Emma's Story
A/N: The answers are, 1) D Traveling around the world with her family 2) C) Hotel Management 3) A) He is always too close to the mermaid secret Good job to all that answered the questions. Now on to the chapter, the only one taking place in the same place as the last.
Chapter 10: The Potter Clan
"Emma, what are we going to do about this?" Lilly asked.
She was laying in my room, which was connected to hers. She had her two magic books out and the box her grandmother left her. We were pawing through it to see what it had on the side of protection from the witch hunters.
"We have three options, run away, hide, or keep looking through this stuff," I reminded her.
"Let's stick with three," Lilly said pulling the box closer to herself.
We spent a few minutes looking through the boxes before Page came bursting through the door. She had sheets and sheets of notes she had printed from the computer in the hotel library. Tossing them to me she said, "Ok, I have the dates of all the full moons here…"
"So do I," I confessed with a quick smile in Page's direction. "I have alerts set up on my phone, and every date posted on my calendar. I've also memorized most of them."
Page just looked at me like I was nuts. Even Lilly stopped what she was doing to look at me. "Is someone a little obsessed?" She asked.
"Um… no, it's a long, mermaid related, story," I said hoping they would drop the subject quick. "Full moon pulse mermaid equals bad." I tried to explain when they still looked confused.
There was a minute of silence, Lilly started to pock through the book some more. Page had her eye on me. Finally Lilly called, "Got it." Which made everyone stop in their tracks. "This is a spell for a protection necklace. It will keep me protected from the witch hunters until the full moon, when both theirs and my powers are increased."
"Funny how much the moon likes to play with powers," I said with a smile pulling the book over so I could read it. "Ok, this looks doable."
"Yeah, just a little crystal I would wear around my neck," Lilly said jumping up to be behind me. "And I could do this spell fast."
"Good, cause full moon is in a week," Page informed us. Lilly looked up at her.
"She's right," I started, "We will be in Ireland by then. And until then, we will have the Potters on our case every night."
After Lilly had preformed the spell and was wearing the crystal, we started down to the lobby of the hotel, to try and look as if we were doing nothing special. Page ran off with Marcy and Lucy as soon as they were spotted. Lilly and I took a seat at one of the tables in the café they had. We sat close to Bridge and Mark, whom were discussing some sort of club stuff. We sat quiet and listened in.
"I'm telling you, Bridge man, Sam and Jane were not themselves," Mark whispered. "I think it's magic."
"Come on, Mark," Bridge whispered back. "Just because Jane and Sam seem to, well not fight, doesn't mean they are being controlled by magic."
"If you knew Jane and Sam as I did, you would believe," Mark protested. "All I'm saying is, hit them with the three factors, one, separation for others, two, strange loss of interest at the most random times, and three, repelled from things they use to love, such as say perfumes or gems, or even more simple things like water or heights."
Emma calculated all three of those factors. All three applied to her. They also applied to Lilly and sometimes Page. She was just glad he was throwing them on the Potters and not any of them.
"Dude, sure, those factors mean magic, but they have to have all three," Bridge whispered. "Some of those apply to me and even you."
Mark looked around the café, scanning over the table Lilly and I were at. "I guess you are right. I mean even Emma and Lilly have some of those factors."
Taking a deep inhale, I waited for him to say we weren't magic, but he never did. The boys left after that. I looked to Lilly who whispered, "We have to take away at least one of those factors."
I nodded looking around the café, sitting in the other corner was Molly and Rose, most likely talking about Zane. I pointed over to them, and Lilly nodded. We made our way over to the two girls.
"Hey, what's going on?" I asked as Lilly and I pulled up two chairs.
"Not, much," Rose answered. "We were just discussing all we will have to do when we get to Zane's town?"
"Zane's town?" I questioned, forgetting that we would be making that stop by my home town in a few months. "Oh, my home town, yeah, there is a lot to do there."
Molly smiled, "That's right, you use to live with Zane. Oh he is probably the best, most assume guy ever, right."
"If you like guys that don't care whether you are safe or not, as long as they get their way," I mumbled. "Zane is…. well….. let's just say, I would give him up in a heartbeat."
Molly looked surprised. Rose looked to Lilly and asked, "What about you, sis? Ready to see Zane Bennett up close."
"I guess, but you can't really be too excited with someone you don't expect anything about," Lilly explained. "But meeting the boy all of you are obsessed over could be fun."
"Cool," Molly said before she and Rose pulled their notebooks back towards them and walked off.
As soon as they were gone, I started to laugh under my breath. I could just see those girls meeting Zane, then Rikki.
"What's so funny?" Lilly asked once she had caught me laughing.
"Oh, I can just see those girls making total fools of themselves for a guy who wouldn't give them the time of day," I explained with another laugh.
A/N: Pop quiz: answered the questions get the sneak peek, got it:
Who was turned into a mermaid FIRST ? A) Emma B) Gracie C) Eva D) Louise
Who was turned into a mermaid LAST ? A) Charlotte B) Bella C)Eva D)Rikki
Who is the last mermaid MENTIONED in the show? A) Bella B) Gracie C) Eva D) Julia