MERFOLKS OF THE SEA🧜🏽‍♀️🧜🏽‍♂️🔱🌊

I was 21, trying to get over a break up, a guy I loved for eight years, I didn’t care about spirituality nor knew what it was. Growing up, I was taught that anything that had to do with marine was evil. I was a devoted Catholic and I only had time for my business as a makeup artist, my school and to hang out with my friends “Joan, Chioma & Dera”.

One day after our regular Tuesday mass for the sick, we were feeling very hot due to the scorching heat of the sun and we decided to go to the pool, it wasn’t far from the church so we trekked. When we got to the pool we wasted no time in changing into the swimsuits that the pool owners rented and into the pool we dived. As I entered the pool I felt like my ears were ringing, like they were really making this loud noise, it was weird because I had never experienced it before. It stopped and I deemed it was because of the scorching sun I just didn’t pay much attention to what just happened. I had fun with my friends and as they swam to the opposite end of the pool, I was at the edge of the pool alone. The ear ringing came again and this time it was louder, surprisingly it stopped after a couple of seconds. Then I immersed myself completely going under water, I opened my eyes and I saw something few metres in front of me, something like the shape of a fair woman, she was smiling at me. I got up from the water looking around the pool and I was surprised to see no one except my friends at the extreme end of the pool. They seemed to be competing on who could hold their breath the longest over there.

I went back under the water and saw the same thing. I couldn’t believe my eyes because it was very weird, I thought I was seeing things and all of a sudden to my eyes, it seemed the water wanted to swallow me or something. Out of fear I rushed out of the pool panting.

My friends were asking me what’s wrong as I looked like someone that saw a lion..

I just took the swimsuits off mg body and I hurried home. My friends volunteered to take me home because I looked so scared. They told my mom that I panicked at the pool and she got angry, she always hates it if I go to the pool or even dance in the rain, she kept on shouting at me because I went to the pool and due to that I couldn’t even tell her what happened. I told no one.

That night when I slept I had a dream, I saw myself alone on the beach, I had no idea how I got there. Then on the shores of the beach I saw what looked like a crown with cowries & shells designed on it. It was like the ocean brought it to me.

to be continued…