"I'm listening Amara..."

          And Amara told him everything from the day her father died and up to the time when she returned home after Alexander left with the rescuers on the speedboat except for the truth that she had a big and black birthmark every time she turned into a two legged human being. She was scared that Alexander might no longer like her if he saw her that way. But she also decided that she would tell him about her birthmark someday

         "So, you're two legged human for only six hours, transforming into a mermaid at three o'clock in the afternoon and back into an ordinary human being at nine o'clock in the morning," the statement of Alexander looking at Amara's beautiful face. "And you suspect that your stepmother and your two stepsisters had something to do with your sudden