The Mermaid

This is a story about a girl named Mabel and she finds a mermaid sitting on a rock. Her and her best friend Joey seek out to find this mermaids home. To uncover the mythical secret of mermaids. She is stopped by her dads drinking because of it she is scared to ask to do anything and when she does she gets hit until she decides she can't live with him and runs away to a special place.
Life as they know it has begun, things might just jump right out at them.