Unsure of what to do, you sit in your car halfway temped to simply drive home and hope this was just some horrible dream. Still the feel of air passing your new lips and filling your lungs and the lingering pain from your fall told you this wasn’t a dream.
Unlocking your phone was a test, you tried a facial match at first out of habit and that failed at once. You attempted next a fingerprint check and there the phone tried to read it and for a moment you thought it worked but that failed as well. Luckily you had put in a pin code and you still had all your memories so entering the pin got you access to your phone.
“Now…what?” you ask yourself as you look at your contacts, you where half tempted to just run away and possibly start a new life but you couldn’t do that.
Finally you send out a text message to your little sister, Ashley her boyfriend Mike both lived nearby and Ash and you where only a year apart and knew each other well. You hoped you could convince her, and you are good friends with her boyfriend as well. The other person in the text group was your personal best friend from elementary school Will. If you couldn’t convince the three of them you were doomed.
All three responded asking if he really needed help and he said yes and that they where on their way.
You had to wait the better part of an hour, but they came and best of all, all three arrived at almost the same time.
“Where the hell is he?” asked Ash as she stood by your car.
“Here goes.” You say as you walk forward.
What followed was possibly the strangest talk you ever had, all three thought your where some unknown girlfriend of yourself and you were playing a prank. Then came the threats of the police, followed by yourself telling stories that only you and your sister or Will would know.
“Mermaids…actual mermaids turn you into a women?” inquired Will
“Yes.” You answered
“I call BS.” Added Mike
“I will fucking show you.” You curse
“Alright, show us.” Added your sister
“Alright, follow me.” You say as you turn and headed back through the same brush you had run through to escape, the others following you with their phones out for light.
It didn’t take long and it wasn’t hard but you found your way back to the same beach, with the same small island/sand dune which you had rested on and the same cliff you had fallen down from. However there was no sign of any mermaids.
“Here…they where right here.” You answer
“Alright, cut the crap where is my brother…where is Johnna.” Snapped Ashley as she got into your face, her finger pressed against your massive chest.
“Ah…Johnna brought her sister and two men, this is better than we could have hoped.” Said a voice as a beautiful woman with long curly black hair surfaced before pulling herself onto the sand dune island to show her deep blood red tail.
“A mermaid…and actual mermaid.” Said Mike in stunned amazement
“You where telling the truth, you are Johnna.” Added Will
“I am.” You confirm as your sister look at you with new eyes before turning and marching to the water’s edge.
“Alright, I don’t know what the hell you did to my brother but turn him back now.” Stated Ash
“No can do, besides why would we do that if we wanted to?” said an older mermaid’s voice coming from of all places behind them. They turned around to see that the sandbank they had come down was still there but only somewhat. It only went up a couple of feet before going back down. Mike and you ran to the top and looked down to see that you where all standing on an island in the middle of a series of small islands surrounded by ocean. The older mermaid was there in the water looking up at you. “You are in our world now and it has been a while since we have had 4 members join us at once. Welcome.”