Off The Deep End Novels & Stories

, I drew a heavy cross. Twelve days left.

-And you won't go out at night. -No, mother, I promise I'll take care of myself. -It's okay... -I'll be fine, really, nothing bad will happen to me. -I don't know why I keep feeling this way, but I'm going to trust that you'll be fine. -I don't understand why you're so afraid if nothing ever happened to me. -No, but you're of age now and you haven't had sex, that's something the gods like. -Mom, calm down, we've never seen one.

I assumed he would be hurt and maybe he would also scream at me and stop talking for days but eventually I knew he would understand because Adrian was a good merman. I kept swimming for a good thirty-minutes until I realized I’d strayed into a much deeper end. The part of the ocean where no mermaid swam into.I panicked. I’d heard a lot of stories about the deep-end, about how mer-folk disappeared down there, eaten by a large species of fish or something more sinister. The horror stories of the deep end were infamous. In school we used to do dares and see if anyone could swim until the deep end and swim back but no one dared to do it.

(by Shelley) The End

naz_mzf91 The End…

I said, and I knew she understood the meaning behind those four words. " Whatever , get off my phone, Camilla." I cringe at the mention of my middle name. " Touché Vicki, touché." Her laughter was the last thing I heard before I finally hung up. I dropped my phone on the dresser beside my bed, and I was pulled into the wonderland of dreams.

I said softly. “Yes, you could.” Lady Iris said with a smile on her face. “How did you even-” “Dae-Jung went to the end of the world to retrieve these stones for us, sacred to the ends of our planet.” Lady Iris said, and I looked at her brother in surprise. How peculiar. Dae-Jung traveled to the end of the world, but what for? “For us?” I questioned before I could stop myself and Lady Iris smiled down at her hands resting in her lap.

"Now come on. We are leaving." --------

Something is off. Way off.

And I don’t even have a pool. The End