Chapter 4

Our New Home

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Disclaimer: (Narwhal Song rhythm)

BELLA: Mermaids, mermaids, swimming in the ocean

Causing a commotion

'Cuz they are so awesome!

ME: Would you STOP singing that!

BELLA: Why? You don't own me! BWAHHAHA! OK, Edward?! I think that blood Emmett gave me earlier had something in it! (Bella walks out of room)

ME: That's right, Bella. Blame Emmett...(MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!)

Bella's POV

When I turned around the rock, Edward was gone, and I realized what a mistake I have made! He was the most handsome person I have ever seen! I erased his mind! Why?

Tick thinks that I'm a Special Mermaid, and that my power is to control minds. That's ridiculous! All mermaids can control blood... right?

I released my tail and picked Tick up and slid him onto my finger, where he tangled his tentacles around it. I swam back to the cave right when Lindsey woke up.

"Hi, Lindsey, and good morning," I tried to be polite but she was just pushing my buttons. Lindsey eyed me up and down, arms crossed, and turned around to awaken the others. She poked Katie and Katie darted out of the cave screaming. I cautiously swam out to get her but she came back with a pile of kelp, laughing. When she noticed Tick for the first time and squealed. Forgetting the kelp, she dropped and swam over to me.

"That is so cute! Where did you find him?" Katie rubbed his head and he hummed.

"I found him while swimming around the castle one day. He was lost and stuck between some rocks," I explained, adoring him.

"Okay, ladies," Morgan said, talking loudly. I didn't like her very much. She only pretended to like me because I'm the princess.

"MaKayla and I will lead the way. There is some clothes at our destination so don't worry about that." She finished. Morgan swam out of the cave and MaKayla followed.

For our school plans, Katie and Misi were the youngest so they were going to be Freshmen. They were both fourteen. Since I was seventeen, I was going to be a Junior. We traveled up streams and rivers.

Finally, we reached the lake. It was very private and secluded. It wasn't so much as a lake than it was a cave. The water was completely clear but light blue like our eyes. The only way out was either underwater or the tunnel in the wall that led to a staircase out and to open land. There were no rocks, land, or any kind of sitting place in this cave. It was much like a lake with a dome over it.

There were clothes on the walls of the tunnel. When I reached the hole that concealed the tunnel, I changed into a human and picked one outfit that looked like it would fit. Everyone had the same style of clothes. A jacket, a blank but colorful t-shirt, a bra, underwear, skinny jeans, socks, and ankle high boots.

Mackenzie led the way out at mermaid speed to get there faster. Mermaids are inhumanly strong to move about in the water, only leading to the fact that we are inhumanly fast as well.

When we got to the house it was only two stories and very wide. Katie and Lindsey shared the room that was in the basement. Morgan, MaKayla, and Mackenzie shared the master bedroom which was on the main floor. Misi and I had our own separate bedroom on the upper floor, leaving a guest room also on the upper floor.

All the rooms were completed with clothes that Katie a clothes business brought in. The owner of the clothes business was a different species, not human or mermaid. Not strong or fast enough to be a mermaid, but just as beautiful, immortal, drank blood...

"...and she has golden eyes." Lindsey said, in a dark voice, "There are seven of them, all but one has found love," she continued, "Their skin is hard, but not hard enough. We could easily break them in two. But what makes them an even opponent in battle, is that some of them also have special powers. Just. Like. Us..." Lindsey abruptly stood up then, scaring the starfish out of me and Tick. She came back in and gave Katie, Misi, and I a type of jewelry with a water drop filled with what looked like golden dust.

Katie's was a thick bracelet with the charm embedded into the thick blue leather, Misi's was a choker necklace with a golden ribbon that wrapped around her neck and had the charm dangling in the center of her neck, and mine was silver chain necklace with the charm hanging from the bottom of the chain by a hook. Lindsey stood there, staring into the box and concentrated on something.

"I have decided that I should go to school with you. You never know if you'll get into trouble," she remarked, looking straight at me with a scowl, but it changed into a smile so suddenly that I thought I'd imagined it all, "I'll be a Junior like you, Isabella!" She enthusiastically exclaimed, though I can see the dread in her eyes.

"Than what are the charms for?" Misi asked, inspecting her choker.

