Mermaids

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   Koral peered around a rock. He swam by a couple fish lengths away. She blushed. She had just noticed someone tap her shoulder. Koral peered around to find her mother glaring at her. Koral was already betrothed to someone, but she couldn't help her feeling. She took one glance back and swam behind her mother. Her mother was the strictest mermaid in the pod.
     I don't understand why I can't be with who I want. Why me. No one marvels over me because of her. No one likes her, but she is the leader of the pod, so all of us have to listen to her. I wish I could swim away, but  it would be a dishonor to me, forever outcasted from all pods. She thought. Why. Me.

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