Summary: Rikki Chadwick and Zane Bennett are two very different people who know nothing about each other. However as Zane's interest in her grows and Rikki's secrets begin to unravel they become drawn to each other and Rikki learns that she may need Zane more then she'd like to admit.

This is an AU story (Alternate Universe) and the girls are not mermaids. I'm not sure if I'm gonna make them mermaids. We'll see =)

Rikki Chadwick groaned as she woke up to banging, and an angry voice yelling through her bedroom door.

"School. Get up now!" A mans voice yelled as he stopped pounding on the door.

Rikki sighed as she heard his footsteps walking away from her room. She slowly rolled out of bed and made her way towards her closet to get out the clothes she was gonna wear that day. After taking a shower and getting dressed she quickly tied her blond curly hair up in a ponytail and walked out of her bedroom into the kitchen where her father was.

"About time you finished getting ready. Now get to school before you're late again." He said in a annoyed tone without even taking a second to look at her. Rikki didn't reply she just rolled her eyes and grabbed her books before making her way out of the house to walk to school.

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Rikki headed straight to class when she arrived at school. She didn't even know why she bothered to go to school. It wasn't as if anyone would notice if she wasn't there. Her dad probably wouldn't care either. She sighed as she sat down at the back of the room as other students began walking into the classroom and taking their seats. She really hated going to school. Her grades weren't that good, she figured they would be better if she actually tried but she didn't really see the point. Mostly though it was the people she hated. Ever since she had moved to town with her dad she had been known as the 'freaky new girl'. Rikki was broken out of her thoughts when someone sat down in the desk in front of her. She rolled her eyes seeing it was Zane Bennett in front of her. The last thing she wanted right now was to have to spend an entire class looking at the back of his head. She watched as Zane's girlfriend Miriam sat in the desk to the right of him and his friend Nate sat in front of him. As their teacher walked into the classroom and began talking to the class Rikki went to grab her notebook out of her bag but as she leaned down to get it her desk shook a little causing the pencil on her desk to roll onto the floor. As she finished pulling her notebook out of her bag she noticed Zane lean down and pick up the pencil.

"You dropped this." He said as he turned around to hand it to her.

"Thanks" She said as she took it from him. He simply nodded and turned back to his own desk.

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Zane Bennett was sitting at lunch with his friends Nate, Miriam and Tiffany, annoyed at the pointless conversation he was listening to Miriam and Tiffany have. He looked around at other tables and his eyes stopped when he saw Rikki sitting alone. He wondered why she was always by herself but he shrugged it off figuring she just preferred that. He thought back to this morning when he briefly talked to her when he gave her back her pencil. That was the first time he had actually talked to her. He had wanted to talk to her before but she never seemed interested in talking to him, or anyone for that matter. Something about her always seemed to interest him though. From the first time he saw her he knew she was different from all the other girls in school. At the same time something about her was off too. When he looked at her something about the look in her eyes seemed to grasp his attention. There was sadness and loneliness in them. It seemed almost as if there was fear there too but he couldn't understand why.

"Zane!" he jumped and was broken out of his thoughts when Miriam yelled trying to get his attention.

"What?" He asked turning his gaze onto her.

"What were you staring at?" She asked him looking around confused.

"Nothing." Zane replied and Miriam shrugged. Zane sighed and looked back over to where Rikki was sitting but when he did she wasn't there anymore.

So this was just the first chapter. So don't worry the plot will start kicking in and there will be plenty of Zikki to look forward to! :) Review please.