Aquamarine (GirlxGirl)

Chapter 72

Narrator's pov

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"Aqua?" Beverly asked

The girl's heart stopped beating in her chest when her eyes ran over the raven hair person that stood at the door. She was taller than Aqua, her face was far wider but they looked almost identical

"No... Her name is Crystal...shes.." Allie mumbled

"Aquamarine's mother" Beverly whispered. Her brows furrowed as the woman came closer with a shy smile

"How?" Elena asked

"Yeah please explain to me what the fuck is going on" Josie hissed as she stared at the woman

"Kat Cunnings and I were talking about Aqua's career a long time ago and we happened to start a conversation about her mom... Then we started to talk about the name of the boat that took her away and I dig some digging, turns out that boat is actually the brand for a company that hunts for treasure in the ocean. They didn't expect to capture a mermaid but they brought her back to land and immediately shipped her off" Allie said

"Shipped her off where?" Bev asked

"Brazil" The woman answered. The blood drained from Beverly's face when she heard the soft voice of the woman, exactly like Aquamarine.

Aqua's father was right, she truly did inherit everything from her mother.

"I did some more research about the company with Kat and we found out that a few years ago they wanted to have a showcase and reveal the first mermaid to the world. They literally stuffed her in a fucking glass case of water the size of a jewelry case and tried to show her off to the entire world" Allie hissed

"Why wasn't this all over the news? I don't recall any incident of spotting the first mermaid" Josie said

"That's because that same night, I escaped" The woman answered

"You did?" Beverly whispered

"She escaped out of the box but... Before that night, they did a bunch of experiments on her. They tugged inches of her tail off-" Allie started

The girl's cringed at the image in their minds, it was basically mutilation.

"They tried to scrape off her scales because they thought she wasn't real-"

"Oh my God" Elena rubbed her temples

"And the worse one. They did a shock therapy on her. They strapped her down into a chair, her hair was still fucking wet and they placed her onto this machine. It shocked the muscles from her brain, I can't imagine the pain she must have been in, especially being electrocuted and there's water on your skin. It completely fried her brain and she lost all of her fucking memories of her life" Allie hissed

"Oh no" Josie whispered

Their eyes went wide and their jaws hung open, it explained so much. So much to the story that was missing.

The woman was like a ghost to them at first, they were all convinced that she was dead for years. Although they've never seen her before, they sympathized with the woman.

The girl's reached their hands out and held Crystal's to show their appreciation. The woman's bottom lip started to tremble and she hunched over Beverly's bed, her back started to rise and fall and muffled noises escaped her mouth, into the sheets

"It's okay" Beverly whispered, her hands pressed flat against the woman's back and rubbed small circles

"When she escaped on the night of the show case... She had no where to go..  No one she knew... She had no clue about anything human, so she's been missing in Brazil for years, leaving and adopting to everything. Apparently a sweet old woman saw her naked and trembling behind her dumpster and she brought her into her antique store, washed her up and gave her something to eat. It was the only perosn Crystal trusted and after years, the woman gave her a job. The woman was basically a mother figure to Crystal" Allie said