Ocean Eyes

Parent's Secret

Kim's POV

Jerry we really should have told Aniey rather than keeping her in the dark about our families secret. I just hope the boy has already found her so she can start the training that she needs before she can become married and become the future queen. 

She needs to know everything. As soon as she comes home we will tell her everything. I just didn't want our baby girl to have to go through this. I'm just worried that it's too late now and that she won't ever trust us again. Are we bad parents Jerry, I ask. "No", he replies. We just wanted to protect our little girl from this terrible world. We wanted to keep her innocence for as long as we possibly could. 

But maybe we've sheltered her a little too much. She's going to freak out when she finds out that she's a mermaid. I'm not sure if she'll freak out more when she finds out that we are mer-people too. I hope that she handles everything well and I hope that she can process all this information. Especially the fact that there's a whole nother world outside of the one on land that's she's used too. 

I hope that Eric's son Allic is good to our daughter and I hope that he'll be a fair ruler. I hope that Allic and Aniey fall in love and care for one another. I hope our daughter makes a great queen. 

I have so many hopes for my daughter and my future son-in-law. I hope that they hit it off right away and that they are everything that they ever wanted and everything that they hoped they'd find in a mate. 

I wish them a lifetime of happiness. 

I just hope that she understands that this is what was best for her. When we made the deal with Eric it was to protect our family. We wished to remain on land and once a month we were required to change into our true mermaid forms on the night of the full moon. The same deal applied for Aniey as well but she may change into her mermaid form whenever she pleases. That's only because she's Allics chosen. He can come and go from the water to land as he pleases. 

I hope that the first change isn't a rough on her as it was for me. I remember it being the most excruciating pain. The first time I changed was way worse then when I gave birth to Aniey. Thankfully mermaids heal pretty fast and I was only sore for a day or two before I was fully recovered. 

Sometimes I miss living underwater every day. I miss our families, and our neighbors. I miss a lot of things but we had to make a sacrifice in order to keep our daughter safe. And when we made the arranged marriage deal it was so that we knew for sure that no harm would ever come to her. I know that the kingdom will protect our daughter. The reason why we left the ocean all those years ago was because of an old sea witch that wanted our daughter as her own. She even tried to steal Aniey from us when she was a tiny baby. So we left the sea to keep her safe. We made ourselves the best life we could on land and that was that. We've brought up Aniey as best as we could bring her up.