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Melissa's POV

As the days went by, the school was getting closer and closer and the holidays were slowly disappearing into nothingness of the past. Sitting on the couch in the living room, I was going through the pages of the fashion magazine - something I always do before the school starts - and searched for the type of outfit that would fit me well and would be fashionable this autumn. After half an hour of searching, I finally found something decent for myself to wear - tunic with many bright and happy colors mixed together, knee length tights and yellow ballet flats.

I smiled as I pictured myself wearing it, but my smile instantly faded after looking at the price tag. The tunic coasted 50$, tights 20$ and ballet flats 65$ - way too much for me to afford it. My parents didn't really have a lot of money and I always looked for cheap clothes to buy - yes, I know my house is big and may seem expensive, but both my grandmas helped with money for it.

I went to the kitchen, where I found my mom preparing a rabbit to be baked - yum, baked rabbit was one of my favorites. I slowly approached her with a magazine in my hands and gently slapped her back to notice me.

"Mom, do you know any easy way to get to the money?" I asked. She turned to face me and her eyes instantly fell onto the magazine I was holding.

"May I see what you want first?" I gave her the magazine and showed her what I was interested in. She smiled as she looked back up at me. "Sweetie, this coasts too much. I can help you with some money, but not with all. So I suggest you find yourself a job."

I glared at her. "A job?"

"Yup. Find something like... Selling ice-cream or delivering newspapers or pizzas or something like that."

I frowned. This job thing might not be such a bad idea. I was capable of working - I was neither lazy like May nor irresponsible like Destiny, meaning I was a perfect candidate for a job. But what job?

Selling ice-cream was a good idea, but I don't wanna end wet or something - like Destiny did - so that's out of question. Delivering pizza or newspapers... Hmmm, that might be good, but with the money I'd get for it I wouldn't even be able to buy those tights that are the cheapest of my desired clothes. But I kinda had something else in mind...

"Mom, do you think I'd be good at babysitting?" Yes, babysitting. What? In my opinion, I can be a good babysitter. I did babysit Misty when she was a brat.

"Well..." Mom gulped. Okay, Misty did almost drown once when I was babysitting her, but it's not my fault that brat decided to lock herself in the bathroom to take a bath and refused to let me in. "I think that might work, actually."

I smiled as I hugged my mom. "Thanks, mom! Would you ask your colleagues if they need a babysitter when you go to work? I'd take anything right now."

Mom nodded. "I'll see what I can do."

-H2O-

"You? A babysitter? I'd love to see that", May laughed at my job decision. I mean, what the hell? If she hated children and didn't know how to deal with them, that doesn't mean I don't and can't.

"I asked mom to find something for me", I said, ignoring May's statement. "I just need the money for clothes, that's all. There's only a few days left till school and you know how picky I am for the first day clothes. And we're starting high school, that's kinda big."

Destiny smiled. "I think you're right. Just be careful. Little kids can be quite tricky - don't let them do what they want. Remember that you have the power here - I mean that in all possible ways - and therefore you should be listened and obeyed. Not the other way around. And be extra careful around water - kids love it and, trust me, they'd like to have a water guns war with you."

I nodded, warmly accepting Destiny's advices. "I'll manage. I can always freeze their damn gun so they won't be able to use it. So what are you girls gonna do this afternoon?"

"I'll just be lazy. But tomorrow I'll walk around the island and take some pictures, maybe even draw", May said.

"And I'll tomorrow take Dyson a bit further from Ooha'oma. He wants to see underwater world all of a sudden", Destiny spoke. "He asked May, but she said no so I'm the lucky girl he'll have with him."

"I always swim with him, now it's your turn", May grinned.

I giggled. They can be quite funny at times - it's not what they say I find funny, but the way they talk to. Their voices sound like the voices of five-year olds. "I see you'll have busy days. I'll be home, waiting for my mom to get me some possibly good news about my job. Anyways, you up for a swim now?"

"You bet", May said and with that, we left the moon pool and went gliding through great and warm oceans' deeps.

-H2O-

I was so impatient while waiting for my mom to get home. As soon as I heard the door opening, I ran to the hallway to see my mom - looking tired - entering the house. I instantly bombed her with questions about my job - you know the usual: "Did you find it? Where? How? How much money? But wait, did you even find it?" and such.

