Rikki's Pov

It was early the next morning as I just had breakfast with my dad. It was 11:30 am, usually I sleep in for a longer time but I felt like I needed to walk around for some fresh air. My neighborhood has a direct trail to the beach so I usually just walk down that path. The beachy air was cool and refreshing.

It was then that I was going to invite Emma, Bella and Cleo down to mako island but then realizing about the big fight that happened yesterday, no one would probably come.

For some weird reason, I didn't feel like going to mako all by myself. I wish I never had that stupid fight with everyone. I walked off the beach since I decided not to go to mako. It was rather pointless with out my friends. I was on the sidewalk as I didn't know where to go.

I could go to Cleo's but what if Emma or Bella was there? I could go to the café but Zane was there and the least thing I needed was him bugging me about why I wouldn't go on a date with him. Everything was so confusing and then on second thought, maybe going to mako would be a good idea until I heard two familiar voices.

I heard laughing and giggling from these two girls with blonde hair. I stepped in to take a closer look as I saw Bella. She was wearing a pink peach dress while holding a ice cream cone in one hand and like 3 shopping bags in the other. It was the other girl who was next to her that shocked me. It was Emma.

Emma was wearing a white tang-top shirt with a short blue skirt as she had a juice in one had and 2 big bags in the other. They were both linking arms and laughing while they were talking about who knows what.

I rubbed my eyes to make sure I wasn't dreaming but it was true. Emma and Bella were talking and getting along with each other. I never could imagen Bella and Emma being friends after the day we got in a huge argument, unless Cleo was there with them making sure they didn't fight but unfortunately, I didn't see any sign of Cleo.

I slowly approached them as I saw a clearer imagen of them. Yes, it was definitely Emma and Bella.

"Oh my gosh? Seriously?" I heard Emma said in shock.

"Ya, it was so cool but also kind of scary. I probably won't ever do it again." Bella said responding to Emma's question.

Emma laughed as Bella giggled with her.

I saw Bella take one last lick of her ice cream as I finally got to where they were walking.

"Hey guys." I said in a unusual happy voice.

Emma and Bella immediately stopped smiling and giggling as they turned to face me with frowns and upset faces. It was akward for about 10 seconds until I heard Emma speak up, but it wasn't to me. It was to Bella.

"So where did you get your nails done. Their so adorable." Emma asked as she held up Bella's hand.

"I had to do them myself, obviously cause of the whole mermaid thing." Bella said in a smile.

Emma smiled with her.

"Wow, im so stupid. How could I forget. You need to give me a manicure; you really do a good job of painting your nails." Emma said letting down Bella's hand.

"Thank you." Bella said in a sweet and innocent voice as they both started laughing again.

"I said hello." I spoke up even louder as this time, Bella and Emma faced me with anger.

"What do you want?" Emma asked as she removed the sunglasses off her face and ontop of her head.

"I was just wondering what you guys were up to. Are you with Cleo?" I asked but Emma just rolled her eyes at me.

"Um, no." Emma snapped at me.

Both Emma and Bella linked arms as they immediately started walking away from me.

"So you wanna come over to my house? My mom is fixing her really good grilled cheese sandwiches. Emma started saying but I caught up with them.

"What is with you two? Why are you guys ignoring me?" I asked in frustration but Bella immediately responded in: "Just leave us alone. If you want to hang out with Cleo so much then go ahead. We wont stop you."

Emma put her sunglasses back down on her face as they turned around but I walked right in front of them.

"Ok, enough of this. Why are you so mad at me?" I asked in anger but they both smirked at me.

"Look sweety-" Emma started saying to me.

"When best friends don't see each other for a long time, we grow apart and we also grow up. In this case, this is what happened. We both grew up and also being friends with me is obviously a problem to you." Emma started saying but I stopped her.

"No, its obviously a problem to you!" I screamed at her.

"Well maybe you shouldn't of replaced me with another person." Emma said as she was all up in my face.

I paused for a second thinking about what she just said to me. She was still mad about me replacing her with Bella but why would Bella be mad at me too. I didn't even do anything to her.

"Emma, this is ridiculous and why are you even mad at me?" I asked facing Bella.

"Because, I don't use people as back-up friends either. Obviously I was just taking Emma's place until she came back. I probably would of been kicked out of the group because your best friend came back." Bella said in anger as there was also sadness her voice too.

It shocked me when she said that. Her back-up friend? Never in my life have I thought Bella as a back up friend. We mainly became friends because of the whole mermaid thing, not because I was using her to replace Emma or just use her as a back-up friend. I was confused and didn't know what to say, they weren't mad at each other, they were and at me and Cleo.

