Blue
Alec was a funny guy. I realized that he was the only boy I actually liked other than Hunter, but I knew that my liking for Hunter was different. When I was with him, I had butterflies in my stomach taking flight all at once, but with Alec, I felt no such thing. I was just very comfortable around him, the way I felt around Hannah too.
"Did I tell you that you look like a mermaid?"
That snapped me out of my thoughts and brought me back what he'd just said. "What?"
Did he say, mermaid?!
How did he find out? I was pretty sure I hadn't said a word about the Underwater world or being a mermaid. I was starting to panic.
Hunter An impish glee was settling inside me as I packed Blue's things from my older room where she stayed for the entire week. I was happy because I was finally bringing her back where she belonged. With me.The entire time that I packed her things, she hadn't said a word to me. Just remained by my side, helping me pack her bag. I didn't miss how she kept sneaking glances at me and when I smiled at her she would just look away.Strange.I tried not to feel wounded with the fact that I had said I loved her and she hadn't said that she loved me back. Then again, what had I expected? If it was going to remain a one-sided unrequited love, so be it. I was going to love her nevertheless. It wasn't every da
HunterLeslie jumped on Blue as soon as we stepped through the threshold. He was so happy to see her, he literally couldn't stop going around in circles and then sprawled on the floor for belly-rubs."You're such a good boy." Blue cooed. "I missed you too, Les."Leslie was indeed a lucky dog. Any man would be more than happy to have Leslie's place just for an hour. She hugged the little traitor close, burying her nose in his fur."I'm so glad to be back." She whispered."Yeah, me too. I missed you, Blue." I said, "I thought I was doing the right thing by sending you away but I was obviously wrong. I shouldn't have—"
Hunter Blue had been upset for the next few days and I didn't understand the reason why. Normally, she was very cheerful, talker non-stop, made me laugh and constantly asked me to strip from down below so she could see what all the fuss was about. But since the time that she'd been back from Hannah's she'd remained aloof. I asked her a question, and her head was often in the clouds.This was very unlike her.And now her behavior was bothering me because it continued on for another week. When Blue asked me one afternoon if she could hang out with Hannah, I said yes. I didn't understand why she needed permission from me to go with my sister, and the same evening she said Alec invited her to go to the movies with him.
Hunter What's a virgin?"I started to think of a less explicit way that I could explain to Blue what being a virgin meant. Her large bright blue eyes stared at me in what appeared to be sheer fascination and curiosity. She was waiting for an answer. My word could be law."Well, a person who has never had sex in their life is usually a virgin," I explained.Blue continued to stare at me, and that was making me nervous. "What's sex?"I blew out a breath and maybe I was starting to sweat a little. "When a man and a woman go to bed naked...they do things to each other.""Bad things?"
BlueHunter woke me up a little earlier than usual the next day, and he appeared to be a little worried. It seemed like Hunter's family had a tradition to spend one afternoon for lunch together at the family table every year, and this time, his father and step-mother wanted me to be there with him.Honestly, I didn't understand what the big deal was about. I was going to meet Hunter's parents, and I couldn't have been happier. I'd always wondered what his father looked like if Hunter was a splitting image of his father, what kind of a man he was. I wanted to know everything about his family. Every little detail about him.The first day that I'd stepped into the human world by accident, and met Hunter, I'd been scared of him, and I'd been eager to go back into the
Hunter Elaine, my step-mom led us to the table where the rest of my family had gathered. Ryan, Hannah, Dad, Aunt Paige who was dad's younger sister, her annoying bratty six-year-old son Elliot and I did a double-take when I saw Will, my cousin seated beside Hannah. His father, my uncle who worked as a cop wasn't at the table so that meant dad and him were still cross, so as not to turn down the lunch invite he'd sent Will on his own. And I was glad he'd come alone for the lunch gathering.I leaned into Blue's ear and whispered, "I'm going to sit beside you at the table. My family will probably ask you some questions. I'll tap your knee under the table if you say something that you shouldn't, okay?"I noticed how Elaine was watching us with utter adoration, thinking I
HunterWhen Blue and I returned to the lunch table, we acted like we hadn't tried to eat each other by the fountain area just a moment ago. Instead, I picked up my mini-pizza and took a large bite off it, and reached out to get the Tuna Greek salad wrap. Elaine and dad knew what had happened of course; their faces told me they weren't oblivious. If anything, they appeared to be content with this new development, i.e: me getting serious with a woman in my life. The mermaid part, they didn't need to know.I noticed Elaine's plate filled with her usual vegan food. Not that I hated vegan food, it's just that I couldn't make a habit of eating it to save my life."Blue and Hunter were swapping saliva out there. I saw you." Elliot spoke to me with a mouthful of sausages.
BlueSunlight was streaming out of the curtains when I woke up the next morning, and my legs were tangled between Hunter's. I caressed his leg with mine, loving the feel of the soft hair on it. It was so wonderful, a man's body, so completely different and I was shocked how much I craved to be touched by his large masculine hands.I pulled the comforter away to marvel his bareback and noticed his boxer briefs having a tent that he called morning wood. The more he wanted to hide it, the more I wanted to see it. Hunter was fast asleep; would it be inappropriate if I slid my hand under the waistband of his boxers?I decided I couldn't risk doing it. I didn't want to see Hunter get furious and maybe just pack my bags and drop me back at Hannah's. I just needed to find out