Title- Roswell Beach
Author- Robyn
Rating- PG-13 at the most
Spoilers- None
Disclaimer- I own nothing.
Category- AU, all CC's
Summary- Sisters Isabel, Tess and Maria DeLuca move to Roswell Beach, California in the summer before their junior year, with their single father. They soon find out that they aren't as new to Roswell Beach as they thought, and that they have a calling they can't ignore.
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Part One
Roswell Beach's main beach was located right off Main Street. During the day families set up camp on the sand and played and swam under the sun. There was a concession stand where people could order fries or ice cream, and a restaurant that looked out onto the water.
Around lunchtime, the beach got really busy. Locals came down for a swim, tourists drove in for the day, or summer day camps came for the afternoon. The long stretch of sand was filled with towels and colourful umbrellas.
At night though, the youth of Roswell Beach went down to the beach to 'hang'. They built campfires, met up with friends, and ate lots of food. You never knew who was going to be down on the beach. Sometimes the teens went into the variety store, the last one by the sand, and bought glow sticks, glow eyeglasses, glow teeth, and then snuck up on people and scared the crap out of tem.
When Maria, Isabel and Tess got to the beach it was almost dark, and there was an array of activity on the sand. There were fires, people yelling and singing, games being played, and people swimming and surfing in the water, even though you weren't really supposed to go in after dark.
"Well, where should we go?" Isabel asked as they walked onto the sand. She looked around at all the different groups of people.
Maria looked around. There were too many people. "I don't know," She wailed. "Whoever we sit with now could make or break our high school career."
Isabel sighed. "Not this again, Ria." She folded her arms across her chest.
Maria glared at her sister and fisted her hands at her hips. "What? It's true Iz!"
Tess rolled her eyes and looked around too. "What about them," She suggested, gesturing to a group of about eight teens sitting chummily around a glowing fire. They had roasting sticks and were cooking hot dogs and roasting marshmallows.
"They don't look very popular," Isabel said, wrinkling her nose. "Look how everyone moves from group to group, but nobody goes over to them." Tess and Maria glanced around. Isabel was right.
"Well, let's just go over and introduce ourselves. If we don't like them we'll erase their memories," Tess giggled. Isabel gaped at her, while Maria was suspicious.
"We can't erase memories Tess," Maria told her.
"Yet," Tess inputted.
"And if we could we wouldn't," Isabel said, turning her body so the three sisters formed a tiny circle. "It could be dangerous."
"Jeez, Iz. You don't need to lecture me on everything. I was just kidding around," Tess said, getting angry. "You're not my mother!"
Isabel was silent.
Maria gasped. "Tess!" She hissed. "What the hell are you trying to-"
"Hi there!" A strange female voice interrupted their argument. "You three must be the new girls. It's all over town about you and your dad moving here. I think you're the first new people since last year. Can you believe that?"
Tess, Isabel and Maria all turned around to face the quick talking stranger.
"Oops. Sorry, I'm Miranda Clemens. I have a tendency to babble. Do you want to come and join us?"
"Sure," Maria answered. Her sisters were standing staring, barely keeping their mouths closed. "I'm Maria and these are my sisters Tess and Isabel."
"Hi," Tess greeted with a smile. She was a cutie. Short and thin with shoulder length light brown hair, and big brown eyes, Miranda had a huge smile and made Tess want to grin right along with her.
"Hey," Isabel echoed.
"Come on, let's go." Miranda linked her arm through Maria's and the two walked off together, leaving Isabel and Tess to follow them. When they got there, Miranda was shooing people off a log to make room for the three of them to sit down.
Once they were seated with the group, everyone started talking and asking questions at once.
"Guys, settle down," Miranda scolded from her seat next to Maria. Maria had taken an immediate liking to her, and they had giggled the whole way over to the group. "You're going to scare them away."
Tess laughed. "Nothing can scare us away."
