Emma's Pov

"Ash!" I screamed out as I wrapped my arms around my boyfriends neck.

He smiled as he wrapped his arms around my body and kissed me on the side of the head.

"Oh my gosh! It's seriously has been forever! I've missed you so much! How have you been? I can not wait to tell you what has happened since the last time I saw you!" I rambled as I had my arms wrapped around my boyfriends back as we started walking out of the hotel.

He looked quite different now. More mature but very cute. He still had that dark brown hair but now it was a little longer and cut in a different way. His bangs went off to the the side of his face and he still had that gorgeous smile.

He chuckled as he kissed me again.

"Well its worth the flight since I haven't seen you in so long." He started off saying as we were walking down the side walk.

I smiled as we started heading down town where the beach was. He was shocked from all that has changed. Its only been a year since he's been gone and already is different.

"Woah!" Ash stopped, as he looked at the boarded up cafe.

"What?" I asked a bit confused as I stopped to look at what he was looking at.

"What happened to the cafe? Why is it out of business and-" He started saying a bit confused. "Does that say Rikki's?" He asked shocked.

"Yup." I responded annoyed.

"Rikki Chadwick?" He asked even more confused.

"Yup. That Rikki. Her stupid rich boyfriend bought the cafe for her when the juice net went out of business, but they didn't do any better than we did." I mentioned with a bit of sadness in my voice.

"Was it Zane that bought it?" He asked.

"Well who else would it be? That's like the only rich guy in this whole town that would afford to buy a cafe like that." I mentioned.

"And their still together?" He asked.

"No, Zane cheated on Rikki." I smirked.

Rikki would never believe us when we told her to not go out with Zane, but she never listened. But why does it matter now? She kinda deserved it.

"Faggot." Ash mumbled as I mentioned about how Zane cheated on Rikki.

"I knew that Rikki shouldn't of gone out with that son of a-" He stopped at that. "Well, you know what I mean." He continued as we started walking down the side walk.

"Its fine. I think pretty much everyone here thinks Zane is a an asshole. He cant be committed to anything." I mentioned with some anger in my voice.

Just remembering all the things he's done to us in the past makes me mad. He always manipulated us and only cared for himself. I still don't see what Rikki ever saw in that-

Immediately I saw Cleo, Bella and Rikki all walking towards our direction as they were all talking and laughing. My fists clinched up as I saw them. I couldn't believe they were doing this to me. How could they just invite Rikki back into the group like that? I just wanted to go up to her and punch her in the face. Plus she threw up when Cleo told everyone about how Lewis proposed to her. What the Hell?

"Hey! It's Rikki and Cleo!" Ash exclaimed as he started walking a bit faster to meet up with them.

Once we walked up to them, the first thing I saw was Rikki as we both made eye contact, but we both looked away with annoyed faces. Once Rikki and Cleo saw Ash, they immediately smiled and quickly walked up to him.

"Oh my gosh! Ash!" Cleo exclaimed as she gave Ash a quick hug.

Rikki smiled as she also went up to Ash and hugged him.

"Wow! Its seriously has been forever." Rikki mentioned as she broke away from the hug.

I madly sighed as I really didn't want him talking to them. I was just so tired and sick of them.

"Oh! And this is Bella. She's also a-" She paused. "Well, you know." She gave a small awkward smile as Ash put out his hand to shake Bella's hand.

"Wow, another one? How many mermaids are out there?" Ash asked surprised as Bella just smiled.

"Too many..." I mumbled as Rikki gave me a mad serious face.

"Wow, i can't beilive were all here. Oh wait? What about Lewis?" He asked as Cleo gave out a smile.

"Ok, guess what?" Cleo excitdly asked to Ash.

"Just spit it out Cleo. He's not in the mood for guessing games." I snapped as Ash just chuckled.

"What?" Ash asked as Cleo showed her hand to Ash.

He gasped as he saw the shiny ring on Cleo's finger.

"Woah! Cleo! You got proposed? It wouldn't be Lewis would it?" He asked as Cleo nodded her head with a smile.

"Yay, were all excited for her. Lets go Ash." I grabbed his arm as I tryed to drag him away from the group but he didn't budge.

"Why can't we all just hang out. I haven't chatted with you forever." Ash told Rikki as she just smiled.

I rolled my eyes as I really just wanted to get out of this situation. The least thing I needed to do was hang out and talk to Rikki.

"I know! You seriously need to come back and stay for a while. Aren't you board in collage?" She asked as he chuckled.

"Nah, classes are hard but its quite fun. Meeting new people. collage parties, other stuff you dont really do often when you arent in school." He explained while we were all walking along together.

"Owe! Talking about collage, i just sent in my application for nursing school! Im praying i get accepted. I got a 3.8 for my GPA so my chances are good." I exclaimed with excitement as Ash smiled.

"That's great Emma. Surly you'll get in." Cleo mentioned as I gave a small insecure smile.

"Ya ya ya. Why do we need to go to school when we can just hang out and have fun? To me, it just seems like a huge waste of time." Rikki complained.

