Wonders.
They are everywhere.
Like, what's out there?
Why are we living?
Is this world a piece of shit?
It kinda stabs me in the back with all these wonders.
Now I have one question.
Who am I?
Am I just some ordinary human,
Or some sort of mystical creature?
My name is Amy.
And I am not a special girl.
I live with my dad.
He just got divorced with my mom.
And he's STILL not getting over it.
I visit my mom sometimes, but usually she's drunk and not in her right state of mind.
My brother Charlie can't even speak to me because he is moving away to Nevada.
And he has no choice but to go there.
Charlie and me never had a bad relationship.
We always behaved, and followed the rules, and had fun.
Someday I wish this was all a bad dream.
A dream where my parents were still together.
A dream where Charlie still talked to me.
A dream where Charlie stayed home.
A dream where somebody was going to tell me that the dream was real. It wasn't some thought.
But I don't think that my dreams will come true anytime soon.
Going to school is hard.
I just sit.
And listen.
And avoid any type of drama that might be going around.
I'm never bullied or anything.
I just keep my head down and just sink in with the crowd.
It's nothing personal.
But one day,
I was called on.
"Amy?" Called my teacher.
I looked up.
-Groan- I have to answer aNOTHER question??
School is shit.
Fucking shit.
Mother Fucking shit.
"What is a mermaid?" My teacher said.
"There is no such thing.." I say. "People might think they are real, but no."
"No, Amy. Scientists say that mermaids ARE real somewhere." My teacher says.
My teacher needs to get his heads out of the dumb-ass clouds.
The bell rings.
I start to skip out of the class.
"Amy? May I see you for a second?" My teacher calls.
I did a groan.
"Sure whatever."
My class started watching me as I slumped over to Mr Browns desk.
"Amy, let me talk to you about mermaids. They ARE real!" Mr Brown says.
"Nahhh, just MAKO mermaids. And Mako mermaids are not special. They are kids that-" I start.
"Amy, Mako mermaids are usually caused by a siren." Mr Brown tells me.
"A siren?" I ask.
"A siren is the call of the sea."
"Oh."
"The call from the sea lures the humans into the water, and then a male or female mermaid will come and turn them into mermaids."
"Wait, how did the mermaids that turned the others into mermaids BECOME a mermaid." I ask.
"It's too complicated to explain, Amy." Mr Brown tells me.
"Oh," I say. "Well, I need to go home. Mrs Smith gave me a lot of homework."
"Alright, you go on home now."
"Bye Mr Brown. Cya tomorrow."
"You too."
I walk out of the class.
'Mermaids?' I think. 'Wow, uhh, that's cool, actually!'
I head home.
"Hi dad!" I call.
"Where were you?" He asks.
"Mr Brown needed me after class." I explain.
"Oh," my dad says. "Great."
Then my dad turns on the T.V. Completely ignoring me.
"Ok, then I'll just go to my room." I say walking out of the room.
"Don't play with knives." My dad says.
As I walk to my room, I notice my brothers room door was open.
"Hmmmm.." I say.
I knock on the door.
"Who is it??" He asks.
"It's Amy! Can I come in?" I ask.
"Sure, whatever." He says.
I walk in.
"What's going on?" I ask.
"Nothing." He responds
"Why are you sad?" I ask.
"No reason." He says.
"You ok? Do you need anything-" I start.
"Why do you keep asking questions?" He asks.
"I just wanna be a nice sister!" I say.
"Ok. I'll tell you." He finally says.
"Your sad cause why?" I ask.
"I'm not sad. I'm not mad. I'm happy." He says.
"Your happy? Why?" I ask.
"I'm leaving to go to collage in 5 days!" He says.
"Oh." I say.
"You ok? You don't look so good." He asks.
"I'm fine." I say.
"Oh." He says.
"Listen, I gotta lot of homework." I say leaving.
"Ok, um, bye!" He says.
I slam the door.
Not loudly, just like, a little slam.
I walk into my room and I slump my head onto my pillow.
I start to cry.
Not loudly, just like, quietly.
"I wish." I say.
"I wish that Charlie wasn't leaving. I wish that mom and dad were still together. I wish that I was something unbelievable." I said.
Then I heard a loud noise.
Coming from the ocean.
"Huh?" I said.
I heard it again.
It's like I could understand it.
I heard the noise getting louder, and louder, and louder and LOUDER.
"Come down to the ocean, Amy. Your wishes shall be granted." I heard.
So I snuck out of the house without dad seeing. (That was kinda easy though cause he wouldn't take his eyes off the T.V.)
I got down to the closest beach there was.
I saw the water sparkling. It was glimmering brighter than the single stars in the sky.
I put the tips of my feet in.
I splashed the water around like a little kid.
I watched the crabs crawl through the sand.
"Is this what I came down for?" I asked. "I love it!" I said smiling.
I kept dancing in the water.
I loved it.
It made me feel like a little kid again.
It brought back so many memories of when my parents were together and we would all come down by the beach and splash in the waves and have a great time.
I could hear my mother telling me how much she loves me.
I could feel my dads beach ball coming into my arms.
I could feel Charlie trying to burry me deep into the sand.
Then I stopped.
I could feel something.
And it wasn't in my vision.
What the hell?
I looked down.
It was a man.
He was, in the water fully???
I waited like, 40 seconds later, but he never came out of the water!
"You ok, dude??" I ask.
He grabs my legs a pulls me into the water.
"What the fuck, man?!" I yelled.
It was too late.
I was in the water.
Then I noticed right there in then,
He wasn't a normal human.
He had gills,
And scaly hands.
Then I noticed.
He had a tail.
A FISH tail.
Was he?
A merman?
I took one more look.
He is a merman.