Changes That Could Kill You
1.01: "From the Streets to the Sand"
Alex's Point of View
Looks like it's another boring day here in New York City. Seriously, when will things start to get interesting around here? You wanna know what I did yesterday? Yesterday, I helped Harper make some of her "jewelry." Yeah, that is how boring it's been around here lately. I'm not asking much, just a chance for me to go somewhere, do something. I need a change. A change for the better.
But that's before I walked into my family's restaurant, the Sub Station. Right smack dap on the front door, and everywhere as a matter of fact, read on a big white sheet of paper in big black and white lettering: "The Sub Station Is Moving To A New Location!"
"What?" I said, with wide eyes and an open mouth.
This was a change all right. But this was a change that could kill me.
OPENING CREDITS
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"Mom, what's this whole thing about moving to a new location! Does that mean we're moving, cause I'd hate to move. You know all the friends I've made. I would die!" I kept talking so much about this at dinner that Justin stuck a roll in my mouth to shut me up.
I just gave him one of my evil glares.
But Justin had to say a cute remark, "What, you looked hungry?" That cute remark included his signature cute grin.
I took the roll out of my mouth, turned back to my parents and said, "Ok, I want all the details."
My mom just replied to this by saying just one word: "Australia." She even had a dopey smile on her face, like she thought it was a great idea to send us some large amount of miles from here, to a strange place where they say, "G'Day", and live on a totally different time zone!
By now everyone was staring at me. Everything stopped. It was getting really quiet all of a sudden. I had to say, "When are we leaving?" I tried to not shovel so many mashed potatoes in my mouth before I said it.
My mom had looked to my dad and conversed with him for a bit and then splattered out, "Two days."
I nearly choked on the steak I was chewing. I gave everyone the "Ok" that I was fine and screamed, "TWO DAYS! How are we supposed to pack and say goodbye to our friends in just TWO DAYS!" I was furious now. I stood up and gripped the table with my fingers.
"Well, I'm sorry you feel that way but you're going." My Dad explained to me as he got up from his chair and picked his plate up to put on the counter.
"How come Max and Justin aren't upset about this?" I said, as I was really confused. You'd think Max would be upset about leaving his friends, and Justin would be...well Justin doesn't really have any friends, and since Miranda moved away I'm sure he's anxious to go on this little move of ours.
"Well, Justin and Max already know about this." my Mom said as she was collecting all the dishes from the table and putting them into the sink.
"Why did you tell Justin and Max and not me?" I asked them.
My Mom simply responded by saying: "You were out shopping with your friends as usual."
I just stood there with an open mouthed expression on my face. "Well, don't you think something as big as us moving to another country is worth waiting for, hm…I don't know, ME?!"
"Oh, come on, Alex. Don't get mad at us. We're telling you now." my Dad said, trying to avoid a temper tantrum from me.
I stared at all of my family members expressions. All I could tell was that they were sick and tired of having me complain about something that could be a wonderful and new experience for me. Let's face it, the sunny beach weather might be good for me.
So I decided to go along with it…for now.
"You know what? This is obviously going to happen whether or not I agree with it, so let's do it. Let's move to Australia."
My mom seemed surprised. "That was very mature of you, Alex."
Everyone else was shocked. That included their eyes wide and their mouths open.
The only reason I said, "Yes, I'd go" was just to get this whole talk over with. I'll start complaining as soon as we get to Australia. Unless, there's a cute boy next door, that changes everything.
The following two days before our big departure didn't consist of anything exciting. Just packing, saying goodbye to friends, and more packing.
The plane ride wasn't even that interesting. Ok, seeing Justin freak out because of the security was pretty amusing. But the plane ride was SO long! Our plane took off at 5:30 in the morning and we didn't land until 7:30pm Australian time! I will be seriously jet lagged.
Yeah, I was jet lagged. As soon as we got in our house we unpacked some of our things, well enough so we could sleep the night and then deal with unpacking more in the morning. Always when moving to a new house, the funnest thing is to call dibs on your own room. There wasn't much arguing since all the bedrooms had a balcony (how cool is that)! And in my room, I have my own bathroom (ok, so it's just a door leading to the bathroom, and then to Justin's room, but still)! I've already started on what to put in my room. I'm thinking polka dot walls, or I could just stick with my pink fur wallpaper. Well, I'm deciding that tomorrow. Luckily, it's a Friday tomorrow, so I don't have to go to school right away.
"Tomorrow's another day," I said to myself as I turned off the light and hopped into my newly constructed bed. (I'm so glad we got to keep the majority of our things).
Tomorrow certainly was another day. As soon as I woke up, I've been unpacking. I've also been trying to convince both of my parents to have my walls/theme to be polka dots, but they won't budge. Ugh, parents!
