Bella's Pov
"A light blue would go really well with your nails, or also a pinkish type of color would go well too." I commented as I was showing emma the two shades of nail polish.
"I like the pink color." Emma said gently grabbing the nail polish from me.
I smiled at her as I opened the freshly new bottle of paint.
"Do you want me to do a French manicure with that too?" I asked as I started painting Emma's pinky nail.
"Sure. Anything that makes it look better is fine with me." Emma said as she smiled at me.
I smiled back as I started painting the rest of the nails on her hand. Emma was so cool to hang out with. Me and her went shopping around 8 o clock this morning when the mall opened and we just shopped and talked for hours. She would tell me all the cool things she did around the world as I told her all my experiences as a mermaid. She was shocked to hear that I turned into a mermaid when I was 9 but also thought that it was really cool.
"Ok, once your pink nails dry then ill start with the French manicure." I said placing her wet nails on a towel.
I picked up a gossip magazine from the table as Emma started to blow on her nails. It was about 4 in the afternoon and we came home from the mall, trying on all our cool clothes that we bought and started taking pics of ourselves as we posted it up on facebook.
Later on we had lunch which was Emma's delicious grilled cheese sandwiches that tasted so good. We've been painting each others nails and having manicure while reading gossip magazines for the past hour. After knowing Emma for only one day, she was such a fun person to hang out with. We both had plenty of stories to share with each other and we had a lot in commen.
"Oh my gosh. Isn't Roggers Thomason so hot with his shirt off?" I asked pointing to a hot guy in the magazine.
"Ya, I think there should be a law that all hot guys have to keep their shirts off." Emma said as we both laughed.
Emma started to blow on her nails again as I flipped through the pages of the magazine.
"Emma." I started saying.
"Ya." She said as she stopped blowing on her nails.
"Do you think we should just forgive, you know, Cleo and Rikki already?" I asked feeling a little guilty from treating Rikki so harshly this morning.
Emma looked at me and back at her nails.
"I'm not sure. I mean, it still hurts that I they replaced me with you." She said looking a little sad.
"We all make mistakes and maybe the way were treating them is a little, wrong…" I said hoping she wonted get mad about me from the comment but she just smiled.
"look, I need some time to cool off. What they did hurt me a lot but if you think being their friends is better than me than go ahead." Emma said as she started blowing on her nails again.
"I want all of us to be friends." I finally said after missing Cleo and Rikki.
Even though I was only gone without them for one day, I was starting to miss them. Me and Emma had a lot of fun shopping at the mall but it would have been funner if Cleo and Rikki were there with us.
"Remember Bella, they used you as back up friend." Emma said as she got up from the couch to grab some juice from the kitchen.
Soon all these thoughts ran through my head and anger came over me. Just thinking about them using me to back up and replace Emma, made me upset.
"Here, have this." Emma said as she was sitting down on the coach next to me.
She handed me a orange juice with one of those umbrella bendy straws in the drink.
"Thanks" I said cheerfully as I started stirring the orange juice with the straw.
I soon took a drink of the juice as Emma picked up the gossip magazine from the table. I saw her opening her mouth to say something but before she could, I heard my phone ring.
The rockish rock and roll ringtone went through my head as I jumped off the couch a little to pick it off the coffee table.
"Hello." I started saying as I didn't look at the ID of the phone number.
"Hey sweety." I heard, as Will's voice went through my head.
"Will!" I said as a bright smile appeared on my face.
Emma smiled from my reaction to Will's phone call.
"Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to come to my boat shack and hang out. I found this really cool seashell as I was diving into the ocean this Moring." Will responded as I heard excitement in his voice.
"Sure, ill be right over." I said with a smile and I hanged up.
Emma's smile soon became fake as she knew I was going to leave.
"Sorry, I need to run over to my boyfriends house." I said as I was grabbing my bag.
"It's ok." Emma said smiling. "I know how it's like to get all excited when your boyfriend wants to hang out with you and stuff like that." She said smiling.
"Do you have a boyfriend?" I asked in curiosity.
Emma always talked about boys and stuff like that but she never once mentioned about her boyfriend, well that's if she had one.
"Yes, I do but I haven't seen him in over a year." She said sadly looking down at her pink painted nails.
"How come?" I asked wondering why it would be so long that she wouldn't see her boyfriend.
"Because of travels and stuff like that." I never got the chance to see him since I left and all." She said loking directly at me.
"Oh, Do you ever talk to him?" I aksed
"Oh yes! All the time! I e-mail him and webcam him atleast once a week." She said with a smile.
"And why haven't you seen him yet? I asked setting down my heavy bag on the couch.
"He moved away from the gold coast the same time I left for travels around the world. He's a year older than me so he got to go to collage. He lives about an hour away from the gold coast so we haven't had time to meet up yet." She responded in a casual voice.
"Planning on meeting up anytime soon?" I asked interested as to what Emma had to say about her boyfriend.
"Yes, in 2 weeks." She said cheerfully.
I looked at her strangely wondering why it would take her such a long time to get to see her boyfriend. She ended up seeing my face reaction and finally realized why I was wondering why it would be 2 weeks to get to see him.
"Ya, well, since he's in collage and everything, he has to stay there a little longer, he has finals and tests to take so his summer wont actually start for another two weeks." She added onto her sentence.
I nodded to her with a smile.
"Ahh, well that explains!" I said looking at my phone clock.