Miranda shrugged. "Okay. Whatever you say. Anyways, this is Maria, Tess and Isabel. They're the new ones."
"Are you girl's sisters?" A guy from across the fire asked. He was blonde, and looked nerdy, with large glasses and a pimply face.
"Yeah," Isabel answered. "We're triplets, all born on Halloween."
"Cool. Can you like, talk psychically? Can you hear each other's thoughts? I read that twins and triplets can feel each other's feelings." The guy kept on going on about thought linking and stuff like that.
"Jeff, cool it man. You're acting like a dork." The tall, lanky guy beside Jeff rolled his eyes at his friend, and shook his head. "The pretty girls aren't going to want to date you if you keep acting like a nerd."
Jeff gulped, pushed his glasses up his nose and smiled at Isabel.
But Isabel only had eyes for the other guy.
"Hey, I'm Alex," He said, smiling at Isabel. She nearly fainted.
"Isabel," She squeaked out.
He grinned again. "Yeah, I know." Isabel didn't respond, and they sat and smiled at each other.
"Hey, Iz, want some marshmallows?" Tess asked, turning to her sister. Isabel was staring off into space though, so Tess poked her in the side and shoved the bag of marshmallows under her nose. "Here you go!" She said cheerily.
Isabel turned her head and glared Tess, snatching the bag away from her and shoving a round, squashy marshmallow onto the end of a stick someone had handed her.
"So-orry," Tess muttered.
"Never mind," Isabel said, watching her marshmallow cook.
"Well, why don't we go around and introduce ourselves," Miranda suggested cheerfully. "Maria, Tess and Isabel don't know anybody yet."
Isabel thought it was dorky, but it sounded okay, if it meant she could meet some more people, and of course, hear Alex's voice again.
"I'll start," Miranda decided. "I'm Miranda."
"Katie."
"Logan."
"Jessica."
"Jeff."
"Alex."
Ooh. His voice was like honey. Isabel didn't even hear any of the other names. She was too busy replaying his voice in her head.
"Iz."
Isabel jerked her head up, and looked around. Everyone was looking expectantly at her. She could only guess that it was her turn. "Isabel."
"Tess."
"Maria."
There was a nice little moment of silence, when you could only hear the crackly of the fire, the muffled voices of the other people on the beach, and the huge waves crashing onto the beach.
"What's the school like?" Maria asked out of the blue.
Miranda considered the question for a second. "It's pretty normal. There are your jocks, your cheerleaders, your nerds, your potheads, and your gang members. And then there's the 'In Crowd'."
"In Crowd?" Tess repeated.
"Yeah." Jessica took over. She was a tiny girl, with a short blonde bob, dark brown eyes and a mouthful of braces. "They're the most popular kids at school. They're all rich and they live in the mansions that overlook the beach, farther down. You'd probably be best to just steer clear of them."
"Why?" Isabel asked.
"They have this initiation that they do on the freshmen that want to hang with them, or the new kids that try and make friends with them," Miranda explained.
"What is it?" Tess asked, getting interested.
"Well, they make you come down here, to the beach in the middle of the night, and surf on of the waves," Jessica told them. "It's really dangerous, because when it's dark out you can't see as well, and you're more likely to hit something, and drown easier."
"How do you guys know what the initiation is?" Maria asked.
"I live on the beach," Miranda said. "I've watched the poor kids swimming for it in the pitch black."
"Oh my God. Why doesn't anyone do anything?" Isabel asked. "Has anyone ever gotten hurt before?"
"Yeah," Miranda answered, glancing across the fire. "Alex."
Isabel's stomach just about dropped to her toes. Alex? Alex that was sitting across from her. Isabel didn't know why, but the thought of Alex being hurt, made Isabel's head spin and her chest hurt.
"Ohmigosh!" Maria exclaimed. "Alex?! Are you all right? When did this happen? Ohmigosh!"
