Scare tactics

I was sleeping peacefully, I thought I was dreaming actually, I felt a tingly feeling in my feet, almost as if someone was lightly scratching their nails on my toes, I felt hair swiftly move over them, at that moment I realized my bed was slowly sinking deeper at the end, as if someone was climbing on to it, my eyes shot open and I lay there as still as a soul, because my eyes were open and I still felt the indent I felt the hair, I didn’t dare look down I could not move. Someone or something was at the end of my bed, I was frozen I didn’t know what to do, whatever it was I’m sure it could hear my heart beating about 100 miles per hour. I just happened to look to the right into the mirror a little beam of light was shining in from my window right to the end of my bed, and I saw her, or it, in the reflection. I wasn’t really sure what to make of it, it was a pale white women she looked deathly sick with black surrounding her eyes, and long black hair that was touching me. she looked like she could have once been beautiful… when she was alive. As my eyes cast downward to see the rest of her body, I was frightened by what I saw, at the start of her hips where her legs should have been was replaced with a fish tail, the scales were black and it was horrifying she was awkwardly slanted on my bed, and then all of sudden my stomach growled as loud as it possibly could have and she was alerted. I wasn’t sure if she could see my face or new if I was asleep or not I couldn’t take my eyes of the mirror never in my life had I been so scared. She turned her head, and stared into the mirror as if she could see me looking at her, she said” hello Derek”. “You probably don’t remember me. I used to watch you when you were a little boy before your father took my home from me and built you a house”.  I was so confused, when I was a young boy my father bought the land I live on, there was a pond, but he had it drained out and built my house right on top of where it had been, he was a wealthy man, he had to much money and didn’t know what to do with it. He had been so proud of it. I replied to her, hesitant as to what I should say, “I don’t know who you are”. She said, “Well I was once a beautiful mermaid who lived happily in a beautiful pond, with my sister. When you were younger you used to come and swim in it and I would watch you play, my name is Galena. And everything I had and was is gone now, it died along with me when your father dried out my pond. He saw my dead body. He saw me dry out into nothing but bones because I had no water, he did nothing, simply had me covered with dirt so that he could build this house over me, I’ve come back to return the favor”. I didn’t know what to say I was speechless and wished this was some twisted nightmare I could wake up from but I didn’t and all of the sudden I couldn’t breathe and water filled my lungs, but my body wasn’t wet, and nothing around me was either. And then I was...gone