"Look, I got to go. It was fun hanging out with you." I said giving her a warm smile.
She smiled back as I walked out her house.
I started power walking to wills house. I didn't want him to think I was ditching the date.
I finally got to his boat shed as I knocked on the door lightly.
"Come in!" I heard his voice from inside the shed.
I slowly opened the door as I saw him sitting on his bed looking at one of his fossils.
"Ok, you can not believe what I just found this morning." He said as he set his fossil to grab a medium sized rainbow colored shell.
"Touch it!" He said touching the inside of the shell with his finger.
I put my finger in the colorful shell as it was smooth but also felt soft. Not like cushy soft but it had that soft feeling to it.
"That's cool!" I said trying to put some enthusiasm into it but I epically failed.
"You sound upset." Will said as he put his shell back onto the self.
"Well, I just got a lot on my mind." I responded as I sat on his bed laying my bag down on the floor.
"Do you wanna talk about it?" He said sitting next to me as he put his arm around me.
I gave him a fake smile as I started fiddling with my fingers.
"Well, you remember that Emma girl, right?" I asked looking into his eyes.
"The one we met down by the beach?" He wondered as he was playing with my hair.
"Well apparently she's a mermaid." I bursted out as he looked shocked.
"What? How's that possible?" He asked but I soon started bursting out talking.
"Well apparently Cleo and Rikki turned into a mermaid with her like 3 years ago but never told me about her and then suddenly Emma wants to be friends with me but as I did become friends with her, she started convincing me that I was only Cleo and Rikki's back up friend and that I was only replacing her." I said supper quickly as I jumped off the bed and was pacing back and fourth across the room.
"And now I don't know what to do cause Emma is really cool to hang out with but I also miss hanging out with Cleo and Rikki and don't know what to do cause I just want us to all be friends!" I said in frustration.
Will was a little puzzled from all the things he said to me but he just shook his head as I sat back down next to him on the bed.
"Wow." Was the only thing he could say as I was a little mad at him for not saying much after what I told him.
"Wow?" I asked a little upset but he just stood up from the bed.
"Ok. Let me get this straight." He started saying after he stood in the center of the room staring down at me.
"Emma's a mermaid, who supposably changed with Rikki and Cleo when they turned into mermaids and now Your now friends with her but she's saying your Rikki and Cleo's back up friend?" He asked repeating as to what I just told him.
I nodded my head in sadness as he sat back next to me.
"Look, maybe you should, you know, be friends with Emma for a while but then slowly have her become friends with Cleo and Rikki. Maybe she's just a little, jealous.
"Jealous?" I asked in confusion.
"Yes, she's probably jealous that Cleo and Rikki found a great friend like you and now maybe shes wants to be your friend too." He said giving me a small smile.
"I mean I would be jealous too if someone started being really good friends with you. You're an amazing person and a lot of people would love to hang out with you." He said as his smile got bigger.
I rolled my eyes as I knew he was getting off topic.
"I don't know." I said looking away form him. "I just need to get my mind off of things." I said as I stared at my freshly painted nails.
"How about we go down to that little pizza shop you like. We need to get out, I haven't gone and had dinner with you in a while." He said smiling at me.
I looked at his eyes as I smiled back."
" I like the idea." I said as I grabbed his hands.
We both approached the door to his boat shack as he opened the door for me.
"After you!" He said bowing down to me as he pointed his way out the door with his hand.
I giggled from the way he did that and wrapped my arm around his body. He gave me a small peck on the cheek as we both started heading down town.
Cleo' s Pov
I was trying to reach Emma but I couldn't. After what happened yesterday I was trying to talk to her but she wouldn't answer her phone. I couldn't believe she was this mad at us. She usually got upset at us but never have I seen her this mad.
I finally gave up as I was going to go visit Emma's house. If she wasn't going to answer her phone and talk to me then I was going to just have to force myself to go to up to her. I put my phone in my jean skirt pocket as I started walking over to her house. A little nervousness started tingling through my body but I sucked it up and rang the door bell at the front of her house.
Immediately I heard her voice from inside the house.
"Ill get it!" I heard her say as she I saw her open the door.
I saw her with a big bright smile on her face but it slowly disappeared as she saw me.
I was about to speak to say something but she spoke before I did.
"What do you want?" She quickly snapped at me.
Sadness went through me as I saw how mad she was.
"Look, I was just thinking we should talk." I said but she rolled her eyes at me.
"Maybe I don't want to talk to you. Maybe I don't want to talk to anyone. You know why? Because I'm just that old friend that you don't care about. You just had to replace me with Bella, didn't you?" She said and I felt shocked with the way she was talking to me.
"That's not true! Of course I care about you! And I do not think of you as a old friend!" I started arguing with her but I stopped as I didn't want this to become worse.
"Look, stop talking to me, ok? If you're here just to ask to have Bella back then your out of luck. Me and her have become goods friends and we relized that, we don't need you as friends anymore, ok so do your self a favor get the hell out of my house." She yelled as she slamed the door on my face.
Tears started filling up in my eyes but I just wiped them off with my hand.
I power walked off her lawn as I slowly and sadly started walking back home.
A/N: Oh no! What will happen to Cleo? Will Emma ever forgive them? Sneak peak on next chapter. Emma gets more advice form Sophie, will she listen or realize its bad? Thanks for reading and hope to hear more reviews from you guys