when Aya just died

Everyone always thought of May to be the most beautiful sister.

Well we were all deceived; Aya was.

She had managed to hide it just like all what she used to hide from us. There was a tiny tricky point to it: Aya was not pretty at all, to be frank she wasn't even sexy, just legendarily beautiful for she herself was the legend.
Anu, our silent trouble making brother, was the first one at home to have figured it out but honestly he was for sure not the one to run around the house yelling: "Aya is damn beautiful and Erich tries his best to ignore it!"
Erich is actually our grandparents' cousin who is brought up in Florida, where he still lives. But he is only 10 years older than Aya and Anu; the Erich Schwarzinger. 
I tell you this surname means absolute trouble. Wherever you see "Schwarzinger", or as Gary told his grandsons - Erich and his brother - "the golden S", you should better show yourself most uninterested in any means of communication if you are not able to run away at once and get yourself to safety.

Aya was as delightful as life, the most marvelous child among the twelve of us. Her laughter was music, her games were joy and her voice was birds' song. When she ran it felt like wild horses galloping freely in the meadows, when she tried to hide a mischief it was as if fireworks were shooting out of eyes and when she got up every morning helping dad dress up… oh, I never ever saw any other child do that.
She was the life itself; it was such a pity she was to die first.

Aya was only 16 when she desperately fell in love with Erich, who was about to marry Tina, Aya's only friend at the time. The only one to know of her love was Werner, another Schwarzinger, kind of our Nanny ever since his father died. So when after a suicide attempt Aya ended up in hospital Werner was the one to call Erich first, knowing he was the only one who could keep Aya alive. Nevertheless Aya never completely recovered from the brain damage and she also came back home blind. Anu was the most furious one among us and with Aya's secret still unspoken no one could figure out the reason to the anger we all bore. 
Aya changed. That wonderful source of delight, our sunshine, that everlasting smile changed. She became a hysteric invulnerable dark teenage girl who quited school, dressed up like whores and started smoking like hell. In order not to break daddy's heart and to prove him that she was still alive, she started painting. Although she looked dark - as if paradise was conquered by the darkest forces of hell - her paintings were still reflecting life. Only this time it was a grieving, suffering, deeply injured sort of life. Pain from inside her was taking all over Aya's soul and on the outside she looked like a stranger to us,  taking advantage of Aya's room unjust.
Being blind brought her and the blind Tina even closer together. They became inseparable friends and this made her naturally also a close friend of Erich's. About 3 years after the accident Aya moved to Florida to learn swimming from Erich who was still a professional life guard back then. She surprised us all. But then there she shifted back to herself which relieved us all to a great extent. The pain and suffering was taking all over her and yet she was life once again. It was when Dietrich, Erich's son, was born that we discovered how much loving Aya was concealing inside her heart. She loved and praised the little boy like few mothers do. She then put a spell upon him so that no one who means to hurt Dietrich could see him. This one really surprised us and made us think for the first time that Aya was different and that maybe she was from some place else. After a while she came back to Dresden and did something just amazing: she adopted a child! It was a boy called Theo and she asked Anu to help her bring him up. No one could understand why Anu should have be chosen as Theo's father. We all knew Germanium was her favorite brother and Werner was an already experienced and responsible guy. It was until years later when Theo grew up that we found out what this parenthood meant to both father and son. So Aya and Anu started dedicating their time and energy to the little Theo, it gave them both life and joy. Even Aya's paintings changed greatly except in one thing: Erich always saw something extra in them, some sort of subliminal image no one else could decode. Later it came up that Aurora, our sister, was the only one Erich ever dared to mention this to. 
We all started to feel a sort of antipathy for Erich but why, no one knew except for Werner. Dietrich was 2 years old when Aurora and Erich managed to find out the secret from one of the paintings and got the confirmation from Werner. It was after another suicide attempt of Aya's. Except for the ever silent Anu though, no one found out about their grand discovery.

Theo was about 9 and Dietrich about 6 when Erich had that dream. In his dream he heard some Russian words over and over which he could not understand. So next day he came to our big brother Ray to ask for the meaning of the words. It said: 'next week by this time, the mermaid's corpse will have faded to ashes'. As meaningless as these words were to us, they yet made us all panic like hell. And when Aya asked about the commotion around the house we just told her that someone was supposed to die till the next week, no one could however tell her the exact words since no one wanted her to run around, trying to solve the puzzle. It was when Erich and Werner saw Aya and Germanium in each others' arms crying that they told us they used to call Aya "the little mermaid" between themselves. We all suddenly felt like killing Erich, as if it could have helped Aya. Although we refused to tell her the puzzle was solved, it was more than clear to her as well as to us that she was the one once her old brain damage started to get over her fragile body again. No one could figure out what to do, our 'life' was dying and we were all simply paralyzed. Theo and Dietrich hardly left her side, as if they both knew they were losing their mother and turning to orphans.

She started calling us to her room one by one, it felt like she was sharing herself among us and giving everyone some part she had kept for them since long. The last one to be called was Erich, no one dared to even stay around her room when he was called in. No one knows what happened but we all saw Erich come back from the pool direction next morning, we all saw him take Aya's dress back, we all saw him return with her dead body in that dress and regardless of Erich's great efforts, we all saw the expression on her face that she had been kissed the night before and the tip of her fins sticking out of the dress.
God knows how we would love to beat Erich up to death.