Mom smiled at my persistence. "I found you a job. You-"

I haven't even let her finish before I started to scream like a moron and jump around the house like some kind of a four-year old. "So? How is it? Where is it? Who do I have to babysit?"

"One cute little girl", mom said. "She's my colleague's friend's daughter. She and her mom were in the store for a couple of times and she's such a cutie. A little angel. You'll love her."

"Great!" I shrieked. A cute, little angel was so easy to handle. I'll just stuff her with candies and chocolates and send her to watch the TV and that's it.

"And you won't believe this, but they pay you 100$ for a day", mom continued.

My eyes went wide. "How much?" I needed to hear it again to be sure I wasn't going gaga.

"100$."

"B-but how? Why?"

"I don't really know. But be happy about it - don't question it. Oh and there's this one more thing... You'll have to get there at 8 am and be there until around midnight because the rest of the family is going to visit their cousins and the kid is sick so she has to stay home. Is that okay for you to be there for the whole day?"

"It's fine, I'll love it!" For a 100$ I'd spend a day naked at Antarctica if I had to. That's a lot of money for a teen like me.

"Good. So it's settled. I'll call them to say you accepted." Mom put her hand in the pocket and took some white paper out of it. "Here's the address. And don't forget: be there at exactly eight - not even a minute later."

"It's okay, I can handle it", I said; taking the address out of her hand. As I read it, I found it quite familiar, like I've already been to that house. Maybe it was just my imagination.

-H2O-

The next day, I got up really early - at exactly 6 am. I took my time to pick the clothes I'll wear and decided that chocolate brown knee-length cargoes, yellow hooded T-shirt and white Chuck Taylors were a pretty good choice. I put some makeup on and packed my notebook in the bag - I had to do something while the girl's sleeping so I figured I'd write my book. As always, I put on grandma's necklace and put the cell phone in my pocket.

I checked everything for the last time and when I was finally convinced I've got everything, I said goodbyes to mom and dad and headed to the address I had to be at. I took my bicycle and rode in full speed to get to the house - it's not as if I was gonna be late, I was just so excited I couldn't wait to get there. But my excitement soon turned into fright when I reached the house. I instantly realized why the address was so familiar and I just hoped my mom wrote it down wrong and that I was supposed to be at the neighbor's house instead of at the one with number 45.

That house number 45 - the house I was supposed to be working at for 100$ a day - was a big, two-floored yellow house with a giant, crystal clear pool in the front yard. Judging by the windows and balconies, the house contained many rooms, most of it probably never even been used before. There was a big garden surrounding the pool and many white, pink and red roses along with lots of other colorful flowers proudly bloomed there under the sun. Two years ago, I made a promise to myself not to step into that house ever again, but I guess I'll have to break the promise due to the job needs.

I stood in front of a large, but classy looking fence and waited for someone to let me in. A short and thin woman in her early forties - clad in short white dress and high heels - unlocked the fence and with a warm welcome and a greeting let me in. That very same young-looking and handsome woman led me to the house - her neat and careful walk reminded me of someone closely related to her. Despite her snobbish appearance, she was quite a nice person, but her descendant one was a complete opposite.

Entering the house, I admired all those expensive statues that stood next to the walls and on the shells, and those beautiful pictures that hung on the living room's walls. The furniture looked modern and quite expensive as well - not even single piece of dust could be seen on its surface. I felt panic trying to overwhelm me. What if I break something? How much would I have to pay for it? Would they sue me and send me to jail? Okay, the jail thing was stupid, but hey - stuff happens!

"I haven't seen you in a while", the woman said in her warm, friendly voice. "How have you been, Melissa?"

I curved my lips into a smile. "Fine... I guess."

"You look so grown up! You're way different than two years ago - and I mean it in a good way. You're a beautiful young woman now", she said.

"Thanks", I muttered, which brought a smile onto her pretty face.

"You're welcome, dear. We shall go to the kitchen now so my husband and I can explain the rules to you."

As I entered the kitchen, I found some more expensive and classy furniture which made me almost jealous - why couldn't I have stuff alike these people have? But my jealousy instantly disappeared at the sight of a familiar face standing behind a bar next to a middle-aged man and drinking something that looked like beer along with him. Therese Brown smiled cynically at my appearance as she took another sip of her drink.

