Chapter 8 - Dream

"Hey! Mom..."

"Where were you!?! I looked so far to see you have left the castle!!"

Knowing she didn't move a muscle to look for me, I reply with a smirk, "Wouldn't you like to know."

I walk past her and approach my room door. I start to panic, the door was open. I scurry around looking for the journal. I look under my bed, it's still here. I sigh.. that was way to close.

I had already eaten so I lay down on my bed. I'm exhausted, so I close my eyes.

I wake up to a vast ocean. I see a woman who looks very similar to me swimming in front of me. She then swims away. I have an urge to follow this woman, and I do. As she swims forward, deeper into the abyss, I follow not long behind. She stops. Suddenly and looks back at me. She whispers, "I will take you to the queen."

I start worrying. Did she work for my 'mother??' And how was my horrible fake mother in my dreams?! I still follow the young woman. I ask, "Miss, please. Spare me! The queen will surely yell at me," I cry. And it was true, she had grounded me from the water. If she knew I was in the water in my DREAMS, she would truly destroy me. After all, it's not like she's my mother. "Sorry, and the Queen isn't that ruthless." Isn't that ruthless!?!? Has she SEEN my mother!?? "Okay," i said rather slowly.

The young woman takes me to a kingdom. It has enormous tall, towering buildings with people or- merpeople everywhere. I am now able to walk on the sea floor. The woman I realized now was a mermaid, takes me to the tallest of all the buildings. I gasp in amazement. It's so beautifully decorated, with different colors everywhere. My 'mother' the Queen would never approve. So... what queen was I seeing?