Splish! Splash!
Blue water, topped with foam, scented with something floral. This isn’t the ocean, but a tub of warm water, colored by bath oil beads, and serving as home not to fish, but to an orange sponge shaped like a sea-star, and a conch shell dish of pretty soaps. A lime candle flickers prettily on the edge of the tub, making the light move with the water.
And me? I’m the mermaid, clad in nothing but foam, my hair loose, damp, but not bothering me at all. Why tie it up in knots, I wonder, when it’s just as comfortable hanging down.
I flip my feet, my pink-painted toes eerily blue in the not-quite-opaque water. Do I wish for a fish-tail. Only in my dreams.
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