But the really exciting thing that happened was around noon. I was just finished having lunch (a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich), when the doorbell rang. Knowing me, I jumped for it. I always LOVE having company over, and since this was our first day in a new country, it was cool to know we had a visitor (since we knew no one).
"I got it!" I screamed, as I ran from the kitchen to the foyer, trying not to ram my toes into a cardboard box on the way. I tried to see who it was through the door, but we have no peep hole and our windows are hard to see through. I opened the door anyway. And oh was I ever glad I did. Cause in walked the cutest boy I had ever seen! He had light blonde hair (kinda shaggy, just how I like it) and had eyes I could die over. He even was carrying a bouquet of flowers. Sure, they weren't roses or anything (I hardly know the guy) but it was still sweet.
"Hi, I'm Lewis. My family and I noticed we had new neighbors, so I thought I'd bring these over as a 'Welcome to the Neighborhood' kind of deal." He reached out his hand and gave me the bouquet.
"Um, th-th-thanks." I could barely speak. I looked at the flowers and back to him. I was even stuttering. What is wrong with me? I'm usually Miss Flirt around boys?
Lewis seemed like he was waiting for something. He finally said what. "And you are?"
"I'm..." we then were rudely interrupted by my family.
My mom took over.
"Aw, that's so sweet! Are you one of our neighbors?" my Mom asked, while taking the bouquet from me (even though she was having a tough time, considering I had a tight grip on them), and was off to go through the many cardboard boxes in search for a vase.
Lewis shouted back to her, "Uh, yeah. I'm to the left of you. I'm Lewis McCartney."
Just then I could have sworn he looked at me. But knowing me, that was just my imagination.
My Dad then pushed me aside to introduce himself and to give Lewis a handshake. "So, Lewis, what do you like to do?"
Lewis replied by saying, "I love to fish. Every Saturday morning I'm always fishing by the pier. Oh and I love science. Biology, Chemistry, Physics, that sort of thing."
Ew, Lewis is a Science nerd? Oh well, maybe if Justin hangs out with him some of Lewis' cuteness will rub off on him and maybe people will actually date him.
As if on que Justin said, "You like science!? Have you heard of..." and then Justin and Lewis struck up a conversation on something that I couldn't understand, it's like it was another language.
Lewis then looked at me. "I never quite caught your name."
"Well I'm Justin and this is..." I had to punch Justin in the stomach so he couldn't say my name.
"Alex. My name is Alex." I said this with my flirty smile.
"Well, Alex, I was wondering if you'd like to come and hang out with me and my friends at the Juicenet Café. Justin, you can come, too. I've got a bunch of cool software, I bet you'd love to see."
"Mom, Dad, can I go? PLEASE!?" I said this like I was a cute puppy wanting to go for a walk.
"I don't see why not." My Dad said. He looked at my Mom as well who said,
"Sure, it'll be fun!"
"Wait, your friends aren't guys are they?" I asked. Well, I just had to know. I don't want to sit there hearing stuff about sports and other man stuff.
"No, they're girls. That's partly why I invited you."
Partly? Ooh, what's the other reason?, I thought to myself.
"The other reason is cause my Mum is kinda making me. No offense."
My heart sunk when I heard this. "None taken."
"Well, ready to go?" he said to me.
It's funny, we sort of forgot Justin was even there! Was Lewis and I having a moment?
"Yeah, I'm ready. Bye Mom, Bye Dad." I then hurried out the door as quick as I could. I accidently closed the door on Justin. He'll get over it.
The minute we walked into the Juicenet Café, it's like I was back at the Sub Station in New York. I could tell I was going to be hanging out there a lot.
"Lewis over here!" a girl that looked around Justin's age with curly brown hair that was pulled into a pony tail said to Lewis, while throwing her hand in the air. Her and two other girls, both with blonde hair, one with straight golden blonde hair, the other a lighter blonde with curly hair in braids, was sitting in the back of the café at a table.
Lewis went towards them.
It was my assumption to follow.
Justin did the same.
When we had reached the table, Lewis said, "Alex, Justin, I'd like you to meet my friends, Emma Gilbert and Rikki Chadwick," he said, while pointing to each of the blonde girls. "And my girlfriend, Cleo Setori." he pointed to the brown haired girl.
As soon as he mentioned "girlfriend" I got all flabbergasted. What my Mom always says is SO true. The nice, cute guys are always TAKEN!
After their introductions, each of the girls said, "Hi" and waved at both me and Justin.
"Alex and Justin are my new neighbors, the ones I was telling you about." Lewis said.