Alex smiled lazily. "It's all right Maria. It was two years ago. I only got a broken leg and a concussion."
Maria breathed easier. So did Isabel.
"What are these kids' names?" Tess asked. "So I know whom to steer clear of."
"Well there's Hannah Grimes, Devon Juno, Sara Halstead, Li-"
"Oh my God!" A female voice screamed loudly. "Michael!"
"Michael!" A male voice joined in yelling.
Maria leapt up and turned to face where the yelling was coming from. One of the groups of people were running towards the water, screaming and yelling for some kid names Michael. Maria didn't know why, but she felt that something was gravely wrong. She started running after all the other kids.
"Maria! Where are you going?" Isabel yelled after her.
Maria ignored her though, and kept running towards the ocean. The girl who had screamed first was already wading in the water, and when Maria looked closer she could see a body floating in the water.
Facedown.
Maria felt panic begin to set in. She ditched her skirt and was ready to jump in when she rethought what she was doing. No one would be able to get out to him fast enough. But wait! What was that stupid spell Tess had been writing last week? It was on the tip of her tongue.
iI am needed somewhere else,
But I am not there.
I need to get there lickety split,
To save someone's hair./i
It sucked, but it worked. Maria closed her eyes, chanted the words and when she opened them she was treading water beside the guy.
"Okay, time to go," She muttered, flipping the guy over onto his back. His hair was plastered to his head, and there was a nasty looking bump where Maria assumed his surfboard his hit his head. The only reason she knew he had been surfing was because he was wearing a wetsuit.
iThis body weighs too much for me,
Make it lighter to help me./i
It was another one of Tess's spells, and when Maria muttered it, the guy became feather light and floated on his own. All Maria had to do was tug on his arm and she swam for shore. When she got closer she could make out Tess and Isabel, looking frightened and panicked standing beside a worried looking Miranda, and a scared looking Jessica. The rest of their group stood behind them.
Tess and Iz were going to be pissed.
tbc...
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Well, what do you think? Like it? Hate it?
Author- Robyn
Rating- PG-13 at the most
Spoilers- None
Disclaimer- I own nothing.
Category- AU, all CC's
Summary- Sisters Isabel, Tess and Maria DeLuca move to Roswell Beach, California in the summer before their junior year, with their single father. They soon find out that they aren't as new to Roswell Beach as they thought, and that they have a calling they can't ignore.
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Part One
Roswell Beach's main beach was located right off Main Street. During the day families set up camp on the sand and played and swam under the sun. There was a concession stand where people could order fries or ice cream, and a restaurant that looked out onto the water.
Around lunchtime, the beach got really busy. Locals came down for a swim, tourists drove in for the day, or summer day camps came for the afternoon. The long stretch of sand was filled with towels and colourful umbrellas.
At night though, the youth of Roswell Beach went down to the beach to 'hang'. They built campfires, met up with friends, and ate lots of food. You never knew who was going to be down on the beach. Sometimes the teens went into the variety store, the last one by the sand, and bought glow sticks, glow eyeglasses, glow teeth, and then snuck up on people and scared the crap out of tem.
When Maria, Isabel and Tess got to the beach it was almost dark, and there was an array of activity on the sand. There were fires, people yelling and singing, games being played, and people swimming and surfing in the water, even though you weren't really supposed to go in after dark.
"Well, where should we go?" Isabel asked as they walked onto the sand. She looked around at all the different groups of people.
Maria looked around. There were too many people. "I don't know," She wailed. "Whoever we sit with now could make or break our high school career."
Isabel sighed. "Not this again, Ria." She folded her arms across her chest.
Maria glared at her sister and fisted her hands at her hips. "What? It's true Iz!"
Tess rolled her eyes and looked around too. "What about them," She suggested, gesturing to a group of about eight teens sitting chummily around a glowing fire. They had roasting sticks and were cooking hot dogs and roasting marshmallows.
