Chapter Twelve
Kylie's Big Night
Chapter Song: Big Night by Big Time Rush
The last bell rang for school and I walked out of English class with Taylor. We had just finished taking a test for forty-five minutes and I was completely exhausted from it. At least it was Friday, my second favorite day of the week, besides Saturday of course.
"How do you think you did?" Taylor wondered.
"Fifty? Sixty? Somewhere in that range."
"Really? I'm positive I got a hundred, or maybe a ninety-nine. Anything around that!"
"Well that's because you read the book. Reading's not my thing."
"How bad are you doing in the class?"
"Oh god, I don't know, I don't check my grades." I laughed.
"If you want, I can tutor you." She offered.
"Tay, you're my friend, not my teacher."
"I'm serious, any subject you want I'll help you in, just tell me." I smiled to her. Inside my backpack, I felt my phone buzz. I slung it onto one shoulder and unzipped the small pocket to take out my phone. I read the message, which was from Kylie.
"What's wrong?" Taylor asked, noticing me staring at the message.
"It's Kylie. She asked if I was with you and if I was for both of us to meet her at the moon pool because it's important." I said verbatim.
"Right now? What do we do with our backpacks? They wont transform with us." Taylor worried, whispering the word transform.
"We'll figure it out." We walked out of the school building and down the parking lot. It was a ten-minute walk down to the beach, which wasn't bad considering it was blazing hot out.
"So where do we put our backpacks?" Taylor asked, again.
"Umm…" I searched for a place to put our bags. It would look weird if two backpacks were sitting on the sand, so we had to be sneaky and hide them.
"There." I walked over to the big piles of rocks and I stuffed my backpack in between them. It wasn't visible unless you really tried to look.
"We should have just put them in Kendall's car." She sighed and stuffed her backpack in with mine.
"Oh shut up it's a good place. Lets go already!" I
"Alright, fine." She pulled of her jacket and jetted ahead for the water. We looked at our surroundings before running into the ocean, and when it was deep enough, diving in. Taylor was adjacent to me. With the flick of my tail; I jetted ahead of my friend.
I got to the moon pool first, my head popped up from the surface to find Kylie with her arms crossed on the ground and her body in the water. Her head was lying on her arms and her tail was facing me. Taylor took a breath of air when she appeared.
"Kylie?" Taylor looked at her.
"Oh, hey guys I didn't hear you come in."
"It's okay. What was with the message? Did something happen?"
"Yeah, I need both of your opinions on something."
"That's why you called us here? We could have done that at school or my house or on the phone."
"Well, this is serious!"
"Oh, well spit it out!"
"So today, remember how I was saying that Mason Grabeel, the guy in our math class, is really cute?" She asked. I nodded my head, remembering our conversation. Taylor stayed silent.
"Well today after class, he kind of asked me out." She shyly admitted. Taylor and I both squealed for her.
"What did you say?" Taylor asked.
"I don't know what to stay!"
"How about a yes?" I laughed.
"I didn't give him an answer yet! Isn't it risky because of our problem?" she squirmed her tail.
"Ah, what's life without a little danger." I shrugged.
"So I should seriously do it?"
"Go for it." Taylor said. I smiled, extremely happy for her.
She squealed. "This is my first boy friend! I can't believe this! Hale, will you dry me? My phones in my pocket." She hopped up onto the ground and rolled onto her back. I balled my fist and steam appeared around her. In a matter of seconds, she was back in her human form. I've never seen Kylie move so quickly, she snatched the phone out of her pocket, dialed a number, and pressed the phone to her ear.
"This is just to cute! I love cutesy moments like this. It's so sweet!" Taylor giggled.
"The whole sappy romantic thing just isn't me." I shook my head.
"Hey, it's Kylie." She spoke into the phone. For the next five minutes, Kylie was giggling and talking on the phone with Mason.
"Sounds good, I'll talk to you later tonight then. Bye." She hung up.
"So?"
"Our date is tonight!" She tried to hide her excitement, but she failed terribly.
"Well, lets go get ready!" Taylor motioned her hand to the exit of the moon pool.
"Really, you guy's will help me get ready?"
"Of course! Right, Hayley?" Taylor eyed me, knowing that helping Kylie get all dressed up was one of the last things I would do on my Friday nights.
"What are friends for." I shrugged, Kylie replied with an overly happy smile. This would just going to be for like an hour right? It's not that bad.
"You guys are fantastic!" She squealed, I've never seen her so happy.
"Okay we get it we're awesome, lets go before you miss your own date." I pointed out the fact that we were wasting time. Kylie jumped into the water and then swam out. Taylor swam out next and then finally I went behind her.
Kylie was searching through her closet for an outfit to wear. Frantically, she threw half the content on her floor and half on her bed.
"What about this?" She took out a floral print hot pink and green skirt.
"Yeah, if you want to make him barf." I looked at the skirt in disgust.
"Your right, I don't know what I was thinking when I bought this."
"Next!" I plopped myself on her bed filled with clothes. She threw the skirt down on the ground.
"Last years homecoming dress?" She took out the light pink dress.
"To fancy." Taylor said, sitting patiently in the chair next to her desk. She threw it up on the air and it landed on me. I gave her a look and threw it back at her.
"Sorry! I'll start hanging them up." She blushed. I nodded in agreement. She hung the dress up on its hanger and put it back in its rightful place.
"What about this dress? It's not to fancy, right?" She held up a dark blue, floral summer dress with spaghetti strap sleeves.
"Perfect! Oh Kylie, this is going to be amazing!" Taylor smiled.
