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Charlotte Watsford stood outside of the JuiceNet Café, pleased with how her plan was turning out. She had successfully used her wind powers to tightly shut and lock the front doors of the café, making sure no water escaped from them.

She had now taken complete control of every pipe in the restaurant, and with a swift move of her hand, released about another 3 feet of water out of the pipes and into the café. Charlotte smirked, satisfied, and lowered her hand to her side. Raising one of her eyebrows, she turned around to leave, the water still running.

'They'll never make it out of there,' she thought, thinking that Cleo, Rikki, and Emma were the only ones in there. 'And when help arrives, their secret won't be a secret anymore.' Charlotte laughed to herself, and left the area, still smirking.

"Emma, are you alright?" Ash asked her with his voice full of worry. He hadn't seen her tail yet.

Emma's heart beat so loud she could barely hear what he'd said. It was like a bomb, about to go off any second. She was surprised he hadn't even noticed her legs were gone, or that her shirt had been replaced by an orange, scaly bikini top.

"Emma?" he asked again, waving his hand in front of her blank expression.

"Umm, uh, y-yeah, I'm alright," she finally managed to stutter. She tried with all her might to slowly back away without him noticing her tail, but it was too late.

"Emma, what's that?" he asked, seeing some of her scales glisten from the sunlight streaming in the café.

Her heart stopped for a second. Ash had seen her tail. 'That's it!' she thought. 'I can't take it anymore! I'm sick and tired of having to hide a huge part of my life from my own boyfriend! I'm just going to come out and say it, no matter what happens!'

"Ash, I, um, have something to tell you." He looked at little confused, but smiled anyway.

"Well you know you can tell me anything Emma."

She took a few deep breaths, swallowed hard, and said it.

"Ash, I'm a mermaid," she whispered and felt tears beginning to well up in her eyes.

His face turned from slightly confused, to extremely confused, and then to as pale as a ghost.

"What? Is this a joke or something? Are you sick?" He felt her forehead with his hand to see if she had a fever.

"No, I'm not sick!" Emma said, gently taking his hand off her forehead. "I'm telling the truth! See, I'll prove it." She turned, so her right side was facing him. Then she quickly leaned back, so she was floating on top of the water, giving Ash a full view of her mermaid tail.

About 10 seconds later, Emma lowered herself back into the water, so she was floating upright. She glanced at his face. He looked absolutely horrified!

After a moment or two, Ash got the courage to speak. "I-I…it's not possible, Emma! I don't get it, I mean, mermaids don't exist! They're just some fairytale or legend, aren't they?"

His eyes seemed to burn into her soul as he searched her face for an answer. But all it held was a blank expression. She whispered "No."

"But-but, how? It's not possible!" he exclaimed. "How did this even happen?"

"I can't explain it all right now, Ash. All I can tell you is that I turn into a mermaid 10 seconds after I touch water. It's a really long story, and I'll explain the rest later, but right now we're both floating in a flooded café. Look around! There are chairs and tables floating everywhere, there's stuff coming off the walls, it's a mess! What are we going to do?" Emma shouted.

They looked all around the now ruined restaurant. It would take forever to clean it all up, and get the electrical things fixed too. And it would cost a lot of money.

"I don't know, Emma. I can't think right now after all that's happened," he said, referring to her mermaid tail. Her face turned a little pink with embarrassment. "But before we do anything else, we have to see if there's anyway out of here, or if we can get the freakin' pipes to stop leaking!"

"Hmm," Emma thought. "Oh, I know! I can freeze the pipes!"

"Huh? Ohh," Ash groaned, "this has got to be the craziest day of my life!"

She sighed. "Just follow me and I'll show you what I'm talking about." She turned around and gracefully dove under the water and swam toward the back room. He watched as her fin rose up and down.

"Wow," he said and quickly followed her. Once they were in the back room, they could both see a large tear in the pipes where they intersected.

"Holy crap, how did this happen? Those pipes are made of solid steel!" Ash exclaimed.

"I don't know, but I've seen things like this before Ash, and I can only think of one thing that could've caused it: magic. Some source of magic did this."

"What? So you're saying that magic tore those pipes apart?" he asked.

"That's exactly what I'm saying."

"But, magic doesn't exist! It doesn't make any sense!" Emma rolled her eyes and stared.

"Ash, if mermaids exist, then magic has got to also. I wasn't born a mermaid, it was magic that turned me into one."

He looked like he was about to pass out. That was a lot to take in all at once, considering it'd all happened in 10 minutes.

"Okay, okay. So, you said something about freezing the pipes? Now what the heck is that all about?" Ash uneasily asked.

"Um, well, by freezing the pipes it'll probably make the water stop coming out, so let's see if my powers will be strong enough to do that." Emma said and held up her to freeze it.

"Powers? You have powers? Oh, I must be losing my mind," he groaned.

As soon as he'd said it, Ash watched in complete and utter shock as the water flowing out of the torn pipes instantly froze all around, turning into solid and rock hard ice.

"There, much better," Emma said, satisfied as no more water came pouring out.

"H-how did you do that?" he stuttered with enormously wide eyes.

"I told you, I had a power, and that's to freeze things," she said.

"Right. So you turn into a mermaid whenever you touch water, and you can freeze things. Oh, I am losing my mind!" Ash said warily.

"Ash, I'm so sorry I didn't tell you about this earlier! I was just so afraid of how you'd take it, I mean I wasn't sure how you'd react. This is a REALLY big secret, and you can't tell ANYONE, you have no idea how important that is..."

"Emma! Listen to me!" he inturrupted, grabbing her by the shoulders. "Calm down, okay?" His voice had dropped down to a whisper. "You can trust me. I promise I won't tell anyone about this, no matter what happens. It's okay, it'll all be okay."

Emma smiled hopefully and felt extremely relieved. 'It'll all be okay'. His words echoed through her mind and he pulled her in for a kiss.

5 seconds later they broke off the kiss. "Well," Emma started, "if magic tore those pipes apart, then where did it come from?"


Yeah, this was a pretty awkward chapter to write. Sorry if it was poorly written, I can dream up any great idea and it goes perfectly in my head, but when I go to type it, it usually turns out a little different than what I'd hoped for, but practice make perfect. I hope you liked it! I tried my best! Please review ;)