Mermaid

by Jodi Picoult

kiss him so deeply that I start to see stars and he has to hold me up with his arms around my hips.

Nick leaped up, climbed an emergency ladder, dove into the tank fully clothed, and kissed me. He kissed me, and then he put my bubble tube to his mouth, and then he breathed me to life.

Underwater, language turned violet.

add one more to the equation, you can never go back to the sum you used to be.

There, at great cost, I remembered who I used to be.

This part is so important to the plot.