Chapter 1-The Beginning

How everything started for Sage

JANUARY 3, 2007

I could tell you this is your typical story, talk to you for hours about how my life is one everyone wants to live.  That isn’t the story I’m going to tell you, actually this story doesn’t even have an ending yet. Everything is still being written, I don’t even know if someone is going to read this. Maybe when I’m dead it’ll be passed back to home…home. Home seems like such an unfamiliar word, an unfamiliar world really. I should probably introduce myself at this point. My name is Sage. I’ll keep my last name private for quite a few reasons. Mainly so my parents never find me here. Yes you’re right most kidnap victims want their parents to find them but my story is a little different than most victims. If you want to even call me that. So here’s the story:

When I was seven, back in 1997, I was taken from the home of my drunkard mother. One day my mom and I were at the beach since she liked to pass out there and get a sun tan. I wandered into the water since she had already passed out and by the age of seven I was expected to take care of myself. I think it was July then, it was ten years ago so my memory is quite hazy. I swam in the water as far as I could go with my feet touching the bottom of the sand still. I was splashing around and dove underwater and came face to face with a woman, who, to my surprise, wasn’t much of a woman. She was quite beautiful. Long dirty blonde hair, with brown eyes that resembled the Hershey’s chocolate I had for breakfast.  She smiled at me and I smiled and waved back.  The woman took my hand and immediately I trusted her, it was the oddest experience at the time but I was a kid and with all the strangers mother had brought into our house I wasn’t very aware of the term “stranger danger”. The lady with the tail pulled me into her embrace and told me her name was Olisa. After the embrace everything went black and I woke up in an underwater cave. The first thing I noticed was the fact that I could for one, breathe underwater, and two, had a f*****g tail. That’s right folks, I had been turned into a mermaid, mere-man? Who cares about gender? Mere-person. So at this point you’re probably wondering how the f**k that happened, well I’ll tell you that later. So now you know I was kidnapped by a gorgeous mermaid when I was seven.