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Chapter Two
Lewis shot upright in bed. He looked around his dark bedroom. The only light was the sliver of light shining through the curtains. He couldn't remember what had made him awake so suddenly. Something felt off though, but he couldn't put his finger on it. He looked over at his clock.
10:09
He hadn't gotten a call from Cleo or any of the girls so he assumed the full moon had passed with no incident. But little did he know that he was way off. His phone went off, breaking the silence of the room.
"Hello?"
"Lewis, it's Will. I think something happened last night."
"What do you mean? Did the girls call you?"
"Not exactly. I don't think the girls are mermaids anymore."
"What?"
"I am looking at Cleo right now. She's at the beach. Her hair is wet, and she doesn't have a tail."
"That's not possible. If she lost her powers, she would have called me."
"What if she didn't lose them?"
"You're making no sense, Will."
"Hear me out, Lewis. She didn't lose them because she never had them. The girls would have called if something happened with the full moon. But what if something happened that made it so they never got their powers?"
"That…actually makes some sense. Meet me at the beach in ten, okay?"
"Okay."
Lewis was dressed and out of his house in less than two minutes. He was on his way to the beach thinking about what Will had suggested. Is it possible that somehow the full moon had throw them into a universe were the girls were never mermaids? He was lost in his train of thought when he ran into someone nearly knocking them down.
"Watch where you're going!" The girl snapped at him. The voice sounded freakishly familiar. When he looked up, he saw an irritated Rikki glaring at him.
Rikki look completely different. She had her lip and nose pieced, and her naturally blonde hair was dyed jet black. He could barely recognize her with all her makeup. Her eyes were surrounded heavily by dark eye liner and black eye shadow. The only thing that looked the same about her was the locket hanging around her neck, except it wasn't hers. It was Cleo's.
"What are you staring at?"
"Rikki," was all Lewis could get out of his mouth. He couldn't believe that the girl in front of him was Rikki, but he knew she was.
"How the hell do you know my name?" Rikki asked, harshly, taking a step back.
"We go to the same school, right?" he asked, trying to make sense of the situation.
"Unlikely, considering the fact that I dropped out."
Lewis tried not to react to this news. Rikki had dropped out? He needed to think fast and get out of this conversation.
"Then never mind. I have no clue how I know you," he said as he started to walk way.
"Freak," Rikki muttered under her breath.
When Lewis felt it was safe, he looked over his shoulder to get another look at Rikki. This definitely confirmed that something happened last night. Something bad. And why did Rikki have Cleo's locket? That was the one that was originally at the bottom of the moon pool.
"Lewis!"
"Hey, Will. You're right. Something is definitely up. I just ran into Rikki."
"How was she?"
Lewis quickly told him about the "new" Rikki. He left off the part about Cleo's locket. He wanted to think about it some more. And Will wasn't there when the girls had the lockets so he wouldn't know the story behind Cleo's locket.
"What the hell is going on?"
"I have no clue."
Lewis and Will just looked helplessly at each other. They had no clue what had happened, and they had no clue how to fix it.
A/n So I'm not sure if I'm going to have Zane remember the normal universe or have him be clueless like the girls. Tell me what you would like in a review. Also, Ash isn't going to be in this. I just can't write him very well so I'm just gonna leave him out of it. Sorry if you're a Emmash fan. Please leave a review and tell me what you think of the story.