A/N: I must hurry, I have tons of homework to do! So please forgive my short chapter.

9

I awoke and slowly opened my eyes to see bright lights up on the ceiling. My vision was blurry and took time to focus well. My mind was spinning and somehow I believe I was lying on top of a bed.

I tried sitting up but then I saw my mother gently telling me to lie back down.

"The doctor said you need more rest." She said. I blinked once, twice and gaped astonished at my mother. She looked even worse than before, their were dark circles under her eyes, her hair looked as if it hadn't been washed for weeks, and her clothes were so dirty she appeared as if she slept in mud.

"W-what happened." I asked, my voice came out raspy and I coughed.

Mom just patted my head trying to comfort me, "Nothing sweetie, just had a accident that's all."

"What kind of accident?" I asked, then I slowly remembered what had happened. I saw myself in an office with a bald guy and I was asking questions about my father until he told me…

I shot straight up in bed and glared at my mother. "You never told me dad died from drowning." I said almost coldly.

My mom gasped and couldn't hold back her surprise, "But-but… who told you?"

"Don't think I'm stupid mom! I can find out things real fast if you really want to know. Just tell me, why did you lie?"

Mom didn't reply for a while until she spoke slowly, "I… can't tell you."

"Tell me! I have to know!" I insisted.

I saw as if mom's gray eyes fade away replacing by a memory she was just remembering. But she remained unspoken.

"You know something don't you, but you won't tell me." I guessed. She still didn't say anything but remained frozen in her spot.

"There's a creature out in the ocean that you always have known." I began. Mom slowly looked at me, as her eyes grew wide open.

"He was after dad wasn't he? He wanted to kill him." My mom shook her head in disbelief. "How do you know?" She whispered.

"I've met him before, but why did he want to kill dad mom? Please tell me."

I saw my mom begin to speak but then no words came out. She seemed deep in thought, but this time I waited until she spoke.

"You'll have to find that out for yourself." She answered finally. I opened my mouth to reply but mom quickly got up and left my room. I wondered what mom had meant. Was there a dark secret about my father that she didn't want to tell me? Did my dad do something wrong or did someone haunt his past? Mom had said I had to find that out for myself, but how? I couldn't just go up to that merman and ask him 'Hey I have a question, why did you kill my dad?' That wasn't possible.

I saw a shadow mover around the corner and turned to see Mina staring at me hidden behind the door. She had heard everything mom and I were discussing.

"Hey! What are you doing back there?" I asked her. She hid deeper behind the door and I got up and walked over to her. I pulled her out from behind the door gripping her arms hard waiting for an explanation.

"Nothing, just playing." She muttered.

"You heard what I said with mom."

My sister made a face that appeared confused. "Huh? I don't know what you're talking about."

"Of course you do, now tell me, why were you eavesdropping?"

"Because."

"Because why?" Mina only shrugged her shoulders.

"You're hiding something, tell me." She shook her head, I saw tears form at the edge of her eyes, she was going to cry any minute. I suddenly had an idea to ask her in a joking way.

I tickled her belly and she giggled, "Come on tell me." I smiled just to assure I was playing around. She smiled and I ticked her again, she laughed so hard I think she was going to cry from laughter. I tickled her some more and repeated my question playfully.

"No…stop it!" She laughed and fell on the floor to make me stop tickling her.

"Okay, okay! Some merman knew your father." She said gasping for breath as I stopped tickling.

"Knew dad? Why?" I still kept to mood lighten up a bit.

"Oh you know, dad wasn't human until he met mom, wanted to give up his old life and marry her. Things like that."

I tried to hide my surprise before I burst out yelling for her to explain more. But I still managed to keep a joking mood.

"How do you know that?"

My sister smiled. "Cuz I'm smart and I get cool dreams about it and you don't." She giggled at me.

I tried to smile at her, "And so why did the merman dude hate dad?"

She sighed, "How should I know! I'm not Ms. Genius ya know."

I tried to reply back but couldn't find any words when I heard the front door slam. I looked at my sister and she stared back at me wondering how mom would leave outside looking like that. We both knew we had to follow her, she had drunk to many beers lately.

Mina and I made our way towards the front door and stepped out of the house. We didn't see mom anywhere in sight.

Mina sighed in exasperation. "Well I'm going back inside, mom probably just went for a walk that's all." I heard her open the front door and step inside while I still stayed where I was. Somehow I had a feeling something wasn't right. I decided to go find mom.

I walked to the liquor store near our house and found mom wasn't there. I checked the park and only saw two kids playing on the playground with their mom sitting on a bench watching them bored. I looked around some neighborhoods until I decided to check the beach. It wasn't a good idea, mom hated the beach, but I had no other option.

The beach was close by; I walked for about five minutes that was all. I noticed no one was there, but there was a reason why. There was no beach here, only a cliff with the ocean at the bottom. It was actually very dangerous here, the wave were higher and rougher here. Teenagers dared each other to come and surf at this place. None survived.

I saw a figure standing at the edge of the cliff. I thought I recognized the long white dress the figure was wearing.

"Mom?" I called out. From the back of the person, it looked like mom. I walked closer towards the figure, just about twenty feet away. "Mom?" I repeated.

The head slowly turned and I saw my mother look at me sadly. Her cheeks were wet from crying and she looked pale and weak, it was as if the wind could carry her away from the looks.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

Mom slowly closed her eyes and took a deep breath and stared back at me. "He's going to get you too." She said.

"What? What are you talking about?" I asked, I suddenly grew worried.

"I'm so sorry." Mom replied barely above a whisper. I couldn't understand what she meant.

Mom looked back at the horizon seeing the sun set slowly under the sea. She then stared down at the water sadly.

I suddenly realized what was going to happen. I screamed her name and ran towards her but she fell from the top of the cliff falling into the water with sharp rocks on the bottom.

"Nooooo!" I screamed, I stared down of the cliff and saw blood appear in the water along on some rocks. Waves rocked hard causing it to disappear into the sea.

I couldn't breathe, nor move. It happened too fast. I felt myself crying and screaming my mother's name over and over again.

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