Summary: What did Ariel think before her father turned her into a human being?

Acknowledgement: Nathalia Mueller who criticizes me when necessary, admires me when I deserve it, and for translating this FanFic! Thank you so much, dear!

It is all my fault ...

A tear slips from Ariel's eyes that are as blue as the sea as she observes Eric who lays on the beach lifelessly.

Yes, it is all my fault ... Why did I insist on this stupid dream of becoming human? Why didn't I listen to my father and understand that I was only a child?
Yes, she's still a child ... A sixteen-year old girl whose body had just finished forming ... A child, because she didn't understand that there were limits and that life did not follow the path she wanted it to follow ... a fool ...

She looks at her tail with disgust ... Why did she still feel as if she was in the wrong place? Her red hair on her back and the the sun is enlightening her face.

A child that clinged on empty promises of words easy-said by the evil witch. Words that led her to do crazy things.

The girl's pretty facial expression that already displayed some traces of a woman, show sadness, making her surroudings seem empty ... She cries harder, not caring if someone is around watching her.

I love you so much, Eric ... I may have never loved before but since I first saw you, I simply knew it ... And this love made me inconsequent ... I know that I have done some things without thinking, but this was the worst ... and at the same time the best, because I don't regret the moments I spent with you. It's the other way round, I love all of them ... Even if I couldn't speak, even if I couldn't understand the things of this, your world, a new world for me ... you love me nonetheless ... and I still love you ...

Far away, Triton watches his daughter crying with disgust and looking at Eric's inanimate body. With a movement of his trident a golden light invades the water and makes its way to Ariel. She looks at her tail and the tears that are now streaming down her face are tears of happiness.

I knew something good would happen ... Yes, daddy, thank you ... thank you for not giving up on me, thank you for accepting my choice ... and thank you for turning my dream reality ...

Ariel descends the rock she has been sitting on while Eric awakes and gets up. She emerges from the waters of the sea wearing a dress that is as blue as the water and shines in the sun. She runs to meet his arm and their lips meet for a kiss of true love ... the kiss she has been longing for ever since they first met, the kiss that was the condition for her staying human ... and now she can ... The loving couple is happier than ever.

In the afternoon the white ship where the two of them married and started their life together can be seen from far away where the merfolk and the people on earth lived together in harmony for many years.