The sun felt so good on all the adults skin as they lounged by the pool as the sound of laughter filled the air. They couldn't even feel any rock of the ship and it felt so nice.
“Mom…can I go get a drink.” Asked one of the little boys.
“Sure.” Said his mother as she sat on the edge of her deck chair watching her two boys and two girls play in the water. “Just go over to the man over their in the uniform, let him scan your band and tell him what you want.”
“Ok.” Said the boy as he moved off toward the pool side “bar”. The bar wouldn’t be open until after sundown when this became an adult only place but during the day the staff was giving out nonalcoholic drinks. The bar was only 30 feet away from where they where at and she kept an eye on him as he ran up to the crewmember to get his drink.
“You know he is just going to get some pop right?” said her “little brother as he lied on the deckchair beside her. While she was the older sibling by almost four years, he had been bigger then her for a very long time.
“It’s a vacation, let him drink it.” said her sister-in-law as she lied on her stomach working on her tan.
“Agreed.” confirmed her father as he and her mother came over to join them. “Besides, they will all burn off so much energy in the pool that the extra energy from the pop will do nothing.”
“True.” confirmed her mother as she sat down, beside her daughter as she watched her grandson grab a glass with orange soda pop from the crew member before coming back over.
“grandma…can you believe it, we can have as much pop as we want…this must be like heaven.” stated the little boy as he began to drink the orange pop.
“Yes, it is.” Said his Aunt as she rolled over to get a more even tan. “Thanks, Sarah for arranging this.”
“Not a problem, Kim.” Said Sarah to her sister-in-law as she tried not to be envious at Kim’s figure in that tiny black bikini, however Kim was six years her junior and wasn’t a single mother to four. Her late husband had died in a car accident but that was maybe for the best because he had been a serial cheater as Sarah had learned only a few weeks earlier.
“Ya, thanks sis.” Added her brother James as he got up. “Well, I am going to go have some fun in the water.”
“Alright.” Confirmed Sarah as James, always the reckless one of them did a cannon ball off the edge before coming around and joining play of her three kids quickly joined by her oldest son who had finished his drink.
“This was a great idea.” Confirmed her mother, Mary
“I agree.” Added her father Robert as they both sat down.
“Sarah…what night did you want us to watch the kids, so you can go out?” inquired Kim
“I am not sure I want you too.” Admitted Sarah, to her sister-in-law
“Come on, Paul died 3 years ago. Time for you to have some adult time.” Offered Kim as Sarah’s mother and father both nodded in agreement, it had been a long time since she had been anything but a mother or had any adult time.
“Maybe.” Confirmed Sarah “Lets see what today brings.”
Unknown to any of them, the mermaid virus was going to change everything for them.