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Does it really matter what that means? If I have to drown in my attempt to be with the man I love, it will still all be worth it in the end because a love like ours transcends understanding and we both know it. We just need to have faith that we will figure it out—together.
Delizah
I screamed,letting out air bubbles when something wrapped around my ankle and pulled me deeper into the waters.
I kicked and fought, my monster form giving me the strength I needed to put up a good battle. Bubbles surrounded me, clouding my vision when something else hit me in the back of the head.
I wake up in a sweat, patting my body down to make sure I didn’t lose any limbs. The memory plagues me nightly, and I hang my head and cry as my hands slowly go to my flat stomach.
Something happened to me in the water. I woke up on the sands alive, but without a child. How was he able to still take my child from me?
Loud knocks come at the door and I almost jump out of my skin. Slowly, I creep out of my soft bed and grab a bat before going to see who is at the door.
I look out the peephole to see the back of a man standing there. My body relaxes and I place the bat against the wall before unlocking my door and opening it.
The man turns around and I smile, looking at the face of the friend I made a few years back after moving to a different town. I couldn’t face everything that happened beachside. I needed to leave. Needed to get myself as far away from the bad memories as possible.
He smiles and waves awkwardly before I invite him inside.
“What are you doing here, Dutton? Is everything okay?”
Dutton is a young man, one that I took under my wing when he showed up to work one day as a new employee. He was clumsy, like a newborn colt when I taught him how to work the assembly line at the factory.
“Yeah, I’m fine. I just needed to talk to you about something.” He sounds serious and I become concerned.
Ushering him into my kitchen, I quickly make us both a glass of water and sit down across the table from him. “What’s wrong? Is it something about work? Is everyone treating you well?”
“Yeah, that’s all fine. I just needed to tell you this,” he says as he leans in and looks me in the eye with grim determination.
Something is clawing in my gut but I don’t know what it is.
Until the next sentence comes out of his mouth.
“The charade’s been going on long enough,” he starts, and I lean back in my chair away from him, my heart racing. “You lost a child twenty years ago along the beach.”
How does he know that?
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I deadpan, without expression.
“Yes, you do.”
I quickly get to my feet, knocking my chair down. “Get out of my house.”
He stands up too, still staring at me. “No.”
“I’m going to call the cops if you don't leave my house in the next ten minutes.”
“Why would you kick out your only son when all he wanted to do was say hi to his mother? The mother that abandoned him to the sea.”
My hand flies to my mouth and my eyes water. This can’t be true. He’s lying. My nightmares play on a loop and I know damn well my father found another vessel that night in the waters, finally getting the sacrifice he’s always wanted.
“Grandfather told me about you. He also told me it was time to tell you the truth. The time for sacrifice is here once more. Since you gave up your lineage to the sea, he needed another heir… and that heir is me.”
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