Family

The Mermaid and The Queen

Emily's eyes light up and she giggles placing her hand on top of mine. Our lips meet and just like our first kiss it's a delicate quick kiss that I wish would never end. Emily looks lovingly into my eyes and kisses me again, this time it's longer and more meaningful.

"I wrote a book" she shouts; pulling my hand off her face

"Alright calm down Aria" I joke

"I'm serious I wrote a book. About. Us"

"What about us?" I ask, growing confused

"About. Us" she says emphasising 'us'

"What's it called?"

Emily stands up and walks away returning with a book. The front cover is a beautiful pink colour with a silhouette of the Eiffel Tower, in white the title of the book is written across the right side of the book

"I'm no where near as good as Aria and Ezra. The grammar is probably really bad and as an English teacher you'll probably laugh at me, but here" she babbles as she hands me the book

Emily's pov

"The Mermaid and The Queen, by Emily Fields. Fields? Wait when did you write this?"

I take the book off her and open it at the back, I read the first sentence of the last page

"I had a dream about us being here"

"The kissing rock" she smiles

"You can read it if you want. It has everything about us, every moment we spent together. Good and bad"

Alison takes the book back and flicks through, stopping on random pages picking out moments and conversations :

"You were the hardest one to leave behind"

"It's just a dusty old rock"

"I wasted so much time on you" Ali stops on this page and reads our argument

"See what I mean by bad moments" I awkwardly say, changing the page

"The Queen interrupts by saying "I love you", for the first time. The Queen then says that the Mermaid told her not to do this until she was ready, "do what?" the Mermaid asks, the Queen answers her question with a kiss" Ali stops reading and looks up to me

"Have you read this to them?"

"Yes" I admit

"Do they know it's us?"

"No. I wrote the book with our names but decided to change them to the Mermaid and the Queen"

"I love you Emily"

"I love you too"

"We are going to Paris" I laugh

"Yes we are" Alison kisses me

"You and Me... and Lily and Grace, in sweet pari. Not got the same ring to it, does it?" Alison laughs

"You and Me in sweet pari. Sounds much better" she says, sinking her head into her pillow

"Is that in the book?" She laughs

"Yeah"

I reopen the book and flip to the page where I talk about Paris

" "How does that sound?" the Queen's flirtatious smile gives the Mermaid butterflies and makes her feel on top of the world, at that moment the Mermaid is ready to tell the Queen how she truly feels, "Queen, I want to tell you something. I love.... Paris" the Mermaid says backing out of her confession"

"You're such a dork"

"How?" I laugh

"You thought you were scared to tell me you loved me that day. I was shitting myself, when our hands touched I just wanted to kiss you and rip that silly yellow polo-shirt off. You've literally wrote every moment haven't you?"

"Almost all of them"

"What about our first time... you know sleeping together. Is that in the book?" she asks, raising her eyebrows

"Well I wrote about it twice. The real time and in a flashback. Also I made it all child friendly we don't have sex we just kiss and hold hands"

"What about when I told you I was pregnant?"

"Umm...that's not in it, I didn't want to explain how that happened in a story"

"Well we'll have to tell them eventually"

"You said sixteen Ali. So we'll decide how to tell them when the time comes"

"So you don't think it's weird?"

"What's weird?"

"The book"

"Of course not. It's cute. I love it Emily"

"Really?"

"Yeah really, and I can't wait to read every page to re-live our epic love story"

"Not our love story Ali, the Queen's and the Mermaid's"

Ali rolls her eyes at me and smiles

"Well I can't wait to read how the Queen and the Mermaid fell in love"

"Did they get a happy ending? The Mermaid and the Queen?"

"I know that the Mermaid got her happy ending but the Queen would need to speak for herself "

"Well I don't know this Queen personally but if she gets to spend the rest of her life with the Mermaid then she must be the happiest woman alive"

"You think so?"

"Definitely" she flirts

"The Queen got the Mermaid in the end. Just like Pip and Estella" I smirk

"And like us?" She asks

"Yeah, and like us. Alison got Emily in the end" I giggle

Alison bites her bottom lip, trying to hide her irresistible smirk

"You will always be my Queen"

"And you will always be my Mermaid"