"That's enough beer for you, Therese. I don't want you vomiting all the way to aunt's house", her dad warned her.

She ignored his warning and sipped some more beer into the glass. "Oh, I'll be fine. It's not the first time I'm drinking before a car ride."

Her dad rolled his eyes at her. "Whatever. Just don't complain to me how dizzy you feel."

I couldn't believe my eyes. Her parents just let her drink alcohol in front of them - mine would take it away from me if I did it. My parents only allowed me to drink alcohol on parties and such. I wonder if they let the younger daughter drink that junk too.

"So, you're the new nanny, huh?" Therese asked. I could feel it in her voice that she barely held her laughter back. She stepped in front of me and smiled again. "You sure you can handle this?"

"I guess we'll just have to see, will we?" I said; a bit annoyed. As she was walking towards me, I noticed she gained some weight - I guess anorexia was not her style anymore.

"I guess so", she repeated.

Mr. Brown went upstairs and in a few minutes he returned with a small, cute girl holding his hand. The girls' light brown curls were tied into pigtails and her cute face revealed a sick expression through her small, brown eyes. She was almost like Therese's clone, like a younger version of her, but as I said - the girl was adorable, Therese was not even close. She coughed for a few times and hugged her dad's leg.

"Melissa, meet Lilly", Mr. Brown said, pointing to his younger daughter. "Lilly, this is Melissa. She will take care of you today."

"Hi, Mevissa", Lilly muttered.

I kneeled down to her and took her hand. "Hi, Lilly. You seem like a nice girl. The two of us will have so much fun together today. What do you say?"

"Okay", she said. I smiled. Such a cute child. Too bad she has such a monster for an older sister.

"How old are you, Lilly?" I asked. The girl raised her hand and showed me five fingers.

"Five."

"Oh, you're such a big girl so what do you say we do stuff big girls do?"

"Okay." The girl was a real sweetie. I instantly got a feeling this was gonna be an easy task. Too bad my feelings sometimes play tricks on me.

Destiny's POV

Dyson boarded his motorboat and headed into the distance - towards Ooha'oma - in full speed. I followed him underwater. On our way to the marina he explained that his sister insisted that he sends her some shells and starfishes in San Francisco or else she'll be coming here. There was a reason Dyson tried to stop her return - he described the scene between Irma and May as a shark and a dolphin hanging out together. That wouldn't be so good.

When we got far enough, he stopped his boat and I surfaced. I asked him for one last time is he wants me to go alone, but he insisted that he comes along. Training to hold his breath for longer were the words he described the reason.

As he got into the water, I took his hand and led him to the bottom. I expected him to ask me to bring him back to the surface, but surprisingly he managed to withstand it. I watched as he collected lots of shells into a plastic bag. I helped too, but every damn shell had to be checked by him or else it won't be let into the bag.

I noticed a few sharks getting closer to us, so I used my power to heat the water and scare them away. Dyson didn't really feel like swimming anymore after that, so he decided to return.

Damn! Two hours of my precious time spent for nothing.

May's POV

Surfacing at Ooha'oma's beach, I crawled out of the water to where it's dry and waited for the sun to dry me off. While waiting, I've got this marvelous idea - why wouldn't I dry myself out on my own?

I put my hand up and twisted it from left to right, levitating the water from myself into the air. When I was dry and in my human form again, I threw the ball of water I got off of myself into the ocean and found my way into the forest. On my back was a rucksack which contained my notebook, pencils, eraser, coloring pencils and other things I needed for drawing. My cell phone was - of course - around my neck, along with my starfish necklace and a shell necklace Dyson gave me. What would I take pictures with if my cell phone wasn't there?

Somewhere in the forest I found myself in front of a creek with no way of passing by it. So I went the easy way. I twisted my hand, dividing the creek and keeping it that way till I passed over it. Soon I reached some rocks that were hidden deep within the forest and in between which ran a fast turquoise colored creek. I found a perfect place for myself to draw.

I sat on top of one of the rocks and put my backpack next to me, taking out my notebook, pencil and eraser. I looked into the trees that swung on the slow, warm wind and sighed. My only hope was that the pictures I'll draw turn out nice.

