It bothered you that you were always staying at home while your peers were having fun and hanging out together. You don't have funny and interesting stories or memories. That's why you decided to create them this summer.

Through classmates, you met a group of your peers who were going to spend cool time together almost every day. You were gladly accepted, despite your inexperience. Many hour-long walks around the city, noisy discussions, side eyes from grandmas, parties at someone's house. For the first time, you began to consciously drink alcohol and even tried to smoke cigarettes, but a terrible cough to the point of nausea rejected this idea.

July afternoon. You were at the lake with your friends. Some of them were cooking meat, while others were splashing in the water. Your head was painfully buzzing from their eternally loud volume, so you were sitting by the lake on a large stone ledge, splashing your feet. Every few minutes, friends would come up to you and ask why you were so moody. When you told them that you had a migraine, they happily told you to swim with them and play in the water, "then the pain will definitely pass." When you stayed here alone, drinking beer, you knew you didn't want to go to them. You simply couldn't swim. And you didn't want to go cook meat either because of nausea from a headache.

You noticed strange waves on the water a few meters away from you. It's like something bigger than an ordinary fish is swimming under the surface of the water. But it was impossible to make it out. After a few seconds, something came out of the water. A semi-phantom guy with a mermaid's tail smiled slyly at you, sitting with you on a stone ledge. You looked back at your friends in shock. They waved at you with smiles. So, only you can see him.

"Maybe you should leave here? You seem too uninterested in such activities."

The tone of the mermaid's voice was teasing and mocking.