Mermaids curse

Isiah

Being at this school for the last 4 years has really been h***. No not because I had a rough time- in fact mostly the opposite. I was friends with most people in the school, quarterback of the football team, and student council president. Of course for me this was all a way to try to bide my time til I could go back home and back to searching for the only thing that actually meant something to me.

Lillian. She was my salvation for most of my childhood. Growing up in my brothers shadow was no small feat. Lillian always made me feel somewhat better about not ‘measuring up’. The summers her and her family spent with us throughout the years were some of the best we ever had in our own family. Everything was fine until we turned 12. I tried to make Lillian’s birthday perfect…that is until all h*** broke loose.

~Flashback~

‘Lillian come on you’ve been standing there looking at clothes for the last 30 minutes’ I whined with puppy dog eyes. Lillian was always super cute but lately she’s seemed more sexy? At least with the way she’s been dressed anyways.

‘Quit whining, Isaiah. Getting your magic is no small joke and I want to look perfect.’ I flopped back onto her bed. This was technically one of the guest rooms but this room- this was her room.

‘I still don’t understand how you can turn into a mermaid all these years but don’t have access to your magic’ I sighed and folded my hands behind my head. I was trying to be casual but watching Lillian change in front of me was doing weird things to my body. It shouldn’t- werewolves and mermaids are no stranger to nudity and I had seen plenty of naked werewolves before.

‘Can you just quit it. I’ve explained before. My tail will stop being white and change to it’s destined colour. And I’ll be able to access my siren powers’ I couldn’t help but notice the slight wane at her voice when she said siren powers. Half the people here believed Lillian’s parents were seducing my parents into letting them stay here. ‘Look it doesn’t matter I’ll just wear this.’ She turned around and I snuck a glance…she looked angelic. Standing there in a loose white dress that went down to her toes. It didn’t matter much honestly in a couple minutes she would be completely naked. The only people who would witness her ceremony would be our parents and my brother and me. Something about that made me incredibly jealous.

‘Knock knock’ I heard the ever annoying sound of my older brother at the door. Eiron was always the golden child. Perfect grades, perfect looks, perfect way of making Lillian swoon.

‘Ah come in’ Lillian stepped back to allow Eiron to come into the room. I couldn’t help but notice his eyes darken at the look of her too and I had to suppress a growl. Eiron was 2 years older than us so he was well into his werewolf training and only came back for special events. Our parents actually told him that he didn’t need to come home for this but he insisted.

‘Everyone is waiting downstairs, shall we?’ He offered her the crook of his elbow and i noticed her cheeks flush as she took it. We all fell in line as we proceeded down the stairs. Our parents were very weird about all of us touching so we maintained a distance

Lillian’s parents beaming smiles came into view as we rounded a corner. Her little sister Tilly clinging to her moms side. For some reason our parents always tried to force us to be friends with Tilly and avoid Lillian. We didn’t like Tilly- she was spoiled, and a crybaby. Lillian was strong, and she could hold her own.

Lillian stripped out of her dress and stepped into the large indoor pool. Her white tail flowed behind her as she stretched. I wanted to cover her but I knew that wasn’t possible so I just tried to block my brothers view as much as possible. Which of course just landed me with a slap on the back of the head from him.

Lillian’s parents started chanting some ancient ruin text as Lillian floated around the pool. Suddenly the lights all began to flicker and even her parents began to look worried. Lillian’s nose and mouth were bleeding and she looked like she was going to have a seizure.

Without thinking I jumped into the pool- I heard my parents and her parents all yelling at me to stop but she needed help right? I held her in my arms until she stopped shaking. She smiled up at me and I smiled down at her- and then she latched onto my shoulder with all 10k teeth she currently had. The pain was blinding and I started to pass out- but not before I noticed her tail colour. Black. The only way you receive a black tail is the mother was feasting on humans during the time of pregnancy.

~End flashback~

After that Lillian’s parents were sent off to the council and Lillian and her sister were sent off to stay with some aunt. Every time my brother or I tried to broach the subject with our parents about what happened they brushed it off. It didn’t come as a shocker when fall hit and they announced we were going to be shipped off to some boarding school for gifted shifters.

Of course my brother and I never stopped trying to reach Lillian. We tried pleading with our parents, locating relatives, even escaping the island the school is on. When my parents heard about that last one they really feared that Lillian ‘cursed’ their sons to love her.

F*** the only reason all these memories were stewing was because of the announcement of a new mermaid here. What they did here was barbaric but I had little power to stop it. Besides this would be the first sacrifice in 20 years- all the mermaids before came from prominent families who were paid out and given nobility for their sacrifice. Probably just another girl trying to make her greedy family proud.

I downed another champagne flute as some blonde bimbo latched onto my arm. I can’t exactly say I haven’t messed around here- can’t exactly say I also didn’t imagine all of their faces to look like Lillian.

Announcements were still being made as girls made their way inside. I glanced around for my brother but he rarely came to these things. Preferring to waste his time smoking weed with other burnouts. It wasn’t til they were nearly over that I caught the slight scent of roses. I glanced at the stairs and d*** near knocked the bimbo to the floor. Lillian. She was dressed like an absolute knock-out. She had grown into an incredibly beautiful woman with curves in all the right places, and legs that could go on for a mile. Her face seemed- darker like she had gone through some serious s***.

‘Why are you looking at her like that? She’s nothing special. She’s gonna be up for slaughter in about 3 months anyways’ the i***t next to me slurred. If she hadn’t gotten the message through my eyes that I would murder her if she continued speaking to me I probably would have beaten her to a pulp for insulting Lillian.

Lillian kept her eyes down. Likely not wanting to stir up her siren powers which would affect the weaker shifters. I needed to look into those eyes however. I needed to see her.

She wandered off to a corner and I did my best to catch up to her but by the time I did the headmistress was calling her to stage. I gritted my teeth as this woman went on and on about how smart Lillian was. She was merely a pawn to them. Once she was dismissed I watched her exit down the stairs and then poof. She was gone. What a nightmare. I’d just have to wait outside her bedroom door for the rest of the night I guess I sighed and resigned myself to finding the redhead who she was with earlier that night. Hopefully she can give me some information.