The skeleton was listening and if he had had a heart, it would have stopped beating. She had never loved him and so the curse could not be broken. The skeleton was devastated.
That night, he returned to the sea to see the mermaid. When he got to the mermaid's grotto, all that was left of her were her bones. It wasn't hunger that had killed her but she had died of a broken heart. He thought of replacing his legs with her tale so that he could swim faster but out of respect for her remains, he let her keep her tale.
'I'm so sorry little mermaid for taking everything from you. You gave me what was most important to you and no one has ever loved me like that. I could never take your tale. Would you like to be my eternal companion?'
And so, he removed the little jar necklace that she was wearing and he sprinkled the green dust on the mermaid. She then woke up and smiled when she saw her old friend, the skeleton.
'Do you want to dance, asked the skeleton?'
'I would love to, replied the mermaid.'
The mermaid handed the skeleton one of the keys she carried around her neck.
'This is the key to that door over there. It's a very big closet.'
When the skeleton opened the door to the mermaid's closet, he was amazed to see that it was actually the door to an under the sea museum. The mermaid had collected all the bones from all kinds of sea creatures big and small thorough the years.
'Chose any tale you want. I want to show you how to swim.'
The End.
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Short StoryThis is a modern age fairytale about an unexpected couple. She's a lonely mermaid who is just trying to find love and he's a skeleton haunted by his past. She doesn't know how to love and he thinks that he can never love again. Sometimes you just ha...
