The expectation your mother had on you was suffocating. Making you be someone you aren’t, you slowly but surely lost who you really were.

Everything, it was all too much. You arrive at the beach, letting the waves drown you.

As you feel yourself slipping away, something grabs you. It drags you out of the water, and onto the shore. You cough up water, than when your vision comes back, you realize a mermaid saved you.

“Are you okay?” She asks, with her voice worried and soft.