"Oh, yeah," Lindsey flipped her dark hair over her tan shoulder, "There for your tail. No you don't wear it on your tail. They're just so you don't accidentally turn into a mermaid while you're at school," she said coldly scowling at me again. She then smiled suddenly for the second time, not looking at me and said, "Well, I'm gonna pick outfits out for everyone who is going to school! This is so exciting! I don't care if school is in two days, I'm picking them out, now!"

"Ooh! I'm helping!" Katie ran in to my room and shut the door. Thank Poseidon! Katie's the one picking out my outfit! I bet if Lindsey did it, it would look terrible! I looked at Misi, about to tell her something when she turned around and accidentally whipped me in the face with her golden, caramel colored hair. She entered her bedroom.

"Hey, Misi!" I shouted after her. I needed to go back to that rock! If the human came back, I wouldn't erase his memory and maybe we can be friends!

"Yeah?" She screamed back at me. We only yelled at each other because we thought it would be fun.

"I'm going to go out! I'll see you around four o'clock, OKAY?!" I screamed even louder, challenging her to a Scream Off. Instead of accepting with another scream, she just poked her head out from the doorway. "Well, Morgan, MaKayla, and Mackenzie already left to registrate us for school. Should I come with you, princess?" She asked in a normal volume.

"No, I want to go explore a bit. Maybe I'll go fishing, okay?" Misi laughed at our term of sucking fish blood.

"Okay, just don't die! (That's what I want to say to my children when they do things. Instead of saying, 'Be careful' I'm gonna be a weird mom and say, 'Don't die!' Because, y'know, that's what they mean anyway!) And make sure no humans see you."

"Don't worry, Misi," I replied to her. To bad that my exact intentions was that the human would see me again.

I wandered toward the cave we were at, stripped, and dived. I was heading straight back to the rocks I found the human at.

Edward's POV

I had just gone hunting, alone of course, so my eyes were bright and golden and any blood that I had in my system yesterday was gone. For some reason, I had a feeling to go back to the beach. I feel like I had left something there.

As I was running through the forest, a sudden, strong, sweet scent. It was so familiar and yet, I have never smelt anything like it. I sprinted faster to find the source. I started to hear singing as well as splashing. That's probably the source of the smell! I ran the fastest I've gone and was behind of rows that led into the sandy beach. There was a girl. Even from the back, I can tell she is beautiful and... naked.

I approach slowly, she must've heard me swimming because she turned around and gave me a smile. I nearly gasped. She was absolutely beautiful!

Wait a second! I remember her now! I was here with my 'family,' I sent them away, and I went home. What happened then? I have forgotten her name. Maybe she'll remember me.

"Hello," she says smoothly. Again, she is waist deep in water and her hair and knees are covering her chest.

"Hello," I fidgeted, "Can I sit with you?"

"Of course." Instead of sitting into the water, I climbed up onto the rock and lie down.

"Excuse, me, I don't mean to be rude, but, do you have any clothes?" I ask her. I mentally slap myself. What an odd question.

"Oh... no," she replied shyly.

"You can wear my shirt, here," I took my shirt off and handed it to her but she did not take it right away. I was starting to get confused when I noticed she was looking a something. I averted my eyes to where her gaze landed. It was at my chest. I was starting to feel self-conscious. I wish I knew what she was thinking. I thought to myself. I realized that I didn't know what she was thinking.

"Can you turn around?" She asked, making a circular hand gesture. I quickly complied. After a moment of a bit of splashing, she said, "Okay, you can turn back around, now." It was the best sight I have ever seen. The most beautiful, most breathtakingly beautiful girl was wearing my shirt.

"I'm Edward Cullen. We met here yesterday, but I don' t seem to remember your name," as I was speaking to her, her polite smile was slowly faltering and she looked troubled and regretful. I cleared my throat and she smiled up at me, but it didn't reach her eyes. Her blue eyes were, instead, filled with regret.

"I'm Isabella Swan. Of course I remember you. So Edward..." She smiled as she said my name, I smiled, too, and the regret that filled her eyes was replaced with relief and realization. I was overwhelmed with happiness.

Hi, I'm sorry that this chapter was kind of... unfulfilling, BUT, all of Edward's POV was ACTUALLY part of Chapter 5, so I quess you got a sneak peak of what was coming next. I had to do this because otherwise Chapter 4 would've been to short as well.

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