I walk into my room with my hands crossed over my chest and hugging my arms close. I am unsure of what my fate is to be but I assure you it is not what I intend it to be. Everything is unraveling so fast and yet I am going nowhere.

i sit on my bed huffing with hands in my hair and more tears in my eyes. What is it going to take for me to get answers and not deal with any of the consequences? A slight knock in my closet reminds me of the merman I stuffed in there.

"Geez, I am horrible," I mumble walking over and opening the small room under my closet.

"Cozy?" I ask seeing how his frown is deeper than what it was five minutes ago.

"Not for much longer." he gets out and before I can return the little hideout back hidden away, Karl wraps his strong muscular arms around my shoulders leaning his head on my left shoulder.

I freeze not moving nor knowing what to do. He dips his sharp nose in my hair and breathes in my scent. I stay like that letting the merman sniff me like a dog and hopefully lets me go.

"If you think I am letting you go, you really are crazy. I have searched the stars and tides for you, my love, and I am not letting you go knowing you need to be happy. You are unhappy and don't know what can make you happy so I am here to make sure you are happy 24/7." he backs away still with his grasp around me and I follow willingly.

"You don't know happiness and I am here to teach it to you. To make you aware that your family secrets and all those humans matter very little compared to your happiness which should be the number one priority. All I have ever seen you do is put on a fake mask of happiness and I am here to tear it off and throw it in a fire." he sits down with me on his lap and I don't move, listening; No! Hanging to every word that comes out of those perfect lips.

"A beautiful creature, a gorgeous treasure like you deserves to be happy and all your problems let me deal with them and have you safe and comfortable. When was the last time you laughed? When you actually enjoyed the life you lived?" I shake my head not knowing the answer as I never have done those things. Tears gather in my eyes at his words as true as the sun and tides.

"Come with me to be happy. Be who you are truly meant to be. Let me help you reveal and learn of your true form." I turn around and look into those grey stormy eyes that I am falling for every second of this moment.

"What form am I taking?" I ask not knowing what he meant by that.

"Your blood form, a siren!" as those last words revealed themselves a golden lights shine from below.

We look down and see my legs glow.

I furrow my eyes and then widen as my legs transform, the skin melts but I feel no burning sensation.

The melted skin stretches and covers both legs like an elastic glove. It starts at my hips and moves down to my tippy toes.

A gasp exhales from my mouth.

I close my eyes as the glowing shine like the sun.

Open your eyes love.

Karl's voice echoes in my head and I peak out of my right eye and my left soon follows. A gold and whitetail meet my gaze. A real mermaid tail is in front of me and somehow I fear I am dreaming.

"You are not dreaming. This is what you truly are. Why do you think you hear my voice singing in your head. The song is a mermaid or siren call. You can hear it for it is in your blood to hear it." Karl explains in my ear softly whispering as to not cause me to jolt.

"What?" I mouthed still looking at my gold tail.

"You wanted to know your family's secrets, it is that they are mermaids. John, unfortunately, knows about your family and now he thinks once you transform you can belong to him. He knows your tail is gold and he knows what truly happened to your parents." I turn to him appalled.

"You know he knows! Why didn't any of you say anything?" I ask alarmed.

"John only gave you that job so as to keep you close to him, his private dirty little mermaid secret. He only captured me to arise the mermaid in you and now that you transformed he is going to put you in the tank with me or in his office to keep you to himself. The greedy git." Karl tells me and I see nothing but the truth in his grey eyes making me fear John.

"John has been playing me this whole time. This whole time he has been keeping me next to him for money!" I ask once more and Karl nods with a deep frown on his face.

"I don't believe this. What about my parents and little sister?" I ask remembering Karl mentioned them before.

"They are alive. The only death you have witnessed is two paid sad souls that were played for a ruse. John's accomplice is Jack who made it seem like your parents died in that storm but really your parents were down in the waters in their kingdom safe and watching how your little sister transformed." Karl tells me and a huge weight falls off my shoulders.

"They are alive!" I state shocked and slightly happy.

"Yes, and I can bring you to them." Hope swirls in my eyes.

"Yes, Yes! Please!" I beg him, wanting to see my family more than anything.

"But." my smile falls off my face.

"But what?" I ask uncertainly if I want to hear the news.

