Meeting An Old Friend Who: Remmie and Solana Where: The Beach When: Thursday Afternoon - October 28
Solana had spent the evening at the bar the night before. She had needed a pick me up after sharing his pain the night before. Empathy was something that took it's tole on her whenever she felt too deeply about the person. Her mother had always told her that it was her kind heart that had made it impossible for her to live a normal life amongst the Unseelie Fae, her father's people.
She decided to spend the day on the beach, resting in the surf, letting the ebb and flow of the waves drain the tension from her curved form. She sat in the gentle was of the water where she spent a good deal of her time. She was dressed in a teal and black bikini. She let her fingers trail in the damp sand. She traced soft patterns into the sand.
Remmie was wandering that same patch of sandy beach in a pair of denim shorts and an over-sized grey t-shirt. The blond teen was taking a break from the tutoring sessions Frank had arranged for her that would bring her up to speed with others her age and make it possible for Remmie to attend high school like normal human teenagers did.
While her gaze continually drifted out toward the ocean the young girl did give an occasional glance to the scattering of people that happened to be at the beach, one girl suddenly catching her instant attention as there seemed to be a striking familiarity that had Remmie thinking she should know the girl.
"Hello." The blond greeting Solana as she finally came up upon the girl who looked to be not much older then herself.
Solana looked up at the girl who spoke to her. Her tri-colored eyes, dark green and lighter green encircled a golden interior. She usually covered up her eyes with a more human shade, but was too drained to really even think of it. "hello... I know you..." she said her brows furrowing together.
She started to put together the pieces. "the last time I saw you, you had fins..." she said as she stood up, brushing the sand from her bottoms.
"It is you." The blond smiled brightly as the other girl stood up. Remmie remembered that time, and though no words had been spoken by her during their last encounter, the two girls seemed to manage quite well in communicating with each other through actions and motions of the hands. "Solana, yes?" She seemed to remember that that was the other girl's name, or something quite similar to it.
She smiled and laughed softly as she nodded. "yes, Solana." she said as she looked over the girl. "you're actually talking and legs... Where did you get legs?" she asked with a small smile. She looked around and glanced at the other people around them.
"I was curious about all this." Remmie told her with a slight motion of her hand around the beach. "We are all capable of "getting" legs." Remmie told her, though unsure if getting was the word she wanted to use. "I learned much of your language from Frank and Donovan, and this thing you humans call a television." The blond mergirl relayed to Solana with a soft smile.
She smiled as she watched her merfriend. "I've never been human... Remmie." she said as she smiled and shook her head. "television is fun. I enjoy watching it sometimes." she said with a nod. "How have you enjoyed being one of the legged creatures?"
"You are not like the others who live above the ocean?" The teen mermaid questioned, truly intrigued and curious about the girl, Solana. "I like it." She smiled. "Frank is nice, and Donovan as well. He is taking me to a dance Saturday." The blond smiled proudly. "And I am learning much from tutor Elizabeth. Even French."
She shook her head. "No, I am not like the others... I am a little more like you... In some ways," she said with a smile. She was glad that her friend had found acceptance in the world on dry land. "it is good that you are learning all that stuff. I learned most of it in school myself."
"What are you, Solana?" Remmie asked with more of a need then a want to know. She knew her friend wasn't like her, if Solana were a true mermaid then Remmie was sure they would have met sooner, much sooner actually, then they had. If she was something similar to what she was, then Remmie wanted to learn what that was.
"um..." she looked around and swallowed. "I'm a water faerie..." she said softly. "but you can't tell anyone. I'm only telling you because I know your secret..." she said softly. She pursed her lips as she looked out at the ocean. As a faerie, she never lied, but she did bend the truth. She left out that she was part unseelie sidhe because most people that knew anything about the fae, disliked the unseelie.
"A water... fairie." Remmie repeated low enough so that Solana would hear her, but where no one else would have caught the words. "I will keep your secret." The blond smiled warmed by the thought that Solana trusted her enough to have confided the secret to her.
