Zane's Pov

I sat boardly on my coach as I was watching some action tv show but I didn't really pay attention to it. All I could think about was the café and how it closed down. I felt so stupid for all the things I did in the past.

Kissing Sophie was probably the biggest mistake I have ever done in my life. If I could go back in time and redo one day, it would be the day I kissed Sophie at Will's diving competition. Not only that but I stopped caring for Rikki and interacting with her life. She has changed but I still believe that we have a chance at being together again.

She has been my best friend, my lover for the past two years and for her to just slip out of my hands is just too much for me. She understands me like no other person and when I was the biggest jerk to people, she would let it slide of her because she looked past it and liked me for who I really was inside.

I sat at the sofa in frustration as I looked up at the televison.

"I only did that because… well I love you!" The man said as there was girl in his arms.

"I love you too!" The girl said as they both went into a deep kiss.

"That's Bullshit." I whispered to myself as I turned off the tv.

I sat on the coach not having a clue as to what to do…what do with my life.

"Zane, do something for a change and go make yourself useful. You've been sitting on the coach all week watching tv." I heard my dad say as he was walking into the kitchen.

"That's because I was an idiot and the café closed down." I whispered to myself.

"What?" My dad asked in confusion but I ignored him.

"I don't want you sitting and watching tv all day. Do something useful with your self or im sending you off to collage." My dad said as he grabbed a beer from the refrigerator and left. I sighed as I stood up from the sofa.

My dad has been bugging me to go off to collage all summer. He said that if I am lazy the whole summer, he threatened that for sure he would send me off to collage. The least thing I wanted to do was go to school again.

I was still in my boxers as i was wearing a red shirt. I went into my bedroom and changed into some blue jeans and a gray shirt which had sleeves that went up to my elbows.

I quickly combed my hair as I looked at myself in the mirror. I may look fine, but I still felt like crap. I had no idea where to go or who to hang out with since almost everyone is going to be gone by the end of this summer. If I never kissed Sophie, I bet I could just call Rikki and asked her to hang out with me but obviously I messed up and look where that got me. Im now a lonely loser with absolutely nothing to do. I always had Nate but after hanging out with him for some time, he was so annoying. I also had Sophie but I didn't want Rikki to think I was dating her.

I was walking outside as I was deciding to go to the motorcycle fields. To get to it you had to pass the café. I looked up to see that hugged closed sign in front of the café. If I had money, I could open it up again but my dad wouldn't lend me money and I was too lazy to get another job, and then have to work at the café.

As I was walking to the motorcycle fields, I saw Rikki walking towards my directions. She looked upset as she was rushing to go somewhere. She was wearing some blue shorts with a light green tang top.

She was so beautiful in every single way as her long blonde hair was blowing in every single direction which was caused from the wind. I smiled as a tingling sensation went over me. My hands went numb as I ran up to her.

I felt a little nervous since she hasn't been talking to me lately. I hated seeing her unhappy. I just wish I could run up to her, hold her in my arms and kiss her warm lips but right now, that was way off from what reality could offer me.

For all I cared, I would be happy if she talked to me with out getting upset. I quickly approached her as I smiled.

"Hey Rikki." I said with a smile as I was walking next to her.

All she did was continue walking as she had that annoyed face expression on her. I was expecting her to say something but she didn't, getting me all nervous again. Usually when im not with her, I have so many things I want to talk to her about but when I was, my mind went blank and panic filled me up.

"So how's it going for you? How has your summer been?" I asked trying to stay casual with the whole conversation.

"Probably worse than yours." She responded like she was talking to herself but I heard her and i smiled.

"If sitting on the coach all day and cleaning up the café is considered being good, than your summer must have been awful." I sarcastically said with a smile but she stopped walking and just stood there.

"Will you seriously just leave me alone! The least thing I want is to worry about my ex-boyfriend following me around everywhere cause he nothing to do." She snapped at me.

I panicked as I didn't know how to respond, she sounded upset as she wiped pieces of her hair away from her face.

"Im sorry, I… I…-" I paused not knowing what to say. "I just wanted to talk, just stop by and say hi, that's all." I said trying to sound confident but I obviously failed.

She sighed as she kept walking.

"Look, I know im bothering you-" I started saying but she interrupted me.

"Well obviously." She mentioned as she rolled her eyes at me.

I ignored her comment as I kept walking.

"But I don't want this to be awkward for us. I really want to be friends you and im trying everything to make that work." I said as I was still walking next to Rikki.

"Fine. Were friends! Happy?" She asked as she put her hands on her hips.

I shook my head as I thought about what she just said.

"Rikki, I don't want you to just say were friends and that's it. I really want to try being friends. Come on, dont you? Do you seriously not want to talk to me anymore?" I asked hoping she wasn't going to say yes and walk away.

She looked down at the ground as she stayed silent.

"Zane, right now is not a good time, im dealing with… other problems." She quietly said as I saw sadness in her face.

"Oh, im sorry." I quietly said as it stayed silent for a few seconds. "Do you want to talk about it?" I asked in concern.

Rikki smiled as she rolled her eyes at me.

"Me, tell you about my problems. Like you would care…" she smirked at me.

I took a deep breath as I kept talking.

"But I do care. If I didn't care then I wouldn't be here talking you." I mentioned as I looked into her beautiful blue eyes.

She looked back down at the ground as she put her blonde wavy hair behind her ear.

"Emma's back and there has been a few issues with her and the group. Nothing huge." She ended as she stayed silent.