"Look, there has been a miscommunication here." I said trying to calm myself down.

"Well obviously. Once you start treating us like real friends then maybe we will start acting nice to you but until then-" Emma started saying but I couldn't deal with it anymore.

"Treating you nicer? I haven't even done anything to you! I only had Bella in the group because she was a mermaid too and we had a lot in commen with eachother. Not because we were trying replacing you!" I said yelling at them.

"Oh really? Then explain the necklaces." Emma quickly snapped at me as she looked at my neck.

My voice disappeared as I didn't know what to say. How was I supposed to explain to her about the necklaces? I just stood there in sadness as I was trying to think of something to say but my mind was blank.

"Ya, exactly." Emma said giving me the attitude.

"She was only replacing you." Bella said in a loud enough whisper that I could hear her.

"Shut up Bella! The only people who seems to be replacing anyone is you two! Atleast me and Cleo want all of us to be friends, but no, you guys have to make a big deal out of this and use each other to replace me and Cleo!" I screamed in frustration.

Bella and Emma both looked confused.

"Your logic makes no sense, come on Bella. Lets go somewhere else where she wont bother us." Emma said as she grabbed Bella's arm.

"Might as well find yourself another mermaid friend." Bella said and they both walked off.

I just stood there in shock and sadness. I wonder if they were treating Cleo like this too. If this happened to Cleo, she would break down right in front of them.

I took a deep breath as I walked the opposite direction as to where they were walking.

I couldn't believe this was happening, I mean its great that Emma and Bella were friends now but the way they were treating me was just shocking. So many thoughts were running through my head that I didn't even realize where I was walking.

I turned my head to look at the café that had my name on it but on the door it said something shocking. There was a sign that said "Closed - Permanently out of business."

My mouth dropped as I saw the sign on the door. Zane wasn't kidding when he said a few weeks ago that the café was going to shut down. I saw a picnic table in front of the café as I sat on it. I sat there looking at the boarded up café. How could this be happening? After the past year of running the café it was finally closing down.

Sadness took over me as I rested my chin on my hand. Everything seemed to be falling apart. That's when I saw Zane coming out of the café with a hug cardboard box in his hands.

He immediately saw me giving me a quick small smile but it disappeared as he saw me sitting at the picnic table in sadness. He slowly approached me as he set down the cardboard box on the ground. Soon enough he sat next to me.

"Hey Rikki. Sad isn't it?" I heard him say as I jumped in a little shock. I didnt even realize he was next to me until he started talking.

"Not now Zane." I said standing up from the picnic table but Zane grabbed my arm.

"Look, I didn't mean to drive you away. I just wanted to talk." Zane said concerned but I rolled my eyes at.

"We have nothing to talk about." I quickly snapped at him.

Immediately his concerned face turned into a sad one.

I looked up at the café as he let go of my arm. Sadness took over me again as I started spacing off but Zane got my attention again.

"This whole thing went down hill the minute you left the café. I really missed having you here." Zane said sadly as we both sat down on the picnic table again.

I didn't know what to say. All that was running through my head was these words: Emma, Bella, Café and a Hotdog. What? I was hungry for a hotdog at the moment, don't judge me!

"Well this is all history now. All we have to do is forget about this and continue with our lives." I said trying to act strong but sadness took over my voice.

"How can we forget about this? This café means lot to me and I'm sure it means a lot to you too." Zane said looking into my eyes.

I turned my head as I broke the eye contact in-between us. I dint know what to say, I just needed to get away from all of this. I wanted to go up to Will and talk about the fight between me, Emma and Bella but I'm pretty sure Bella wouldn't be okay with this.

"Like I said, its history Zane, we need to forget about this, ok?" I said as I stood up from the picnic table.

Zane just sat just there in sadness, still looking down at the ground as he was fiddling with his fingers.

I was about to walk away as he spoke up.

"Ya, we probably should forget about this. Like you said, Its history." Zane responded and he walked away into the café.

I just stood there in shock. Usually Zane would try to convince me as to why we shouldn't forget about the café but at the look of his face, he looked like he was going to melt down to the ground. I mean, I have to admit, I was a little sad about the whole thing closing down but just imagining what Zane was thinking about this, must have been devastating.

I took a deep breath as I took one more glance at the café. Soon enough, I was walking towards the beach.

A/N: Aww, poor Rikki. Do you think Rikki deserves what Emma and Bella did to her. Are you sad about the café closing down? I love reading your reviews! Thanks for reading! New chapter up this weekend! :)