The Siren

Understanding

Amelia POV:

"I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH, I LOVE YOU BABY SO MUCH, DON'T EVER FORGET THAT. DON'T FORGET ME!" Her voice echoed.

Her hand missed mine, I almost had her.

"NO!" I screamed. I started to viciously sob, everyone else as well.

"MY BABY! MY BABY!" Ashanti cried and we conjoined in a group hug that was held together by sorrow.

She's right there, and there is nothing I can do to help her.

I watched as my love become smaller and smaller. Heading closer to the stream that would crush her bones.

Wait, a stream?

She once told me that during festivals under water they propel at such high heights, almost as tall as the cliff I'm on and dive back down. Without a scratch. Those festivals were her favorite.

An idea popped into my head. All mermaids can switch forms easily, no matter how weak they are.

"PEARL! THERE IS A STREAM UNDER YOU! SWITCH TO A MERMAID!" I shouted downwards, praying that the echo would be loud enough for me to hear.

"What?" Eric looked up at me, confused.

"JustsywhatI'msayingatthesametime. SWITCH TO A MERMAID!!" Him and I repeated.

Ashanti and my mom joined in, repeating as loud as we can.

She's getting closer and closer. Please hear this.

We witnessed a magical blue ball going down for its death, then being encased by water.

We waited for a sign that she had made it. After a couple seconds, everyone but me started to break out into tears.

"We were too late, she didn't make it!" Eric weeped.

"I have faith in her. She can do it. C'mon c'mon...DAMNIT PEARL YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME!! NOT YET!!" I collapsed on the ground, facing the sunrise.

My beautiful lady. My one and only. My butter nugget.

"What the hell is that?" My mom said, looking down the ledge with a twisted face.

We all looked to see...words? Made out of water???

They read: "Are y'all done crying or is someone gonna help me up cause I can't fly"

A wash of relief came over me, a huge smile plastered on my face.

"She's ok! She's okay!" We all cheered and did a couple rounds of ring-around-the-rosie.

More bubble words appeared.

"Please stop cheering and help me up!"

"Oh right sorry baby!" The police cars finally arrived to the scene.

"Where the hell y'all been?! It's been nearly a day?!" Ashanti started going off.

"We are so sorry! Our tire went flat, we lost the map, the gps broke-it was a hot mess. Did y'all find her?" Officer Ramirez scrambled to the ledge where we were.