"Well if you want to become a janitor at a school then your sure welcome to do that too." I sarcastically said as Rikki rolled her eyes at me.

"Hey guys! Wait up!" I heard behind me as I saw WIll and Lewis running towards our direction.

Cleo smiled as she pulled Lewis in for a kiss.

"Well, look who we have here?" Rikki joked as Cleo just laughed.

"Jelous?" Lewis smiled as he raised up one of his eyebrows.

"Of course." Rikki joked as Will wrapped his arm around Bella and kissed the top of her head.

'Well, i have some news." Lewis mentioned, not looking all that much excited.

"You could of just said it instead of mentioned it." Rikki said as Lewis ignored her comment.

"Its the full moon. Its tomorrow and we need to be prepared." He explained as I rolled my eyes.

"You mean Rikki needs to be prepared. She's the only one here who cant control herself every time there's a full moon." I complained, making Rikki mad.

"Oh, im the one who needs to control myself? Excuse me, your the one whos always.-"

"GUYS! Seriously! Not now! This is not important. We just need to make sure that nothing bad happens and that no one goes out to mako! Ok?" Cleo snapped as Rikki crossed her arms.

It was silent for a few seconds until Ash spoke up.

"The moon? Your still having problems with that? What happened last time?" He asked.

"Ask Rikki, she's probably the one who caused it..." I crossed my arms as Rikki fclinched her fists.

"Seriously! Stop blaming everything on me, I wasnt the one-?"

She started screaming as someone behind us started yelling Rikki's name. The voice was familiar as I looked behind me to see a guy with Brown hair, a gray shirt and some blue jeans. He was walking right towards us when I saw his face. It was Zane...

Rikki's Pov

I looked behind me to find Zane running up to me, in front of everyone who I was talking to.

Oh shit. This was not good. What if Zane started blurting about that night we had sex? I pretended I didnt hear him as he fianlly caught up to me and the rest of the group.

Everyone looked at Zane with annoyed faces.

"Rikki, I need to talk to you." He started saying.

"Of course you do." I annoyingly said as he looked a bit frustrated with me.

"Please, just two minutes. That's all im asking." He quickly mentioned as I didnt know what to do.

"Zane, just leave it alone. She doesn't want to talk to you." Bella exclaimed as Zane ignored her.

"Im not asking for much. I just need to talk..." He asked as he followed behind me as the rest of the group followed me too.

"Not now Zane. I dont want to talk." I snapped not looking at him.

"Fine do you just want me to say what I need to tell you right out in the open?" He asked as I stopped to look at him.

He had a serious face expression as I was really annoyed at him. I couldnt have him talking about the night we had sex in front of everybody. It would just make things worse for me.

Everyone looked confused as he mentioned about how he would just talk about it right in the open.

"You have one minute. Got it?" I asked fiercely as I grabbed his arm and pulled him off to the side.

Everyone just stood around, waiting for me as I looked up at Zane. He didnt say anything, as I crossed my arms.

"Ok, talk." I snapped as this was quite embarrassing for to have to talk to Zane right in front of everybody.

I just couldn't have them find out that night i had with Zane.

Zane sighed as he looked into my eyes.

"I know we got off on the wrong track with this whole situation but I really dont want to make things worse and I think we should work this out. I just really need to-" He started saying as i stopped him.

"There's nothing you can do. Just stay out of my life. K?" I said as i started walking back towards everyone but he grabbed my arm and pulled me back to him.

"Rikki! Seriously? What's wrong? What did i do that was so bad that i cant even talk to you anymore. Its not like you weren't part of this too." He mentioned as i looked back at everyone to see them board and annoyed.

"Oh so now this is my fault? I'm glad we had this conversation." I sarcastically said but he still grabbed for my arm.

"Please Rikki. Can't we just discus this?

"No Zane! Theres nothing to discus! We both had sex and thats it." I snapped.

"So were not back together? Were not even friends?" He asked as sadness crepped into his voice.

I looked down at the ground as I didnt know what to say. Us being friends would probably never work. We would probably end up getting back together and this whole cycle would start again.

"No. Were not friends. Like i said before, I already have enough happening in my life and i dont need someone making it worse..."

"Im not gonna make it worse. Rikki, i really wanna be here for you and help. Why cant you just let me?"

"Because! I just cant. Ok? Its just... it wont work. Being friends is not something were ment to be. And nor is getting back together so just leave it at that." I said as i turned around to walk back to everyone.

"Well, loosing you, will be one of the biggest mistakes of my life." He mentioned as I saw him walk away.

I swallowed hard as I awkwardly walked up to everybody. Was this seriously it? Was this the end of me and Zane? Or was he just saying that for now?

"Lets go." I said, a bit upset as everyone started to walk.

"What happened? Are you ok?" Bella softly asked as i grabbed onto my stomach.

"Oh gosh. I feel horrible." I mentioned as i felt that sick feeling inside of me again.

"Its ok. No one said handling your ex would be easy." Cleo mentioned, but before I knew it, I ran off the side walk, towards the bushes as I started to puke.