Hi I'm Katherine and I'm 12, which means I'm already in 7th grade.
I'm also a half mermaid because when my parents met, my mom was a human and my dad was a mermaid.
They also used to be both half mermaids but not anymore, because of the rule that had happened.
I live in a condo with my mom and my friend next door. It's a pretty small apartment. There were two rooms and a kitchen close to the living room.
I was in my room when my mom told me the two rules for all the half mermaids.
Mom opened the door.Mom: Katherine?
Katherine: Yeah?
Mom: I need to tell you something important.
Katherine: What is it?
Mom: I'm sorry I haven't told you this yet but, if you ever get your mermaid powers, you have to choose your life.
Katherine: What life?
Mom: Where you have to choose to either be a human or a mermaid forever.
Katherine: Why?
Mom: It's just the rules.
Katherine: I can't do this.
Mom: You have to.
Katherine: I'm sorry it's just really hard.
I opened the door to rethink this all until the doorbell rang.
I opened the door only to see my best friend Sierra, so I let her in and went to my room.
Sierra and I sat on my bed.Katherine: I don't know what to do, my mom told me the rule.
Sierra: You mean the rule when you get you mermaid powers?
Katherine: How did you know?
Sierra: My mom just told me this morning too.
Katherine: Yeah.
Katherine: So this means that we might have our mermaid powers soon?
Sierra: It could.
Katherine: If I had mermaid powers it would probably be with water.
Sierra: I don't know what mine will be yet.
Katherine: But really, if we had mermaid powers it would probably last a week.
Sierra: That's sad.
Katherine: Someday I hope that the rule won't control us any more.
Sierra: That's just making us have only one life. It's like they hate having half mermaids.
Katherine: That just bothers me.
Sierra: But, that's just the rules.
Katherine: I know.
Sierra: Do you ever wonder how the rule started?
Katherine: No, my mom never told me that.
Sierra: I know, my mom told me.
Katherine: Really? What?
Sierra: 300 years ago the mermaids and the half mermaids had a war for 100 years, but it was so bad that the full mermaids almost became extinct. That's why they made that rule.
Katherine: Really?
Sierra: Yeah.
Katherine: When did your mom tell you that?
Sierra: I don't know? It was a long time ago.
They heard the bell ring, so we went out of the room and Katherine's mom answered it.
Mom: Hello?
Sierra's mom: Hi. Sierra needs to go. It's almost dinner.
Mom: Ok
So Sierra and I did a friendly hug because she had to go home.
Katherine: Bye.
Sierra: Bye.
After Sierra left, I did the stuff I normally did and went to sleep.
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Mermaid's choice
FantasiThere has been this rule that states that once a half mermaid get their mermaid powers they have to choose to either be a human or a mermaid for ever. This happened to Katherine once. She thought it was the hardest choice ever. Will she ever choose...