Hi! Okay, so I haven't been updating recently, and I write all week long, so I'd like to know weather you would rather me put up one bulk chapter or little chapters more frequently. I've been really busy, and I'm going away for X-mas, so I'll be writing, but I won't be able to get anything up online. Just wanted to keep ya posted. Also, ELLIOT IS NOT EMMA'S BROTHER. Just Will's, sorry I reused the name, I totally forgot about Elliot (Emma's little brother) and Elliot is my go to guy name, in fact I'm naming my first son Elliot.

"You can't avoid them forever!" Elliot said as we walked into Rikki's. I can't believe I let him talk me into this. I instantly spotted Rikki, Cleo, Bella, and Will at a table. Did they have nothing better to do? They're always here. I noticed that Cleo looked even more happy peppy then usual.

"Why not?" I said as they spotted me. They got up to greet us.

"Hi!" Cleo said in a chirpy voice.

"Yo." Elliot said. I wished I could say stuff like that without feeling like a complete idiot.

"So are you two… good?" Will asked.

"Yup." I said wanting this entire conversation to be over in less then a minute.

"So my boyfriend is in town for a week before he has to go back to boarding school, and he really wants to meet you." Cleo said. So that's why she was overly peppy.

"Meet?" Rikki laughed. "Apparently meet means run a bunch of tests on you and treat you like a science experiment now."

"Rikki!" Cleo got defensive.

"Umm… tests?" I asked. They have got to be kidding me,

"Well, Lewis is sort of a scientist. He goes to a school in the states, and he's very curious about the idea of someone who sees the future."

Elliot turned and grinned at me, happy that he was the only one that knew about saying the V-word.

"Will you let him run some tests?" Cleo pleaded. "Please?"

"Um… sure?"

"Bad move." Rikki sighed. What had I just gotten myself into? We said goodbye, and I pulled Elliot out of the café with me, wanting to avoid anymore awkward conversations.

"Now was that so bad?" Elliot asked. At that very moment, I had a vision. I saw a shaggy blonde boy. Was he the figure I had seen before? Maybe. The vision switched, this time he was with Cleo, his arm around her, them both smiling the biggest peppy smiles I had ever seen. The vision switched. I saw just the boy, Lewis, looking in a microscope writing things down. I guessed that was one of my skin samples down under that microscope. Oh, goody.

I flashed out. I found myself on my knees, Elliot bent down next to me.

"What did you see in your," I shot him a warning look, daring him to say the V-word. "Future seeing thingy."

"Future seeing thingy? Really that's the best you could come up with?"

"Yeah, yeah. Get on with the story."

"I think I saw Cleo's boyfriend," I said. "Yup, he's defiantly a scientist."

"This is gonna be fun!" He sounded really excited. He helped me up.

"Fun?"

I had been worrying about today all night. I had a funny feeling about this kid, I couldn't tell why but… I just did.

"Lex, it's not going to be that bad!" Elliot told me on the way to Cleo's house. Will had come home that night to tell us when to get there and the address.

"I'm the future teller here! I would know!"

"Well you didn't see the future about this!"

"Well maybe it's intuition." We got to the front door. Elliot took great pleasure on being the one to ring the door bell. He probably thought I would fake press it so no one would come to the door. Which is a little scary seeing that I was deeply considering it. Cleo and Lewis both opened the door. I saw Rikki and Bella behind them.

"Hi!" Cleo chirped. "Lewis this is Will's little brother, Elliot, and his friend Lex. Guys, this is Lewis."

"Howdy." Elliot said. Why did he have say hello a different way every time? I looked at Lewis, he was defiantly in my… V-word yesterday, but was he the figure in the ones before that? I couldn't tell. Cleo led us up to her room, where Lewis set up camp. There were two microscopes and a variety of slides for them. The girls went downstairs and left us alone.

"So let's get started then." Lewis chirped. Peppy and peppy- they were a perfect match. "So you can see the future?"

"Yup."

"So you have V-"

"They're more like her falling to the ground clutching her head." Lewis looked a bit miffed that Elliot had cut him off, and I felt a bit bad, because I knew that Elliot would never be that rude.

"Yup." I seconded it.

"But what do you see?"

"Umm… well, I saw you after Cleo told me you were coming to town…"

"Me?" He asked.

"Uh-huh. There's never really been anything eventful." I didn't want to tell anyone just yet about the figure. I hoped it didn't count as keeping secrets from Elliot… I mean he knew I was having them and he never asked what they were about.

"So Bella says that you found a way to swim without your tail?" He asked.