"Oh, yeah! Hey! What brings you here from the States?" Emma asked me.
"Our parents are teaming up with this café and opening up their sub shop." I couldn't stop looking at Cleo. That was Lewis' girlfriend. I shouldn't be jealous, after all, I just moved here.
"Justin, you wanna see the cool software I have, while we let the girls talk." Lewis asked Justin. As soon as he finished the sentence Justin said, "Yes" so fast, it seemed like he wanted to get away from us. "Alex, you can take a seat with the girls and talk about whatever it is you girls talk about."
That was when Lewis left to hang out with Justin and I took a seat next to the girls.
"So, how's your new life in Australia? Must be tough for you moving to a new country." Emma said. She seemed the most interested in me and talkative out of the three. Cleo was staring at Lewis and Rikki was just staring off into space.
I replied to her question by saying, "Yeah, but I'm getting used to it."
Then Rikki bounced back to earth and asked, "So, who's up for some juices?"
Everyone said, "Yes."
I said, "Um, what kinds do they have?"
Rikki replied to this by saying, "Banana Beatbox, Cranberry Boaster, things like that."
"I'll have a strawberry kiwi smoothie." Just the mention of the name and I got thirsty.
Everyone else said their orders.
"Alright." As Rikki turned to leave, she rolled up both of her light red sleeves up. Little did she know she just unveiled a huge black and blue bruise to her friends.
Emma grabbed the arm with the bruise and yelled, "Rikki, what happened?"
Rikki was quiet for a second. To me it seemed like she was making up an excuse. "Um, you know me, I probably just ran into something, that's all." Her voice had panic written all over it. But the girls just chose to let it slide and Rikki went off to get the drinks.
A couple of minutes later, you could hear a guy over the counter say to Rikki, "Rikki, what happened? That's one nasty bruise."
Rikki's reply was: "Ash, I'm fine. Why can't you people just mind your own business!" she got the juices and scurried off to our table.
Once at our table, she slammed our juices down and said, "Emma, your boyfriend's irritating me."
"Boyfriend?" I asked.
"Yeah, that's my boyfriend, Ash. Ash and I work here. He's the supervisor. And Rikki, he's not being irritating." Emma said, to first me, then Rikki.
I looked at Ash. Mom's statement was true again.
After Emma finished her sentence, a cute, tall, dark haired boy came up behind Rikki and said, "Who's irritating you?"
At the sound of his voice, Rikki went from being angry to being the happiest girl in the world. Her beaming smile was proof.
"Hey, how are you?" Rikki said to him.
"Great, now that I'm looking at you." With that statement, the guy planted a big kiss onto Rikki's lips.
Cleo and Emma were just saying, "Gross! Enough!"
At least she had a boyfriend. Seriously, has anyone heard the term 'single' here?
After their kiss, Rikki said, "You're one to talk, Em. I see you making out with Ash before and after your shift EVERYDAY! Now, call that gross!"
Emma and Rikki went into a huge argument about it, and Rikki's boyfriend stopped this fight by looking at me and saying, "Who are you?"
"Alex. You?" I asked.
"Zane. Rikki's boyfriend."
"I noticed."
Zane then asked Rikki if she wanted to hang out with him and she declined.
It was weird, she went back to being sad and morbid.
Rikki, uncrossed her arms (which was hiding the bruise on her arm). Zane saw the bruise and said, "Rikki, what happened?"
This simple question, got a harsh answer.
Rikki yelled at Zane with tears in her eyes, "NOTHING! CAN'T ANYONE MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS!?" And with that she went running out of the Juicenet Café and a little after, so did Zane.
After Zane left, Cleo said, "Wow, I've never seen Rikki that upset before."
"Me either." Emma added.
I tried to lighten the mood, "Enough of the drama, so are you guys doing anything tonight, we should hang out."
Cleo was about to say, "Yes", when Emma mouthed to her, "Full moon."
Full moon? What could that be about?
Cleo then said, "We'd love to, but we're busy. Tomorrow's fine though."
I was cool with it though. "That's fine. Justin and I were thinking of exploring the beaches. We heard about these different islands, and we want to explore them."
At the mention of the world "islands", the girls got all tense and nervous.
"But what ever you do, don't go to Mako Island." Cleo said to me.
"Why not?"
"Because...there's sharks, and other dangerous fish, and..." Cleo said. She definitely was just trying to get me not to go there, I wonder why.
Emma cut her off, "Just don't go there, ok?"
"Ok."
Yeah, Justin and I went anyway. It's not like I promised her, right? Justin and I, after talking to Lewis, and the girls for a little bit longer, rented a boat and went to Mako.
When we finally arrived at Mako, I took one look at it and knew I shouldn't be here.
