Exhaling, I try to relax, though it doesn't work. Jason placed a hand on my shoulder, making me jump. He laughed, softly.

"Not nervous are you?" he asked, sweetly.

I smiled at him and shook my head. "I'm fine, just jetlag."

"Right," he said, nodding suspiciously, but he doesn't continue any farther. He never does. We're at still at the airport, waiting by the front doors in Los Vegas, NV. I glanced up at Jason's profile as he looked out into the parking lot and my breath is taken away. He has shaggy dark brown hair with piercing green eyes and his body…just thinking about it makes me feel numb. He's amazing, sweet and kind…well at lest to me he is.

"What are you staring at?" he asked without even looking at me. Amusement soothed his voice out.

I shyly looked away. "Nothing," I said, staring out into the parking lot. I begin biting the tip of my nails and I hear Jason sigh beside me. "What?" I asked.

"You are nervous," he said.

"So?" I questioned. Okay, so I was, nervous, but what mermaid wouldn't be. I mean about to go live with a much of night world people who don't even believe I'm real. It can make you really nervous.

"You don't have to be nervous," Jason purred, putting his arms around me. I love his warm embrace. It's so safe, so welcoming.

"How can I not be?" I asked my Australian accent thick in my words.

"I'm nervous too," Jason whispered in my ear.

I laughed. "You never get nervous."

"Then you can be nervous for the both of us." He kissed me on the cheek and I felt shivers reverberate through my skin. I gazed out past the parking lot and saw nothing but city and desert. No a single drop of water anywhere. I sighed under my breath, but Jason still heard it.

"Now what?" he asked, his voice still kind.

I sighed, turning to him. "I guess I miss the ocean," I confessed. (P.S. He doesn't know I'm a mermaid.)

"You've only been away from a day and you already miss home?"

I shook my head. "I didn't say home, I just said the ocean."

Jason stared at me, confused. "I thought you told me, you don't like the water?"

Oh, snap! I did. "I don't," I lied, "but that doesn't mean I don't like watching it. The ocean to me, is just so peaceful and calm."

"But it can be dangerous," Jason warned.

"Like you?" I questioned, folding my arms.

"Only sometimes," he laughed.

I turned back to the parking lot, scanning the cars and people coming and going. You're probably thinking are you crazy why haven't you told him yet? Well you see there's still a little problem, the last full moon, have a weird effect on my friends and I...Let's just say we got new powers, we created a wild killing storm around Mako and my friend, Tom, ( aka, Lewis) was blow up and out of a volcano. I know a lot can happen in one night.

Now, I have both the power to boil things and lightning, while my friends, Kaitlin has the power of freezing things and storm and Carly has the power over water and wind. So right now we really can't balance our powers, so when we use our normal powers, out dangerous one work instead. But we're trying and Tom's trying to find away out of all this mess. He's like a science geek and always trying to explain mermaid magic with science. I continually tell him, it isn't going to work, but Carly, Tom's girlfriend, says he knows what he's doing. I doubt it. He knows nothing about mermaid magic, but then again, who does?

I shook my head, clearing my thoughts. You would think that a vampire would be able to read my thoughts, but surprisingly, mermaids have a very strong mind block that I didn't even realize I had until I meet Jason. Good thing too. There are enough questions going around, I don't want more.

Questions like where did me and my friends get these new powers?

And when was a giant water monster chasing after us every other moon?

Can you see why I can't tell Jason! Everything right now is just to bewildering! I don't want any more questions, not right now.

"So who are we looking for?" I asked, peering out into the street.

"Quinn and Rashel."

"And they are…?" I dragged out.

"A soulmate couple from the Daybreaker. You'll like them," Jason insured me.

I nodded looking away. "Alright, mate," I said.

Jason laughed, shaking his head.

"What?" I asked, hands on my hips. I had to flick my long dark red hair out of my dark green eyes. He doesn't answer me. "What?" I repeated.

"Nothing, I'm just still getting use to your accent. It makes you laugh," he confessed.

"Well, your accent makes me laugh. You sound like an American," I teased.

He stepped closer to me, looking down at me. "Oh really?"