"You cannot return to the surface." that is when I lean more on his chest in defeat.

If I leave I will not ever return to see Jordan or Mike or Austin. The human world will be behind me and I can never see it again. But my family is down there alive and I want to be there with them. What am I going to do?

"Sarah! Don't Do it." I look up to see Mike in my room with my window open and Jordan standing in between the frames.

"Mike? Jordan?" What are you doing here?" I ask them moving to stand up but I flop back down.

Oh, right the tail. I sit down on my bed, sliding off of Karl's lap, and lean forward my hands keeping me upright. One of Karl's hands lays on my waist half on top of my skin and half on my gold scales that feel so comfortable. It is like his hand is meant to be there.

"We came to tell you about John and Jack's plan but I guess there was more that was told with the merman," Mike explains.

"You two knew of what John and Jack did and you didn't bother to tell me!?" I exclaim lifting one hand to wave in the air.

"We are sorry, we wanted to but John had you under strong surveillance, we didn't want to get you in more trouble. Besides that, we cannot let you leave us." Jordan steps in backing Miek up.

"Why not?! My family is down there and damn the consequences of not coming back. i have alone for all these years away from my family and if I have the choice between staying here with a selfish and greedy human or going to be with my family then I am going with being with my family!" I confess what my heart has been yearning for. Perhaps it yearns as well Karl but I will deal with that another time.

"What about us? We are your friends! You are going to just leave without a goodbye?" Mike raises his hands in the air.

I stay silent at that. if I did leave immediately then I wouldn't be able to say bye to Jordan or mike if they weren't here already. They thought are here so no harm done. They still will get a goodbye.

"You guys though are here and I am going to say bye," I tell them after a slight moment of silence.

"What if we weren't here? Then what would you have done?" Jordan asks me this time looking so crestfallen.

"I don't know," I tell them looking down.

Nobody says anything after that and I guess I didn't anyone to speak about anything. Karl's hand on my hips rubs up and down my waist cooling down my nerves and clearing my head.

"If it means so much to you then you can leave with your merman." Mike breaks the silence and announces not meeting my gaze.

"Mike..." I don't what to say to make up for the departure.

"Came here girl." Jordan wraps her arms around me and I hug her waist.

"I'm sorry." that is all I can say.

"I know but it is better being free out there than stay and be trapped with John," she tells me and I nod. I am glad she understands.

"Mike, I truly am sorry. I am not the one for you although you and Jordan make a great couple," I tell him, and Jordan turns away, tucking her chin in her shoulder.

Mike whirls around and looks at me with his mouth open. he continuously opens and closes it without saying a word. I smirk knowing it isn't me that he had a crush on, it is Jordan.

"I-is it true?" Jordan asks her head lifting slightly to look at Mike.

Mike bites his lip and nods. Jordan stands up and leaps on Mike. mike caught surprised catching her but smiles nonetheless breathing out in relief.

"We have to go," Karl mutters near my ear and I look at him.

"Okay." I look back at my friends and they smile at me with glass eyes.

"Goodbye my friends," I tell them and they nod.

"C'mon, let's get you to the water." Karl stands up and I take a slight moment to look at his ass. That is an amazing square ass, muscular lean as well as flat. I move my eyes down his toned legs and they seem like a runner's legs.

"Done drooling love?" I look up caught with my observation.

"Yep, I am done." I chew the inside of my cheek while looking away from anyone in the room. I always will love that teal shade of paint on the wall.

Two strong arms slid under my body. one is around my waist while the other is under my long gold tail. A sharp 'yeet' comes out when I am lifted into the air and against a strong chest.

"Have fun. Merman, look after her." Mike calls out to Karl. All Karl does is a firm nod and walk over to the still open window.

He leads us onto the rocky shore and sets me down on a rock that is flat and only an inch above the water. My tail sinks in the cool liquid and a sharp shiver runs up my spine making my shoulders clench.

Karl jumps in and a blue glow envelops his lower body. His silver tail glistens through the dark water. he swims over to me and trails his wet hand along my scale eliciting a sigh. He knows how to make me relax.

"Time to go home." I grab his hand that is stretched toward me. he pulls and I enter the water.

Home. Finally!

*Wow, such a great finish.

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