"Justin, I think we should leave."
"What, afraid of some dirt, snakes or bugs?" Justin said, obviously making fun of me.
"No, I just sort of promised the girls that I wouldn't come here."
"Well, you're here aren't you? So didn't you already break that promise?"
Justin did have a point. I technically already did break their promise, so what other harm could I get into, right?
So I went along with it, even though deep down I still had a bad feeling about this.
Justin and I went further in the Island, and we eventually found this weird pool inside a volcano (which Justin, knowing him and his weird obsession with volcanoes, was amazed about this pool and said it was dominant). By the time we reached this volcano it was dark.
Justin pointed out, "Oh, look you can see the moon." And Justin was right. The full moon was at the cone of the volcano.
It was strange, as soon as the full moon was exactly over the cone of the volcano, the water in the pool started bubbling.
"Woah," Justin and I said in unison.
Justin then got this crazy idea (knowing him), "I dare you to jump in."
"I'm not jumping in, you jump in."
Justin then said, "If you won't go in, then I'll make you go in." And with that Justin pushed me into the pool.
First off that water was really cold and second, how could Justin? He can be so mean sometimes.
When my head was above the water, I said, "Justin! I'm gonna get you for this! I'm..."
But then I noticed that the bubbles had stopped. Justin and I looked up at the cone of the volcano and noticed that the moon wasn't there anymore, it had moved.
"Let's get out of here." I said.
"Couldn't agree more." Justin said, while pulling me out of the water.
Yeah, we were in a lot of trouble when we got home, but it was worth it. Like we knew when our curfew was. I could just say, "Oh, but back in New York it's this time..." But whatever, it's not like I haven't been in trouble before. We didn't even get grounded, so I don't know what Justin's problem is. He's a goody toe shoes, that's what it is. Well, when I got home, I immediately changed into dry clothes. It's funny, with the trouble we were in (really it was just a talking to), my parents never asked me about my appearance.
After I got changed into dry clothes, I was organizing my room. I love unpacking things and trying to find the perfect place for them. Little did I know my clothes weren't going to be dry for that long. Justin and Max decided to have a water gun fight in the house (odd I know, but that's my brothers). They came into my room, said, "WATER GUN FIGHT!", squirted me with their water guns, then left. I was soaking wet.
"Guys, I have to change clothes again!" I slammed my door loudly. But as soon as I slammed my door shut, I fell down.
That's weird, how come I can't move both of my legs?, I thought. I looked down at my legs, and turns out they weren't legs at all.
"I'm a...I'm a..." I couldn't get the weird out. It was just too bizarre.
"Mermaid."
The next day, I tried to find Lewis. Luckily I did. He was at the pier, fishing. I ran towards him.
"Lewis! Lewis!"
As soon as he heard his name he looked back. I could have sworn I seen him smile, but that's not important right now. The important thing is I'm a freaking FISH!
When I reached to where he was at the pier, he said, "Oh hey, Alex, what's up?"
"No time for what's up. Something's happened to me, and you're the only one that could help me." (Him being a science guy and all, I figured he'd be perfect at a time like this. Plus, I'd get to spend more time with him, but that's not the reason...ok, so that's partly the reason).
"What's happened to you, that you had to run all the way over here at," Lewis looked at his watch. "Eight in the morning."
"Here, I'll show you." I looked to see if anyone was around, no one was. I jumped into the water. I hope Lewis won't be freaked out by this. That would suck, since I like him and all.
I could hear Lewis yelling my name. Yep, he's freaking out. And he hasn't even seen my tail yet.
My tail appeared ten seconds later after I touched water.
As soon as Lewis saw it he was shocked.
Yep, this definitely ruins my chance with him now.
I really hope you liked this! I'm SO sorry for the long wait! I worked SO hard on it! Personally, I think it sucks, but that's just me. REVIEW PLEASE! that's the ONLY way i know i can make this better. As for the 2nd episode, here's how it's going to go: After each episode, go on my profile and vote for which point of view you want it to be in (Alex, Emma, Cleo or Rikki), whichever vote gets the most votes...wins! Now keep in mind that I might not do the same character over&over again (that way this series would SUCK). I made it so you CAN'T see the results. As soon as I have a winner, I'll get rid of the poll. I'll replace that poll with the "Who should commit suicide in the season finale...?" (VOTE for that too!) You'll find out who wins either when the next one comes...or if I make a trailer for it (do you want me to?) For people that can make videos/graphics, etc... i NEED your support! Tell your fellow H20/WOWP lovers to CHECK THIS OUT! Subscribe to my channel/"Changes That Could Kill You" Playlist...EVERYTHING! I'd really appreciate it!
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