Epilogue: Lindsey's Ending

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laniec21- I cried too! I was like, 'Monotone Cici, you're known as tough. Don't mess this up. No emotion... no emotion... no emotion... NO FLIPPIN' EMOTION! Awwh c'mon! A tear came out! Really!? You've got to be flippin' kiddin me!

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Q: Are u doing a sequel? A: I would love to! But I wouldn't know what it would be about. Also, if I were to make a sequel, or other story, it would take a while because I want to just update all the chapters all at once! Not like what I did with this story. This is only my first story! I wanted the feeling to soak in...

I felt like a little kid writing this chapter. Please excuse any stupid little thing I came up with. Ugh, this chapter is embarrassaing...

DISCLAIMER TIME!

EMMETT: OH YEA! GO! GO! GO! EAT IT ALL!

JASPER: Um, Emmett, your feeding a deer... what is that? Whatever, you're talking to a deer...

EMMETT: So? He's really drinkin' up that juice! Look!

*Deer stares at Jasper with big eyes*

DEER: Remember kids, if Cici owned this story, you'd all hate Twilight. So be grateful you bastards.

*Jasper punches Emmett to the ground yelling 'WHAT DID YOU FEED HIM!?'*

Katie's POV

This is the day. We were leaving. I would take Didyme's place as the leader of the Elders and the event planner. Mackenzie will take Alaida's spot as the law enforcer, and Lily stayed at her place. The mermaids would never trust the new Elder leader that always kept getting into people's business.

Our colony was going to give us the last good-bye at the beach. We didn't to bring anything so we donated it. Lindsey will be a great princess, I know it.

Lindsey's POV

While Bella looked a bit heartbroken to see us go, MaKayla and Misi were weeping for us.

"Good luck," was Bella's final advice to me before Lily, Mackenzie, Katie, and I dived into the ocean and swam around America, through rivers big and small and finally found the door to the castle door.

I opened and swam inside. All the mermaids and servants inside stared at Katie, Mackenzie, and I.

"Mermaids, I have an announcement," Lily called, "and I know this is unusual. Something we have never done before. Due to... terrible circumstances, we have replaced Alaida and Didyme as a part of the Elders. Alaida, passed away in a most gruesome way, and Didyme was overpowered by a two new species. But of course, we can discuss that part later. The two new Elder members are Katie, taking Didyme's place. And Mackenzie, taking the place of Alaida," Lily introduced them with a wave of her hands.

"And finally, the princess has decided to retire as her place in her kingdom, and crowned a new for her position. Princess Lindsey," and she bowed. I looked around the room and all the other mermaids turned their head down in the mermaid fashion of bowing. I suddenly noticed the responsibilities I had as a princess. I would care for everyone the best I could.

A young-looking girl, probably thirteen years old, swam next to me, bowed, and looked up at my face. She smiled and I smiled back down at her gently. She took my hand and led me to the main room of the castle. I looked at it from all angles. It was so much more beautiful than how Bella had described to be. And as I predicted in my visions, the walls were marble with streaks of dark granite in the corners of the walls. I smiled at the magnificence and grace of each detail.

The girl led me to another, smaller room. There was a table, or a big rock, in the middle of the room and I sat on the floor next to it as she silently left. Soon after she had gone, Lily, followed by the new Elder members, Mackenzie and Katie, entered the room.

"Well, now that we have a new princess and Elder members," Lily started, but I interrupted her.

"I know, we must spread the word," I said, "Of the new members and the opening positions for guards."

"Yes. Thank you. Being a princess though, Lindsey, you must have manners. Meaning to not interrupt people," Lily scolded.

"Anyway. Katie, you are formally in charge of any guards we have. First you must make plans, then you must give them to the princess for her approval, if she approves of your plan, than you may follow-up with your plans for the guards. If you make the smallest change that the princess haven't seen yet, you must report to her immediately. So, what do you want to do with them?" Lily said.

Katie opened her mouth, but ignoring Lily's instructions, I interrupted her with a smile.

