Everyone has secrets. My secret, however, is unbelievable, impossible even, but the best thing to ever happen to me. Let me start off by telling you a little about me. My name is Oceana, I'm 17, I love singing, being with my bff Karlee, coloring (not drawing, I can't draw), and swimming. I seem like your average teenage girl, but I'm not your average teenage girl. Karlee and are very different and we love it! Karlee and I live together in an apartment since our parents and family are both missing. Right now me and Karlee are going to our private pool that our building manager built just for us since he felt bad for us. We decided it was going to be a relax and chill day and we wanted to go swimming.
"come on oceana! Hurry up!" Karlee yelled ahead of me
"I'm coming, I'm coming up slow down please, I'm too short" I laughed, Karlee soon joining my laughing fit as we entered the pool room. I look around the giant room seeing the floor-to-ceiling windows, large hot tub, extra large pool, and all the other cool things that was put in here just for us. Even though we've been here countless times, it still amazes us like it's the first time seeing it. I'm pulled out of my thoughts by Karlee snapping her fingers in my face
"Earth to Oceana" I shake my head and smile at her
"Something on your mind?" I giggle at her and shake my head at her and walk over to our stereo and plug in my phone and scroll through my music, I end up playing my country playlist and the first song that comes on is legends by Kelsea Ballerini, my favorite
"We were golden, we were fire, we were magic yeah and they knew our names all over town" Karlee sang at the top of her lungs.
"So should we jump in or dance and sing first?" I ask her, she tips her head back a little and taps her chin like she's thinking about it
"How about we dance and sing after we get our swimsuits on" she says as if she was making a deal,
"Deal! First one to the lockers has to sing first!" I say as I run off to the locker room I push the door open with all my might with Karlee just barely behind me
"Haha I win, hmm what should Karlee sing? Ohh maybe Stay in the Dark by Band Perry or even Yeah Boy by Kelsea Ballerini" I say like I'm talking to someone else, she just glares at me but can't keep the smile off her face. We quickly get changed into our bikinis hers in dark pink while mine is light blue. We walk back out with legends still playing I go change the song to Yeah Boy and laugh so hard while she tries to sing and dance at the same time.
"Ok brat you're turn. I think you should sing Mayday by Cam" she says matter of factly
"Ha! easy! give it to me sista" the song starts playing and I sing the first couple of lines then start dancing horribly while Karlee rolls on the floor laughing. We sing for another hour before we both get tired of singing and dancing
"Should we hop in now?" I ask excited Karlee nods her head excited as well. We walk to the deepest part grab each other's hand and jump in. We smile at each other then it happens, were both dragged under the water still smiling, I feel as if my legs become one and I take a deep breath as my leg turns light blue and is covered with scales I look over at Karlee who is the same as me but her leg is dark pink, then where our feet should be, fans out and our legs become long beautiful tails. We looked at each other
"Ahhh I feel free now" Karlee says with bubbles escaping her mouth from holding her breath I nod at her enthusiastically
"Agreed maybe we can race" now it's her turn to nod enthusiastically. We both giggle and race off to the other end of the pool then back again, we do laps around the pool for about 30 minutes then we move on to doing tricks i do cartwheels and jumps out of the water and Karlee does handstands and flips.
"Can we have a sing off now?" I ask with impatience clear in my voice
"No we need to get ready to go remember" I nod at her and reluctantly get out of the pool Karlee uses her powers to dry me off then herself. That's another cool thing about being a mermaid, we have awesome powers! Karlee can heat up the particles in water and manipulate water to do whatever she wants it to do, I can freeze water and, as weird as it may seem, the water is like a friend to me, it's almost as if it was alive and has a mind of its own, it shows me things like stars or it gives me messages and morphs itself into images and shapes, it's really cool. We walk back to our apartment and I flop on the couch
"Nope young lady we need to get packing" I groan at her and get up. I go to my room while Karlee goes to hers and start packing our things, we are moving to Australia, as much as we love it here in America, we don't belong here and we know it. We were adopted when we were 6 but we can't remember what happened with our birth parents, all we know is that they loved us and we were born in a small town called Mako. Other than that we can't remember anything, we're hoping by moving to the place where we were born, we could find out who we are and maybe remember what we forgot.
Before I know it, it's 7 o'clock and I need food. I move and step over boxes and go out to the now almost empty kitchen. I open the fridge and see nothing.
"Karlee, we need food!" I yell at her but get no response I start to walk to her door but the front door opens and Karlee walks in with a large pizza box.
"Hey, girly, are you done packing yet" she asks while trying to set down the pizza, her keys, and taking off her shoes all at the same time
"Yes I'm done packing, but two things" she nods at me to continue speaking
"One put the pizza down then take off your shoes and put your keys away, and two why didn't you tell me you were going out?" She does as I say and puts the pizza down then her keys
"I did tell you that i was going out but I guess you were just either too busy or too lost in thought to hear me" I nod at her after saying "oh" I move the pizza to the kitchen counters, open the box and start eating and Karlee does the same
"Karlee can I ask you something?" I ask not looking up from my pizza
"Sure. But technically you just did ask me something" she laughs and I smack her with a large pepperoni slice. It talked us a few seconds to calm down
"Are you scared? To move I mean. Cause I'll be honest I'm terrified to move to our birth town, what if we don't find our parents? What if we do find them just to figure out they don't want us? What if"... Karlee cuts me off by hugging me and I start to tear up a little
"Oceana Grace you listen here and you listen well. Our parents, whether they want us or not, will be stuck with us because we are strong we've been living alone for almost 2 years now and we will not move to Mako just to pick up and move again just because they got a bug up their butt and didn't want us anymore. Plus I don't think they won't want us because think of when we were 6 and all the love that surrounded us. They loved us and nothing will change that" as she finishes her speech I'm feeling more confident now. I smile at her and mutter a "thank you" then go back to eating my pizza. We finish eating our pizza, after taking care of the box we decided to go to bed sense we have to wake up early to help load the moving truck and catch our flight on time. They do want us because they loved us I chant to myself until I fell asleep
