Girl Underwater

I Want To Go Home

It seemed like hours but I know it was only minutes as I hid. Kierra could have found me if she wanted to. I could feel her worry but knew she would respect that I needed a minute. How could Dillon even think of liking me after what he and his mom and sister had put me through!

I couldn't even handle all of my feelings. I was angry and sad and for some odd reason a little excited. I blamed the excitement on the fact that a guy had never liked me before. But if all the guys to like me why did it have to be Dillon. Kierra sent some calmness through the link and I was finally able to take a deep breath.

I started to swim back to the front gates. It was time to face the music. I went around a building almost to the main road when someone grabbed me. I tried to scream but they covered my mouth. I tried to fight but I couldn't fight what I couldn't see.

Even though I knew someone was attacking me there was no one there. "What's wrong why are freaking out all of a sudden?" Kierra frantically linked.

"Help! Someone has me. But I can't see anyone I can't fight they are dragging me torwards the mountain wall!" I linked back. In my fear I hadn't even thought to link her.

Suddenly I heard yelling and could feel the hum in the water from both my mom and from Kierra. Kierras echo location was so strong even my kidnapper could feel it. They mumbled something under their breath and kept going. I just kept fighting slamming my tail into them trying to stop them.

It felt like there was more than one two or three maybe. "I think it's multiple merpeople." I linked Kierra.

"There are four ones ahead one holding you and two trying to stop you from fighting. Keep fighting your slowing them down we will be able to catch up faster." Kierra linked back.

I kept fighting until I felt someone punch me by my temple. I wasn't out but it made me to dizzy to fight. "Can't, dizzy, hurt." I sent through the link.

We were nearly to the mountain wall and I could tell we were taking a different path than the one my family had taken in. Two guards laid on the ground tied up and passed out. "Hurry!" I sent through the link. I knew I had to fight even if I couldn't tell what I was gonna hit I just had to try.

The kidnappers obviously had thought the hit had completely taken the fight out of me. They must not know about the rapid healing. Acting like I was dizzy at first I started swinging my tail. Scratching out with my hands when they all started punching me. Every punch hurt so bad and I felt as bones broke. But adrenaline had kicked in and my fight or flight was in high gear.

They were slowly yanking me closer and closer to the opening in the mountain. I just kept fighting. Then Kierra burst through with a small sword. With a wicked smile on her face. "Who's first?" she asked humming while swinging her sword I seen blood and then a body.

The merperson who had attacked me had the eight long tentacles. I then realized they could camouflage just like an octopus. No wonder they were so hard to fight. There was a hash across his chest and he had stopped moving.

Kierra continued to hum and fight dropping tentacles everywhere. They must all be octopus mermen. It wasn't long before Mitch, my dad Liam, and Dillon caught up with Kierra. Armed with tridents they started striking where Kierra would strike. My mom was the last to show up and start calling out where they were.

As soon as I realized I could see them to I used my echolocation and started calling out as well. It didn't take long for all the octopus merman to be taken out. Apart from the first one that Kierra killed the other three were only unconscious.

Guards finally made it to us after the battle was over and took the three mermen to the prison to be interrogated. I was shaken but thanks to everyone I was okay. We made our way back to the castle with four guards posted around us. My sister holding one hand and Dillon on my other side.

I wasn't ready to deal with the confusion I had over Dillons confession so I decided to just table it for now. There were more important things to worry about right now. I wanted to go home. When we finally made it to the castle my mom took me up into a room. It was beautiful with a canopy like bed type deal. It was actually marble but the whiteness easily could resemble a bed.

As I went to lay down everyone came over and started laying down too. Even Dillon joined our weird group to go to sleep. It had been a long eventful day and we were all exhausted.

In the morning I woke up to find everyone else had already left. When I swam out of my room and down the stairs I realized I had no clue where to go. "Kierra I don't know where to go," I linked her.

"Hold on just a second," Kierra linked back.

I expected Kierra to show up to lead me wherever we were going in this giant palace but instead Dillon showed up. "Uh, I'm here to take you to the dining room," Dillon said nervously. I had seen a lot of different versions of Dillon lately but nervous wasn't one of them.

I simply nodded and started following behind him. "I'm sorry I ran away yesterday," I opened the link to Dillon. I realized as I did it that was what the problem was yesterday I had to open an imaginary door in my mind and then he could link back but if I closed it he couldn't link me.

