Little Waves {The Ocean's Daughter b1}

ch3

Now, since I don't want to bore you to death with two years of details about kindergarteners (even though some of that time I gave in to my  violent impulses and Magdalina might have hit her evil, fugly face on my little, innocent fist and maybeeeee some fish bones might have found their way into some girls' hair, moral of the story, if someone is a bullying little bitch, bitch them back harder and more creatively), so I'm going to skip to more eventful occasions.

March 7th 2018, also known as my 5th year on this Earthy plane in this life time. It was supposed to be a normal birthday, we did what we always did, mum and I stayed up till midnight and then we danced, she then made me sleep and the rest of my birthday I would get to do whatever I wanted.
When I woke up mum had made her celebration pancakes and set them on the table, she didn't make me go fishing with her on my birthday so I sat waiting for her to come back with her food before I started. She didn't show up for ages but I hadn't thought that too strange, and before I had the chance Connie showed up.
"Hiiiiiiiooooo!" His beaming face came shouting through the door, after two years this was a normal occurrence, and before you worry about the lack of adult supervision his mum quietly walked in just behind him. "HAPPY BIRTHDAYYY! YOU TAKE UP A WHOLE HAND NOW!" He waved his hand in front of my face to prove his point.
"Happy birthday Yn." His mum says sweetly smiling softly, she then looked around, her forehead creased, "where's your mum?"
"she's getting her fish breakfast, she's been gone longer then normal." i said, not even realising the problem, thinking she just wanted to say hi to mum. I now realise that she was worried, that she was right to be worried.
"Can i start eating? I'm not supposed to without mum but she is taking sooo long and I've been patient!" i asked not even understanding the concern Konnie's mum was feeling, but she held out strong, she smiled at me and told me i could, so i did and so did Konnie, I was so calm, so content, so... happy.
We managed to finish the food in record time.
"Yn? Could you take us to where your mum gets her fish?" she asked, still standing in the door way.
"why?" i said it in that tone that only kids have, the one that gets annoying after enough times.
"Just to say hi." she lied, she was worried, she was confused, i was happy to comply.
We all walked out of the hut and down the beach to the rocks, every day mum and i went down there and every day we were safe, that was until this day. Until the day i screamed "dad!" and ran up to him, threw my arms around him, as they just stood there. They had been talking when we got there and as soon as i had seen who it was i ran to him. I'm not sure how I knew he was my father but i did, and it shocked both of them.
"Are you here cause it's my birthday?" i asked when he finally got out of my grasp.
"Yes, Yn, I am. But I am also here to-" he started but my mother finished for him.
"No." i remember being confused at her harsh tone and cold look, i had never seen her look like that, never seen her act like that. Sure i had seen her upset, she always got upset when people called me names, but this was different, this made me step away from my father and back towards Konnie and his mum, who had been watching from the side.
"Pele, you can't keep her from this. You can't keep her from me." He had an authority in his voice that made konnie's mum step back slightly and take us with her.
"She is five. She is a child. I will not let you drag her into this with you. I have already told you. No." Her words were sure, they were sharp and they countered his authority, but neither flinched, he just looked... agitated.
Mum then turned to us, "why don't you all go back to the house and play for a bit, I'll be back soon." Her voice had softened again and I wasn't sure why, but it felt wrong to leave her. But Konnie takes my hand and brings me with her and his mum. We walked and walked and walked until we couldn't hear them anymore, then a bit further and we couldn't see them anymore, but there was something that I could see. Or someone.
I had looked out at the water, a normal insignificant action, but in the water I had seen a beautiful woman, she called to me she sung a song of what I had hoped and dreamed for at the time but I just stared at her unmoving, that was until Konnie let go of my hand and walked into the water, his mum was distracted and didn't really notice, but I did, and there was a gnawing in the pit of my stomach, something had felt wrong, oh so very wrong. So I took off after him.

"Konnie what are you doing?" he didn't respond, "You really shouldn't swim with your clothes on, your mum will have to wash them." still no response, at this point he was paddling, he wasnt a great swimmer but he was good enough. Then i had realised, he was paddling, I was still walking, the water itself was kept me up, in my confusion he moved further toward the beautiful woman. Right then I heard a scream. She had finally realised we were gone, and she was hysterical, I couldn't understand why though, unless she also had a bad feeling about the woman as well, but that didn't need yelling that needed help.
I just kept following Konnie, kept talking to him, but he wouldn't stop. The woman was looking at me funny, it had made me uneasy, uneasy enough to shout back for help, but she just kept screaming.
"What's wrong? What's happening? Where are the kids?" My mum questioned Konnie's, she just pointed, mum wore a look of shock.
"Yn! Get out the water! Come back right now!" mum shouted.
"But what about Konnie?" i asked
"Konnie! Sweety come back right now! Stop swimming!" she seemed more paniced, and so i decided to keep going after konnie, I decided he was my family and family is never left behind.
"Konnie, I think we should go back, your mum is really scared." I said pulling him back, right when I did that the woman dove on me, she pushed me down beneath the surface, she spun me, she scratched me, she bit me, she was crazy. But what was even crazier was that I wasn't drowning. I was breathing. She was still hurting me but it wasn't too bad. Then I was yanked free. I was practically thrown to shore where Konnie was already there crying with his mum. His mum... but mine wasn't on shire with us. She was wrestling the beautiful woman, the beautiful woman whom i realised had a tail.
Konnie's mum was still screaming, Konnie was still crying, but my mum wasn't resurfacing, and the beautiful woman was swimming away. I didn't understand back then, and when the police and medics showed they told me an orca took my mum away, they asked me if there was any family I could stay with, I told them my mum but they told me she was gone, for good, even when I told them she always came back for me.

I don't understand. where's mummy? why isn't she coming back? where are they taking me? I live on the beach, and Konnie lives the other way, and school isn't here this week. "i want my mummy!"