MERMAID (chapter 1.2)

I remembered mum as if she’s right here on the boat, being bored with me.

But she’d probably find some way to make this more enjoyable. That’s what she did best after all.

My mum had auburn hair, though she cut it short and added some colours to it. I guess so she could be like those ‘cool’ mums. Personally I liked her hair before she did that. I said so frequently, but she told me to stop cramping her style. Yeah, she watched too many teen movies. Her skin was tanned and her eyes were a deep chocolate brown, matching her hair. They sparkled happily in the sunlight.

My mum used to make everything we did fun. She was an outdoorsy person and could sing like an angel.

It was no surprise to me that dad fell for her.  

About three summers ago, we decided to go to Ocean Beach. We all new it was on of the most dangerous coasts in Australia, I don’t know why we went. I guess just for the adrenaline rush. To go somewhere we have never been before. How were we supposed to know that when mum was out in the water, she was going to get caught in a rip tide and be taken out to sea? Or that we would have to wait a nerve-racking thirty four hours until her body was found washed up on the rocks? And knowing that when she told us that she was going out into the water, it was the last time we would ever see her kind, loving face again. Or hear her laughing, musical voice?

I shook my head, trying to get those terrible thoughts that had haunted my nightmares for three years after she had left, out of my mind.

“Dad can we go now?” I really didn’t feel like being in the middle of this lake full of water at the moment.

“Five more minutes Cy. I know I will catch something this time.”

I grunted and looked at my reflection in the clear, sky blue water.

My sea green-blue eyes were filled with sadness, remembering my mother. Coffee coloured hair was tangled and ragged, and filled with tiny bits of sand. Every time I go to the sea side, I can’t be bothered to brush my hair because the next day it becomes wild again. My skin, though it was hard to see in the reflection on the water, was tanned and a little sunburnt. Even though I was fourteen, I didn’t have any pimples, except my little light brown freckles made up for that. 

Suddenly there was a flash of shimmering green in the water. I bent over the boat, closer to the water and peered in, searching for the fish that had swam so quickly beneath our boat.

There it was again! This time I caught a glimpse of a huge green, scale covered tail. The fish must be gigantic if its tail was almost two metres long! I bent over the edge even more, my nose only a few inches from the water.

I examined the depths of the lake, but there’s nothing but small schools of Retropinna semoni commonly known as the Australian Smelt. I sighed, disappointed and was about to go back to doing nothing on the boat, when I saw it.

 A face.

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