Do you know all these girls, that dream about being a mermaid?

Aurora wished for a mermaid tail for her twelve birthday. She wanted to learn how to swim like a mermaid. Her best friend learned it at some special swimming classes. It was quite fancy and expensive. The tail and the classes. Of course, she got her wish fulfilled. Only to learn in her first class, that she wasn’t a mermaid. She was a true rugby girl. She disliked the feeling of the tail and started to play rugby one month later. I was just six years old at that time. Too small for the pretty tail, that simply got thrown away.

I wasn’t a rugby player, even so, my father hoped for me to be a sporty boy. No. I also wasn’t a pretty mermaid or merman. Nope. But I was dressed up like one, while my Mom took pictures. My legs got a bit sweaty inside the tail, while the sun tried to burn down my hair. Right now, Mom took some pictures of me sitting on the sand of the artificial beach at the lake. She also planned to take some pictures of me with my legs inside the water. I couldn’t wait for this to happen.

I couldn’t f*cking walk with this tail!

And it was way too hot!

It was pretty, yes. And I probably looked like some water god, but I was only able to sit! Or lie down… Sh*t!

“Stop looking grumpy, dear!“, Mom grunted at me. “Look like a magical sea princess!”

“Mom?”

“Yes?”

“I lack the boobs to be a princess!” I rolled my eyes.

“Dear! You know what I mean!” She smiled a bit impassionate. “Come on! Water pictures are next! And then we’re done for today.“

I few minutes later, we started with the waterpictures. The water was pleasantly cold, and I enjoyed this, while Mom came up with more ideas. Like getting me fully inside the water. But I started to notice a new problem. “Mom?”

“Yes, dear? Do you think you can swim with that tail? Or maybe we could do underwater pictures at a swimming pool another day? But I do want to have some here. Not underwater, no we need more stuff for that, but a little bit further into the lake. You should still be able to sit over there.” She pointed to a spot a bit away from us. “Noelle? Just some more pictures and we’re done, okay?”

I nodded. “Awesome. I need to pee.” My bladder screamed at me. And I wasn’t sure if I could swim with this sparkly tail. Underwater? That sounded fun and terrifying.

“Now?” She sight.

“No, Mom. Yesterday! Of course, now.”

“Okay, let’s have a nice little break! Clarissa? Albert? Help my son out of the sand, please.” Mom watched, as her employees tried to lift me from the sand so that I could change back into some pants. I really needed a toilet. And everyone seemed to love the idea of an extra break. We had a short one an hour ago. But I didn’t need to use the toilet then.

Albert and Clarissa were nice people. Albert was in charge of the light. He was a tall dark black man with dreadlocks. Clarissa was my favorite Make-up Artist. She was a tall, muscular girl with short green hair and more tattoos and piercings than I had ever seen on someone. And she could kick butts if she wanted to. Helena had worked as a bouncer at a small club in her early twenties before she became the best Make-up Artist known to earth. She went next to Albert as he carried me to the changing tent and helped him by holding the heavy fishtail.

I felt like a mermaid princess.

Getting out of that tail was horrible, it stuck to my skin. Clarissa and Albert had to help me. If someone had watched us, they would have gotten quite the show. Albert held onto me, his warm and nice hands touching my belly, while Helena pulled at the tail. I desperately prayed not to get too happy about Albert’s hands on my naked skin while Helena cursed like a true gangster. The moment the tail left my legs, I felt true freedom.

More freedom than I had dreamed of, actually.

Did the stupid fishtail cling to my underwear? Yes! Did I end up fully naked in front of Albert and Clarissa? Yes! But at first, I was just glad that my dick wasn’t greeting the sun out of excitement. Albert let go of me immediately, while Clarissa started laughing. I hid my little Queen under my hands when I fully realized what happened, but it was too late. “That’s a cute tiny noodle!”, Clarissa teased me.

“What? Are you jealous?”, I grunted, protecting my little Queen from the mean girl. Shit! Albert snickered. Clarissa handed me my pants while teasing me a bit more. I answered by sticking out my tongue to her. Poor little Queen. Don’t listen to the silly woman!

I rushed to get my pants on and ran to the public bathrooms to get rid of the next problem.

Everything was freshly cleaned. I could sit down without any worries. Wonderful! But when I washed my hands, something unpleasant happened. Helena suddenly stood next to me. She wore the tiniest bikini I ever saw. Confused, I stared at her. “Helena. This is the boy’s bathroom!”, I mumbled confused. “Are you a boy now?”