"I go there every night." Remmie shared with Solana when she noticed the other girl shift her gaze out into the ocean. It was during the day that Remmie kept out of the water so as not to let her true form be seen by anyone who might be wandering the beach. But at night she felt free to return to her ocean home and enjoy the depths of the ocean from which she came. Maybe she would no longer have to swim alone on those nights.
She nodded her head softly. "thank you for keeping my secret," she said smiling. "I try to go swimming every night whenever I feel up to it... Sometimes I am too tired to go though," she said softly. "And at times it can be too lonely out there to swim..."
"It can be." Remmie had to agree. That was why those nightly solo swims of hers tended to turn into returns home so she wouldn't feel so isolated and alone. "That is what friends do, yes? Keep secrets." Not that it was something she liked doing, but it seemed important to Solana that Remmie not share that little bit of learned knowledge about her friend with anyone.
She nodded her head softly. "That is what friends do... when its important." she said softly. "I just... I got treated a lot differently whenever I was a kid... so I don't really wanna deal with that again." she said shrugging. She looked out at the water and dipped her toes back in it. "It makes me feel better though, having at least one person that knows."
"Frank knows about me and it doesn't seem to matter." Remmie smiled. That couldn't be said about Donovan, though. The boy thought that she was, what was it he had said? An exchange student from France. It just seemed better to Remmie to keep her secret from him for now as she was liking the boy too much to ruin anything that was between them. "I am glad that you trust me and that we are friends again."
She shrugged. "Sometimes people don't always react how they should whenever they find out." she said looking at the water. "And for now... I'd rather not deal with how they'd react..." she said with a shrug.
"No one will know unless you tell them." Remmie told her reassuringly not liking to see Solana display any type of sadness or hurt. "Our secret."
She smiled at her friend. "I think that eventually I'll be comfortable with telling people what I am." she said as she reached over and squeezed her hand softly. "You're sweet." she said nodding her head. "How often do you come to the beach?" she asked.
"At least once each night." Remmie told her, instinctively giving a squeeze to Solana's hand in return. This place wasn't far from Frank's beach house, so Remmie wouldn't mind the walk if it meant she would get to see her friend. With Remmie to be starting school soon the blond wasn't sure how often she'd be able to visit the beach during the day.
She smiled and pointed to the house just up the beach from them that was painted an almost sea foam green in color. "That's my house..." she said smiling. "Its not far from where I swim most of the time..." she said nodding her head smiling. "So you're welcome to come and see me anytime." she said with a small laugh.
"I will come to visit." Remmie promised with a look to the direction her friend pointed to. She wanted a good look at the house so she'd be able to find it when she went looking for Solana. "I will come often." The blond smiled turning back to the other girl. With Solana she could probably go far enough out with the girl to swim so that no one would be able to see her in her natural form.
She smiled. "I wouldn't mind that at all. I want you to feel welcome at my house anytime." she said nodding her head. She hated being lonely. "Do you want to go for a swim later? After the crowds die down a little more..."
"If no one will see." Remmie stated. The last thing she wanted was for anyone to see a young girl in the water one second and a mermaid the next. "I would like that very much." She smiled liking the fact that she would actually have someone to play with in the ocean without having to swim all the way to her underwater home.
She nodded her head. "We'll go down to the inlet down closer to my house. People don't tend to swim down there." she said with a nod. She ran her fingers ran through her hair. "We'll have a good time... I miss having other faeries to swim with... and you being a mermaid is kinda close." she said softly so that no one else would hear them.
"Alright." Remmie answered with an affirmative nod. "Yes we will." The blond added with a smile. "I have missed swimming with you, Solana. It will be just like the old days, yes." Remmie knew it would be and now was looking forward to coming back to this section of the beach to meet up with her friend again.
She smiled. "I've missed swimming with you too." she said as she looked at him. "It has been a while since we got to go swimming together." She nodded her head. "So tell me about your new friends..."