For the first few months after my awakening Karsyn showed me the ropes. He explained the transformation to me the best as he could, and explained that no, it was not called memaidification. Karsyn had been suicidal in his before life. At twenty two, he felt his life was over, drove himself out to the California coast. Karsyn slit his wrist, took some pills and swam out into the middle of the ocean. A sea maiden rescued him, but left him to find everything out on his own. He didn't want the same thing to happen to me.
It's not that mermaids are solitary creatures, they're not. Farther away from the coast lines, and much deeper underwater a large community exists. One of many, I've been told. The mermaid have a proper city, with schools, and homes built from coral or sand dunes. I guess it's pretty normal all things considered, the mermaid capital is in the Bermuda Triangle. Karsyn explains to me that during the first year or so after your awakening many mers are drawn to the land where their home once was. It's hard to let go of the past, but according to Karsyn once I let go of the human lifestyle I'll be happier than I could have been with two feet firmly planted on the ground.
Forgetting about the human life isn't as easy as Karsyn makes it out to be. Every day I am reminded of Lila, in the way that the waves crash against the shore. The way the underwater world looks. On occasion my silver tail will catch the light, and reveal the colors of the rainbow, and I'm instantly reminded of our days spent at the beach, collecting shimmering shells and beach glass. I miss her so much it's a daily ache. Even though it's supposed to get easier with time, it's not. Everything is harder the more time passes. I want to tell Delilah everything, I want to call her up and tell her about my day and listen to her laugh at the stupid things that happen to me. But I can't.
I'll never see my best friend again and if that's not enough to make me swim into the dark waters of my own mind I'm not sure what is.
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Life After
Teen FictionTwo best friends are seperated when one goes overboard (literally) and is presumed dead Even death couldn't keep the girls apart But an ocean between them might. *part of this idea came from navigabunt on tumblr*
