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Australia. Chapter 3.
The Australian air was musty and humid. The warmth against my skin was luxury. It's like I have just walked into a sorner... only less steamy. The position of the sun show's me that it is barely mid-day as it beams brightly, blinding my naked eyes. I could already feel my pale skin darkening every second. Okay, I forgive my mum. She did say it was pretty much paradise here in Australia and I did say i would maybe forgive her if she was telling the truth. But what made me drive slightly over the edge was the glistening, aqua water of the golden beach. I make no apologies for my over use of adjectives in before every noun, but that gives you the hint of how luxurious it is here! Maybe coming here wasn't so bad after all. And I can explore the sea in my spare time! I have only dreamed of swimming in water this beautiful.
"Come on sweetie" My dad say's, pulling me out of my thought's."Our new house is just over that sand dune over there!" Hearing this I feel my spirit lift up. I now live directly in front of the sea! You can't get any better than that!
"Coming!"
After a long time of unpacking and sorting stuff out I can now finally relax. I flunk myself down on my new bed and let out a deep sigh which seemed to of lasted forever. My new bedroom was fairly decent. It needed a good paint over on the wall's and some personalisation here and there, but the size was okay. At the moment the walls had chip's of paint coming of in the corner's. There was an ancient built in wardrobe just chilling out in the corner by the window. The window had and amazing view of the coast, and quite frankly, the whole town!
"Hello sweetie" I whip my head around to see my dad beaming down at me. "How about you do a little exploring, go meet some new friends!"
"Okay!" I reply.
I run along the beach, taking in every gush of wind that strikes me. I stop when I spot an inviting cafe. I have got a few coins left in my pocket I think (spent most of it on junk food while on the plane). It would be nice to chill and grab a smoothie. Maybe I will make some new friends. Not a bad idea Rebecca. I head towards the intriguing café and casually strolled through the door way, BAM! I look down at my shirt to see water dripping from my chest to my feet. I look up wide eyed at a girl about the same age as me also drenched from head to toe. Well there goes my casual entrance. I sprint to the bathroom, or what I guessed was the bathroom and forced the door open. Luckily I guessed right. Before I knew it I flopped to the floor with my golden tail splat out in front of me. I moved my hand out in front of my tail and clenched it into a fist as steam rose to the ceiling. Two seconds after I was in human form.
"Hey, are you alright?" I look up to see a blonde haired girl with a confused expression on her face. Her bright blue eye's engulfing mine.
"Uh, yeah" I begin to say as I work up an excuse I my head. "Just didn't want my make-up to smutch."
"Right... My name is Bella, Bella Hartley."
"My name's Rebecca" I say "But you can call me Becky, well my mum does anyway" Bella giggle's at this statement.
"Nice to meet you Becky"
"Same to you" I say. Her accent is different from the Australian accent. I can here some Irish and some other accents that I can't quite place. " Where are you from?"
"Oh, all over the place, my dad's work involves moving a lot" That might explain it. "I'm guessing your from England?"
"yup"
As I say this, two girl's come up to us. One I recognise from the spillage. Though she seam's perfectly dry now... And as I can remember she was dripping wet, chest to toe.
"Are you alright?" The brunette asks me in a concerned tone. The one who miraculously dried of. "You just kind of, darted of?"
"Yeah, I'm fine now"
"Well my name is Cleo, and this is Rikki..." Cleo say's geturing to a Blonde haired girl with ocean blue eye's. Then it was my turn to introduce myself. You know, my name, where I came from, the normal. Now the introduction's were over, the four of us sat down in a booth, not to far away from the counter since Rikki had to get back to work in five minutes.
"So Becky" Cleo try's to make conversation. "You got dry pretty fast..."
"As did you." Aha! I think I caught her out there! Actually, I think I caught all of them out as I see them exchange looks.
"You like the ocean then?" Rikki push's on.
"Yeah" Now were getting somewhere. "It's apart of me I suppose. Why do you ask?" I glance up at them. The expression's on there face's were serious. They know. They know what I am. I know what they are. They know, I know, They know and I know, They know, I know. Now that's confusing.
"Are you a mermaid?" Bella but's in. Whoa. In at the deep end there Bella. I suppose there is no point in denying it, so...
"Yup" I come straight out. They already know, so what's the point in hiding it?
"You seem confident!" Rikki exclaims
"Well, I know your mermaids so, why not?" There face's seem mortified. I couldn't help but laugh. There face's though! I got up from my seat, mainly because it was just getting awkward, and I really should be getting home. "Well, I might see you tomorrow?"
"uh, right yeah..." Was all that was said.
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