The Merman, My Man novel Chapter 2

The Merman, My Man by Black Velvet Chapter 2

I wrote in my diary.

“10th September 2012, cloudy.

“Professor Gary and I have been drifting at sea for three days, but we have found no merpeople…”

I was beginning to question the existence of merpeople, but the dreams kept me going.

I didn’t want Gary to know what I dreamt of and I always felt like he was keeping something from me.

As I looked at my reflection on the cabin window, I realized I had lost some weight. My figure was slimmer, and my face pale. That much was clear without looking too hard.

Looking like this, my classmates would have laughed at me. Of all the research topics I could have chosen, I picked such a difficult one.

Just then, someone shouted from outside the cabin, “Linda! Come out quickly! I think there’s something beneath the water!”

I put down my pen and immediately rushed out, bumping into Professor Gary at the door.

He was holding a deep-sea monitoring device that could monitor the conditions underwater.

He raised the screen of the device before my eyes and excitedly exclaimed, “Linda, look at this! Isn’t this a merperson? I’m not just seeing things, right?”

My eyes widened, staring at the silhouette shown on the screen and forgetting to breathe.

The silhouette was of a humanoid’s upper body with outstretched arms, but the lower body was a large fishtail!

That’s right, a merperson.

Just like the one in my dream, they were identical!

I could feel my heartbeat in my throat, and my hands were shaking.

I got up and sized him up, forcing out a laugh.

Gary continued, “From a biological standpoint, you has a very nice shape, just the right amount of bounce, and smells fine. This is the second shocking discovery of the night.”

I lifted my foot to kick, aiming at his knee. “The hardness of your knee is not bad as well.”

I wanted to land another kick, but just then splashes on the water surface caught my attention.

The divers dragged the tangled bundle towards the boat. In it was a being that was more than half times larger than the average human.

As it struggled, its long tail shimmied its way out of the net. Beautiful and curved, its scales shone brightly in the night.

Its tail was black! The same shade as the one I saw in my dreams! The tail fin had red speckles too, a very bright shade of red, like a blade stained with fresh blood.

I didn’t know why I was so captivated by the red shade that I couldn’t keep my eyes away.