"I approve." Lily shook her head at me and I smiled along with Katie who beamed at me. Mackenzie sat quietly, wondering what we were talking about.

Katie's plan was to send every mermaid scribe and encrust a message on a rock. After the message has been written, we would send messengers to every colony around the world. I need to go and visit my old colony before I went to America. There are mermaids who needed back there.

As Mackenzie started writing the message in stones and giving them to all the scribes, I spoke to Katie in private about my plan.

"I need to give them a separate room. You were once part of that colony, you know how much they needed me! How much they still need me. I bet they are going crazy back there!" I told Katie.

"Yes, yes, I will speak with the servants and construction mermaids. Don't worried, those young ones will be safe and happy soon," she assured.

After our conversation, I went into my new room. It was absolutely beautiful. Though the bed was only a box of sand, it was still pretty comfortable. I contemplated the children I left behind at my old colony.

I was the care-taker for them. They were children who were changed into mermaids at to young of age and their feelings doubled along with their beauty. They were much to sensitive and if left alone for too long, they will throw a tantrum that can cause deathly tsunamis, earthquakes, and hurricanes. The humans witnessed these children, and some mermaids were stupid enough to let the humans document them. Stories claim that mermaids gave birth to these beautiful children by becoming a human when dry and mating. They didn't get one part right. No we don't give birth, we don't 'mate,' and we certainly can never be human.

I didn't want to become princess so badly because I knew I would have to leave them, but I soon got a vision of me building a special room for them in this castle. I felt so stupid that I didn't think of building something for them in the first place. If I left the children, I could've destroyed parts of the world as well.

Though the vampires were strong and quick, and the werewolves were clever and powerful, no species, besides other mermaids, could destroy these young creatures. Which is also a problem. They tend to cling to one person. If they are affectionate, maybe they would have three or four people as their 'mother,' but usually only one. I was the center of attention for ten other children. They don't like to share but it's a good thing they are all friends. The 'mothers' were the only mermaid that the children would listen to, for they loved them with all of their hearts.

A day or two must've passed, but I didn't go fish, I didn't blink, I didn't move from my sand bed. I waited for the signal of our travel. I stared at the sparkly marble of the ceiling as I thought of my human life.

I lived peacefully with the man I loved for years and years when he finally proposed to me. Our wedding was big and the whole town was invited, for he was friends with everyone. Prince charming is what I called him. He was the perfect man for me. After our honeymoon, I was pregnant. They were the perfect twins. A boy and a girl. They were absolutely beautiful and as happy as I was. My life was perfect.

My husband was a successful man, and he went on many 'business trips,' as he told me. He told me and our children everyday, every time he left for work or business trips that he loved us so much. One day after the children had fallen asleep, I was awake washing the dishes and waiting for him to come home. He usually came home around lunch time, maybe even earlier. I told the children that he would be home that day, but when he never showed up they began to worry. When he finally did come home he was a little flushed. He wasn't drunk, but I could smell the alcohol on his clothes. His lips were swollen and his shirt was inside out.

The first thing he did was drop his suit case. I stared at it for only two seconds before I was wrapped in a welcome hug in the to muscled arms of my husband. I suspected something was wrong. I also remembered that wherever he went he brought that suitcase with him. I thought nothing of it until then. The only time I actually wanted to look in it was then. Every time he wanted to sleep, he'd make sure I was there with him. Tonight, he was to tired and didn't even take his shoes off before crawling under the covers of our king sized bed. I waited until I heard his loud snores coming from our bedroom. I took the suitcase and wrapped my arms around it so it wouldn't jiggle when I moved, and darted down the stairs to our basement. I went the furthest away from the stairs as I possibly could and opened it to find. Nothing. What? Where did he get the money to pay for this house? I didn't work. I cared for this LARGE house, and our twins.