"Well, uh…"

"How?" This kid was starting to bother me.

"She can do this weird thing with her hands that makes the water do this thing and then she's not a mermaid when she touches the water." Elliot said. Lewis raised an eyebrow. Yeah, I wouldn't believe he was actually really smart either.

"Can you demonstrate?" Lewis asked, motioning at a beaker filled with water. Reluctantly, I used my power and made it unmermaidy. He looked at it.

"That's it?" He asked.

"Yup."

"Doesn't look like much, does it?" Elliot smirked.

"Well, just to make sure…" Lewis splashed some on me.

"Hey!" He stared where the water had just landed for a long moment.

"Nothing?"

"What did I tell you?" Elliot breathed. Lewis looked very confused.

"But that's not…" Lewis's voice trailed off. "And the girls don't know?"

"Nope."

"They thought it was just a weird moon pool effect?"

"Yup."

"And you didn't tell them?"

"No, she didn't tell anyone but me and she's been able to do this for a month!" Elliot said, slightly annoyed.

"Hmmm." Lewis took samples of it and looked at the water under the microscope. Elliot and I sat there, bored, we both knew we could probably be doing all the same work he was doing, but still.

"So," Lewis finally spoke up. "Do you wear contacts? I have this theory that becoming a mermaid improves your eye-sight. Did you know that Cleo used to wear contacts before she became a mermaid?"

"No, I didn't." I said trying to avoid the topic of contacts.

"So do you?" He asked.

"Do I what?" I asked. Elliot sighed, annoyed yet again.

"Wear contacts?"

"Well… sorta."

"What?" Elliot asked.

"How do you sorta wear contacts?" Lewis asked.

"Well…"

"Wait, since when do you wear contacts?"

"Well…"

"Wait you didn't wear them until you became a mermaid?"

"Well…"

"No, she doesn't wear contacts!" Elliot said frustrated. They both stared at me looking for an answer.

"Now can I talk?" They both nodded. Why not tell all my secrets now? "I do wear contacts, but not for vision."

"Then what for?" Lewis asked. Elliot looked appalled.

"So you don't actually have blue eyes?" Elliot asked.

"No I do! Well I did, it's confusing."

"Did?" Lewis asked. This was all going to fast for me.

"Stop asking questions and just listen!" They instantly quieted. "Thank you."

While they were quiet, I took off my contacts, revealing my purple eyes. Elliot looked appalled, yet again, and Lewis looked confused.

"After I turned into a… mermaid, my eyes turned purple, and I've been wearing contacts over it ever since to cover it up."

"What?" Elliot demanded. Of course he was mad. Lewis sensed Elliot's touchiness on the subject and decided to change the subject.

"So is there anyway you could make yourself see the future?" Lewis asked. Uh-oh.

"Yeah Lex, can you make yourself have a vision?" Elliot said smugly.

This time I saw a class room, I assumed it was the one I would be in in about a week or two, and a boy talking to me and Elliot. He looked… a little creepy. The boy smiled warmly, but there was still something about him. The vision switched. I was in a hallway, on my knees, having a vision, Elliot knelt down beside me and the boy standing behind us. Elliot looked worried, but the boy just looked smug. The vision switched. I resaw Mako, the figure walking closer and closer, but I just couldn't see his face.

I flashed out. That had lasted way longer then it usually did, even Elliot looked a bit worried. I had a huge head-ache, worse then any other time I had had a… v-word.

"Whoa," Lewis "So what did you see?"

"Just stuff about school." I didn't want to mention the figure. We talked for about five minutes after that and then he released us.

We walked outside, my headache still pounding in my skull.

"So much for no secrets!" Elliot was pissed.

"Elliot, please not now." My head felt fuzzy and unclear.

"Why didn't you tell me this? How much could it hurt to tell me?"

"I didn't think it was that important." My headache was becoming unbearable, I started to clutch my head.

"It was important enough to cover up!" I fell to my knees, but not because of a vision. My head was throbbing and my skin was starting to feel cold.

"Elliot…" I whispered.

"Lex? Lex!" I couldn't tell if it was him talking or if it was a dream. I felt cold, and even if I had been having a vision I wouldn't know.

ELLIOT'S P.O.V.

Great. I couldn't help but feel responsible for this, even though it was probably some weird mermaid junk. One thing I had to ask was why any of the other girls didn't have this whole mind-reading-fainting business going on.

"Lex?" Before I knew it all of the girls and Lewis were behind me. I realized we were still on Cleo's lawn.

"What happened?" Bella sounded worried.

"She fainted." I said.

"No duh." Rikki said.

