Dez's pov.

I woke up really stiff for some reason. I looked around to see an unfamiliar room…WHERE AM I?! I started to panic. I turned around to see Trish laying on Ally's shoulder, who was leaning on Austin who was holding Ally. I got up and last night's events came back. I shivered…totally forgot we're at a hospital.

I walked to Juliet's room and looked through the window…SHE'S GONE! All the machines were unhooked and the bed was still unmade.

Oh no…oh no! How can she just be gone, where would she go.

"Dez?" a soft voice said. I turned around and saw a ghost like Juliet standing in front of me. She looked at me and smiled sweetly, I saw something different by looking at her though. Her guard is down…its never down. Since I've been here she's always been the live it up girl and now she's the little Juliet I met.

***Flash back***

"And that's how mermaids have babies" I exclaimed to Austin, he looked at me in disbelief.

"No way?" I shot him a look "Yes way, would I ever lie to you?" Austin shook his head no.

Ally walked in and sat at the piano, not bothering to notice us. We both looked at each other with mischief in our eyes. We slowly tiptoed and when we were behind Ally, we both jumped up and banged on the keys screaming.

Ally screamed and fell out of the stool which made 'her book' fly into the air. Austin caught it and opened it up. Ally's eyes widened and she kicked him hard on the leg sending him falling on top of her.

They stared at each other for a few seconds and Austin leaned in, I could tell there lips were touching and before they actually went full on kissy, Ally kneaded him in the stomach and snatched the book from his hands.

Ours eyes widened as Ally efforestly dusted herself off and sent a glare to me. "Why are you getting mad at me, Austin was the one who tried kissing you." I pouted.

Ally blushed and looked at Austin who quickly looked at the ground. "Well, my cousin will be here in a few minutes, I want you guys to meet her." She interrupted.

Austin and I followed Ally down the stairs and watched her go back to working at the counter. "So…where is this cousin of yours is she imaginary like Miss Pennyworth?" Austin blurted. Ally looked at him and chucked a harmonica at his face; he ducked and smirked at her.

"STOP FLIRTING! Where is your cousin Ally!?" I yelled. Their faces flushed and I knew I had them, "I don't know she was supposed to be here an hour ago." She said worried.

A small girl walked into the store soaking wet. She had obviously been crying. "Oh My God JULIET!? WHAT HAPPENED?" Ally exclaimed running to her side. "Some kids threw me into the fountain for fun" tears started to fall from her eyes. "Its okay, your okay, want me to talk to them?" Juliet shook her head violently "I'll only make it worse" Ally nodded knowing she needed to talk to her parents.

"These are my friends Dez and Austin. Guys, this is my cousin Juliet she's 12" Ally introduced us. We looked at each other then backed at her, we waved at her and wiped her tears and smiled in return.

"Ally and Trish told me you guys are really cool" she said shyly. AWE she's more adorable then a mermaid baby. Austin stretched out his arms and Juliet hugged him hesitantly.

She looked at the ground and twirled her hair around her finger. Who would want to torment that? "You should just forget about those kids, I've had the same thing happened to me and I just smiled and showed them it didn't bother me." I said to her.

She looked at me and I could see that she had one ocean blue eye and an emerald green one, which was even cooler.

"Even if I do that no one would want to be my friend" I gave her a look.

"I'll be your friend" she stared at me. "Really?"

"Really."

***flash back ended***

"Are you dead?" I asked, reaching my hand out to touch one of her curls. She glared at me and slapped my hand away…guess that's a no.

"How are you feeling" she sighed. "Well now that I can breath again…I feel ok" I rolled my eyes.

"You know you can't just wake up, unhook all the machines that are keeping you alive, then just leave" she smiled "And why not?" I gave her a stern look. "Because it's dangerous!"

"Look, you deserve the whole story, but we should wait till the others wake up" I nodded knowing she was right.

We watched as Trish woke up and saw Austin and Ally nice and comfy. An evil grin played on her lips as she pushed Ally hard into Austin, waking him up and pushing Ally to the floor.

"OW!" Ally squeaked, "Sorry Ally, you scared me" Austin apologized; he gave a death glare to Trish who just shrugged.

Juliet looked at me and took a deep breath and cleared her throat. All eyes turned to Juliet's.

"I'm dead." She states, I think I almost choke on my own saliva…she can not be doing this to them. The colors drain from everyone's face, because the thing is Juliet does look dead.

"Just kidding!" everyone looked relieved and mad. "I needed to brighten the mood before I tell you guys the story."

She sat on the floor next to Ally and closed her eyes. We all watched intently as she started to tell the story.

"When Austin left, I thought it would be fun to go on a jog and yes I have asthma, but I was going to go at a slow pace. Anyways when I was at the beach I saw some kids that used to go to my school, they looked at me and that's when I realized those were the kids who used bully me. And it looked like they recognized me, because I heard 'get the nerd.' I then started to run as fast as I could, but unfortunately they were on the track team. I was now pushing myself to go faster. I took sharp turns, but they were still chasing me. This time I wasn't breathing anymore…I was holding my breath. I knew if I go to the house, I would be fine. My lungs felt like it was going to explode, I knew I should've given up, but I just couldn't…I couldn't let them win again. I pushed myself even harder. I opened our door and locked it. I was happy I got away, and then I realized I couldn't breathe. I searched for my inhaler, but I couldn't find it. I laid down and closed my eyes, hoping that I could calm myself down and breathe, but I couldn't. I heard Mom and Trish come in and by the time they found me, things were already going dark. I heard voices and then I heard a soft voice sing 'A Drop in the Ocean' and I immediately thought back to when me and Ally first wrote the song. The memory immediately calmed me down. And that's when I blacked out."

