6. BEAUTIFUL MERMAID

The legend of the coral cave. This story was written in the 1930s in the diary of a handsome policeman. At first, he wrote the story with a woman he loved every night, gazing into the woman's face.

However, this is not a typical story of a young man who falls in love with a beautiful woman. Rather, it is a tale of destiny and a tale of perpetual memory.

Lake Atkinston, his face is handsome, his heart is generous, and his smile is beautiful. Everyone knows Lake is a kind and loving man. He was always putting the affairs of state before his own.

He's a darling to whoever it is. And he never differentiated from those around him, any more than the criminals he had caught. Lake, was a well-known officer in the 1930s.

That day, he and his family were on vacation together on the Watergate Bay coast, in Newquay. The beach is quite far from where he lives, London. The bustling tourist was always her favorite place.

 "Lake, you want to take a walk?" asked the mother.

 The handsome man smiled very sweetly, "Yes."

"You should go for a walk, go and don't be late."

He is famous for his kind, patient, and honest manner. After years of hard work as a police officer, it is now time for him to take a short break from all the cases that he is responsible for. Lake walks around the beach, in the crowd. His hands clasped behind his back, he walked with steady steps and a small smile on his face.

Every now and then, he breathed some sweet, sweet air. Suddenly, his eyes caught a crowd with children, his brow furrowed as he approached them.

A young child ran up to him, his hands pointing in the cave, "There is a monster, uncle!"

Lake, he chuckled and patted the little one on the head. Indeed, he did not believe in things that are now crowded, completely distrustful. Then he hunkered down, "Go play, and forget about the monster."

The little boy quickly led his friends away from the quiet, among the others. At first, Lake wanted to go but the steps stayed. He turned for a moment at the dark door and then walked toward it.

To be honest, Lake is typical of a man of sound mind and logic. He rarely wore on his feelings, but none of that made him evil. He will be etched in history as the best man. He's following a trail of sand in the cave, not human footprints, and he even found a huge, beautifully colored fish fin. And his curiosity grew, and he moved deeper and deeper into the cave.

April 06, 1930, on Sunday. Lake engraved the date in his writing in a book that he had kept on purpose. That day was the first day when he saw a beautiful mermaid that had won his favor, and his life only took one look at the creature.

Lake stops walking, he's taken aback by the mermaid figure playing her tail on a rock. Mermaid just smiled the sweetest smile he'd ever seen in his life. For some reason, he felt that the heartbeat approached her, as if he were in love.

Until finally, the mermaid was pretty with long hair up to her waist, with a dark, gray tail and luminous fins noticing the presence of the lake. And the mermaid's face is in a state of shock at an unknown human presence.

 "Humans?"

 Lake still kept his mouth open when he heard the mermaid's melodious voice. Apparently, a sea creature can speak in human language? Maybe that's possible, because they have half-human bodies and the other half is fish.

"What's your name? What are you doing here?"

When the mermaid began asking questions, Lake ventured to approach the lovely mermaid. His eyes continue to stare at his long tail but look so beautiful because of the attention to its color.

 "I am lake … Lake Atkinston," says Lake.

"Lake? Your name is good, but what brings you into this cave?"

"You," said Lake, he began to look at the face that turned out to be so totally beautiful without any flaws in front of him, "Some little children told me, of the existence of a sea monster on the ground. I was a police officer in London."

 "Are you going to take me away?"

 Lake's forehead is furrowed, "Bringing you?"

While the mermaid's happy face turned sad, "Man took my parents away when I was young. They used both my parents to make money, so my aunt and uncle asked me to follow them down to this beach."

 "Where are they taking your parents?"

"I don't know, but my aunt and uncle said they tortured my parents to death."

"How did your aunt and uncle find out? Weren't they at sea with you?"

"You want to see something?" asked mermaid the way she thought of diverting.

 "What?"

Mermaid beauty backs her smile, she comes down on top of a huge rock. And then gutting, letting the tail get dirty because of the sand. She was seen taking a cloth, which she had apparently hidden among the rocks, and then using it to cover her body parts in a suit.

 It was not what caused Lake to stagger, but a foot from the tail of the fish. A phenomenon which Lake first saw, being able to make his feel frightened, surprised, and stunned at the same time. In fact, now that mermaid is as good as he is, still with the same smile.

"I can be like you belong. And my name is Larissa."

 Can one love only with the first meeting? The answer, of course you can. If two people have had a fate to be the rope between them, then they will be bound to each other for all time. As now, the pulse in Lake's heart grows so strong, perhaps no one will believe him that this is his first love.

 The first love that came when he was twenty-eight years old, the first love he would never forget, and the first love that would color his days. It's a love story, a love Lake story with a mermaid he met in a coral cave, which was on the coast of Watergate Bay, Newquay.

Larissa walked up to Lake, occasionally trying to justify her long black hair impression behind her ear. And she still kept her smile so sweet. When she was in front of Lake, her hands extended to touch the handsome man's face, "Nice to meet you, Lake."

Lake froze in place, as Larissa clung her thin lips to the one on the one tightly shut. The woman closed her eyes as she did so, it seemed she didn't realize how shocked Lake was, with his heart beating relentlessly.