"Well what do we do?" I asked. I pretended to be sort of bored with the whole thing. I think it was just my way of keeping everyone else calm, even though I was totally freaking out.

"Maybe we should take her to the moon pool." Bella suggested.

"Couldn't hurt." I said coolly. I swiftly picked up Lex, something she would have yelled at me for if she was conscious, and started to walk toward the water with them all. They looked all confused, weirded out that I could so easily pick her up. "What? I do it all the time!" That didn't help the staring much.

We got to what I guessed was Lewis' boat. We all hopped in and swam off to Mako. When we got there, the girls suggested we meet them in the pool, I refused, deciding to take Lex down with them.

They dove in the water and I watched their tails pop out. It was fascinating, but I didn't expect for Lex to turn into one when I dove in with her. I had never seen her… tail. But I didn't let it show, or at least I hoped it didn't show. It still all felt like some weird dream that I would wake up from and Lex would just tell me I was insane. We swam through the pass and into the pool.

"So what was the point of this?" I asked.

"It's worked before." They got out of the moon pool and flipped their tails around, I watched curiously.

"Once we just had to let Rikki float, maybe that will work?"

"What have we got to lose?" I put it her down in the water and swam to the side and jumped up on to the ledge. It felt a little weird to be the only one with out a tail. "So what's being a mermaid like?"

"Well, pretty good. For the most par. When Mako's not doing crazy things or making us do crazy things." Cleo said.

"Speaking of making you do crazy things, what does Lex know about that night?"

"We told her everything, and she didn't believe us." Bella said.

"That sounds like her. Did you tell her about the thing with Will?" I asked. Rikki chuckled.

"Pretty much nothing. She didn't get to hear most of it." Bella said.

"Basically she knows she could have killed Will."

"Well don't tell her that! You honestly think she would believe you if you told her she almost killed her own brother-thing? She's way to proud for that. I don't think I would have believed you." Then I looked at the moon pool, and it was empty. Crap. I dove into the water, quickly without warning. I saw her sinking, eyes still closed. I swam down to her and brought her back up to land.

"Yeah, let's put her in the moon pool! That'll work" I mimicked them. At the same time, Lex opened her eyes. She looked nervously around the room, and clutched her head the way she always did when she had headaches.

"What happened this time?" She said nervously. Rikki sneered at me. Lex noticed them all. "What? Did I almost kill someone again?"

"Lex, about that…" Her tail went away, making me forget to finish my sentence.

"We should get her home." Bella said. "You go, we'll wait for Lewis."

We dove under and swam to the shore. We climbed out of the water.

"We need to talk." We both said at the exact same second. I couldn't help but grin a little, and she shot me that "really?" look, but wound up smiling, too. My smiles are infectious. We walked home in silence, waiting for privacy. Mermaid issues were just something you didn't talk about in public. It was getting kind of annoying to keep a secret. I mean, I guess the actual mermaids have it worse with the whole, "touch water, get a tail" deal.

We got to the house and went up to Lex's room. She made me wait while she got out of her wet clothes.

"You first." I said when she walked out. She sighed.

"Okay, it's about my future seeing… thing. I keep seeing this… figure… a boy…"

"Yes?"

"I'm at Mako and… he just keeps getting closer and closer, but it's so dark and I can't tell who he is… and I can feel myself being horrified."

"Is that what you saw at Cleo's?"

"Every time you say the V-word it happens." She must have seen the look on my face because she added, "Don't even THINK about it."

"What about the eye thing?"

"What kinda freak has purple eyes!" she obviously wasn't happy with her new eyes.

"The kind that's a mermaid and can see the future…" She glared at me.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you…"

"There are things I haven't told you, about, that night." She stayed quiet, she knew what that meant.

"Everything they told you is true. Really, I know how it sounds, but…"

"No!" she cut me off. "Why would I hurt them?"

"Apparently anything can happen under the influence of the full moon."

"They said that I almost killed Will."

"Well… you saved him, too." I told her the whole story, and she couldn't believe it.

"There's no way I could do that! I mean, how? Why would I try…" her voice trailed off. "I'm a bad person."

"Well you're not REALLY a person." She wasn't amused.

"I tried to kill four people in one night!"

"Three of which weren't really people…"

"I'm serious! Moon or no moon, I tried to kill them! There has to be a reason for that!" I loved seeing her this way. I don't mean that I love to see her distressed; well I do… but not the point! She's always so closed to other people, but with me, she was real. That's how I knew I would never hold keeping secrets against her or trying to kill people against her. I just wish she knew… how I felt.