"They don't look very popular," Isabel said, wrinkling her nose. "Look how everyone moves from group to group, but nobody goes over to them." Tess and Maria glanced around. Isabel was right.
"Well, let's just go over and introduce ourselves. If we don't like them we'll erase their memories," Tess giggled. Isabel gaped at her, while Maria was suspicious.
"We can't erase memories Tess," Maria told her.
"Yet," Tess inputted.
"And if we could we wouldn't," Isabel said, turning her body so the three sisters formed a tiny circle. "It could be dangerous."
"Jeez, Iz. You don't need to lecture me on everything. I was just kidding around," Tess said, getting angry. "You're not my mother!"
Isabel was silent.
Maria gasped. "Tess!" She hissed. "What the hell are you trying to-"
"Hi there!" A strange female voice interrupted their argument. "You three must be the new girls. It's all over town about you and your dad moving here. I think you're the first new people since last year. Can you believe that?"
Tess, Isabel and Maria all turned around to face the quick talking stranger.
"Oops. Sorry, I'm Miranda Clemens. I have a tendency to babble. Do you want to come and join us?"
"Sure," Maria answered. Her sisters were standing staring, barely keeping their mouths closed. "I'm Maria and these are my sisters Tess and Isabel."
"Hi," Tess greeted with a smile. She was a cutie. Short and thin with shoulder length light brown hair, and big brown eyes, Miranda had a huge smile and made Tess want to grin right along with her.
"Hey," Isabel echoed.
"Come on, let's go." Miranda linked her arm through Maria's and the two walked off together, leaving Isabel and Tess to follow them. When they got there, Miranda was shooing people off a log to make room for the three of them to sit down.
Once they were seated with the group, everyone started talking and asking questions at once.
"Guys, settle down," Miranda scolded from her seat next to Maria. Maria had taken an immediate liking to her, and they had giggled the whole way over to the group. "You're going to scare them away."
Tess laughed. "Nothing can scare us away."
Miranda shrugged. "Okay. Whatever you say. Anyways, this is Maria, Tess and Isabel. They're the new ones."
"Are you girl's sisters?" A guy from across the fire asked. He was blonde, and looked nerdy, with large glasses and a pimply face.
"Yeah," Isabel answered. "We're triplets, all born on Halloween."
"Cool. Can you like, talk psychically? Can you hear each other's thoughts? I read that twins and triplets can feel each other's feelings." The guy kept on going on about thought linking and stuff like that.
"Jeff, cool it man. You're acting like a dork." The tall, lanky guy beside Jeff rolled his eyes at his friend, and shook his head. "The pretty girls aren't going to want to date you if you keep acting like a nerd."
Jeff gulped, pushed his glasses up his nose and smiled at Isabel.
But Isabel only had eyes for the other guy.
"Hey, I'm Alex," He said, smiling at Isabel. She nearly fainted.
"Isabel," She squeaked out.
He grinned again. "Yeah, I know." Isabel didn't respond, and they sat and smiled at each other.
"Hey, Iz, want some marshmallows?" Tess asked, turning to her sister. Isabel was staring off into space though, so Tess poked her in the side and shoved the bag of marshmallows under her nose. "Here you go!" She said cheerily.
Isabel turned her head and glared Tess, snatching the bag away from her and shoving a round, squashy marshmallow onto the end of a stick someone had handed her.
"So-orry," Tess muttered.
"Never mind," Isabel said, watching her marshmallow cook.
"Well, why don't we go around and introduce ourselves," Miranda suggested cheerfully. "Maria, Tess and Isabel don't know anybody yet."
Isabel thought it was dorky, but it sounded okay, if it meant she could meet some more people, and of course, hear Alex's voice again.
"I'll start," Miranda decided. "I'm Miranda."
"Katie."
"Logan."
"Jessica."
"Jeff."
"Alex."
Ooh. His voice was like honey. Isabel didn't even hear any of the other names. She was too busy replaying his voice in her head.
