Real Mermaids 2 - Don't Hold Their Breath

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Author: Helene Boudreau
while a few guys tossed a football near the lifeguard tower. We reached the far end of the beach, where the sand gave way to a rocky shore that led to a point of giant granite boulders.
    â€œSo.” We sat on a large log of silver-colored driftwood. “ Is there actually a mer handbook? Because I’m mostly clueless when it comes to this mer stuff.”
    â€œTell me about it.” Luke leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees.
    â€œWhat do you mean?” I asked. “I thought you were the expert.”
    â€œHardly.” Luke looked out over the ocean, then glanced over his shoulder to me. “You remember the first time you crashed into me at Dooley’s pharmacy?”
    â€œTechnically, you crashed into me, but yeah, I remember.”
    â€œI felt like there was something different about you that day, but I wasn’t sure if it was you or because of what had just happened to me.” Luke stood and crouched next to a puddle of ocean water left over from when the tide had gone out. He fished out a small crab. It waved its claws blindly in the air as Luke eyed it closely.
    â€œYou’d just gotten back from your sailing vacation with your family,” I said.
    â€œYeah, but it was a bit more than just a vacation.” Luke walked down to the edge of the water and placed the crab carefully in the water, then turned back to me.
    â€œHow so?” I asked.
    â€œWell, my mom and dad had always told me I was adopted.” He finger quoted adopted .
    â€œSo you always knew you were a mer?” I plucked a couple of starfish from the puddle and joined Luke at the edge of the water.
    â€œYeah, Grandpa was the one who found me washed up in a puddle like this when I was a baby.” Luke shaded his eyes to look out into the ocean, then turned back to me. “At first, when I was little, I thought it was just a bedtime story, but when I was about nine, Mom, Dad, and Grandpa explained it all to me. But it wasn’t until this past spring that I knew what it all really meant. Grandpa knows another Webbed One in Florida…”
    â€œA human who is part mer, like you and my mom, you mean?” I remembered the term Webbed One from Dad’s Mermaidia: Fact or Fiction book. But Webbed Ones were far from fiction. In fact, Finalin and Medora had pulled me under the waters of Talisman Lake when they’d seen my webbed toes. “And me too, I guess.”
    â€œYeah. So we sailed there to get help for my first time and everything.”
    â€œYou mean, the first time you ever changed back to a mer since you were a baby was just this past spring?” I tossed the starfish into the water and wiped my hands on my shorts to dry them.
    Luke nodded. “Yup.”
    Then, something occurred to me. Luke wasn’t exactly like me. I was born human. And since my human DNA was so strong, I just had to crawl out of the water to change from mer back to human. Luke was different, though.
    â€œSo, if you’re a Webbed One, but were born a mer, you must need a tidal pool to change back.”
    â€œYeah. The tides in and out of a puddle like this were enough when I was a baby but the older you get the more complicated it becomes. There was a large pool on Bobby’s property in Florida. We tried a few others, but they weren’t as good and took much longer.”
    â€œJust like your grandpa told my dad. The pools aren’t really magical at all, are they?” Huh. Dad’s Merlin 3000 sounded like it was on the right track. “So, how long does it take you to change exactly?”
    â€œIt gets easier each time. By the fourth time, I was down to about two days.”
    â€œTwo days?” I asked.
    â€œYeah, why?” he asked. “How long does it take you?”
    â€œNo more than a couple minutes, but usually I puke or pass out.”
    Luke laughed and I’m sure I blushed, remembering the time he’d found me passed out next to Talisman Lake
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