Intro Scene
(Scene with opening credits)
The Perfect Life
Crystal, Soo Jin, Anna, and Jill are sitting on their beach towel near the ocean. Crystal is picking up a bunch of papers with drawings.
Crystal: I'm Crystal Natanya Willow. I'm eighteen. I live with my parents and my younger sister and brother. I live an okay life. After all, I am always bugged by people asking me if I'm a celebrity. I'm always told that on the hottie scale I'm a perfect ten… big breasts with a flat stomach, nice hips, and a very small butt. I'm also 5'7'' and I love baseball. I'm a great swimmer but only when my family is watching. The reason for that is I'm a mermaid.
She holds up a drawing of a mermaid.
Crystal: My mother is also a mermaid but my father, sister, and maybe my brother are fairies.
She shows a drawing of a fairy.
Crystal: These people next to me are my best friends and my band members.
She points at Jill Will-O-Wisp.
Crystal: This is Jill Will-O-Wisp. She's our bassist. She may seem like a punk by her appearance but she's actually quite shy. She's a witch.
Jill: I am not! Besides, if we are talking about appearances you look like a hussy all the time.
Crystal: I do not! I only wear cute you are too a witch. You make potions and I drink them all the time.
Jill: Oh, right. I forgot who I was talking to.
Crystal: She's also a unicorn.
Crystal holds up a drawing of a unicorn. Anna, Soo Jin, and Jill all burst out laughing.
Crystal: What?
Anna Johnson: What are these?
Crystal: What they look like. They're drawings.
Jill: Hand them over.
Crystal: Ah, okay.
Jill lays them on the beach towel. The laughter becomes a roar.
Crystal: What's wrong with them?
Anna: Who drew these?
Jill: They look like a five-year-old drew them.
Crystal: But... but...
Soo Jin Lee: Crystal, these are not your drawings. You can do much better.
Crystal: Humph.
Soo Jin picks one up and turns it over.
Soo Jin: Ah. That explains a lot.
Anna and Jill: What does?
They look at the back. In huge letters is the name Sissy.
Anna and Jill: Oh. You're right.
Crystal: Huh? Never mind. I don't care. Back to my introductions... my best friend is Soo Jin and she's our drummer. She's also a mutant. She can read people's minds and put her thoughts in their heads. It's much better than a cellphone!
Soo Jin: That's what you see my powers as?
Crystal: Yep.
Soo Jin: I should have known. Crystal, can you go get us some drinks?
Crystal: Okay.
She gets up and walks 30 feet to a concession stand. Back on the towel...
Soo Jin: That girl is so naive.
Anna: Totally.
Jill: She has no idea that the clothes she perceives as cute are quite sexy and make her look like a whore.
Anna: By the way, I'm a human and I'm the keyboardist.
Soo Jin: Well, everyone out there please understand that in our lives...
All three: Everything is NOT always what it seems...
The background becomes black and
Everything is NOT Always What is Seems...
is shown for a little bit.
Narrator: We begin our story on the Los Angeles beach with Anna Johnson and Jill Will-O-Wisp swimming and Crystal Willow and Soo Jin Lee on the beach feet from the water's edge... So please enjoy...
Crystal: Hiding my mermaid identity from other people is such a bother, always pretending I'm afraid of water.
Someone grabs Crystal from behind.
Soo Jin Lee: Hey, Crystal. Are you there? Aren't you "afraid" of the ocean?
Crystal looks down. She's three feet from the sea. She jumps back.
Crystal: He, he, he. Yeah. Mentally anyway but my body craves the ocean. Yet since we're here with at the beach, I can only show off my bikini… showing off my tail would be a bit extreme.
Anna Johnson: Everyone's staring at you again, Crystal. I'm just lucky to be your friend.
Jill Will-O-Wisp: Hey, Crystal. How come out of all the guys in our class who have confessed to liking you, you've never had a boyfriend?
Soo Jin: She has a great reason.
Anna: Really? Tell me, Crystal.
Crystal: It's complicated. Besides you should already know.
Beep
Text from Soo Jin
Soo Jin: Time to come home.
Soo Jin winks at Crystal.
Crystal: It's from my sister telling me it's time to go home. Are you coming with me, Soo Jin?
Soo Jin: Yes.
Five minutes later, in front of their houses.
Soo Jin: That was close, wasn't it?
Crystal: Yeah. Thanks, girl.
They hug.
Soo Jin: What're best friends for?
Crystal smiles.
Crystal: Can you believe it's the end of summer vacation?
Soo Jin: Yeah. It sucks. Blah.
She makes the weirdest expression and both of them burst out laughing.
Crystal: Ah… see you Monday.
Soo Jin: Yeah.
They hug goodbye then enter their houses.
Crystal: Hello.
Her sister flies up behind her and hugs her.
Crystal: Eep. Diamond!
Diamond laughs and flies in front of her sister.
Diamond Emily Willow: You're so fun, sis.
Crystal: Ha, ha. I'll be in my room. Call me when dinner's ready.
Diamond holds out a thumbs-up. Crystal walks up the stairs and enters her room.
Crystal: I say younger sister but we're identical twins. We have platinum blond hair and blue eyes. Our brother's lucky, he has brown hair and eyes. My family and I live in L.A. and I love the warmth of the sea here. My sister dyes her hair bright red everyday with her magic so that people can tell us apart. Also I do gymnastics and am a singer in a pop/rock band made up by my friends and me. The problem with our band, Riot, is that we don't have a guitarist. Maybe we'll find one this year…
Diamond: Sis, dinner's ready.
Crystal: Oh, okay. I'm coming.
In order for things to start to get interesting you have to read the next chapter. That introduces the male lead. Sissy is actually one of Crystal's multiple personalities as is Tigress. They'll be introduced in their own scenes later. Sorry, that this scene is so bland.