Changes That Could Kill You
1.07: "The Bubbles Explode"
Alex's Point of View
Australia has been nuts! But a good nuts. I've met some really amazing people and amazing things have happened to me (becoming a mermaid is one of them). The only thing I think that would be perfect is for Lewis to come knocking on my door and say he broke up with Cleo and that he's in love with me and wants to go out with me. Like that'll happen. I scoffed at the thought.
Knock! Knock!
Who the heck would be at the door at nine at night?
I went for the door and when I opened it, I was surprised to see Lewis.
"Hey Alex, can I come in?" Lewis said to me, the minute he saw me.
"Yeah sure." I said, hoping he wouldn't notice my inability to stop smiling.
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"So, what are you doing here?" I asked him.
"Well, I just wanted to talk to you about something and to give you this." Lewis said, while holding onto what looked like a piece of jewelry.
It in fact was.
Lewis held up the piece of jewelry, which from the looks of it looked to be a locket. It was absolutely stunning. It looked exactly like the ones Rikki, Cleo and Emma wore all the time, except this one had a green gem in the middle.
"For me?" I asked, trying not to smile like a complete idiot during the process.
"Yeah, for you." Lewis said.
He soon noticed that I had some difficulty in putting it on so he said, "Need some help?"
I accepted and I will admit, I got chills when I felt his hands take a hold of the clasps in order to put it on me.
He fidgeted with the clasp and a quick moment later his hands were away from my neck. "Done."
"Thanks." I said, looking down at the beautiful locket that was now around my neck. "It's beautiful. But where did you get it?" I asked.
"Oh, from Max." Lewis answered.
When he said Max, I thought my little brother. "Max?" I questioned.
"Oh, a good friend of mine," Lewis said.
A long pause occurred and that left me and Lewis with nothing else to say.
"Well, I guess I'll see you then." Lewis said, getting ready to leave.
It was all insanely awkward. I mean, Lewis had a girlfriend and so I knew he couldn't like me, right?
"Well, see ya." Lewis said, grasping his hand on the doorknob getting ready to leave.
"See ya." I have no idea why those words came out of my mouth. I mean, I didn't want Lewis to leave; I wanted to keep talking to him until it was no longer possible to talk anymore.
But then I noticed I had made a mistake in saying goodbye, cause I had blinked and he was out the door.
I suddenly heard footsteps come down the stairs. It was my older brother, Justin.
"Who was that?" he asked. It didn't take long for him to notice my rosy red cheeks and my idiotic smile. "Oh, Lewis was over here? What'd he want?"
"Just to talk, and to give m this." I said, displaying my green gemmed locket.
Justin examined it and said, "Aren't those the same ones as what Rikki, Cleo and Emma wear but with different gems?"
"Yeah, they came from the same person."
Justin nodded and then got a serious look on his face. "Alex, you aren't trying to get in the middle of Cleo and Lewis right? Cause I know how you are when you like a guy. You stop at nothing to get him, and I'd hate to see Cleo hurt."
"You like Cleo don't you?" I blurted out.
There are many things I know about my brother. One thing I know is when he likes a girl. He gets all flustered and nervous when he sees the girl and he gets all defensive and protective over her.
"What if I do? You like Lewis." Justin said.
"Yeah, and wouldn't me constantly hanging out with Lewis, eventually break them up and we'll end up with Lewis and Cleo? Yeah, really bad plan, it's the worst thing I've ever heard." I said, sarcasm practically spilling out of my mouth.
"Well," Justin said, obviously thinking of the outcome of the plan, "I still think Cleo's going to get hurt. She already is hurt enough as it is, don't want to increase that."
I stopped his little vent by questioning, "What do you mean Cleo's hurt? What happened to her?"
Justin shrugged and answered, "I don't really know. She just got weird after that party that happened at Zane's, which I wasn't invited to by the way."
I then dashed for the stairs.
Justin was confused and yelled, "Hey, where are you going/"
I yelled back, "I'm going to call Cleo. Oh and you were invited, I just didn't want you there."
Justin's face went from confusion to sudden anger.
I didn't stick around to hear his remark. I quickly shut the door to my room and grabbed my phone that was on my lime green desk. (Oh, I decided to go with this green theme in my room instead of polka dots/pink fur). I hopped on my bed and began dialing Cleo's number, while also fidgeting with the locket Lewis had just given me.
The dial tone rang and ran, which eventually led to her voice mail: a happy and cheerful Cleo saying, "Hey, it's Cleo, leave a message after the beep and I'll be sure to get back to you."
Beep!
"Hey, Cleo, it's me, Alex. I haven't seen you around in a while. We're all kind of worried about you. So, if you wanna talk or hang out, let me know. Call me back, bye." I closed my cell phone and when downstairs. Maybe there'll be something interesting to do down there. And when I say interesting, I mean away to torment my brothers.
