Chapter 6: The Meeting
Every body was at Rikki and Zane's house for the meeting, except Emma who couldn't be reached, and their husbands who were all at work.
"So why did you call us all here?" Bella asked while gently rocking Cara in her carrier. "Well I have something really important to tell you guys, but it just doesn't feel right to tell you guys without Emma," Rikki said, Sierra and Seth were sucking on pacifiers in their carriers next to her.
"Did you try her cell?" Cleo asked, she was holding Dream who was asleep
"I tried everything, she's just not answering," Rikki replied.
"She must be really busy," Bella said.
"I guess we should just have the meeting and tell her what we have learned later," Cleo said.
"Okay, well last night the twins woke up in the middle of the night and I saw them breathing fire," Rikki said.
"Wow," Bella said, "Isn't that kinda dangerous?"
"Yeah, Sierra even burnt her finger trying to touch the flame," Rikki said.
"Her fingers look fine now," Bella said looking at Sierra's fingers.
" That's another thing I wanted to tell you guys, once Zane washed the burn, her skin healed. Like the water itself had healed her," Rikki explained.
"Maybe because we are mermaids the water is protecting our children, possibly at least until they can take care of themselves," Cleo said.
" I guess we'll find out the next time one of them gets hurt, and lets hope nothing happens too soon, " Bella said, But back to the power, Cara hasn't shown any sign of a power," Bella looked down at her lovely baby girl as she slept with little trails of drool came out of her mouth and trailed onto her bib.
"OMG, I just remembered. This morning Lewis said he saw Dream blowing spit bubbles and he said she seemed to be controlling them," Cleo said.
"These powers sounds like your powers," Bella said.
"That's what Lewis said. Do you guys think that maybe this has something to do with that full moon?" Cleo said.
"Yeah definitely," Rikki said, "The full moon is how we got our powers."
"True," Cleo said, "But our powers are activated through our hands, theirs are activated by their mouths."
"Oh, that makes sense," Bella said as she reached down towards Cara.
"What makes sense?" Rikki asked watching as Bella took off Cara's bib and showed it to Rikki and Cleo. On the bib where small splotches of drool, but they weren't liquid, they seemed to be in more of a jelly form.
" I thought she just had thick spit, but her having my power and activating it through her mouth makes much more sense," Bella said laughing and the others joined her. After that there was a moment of silence in which no one knew what to say when Rikki realized something. "Hey do you guys really think Emma is busy?" Rikki asked.
"She must be, right? I mean, she's not answering her phone or anything," Bella said.
"Well I was thinking, if our children are able to do our powers by accident since they have no control of them, then do you think that maybe-" Rikki said.
"Her children froze her!" Cleo said finishing Rikki's sentence.
"If that's true, then we need to get to her as quick as possible who knows how much power they are capable of," Bella said. Then they all got up, grabbed the babies, and got in their cars to drive to Emma's house hoping that she wasn't in to much trouble.
At Emma's House . . .
I've been sitting here for hours and all I could do was think about all the things I had to do but couldn't. There would be times when Fara or Fawna would cry because they needed something, and luckily they were close enough that I could pick them up to feed them or rock them, and luckily I kept diaper changing supplies in the back of their carriers in case of an emergency in which I do not have their diaper bag, like right now. But for now they're fast asleep, so I guess it's around noon. "Six more hours," I whispered to myself. I was not sure I could keep up with this any longer and then, for the millionth time, I tried to pull up my feet to see if the ice was thawing, no luck. My feet are getting number and number, that can't be good, I try to keep them warm by trying to move them and rubbing my hands over the ice.
Just then I heard cars pull up. Doors slam. And finally, footsteps coming up to the door. Then the doorbell rang.
"Who is it?" Emma yelled at the closed door, happy that there may be someone out there who could help her, but at the same time scared that it might be someone really important that doesn't know the secret.
"Emma?" Rikki called into the house.
"Yes," Emma replied and then heard a sure sigh of relief.
"It's me, Rikki, and Cleo and Bella, are you all right?" Rikki called.
"Kinda Sorta," Emma replied.
"What does that mean?" Bella asked.
"Could you open the door?" Cleo asked.
"It means, yeah I am a little bit in trouble. And no, I cant open the door because that trouble is that my feet are frozen in place," Emma replied.
"Is there anyway we can get in there to you?" Rikki sked.
Emma dug into her pocket and pulled out her house key and placed it into the mailbox which was built into the house right by the door. "I put my keys in the mailbox." Emma told them. They took the keys and opened the door.
Once inside Cleo and Rikki did exactly what they had done to Mirriam to melt the ice. Then they filled Emma in on what they talked about at the meeting and they concluded that their children had inherited their powers, even the non-mermaids, and that water is protecting them from hurting themselves with their powers since they had no control over their powers. Then, that night, they all filled their husbands in on the days events, as they got the babies to go to sleep, hoping they would be able to protect their babies from exposing themselves and the secret. Especially from family that couldn't get enough of them.