"Really." I stood on my tippy-toes so that our faces are only cementers away. I'm about to kiss him, ready for an explosive feeling of excitement to go pulsing through me when Jason's name is called out from the parking lot. He pulled away from me, looking out into the street.

I sighed, disappointed. Perfectly time, I cursed. I gazed up to see where Jason is looking to see a boy of about 17 and a girl of about 18 to come walking towards us. They're walking like one of them, one of the nightwolders, but I can tell the difference. The boy is the vampire and the girl is a human, but she's probably a fighter of some sort. They reached us and I could already feel the awkward moment coming.

"Hi," the girl greeted, "You must…"

"Scarlett," I finished. I feeling cool that I thought I had, quickly slip away. Half of my mind is saying this is a very bad an idea but the other half is saying, just go with the flow. Either of these feelings is helping me.

"Well, I'm Rashel and this is Quinn, my soulmate," the girl explained. She turned to Jason. "And you must be Jason."

"Yep," Jason replied.

"Well, Quinn has told me everything about you," Rashel smirked.

"Oh, I hop not," Jason laughed. I just stand there, feeling awkward and confused. It is times like this that it's good to have a nice large ocean around that I can just swim in for hours. The water just seems to take all my worries away, but I have no escape this time.

"Hey, Jason. Long time, no see," Quinn greeted for the first time. The boys shook hands, firmly, but all I can think about is how loud my heart beat is getting. This is a bad idea, Carly had told me before I had left, but I hadn't listened then.

"Last time, I saw you; you were still stone cold and a human hater?" Jason questioned, smiling.

"Times change," Quinn replied. "Now let get these bags in the car. Thierry wants to meet you both."

"Great," I whispered under my breath as I pick up two of my bags and beginning following Jason and Quinn. I barely notice Rashel beside me until she spoke up. "Not nervous, are you?" she asked.

I faked a smile, knowing she could see right through it. Nervous? Yes!

About meeting a bunch of nightworlders? No!

About having my secret blown? Yes!

"Just a little. It's just strange being so far away from home," I lied.

"I could imagine," Rashel replied. "So how long are you staying out?"

"Oh, not long, about three weeks, maybe four. School going to start soon," I explained.

"Oh, yeah, I forget. Your time and seasons there are flipped. So it's summer there?"

"Yeah. Don't think too much into it, or you'll end up with a headache," I warned, lightly. After that, I remained quiet, not really knowing what to say. What could I say? I didn't have anything in common with this girl, or any one I was going to live with from the next month.

"You're pretty quiet," Rashel said as we reached the car at the far end of the parking lot.

I nodded. "I just don't have much to say."

"Really?" Rashel questioned. "You don't look like the quiet type."

"Oh, I'm not, I'm just…" You're just what? I asked myself. "I'm just nervous about being this far away from home for the first time."

"Across oceans can be pretty far away," Rashel agreed.

"Not for me," I whispered under my breath as I opened the car door and slid in. Rashel followed while the boys put the bags in the back. I just sit quietly, thinking to myself. Quinn and Jason get in the car, with Quinn driving. Again it is quiet and I just can't stand it.

"So where you born in Australia?" Quinn began.

I nodded, biting my lip. "Yep. Never been out of the Gold Coast until now. You've ever been to Australia?"

Quinn and Rashel both shook their heads in reply. "There," Rashel said, tossing me a water bottle, "You look like you have jetlag."

I caught the water bottle and panic fired through me. It's wet. I dropped the bottle on the floor of the car and immediately began rubbing my hands on jacket. I could hear the seconds in my head tick. Ten…

Nine…

Eight…

Seven…

Six….

Five…

Four…

Three…

Two….

One…

Nothing happened and my hands were completely dry. I sighed with relief but when I looked up, Rashel was staring at me, confused. "Are you okay?" she asked.

"Yep," I replied. "It was just wet." I leaned down for the water bottle, which was out of sight from everyone in the car and gently curved my fingers into a fist, drying the outside of the water bottle. But all the while, I could still feel Rashel's gaze on me, puzzled.

This was going to be a lot harder than I had planned, I finally realized. A lot harder!

Hey, I got second chapter done! I hope you like it! Please read and review!