"Why are you sorry? I'm the one who should be sorry, I didn't think it was gonna work or working and I put my own foot in my mouth." Dillon told me.

"Still I shouldn't have run away. You have to understand no one has ever liked me. Plus you weren't exactly kind to me before. You and your sister made me an outcast in my own school. As if that wasn't enough I'd have to come home and your mother would make matters worse," I said stopping and having him turn to look at me.

"How could you like someone you couldn't even hardly stand to look at before?" I asked him.

"I couldn't look at you because I liked you. I don't know when it started or how but I do. I like you a lot. You know your dad only married my mom because my dad was a merman? Well I didn't know exactly why your dad had married my mom at first but I knew they weren't in love. I had gotten sick and your dad came with these vitamins and I got better. Then me and my sister were forced to move in with you and your dad. We lost everything we knew and here you were with everything. So I guess I was just jealous. Then I got to know you and things changed. But how can you go back from what I did. Then you passed out that day and I just couldn't keep doing it anymore. Do you know how scary it is to watch the person you like pass out in front of you and not be able to do anything about it?" As he talked I just listened and didn't interrupt as much as I wanted to. It explained some but not everything. Definitely cleared up why dad ever married that terrible woman.

"No I don't know what it's like, I also don't know what it's like to go through what you did. But didn't you ever think that I was lost and hurt and jealous to? You guys took all I had left but you were jealous? You do realize it's not a good excuse it's not okay to do that to someone even if your hurting and hurting other did it even make you feel better. I couldn't imagine hurting someone to make myself better but I guess thats what makes us so different. If it's okay I really don't feel like taking about this right now so can we just go." I ranted.

Dillon nodded and turned. He was quiet all the way back. When we got into the room I was already aggravated because of Dillon so I didn't waste anytime. Everyone had turned to look at me and I said, "I want to go home."

Everyone started talking over each other before Kierra finally talked over everyone to me, "this is your home. We are your family this is where you belong."

"This may have been where I was supposed to belong but it's not my home. I love all of you guys but it's to much. I just want to curl up in my soft bed. I don't want to fight. I don't want to be scared. I don't want to be stuck here not knowing who is going to be coming for me next. I'm safe up there so it'd be better for me to go home." I tried to reason with her.

"Actually you won't be safe up there anymore. Now that the evil sea witch knows your alive she won't stop coming for you and Kierra. Your to strong." Mitch said.

I let out a sigh I knew he was right but I didn't want to be here right now. "She won't know where I live, and even if she did I could move I could change my hair and move far away." I argued without as much conviction.

"The farther you move from me the more the connection will weaken. How about you stay for the summer just the summer you can go back to school and graduate and everything you planned to do before you found out about us. About me." Kierra pleaded. I could feel her sorrow and it was almost to much to bare.

I had just yelled at Dillon for being selfish and here I was doing the same thing. I looked at her and linked, "I'm sorry I didn't realize me leaving was going to hurt you."

"Okay I'll stay the summer but I have conditions. For one I want to be trained I'm tired of being attacked and they attack me cause I'm weak and don't know how to fight or use my abilities." I said.

"I want to learn what I can to," Dillon said behind me and I smiled at him linking a "sorry for earlier" to him.

He nodded linking back an, "I'm sorry too."

Mitch said, "okay we will start today what else."

"We need to catch the sea witch this summer, shes been sending goon after goon so she has to be somewhere close. Close enough to have spies who can send people quickly. I had only been gone from the palace for minutes when I was attacked. So she had to be here in this town." I said.

Kierra gasped, "You're right I hadn't even noticed it. It was so fast and they knew the lay out so they have to be from this town."

My dad nodded and told us he was going to go hold and emergency meeting and let all the guards know of the situation.

"My last condition is when I return home to go back to school Kierra comes with me." I said. Kierra looked excited my mom looked upset. I'm sure because she couldn't come with us. She opened her mouth like she was going to reject and I stopped her putting my hand up. "We can't be sperated again mom and I am going to finish school dad will be guarding us and if there is no sea witch we can travel back and forth for winter break and back when school is over."

"I don't like it but I understand it," my mom said "but a condition of my own is that you can't go if we don't find the sea with agreed?"

"Agreed." Me and Kierra replied at the same time. We both broke out into giggled after. "That is the most twin like we've been since we met," I said to Kierra.

"Yes it is," Kierra said back. With everything settled we all took out seats and began eating breakfast. I could already tell this was going to be a hard summer and an interesting school year too.