A/N: Hey everyone! This is the official 5th chapter of Blueruby13's "Sea Princess". I'm sorry it took so long to upload this but I' was very sick and busy doing my AP program work at home in my free time for the past couple of months seeing as how I wasn't allowed to go to school. Anyways sorry if some facts are wrong in this fan-fiction. I can't analyze every detail for the original story and get everything correct in here. Oh and just to make this chapter seem a bit more realistic Bella can choose whether or not she turns into a mermaid near water. I don't know if that was what it was originally but just in case that's what's going on. I thought that this would make more sense seeing as how she's going to a beach with humans.

Anyways R&R! Please tell me what you think!

"Home. I didn't know where that was now. Here with Charlie, Alice, Edward? Or with my mother and the sea animals in the ocean? That

was a question I couldn't answer."

That single thought repeated in my head for what felt like the one hundredth time in the past twenty minutes. After an agonizing school day I got into my truck and started to La Push to meet up with Angela, Mike, Jessica, Tyler, & Lauren.

The second that I had gotten there Jessica & Lauren had grabbed the guys and taken off to the shore. Angela and I however went in the opposite direction and headed to the tide pools.

"So what's up with you and that Cullen guy? He's so into you! You guys are the perfect couple!" Angela said to me with a mad grin on her face.

"Really Ang? I'm starting to think that you and Alice are twins! God! Nothing is going on between Edward & I!" I exclaimed.

"Really? Then why are you blushing?" She asked.

"Huh?"

"Here, look for yourself," She said victoriously while handing me a compact from her purse.

Curse my excessive blushing!

"So it's true! Bella what's up with you two? I NEED to know!" Angela screeched with glee.

"Nothing Angela! I mean something may have been there in the beginning but it's definitely long gone now. I mean he flat out said to my face that he didn't like me and didn't want to be friends," I yelled.

I looked down. I was on the verge of breaking into tears.

I took off my socks & shoes and put my bare feet in a tide pool. The water somehow calmed me. It mad me feel like my mother was there comforting me.

Oh how much I missed her.

"Oh my god! I'm sorry for bringing it up! It's all right! He wasn't that cute anyways! I mean he's no Channing Tatum," She said winking.

"What happened to the perfect couple thing?" I muttered.

"What?" She asked.

"Oh nothing I was just thinking out loud about how much I miss my mom," I said quickly.

Nice cover up Bella! It's not entirely a lie! I mean you were thinking about how much you miss your mom...

"Oh."

"Yeah it's nothing... Hey! It's getting late we should probably head back and meet up with everyone," I said trying to get out of the awkward situation I just put myself in. I mean Angela must feel terrible bringing up Him.

"Yeah you're probably right and I have to leave anyways... I'm meeting up with Ben," She added the last part feebly.

"Yeah that's probably best. See you at school tomorrow?" I ask hoping, no PRAYING, that we were still on good terms.

I walked back to my beast of a Chevy. She was the only thing I could rely on these days. I mean my dad knows next to nothing about me these days and can't give really good advice, my mom was hundreds of miles away in the ocean somewhere, Angela knows nothing about the other side of me so I can't confide in her, Alice doesn't & can't know about me being a mermaid and I'm NOT talking to her about Edward, the last thing I need is a pixie-like human getting into my relationship business. And then there's Edward. I can't tell him or even talk to him anymore. He doesn't like me now and do you want to know the funny thing? I think I may just like him. God how bad can this get?