Chapter 3: Last Day

Crud! Now what? I mean I want both worlds to combine, but getting someone to marry me in such a short time, it just isn’t possible. What am I going to say to the guy, ‘Ummm… hi. Marry Me. Oh and by the way I have a fin and wings.’ I’m sure that will go will. Or how will I even find a guy in such a short amount of time? Would I have to threaten him? ‘Marry me or else! Or else I’ll… I’ll… shoot.’ Ya that make sense, like I actually have a gun or that would make sense; I mean how does killing the guy you want to marry help? It doesn’t. So that’s out of the question. I could say that I’ll make their life miserable, but I don’t know how to do that yet, I’m not yet cable of creating storms that could ruin the world. I guess I’ll just have to search for someone, or hope that it will magically just happen.
“Lina-sama.” It’s Kea.
“Yes.”
“Are you sure you are alright? You seem troubled, I heard banging in the room. What’s wrong?” Kea always knows when to show up, how does she do that? I’ll never know. “Is it about combining the two worlds?”
“Umm… Ya, it is. I’m not sure how I’ll be able to get it to work.”
“My dear, you will have no problems finding a husband.”
“How do you know that? I don’t even know how to find one!”
“You are a ma-meido hishou, Lina. You have been given the gift of air, water, land, and music. All mermaids can sing and so can you.”
“What are you getting at?”
“Remember our ancestors that I taught you about?”
“Yes, the sirens, right?”
“That’s right. Do what they did to get men.”
“Huh? I don’t think luring men to there watery grave is going to be very useful.”
“No not that, Lina. You need to sing to find him. Sing the melody of the seas, while sitting out in the middle of the ocean waiting for ships to come by.”
“I don’t think that will work. This isn’t the days of exploration anymore and therefore there aren’t many ships and if there were, there would not be any sixteen to eighteen year old boys on it.”
“Okay, so maybe you are right, but still trying singing. Sing the melody of the seas.”
“Okay, maybe I’ll try that.”
“Good. Now you should go back to the surface, I’m sure your mother is looking for you. Also come back tomorrow around noon. We need to try on different gowns for the party.”
“Alright. I’ll see you tomorrow then.” I swim out of the castle and up towards the surface. I jump out of the water and let my wings catch me in the air, so that I can hover above the water. My fin starts changing back to my legs my jeans and t-shirt come back. I fly towards the dock then let my wings disappear and my eyes change back to hazel. I put my hair back up into its ponytail, to keep it out of my face. I look up at the sky I can tell it is only noon. Maybe I should go to school for the rest of the day and start looking for a guy. It will most likely be my last day, since on Monday my goal won’t be to get the highest grades but to find a husband.
“Mom!” I call as I walk into the house.
“Yes, Sweetie?”
“I feel better now, I’m going to school.”
“Okay, have a nice day,” she answers. It’s like she’s not paying attention or something, completely robotic answers that’s all I get. Oh well no use complaining at least I get to do what I want, for the most part.
I walk into the classroom, everyone stares at me, I hate that feeling, everyone becomes silent and watches you walk into the room all of them thinking, ‘Haha, you’re late!’ or something like that. I take a seat.
“Nice of you to join us, Lina,” Ms. Shri says as she turns back to the white board, to continue showing us a geometry problem. Unfortunately for me Ashi’s seat is next to mine, so now I’m in for it.
“Lina,” Ashi whispers. “Where were you? You’re going to make me fail. Where’s my homework?”
“Sorry, I wasn’t feeling well,” I whisper back.
“Well I don’t care where is it?”
“Where’s what?”
“MY HOMEWORK!” Ashi shouts. The whole class stops and turns around in their seats to see what was up. I’m just about to fall out of my chair laughing, she actually yelled in the middle of class disrupting everything, this was good.
“ASHI! What are you talking about?” Ms. Shri demands.
“Umm… Lina… She stole my homework and hide it and she won’t give it back, that why I was about to turn it in today,” Ashi answer in a sweet innocent voice, that hides her true nature.  
“LINA!” Ms. Shri says as she turns her attention to me.
“Yes, Ms. Shri,” I reply.
“Is this true? Did you steal Ashi’s homework?”
“N…” I see Ashi out of the corner of my eye, she’s mouths the words, you’re dead. “Yes, Ms. Shri. I did it.” I’m so stupid, why did I just say that? I mean what is she going to do to me anyway, in a few days I’ll be ruler of the oceans. Why should I let a brat like her boss me around.
“Lina, how…”
“Ms. Shri! I didn’t do it.”
“Lina, you just admitted to it.”
“I lied!” Ashi starts giving me this look.
“How am I supposed to believe that? Why would you lie about that?”
“Ashi… She’s been threatening me!”
“What, sweet Ashi?”
“No not sweet Ashi more like blackmailing Ashi!
“Whatever could you mean Lina?”
“She’s been making me do all her homework. She said if I don’t, she’ll tell… she’ll tell…my secret.”
“Ashi is that true?”
“No of course not! She’s making it up!”
“Well, if I’m making it up then why is it that both our homework is in my handwriting just with different answers, making it so that I have to correct answers and yours are gibberish!”
“That’s why I’ve been getting a failing grade, you little…”
“Ashi!” Ms. Shri interrupts. “I can’t believe you would do this!”
“ But, Ms. Shri… I… I didn’t!”
“Ashi I’d like to speak to you after school today. Now let’s get back on track,” Ms. Shri goes back to her white board. Oh how sweet this is! For once it’s Ashi and not me. Perfect!
The lunch bell rings, time for the real reason I came to school today, to find a guy. Wow that sounds terrible! I sound like one of those whiny girls that complain how they don’t have a boyfriend. No matter how pathetic it sounds though, this is what I have to do.
I sit down at the lunch table, pretend to eat my lunch, not that I have a lunch, just an empty lunch box. I start looking around at all the guys, thinking about each of their personalities and thinking how might handle the news of me being a ma-meido hishou and needed to marry them. None are coming to mind though.
“LINA!” It’s furious Ashi. “How dare you!”
“What?”
“First you get me caught cheating and now your staring at my guy!”
“WHAT! You deserved to be caught; you’ve been blackmailing me! Also what guy?”
“Don’t pretend like you don’t know. I know you were looking at him.” Since when did she claim all the guys? I wasn’t looking at anyone individually, just them as a group. “Lina, you will never find a guy and you will never love, I’ll make sure of that!” She walks away. What gives her the right to say that? She doesn’t have any control over my life, anyways none of these guys will make a good king, I’m not going to even bother coming to school Monday, there’s nothing here for me anymore.
“Attention everyone!” It’s Ashi with a megaphone; I bet she’s going to try to get back at me, like anyone would believe her. I have nothing to worry about. “I have something I want to tell you all about Lina! Lina isn’t human, she’s actually a mermaid!” Silence, then everyone looks at me then back at Ashi. They begin to laugh. “What are you laughing at? I’m telling the truth, Lina is a mermaid, and I’ve seen her transform into one!”
I begin laughing along with everyone else, “ Ashi, that’s a good one. Me? A mermaid? How could you even come up with that idea?”
“Lina! You know it’s true! You’re a mermaid! A mermaid!”
“This isn’t getting you anywhere Ashi and I don’t know how you this claiming I’m a mermaid will get back at me.”
She screams in frustration and runs away, hopefully that’s the last time I’ll see her.