The Little Mermaid

AN: I do not own Card Captor Sakura or The Little Mermaid

Chapter 2

I cannot sleep.

I should not have gone to the beach. My heart and body aches for the water now. I need water. I really do. Vast amounts of water filled with all kinds of life. Currents and waves pulling, tugging, pushing and rolling you around.

I cannot contain this feeling within me any longer! I pull open my door with all my might and I run. I run past mirrors, paintings, windows, doors and soldiers. I run past the queen, him and her, but I do not stop. I do not listen to their shouts, to their questions, to their pleas…

A river, the river, I can feel the water close by. I run through the garden and when I finally arrive I do not stop, I do not slow down, I do not hesitate, but jump.

The burning in my blood, the throbbing in my heart stops and I am finally able to find some from of rest. I open my eyes, it is dark but I am still able to make out the night fish and a tortoise. I smile at her. "Good evening princess." I bow my head in respect and move our of her way.

"Traitor! Get out! Get out of our river!" I jump at the loud voices booming at me. A school of flounder glared at me. Each flounder's angry face mirroring the next. "Traitor! Traitor! You betrayed us! Get out! Get out of our river!"

And as fast as the water soothed my soul, it started to tear at it again. I could not get out fast enough and when I finally collapsed on the bank tears burned my face. Rain beat me down and I lift my face to the sky.

"I hate you!" I want to scream at the sky, the river and the ocean. "Do you not understand? I did not belong there and I do not belong here. I do not belong anywhere!" But I cannot, for I have no voice, so I weep.

I didn't stop crying when he picked me up. I push my face against his chest and continue to cry. I let my tears flow from my broken heart to fall on the non-understanding earth. No one knows what is going on in my heart, because no one asks and I can't tell.

He places me in my bed and climbs in next to me. His arms are warm and caring when they wrap around me. "Hush… Don't cry." His hands are gentle when he push the tears from my cheeks. "Pretty girl's are not meant to cry." I laugh at him, even though no sound will come from my lips. "See that's better. A beautiful smile on a beautiful girl, what more can a man ask for?"

A voice. I wanted to say, bust instead patted the base of my neck. "A voice. I suppose, but a voice does not make the woman who resides within you. At least now I can say that you did not enchant me with some magical song. I fell in love with you all on my own." I frown at him, but his eyes are closed so I close mine. His lips touch my brow. "I love you, Sakura."

I remember the first day I saw him. It was my sixteenth birthday and I was allowed to go to the surface and see what it looks like, legally. When I broke the surface the sun had just risen and the sky still had odd colours op pink and orange in the white clouds.

I wanted to see a human. A real human, not just some picture from a sunken ship or a text book from school. So I went to the shore and there I saw him. Li. He was tall, that is the first thing I noticed. He stood on both legs and when he swam he kicked them separately, they did not work as one. It was odd and fascinating.

I could not stop watching him. I did that for the entire day. I watched him walk and swim, and I followed him under water. He was clumsy under water, as I am on land. He was steady and graceful on land, as I am in water.

Then someone called him and he ran off. I suppose it was then when I fell in love with the idea of walking. And then too, I fell a little in love with him.

AN: Hey guys! I'm back from my holiday at the sea side, all tanned and bleached hair. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and that you stay in touch to see what will happen next to our little mer-girl.

Thank you for all the reviews!

Tella