Melody's POV

I take a deep breath as I step out of the airport. We, Cora, Mom and I, get into a cab. After what feels like hours we pull up to a big house. The moving trucks are already in front of the house.

I start to help unpack the trucks, after a few minutes I yell, "Mom I'm going for a walk."

I leave and walk down the street. A boy with black hair and brownish eyes walks up to me.

"Are you new around here?" I nod, he continues, "Welcome. I'm Zane. Over there is a Café called Rikki's you should check it out."

I smile, "I will."

I walk off, continuing on my way. I decide to stretch my 'legs' and go for a run. I was in a shark attack last year; I lost my right leg and arm.

I accidently run into a girl with straight blond hair and blue eyes. I stand up and help her up.

"I'm so sorry, I was lost inside my head. Are you okay?" I ask.

She nods, "Yeah, I'm fine I should have been paying attention. I'm Emma."

I smile and say, "I'm Melody. Do have somewhere to be?"

"No, why?"

"Do you want to walk? I know nothing about Australia, and I don't want to end up somewhere restricted or something."

Emma nods and we continue down the road.

"Wait… you did what?" Emma says laughing.

I stop laughing just enough to say, "She didn't even know it was missing for weeks." I look around at the sky and see its getting dark. "I should really be getting back. My mom is going to be worried."

Emma says, "Mine too."

We jog back the way we came.

As we approach my new home, I say, "This is me. I'll see you tomorrow Emma?"

Emma nods and starts walking. She says, "By the way, we're neighbors."

I watch her as she enters the house next to mine. I turn and walk into the house.

"There you are! I was getting worried." My mom yells.

I say, "We got distracted and lost track of time."

Mom says, "We?"

"I ran into a girl. Her name is Emma, she lives next door."

My mom smiles and says, "See; I told you Australia would be nice. You've already made a friend."

I shrug and say, "And it's nice to be able to go out for a run without having to worry about snow. Today was good, tomorrow will probably be good, but things could happen to destroy it all."

My mom nods and says, "Is that why you don't try to change? Is that why you didn't try to make friends? Because of one bad day."

I yell, "Mom! You know nothing about the way I act. That bad day I lost my best friend! That bad day I lost my arm and leg! That bad day we lost Dad!"

I run into my new room and lie on the bed. Flashbacks of that day returning me.

"Dad, Ally, hurry up. I want to get to the campsite." I yelled.

Ally yelled, "We'll be here a week we can take our time getting to the campsite."

I rolled my eyes and waited for them. After a long hike up the mountain, we got to the campsite. It was to late too explore by the time the tents were pitched and a fire started. Dad was making dinner and Ally and I looked for more wood to burn.

When we returned, Dad had dinner made. We started to eat.

Dad said, "Tonight's the full moon. I think, if we really wanted to, we could sleep in the morning." Little did we know that the answer could kill Ally and my dad.

I nod enthusiastically. We head down to a beach, I point out some dolphins.

Ally said, "You want to swim out there?"

I nod and said, "Of course I want to. Dad, can we?"

My dad nods, "I'll come out with you."

We swam out to the dolphins and played with them for a bit. They started to swim away so I swam in to take a break. I watched as Dad and Ally played around with some fish. Trying to catch them. I saw something in the water slightly bigger than a dolphin.

I yelled, "Dad, Ally, shark!"

They turned toward me. My dad yelled, "What?"

"Shark!" I yelled and pointed to it.

My dad said something to Ally and the slowly started to make their way back keeping their eyes on the shark. My dad and I had been in this situation before. Because I like to swim in the ocean all the time, I've studied sharks and how they act.

I noticed the shark was curling and so did my dad because he stoped moving. Dad took a defensive position. The shark moved closer and I knew that we would need metical attention. I called 911 and told them what was happening.

The shark attacked Dad and Ally, and I did the most stupid thing ever; I jumped into the water. I swam towards them, and saw my dad was in the middle of a battle with the shark. I grabbed Ally and we started our way back.

But the shark beat my dad and came after us. We didn't know… and now Ally's dead. The shark grabbed her leg and pulled her back, the force of the movement caused her to black out, or she fainted; I will never know. I knew my only chance was to get away. I saw a sea cave opening and knew it was closer than the shore. I swam in.

The moon came overhead a crack in the cave… it was so magic. Light filled the cave and water droplets rose up. For a minute I forgot about the shark but I remembered when it grabbed my leg.

I kicked its eye so it dropped my leg, but it grabbed my arm. I heard sirens so I screamed as loud as I could. The next thing I know I was in the hospital with only one arm and one leg.

AN: 1. What do you think of Melody's backstory? 2. Sorry for not posting. I doubt that I will post again soon. I'm behind at school so I don't have time to write. I will try my best to get back soon.