't remember life as a mermaid and I will be just a simple sea slug.  I'm glad when I revealed before those years ago, it didn't caused that.  My brother told me that if you show a human yourself then you will turn into one.

     How sad!

      "Oh......yeah.  I thought you were someone else." Then there was a moment of silence.
      Wait he doesn't actually think that does he?

      I was tempted to shout Shamoo or baby beluga whale.

      But it was the awkward silence.

      The one where everyone was waiting for someone else to say something.

       We were all standing there so awkwardly not saying a word.  Until we heard the bell.

      I rushed out of the silence and stepped near the doors that lead to outside.

      But...it was raining.  I sighed going to my locker.  I stuffed a huge rain coat in there this morning.

      Opening the piece of metal on the wall, I got the coat out.  It was longer than my arms and covered my face with the hood.  It was a bigger size than me for a reason.  No rain or water would ever hit me.

      And then I ran thinking about everything that happened today.

      I arrived at the house that Azurine was and I stayed at and sighed.  It was a long day.
     I let myself in what humans call a "pool" and let the water dip over my flesh.  I loved the feeling and the way it soaks up my skin.  Swinging my arms behind my head, I smile.  I need to ask Kaisa more things about humanics and then maybe....I could blend in much better.
     Too bad, she has a grudge against me.  She probably thought I wouldn't notice it.  At first, it was because she was late and she found out something that made her upset.
      But now, it is something more personal relating to the fact I am a mermaid and everyone blames me for what happened since I coincidentally saved Seivon just before those spirits got released.

     What if Ashton was actually a spirit?
     Or what if Melody was?
     And the reason they survived was because of that.  They could also be luring him into a trap.  I shuddered at that thought.

    Anyone could be..

     Smiling to myself, I am prepared for what awaits me.  I will make sure the sea spirits will never take control of my ocean as long as I am here because I know my pendant is safe away from them.  They are in the hands of the one my heart aches for: Seivon Rivers.

Edited AN//
Okay I'm doing better thankfully my 1.8k words didn't turn into 5k but instead 2.1k

I did less editing overall in here.  I did take out one scene that was kinda embarrassing to read.  Second hand embarrassment is not fun, but if there was going to be that I wanted it to be about something else.

I also been taking out more of the "player aspect" and I like the fact that people ended up using him so he dropped them just as quickly.

I ended up changing Miracine's name pronunciation because one sounded like it was vaguely like My Russian and I just liked how the new version sounds better.  I changed my mind.

Anyways, Legend tuning off.
Also the old Author's note is funny, so I'm gonna to keep it\\

To xsupernovaex for the amazing crazy comments that make my day.

P.S. She really likes sleeping with lizards

Miracine N. Seaton (My-ruh-sean) (seed-on)

Seivon Rivers (Sigh-vohn)

Kaisa Leisen (Kai-suh)

Ashton Jacobs (If you can't pronounce this I don't know what to tell you)

Melody Medina (Meh-dean-uh)