Melissa's POV

"Lilly! What are you doing?" I screamed at the top of my lungs at the little girl who - as soon as her parents and big sister left the house - started to jump around the house and create a mess I think even a tornado wouldn't be able to cause. Funny, she didn't look so sick anymore.

"Playing!" she said as she continued throwing all the papers and decorations off the tables and cupboards. "Join me, Melissa!"

I narrowed my eyes. So she could say my name properly, she just faked it earlier. She faked illness too, probably to stay home and torture whatever nanny her parents would pick for her - and I was that lucky girl. I saw Lilly for the last time two years ago and she seemed like a nice child - probably a lie too. And I gotta admit I finally know the reason Browns offered me 100$ a day to babysit her - she's a devil!

I watched in horror as Lilly took a small, silver fairy statue and slammed it against the glass door that lead to the kitchen. The glass shattered into thousands of pieces; some of them landing on Lilly, but she didn't seem to care. She began picking them up and throwing them at me - I jumped behind a couch and covered my head with my hands.

"It's dangerous, Lilly! Stop it! You could hurt yourself that way!" I yelled. Lilly just laughed sinisterly at my cry. "No, Lilly! That's enough!"

I started to panic. I felt my heart pounding faster and faster, louder and louder and I could resemble its beat on my T-shirt. That child was driving me crazy - and by that I mean a lot crazier than Therese's ever driven me. I don't wanna know how this monster will be at my age - I hope I'll move from here until that time arrives.

"Lilly, stop it!" I tried ordering her once again, but it was like talking to the wall. The brat laughed into my face once again and threw a big piece of glass at me. I put my arms over my head again and felt something hurting my left hand; a sound of glass shattering next to me was heard as well. I opened my eyes and observed my hand, only to see a deep and long cut that barely missed my vein. Pieces of broken glass laid next to my leg. I gulped. What if the hands weren't where they were? Would my eyes be hurt?

That was the moment I've had it enough. I got up and eyed Lilly; my widened eyes sending death glare to her small, happy-looking ones. "Alright, that's it!" Without another word I headed towards her, which probably scared her since she ran into the kitchen.

Once in the kitchen, I found no trace of her, which meant she either hid behind a bar or ran upstairs through the stairs that were at the corner of the kitchen. Carefully, I tip toed around the bar, hoping to catch her from behind so I can hold her and not let her get herself or me in danger again. But I was terribly wrong thinking she hasn't planned that out already.

Just when I was about to get behind the bar, I saw the little brat rising up to her feet and everything after that looked like it happened in slow motion. As she was getting back, I noticed in her hands a huge glass full of cold-looking water. She raised her hand she held the glass with and pointed it at my direction. All the water from the glass has risen up into the air and in less than a second landed onto my head, chest and arms. I gasped at the surprising event and gave a final death glare to Lilly, before running upstairs with a hope of getting into some safe room I could dry off in.

I knew I had to react fast so as soon as I reached the first door I managed to get to, I took the cell phone out of my pocket and threw it onto the hard floor. In that exact moment I felt my tail spread down my waist and joined the cell phone on the floor. I quickly closed the door by slapping my fin against it and sighed in relief; happy I managed to keep my secret safe. But happiness wouldn't last for long.

I heard Lilly running up the stairs and hitting the door with her hands, desperately trying to get in. She almost opened the door once, but I slammed my tail against it, closing it hard. I took the cell phone in my hands and crawled to the door, leaning my back onto it. I observed the room I was in - white everywhere, washing machine, toilet, bathtub which looked more like a Jacuzzi - 100% bathroom.

After a couple of minutes of laughing and almost breaking the door, Lilly got up and disappeared somewhere else in the house. My breathing - which was already heavy enough - became even heavier and I felt tears forming in my eyes - the tears I refused to let out. I wouldn't let that kid think she managed to break me. I wouldn't. By my sad feelings were stronger than my pride - the tears fell down my eyes like a rain in a rainforest.

I started to sob and cry my eyes out. A kid - a five-year old kid outsmarted me and broke my down. I've never been this humiliated in my life! I went through the phonebook in my cell phone until I found May's number - I know both hers and Destiny's number without having to find it in the phonebook, but at the moment I was so stressed out I barely knew my own name.

"Yeah?" I heard May's happy voice speak and smiled. She usually never answers calls since she prefers SMS', but I guess it was my lucky day. Why I called her than instead of Destiny? I've got a new phone card and since May and I were MSN-ing last night, she reminded me to write her number into the cell phone. I forgot to write Destiny's too.