We all stared at her. "Wow." I managed to say. She nodded and shrugged.

"JULIET LAYLA DAWSON, WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT OF YOU EXAM ROOM!" Roxy yelled.

Juliet stood up and gave her mom a look "I woke up and didn't know where I was…what would you do?" we all looked at Roxy to see how she would respond. "The doctors need to see you; the rest of you should go home and get rest." Roxy said sternly. We all nodded and left.

We drove in silence. "This is all my fault" Austin muttered. "Come on dude, its not your fault" I assured. "If I didn't leave she would've been fine" he argued.

"No, she wouldn't and you know that" Ally said. Austin went quite and looked out the window.

The thing that doesn't make sense is that Juliet has been in track and has never had asthma…she's defiantly hiding something from us.

Ally's pov.

When we got back to the house. Everyone sat on the couch and drifted to sleep except me. I needed to do something.

Maybe I should cook some of Juliet's favorite food Candy pancakes and poppy seed muffins.

I took out some pancake mix and started to make the batter. I couldn't help, but remember the fist time I made this.

***flash back***

"I hate school." Juliet deadpanned as she walked into the house. I gave her a look "You're too young to hate school. Your 14 your not allowed to hate anything" she scrunched up her nose. "Well I do."

She sat at the counter and swung her legs. "How was school?" I asked already knowing the answer. "What do you think…you were the one who saw me get soda poured on my head this morning" she stated, I sighed "Yes, and Austin punched the guy who did it."

"What are you doing anyways" she questioned changing the subject. "I am trying to experiment with cooking" I said proudly. Juliet laughed "Sonic Boom is closed isn't it" I slumped down "Yes" I murmured.

"Any ideas what I should make?" she shrugged and looked at her phone. "How bout candy pancakes?" she suggested.

"What's up with you and candy?" I already knew the answer. Jacob gave her a basket full of candy for Valentines Day when their were 10 and he said to her an I quote 'your too pretty to be sad' and they've been best friends ever since.

I took out some bags of candy and sprinkled a little bit of each candy into the batter. Juliet started to lick the spoon and I laughed. We talked about what I was going to do now that I was graduating in a few months.

"Honestly I have no idea" Juliet sighed.

"What about you and Austin, I mean are you dating?" I shrugged at the question. "I mean he kisses me all the time since we went to prom, but…" I trailed off. "He hasn't made it official" Juliet finished. I nodded.

"Well you never know maybe he'll say the L word" I rolled my eyes.

"Just call the gang to see if they want some pancakes." When she thought I wasn't looking, I saw her snatch a freshly flipped pancake and took a bite out of it.

"THIS IS HEAVEN!" she squealed. I laughed. "A new recipe has been added to my cook book then."

***flash back ended***

I snapped out of my trance and saw that my muffins and pancakes were sitting neatly on a plate.

Well it looks like I do good when I'm not thinking. I walked to the couch and watched them sleep, and yes I know that sounds creepy, but I'm bored.

Austin opens his eyes and smiles at me, I could see he was trying to get up, but I smoothed out his hair which signaled him to fall back asleep. I took a few bobby pins out of my pocket and started to pin his hair up. I could feel him smiling at me.

I know I shouldn't be getting close to him, but I don't want to think of the past right now. I looked at his hair and giggled, it looked like a 4 year olds hair.

I heard the door open and small footsteps walk to the living room. Juliet walked by me and smiled. "Hey, Mom and Dad are at the hospital filling out papers" I looked at her in understandment.

"Do me a favor and smell the air" I told her. Juliet looked confused, but did it anyways. Her eyes widened as the aroma of the pancakes and muffins came to her. She squealed in delight and ran to the kitchen, waking Austin up.

"Hi." I waved.

"Hey, what are you doing?" he asked, "I'm making you look beautiful" I said like it was the most obvious thing ever. "But I'm already beautiful" he said matter of factly. "eh not really" he faked being hurt.

"We can't have Austin and Ally day tomorrow" I reminded him, he pouted "Why not?"

"Because I have an internship and you need to spend time with Juliet" he sighed realizing I was right.

I poked both his eyes lightly "Now go back to sleep, I heard Juliet loves skydiving." I heard him gulp and close his eyes.

I got up and walked to the kitchen. "Ally I need to talk to you…its something really serious." Juliet said, which made me nervous.

"Ok what is it?"

"Well I have…"

You must be crazy if you think I'm gonna expose her secret in this chapter. I didn't kill her off because I like her too much to do that. I was so busy this week so I'm sorry if i haven't posted, but the next chapter will be up soon. And this chapter was for you to get to know Juliet and see what part she plays in their friendship and this story.

comment if you liked it.

byeee.