Sixty Nine

Ava's POV

A tear dropped from my eye, I am blameworthy, I am at fault, I made a poor child an orphan just like me. That cloudy night my parents sent me out of the ocean to the surface flashed in my memory, they convinced me that they will come to join me here but they never did.

They both departed from me leaving my brother and me in a strange world. That day and nightmare are forgetful.

I looked back seeing my mother die before my eyes, I wanted to jump into to ocean but the merperson from the surface pulled me away from the ocean. I stretched my arm to its outreach yearning to touch my mother but…

'no' I screamed out loudly and birds absconds from their trees. The merpersons on the surface saved me, I cried and moaned about my parent's death for seventy days and seventy nights with Lucas.

A dark cloud of sorrow hovers over me, as salty tears pour from my stinging eyes. Those memories are my reason for being alive. The Jinns murdered them. I will avenge their death, I'm waiting for