Will's Pov

I was walking down the beach with my beautiful girlfriend Bella, the most amazing girl in the whole world. Literally, she is. She's smart, gorgeous, great company, I love to talk to her and she's even a mermaid. I feel like the luckiest guy ever.

I feel bad for the people who don't have an amazing person like Bella in their lives. Me and Bella really connected over the one year we known eachother.

My family would always travel on this boat of ours so I never really got to go to a school and meet new friends so meeting Bella in my senior year has been such a great thing for me. She understands me and I understand her.

Like I said, I was walking down the beach with her when I meet up with my really good friend of mine; Rikki. Me and her are really close too and she is like a sister to me but Bella is always the person I will adore.

It was really strange because this random blonde chick came down the beach with Cleo and Lewis. For the first time in my life, I actually saw Rikki getting really excited and hugging someone meaning she must know this person really well. I had not a clue to who she was except her name was Emma (which she just told us) and that they were good friends with Cleo, Rikki, Lewis and she kinda mentioned Zane too but that's not the point.

I mean, it wasn't the first time I've seen a random person before but there was something strange about her. Right before I gave Cleo and Rikki the blue crystal necklace, they were both wearing a shiny silver locket. That emma girl had the exact same locket as them! Exactly what did that mean.

When we left the group to continue our walk on the beach, I asked Bella if she knew who she was and she didn't have a clue.

"And exactly why does she have the same exact silver locket as Cleo and Rikki?" I asked Bella as I was holding her had.
I was shirtless while wearing some long shorts that went just at my knee and Bella was wearing a short casual dress. Nothing too fancy, just something you would wear for the summer or just hanging out at the beach.

"That's interesting; I didn't even notice the locket." Bella mentioned as she turned to look at me.

"Do you think she knows, you know- about the secret?" I asked holding Bella close to me.

"I don't know, they seem like really close friends." Bella paused.

"I wonder why Rikki or Cleo never mentioned about her." We were slowly walking up the sandy beach to where the side walk started. I put on my flip flops as she put on hers.

I was about to say something but I stopped.

"Look, right now that dosent matter, its just you and me, right?" I asked as I rapped my two warm arms around Bella's body.

"Right!" She said with a small giggle and we leaned in to kiss each other.

Her lips tasted great and I knew she had some fruity lip gloss on which made it better. She also had some strawberry scent perfume and hair was let

lose with some hair pulled up to the top. My hand went up her back and onto her head as she wrapped her delegate arms around me.

We just stood there kissing for about a good 30 seconds, enjoying the moment until that's when I heard it. Bella's phone went off and her rockish telephone ring went on.

Bella unwrapped her arms around me while looking for her cell phone in her dress pocket.

"Sorry about this." She said in a cute voice while I saw her reach her red flip phone.

"Its alright, take your time." I said gently as I put on my black shirt.

About 5 seconds later she said. "Its Cleo."

I saw her unflip her phone as she spoke the words: "Hello."

"I could only hear the muffled background talking of Cleo while Bella was talking to her. I hope it wasn't that important because me and Bella just started our date like 30 minutes ago, including the interruption from Rikki, Cleo, Lewis and that blonde chick.

"Right now?" Bella said in her slightly annoyed voice.

At that moment I knew our date would end.

"Ok, ok. Ill be over soon." And she flipped her phone shut and put it in her pocket.

"Sorry Will but I got to go." She said a little upset.

"Whats so urgent?" I asked but she kept walking down the side walk.

"I don't know. Cleo just needs me right now." She said walking a little faster.

"What about our date?" I asked a little annoyed.

I mean, its fine for Bella to meet up with her friends and I enjoy helping and stuff like that but I dislike how they always interrupt me and Bella on our date, right in the middle of kissing.

"How about tomorrow?" She said a little quickly and gave me a quick pluck on the cheek and she left me standing there.

I saw her walking quick towards Cleo's house as I started walking back towards the beach as I left for my boat shack.

Cleo's Pov

Me, Rikki and Emma were all chatting about what's been going on the past year. Emma was talking about her travels while me and Cleo were talking about the weird tentacle and the comet.

Emma was shocked to hear this and didn't know if to believe us. Immediately I heard the bell ring.

"Bella!" I said as I ran for the door.

I opened it to see Bella have her hands in her dress pocket. Immediately I let her in as she sat down on the couch next to Rikki. It was kind of awkward now since Bella and Emma didn't know each other.

Bella broke the silence.

"So, what was the emergency?" She asked in curiosity.

"We just need you guys to understand something before we start hiding stuff or trying to keep secrets away from each other." Rikki mentioned

Immediately Emma and Bella's eyes went big when we said the word "secrets."

"I don't know what your talking about." Bella said acting like she didn't know the mermaid secret so she could hide it from Emma.

"Look, Emma is a mermaid too." Cleo quickly said.

Bella's eyes turned big as Emma's face turned red in frustration.

"You told her about our secret! I can't believe you guys would do that! It's already enough that we have your boyfriends knowing about our secret and now we have her too! You guys are the most irresponsible-" but Rikki stopped her.

"Chill em, Bella's a mermaid too." Rikki snapped and it went silent.

It took a few seconds for Emma to run that sentence through her mind till she fully understood. This time went red of embarrassment, not anger.

"Oh." That's all Emma could say.

You could see that it felt really awkward for Bella at that moment since she just realized that Emma was a mermaid too. Emma slowly sat back down on the coach and looked up at the 3 girls.

"How long have you known?" Emma asked in curiosity.

"About a year." Rikki said in her calm voice.

"Wait a second, you've known she was a mermaid for a year and you never told me? You could have at least e-mailed me or called me saying she was a mermaid too." Emma yelled in frustration as her voice went up.

"Emma." Cleo said but Emma interrupted.

"And the necklaces! What's that all about? Where are your lockets?" Emma busted out.

"Look Emma, it's a long story-" Cleo started but Emma just rolled her eyes and continued.

"So now your replacing me just because I left? You know, you guys are just being- being… Emma explained.

"Being what? Huh?" Rikki said in her tough voices!

"You guys are being bitches!" Emma yelled in a strong voice as she left Cleo's house and slammed the door, leaving us all there in silence.

It was akward until Bella spoke up.

"Maybe I should just leave if im being such a problem for you and your friend." Bella mentioned with a little sadness in her voice.

"No, wait Bella, this was a big misunderstanding." I said as I chased after her leaving Rikki alone in my house.

Rikki sadly got up from the coach as she left Cleo's home.

A/N: Oh no! Problems for Bella and Emma! What will happen! Will they make up for what happened? Zane's coming into the next chapter as well. Does this mean more problems for Rikki?