Anyone else having a great time? I do not know ok? I am just happy because I do not have to go somewhere after school every day and get to go home! It is so fun because after homework I listen to music and draw pictures, sometimes I draw scenes from this story! I would have updated sooner but I had to figure things out with my iPod, it was being stupid and I am super busy… Enjoy the story!
Aqua's POV
I used my fingers to count down so Jasmine could understand. Three, Two, One! We all grabbed the Mai couples feet and pulled them underwater. Brooke, Pearl and I were smiling so much! Jasmine swam up for air because she needed to laugh. Chloe and Alek had pulled apart immediately after they came underwater. My two mermaid friends and I swam around playfully as Chloe and Alek were smiling and turning in circles underwater to watch us.
I swam over to Chloe and swept my hand through her hair as it went all over the place. I swam in the front of her and stopped. We smiled and she pulled her hair down to her shoulder so it would not be spread out. She kept glancing at my tail and I smirked. I brought my tail closer to her for her to feel. She looked at me strangely, and reached out to touch it. Chloe rubbed the end of her fingers on it for a second before pulling her hand back. I swam around doing front and back flips under water and swimming everywhere. The Unitor smiled and pointed to the surface, she needs air… I nodded and we swam back up. Alek, Jasmine, Brooke and Pearl were resting on the sides. Chloe swam over and Alek helped her up so she could sit. The Mai were all the way out of water, but I joined the mermaids who were just holding on to the edge of the pool.
"So, the full moon is up…does that mean you're leaving?" Jasmine asked nervously. Brooke, Pearl and I exchanged glances for a second.
"I am not sure…" I mumbled sadly. I had found my sister, who was pretty cool; and new friends. Brooke smiled with Pearl, I could tell they talked to each other through their heads and left me out of the conversation.
"I think we could stay a while, we have nowhere to be" Brooke said to the Mai. Jasmine, Alek, Chloe and I all were now excited. I was so happy I swam back in the water and did a jump out of the water, everyone watched. I swam back to the edge, satisfied by the jump.
"Yey!" I screeched happily. The Mai held their ears and I laughed.
"Sorry!" I said quickly.
"Are you going to stay at the penthouse?" Alek wondered.
"Oh no, I am sorry but that would be to long out of water!" Brooke exclaimed.
"Yes, we need to be in the water for as many nights as we can, it is safer" Pearl added. I nodded in agreement.
"Ok, will you stay here?" Chloe asked.
"Nope, way too close to human enclosures…um…houses I mean. We will go to our cave, it is hard to find and has animals to protect it" I told the Mai. They nodded.
"Maybe one day you could see it" Pearl invited.
"That would be fun!" Jasmine exclaimed.
"Wait, what kind of animals?" Chloe interrupted. Everyone (but Chloe) laughed; Alek swung his arm around her shoulders and pulled her closer to him.
"What time is it?" I wondered. Alek and Chloe's mouth dropped open, as they pulled soaking wet phones out of their pockets. Brooke, Pearl and I just whistled and looked around as if we did nothing. Jasmine took her phone from the pile she left on the dry rock before she jumped in.
"Around seven thirty" Jasmine told us. I nodded.
"Seriously! This is the second phone you three destroyed!" Alek exclaimed.
"Mine too! In like two days you destroyed two of our phones!" Chloe added. Brooke and Pearl pushed back off the edge of the pool and swam underwater.
"And that is why mermaids do not have those, they get destroyed in water. They are a waste of time any way" I said before going underwater too. I swam over to Brooke and Pearl to talk underwater.
'Are you serious about staying?' I asked
'Yea, I mean I do not see why not.' Brooke replied
'Thank you thank you!' I squealed
'No problem, I mean Alek, Chloe and Jasmine are our friends too' Brooke told me
'Yea and you just met your sister you need some bonding time!' Pearl added. I smiled and nodded.
'How long will we stay?' I asked.
'We are not on any schedule' Brooke said. She smiled and winked before swimming back up to the surface. Pearl smirked at me.
'You need to get to know the other half of yourself' she said. With one strong flick of her tail she shot up to the surface, which was about twelve feet above us. I sat there for a moment, swam in a circle, looked at my tail and then my claws…I nodded in agreement to what Pearl had said, I did need to. I swam back up, the Mai were standing up to try and get the water out of their wet clothes. Alek's and Chloe's broken phones were on the rocks next to them.
"Need help drying up?" Pearl asked.
"Uh, Pearl, I do not think you should do that…you probably would set them on fire" Brooke interrupted before Pearl started heating.
"Woh, please don't!" Chloe exclaimed.
"Aqua, could you do something?" Jasmine asked. I thought for a second…yeah I could probably try. I nodded to them and started on the first person…Alek. I raised my hand towards him, but Brooke stopped me.
"Aqua! Stop! You just got healed, that would be too much!" Brooke yelled.
"I will be fine, it is not like I am stopping another storm" I told her, shrugging it off. I used my power to pull all the water out of Alek's shirt first. The water came out of his shirt in a tube shape and in to the pool, the Mai watched in amazement. Ech…it felt weird, I made a much discussed face.
"What's that face for?" Alek asked harshly.
