Born By The Sea

Having To Choose Between The Two

I stop. Cami, I realize isn't a good choice, according to Dad. If he can't accept her then I need to spare her the pain the Kingdom might cause her. I groan and smack my hands on the rock wall.

"UGH!" I scream.

A handmaiden swims up to me.

"I know what is happening. I am Finn's sister. My opinion would be married to Finn. Cami is young and too unprepared for this. I need to be honest with you, Finn is better. No, I am not just saying this because I happen to be his sibling, we are really different. I could have chosen to follow the royal line but I would rather work in the kitchen and cook because I love it. Finn wanted to continue working for people and with people and choose to continue associating himself with our royal heritage. I have nothing against Cami, she is a wonderful girl. But she lacks training, also as someone who isn't from a  royal line no one will marry you two together because the bloodline can't pass to a handmaiden." The girl says. I nod, trying to understand this. I swim down into the dungeon and pass the guard who watches over the almost empty cells. Cami sits huddled in a corner. Looking bored and a little scared.

When she sees me she sighs.

"I'm sorry." I say to her quietly, running my fingers along the bars.

"I don't think I am ready to be Queen. I want to travel, survey the oceans. I am sorry my princess. I can't. Being down here even for a few moments made me realize a few things, and I don't want to fight for this because there is nothing here. You have already had your special moments with Finn, we were talking about it. A kiss does not in any way mean you have to choose me, in fact in your heart I know you have already chosen him. " Cami says, bowing.

I want to cry. I had come down here to apologize and tell her we could try to make it if it is something she wanted to fight for. I knew too though that what she was saying was right. I had already become far more involved with Finn, and I had used Cami as a way to lash out at my father which wasn't fair to her. She deserved better than that.

I release Cami from her cell and watch her quickly grab her belongings. She gives me a quick hug.

I smile, wanly.

"I am sorry, I loved the kiss you gave me, and it really did make me realize that I have feelings for mermaids as well as mermen, but I am young and need to go find who I am before I can do anything else. Maybe you're mad or sad that I am doing this but the Queendom was not the right path for me, and honey come on it was just one kiss; not a real relationship. Personally, I don't think it could ever have been one." She says and pecks my cheek, smiling.

"You will find me one day and I hope we can catch up on everything." She adds and hugs me again, longer this time.

Finn is the only option now, and I have to marry him, and as much as I am trying to deny it,  I can not deny the shivers I got when I kissed him and when I felt his arms around me.