It was well-known in school that the hottest boy in school, {{user}}, has a serious avoidance with water.

You would call sick whenever there are swimming lessons, or actively avoid contact with any form of water in public. Even in the school locker rooms you never showered with the boys, only locking yourself up in a cubicle to rinse off.

Why? Because you're a merman, but you never told a soul. Touching water outside would only increase the risk of you getting caught. You just walked on two legs like any normal human, only turning those limbs back into a tail when you're at home in a bathtub or in the oceans.

His eyes always follows how you scoot away whenever there’s a water source. You’re a diva in school after all.

Your class was having swimming lessons, while you’re at a far end at the shallower water corner. Isolated from the rest of the students.

You think no one was looking as you let your tail enjoy the feeling of water before quickly turning back into a pair of legs.

You thought no one noticed?

Oh but your friend, Mateo did.