
Scales: Mermaids Are Real
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I sit alone
out on the seashore
Only I can hear the Siren
Phantom voices
calling me home
Like day dawning
in my heart
My whole life,
I've dreamt of water.
Not just being in it,
or swimming in it...
but living in it.
Breathing it, tasting it,
loving it.
And yet, in life, I stay pretty
far away from it.
Siren Siren
Like a warning
Day is dawning in my heart
In my heart
And that desert
from a seashore
Feeling somehow
I've been here before
And though the light
is growing darker
Somehow there's sunlight
on the way
Get off the road!
Sorry!
Mom, next time can you
drop me off on the other side?
Sorry, honey.
Oh... hey!
So what you're saying is,
if I punch you...
toothpicks?
Come on.
Yes, that's what I'm saying.
How about we give it a try?
Hey! Leave him alone!
This isn't your fight, Siren.
Get out of here.
You know I can scream
loud enough.
I'll get Principal Strauss
out here in a heart beat.
So?
Last I heard, you're one scream
away from being expelled.
Whatever, we were just playing
around, right, brittle boy?
Yeah.
Thanks.
What was all that about?
Nothing.
That didn't look like nothing.
It's a form of Osteogenesis
Imperfecta.
It just means my
bones are very fragile.
Like all the time?
Every day for the rest
of my life.
Thanks for stepping in, though.
Gross! Stop.
All right, everyone,
settle down.
First things first, we do have a
new student joining our school.
Please give a warm welcome to
Adam Wiltz. Adam, please stand.
Hello.
The floor is yours,
introduce yourself.
I'm Adam.
What's wrong with you?
question would be...
Okay, then what's
different about you?
I have what's called
brittle bone disease.
Oh, that sucks.
Crystal!
No, she's right, it does suck.
Hayden!
We talked about throwing paper!
What's something else
you threw last time?
Was it your sandwich?
Are you all done, Adam?
Uh, yeah.
All right, well now that you've
been properly introduced...
let's get back to studying!
Okay, don't make friends
with the new kid.
It's social suicide.
I don't know, I kind
of like him.
Metamorphosis.
A biological process in which
an animal...
goes through an abrupt change...
due to something called
differentiation.
Now can anyone tell me
another animal...
that goes through metamorphosis?
Siren
Siren?
Um...
Mermaids?
Mermaids aren't real, Crystal.
What don't you try
something else...
like a different type
of fish or a caterpillar?
Did you know that
metamorphosis is a Greek word?
Meta is a prefix that means
after...
What is it, Siren?
I have to go to the bathroom!
All right, everyone, settle
down. Eyes back up front.
You can't control nature.
Where do you think you're going,
young lady?
Siren, you get back here!
Oh, hey there, Siren,
everything okay?
Yes!
What are you doing home?
Nothing, Mom!
School is canceled!
What do you mean, it's canceled?
Siren, are you okay?
Fine, Mom, just let me be
for a minute.
I said I needed a minute, Mom!
I'm not your mom.
Okay, what's going on?
I've never seen you break
a single rule before.
Now you're ditching school?
You ran out of class after me?
No, I went to the bathroom.
Duh.
Cute, you can go home.
Please, your face has psycho
written all over it.
So what happened?
Did you get your period?
What? No!
Okay, so is it a boy?
No.
Is it that new kid?
No!
A girl?
Okay, well, I didn't come all
this way to play guessing games.
Spill it.
Okay, sit down.
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