Chapter Ten

Bad Moon Rising

Meet Me At The Equinox by Death Cab For Cutie

All three of us were in Taylor's bedroom setting up our mattresses. I threw my overnight bag onto the bed and rolled out the blue sleeping bag. Taylor walked out back into the room from changing into her pajamas in the bathroom.

"Let's watch the movies downstairs." Taylor suggested.

"What do we have to choose from?"

"Mean Girls, The Notebook, The Hangover, 127 Hours, or Inception." I looked through the discs of movies. I grabbed my pajamas and headed towards the bathroom. Quickly, I changed into my black tank top and red pajama shorts. Before I could walk back into the room, the girls were already heading downstairs, so I followed them.

"I vote for Mean Girls." I called when we walked into the living room. Taylor, who had four blankets in her hands, threw them down on the couch and floor.

"So Mean Girls it is?" She asked. Kylie nodded. Suddenly, a knock at the door made our heads pop up.

"Are your parents home?" Kylie wondered.

"No they're at a business meeting in Miami, they wont be back until the morning. Go see if its' my sister, I thought she was staying at a friends house tonight." Taylor directed. I walked over to the front door and looked through the peephole.

"Oh my god." I groaned.

"What's wrong? Who is it?" I swung open the front door.

"Didn't we tell you we're fine?" I put my hands on my hips and looked at Kendall.

"So how's the sleepover going?" He totally ignored my question and walked right past me.

"Hale, who is—Kendall? What are you doing here?" Taylor shot up from working with the DVD player.

"Figured I should just stick around just incase something bad happens. And I was in the mood for popcorn and a good movie." He sat down on the couch.

"We're fine, Kendall. Do you see the house on fire or any fish tails? Exactly." I stood in front of him.

"Oh whatever, if anything happens I'll be here, if anything doesn't, I'll leave later in the night."

"Or you can leave now." I muttered.

"He can stay, let him have peace of mind." Kylie sat down on the couch, reasoning with Kendall.

"If he has to." Taylor turned down the lights then sat down on the couch. She picked up the remote control and pressed play and the movie started. After fifteen minutes of sitting they're listening to dialogue between Lindsey Lohan and her fellow co-stars, I got bored.

"Is anyone else hungry?" I asked.

"Popcorns in the pantry." Taylor didn't take her eyes off the movie. I got up from the couch and walked over to the pantry. I searched for the box and finally found it shoved in the back between the pasta and cereal. I took a bag out, cut off the plastic and popped it in the microwave for three minutes. When I turned around and faced the sink, a light coming from the window caught my eye. High in the sky was a beautiful full moon staring me down. All of the sudden, my body felt relaxed like it was on some kind of drug. My legs felt lightweight and my heart began beating slower and slower till it was calm. I couldn't take my concentration away from the window. Facing the bright-lighted moon that looked so beautiful made me even happier, I wanted it. I needed to be with it forever, I felt happier than ever, and I wanted to swim. I needed to be in the water, I had to be! Why was I still inside? Why did I have these stupid human legs? Where was my beautiful fish tail? A beeping noise started to ring in my ears, but I ignored it.

"Hayley, the popcorns ready." A voice that belonged to Taylor interrupted my thoughts. I ignored her and kept on staring at the moon, which was smiling down to me. The noise from whatever movie we had been watching before had stopped and the house was silent. Just the way I wanted it.

"Hayley?" I could hear one of the girls get up from the couch and walked over to me. A cool hand caught my wrist and got me out of my trans.

"What are you looking at? Did you hear the popcorn go off?"

I didn't answer her for a few moments. "Let's go swimming."

"What? Where did you come up with that?"

"I want to go swimming. Now." I demanded. My face expression turned serious as I looked at Taylor. I could feel my body heating up; it was burning in the room. I wanted to be swimming at Bristol right now; my tail would make everything alright.

"Well, I guess we can finish out movie then go for a swim. Kylie and me rather not go swimming but—"

"What's wrong with you? Why aren't we going swimming! Why do you hate it so much?" I yelled.

"Gu-Gu-Guys…" Taylor stuttered. I felt my body temperature warming up, which made me realize I was angry—furious. Something was easily getting out of control. What was wrong with me? I felt like I was stuck in a desert. I checked the thermostat right next to me and it was only 70 degrees in the room. It felt like it was at least one hundred and five. My thoughts were suffocating me, all I could think about was swimming. I observed Taylor, tiny minute drops of sweat ran down her forehead. Looking at the sweat drops made me even hotter and whinier.