After tormenting my brothers (they were doing dishes and I kept spraying them with water using my power), I went upstairs to check my phone to see if Cleo had called me back.
I check, she hadn't.
"Ugh! Cleo just call back!" I groaned with frustration.
As if by magic, my cell phone rang (I swear I didn't do anything) and I was Cleo!
"I don't even know why I'm talking to you." Cleo said, the minute I had answered my phone.
"Then, why'd you call?" I asked. There was something seriously wrong with Cleo.
"Because I thought it was the right thing to do, but I've realized now that it was a big mistake. Goodbye."
"No, don't go. I haven't seen you in a while."
"Yeah, that's because I've been ignoring you…and Lewis."
"Why, what did we ever do to you?" I asked, hoping I hadn't done anything wrong.
"Let's see, by dancing with Lewis the entire night of the party and leaving me alone."
I kept listening to what Cleo had to say.
"If it wasn't for you I would never had talked to or gotten…"
Cleo paused. I could tell from her shaken voice that she must be crying on the other end. "You know what, never mind. It's a waste with you." Cleo continued.
"Look Cleo, I'm sorry. Both me and Lewis are. We don't wanna see you hurt."
"Too late. I never wanna see you, talk to you, or even think about you ever again!"
And all that was left on the other side of the line, was the dial tone.
"She seriously did that?" Rikki asked after I told her and Emma what happened with me and Cleo the night before the next day at the Juicenet Café.
"Yeah, that's not like Cleo." Emma said, while drying off the table that Rikki and I were sitting at.
"Well, that's what happened." I said, while taking a sip of my Cranberry Booster.
"You know, now that you mention Cleo's craziness, she was at Zane's house after the party." Rikki added.
"What was she doing there?" I asked.
"I'm not sure. But she seemed very tense and scared." Rikki said.
"Well, all we can say is that Cleo didn't intentionally mean to yell at you. She's just been going through a tough time." Emma said. By now she had sat down next to me and Rikki, instead of cleaning the other tables.
"Well, let's change the subject. Alex, do you wanna come on over to Emma's and practice your powers?" Rikki asked me.
My reply to her question was, "Um, I don't know, I'll go and ask my parents." My Mom and Dad now worked a little over at the Juicenet Café, supervising and helping out with the sub sandwiches.
When I reached my parents at the counters I asked them, "Hey Mom, Dad, can I go over to Emma's?"
They were busy with some sandwiches but they still heard me. My Dad replied by saying, "Well, Alex, you and your brothers have Wizard lessons at 4:00, maybe after that."
"Fine," I said through gritted teeth.
When I reached Emma and Rikki again I said, "Can I come over later? I've got…um …chores to do." I wasn't exactly sure if they should know about me being a wizard and also a mermaid. They would probably get jealous; well I know Rikki would.
Emma responded by saying, "Yeah, that's fine. Come over whenever. I end my shift in a half hour so anytime after that."
"Ok, cool."
We then started talking about the normal topics teenage girls talk about: clothes and of course…boys.
"So how are you and Zane?" I asked Rikki.
The mention of Zane's name brought a smile across Rikki's face. "Oh, he's amazing as usual. He's done so much for me these past couple of weeks, and I love him to bits and pieces."
I couldn't help by smile at Rikki's happiness. Her life has really turned around. She went from morbid and depressed, to happy and cheerful. I just hope Cleo would do the same.
Emma couldn't help but asking me, "So, Alex, how is your love life?"
My first response was, "Yeah, I don't exactly have a love life."
"Oh come on, we all know you want Lewis." Rikki blurted out.
"Rikki!" Emma said, playfully hitting Rikki and the arm.
"What? It's true, right?" Rikki responded to Emma and asked me.
"Well….yeah." I said, smiling at the thought of him.
Just then, right at the very moment we were discussing me liking Lewis, Cleo walked through the Juicenet Café door.
We looked at Cleo and as soon as she caught sight of us she ran away.
"Should we go after her?" Emma asked.
"No, I think she just needs time to think." Rikki said, having had personal experience with that.
"Oh, we forgot to mention your locket!" Emma said, looking at my green gemmed locket that was hanging around my neck.
"Yeah, it's beautiful! It's like your part of our little group now." Rikki added.
I looked down at it. "Yeah,"
My Dad then yelled across the room, "Alex, it's time to go. You've got…chores."
I realized he was talking about my Wizard lessons. "Ok, coming, Dad."
I turned back to Rikki and Emma, "I'll be over at your house in about an hour."
I arrived at my house shortly after. My house conviently was about ten minutes away from the Juicenet Café. I entered what was the Lair for now. We still haven't gotten all the things from the old house Wizard-related yet.
