How do I explain this? Whenever I tell people, they just freak out. It doesn't matter if we trust each other fully. They still end up freaking out and just stop talking to me. Me and my parents had to move so many times that I completely lost count already.
You must be wondering what I'm hiding. Well, let's see, how should I say it. I guess, I'm a mermaid?
We used to live in the ocean, but we were forced to leave because they made this dumb rule where you can't have more than one kid. My mom was pregnant with Amy so we had to leave. I had to leave my 2 friends Finney and Griffin. Finneys parents got caught when his mom gave birth to Gwen but his dad told the ruler to make his mom leave since she was the one who gave birth to Gwen but that is just not fair.
We moved to a small down called Denver and my parents adopted keiko, Tarō and Trixie so we can look like a normal family. Of course they told them the truth about us but it took them a while to actually get comfortable with the fact we are half human and half fish.
Since we moved, I'm going to be starting school in a few days. Same goes for Keiko, Tarō, Trixie and Amy.
I think Keiko, Tarō and Trixie are too old to go to school but I'm going into my first year of high school and Amy is barely going into 6th grade.
It feels really weird being up here but I am going to try and get used to all of this. It may take a little longer than I anticipated but I'm still going to try.
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Monday, 6:00 am
I woke up quickly as I heard my alarm ring. I quickly turned off the alarm and tried going back to sleep. I am way to tired and I don't want to deal with anyone today.
I started slowly drifting off to sleep again, but I heard someone burst through my door and started yelling at me to get up.
I slowly open my eyes, trying to adjust to the bright light from outside. I rub my eyes slightly, looking up and seeing my older sister, Keiko.
I sit up from the bed and turn to face Keiko. I asked her what she need. She looks at me dumbfounded and continued to yell at me, telling me I might be late to my first day of school.
It took me a while to process her words. When I did, I quickly got up and went to my closet, picking out some clothes to wear for today.
I couldn't really find anything good to wear. I decided to give up looking in my closet and asked my brother for permission to wear something of his.
Tarō hesitated but agreed on letting me wear something of his. I smiled at his response and went straight to his closet.
As soon as I opened his closet, I found something nice to wear.
I grabbed light brown flap pocket side cargo pants, a white U-neck short sleeve shirt that barely fits me, and black Nike shoes.
I put the clothes on and went to the kitchen where everyone else was.
When I went inside the kitchen, I saw my mom cooking food while my siblings and my dad are sitting at the dinning table, not helping at all.
I sigh lowly, walking towards my mom. I look at what she making but I don't recognize the recipe.
I stare at the food for a few more minutes, then I say "Ma, what are you making? I don't recognize any of this from your recipes."
I look at the food once more, then at my mother. I notice her smiling slightly. I smile at the sight. I haven't seen her smile in a while. She's been waiting for grandpa to call her, but he never did. I think she still waits but her hope for him calling is slowly leaving.
I turn around and I go to the dinning table, sitting down on a chair.
A few minutes later, ma brings the food to the dinning table and sets it up. She then sits down next to my dad.
"Our neighbors gave me these recipes so I think I'm going to try each every day" she said as she sat down.
I stared at the food for a couple of minutes, I then looked at Amy, signaling her to take a bite of the food first.
She gave me a weird look on her face. She then took a spoon full of the food and shoved it in her mouth and swallowed it.
I'm assuming it was good because she kept eating the food, so I finally grabbed some food and started eating.
I finished eating and put my dish in the dish washer.
I left the kitchen and entered the living room. I saw my sisters on the couch, watching something on the TV. I looked at Amy and said "Amy, we need to go now." Amy sighed heavily. She got up and put on her shoes. She grabbed her backpack and quickly left, leaving me behind.
It took me a moment before realizing she already left. I quickly put on my shoes, grabbed my backpack and left, trying to catch up to Amy.
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Chapter 1, done !
This might be terrible but I tried my best ! Chapter 2 is gonna be published soon.