"Why is it so hot in here? Why aren't we swimming?" I whined. My head began to pound; a migraine erupted in my head. I started to feel afraid, what was going on with everyone?

"Why do you want to go swimming so badly? And it's actually pretty cold in here, that's why I brought the blankets down." She pointed to the couch. Kendall was the first one to come over and stand next to Taylor. Kylie was standing a few feet behind. All three were looking at me strangely. I turned my head and looked back to the moon. That same comfortable feeling came over me again and I smiled. I looked back at my friends.

"I'm going swimming." I outright said but I was stopped by Kendall's arm blocking my way.

"Hayley, what's wrong with you?" Taylor asked.

"It's the moon. I told you guys!"

"This is no time for an 'I told you so'! What do we do with her?"

"I don't know but we have to put her somewhere so she doesn't go outside."

"Hayley, we're going to go sit on the couch and watch a funny movie. We'll go swimming after? Doesn't that sound like fun? Now come with me." Kendall spoke to me like I was a dim-witted child. Taylor walked over to where Kylie was and Kendall grabbed my hand. Before he could pull me, I turned my hand into a fist and burned Kendall's hand and kicked him down to the floor.

"Don't ever touch me."

"Hayley, you're scaring us." Kylie stepped back. Both girls helped Kendall stand back up. What a stupid boy. While all of them were busy, I snuck out of the house, running down the end of the dock attached to Taylor's backyard, I dove into the cold, peaceful, blue water and transformed myself into my beautiful mermaid self.

I swam to Bristol Island, enjoying the whole way. My head popped above the surface in the Moon Pool and I twirled through the water. I couldn't help but love the fact that only one month ago I had turned into this beautiful creature. What a wonderful gift god had given me! I chuckled to myself. Later in the night, two more heads popped up. Taylor and Kylie. We all exchanged glances and began to giggle. When the moon reached the top of the opening, the water began to bubble. We all danced around in the water and happily screamed. From there, I could tell that it was going to be an interesting night.

A ringing noise woke me up from a sound sleep. My head was pounding before I even opened my eyes. Apart from mine, I heard two other groans. I opened my eyes and found that I was lying in Taylor's bed with Taylor and Kylie. The ringing noise was coming from a phone, but the real question was, whose was it?

"Go away." I mumbled.

Kylie groaned. "Hayley, get that." She kicked me off the bed and I landed on one of the blow up mattresses.

"Ah, your up." A male voice said and all three of us screamed.

"Kendall? What are you doing here?" Taylor yelled. My thoughts traced back to last night. I remembered opening the door, watching the movie, making popcorn and that was it. What had happened? Why couldn't I remember anything we did last night?

"Guys, what happened last night?" I sat myself up on the mattress.

"You don't remember?" Kendall looked at me. I looked back to the other girls and they looked at each other, shaking their heads.

"Last thing I remember was Hayley running out of the house and us trying to go get her."

"Same." Taylor agreed.

"What? I ran out of the house?"

"Yeah, you were out of control."

"Last thing I remember was getting the popcorn! Why don't I remember anything?"

"You were moonstruck." Kendall commented.

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"Since I was up getting you guys back here all night, I did my research on it, since I was right about the moon affecting you mermaids. When you look at the full moon or the reflection of the full moon, it changes your whole mindset and brain waves. It mixes with a few nerves and molecules I guess and you go—"

"In English." I demanded.

"It makes you go crazy and apparently you cant remember what happens."

"I'm afraid to ask this, but what did happen?" I wondered.

"Lets see, you yelled at Taylor about how you wanted to go swimming, you burned and kicked me down for grabbing your hand, you pushed me in the moon pool, then kicked and screamed the whole way back to the house, oh and you refused to dry off yourself and the other girls so all three of you had a tail for most of the night. And I was forced to lock you in the room."

"What did we do?" Kylie wondered.

"You two weren't that bad, but still bad. Kylie, you refused to get out of the moon pool and you also pushed me in the moon pool, you tried to get out of the house multiple times, and you wouldn't stop talking about the water. Taylor, you didn't want to get onto the boat, you kept trying to go back to Bristol and you froze a glass of water I kept trying to drink."

"I think we should all say sorry for what we put you through." Taylor said with wide eyes.

"Yeah, I'm sorry." I rubbed the back of my neck.

"Same, so sorry Kendall!" Kylie apologized.

"No worries girls. Just next time we're listening to me when I'm sure I'm right about something, because I'm always right!" he proudly said.

"Don't flatter yourself." I smirked.

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