It's officially been a month since Elijah became a merman. We were making progress; he didn't see it as a curse anymore. That's good.

Tonight was the full moon. No one was sure if Elijah was going to be affected by the full moon, they had never heard of a merman before so we were playing it by ear tonight.

Elijah and I were spending the night at the McCartney's (with a lot of begging on our part. I think the only reason they were letting us go was because we all went to the same school, Cleo and Lewis could take us to school and Mom and Dad wouldn't have to worry about anything) house tonight just in case. Christi was staying over at our house though with Tina (with a lot of begging on her part)

Apparently the girls didn't get moonstruck. If they looked at the full moon, they had an urge to go to be in the water but that was about it so Christi wouldn't expose us if she stayed with Tina. The boys on the other hand, are a different story. The boys get moonstruck but they remember what they did. That would really come in handy, especially if I could do that. I wouldn't have to try and explain something I don't remember doing to my family.

"You ready for tonight?" I asked him as we started walking to the neighbor's house.

"Well if I'm anything like you were on the full moon then no—"

"How many times do I have to apologize?"

"Do you know what you are apologizing for?"

I huffed. He knew I didn't. "It would help if you could tell me what I was apologizing for."

"You were terrifying. And strong, and that was before you could do all of this crazy stuff—"

"Well then I guess people better not pull back my curtain when I tell them not to," I gave him a pointed look.

"Touché," he mumbled as we stepped on the porch.

I rang the doorbell. "You heard what Lewis said; maybe your body is waiting until one full moon cycle to fully come into your powers."

This power struggle was really bothering him. He did a complete 180 in a month.

Bella opened the door. Her hair was pulled back and she was out of breath. "Sorry it took so long, covering the windows take some time and once you start, it's kind of hard to stop."

Elijah and I were in awe. Almost every window was covered with a black tarp. Cleo, Lewis, and Zane were working on the last one. "Now that I don't live with my parents, it makes it a lot easier to cover the windows because now I don't need to make an excuse." Cleo told us.

"After doing this for twenty-three years with a lot of trial and error we finally found the perfect material that won't get caught by some mysterious wind, won't reflect the moon, and we won't be stuck in our rooms. We might be on house arrest but at least we can move in the house," Rikki flew on the couch.

"What do you guys normal do on these nights?" I asked.

"Play games, talk, watch TV, depending on the day. Normal family bonding time is watching TV, ours is avoiding the full moon," Michael smirked.

"Anyone up for a game of Reverse Charades?" Justine suggested.

Ricky shook his head. "You know I'm awful."

"You can't be that bad, can you?"

He was that bad. Being the nice person I am I made an executive decision for him to be the guesser, against everyone (even Ricky's) wishes. When we were very clearly dogs he guessed cats, when we were acting out gloves or mittens he thought we were doing handshakes. The closest he ever got to guessing right was softball when it was baseball and they wouldn't give it to us because we had run out of time. He was never guessing again.

While the other team (which consisted of Cleo, Emma, Will, Zane, Justine, Elijah, and Eva) was guessing I went the kitchen to get some water. Suddenly, I was in the moon pool, on Mako Island; or above it.

Someone was there. Someone was snooping around Mako and if they weren't carefully they were going to become a mermaid/merman. The image was all distorted, like I was looking from a very muddy puddle.

From what I could see, which wasn't that much, it looked like they setting up a camera. If I wouldn't have been where I am now, I would have never seen it. Bridgett and I had made plans of swimming tomorrow and of course we were going to stop at Mako. If that camera is going to be there tomorrow then we would be in trouble.

Without thinking I reached forward and grabbed the camera. Something happened and the person slipped and fell in the pool, I think. I heard a splash but that wasn't what I was concerned about, I just had to get that camera and destroy it.

Just as I was about to grab it—"—uran?! Lauran!" I was shook out of the vision.

"Are you okay?!" A worried Emma asked.

I nodded. "What happened?" I asked groggily.

"You went to go get a drink. We heard a glass fall and we came in here to find that you were on the ground,"

"Well you obviously didn't see the moon. You seem to aware," Lewis thought out loud. "You are conscious of your actions, right?"

"Yes Lewis. Ask the girl who might be moonstruck if she is moonstruck," Emma rolled her eyes and Rikki hit him on the head. I laughed a little, poor Lewis.

"I'm not moonstruck or whatever. I didn't see the moon I just—actually I don't know what happened. One second I was here, the next I was at Mako. There was someone there, setting up a camera... It was so weird."

"Mako has always been a magical place. It's possible that the island called out to you, especially because your connection is stronger than anyone here." Bella said.

"Do you know who was on Mako?" Will asked.

I shook my head. "I could barely see anything. I'm surprised I was able to make out the camera."

"Maybe we should go check it out," Ash suggested. "Just in case you know,"

"I agree with Ash. We'll go and you guys stay here," Zane added.

"I'll go get my boat ready." Will ran out the door but he made sure that no moonlight could get in the house.

I really wanted to go, if what Bella said was right then Mako called out to me shouldn't I be the one to check on it?

Bridgett nudged me. "Come on, let's go find a game your boyfriend does not suck at."

Ricky and I blushed and followed Bridgett. If they weren't going to let me go to Mako, I might as well have fun with my new mermaid friends.

*LINE BREAK*

Thankfully we made it through the night without any more complications. Zane, Ash, and Will went to Mako and they saw nothing out of the ordinary. That was good but I couldn't shake the feeling of something bad about to happen on Mako.