"Did you guys get into a fight or something?" I asked since I knew that Rikki and Emma didn't always get along that well.

She kept looking back down at the ground as she took out her iphone that I gave her and looked at the clock.

"Well, it was nice talking to you. I should probably go." She said as she turned around to walk away but I grabbed her arm.

"Rikki, im hear to listen. I enjoy talking to you. If you need someone to talk to, then im here. Why don't you just take a break from this and go out for some coffee with me?" I asked with hopeful eyes but she shook her head.

"Zane im serious. I have to go." She insisted and then walked away.

"Well if you ever change your mind you know how to reach me." I said with a sad smile but she kept walking.

I took a deep breath as I walked away from her towards the motorcycle fields. I knew from that day on that this was going to be one long summer.

Bella's Pov

"And look what we got!" I said showing Will a bikini and putting it over my body.

"You look so sexy in it!" Emma said as we both started laughing.

Will just awkwardly sat there as he smiled.

"How long did you guys go shopping for? You got a ton of stuff!" Will said as he picked up one of the shopping bags and looked inside.

"Ya, my parents are going to be so mad. They just gave me a 200 dollar visa card and I just spent it all in 1 week." Emma mentioned sounding a bit guilty but also happy as she was looking at all the stuff she had just bought.

"Ya, and I just bought these really cute flip flops." I said as I took out a shoe box and showed him this white pair of flip flops.

"Oh, those look cute. Try them on!" Will said as I started removing my purple converse off my feet.

I started walking down Will's boat shack like I was a model.

"And pose!" Emma said as I froze in one position, putting my hands on my hips.

Will just laughed.

"Those shoes look amazing on you Bella. Im so happy for you." Emma said with a warm smile as I put the shoes back into the shoes box.

"Not as amazing as that shirt you bought. It so suites you!" I mentioned while pointing to one of the shirts Emma bought.

"Why thank you!" She said with a chessy voice as we both laughed.

All of a sudden I heard a knock on the door.

"Come in." Will immediately said as it sounded like he was excepting someone.

I saw the door open to find Rikki standing in front of us.

She stood there looking kinda awkwardly at us but she gave us a small nervous smile.

"Cleo hasn't arrived yet, has she?" Rikki mentioned as she was talking to Will.

You could tell that Emma wasn't too happy about this.

"Rikki!" I heard Cleo say as she ran into the shack.

"We should probably go now." Emma said as she grabbed my hand but Cleo and Rikki stopped us.

"We really need to talk to guys and im just asking you to just listen to us for a few minutes! That's all were asking." Cleo immediately said as she stopped me and Emma from walking out the door

I looked at Emma as she looked back at me. She looked at the ground and sighed.

"You have two minutes." Emma snapped at them.

Cleo looked relived as she walked deeper into the boat shack.

"We just wanted to say that… well-" Cleo paused and Rikki continued.

"That were terribly sorry as to what happened and from keeping secrets from you two. You guys are our best friends and I'd hate to stop being friends because of this whole fight." Rikki ended awkwardly.

Emma didn't look amused.

"Well im glad we had that settled, lets go Bella." Emma said as she was heading for the door but Cleo grabbed Emma's arm.

"Will you just listen to us for a few minutes! That's all were asking!" Cleo said in a loud frustrated voice.

"We've been trying to talk to you, trying to apologize but all you do is ignore us and walk away. Were at least trying but no, you just have to act so stubborn about this and ignore us like we are your enemies. We want to be friends again and we know what we did was stupid but you cant just keep acting like this or we'll never solve anything. Why don't you just take two minutes of your time to talk to us? If you want I wont even bother talking to you anymore. Ill stop being your friend and ignore you how you ignore us if that's what you want!" Cleo said loudly in a confident voice.

Emma was shoken up from what Cleo said to her but she just looked at the ground in sadness.

I looked at Rikki and she didn't look so happy. It looked like she was going to punch Emma in the face.

"You know what. Forget this! I'm so sick and tired of this! Trying to apologize to Emma when she should apologize to us! Shes been yelling at us, ignoring us and calling us bitches when we didn't even do anything! We only put Bella in the group because we liked her as a friend and we had a lot in commen with her! Not because we were replacing you! And you-" Rikki mentioned as she looked at me straight in the eyes.

"You shouldn't even be mad at us! We never used you as a back up friend! I don't get why you think we would! Me and Cleo would never do that! If it were true then we wouldn't be here asking you guys to be friends with us again." Rikki explained in a loud frustrated voice.

Me and Emma just stood there in shock not knowing what to say.

Emma stood up sadly as she took a deep breath.

"No, im sorry! I just got jealous." She finally admitted.

"I was just upset to hear that you had a new mermaid friend. I thought you were going to keep liking her more than me. I felt like I wasn't part of the group anymore when you replaced the jewels with the lockets." Emma mentioned sadly.

I saw Cleo grab something from Will's self as she opened her hand to revile a shiny blue crystal necklace.

"We should of given this to you the second you arrived in Australia. If we knew you were coming, we would of made one for you sooner. Were so sorry." Cleo apologized as she gave the necklace to Emma.

She smiled as she gave Cleo a huge hug.

"Im so so so sorry about what I said and what I did. I swear it will never happen again." Emma mentioned as she was still hugging Cleo.

She put the necklace around her neck as she smiled.

" And Im really really sorry Rikki." Emma apologized but Rikki gave her a small fake smile as she still had her arms crossed.

"I wish I was too." Rikki softly said as she left the boat shack, leaving everyone there in a dead silence.