h4Chapter 797: 797-The Mermaid Tail/h4

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    "Lucy has been trapped with that entity for this long, and none of us were able to help her?" Gavin muttered, shaking miserably. Lamar and Jenny tried tofort him, but none of us really could, and I understood why we were all feeling guilty. We had let her down so much.

    "We should have known there was no way Lucy would take such a sudden turn. She used to be so sweet," Jenny said, remembering how even when so much was happening to her, she still managed to stay meek and thoughtful. Even when she was mean to Jenny, which wasn’t her fault, we all made her feel terrible.

    "Well, she was misjudged even before the fall," Lamar added that he remembered how Jenny and Gavin cheated on her. Jenny didn’t know, so it was basically Gavin’s fault, but Jenny could have told her. Suddenly we were all back to the early days of our academy, and it felt awful. Things we had buried were being dragged back up, just to understand Lucy’s habits. Like Lamar and Lucy having a one night stand, which made Jenny ufortable. Like Gavin and Jenny’s cheating, which I could tell made Lamar ufortable. And then her ex, who was the reason she cheated. That same ex was the reason I was in pain. It was all just a circle.

    "Okay, Hnie, you need to calm down, Emmet said, his hand in his parents’ pocket. And you two, if you wanted to keep this a secret so she wouldn’t stress, you should have done it better. Because she ended up with way more stress than if you had just told her. Now she had the stress of you cheating on top of everything going on with Lucy." Emmet grunted, scolding Norman and Maximus. "Did you know, Kaye?" He turned to Kaye, who started shaking his head.

    "I swear, no. I only knew Norman told me he was doing something to help Hnie with the pain she would feel once she found out the truth. That was all I knew," Kaye quickly defended himself.

    "It’s okay. It’s fine. Let’s not talk about that. I want to focus on Lucy now," I said, reminding them it wasn’t about me anymore. It was about Lucy. "How are we going to help her?" I asked, tearing up.

    "We have to keep going with the n where she thinks Norman is under her control. Sometimes she slips up, because she’s so sure he is lost that she can act evil in front of him," Maximus exined. I shot him a harsh look.

    "I’m just saying, if you allow it," Maximus quickly added. I took a deep breath.

    "As long as he doesn’t fucking sleep with her or get all touchy with her for the purpose of the n." I gave Norman a very harsh look.

    "Of course I would never," Norman protested instantly.

    "Not to be a party pooper, you can all feel guiltyter if you want. Right now our focus should be on how we can save Lucy without killing her, because these entities inside her are not going to leave her body alone. And if we kill them, we might kill Lucy as well," Penn finally broke the silence.

    We all stared at him and then nodded our heads. "Penn is right," Sage said, and of course Lamar, being Lamar, couldn’t control himself.

    "Of course he is right now," Lamar added, hinting at the fact that Sage and Penn had been overly romantic with each other, which we were happy for. At least someone was happy. But now they had to worry with us, because Lucy was our friend and probably would have been theirs too.

    "How are we going to do it?" I asked nervously as I yed with the chain on my neck, the pearl my mom gave me from her mermaid tail. Maximus narrowed his eyes on my neck.

    "What is that? Who gave this to you?" He was instantly offended that one of his brothers had gifted me a pendant without telling him. We didn’t know they had topete with each other so much, that they had to share what they were giving me.

    "It is my mom’s," I quickly told him, before he lost control over his brothers. Kaye knelt down, hands on his knees, while Emmet and Norman lowered their heads and narrowed their eyes.

    "It is beautiful," Norman remarked, and I gave him a nod. I was still looking at him a little angrily, because I remembered telling him we wouldn’t keep secrets from each other, and he could see from my gaze that I was upset. He instantly backed off.

    But it was Kaye’s reaction that caught our attention. Kaye turned away, covering his eyes.

    "Is it a mermaid tail or a siren tail?" he asked, clearing his throat.

    "What?" Emmet said, confused.

    "Oh yeah, it’s a pearl from the tail of a mermaid once she loses her tail," I exined. As soon as I said that, we all looked at Kaye.

    "Yeah, remember I’m a hunter, so I know these things. It’s not like I learned it somewhere, I just know," Kaye exined. "We can’t really tell the pearls apart. The tails arepletely simr, so I thought it was a siren tail," he muttered.

    And I realized he was only equipped to kill me. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so worried about the tail hanging around my neck being from anyone else. His anger was only toward me, the fake anger Kesha had embedded in his memory.

    "Anyway, what were we saying?" Kaye pulled himself together, staring at all of us with his hands on his waist.

    "Wait, so every mermaid has a pearl?" Maximus asked.

    "No, when they lose their life or their tail, that’s when a pearl forms from their tail," I exined more clearly this time.

    "Oh, wow, that’s harsh," Maximusmented.

    But it was Emmet who kept staring at my face. "It must mean something." Then everybody was just looking at him.

    "We can focus on itter, honestly," I mumbled. But it seemed like Emmet wasn’tpletely sure if he wanted to move on from the pearl.

    "Are you trying to stare at her for too long with the excuse of looking at the pearl?" Maximus said, gently pping Emmet’s chest with the back of his hand while Emmet kept his eyes on my pearl. And then I noticed a slight smile appear on his lips.

    "I think I know something about this pearl," he said with excitement that caught everyone’s attention.