"Iz."
Isabel jerked her head up, and looked around. Everyone was looking expectantly at her. She could only guess that it was her turn. "Isabel."
"Tess."
"Maria."
There was a nice little moment of silence, when you could only hear the crackly of the fire, the muffled voices of the other people on the beach, and the huge waves crashing onto the beach.
"What's the school like?" Maria asked out of the blue.
Miranda considered the question for a second. "It's pretty normal. There are your jocks, your cheerleaders, your nerds, your potheads, and your gang members. And then there's the 'In Crowd'."
"In Crowd?" Tess repeated.
"Yeah." Jessica took over. She was a tiny girl, with a short blonde bob, dark brown eyes and a mouthful of braces. "They're the most popular kids at school. They're all rich and they live in the mansions that overlook the beach, farther down. You'd probably be best to just steer clear of them."
"Why?" Isabel asked.
"They have this initiation that they do on the freshmen that want to hang with them, or the new kids that try and make friends with them," Miranda explained.
"What is it?" Tess asked, getting interested.
"Well, they make you come down here, to the beach in the middle of the night, and surf on of the waves," Jessica told them. "It's really dangerous, because when it's dark out you can't see as well, and you're more likely to hit something, and drown easier."
"How do you guys know what the initiation is?" Maria asked.
"I live on the beach," Miranda said. "I've watched the poor kids swimming for it in the pitch black."
"Oh my God. Why doesn't anyone do anything?" Isabel asked. "Has anyone ever gotten hurt before?"
"Yeah," Miranda answered, glancing across the fire. "Alex."
Isabel's stomach just about dropped to her toes. Alex? Alex that was sitting across from her. Isabel didn't know why, but the thought of Alex being hurt, made Isabel's head spin and her chest hurt.
"Ohmigosh!" Maria exclaimed. "Alex?! Are you all right? When did this happen? Ohmigosh!"
Alex smiled lazily. "It's all right Maria. It was two years ago. I only got a broken leg and a concussion."
Maria breathed easier. So did Isabel.
"What are these kids' names?" Tess asked. "So I know whom to steer clear of."
"Well there's Hannah Grimes, Devon Juno, Sara Halstead, Li-"
"Oh my God!" A female voice screamed loudly. "Michael!"
"Michael!" A male voice joined in yelling.
Maria leapt up and turned to face where the yelling was coming from. One of the groups of people were running towards the water, screaming and yelling for some kid names Michael. Maria didn't know why, but she felt that something was gravely wrong. She started running after all the other kids.
"Maria! Where are you going?" Isabel yelled after her.
Maria ignored her though, and kept running towards the ocean. The girl who had screamed first was already wading in the water, and when Maria looked closer she could see a body floating in the water.
Facedown.
Maria felt panic begin to set in. She ditched her skirt and was ready to jump in when she rethought what she was doing. No one would be able to get out to him fast enough. But wait! What was that stupid spell Tess had been writing last week? It was on the tip of her tongue.
iI am needed somewhere else,
But I am not there.
I need to get there lickety split,
To save someone's hair./i
It sucked, but it worked. Maria closed her eyes, chanted the words and when she opened them she was treading water beside the guy.
"Okay, time to go," She muttered, flipping the guy over onto his back. His hair was plastered to his head, and there was a nasty looking bump where Maria assumed his surfboard his hit his head. The only reason she knew he had been surfing was because he was wearing a wetsuit.
iThis body weighs too much for me,
Make it lighter to help me./i
It was another one of Tess's spells, and when Maria muttered it, the guy became feather light and floated on his own. All Maria had to do was tug on his arm and she swam for shore. When she got closer she could make out Tess and Isabel, looking frightened and panicked standing beside a worried looking Miranda, and a scared looking Jessica. The rest of their group stood behind them.
Tess and Iz were going to be pissed.
tbc...
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Well, what do you think? Like it? Hate it?