"I have never took water out of human made clothes…it feels different" I informed them. Brooke and Pearl nodded to me, knowing it's true. I continued to take the water out of all of Alek clothes, than his air. I did Chloe second, than Jasmine. When it was all over the Mai looked very surprised. I clutched the side of the pool harder, I felt a little dizzy. I sneezed a few times, heard someone say 'bless you', and shook my head.
'You ok?' Brooke asked.
'Yea totally' I lied.
"Wow, that's some nice drying!" Jasmine said excitedly.
"Yea, now if only they could dry our phones" Alek mumbled.
"You want us…mermaids…to dry some electrical human made time water?" I asked. They stared us for a second, and nodded.
"Yes, that would be nice" Alek said rudely. Pearl raised her eye brows and smiled like she was looking at some jerk and held out her hand. Then, she fried Alek's phone with her power. I covered my mouth with my hand to keep myself from laughing, Brooke did the same. Alek's mouth dropped open, and he looked angry.
"And that's what happens when you try to make a mermaid do things for you" Pearl said equally as rudely as Alek had talked. We all stared at the phone on fire.
"Never want to mess with mermaids; have not you learned that yet?" I asked. Everyone stared at me like I was insane.
"Have not you learned that yet?" Chloe repeated, "Your English is kind of off" she added. I raised one eye brow, and looked at Brooke.
"Did she not just say never to mess with a mermaid?" Brooke asked. She raised her hand and froze Chloe's phone to ice. Chloe's mouth dropped open.
"Ok, ok, I am sorry!" The Unitor exclaimed. The two other mermaids and I laughed. I leaped up a grabbed Jasmine's phone to check the time; everyone thought I was going to break it.
"Aqua!" Jasmine yelled furiously.
"Relax I just wanted to know what time it was…" I told them giving the phone back to Jasmine. It was about nine.
"Oh" She mumbled.
"We should probably get going. If you leave the cave too late then people will see, and nobody wants that" I told them.
"True, we can swim underwater, but the risk will be great" Brooke continued.
"And if you are seen coming out of the cave, people will explore here, and we can never meet in this cave again" Pearl finished. The Mai nodded in agreement.
"So when will we see you again?" Jasmine asked, more directing the question to me.
"We can meet tonight or tomorrow morning. Aqua needs to be in water for twenty four hours before she comes out again. So if you come tonight we can just talk, but tomorrow we can come out and spend the day with you Mai" Brooke informed them. I shrugged, sort of agreeing. I was feeling tired, and I did so to much this morning since I woke up, but I will not hold anyone back.
"Ok, we will be here both times" Jasmine agreed.
"Well…" Chloe said. We all looked at her.
"Chloe and I kind of have plans…" Alek added. Brooke, Pearl and I laughed.
"So go, we will not be ofensat (offended)" I told them. They were confused, and when I realized what I did I looked away.
"Apologies, she is getting some languages mixed up, tomorrow she will be fine" Brooke told them. The Mai still looked very confused.
"What does that mean?" Alek asked.
"Offended in Romanian" Pearl confirmed. Gosh, I did not even mean to…
"Oh, so you don't mind if we go on our date?" Chloe asked.
"Not at all" I said.
"Thanks" Chloe said smiling.
"Well I guess I will see you three tonight"
"La revedere până mâine (bye till tomorrow)" I said. I think that was Romanian again… They all looked confused, yep it was.
"Romanian?" Alek asked. Brooke nodded.
"Can you speak French instead? We learned that in class" He wondered. I thought for a second, I can try to control this…
"Adieu (goodbye) Alek" I said. Ah French, the wealthiest Mai alive…
"Thank you and goodbye" Alek said before exiting the cave. Chloe waved and left after.
"See ya all tonight" Jasmine said, she waved and left too. Brooke and Pearl turned to me when they were gone.
"You ok!" They exclaimed.
"Yea why would you ask?" I wondered; that was a stupid question.
"Well for one thing you are talking Romanian and French, you do know where we are right?" Brooke asked. I nodded.
"Tá brón orainn… Ní féidir liom a rialú é. (Sorry… I cannot control it.)" I mumbled.
"And Irish" Brooke added.
"And you stopped a huge storm and I hurricane! You stopped Brooke's hurricane!" Pearl exclaimed.
"Yea I know, but I am fine now. We have to go so we are no seen though" I said urging them on. They shook their heads and we dove under water. We carefully swam out to make sure no humans were around. When we were clear, we swam as fast as we could. Brooke was a head, than Pearl, and then me. That us how it usually is but I was further back than usual. My two best friends slowed down to my pace, but I kept swimming slower.
'Told you you are not ok' Brooke said. Pearl nodded in agreement.
'Luckily our cave is not too far away from here. Will you be ok till we get there or do you need air?' Pearl asked.
'I will be perfectly fine' I told them. They went a little behind me as I commanded the dolphins, seals and a few sharks to let us by so we can go in our cave. The animals let us through with no problem. I thanked them and the three of us swam in the cave. I laid down on one of the rocks that were mostly in water and rested. Brooke and Pearl took their usual spots on the rocks and also rested. I listened to the breathing of myself and my friends for a little bit, but I started singing instead. The song was filled with long, gentle, soft notes. Brooke and Pearl joined in and we sat there looking up at the top of the cave, singing.
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