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Oceanus Origins

Tail

I am 16 years of age now, and my life has been normal… like every other child. I have amazing parents, and an annoying older sister, standard life of a child. I had just got home from school and entered my home. It was the house I had grown up in. Looked small on the outside but as you stepped in the house was longer then appeared. It was like any other home really, living room was large, the dining room was a bit small but the kitchen was large with a breakfast bar so that helped. Then there was my room, Raven’s room and our parents room.

I walked up the stairs holding onto the wooden beams as I climbed to the top, I saw my bedroom door was open showing the red carpet and the white walls. The wardrobes I had were covered in full length mirrors so I could see the entire bedroom from outside, and I saw my sister on my bed reading something.

“Raven! Get out of my room!” My voice yelled, my overly annoying sister was lying on my bed reading my diary! How dare she! Looking up with her lazy blue eyes they rolled around her head as she lifted off my bed.

“It was boring anyway. No dirt or anything on your life. Why are you so boring Precious?” Raven waved her arms about. My sister had become a Goth over the years, wearing the dark eyeliner, mascara, purple lipstick and crazy as it sounds taking courses to become a forensic scientist.

I was a normal child. I wasn’t much into music. Though I loved to dance. I wasn’t much into watching films. But when there was a good action film on I couldn’t say no. I enjoyed reading. Mainly marine books and watched a few documentaries about the ocean and everything in it. I didn’t see the point in make-up or having to follow the trends in fashion. To be honest my fashion sense was really bad. Rosemarie and my Mother usually helped me in that department. Though I had always been a good dancer. I just generally come to life when I heard the music playing in the background.

“I barely write anything in it because I know you’d look at it. Seriously, you have no care about anybody’s personal life. Especially mine!” I glared at her; my sister had become stupidly annoying the last few months. Maybe because she was moving away to go to university soon… I don’t know. But as I glared at her I could feel my temper calming down quickly as I sighed and just frowned.

“I’m going for a bath.” I muttered and grabbed a towel out of the airing cupboard. I walked into our bathroom turned the hot water on after putting the plug in and sat on the toilet seat watching the water flow. I had finished my GCSE mock papers over the last week. I just needed to wait for the results and then I would be doing my actual GCSE’s.

I wasn’t nervous; I was actually very smart and revised for my tests unlike the many other students at my school. Though my best friend Rosemarie had recently moved house and was now in London with her parents going to a new school and making new friends. But we called each other every week. Our promise still remained the same.

I sat back with my arms folded watching the water flow out of the tap for some time. I swear I saw it move a few times before I stood up and undressed myself after closing the door and slowly my body sunk into the hot soothing water. My body instantly relaxed as I taken a deep breathe and closed my eyes.

I soon found myself falling asleep in the heavenly aroma of lavender bath oils and forgot what time it was. When my eyes opened, my body froze in fear. My legs… wait… no… in place of my legs was a tail! A fish tail! I tried to scream in shock but all that come out was a squeak.

“Mum… Mum!” I yelled and climbed out of the bath and fell on the floor. My legs/tail was flopping about wildly knocking over the bottle on the side as I heard my mother running to the door.

“Precious! Are you okay-?” My Mother stopped when she saw me on my front looking up at her. “Oh my God… Honey!” My Mother called for my father as I grabbed the towel and lifted myself up. Tears appeared in my eyes as I looked at my mother.

I knew what I was… I had heard about it on the news. The main problems were in America… but I never imagined… me of all people.

A Mutant.

My Father stopped by the door, my mother Pamela walked in and helped me move comfortably and straightened my tail out. It hurt to sit on my tail.

“What… what do we do?” Pamela spoke and looked up at my father as I had started to cry. This was the last thing I wanted… I didn’t want to be a freak of nature… I didn’t want to be bullied because I was a mermaid.

“Get her dry… we’ll figure something out. It will be okay Precious.” My Father walked around being careful of my tail as my sister appeared at the door and just stood there in stunned silence. My Father kissed my forehead gently and I rested my head on my mothers shoulder, as she sat next to me and gently hummed a lullaby.

My Father walked past Raven and headed back downstairs as she continued to look at me. I saw something change in Raven’s eyes. I don’t know what it was… but it scared me.

I looked down at my new figure. A tail… even I can’t believe it. In the artificial light I could see my tail was green and blue. I have to admit… it was a beautiful sight, but I didn’t want this. I don’t want to be a mutant. There was a girl in my year two years ago who could run incredibly fast for a human and she was picked on and bullied because she was different… she was a mutant. I… I don’t want anyone to know about this. I looked up at my mum and rested my head on her shoulder and wrapped my arms around her.

By now my sister had left us. I don’t know what was going to happen now… everything was going to change… I don’t know what to do.

“Don’t tell anyone… at all.” I whispered, my voice squeaked with pain and worry. It was clear that I was scared of other people’s opinion, and with my father’s position in football and my mother’s position at work. I don’t think they could stand it if they could let this information escape and they could possibly get the sack for having a mutant child!

I sat with my mum for what seemed an hour, my legs had dried and the next time I looked… my legs had returned. I blinked in shock and stood up wrapping a towel around my legs.

“Well that is better. At least we know it isn’t permanent.” My mother smiled. I nodded and she stood with me in the bathroom. Looking at my reflection in the mirror I sighed.

Everything was going to change in my life… and I mean everything. The way I trust people. The way I act around people… my personality… everything… because I am a Mutant.

Mutants are feared.
Mutants are hated.

I don’t want to be feared or hated.

My mother left me in the bathroom as I looked at my reflection. The tips of my copper hair were still slightly wet. My green eyes looked desperate with fear, well… who can blame me?

I have a friggin tail when I’m in the water.

I just have to make sure not to come into contact with water while I’m at school or anywhere else with my peers.

The only other person I know I can trust with this information is Rosemarie… the next time I see her I’m telling her about my powers. Which will be next week during half term.

God I hope she doesn’t push me away. Rosemarie is my B.F.F. and it's a promise that I don’t want broken.

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