"May? Thank God you've answered!" I took a deep breath to calm down a bit - I barely spoke through my sobs and cries.

"Are you crying, Mel? What's wrong?"She sounded worried.

I gulped. "May, I need you to get to Therese's house quickly. Before you ask, I'm babysitting her little sister. I'll explain everything when you get here. Please hurry up, I can't take this anymore."

"What happened to the cute little girl you mentioned last night?" Yes, we chatted about my job too. "And to 'this will be easy'?"

"All right, all right, it is not easy. Now please hurry up or I'll be exposed!"

"What?"

"She got me wet!"

"I'm coming right up!"

"Bring Des too!" And with that I hung up. I just hoped she'll get here before that brat thinks of some other way to torture me.

May's POV

As soon as Melissa's and mine conversation ended, I put all my drawing equipment into my backpack and ran to the beach. Diving into the ocean, I swam to the beach closest to Destiny's house and used my power to water myself off, before picking my friend up. After explaining her the whole situation, we ran to Therese's house and came across a large fence.

"And how exactly do you think we can get in?" Destiny asked.

I observed the fence, trying to think of a way of getting in. Thinking of a perfect way, I smiled and whispered to Destiny: "This way."

I began climbing up the fence and soon enough I was inside the yard waiting for Destiny to come after me. She was a bit skeptic for a moment, in the end decided to go the same way.

We entered the house without a knock and began calling for Melissa. We heard her yelling that she was upstairs and after a couple of times of getting lost, we finally managed to find her. She let us in and Destiny used her power to quickly dry her off.

"Where's the brat?" Destiny asked.

Melissa gulped. "I don't know."

While Destiny was helping Melissa calm down and get up, I sneaked out of the bathroom and with a quick "I'll find her" I went through the hallways and the rooms upstairs to find the location of a brat.

I heard a sound of something breaking and it led me to the room I least expected to be on the second floor - the kitchen. Imagine it, the house had lower and upper floor kitchen!

Lilly Brown - the very same brat that drove Melissa crazy - stood there next to a table with a big glass full of water.

"All right, brat, put that down!" I ordered. The kid just smiled.

"Make me." She began to rise her hand in the air and I knew she was about to spill the water onto me. She really looked for trouble.

"If that's what you want then fine", I said as I twisted my hand, making the water jump onto Lilly, wetting her all.

With a frightened look on her face, she ran behind a bar, where I followed her close behind. I was not letting her go that easily - not after what she did to my friend.

Noticing that she was near the sink, I did a twist of my hand again, making the faucet leak and splash her again. Screaming, she ran to the door, but I was there faster and I blocked her way.

"Not so fast!"

"What are you, a witch?" she asked as she started to cry. I knew I could handle her - I just knew it.

"Depends how you look at it. Now come with me!" I ordered.

She shook her head as she ran to the table again and sat onto one of the chairs. "No."

Now that really angered me. I noticed her raising her hand again and I saw something that looked like glass in her left hand. "Get up."

"No", she protested.

I rolled my eyes. I guess I I have to go the hard way. "I SAID GET UP!"

Seeing the furious look in my eyes, she instantly did what I told her to.

"DROP THAT!"

She obeyed again. A sharp piece of glass was let out of her hand and hit the floor; falling apart.

"NOW SIT DOWN!"

This time, instead of sitting onto the chair again, she literally sat onto the floor. Melissa will so like this, I just know she will!

Melissa's POV

After such a neverending day, everyone got what they wanted at the end. Lilly got grounded; no TV, interned, Facebook - yes, Facebook - for a month and such. And I... I've got 150$ instead of 100$. Mrs. Brown was very generous and considerate for what I've been through that day - she said she knows the feelings. And I bet she does.

I was finally able to buy that so wanted clothes. Mom and dad managed to add some more money so I could buy some more clothes, I treated Des and May with coffee - that's the least they deserved after what they did for me that hell of a day spent with that demonic child. I hope I'll be stronger the next time something similar occurs, but I know one thing for sure - no more babysitting for me. Ever!

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Next time: It's high school time. How will the girls deal with new environment? Is high school really what they hoped it to be? Find out in the next episode of H2O.

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