Love is a Dangerous Game

Full Moon Again (9)

I don’t know how long I sat on my bed, staring into oblivion. I was so depressed, I wouldn’t speak. My body refused to make noise, or motion. My aunt made me eat and shower every once in a while… but my spirit left my body. I was nothing but the ocean’s slave… doomed to a life full of misery. I don’t know how my aunt found happiness… but then again… she wasn’t like me.

Unfortunately, the time came again that the full moon made Its way to us, and we were forced to enter the ocean in order to survive. I put up a struggle, willing to die as a siren in my home. Alone, and unloved. But my aunt dragged me into the ocean. This time, I didn’t try to hide my feelings, and push away who I was. I let her hear me.

"You’re upset… You’re thinking of that foolish boy… He left you, Lorelai. He doesn’t really care for you. If you continue to dwell on him… Well, what will we do with you then? You have broken multiple rules… but death is merciful."

“Please, leave her be.” My aunt said. “She is willing to live the rest of her life as a siren. She has left that boy… all is well.”

"She still deserves punishment. Have you done what she has, Faith? "

“No.”

"Which is why I am punishing her. She needs to learn her lesson… Love is forbidden. "

I stood with my head high, silently listening to their argument over my life. Then the oceans waves turned to me, like a mother was staring down her child, figuring out a way of how to punish them. But a mother is kind, and those punishments are temporary.

Then the ocean snapped and screamed, "Your sentence is immortality. You will serve me until I decide I’m sick of you! You will outlive your aunt, outlive that boy." She then pushed us out of her waters. I was in shock. This punishment was worse than never seeing Lawrence again.