The girl snorted. “No. I was looking for you.”

“Here?”

“No.” She smiled. “I looked at the photo location first. But luckily I saw you entering the men’s bathroom.”

“What brings me the honor?” I washed my hands with way too much soap. Go away, girl!

“Oh. I have a deal for you.”

“For me?” That couldn’t be anything good. “What kind of deal?”

“The Variety Paper search for a new face. To promote their own make-up and underwear brand.”

“And?” Make-up? I hadn’t heard of that. I did know about the underwear, obviously.

“Why do you think they asked for you, Timon, and me? To look which one of us could be that person. I heard some press-folk talk about it. They start their own make-up line and need a face to promote it. The press was very excited about it! They wouldn’t stop to gossip about it. Before we left to go to that shitty farm! I want that job. That magazine could be my chance to fame! I was waiting for this opportunity!”

“We didn’t do any make-up pictures, Helena. Only underwear!” I rolled my eyes. “Maybe it’s just a rumor.”

“It isn’t!” Helena snorted annoyed. Her cheeks were quite flushed and her pupils were too big.  “And it’s finally time to get rid of you!”

“What? Get rid of me? What have I ever done to you? I won’t listen to this! Deal! Ha!”, I hissed shocked. “Someone from the press? Hm? Did you see any announcements? Any official statement? I surely didn’t! Maybe it’s just a rumor. Mom would’ve said something, if that was the case, right? ” Fame? She was a celebrity. How much more fame did she want? “Leave me alone, please. This isn’t the girl’s bathroom.”

“We are alone here. No one cares, Noelle!”She rolled her eyes and blocked the way. “A rumor? And if it’s not? They would want you! The golden boy. The pretty face! You are so fake! You don’t look like a boy.” She pointed at my naked chest. I still wore the merman-decoration. Cute ocean-themed jewelry and glitter. “And you clearly aren’t a girl. You’re nothing. But you stand in my way.” She looked at me like a was a bug she planned to crush under her shoe. “But I will be kind to you. Yes, let’s make a deal, girly! You go and play your happy student life, you leave this business behind, I get the job, and I won’t bother you!”

“Bother me? With what? Helena? I need to go back to work.” I pushed past her to make my way back, but Helena grabbed my arm. “You should do, what I say, my dear. Or I will ruin your life. You’re just some fake boy. You got that job since your Mom took pity on you. There is no place in this world for someone like you. And she will see it soon. When you get a bit older and lose this baby face! Someone like you will never be a man! Nothing! Whore! Slut! Bitch! Choose something! I know, that you end up with men in bed all the time! You can go now, or I will ruin you. I was watching you. Waiting and watching! Ever since you showed up with your perfect little, girly face! You’re so fake! I hate you. You get this one chance to save yourself! I will also ruin you if you run to Mommy to tell her about our little deal. Quit and get out of my eyes!”

“Let go!” Her long fingernails pierced into my skin. It hurt. I tried to shake her off but she was quite strong and I was scared.

Helena smiled and pulled me closer to her. “I have some pictures of you”, she whispered into my ear. “Interessting pictures!” And she let go of me. “Run little whore. And never come back.”

“You’re insane!”, I hissed and ran away, while holding my hurt arm. Back to Clarissa and Albert. The two waited for me at the tent. Clarissa wanted to refresh my make-up and Albert was supposed to carry me back. But I just wanted to run away.

“Noelle! Did something happen?”, Albert asked me, when I arrived at them. “You look so pale. Is that blood?”

“Helena is here!”, I said with shaking legs.

“Well, yes. She wanted to take a look at that lake”, Clarissa answered and rushed to get some paper towels to take care of the small wounds on my arm. “She told everyone who couldn’t run away fast enough yesterday. Did she do that?”

My legs gave up and I set on the ground, staring at the beautiful mermaid's tail. “She’s here. She said she has some pictures of me. She’s insane! She threatened me! I think she is… She seemed under the influence of drugs or something. She was weird! Aggressive! She said she will ruin me if I don’t stop working as a model!” And worse.

Albert set down too and patted my back. “What? Helena?” Clarissa handed him the towels and he started carefully cleaning my arm.

“Well… It seems, your Mom has a good reason now, to fire her.” Clarrissa grabbed the tail and put it away. “Come on, sweetheart. Cheer up. We tell your mother. Can you stand up again?”

I nodded.