Mermaids curse

Lagoon

-Lillian-

I steadied myself and resisted the urge to bolt by forcing myself to turn around and head straight to the stage. The headmistress was going on about my academic success, and some other random bullsh**. I don’t know why- in 3 months I’d go ‘mysteriously’ missing. Most kids here knew what they did with sirens but they chose to also keep their mouths shut. I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was being watched. I mean I knew I was the focus of like 300 kids and faculty right now but besides that- like something more was watching me.

‘And one last time let’s give a warm welcome to Ms Starlet. May your time here be academically successful’ she gave me a curt nod to let me know I was dismissed. Checking the time looks like I was dismissed dismissed like I could sneak off to my lake dismissed. Or at least that’s how I took it.

I scurried off the edge of the stage staying in her eyesight for long enough to be polite. Quickly turning on my heel i wandered out to the balcony. Luckily for me there was a staircase down to the grounds. I did a quick double take to make sure I was alone and then started my hike off to the lake.

The whole time I couldn’t shake a feeling that something was watching me- staking me. When I turned around nothing was amiss however. I stopped on the edge of a ginormous lake…okay it was more like a swamp. But it had enough ground for me to comfortably swim without running into anything. I looked down to the hem of my dress and realized I had been trudging it through the mud. I sent a silent apology to Megan and began stripping. The dress was easy to remove- the corset and lingerie were a little more difficult. I tossed my hair over my shoulders and proceeded into the lagoon. After a moment I felt my siren powers overtake me. My black tail was nearly 6 feet long itself. I was always jealous of my sister and parents who had pretty blue tails but they weren’t in the same realm of siren as me. I hadn’t fed in a moment so I quickly made work of the small fish I found throughout the lagoon. My skin stopped feeling so tight and my eyesight improved. Without giving into our siren sides we became partially blind. That was better kept secret than the ‘we can find your soulmate crap’

I was enjoying my quiet splash around the lagoon but it was time for me to go back. I could only maintain being in the water for a couple of hours before the sea started to call to me. Some sirens can live out in the sea with their humanity completely in tact. However being raised halfway on land and halfway in sea and then at age 12 being ripped away from that made it rather difficult to not just throw life away.

I pulled myself up and let my tail dry out. It was as I was pulling on my panties that I heard a twig snap behind me. I wasn’t alone- and I’m not sure I’ve ever been more vulnerable.