CHAPTER

28

I must be dead again, because I dream about mermaids. This time, though, I’m the mermaid. My legs are gone, replaced with a graceful, sparkly aquamarine tail that matches my hair. I must’ve really kicked the bucket this time.

But unlike my other dead-dream, Lena’s nowhere to be found. It’s just me, floating in the blue water. The bright sun pierces through the waves, making my tail shimmer like sapphires.

Lena?

No one answers. I twist and twirl, looking for my mermaid, a flash of black hair and that iridescent tail, but all I see is blue, blue, everywhere. Deep blue that I can’t see through. I can only see me and I’m all alone.