"How should I do my hair?"
"Curls?"
"Of course! The curlers in my bathroom, mind getting it?" She asked Taylor. Taylor nodded her head and went on a search through the bathroom. Two minutes later she came out with it and plugged it in. Kylie took Taylor's spot next to the desk and we began to do her hair. Taylor brushed it out while I attempted to work the curler.
"It takes a while to heat up so we can just wait." Kylie said.
"I don't feel like waiting." I turned my hand into a fist and heated up the metal.
"We can always do that." Taylor looked in amassment. I did a pretty good job at curling Kylie's hair, minus the fact that I burned my self a couple of times. I didn't hurt too much, but Taylor cooled them off with her power.
"He's here! He's here! What do I do?" Kylie ran around the room putting her black ballet flats on.
"What time are you gonna be back?" Taylor asked.
"Nine? It's only dinner."
"Want us to wait here for when you come back?" Taylor oddly asked.
"Sure, just don't break anything!" She ran downs stairs and opened the door.
"Hi Mason." She smiled.
"Wow, you look gorgeous." He commented.
"Thank you!" They walked out and shut the door. We both ran to Kylie's window and watched the two lovebirds get into the car. While Mason had his back turned to the window, Kylie saw us and motioned for us to shoo away before he saw us. We giggled and sat ourselves on her bed.
"So, up for some TV?" I asked Taylor.
"These reality shows our stupid. Why are we watching this?" Taylor asked for the third time tonight. At first, we started watching a scary movie, but she thought it was to scary.
"It's either this or a scary movie. There's nothing on." I told her after flipping through all five hundred channels. It was Friday night, why wasn't there anything good on? The reality shows are entertaining since the stars of them are hilariously idiotic, but it was getting old.
"Can't we rent a movie? Or maybe we can go for a swim."
"What happened to you not liking swimming because of our mermaid thing? Are you finally over it?"
"Until this mermaid problem ends, I'm going to try to enjoy it. Besides, swimming with dolphins is pretty awesome." She chuckled.
"You've been going for swims by yourself haven't you? Oh look who lives having her tail now!"
"I do, I'll admit it it's pretty awesome! I went diving with Kendall yesterday, let me tell you, that's an incredible sight." In the middle of Taylor talking, the alarm to the house beeped twice, alerting that a door was opened. Then I heard the door close.
"Kylie?" I called down. She didn't answer but I looked at the clock, and it was nine thirty, this had to be her.
"Yeah?" She finally answered, but she didn't sound right. I looked at Taylor and we both walked over to the stairwell to find Kylie dragging herself up the stairs. She didn't speak at all about how her date was she walked right past us and into her room.
"Kylie, what's wrong?" Taylor sat beside her.
"How was the date? Spit it out!" I told her and she just looked at me with watery eyes.
"Terrible." She sniffed and tears spilled down her cheek.
"Well I wasn't expecting that answer." I bit my lip.
"I—" Kylie started speaking but then she sparkled blue and her tail appeared.
"Even when we cry to!" She continued to cry.
"It's okay. Tell us what happened." Taylor hugged her.
"I spilled water all over me! When I reached for a piece of bread! It was all over me! I ran to the bathroom and thank god no one was in there. I sat there for a half hour trying to dry myself. There was a dryer in the bathroom stall I was in but I was so far down to the ground it barley worked." She cried.
"Why didn't you call Hayley or me? Hayley could have came an dried you."
"My phone was in my purse, at the table!"
"What did you tell him how you dried off so fairly quickly?"
"I told him I used the dryer. He was wondering why I was in there so long. He could have seen my tail! He would think I'm such a freak! I'm a mer-freak!" She cried onto me.
"We don't need more mermaids in the room." I kindly pushed her off of me.
"Sorry." She sniffed.
"Well, were mer-freaks together so don't you worry." We patted her back.
"Thanks guys. You're the best."
"What about the rest of the date? How did it go?"
"Well the beginning was good, and the end was great." She took a tissue from Taylor and began to wipe off the tears on her red and blotchy face.
"Great? Wait that—oh my god did he kiss you?" I looked at her.
"Maybe." She chuckled.
"Kylie! The date was awesome! Who cares about the fact for that half hour there was a little mishap, that's great! Is he your boyfriend now?"
"No, not yet. But he invited me to homecoming."
"When is homecoming?"
"Few weeks from now."
"You should be so excited! Homecoming with your soon to be boyfriend." Taylor winked. Kylie dried her face from her tears and she turned back into a human.
"Will you guys go shopping with me? You know, for a dress and shoes?" She asked.
"Yes! Oh my god, we'll have the best time on a shopping spree!" Taylor shrieked in joy.
"Oh god no." I groaned.
"Why?"
"I hate shopping, and malls, and anything around that topic."
"What girl doesn't love shopping?"
"This girl."
"Then this shopping trip is going to be better than expected." Both girls grinned at me with excited smiles upon their faces. Somehow, I knew I was going to be forced onto this exciting shopping trip of theirs and it wasn't going to be fun.
(A/N: IMPORTANT UPDATE MUST READ! So the only reason I updated this chapter early is because I need to do a survey. I didn't get as much as reviews as I wanted for this chapter but, here you go anyways lol. So next chapter they will discuss homecoming. Would you like to see Hayley go shopping for a homecoming dress and go to homecoming or just go help Kylie & Taylor go shopping for their dresses (and only they would go to homecoming). And if you would like to see Hayley go to homecoming, what dress color would you like to see her in? I've got my idea already but I just wanted to see what everyone else thought. Okay well than, thanks for your time guys!)
