Born By The Sea

Duffel Bag To Store Your Memories

It's wrong, this should never have happened.  

I think as I try to call myself back to the reality of what my father just told me. I gave him a look of utter disgust as I swam as fast as I can out of the room. I can't believe he's going to make me marry a man that I just kissed. My face contorted in pain and frustration as I realize that without my knowing my future husband and my future life was completely laid out for me without my consent. I always thought it would be nice to be normal and have everything perfect. This was the opposite of perfect. Nothing though could've prepared me for the moment that my father told me who it was I was supposed to marry. I'm infuriated. Even though I am very angry I also realize that I am beyond despair, my eyes are already prepped with tears that probably fall down my cheeks even though nobody can see them for everything around me is water, so the most people see is sparkling. The thing that makes me the maddest is that typically I would have been able to at least go on a few dates with each Suitor my father had picked so that I could pick the person I wanted to marry. Not that it was much better than being exactly told but at least I had a tiny part in making the decision that my father had already made.

I looked around the room as I swim into my bedchamber, In disbelief, I fall onto my bed and just lay there, breathing shallowly as panic set in. Knowing that my future has been made for me I angrily get up and carelessly toss myself onto the window sill looking out at the gorgeous gardens that always remind me of my mother. Knowing that she would have stood up for me against my father is certainly agonizingly. God, I miss her and wish she was here. I look out of the horizon and notice the rays of sunlight streaming through the water. 

We are too deep in the ocean but we're deep enough people don't easily see you, but at least we are hidden. I look through my room and decided if I'm going to leave with only the things that are important to me for my departure. I grab a duffel bag and proceed to stuff all the things that matter the most to me inside. I put in the sculpture mother gave me, an assortment of jewelry, a hairbrush, a coral necklace that my friend Cami made me, and a bundle of human and mermaid clothes. Without even looking back at the palace I swim right out the window and door towards the horizon where I know that I will meet my fate. I turn around once more to look at the place where I had lived my whole life. The place that I had loved. The place called home. It was now strange and indifferent to me. Knowing that by leaving my duties I was declaring myself an Outcast I didn't even care. I was done with people making decisions for me. I was ready to make them for myself.

Forget my ranking, I don't need it to be who I am as a person I thought to myself and started swimming as fast and as far as the eye could see.