The Mermaid's Last Wish

Chapter 21 - Bad Apple

The students were gathered for an audition. The casts on a role play were done but the main character was not. They need an innocent girl for the role. 

Nancy wore her uniform and made her skirt shorter than the original size which its length was until below the knees. She sighed deeply but once. She entered the theater room and smiled at the judges. 

Erina and her friends stopped their walk to watch the performance of Nancy and Delilah.

"This is not good." Riza whispered.

"Then, this would be her last." Lily pushed Erina to the judges while Nancy wss performing. 

"You're distracting me." Nancy yelled at Lily. 

The judges looked at them and a teacher was surprised at her appearance. 

"Could you sing and dance?" 

Erina was calm but nervous about people around them. She thought of having fears from their looks. 

"She's ugly." She heard from a student behind her. Although, it was a whisper, it was jeard by Lily too and glared at the students. 

"I think, yes." Erina wasn't confident at all. May be, she was a mermaid and in their kingdom, there were no classes like this. 

Mochi was walking alone when Georgie left him at school. He was totally sad about being apart from her in a day. Georgie was busy selling her graham balls. She earned a few for her lunch tomorrow. 

"This is so tiring." Georgie sat on a bench while sipping her drinks. 

Annie was walking on the alley of a street and saw Georgie sitting there on a bench. She saw her drinking a can of cucumber juice. She threw a small stone in front of her. 

"You're annoying!" Georgie vent out her anger as Annie was smirking with her crossed arms. "Please stop doing something bad. You're making yourself ugly."

Annie gritted her teeth and grabbed her hair. "What did you say? Repeat it." 

"Ouch! It's hurting my scalp." Georgie closed her eyes as she was struggling to stop her. "Stop it!"

"This is not enough for calling me ugly!" Annie punched her stomach that made her cry. She bend her knees down to the ground and made herself sat. 

"What did you do?" Mochi saw everything and helped Georgie to stand. 

Annie pretended that Georgie punched her stomach first. "She was the first to - " 

Mochi shook his head and guided Georgie to their house. 

Georgie's left knee had a scratch from the rough surface of the ground. "Come up." Mochi sat and carried her small body on his back. "You're heavy." 

"No, I'm not." Georgie started to sob as she felt how caring he was when he was in trouble. She thought o him as the one she could lean on. 

"Why are you crying?" Mochi lifted her up as she was about to fall. "I thought someone like you is not a crybaby?" 

Georgie giggled and slapped his shoulder. "No, it's not like that. I've feelings too." 

Mochi chuckled. "I don't know why you're being troubled with her." 

"Me too." Georgie looked down. She knew that Annie was jealous from her being close to Mochi.