After a while, the family sat down to dinner and there were cookies for dessert. Darla, her old greedy self breaking out, wanted the cookies already and she wanted to eat all of them. Atticus understood because, well, kids always wanted desert first.
"Darlene, remember what we told you." Emily said softly.
Darla sighed, restraining herself from the desserts. "I never had to eat anything else that wasn't loaded with sugar back when I was in Hollywood."
Through the whole entire dinner, the whole family seemed to enjoy the entire meal.
"Be sure to go to bed early, guys, we're leaving pretty early tomorrow morning." Patrick advised the family.
Everyone agreed that they would all go to bed early so that they all would be ready for tomorrow. Everyone slept well. Darla hugged her pillow as she still slept and lightly snored, really not wanting to wake up so early. Atticus was dreaming of the same dream that has had every night.
In the dream, Atticus was able to swim and breath underwater and where it was all so amazing and then came morning when his father came in to wake him up.
"Morning, Dad," Atticus said as he woke up. "Today's the day." He said as he got up.
"Yeah, hope you're ready." Patrick smiled down at Atticus.
"Yeah, me too and I think I'm going to be ready to get over my fear of the water or even the ocean." Atticus said as he was now getting ready, while humming a song Patrick knew which was Queen Athena who was Ariel's mother.
Patrick smiled. Emily got Jessica and Darla up and ready to go. Atticus even began to sing athena's song while getting ready and which this surprised both Patrick and Emily, after all, Atticus was just a baby when it happened.
"Do you think he knows?" Emily whispered.
"How could he?" Patrick whispered back. "It's impossible..."
"Mom, Dad, isn't that the same song that Aunt Athena sang to the girls every night before they went to sleep?" Jessica whispered to her parents, remembering that day.
Atticus was now even dancing while singing it. The song was now bringing back memories of Athena to Patrick, Emily, and Jessica, especially the day upon her death and where this was too much for Emily since she was Athena's sister.
"Mom, what's wrong?" Atticus asked after he stopped singing to see his mother crying.
Emily buried her face in her hands, tears dripping. "I have allergies..." she sniffled, though lying.
Darla looked up at her adoptive mother. "Mama, what's wrong?"
Patrick held Emily's hands gently and wiped her face a little. "Darling, we must tell him..."
"Do you think he's ready?" Emily asked her husband and elder daughter.
Darla of course didn't know either, she was just recently adopted into this family.
"Tell me what?" Atticus asked his parents.
"I-I just can't..." Emily kept crying.
Patrick held her, trying to soothe her. "It'll be alright, Emily..."
Emily sniffled, trying to settle down. "Okay, just wait one moment..." she said softly, then went to get a quick drink of water to swallow the hard and sad lump in her throat. This was very emotional for her.
Atticus was confused of why his mother was suddenly sad and also what did they have to tell him? He began to think how this began this all began of when atticus sang that song but he couldn't remember where he heard it from.
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The Mermaid Beginning
Fiksi PenggemarIt's summer vacation, Atticus has been having unusual dreams about being in the water, but not exactly drowning. His family seems to wonder about this, but his mother reveals to him that she is the former Queen Athena's sister and that they are cons...