When I walked in the Lair, I saw my brothers and my Dad as usual. But my Mom was also present, why I have no idea.
"Mom, what are you doing here?" I asked her, hoping there wasn't a problem in the family, or worse, the problem was about me.
"Alex sit." My Dad told me, pointing to a couch that my brothers were sitting on also.
"What's going on? Aren't we having a Wizard Lesson?" I asked them while sitting down, completely confused at what was going on.
"We aren't. We lied to you. We need to speak with you." my Mother explained to me, standing next to my Dad.
"You didn't need to lie to me, you could have just told me. It can't be that bad can it?" I asked them. I was really upset that they lied to me for no apparent reason. It wasn't even a good lie.
"Well, wait till you hear it." my Mom said.
"Ok, what is it?" Justin asked. Apparently, Justin and Max didn't know what was going on either. Good, so I wasn't the only one in the dark at last.
"Well, we've called you all here because there's a very important matter to discuss with you all." my Dad started off.
"We had to lie to you, because if we said this was a family meeting, the only one that would show up would be Justin." my Mom explained.
I looked at Justin, it's true…he would be the only one. I laughed at the thought.
"Well, spill…what is it?" I asked, anxious to find out.
"Well, you guys may have wondered why we chose to move to Australia." my Dad continued.
"Wasn't it because of the Sub Station?" Max asked.
"Well, yes, but that's not the only reason." my Mom said.
"About fourteen years ago, your father and I took a vacation here in Australia. We left you Justin, with a babysitter. We treated this as a second honeymoon." my Mom said.
"Aw, that's so sweet!" I stated.
"Well, we came across this woman that didn't want her child." my Dad said.
"What did you do?" I asked, wondering where this was going.
"The woman was a complete mess, saying that if her husband found out about this child, he would be furious. She wanted to know if we would keep it and raise it as our own." my Mom said.
For some odd reason my Mom and Dad kept looking at me. What does this have to do with me?
"Did you take it?" Justin, Max and I asked in unison.
"Yes. We went to the adoption agency here to make it official. We had adopted a beautiful baby girl and couldn't be more happier. This baby would probably have never made it if the woman hadn't have found us."
"Aw, that's so sweet! So are you trying to say that we have another sister?" I started to ask. But then all the pieces seemed to fit.
"Alex, you're missing the point." my Dad, explained to me."What?" I asked. I clearly wasn't catching on.
"You were that baby girl." my Mom said to me, tears started to swell up on her face, afraid of what my reaction would be."So, you're saying, I'm adopted?" I asked.
"Yes." my Mom and Dad said together.
I didn't do or say anything else. It was like my whole life had been a lie. I didn't even know what to say. All I could do was just run out of the Lair and out of the house.
I wasn't aware of Lewis walking in my direction.
"Alex, what's wrong?" he asked, noticing the tears that were falling off my face.
"Nothing, just nothing, I just found out that my entire life has been a lie." I screamed.
"Well, I'm sorry, Alex, is there anything you want me to do?" he asked, obviously caring about me.
"I could use a friend right about now." I said to him.
Lewis wrapped his arms around me and placed his head on my shoulder, and he let me cry all over his shirt.
"Sh, it's going to be ok. Things will work out." Lewis comforted me.
I pulled away from his embrace and we both looked one another in the eyes.
I didn't know what came over me. I know he has a girlfriend, but something in me snapped.
Our faces went closer and closer until our lips were on top of each other. I didn't care if I was the women that would eventually break Cleo and Lewis up, I just didn't want this to end.
But unfortunately, I wasn't aware of Cleo standing directly four feet away from us. To her this was pure torture.
For me, this was heaven. I wrapped my arms around him, and continued on kissing him.
How steamy was that?? haha..did you love it!? Now, I bet you guys are having a "Changes" PARRRTTTYYY! :D First off I want to say, i am SOOO sorry for the HUGE wait for this chapter. I promise that I will NEVER take that long of a break EVER again!! But one thing I might add is that PLEASE do NOT send me messages saying, "WHERE IS THE NEW CHANGES?" It gets REALLY annoying & will probably make me take longer. I mean, I know you guys are excited to read the series & all & i appreciate that, but try not to be sooo pushy with messages/comments. Oh, I noticed that the first "Changes" trailer has about 10,000 views..that's incredible!! Thanks SO much!
Please VOTE&REVIEW as normal...but PLEASE do NOT hate on Alex...i'm sure that you're hating that she is taking Cleo away from Lewis...but she is NOT doing it on purpose..sorta..lol. She is NOT another Charlotte. Well she kinda is, but she isn't EVIL! I myself, find Alex&Lewis to be insanely cute! (if any of you guys can think of Alex&Lewis songs..i might make some videos).
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