Bella's POV
When we arrived at the Cullens' place, I got a big surprise. Rikki, Claire, Emma and Will were there. "Oh gosh, what are you doing here?" I asked them, smiling.
"Yeah, well we wanted something else then the golden sun and the deep blue ocean of Gold Coast. So that's why we came to the cold and white frozen ocean of Alaska." Rikki joked. I laughed.
"Visiting."Emma corrected Rikki. I hugged my friends tightly.
"Oh, it's so good to see you, guys, again. I can barely belief you're here." I said while looking at them. Then I turned around to Edward and Cleo. "You two knew this, didn't you? And that phone call at lunch, that wasn't Carlisle, was it? I can't believe you've kept this a secret from me!" I silenced for a second and then almost screamed. "Thank you for the surprise!" I ran into Edward's arm, hugged him and kept talking. "And I thought the whole time this was about Charlotte. Damn', you're a good liar. I need to remember that." I laughed.
"What about Charlotte?" Emma and Rikki asked in unison.
"Oh, nothing." I lied, not want to spoil this moment. "We can discus that later."
"Or we can discuss it now. What was that about Charlotte?" Rikki asked again.
Cleo sighed and answered. "She's here. She studies at the same university as us. She even sleeps at the same corridor as Lewis and me. She has already driven me crazy once. And I think she wants to do it again. She follows me and Lewis everywhere she can. Luckily not up till here, but still, it's bad enough."
"How long is she here already?" Emma asked.
"Since yesterday." Lewis answered.
"Has she found out anything about Edward yet?" Will asked.
"No, but thanks to somebody, and I'm not gonna name anybody, right Lewis, she knows I'm not a merman, but she knows I'm not human either."
Rosalie and Emmett started laughing. "You, a merman? That's the joke of the year." He stated.
"Lewis!" Rikki semi-yelled.
"Sorry ." Lewis said shyly. "It came out of me, before I realized it."
"Hey guys, sorry for asking, but who's Charlotte?" Louise asked, interrupting the little fight between my friends. We explained her who Charlotte and she suddenly understood why we weren't really happy to see her here.
The next morning I was happy again. We had a great time last night, after we were done talking about Charlotte. But there was one little minus about today: tonight was a again a full moon.
My friends would stay for nine days. Because next week, college was starting again in Australia. I felt good to spend again a-full-moon-night with all the mermaids. It makes me realize I'm not the only one who can get into this mess. Now that I had, after 9 years being alone, friends to share this secret with, also the bad parts, I wanted to share it with them as much as possible.
Today I had classes about Astronomy, Algebra and Spanish. These were all pleasant classes and I enjoyed my day. Until lunchtime. I was sitting with Alice, Jasper, Cleo and Edward at a table in the cafeteria when Lewis entered, followed by Charlotte.
Lewis took a seat between Jasper and me and Charlotte sat down next to Cleo, uninvited. I could see the anger of Cleo in her eyes. Now she was really getting furious! "Why do you follow us everywhere?" She yelled to Charlotte, while jumping up from her seat. Then there was a huge silence in the cafeteria, everyone had heard Cleo's yell and was quiet. Cleo looked around when she noticed it. She sat down again, looking embarrassed now.
Around us, the place filled with noise again slowly, but everyone at our table remained silent. We just looked at the two girls, who were looking at each other.
"I'm sorry. It's just. You're the only ones I know here and I thought that we maybe…" Charlotte started explaining, but was interrupted by Cleo. "Maybe just could be friends. Pretending nothing happened. Sorry Charlotte, but it doesn't work that way, at least not for me. I just can't forget everything you've put me through and a simple sorry is not gonna cut it. Lewis and I are happy together, can't you see that? Do you want to split us up a second time? It won't work anymore, our relationship is stronger than ever before."
Charlotte had tears in her eyes. She tried to fight it, but couldn't. When she realized this, she ran off to the toilets and we didn't see her anymore that afternoon. Cleo on the other felt relieved, it was of her mind.
That night we would meet again at the Cullens' place. Rikki, Claire, Will and Emma stayed over there during the visit, so they didn't need to pay a hotel room. My parents agreed on me spending the night there. At 8.11 PM the moon was up and we were all settled around the TV in the large couch. Except for Carlisle, he had to work at the hospital this night. We were watching the movie Slumdog Millionaire. It was so beautiful, I almost cried.
Suddenly Jasper worried looked at Alice and asked. "What do you see?" Edward looked at his step-sister. She nodded. "Charlotte's in the hospital right now, she's being nursed by Carlisle. He's worried about her condition."
"Oh no, what happened to her?" Esmee asked.
"She tried to commit suicide. I don't know why, but she tried to slit her wrists." Alice said.
"Oh no, this is all my fault. If I hadn't yell at her this afternoon then she wouldn't now…" Cleo started crying. Lewis hugged her to comfort her, but she kept crying.
"Cleo this can't be just your fault. Most people just don't try to commit suicide because somebody yelled at them. There has to be more about it." I stated.
"Bella's right, Cleo. Listen, Edward and I will go to the hospital to see how bad she is, okay? You guys stay inside and avoid any moonlight." Jasper suggested. We nodded.
"I'm coming too." Esmee said. The boys agreed and they took off to the hospital.
"I have to go to the bathroom." Cleo said.
"Someone should go with you." Lewis said.
"Lewis, it's the bathroom. I think, I'll be fine."
"Yeah that's what you said last time." Rosalie said. "I remember I found you that time at the basement, you ran off, tried to kill a vampire and almost succeeded, and were found totally confused at the other side of the world."
"But I need to pee!"
"I'll come with ya." Rosalie said and eventually Cleo agreed.
While they we're gone Claire said: "That Rosalie is a nice person, or vampire I mean."
"She can be nice, but in the beginning she wasn't really fond of me. But it got better after a while." I said. Emmett nodded and smiled.
Two minutes later, the girls returned and we continued watching the movie. But we were all too curious about Charlotte, to really watch the movie.