Electrical Storm

Chapter 6

t hurts to swim now but I know it will hurt more if I don't get the case back. I feel like all of my limbs are going to fall off of my body. I almost want them to.

"Mum, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, "I say between gasps of breath to myself, "I didn't mean it."

After another two minutes or so of swimming I finally see the case. Mum's case. The waves had gone down and it was just bobbing in the water along with the steady waves. I swam harder than I had ever swum before.

"I have to get the case, the case, I need the case," I wheeze.

I finally reach the case and I grab onto it as if it were for dear life. For all I know it could have cost me my life. I float there in the water, holding the case tightly, for a while before I hear a boat coming. I don't care because I know that they can't see my tail at the speed they are going. But they start slowing down when they get closer to me. I keep my head down, maybe it's something else but I know it isn't.

"Anne!"

It was my dad calling from the approaching boat not too far away. I look up and see another man in the boat with him. That man is Mullen. They stop right next me and look at me for a minute before anybody says anything.

"Anne, get in the boat. Now," my dad orders.

"What's he doing here?!" I spit bitterly.

"He told me everything and we need to talk. Get in the boat now and what is your mother's case doing out here?"

Mullen stretches his hand out to me but I take my dad's hand instead and Mullen takes the case.

"You told?" I whisper to him as I climb into the boat.

He nods, "Yes. Anne, I'm so sorry. I had to."

I look away and sit upfront with my dad after saying that he needed to explain later.

I remember

When we could sleep on stones

Now we lie together

In whispers and moans

When I was all messed up

And I had opera in my head

Your love was a light bulb

Hanging over my bed

"Listen I'm sorry." Who this man think he

is? I decide to ignore him. Beings he's a nucence that I hate!

"I had to tell him! You disappeared! What am I supposed to do I care about you. Your dad does and your mum does to where ever she is. I want you to understand these things. I know that girl kissed me but that Doesn't matter at all.it was some sort of obsessed fan. And I'm not leaving until you forgive me. And I swear on my drum kit." That really got to me so I couldn't hold my silence any longer.

"Larry do you see where that got you the first time? It got you here with me, a mermaid human thing that seems like no one wants around I've been a Nicene to everyone." I stood up thinking my next move.

"No you haven't." My dad finally spoke up. I don't care I jump off the boat. I leave the case. I go deep under so no one can see me but I can see underwater. I go to a spot not even my dad knows about a place where my dad can't find me. A place I found when this first started. I think of the past I had with my mom. All of the memories they get to much sometimes but I like them there like friends to me. Old friends that were and always are there. I think of mom and all of her beauty. Dad says I have her big Brown beautiful eyes. I have her curly hair. Or as my dad says I have her beautiful Irish curles. Brown pintail Irish curls. Her smile is very evident. People say that people came into your lives for a reason and leave Becuase there job is finished. But with mom I don't think that's the case. I think she was just starting. I can hear my dad and Mullen call my name.