Oceans Tears

　　I swam far away from home with my best friend Chan, a small golden fish who fetch me from my house so that we can play in the sea garden full of different colors and shapes of sea flowers and beautiful corals.

　　"Catch me Chan!" I giggled as I swam far away from him.

　　"Wait for me Areum!" he called, his eyes were wide trying to swim after me.

　　Beautiful mermaids clapped their hands while colorful fishes flapped their fins cheering and laughing with us. They loved to watch us play especially when Chan cannot catch me because he's the slowest swimmer in the whole kingdom.

　　We were busy playing, Chan and other fishes surrounded me, dancing while I sing until I heard one of the mermaids screamed, making everyone scattered.

　　"A shark! There's a shark!" she shouted, swimming in the opposite direction and hiding herself in the huge sea rock.

　　I saw a shadow of a large fish, perhaps a shark approaching us.

　　Chan's eyes widened when a big shark came to our view, his mouth wide-opened and the razor sharp and triangular shaped-teeth ready to kill and eat his prey. Then he spotted Chan.

　　"Swim Chan! Swim faster!" I shouted.

　　"Areum!" He closed his eyes and started swimming away from the shark but because he's as slow as snail, the shark was now an inch away from him.

　　I wasted no time and swam towards them as fast as I can. And when the shark was about to eat him alive, I grabbed Chan and kicked the predator's face using my golden tail making him wobble, his eyes rolled from dizziness.

　　And before he could turn to see who did it to him, I swam towards the huge rock and hide, my head slightly peaked to see where he was going. Chan is still in my hold, I can feel his body trembling from fear.

　　"Areum," he whispered. "Thank you for saving me." a tear escaped from his eye and a pearl fell down.

　　"Don't cry Chan or you will scatter pearls." I smiled, caressing his face. "You're welcome."

　　I don't know but Chan has the ability to turn his tear into a pearl. He's the only fish in the ocean that has a power like that so when I see pearls, I know he cried.

　　I watch as the shark swam away from the sea garden. The mermaids and fishes who were hiding from different places suddenly appeared, and I sighed in relief as I see none of them were injured.

　　We continued playing and didn't realize that it was already dark when we stopped, and it was time to go home. Chan's face was nervous. Mother always scolded him every time we're late in going home.

　　"Areum let's go! We're in trouble again!" he said, leading the way home.

　　While on our way home, we saw a big white thing floating in the sea. Out of curiosity, I swam towards that thing and stopped 10 meters away from it, I turned to see Chan swimming closer.

　　" Areum let's go! Your mom will scold me again for sure." his face frowned but his eyes widened when he saw the big white thing floating in the sea.