Ocean Spells on Magical Nights
Chapter 9
Katie looked at the pictures once more. It didn't add up. There were four pictures from when her mother was younger and one from a Christmas party she went to after Alice was born. One of the pictures showed Charlotte in a pink dress standing next to a boy she had never met before. Another showed Charlotte hugging three other girls, Ashley's mother, Reggie's mother and again a girl she didn't know. The third was just Charlotte and her mother outside of their house. The fourth showed Charlotte with the same four girls as before, the same boy as before, and Reggie's father, but in this one the three girls don't exactly look happy. The picture from the party show Charlotte with Katie's teacher, her teacher's brother and his wife. Katie knew for a fact That his wife was Megg Benjamin's mother.
Katie made plains to talk to Megg at Ashley's party, for Ashley would never go against her wishes for anything. She just hoped Megg could give her the answers she needed.
H2o Just Add Water
Ashley was walking around the cafeteria, the next day, handing out invites to her party. Megg was sitting with Reggie and Aqua, as usual. When Ashley tossed the invite in front of her, Megg was surprised.
"Did Ashley Dove just invite you to her party?" Aqua asked.
"I think she did," Megg admitted.
"That is so weird, I don't get her," Reggie commented. "She's nice one minute, mean the next then nice again."
"She's influenced by her mother sometimes," Aqua explained. "She must have influenced this too. What I don't get is why she is not required to invite you, Reggie."
"Maybe she is, she's just lying about it. I won't have gone anyway," Reggie said.
"Are you going Megg?" Aqua asked.
"I don't know. It would be mean to go without you," Megg admitted.
"I don't care what you do. I think you should go," Aqua admitted.
"You want me to go," Megg said surprised. "Why? Ashley is just Katie More's dummy. There is no reason for me to go one of her parties."
"I just said you should go, not that my mother, or your would let you," Aqua said with a small laugh. "They won't let us go anywhere off the island."
"That's true, they probably won't," Megg said leaving the table.
"Unless they are influenced by me," Aqua said to Reggie.
"Why would you do that?" Reggie asked.
"Because, Ashley and Megg need to learn to be nice to each other for my predicted future, and since your part came true…"
"I get it. You want them together when they change."
"I want them in total trust-besties mood when the change. They both will need a friend and as soon as they change, Ashley is in with us."
"Good plan." Reggie smiled, showing her perfectly white teeth.
"I know, and with Megg out, and my father taking the boys, and the twins being… well you've met them, you can meet my mom and Bella," Aqua said as she picked up her tray and left Reggie at the table.
H2o Just Add Water
"You said it yourself, Emma has only seen Bella once. She would never recognize Megg," Aqua begged Cleo and Bella.
"You know, she is right," Cleo admitted.
"I guess I would be ok, just this once," Bella said.
"And with everyone gone…" Aqua started.
"I guess it would be ok if you bring Reggie over here," Cleo said giving in. "It would be nice to meet her."
Aqua did a twirl in the middle of the kitchen just as Megg walked in followed by the twins. Lilly and Rose started laughing at their sister as Megg just stared.
"What's going on?" Megg asked.
"Megg, I'm letting you go to your party," Bella said with a smile.
"Really!!" Megg said surprised. "That's great, thanks mom." Megg went an hugged her mother before running out of the kitchen.
"We're going out," Rose said after Megg was out of the room.
"Take the walkie-talkie," Cleo said as they went for the door.
Aqua watched her sisters leave the house, their identicalness made it hard to tell which was which when they wore their school uniform. Their hair was always the same way. Sometimes it was like they didn't want people to know which was which.
"I'm going to tell Reggie the news," Aqua said running out of the house, passing her father on the way out.
"So you are letting the girl come?" Lewis asked.
"Aqua is so conversed," Cleo said slowly. "I'm giving her chance."
"I think Aqua will appreciate it," Lewis said.
H2o Just Add Water
Megg listened to the quiet mummer of the adults. Recently being alone in her room was comforting to Megg. She had been looking through some boxes she had found and found a diary. There was no way of identifying who wrote it, but it was definitely either her mother or Cleo. Neither of their names had come up yet, just Rikki and Emma, but the first one to come up, she would know the other wrote it.
She picked up the diary, trying to remember what was happening. Emma and Rikki were fighting. Whoever wrote it was upset because something special was happening that day, and they were ruining that. One of them must have said something to the other, because these fights, that were so popular in the beginning, were slowly fading.
As she read about two girls she didn't know, Megg noticed that something was missing in the diary, a piece that whomever wrote it was so concerned of this thing that they didn't even have enough strength to put it in their diary. This was what Megg was looking for, with her searching and poking.
"Megg, dinner," She heard from downstairs.
Megg quickly placed the diary under her pillow, a place Aqua would never look. Aqua was always pulling her away from her searches. It was like she didn't want her to find what was hidden within all those pictures, notes and the diaries. Megg could not show Aqua what she was doing and having Reggie occupy all of her time was good. It meant she was away and Megg could find what she was looking for.