What Is Love? [UtaPri: Ai Mikaze Fan Fict]

By My Side

"By My Side"

The merman gracefully swims up.
He presses his palm against the frozen surface.
Above the surface... stood an enchanting woman.
Her hair was crystal white, beaming with snowflakes.
She looked down with emotionless and empty eyes.
The merman noticed her shadow moving from below.

She, having her ice touched by someone living,
noticed the presence of the merman prince.
She looked down, the ice slowly melts away,
opening the surface for the merman himself.

"A deity?" The merman wondered as he
reached out for the surface.

"A merman?" The ice princess wondered
in return.

Exchanging empty glares, cold stares,
the ice princess stood there calmly
as the merman watches her silently.

"Ice princess" the merman calls out to her.

She does not respond and only keeps on
giving back empty glares to the merman.

"You can't freeze the oceans forever." 
He says.

"I've been lonely lately."
She randomly said out of the blue.

"What?" He asked.

"Let's keep all the feelings frozen in ice."
She continues to speak emotionlessly.

"What is feelings?" The merman asked again.

"Feelings sucks." She finally let out a smile,
but it showed pain instead of happiness.
"I wanted to freeze them." The princess dropped
her painful smile.

"Foolish princess." The merman rose a bit more
from the water. "You can't freeze your feelings."

Her eyes widens, "What did you say, merman?!"

"They just fall asleep. Some fall into a deep slumber
  that lasts for eternity... feelings are immortal."
The merman stares at the ice at it slowly cracks.

"My feelings are only sleeping?" She asked.

"Yes." The merman slowly reaches out his hand to her,
water dripping down from his shoulder and hand. Ignoring
the cold of the frosty place he says, "Come. Allow me to wake
up your heart."

A moment of silence lasted for a while...
They remained looking at each other.
Finally, she decided to take a step forward.
She stares at his hand as she walks up to him...
Slowly, she hesitatingly reaches out her hand in return..

The princess stood in front of the merman who was
reaching out his hand to her while floating in water.
She was just about to take his hand when the merman
took it out of the blue so suddenly and pulled her into the water.