Look it's 2013 and the world didn't go boom(or whatever was 'meant' to happen) last year, oh and it's June and I haven't updated in over a year. I won't go on with my sorry excuses.
I've been thinking of how to end this and come up with three ideas.
1: Sad ending.
2: Ingo ending.
3: Earth ending.
How many more chapters there'll be will depend on the chosen one.
There should be a poll on my page.
Chapter Seven
Memories
I walk up the cliff. All that's on my mind is that I must get away from her. So I don't notice I'm going up the wrong way, up the dangerous way. And by the time I do it's too late, I slip and fall down towards the incoming tide...
It keeps replaying itself over and over and I can't wake up. I'm stuck watching my rage-fuelled mistake over and over, without a break, without relief; just climbing and falling again and again. I'm not sure how long it's been like this and I'm not sure when it will stop. All that I can hope is that it will.
Beep.
Beep.
Finally, the looping image starts to fade, but others come to take its place.
"Melly, stay here with Mummy while Conor and I go looking for Sapphy," my dad says. When I look up at him, I realise that I'm seeing him through the eyes of my four year old self.
"Okay Daddy," I reply, and he smiles gently at me.
"That's my good girl," he says.
The memory dwindles and is replaced by another…
Beep.
Beep.
"Sapphy you smell like salt! " the three year old me declares.
"I've been swimming," Sapphire replies, smiling.
"Did you meet a mermaid?"
"Yep! But I'll let you in on a secret; they don't like to be called mermaids."
"But everyone calls them mermaids," I say in my best matter of fact voice.
"They prefer to be called Mer," Sapphire answers.
Beep.
Beep.
I'm crying in this one. It's my first day of 'big girl' school and Sapphy isn't here to walk with me there, or hug me when I finally get out. She hasn't been there for a year now.
And then that image is replaced by another that I don't remember.
I can see four children; two of them with wet suits down to the waist and two of them in normal clothes . All of them are underwater.
And there's a man next to them, and more women and men behind him, all with wet suits down to the waist.
And then the boys speaks. "Isn't our nature as Mer to hold onto our memories and pass them on to our children's children?"
Beep.
Beep.
The image fades out, but only for a few seconds.
"Any children I may have one day are no part of your bargains, or of your battles."
"Fantastic, Elvira," the girl in normal clothes says to the girl in the wetsuit.
Beep.
Beep.
The picture dissolves into blackness once more, for much longer this time, but inevitably it comes back.
"No Con, he'll kill you!"
"He's going to kill us anyway."
Beep.
Beep.
It diminishes again, and this time it doesn't come back. Now everything is obscure, silent shadows, except for the invasion of the soft, regular beeping. And then the darkness itself starts to disintegrate as it is replaced by pure, white light.
