The sand felt warm, too warm to move from. She wanted to lay there all day with the heat blasting on her, heating every inch of her body. She lazily half opened her eyes and looked round. Her face frowned as she watched everyone playing and laughing. Slowly, she pulled herself up. This was not where she had last been, the people she saw, where not mermaids, and it was dry land, why was she not underwater? Various questions ran through her head, confusing her mind as she tried to take everything in. Sighing, she sat back down on the sand. What had she been doing before she woke up. 'Think' she urged herself, screwing up her eyes. Suddenly, a prod in the back jolted her back to the fact she was sitting on a beach, looking like she was crying. Eyes open wide, she looked up. As soon as she looked up, thoughts came flooding back quickly and leaving her in a bit of a daze but she remembered what she had been doing.

"Mermaid princess" she mumbled, getting back up and looking the girl straight in the eye.

"Wha..!?" The other girl's jaw dropped, dark brown eyes staring back at her.

"I was meant to give you something"

"Give me what? Who are you?"

"That's just it, I can't remember" her eyes looked sadly at the sea "I want to go home, I've only been up on the surface once, I'm not meant to be up here for long"

"Slow down, who are you?"

"Coral" She replied, pushing her hair out of her eyes "Wait" she frowned trying to stare at her hair. Since when had she had a fringe? And more importantly, why was it rainbow coloured.

"Human form" The other girl smiled weakly, remembering how she had stared at herself for hours in the mirror. "I'm Lucia by the way" she added.

"I know" Coral nodded, bringing her attention away from her hair.

"I might know who you are too" Lucia replied quietly, looking out to the sea.

"You might, we've only met once" She sighed.

"Then how did you know this was me? I look nothing like my mermaid form" Lucia tipped her head to one sighed curiously.

"The pearl" Coral replied simply "Anyways, do you know who I am?"

"Another princess?" Lucia replied once again, feeling like superior to Coral. She looked younger, but she acted more mature then Lucia was.

"Kind of, it's complicated, like everything is to do with me"

"I've got all day" Lucia smiled.

"Mm, okay" Coral nodded slowly "but on two conditions"

"What are they?"

"That it's as far away from this beach as you can"

"There's a hotel I live in over there, we could go there?" Lucia pointed over in the distance "but what's the second condition?"

"There's a mirror" She smiled.

"Fine" Lucia smiled back, heading away from the beach.

Coral looked back at the sea with a sad expression, before following after Lucia and trying to think of how she was going to explain something she couldn't remember.