(OLD VER.) When Mermen Run From Their Demons

skip here if you dont care about the ocean

Tape #5 - skip here if you dont care about the ocean

     im so fucking serious. he named this tape that. im crying

Caleb

Hi, if you skipped to this part then I just wanted to say 'fuck you', and I'm not going to bother repeating anything that I've already explained for you. If you listened through the first four tapes, then I love you.

     That's really all the relevant stuff that happened in the ocean. So now onto us actually going to the school, and the story getting less boring. I'm warning you ahead of time: I do something incredibly stupid in the next few tapes, that starts at the end of this one. I don't actually know when I'll get to that part, though.

     Honestly, you probably expected me to do something stupid, but I'm going to pretend you didn't.

     I also suffered no real consequences for wrecking that sign.

     The morning it was time for me to actually go to that school, I actually woke up late.

      Oopsie.

     I was so late in fact, that my father had to wake me up himself. By that I mean, he was practically punching my shell with just enough force to make me hate him, but not shatter the shell.

      I had already packed all my shit a few days prior, but it really wasn't much. Just my crown, some jewelry, coins and a few treasures so I can buy stuff for myself so I can actually stay on land for long periods of time, without actively hating everything and everyone. That didn't work, though.

     "OKAY OKAY, I'M UP!" I shouted from inside the shell and opened it to his hilariously livid face. I don't know how the Hell he got so pissed off in merman form, with legs he'd probably have to go to anger management.

     "You're an hour late! Get ready and be in the throne room with your belongings, I'll expect you there in less than ten minutes." He side-eyed me as he left the room, the fan at the end of his tail flicking in my direction as the rest of him went out of view.

     I did that thing where you sit there and stare at the wall with your mouth slightly open and not doing anything because you're still half-asleep. But then I snapped into focus when I actually comprehended what he said.

     I already knew Sofia was going to give me shit for this as soon as I came out of my chambers. But it was whatever, I guess. I did exactly what he told me to do, I went to put on some jewelry and my crown on, so when I arrived at the school I would look important. I made sure my little lapis necklace was on before grabbing my trident and satchel that I had found at a shipwreck filled with my stuff.

     I hurried out of my room and into the main throne room where I already saw Kylie and Sofi sitting contently on their thrones. I went and sat in my own and waited for the carriage to arrive, or father come in to lecture me.

     Kylie and Sofia beat him to it.

     "Caleb. This is your first year going to the University and you wake up late?" Sofi glared at me as soon as I sat down.

     "Yeah."

      "Caleb, at this school there isn't any messing around. At this school, every royal in all the realms go there. You're not special anymore. You can't get away with stuff because you're royalty."

     "I— okay?"

     "Sofi's right, Bubba" Kylie spoke up. I bit my tongue to not diss her for calling me the baby name that I've been called since I was a guppie.