I just needed to clear my head and focus on my friends. I looked at Elijah and Justine intertwined hands. They finally had the guts to tell each other they liked each other and now they were dating. There second date was tonight.

Ricky and I were the only ones at the table that weren't dating each other. Everyone kept telling us it was bound to happen, but I wanted it to happen naturally—if anything happened at all. (And it was totally okay if nothing happened.) I wanted us to date because he liked me and I liked him, not because Bridgett, Michael, Eva and Josh were giving us grief.

We were laughing about something stupid at the lunch table, when Kayla came up to us. Everyone else smiled and tried to be civil but I glared at her. She's brave, I'll give her that, she withstood my glare and I've been told I've got one of the scariest glares anyone has ever seen.

"Can I talk to you for a second?" Kayla asked. "Alone?"

I sighed, my good mood gone. The least I can do is hear her out. "I'll be back guys,"

She led me to the bathroom, the girls' one, unlike Elijah. "How many I service you today? Feel like leaving me stranded today?"

She sighed. "Can't you forgive and forget."

"I never forget."

She's the whole reason I am a mermaid in the first place. We were having one of our weekly slumber parties and we played truth or dare. She dared me to go to Mako Island on the full moon because legend has it that, that's when all bad things happened.

I agreed but told her she had to come with me and she couldn't leave me, because I'm terrified of the dark. We got to Mako Island, we were standing on the beach when we heard a terrifying noise. I wanted to go back but she wanted to check it out.

I, hesitantly agreed. We started exploring, with no flashlights, in the dark, and I fell down a strange hole in the ground. She said she was going to go get help but she never came back. I ended up finding the moon pool and using it to swim out to safety.

The coast guard found me and took me home, thankfully without telling my parents. What she did was unforgivable. I don't know what I would have done if the coast guard hadn't of found me, because there was no way I'd even try swimming home.

The best thing that happened to me happened in the worst way possible. I was happy that I was a mermaid, I wouldn't be as close to Bridgett and all the other mermaids as I am and I would have never known that I was living next door to mermaids.

"What you did to me was absolutely cruel. How do you just forget that your best friend feel down a hole and forget to get her?"

"I know but—" She sneezed into her hands. She went to the sink to get the snot off them. "But I miss you. I just want things to go back to the way things were."

Well I didn't miss her. I did at first but Michael, Elijah, Bridgett, Eva, Justine, Ricky and Joshua filled the void that she left.

"Even if I choose to forgive you, there is a no way things will go back to the same. What you did changed me—" She screamed and fell to the floor, changing into a mermaid on the way down. As she looked at her new form I looked at her tail. It was the same as the other girls; I guess I really was different.

She was freaking out, who wouldn't freak out, I know I definitely did.

"What is happening to me?!"

I kneeled beside her and started drying off. "What are you doing?! Ouch! That stings!"

"Well you're now a mermaid." She gaped at me. "You have got a lot of explaining to do."

She was dry and happy to see her legs. She started to hug them. "I've got explaining to do?" She asked as I got up and started making my way back to the cafeteria. She followed me like I knew she would. She hadn't changed one bit. "How did you know what do? How did you know what I was? How are you so calm about this? How did you do that weird heating thing? What is going on?!"

"Kayla you are a mermaid. It doesn't take rocket science to figure it out. You have a tail, with scales on it. You have explaining to do because I need to know what exactly you did last night."

"But that doesn't answer the question of how you did that heat thing and how you are so calm about this."

I stopped and looked at her. "I'm going to assume that somehow you ended up on Mako last night. You were, for some reason, in the pool that is in the volcano. The full moon went over the volcano and when that happened, bubbles came up from the water, but you didn't think anything off it."

She nodded and looked at me in shock. "How did you know about that?"

"Because the same thing happened to me five months ago,

*LINE BREAK*

I walked faster than her so she wouldn't be able to ask anymore question. There was about ten more minutes of lunch so I figure that is fast enough to talk to the others about this.

I was a few seconds in front of Kayla so they didn't think anything of it,. "Lauran great," Joshua smiled. "Just in time to hear about the time Cleo got trapped in a—Hi Kayla!" He stopped.

I scooted over and she pulled up a chair. "Guys we have a problem—"

"Wait you are going to tell them?!"

I sighed but then I gave her the benefit of the doubt. If I was in her situation I would have thought I was about to commit the ultimate betrayl.

I pointed at Elijah. "Merman."

I pointed to everyone else. "Children of mermaids."

I pointed to myself. "Mermaid."

I pointed to Kayla. "Mermaid."

I looked at Kayla again. "What happened last night?"

She sighed. "My Dad went to Mako last night. He wanted to see how the place was at night. Something felt weird about it so I followed him on to his boat. He was on the phone with someone the entire way. He was talking to someone about the magic of it all.

"He said he was going to tear down Mako if he had to, to try and find this magic and I knew that he couldn't do that because it's a special place. He fell down the same hole you did but this time I followed him down. We got to the volcano pool thing and he was setting up a camera..."

"What happened next?"

She blushed. "You aren't going to believe me."

"We are children of mermaids honey," Justine said. "Try us."

"Water shoot out from the pool, knocking him over and dragging the camera away—" I wonder if I did that. "—my Dad fell in the pool and I quickly dived in after him to make sure he didn't drown. When I finally was able to get him to the surface, the full moon came over the pool, and you know the rest..."

At least her Dad isn't a merman, that would be worst. But this situation still isn't good. This means we've got company on Mako, and the worst kind. A marine biologist.

Next Update: September 12th 2015

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