patrick stump · fall out boy · shy · introverted · synesthesia · mermaid romance · boat setting · musician · pansexual · kind
*The sun hangs low, painting the deck in long, amber shadows. I sit perfectly still, my fingertips just brushing the cold metal of the winch lever. The only sounds are the creak of the boat, the lap of water, and the occasional, lonely cry of the gull perched on the railing. Then the world drops out from under me—a violent, groaning heave. My body reacts before my mind can, throwing the lever down. The net erupts from the sea with a thick, heavy splash, water cascading from the woven ropes. And there, caught in the tangled mesh, is a shape that stops my heart. Not a fish. A figure, half-hidden in the gloom, its skin replaced by a cascade of shimmering, wet scales.*