Almost two months passed and I was looking in his suitcase every night. Every time there was nothing. And every day it seemed he got worse. He went on even more 'business trips' than before, sometimes he wasn't even wearing a shirt when he came home, he lost his belt, and even his beloved hair was being ruined. Even I never touch it! Finally, he took the family and we moved to France. Then Italy. Then finally, Spain. By then I had had enough of this. He was coming home drunk. He has scared our four-year old children. And now he hadn't come home for a month. I packed my things and the children's things and was about to leave to a hotel when I saw him through the window, in the dark of night. Standing on the porch, reaching into his back pocket, and not finding his keys. He looked all around. In the suitcase, in his other pockets, shirt pockets, socks, hair. Finally he became frustrated and pounded on the door and the children screamed in fear.

He pounded on the windows until they cracked and I ran upstairs with a child in each arm. I locked all the doors and closets so he wouldn't know which room we would be hiding in and opened a window. Beyond the window was a slanted roof top and I held the children in my arms as they clung around my neck. I slid down the roof and tumbled onto my back. I scrambled to my feet and ran as fast as I could. Being as wealthy as we were, my husband could afford a car. It was chasing after me. The vehicle hit me and sent the children flying away from me. The girl lay motionless on the dark pavement and the boy cried scared and in pain. I wanted to soothe them but I was fighting closing my eyes. The last thing I remembered was waking up falling into the ocean with a splash and I knew my prince had gone.

"Princess, we are leaving now," a messenger told me, her bag full of white stones. I stared at her.

"Yes, sorry," I said getting up, accidentally swiping the sand out of the box with my tail. I looked at the sand, not knowing what to do with it.

"It's quite all right, Princess, the servants will get that."

"Oh... well let's go." There were so many messengers on their way to different places.

When we finally arrived at the reef, I swam down the long and dark tunnel and moved the rock that blocked the entrance. When the leader saw me, she ran to the river and exploded with happiness.

"Lindsey, your back! Where is everyone else? The princess?" She asked.

"I am the princess." I said. Everyone looked at me. The leader looked around and twitched before bowing to me. She was very... twitchy.

"Now, I've only come here to see the children," I said. Ten little girls of all hair colors ran to me and jumped into the water.

"Linsthey! We misthed you! Whuy is evuwwune bawing?" One girl asked.

"Because I'm the princess," I said, they climbed on my head, wrapped their arms around my tail, stomach, arms, and hair, and sat on my shoulders. Yet somehow, I didn't mind at all. They all gasped as I told them the news. They swam into a straight line and bowed at me.

"Yaur majesthty," they said.

"Where are the other care-takers?" I asked, ignoring their bowing which made them giggle.

"Dare ova dare!" My favorite red-headed girl pointed to the wall farthest away from the water. Her best friend jumped out of the water and ran to the woman that she wanted as a second mother. They hugged each other. I told all of the other care-takers my plan of moving all the children and care-takers to the castle so they can have their own room. They agreed and we traveled back to the castle where the room was finished.

They all had connecting doors and windows. If the girls wanted to talk to each other or play together.

I stared at my work proudly. Maybe I was going to be a good princess. They children played around me. I looked around the castle, smiling at every detail, picture, and memory it contained, good or bad. Proud that this was mine. Someday, I would be even happier than I was right now. I looked out the window. Someday I would find my real Prince Charming. Somewhere in the future.

But y'know, no one can predict the future correctly, no one except me.

THE END! I had no idea where I was going with this chapter, and I'm like. WHY DID I SAY THERE WAS GONNA BE AN EPILOGUE?! CHAPTER 18'S ENDING WAS PERFECTLY FINE! But now I'm kinda like, eh, it's actually pretty good. Sorry if I sounded ABSOLUTELY STUPID during this. I had no idea what I was doing, I didn't plan anything! I winged it 'cause I was to lazy to do it earlier.

I LOVE YOU ALL!

My next story may take awhile so don't think that I'm just not postin anymores. Trust me, there are more stories to come! Just not, not right away. Think how long it took makin this story!

If you have any suggestions on what my next stories should be about PM me or just put it in your review! No, I am not going to do 'POST NAME' for any of my other stories, this was just a story starter kinda thing. Bye!

~Cici