Jane held her hand out to her daughter and Amy backed away a bit. Clearly Amy was terrified at her mothers new form and it was quite understandable. If Jane crawled closer, Amy may run and tell someone. "Please Amy, I just need to get to the bathtub and I'll explain everything". Meanwhile Amy didn't know what to do. She looked down at the mermaid tail and then her mother who was about to burst into tears. Amy figured this might be the reason behind the times she spent hours in the bathroom or the reason behind her sudden disappearances. In any case, this was her mom so helping her wouldn't hurt. Amy stepped closer to Jane and grabbed her hand. Jane smiled and thanked Amy.
It was a tough journey to the bathroom, especially when Amy needed to drag a large breasted mermaid up the stairs. And Jane wasn't exactly skinny either. With sheer determination, Amy managed to pull her mom all the way, then they both entered the bathroom and locked the door. Fortunately the other children were not woken from the noise. Jane immediately removed her long dress whilst Amy ran the bath. When Jane was fully nude, she dived in leaving the bath to run over her body. It was just what her body needed to return to normal. Now Amy fulfilled her half of the bargain, Jane needed to do the same.
Jane started her story from summer vacation at the time when she found the bracelet. She had no other reason behind her transformation apart from that. Her bracelet glowed and disappeared as soon as she placed it on her wrist. Then a few hours later at home, she took a bath and her mermaid tail replaced her legs seconds after touching water. She fled to her room and hoped it would disappear. It took her a while to realize that she needed to dry her tail before returning to normal. Fortunately it was late at night and her parents were sleeping before taking the bath otherwise her parents would have grown suspicious. Jane was then afraid of touching water and after many hours trying to sleep, Jane found the excuse to rest in bed for the day whilst her parents were out. That was until her tail painfully grew once more when in bed. Confused about how she transformed without water, Jane locked herself in the bathroom and scrubbed her dry tail. Jane could not understand why her tail wasn't turning back and why it was painful and raw to touch now. Jane was also starting to have trouble breathing so she decided to have a bath. When she left the bath and dried herself, her legs returned. It had taken her about a week to fully understand her "curse" but she tried her very best to keep it a secret. She stated that she had many stories to tell of when she was almost caught as a mermaid but it would take too long to tell them all at once.
Amy interrupted "So all these years and you've been a mermaid? This is insane. But it does explain why you take long baths and the reason behind you always running away".
"Believe me, this is not what I wanted in life. I hate fish and even wearing long dresses just in case but there's no way I can become normal again. I've tried everything from charms to spells and even relying on your father but not even true loves kiss worked. I'm so sorry for keeping this from you honey but I wanted to protect the family from being harassed by reporters or the family being experimented on. This probably isn't the way you wanted to spend your last day being 17".