Please don't kill me even though I know you want to… I've been really busy because of school finishing then the results came out from the HSC then there was Christmas and new years and now I'm trying to organise my gap year program so it's been a bit crazy. I hope you guys like this chapter because it's full of drama and I promise this story is about to get more fun and interesting!
Coraline
Song title:
I surrender
By digital daggers
I woke up and groaned as I kicked the covers of me and rolled out of bed.
My stomach was growling loudly and I thought that if I didn't get food I'd die.
I stumbled out of my room and to the stair case.
A yawn escaped my lips and I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes as I went down the steps.
Accidently my foot got caught in the hem of my sweat pants and I tripped down the stairs.
I hit my head on a step and my vision blurred as I tumbled to the bottom.
"Ali!" I heard someone call but my vision went blank and I passed out.
My eyes fluttered open to focus on a white ceiling with bright florescent lights that made my eyes hurt.
Using my hands I pushed myself up of the bed to sit up but when I got halfway there my head began to spin and my vision blurred.
I slumped back on the bed confused.
Looking around I got a pretty good idea of where I was.
I was in a hospital bed and the curtain had been pulled around so I couldn't see around to room but I could hear all the other people in the room.
I looked over my shoulder and saw a monitor that was making a steady beeping sound.
The curtain moved and in walked Sam.
"I'm so glad you're okay" Sam said rushing towards me and hugging me gently
He pulled back and sat down in the chair next to the bed
"What happened?" I asked him confused
"You tripped and you fell down the stairs and hit your head pretty hard" Sam explained
The curtain pulled back again and in walked a pale man with blonde hair and gold eyes
"Hello I'm Doctor Cullen, how are you feeling?" he asked as he picked up the clipboard at the end of the bed and flipped through the pages.
"I'm okay, my head hurts a bit though. Wait your Dr. Cullen Leo's father?" I asked
Jess and Angela had told me all about the Cullen's and there back story.
She explained how Bella had dated Edward then they broke up and his family left and then they came back and everything turned back to normal, though Mike had told me about all the stuff that had gone down with Bella and Jacob that I had no idea about.
"Yes I am" Dr. Cullen smiled an extremely white smile at me.
His blonde hair was softly slicked back and he wore a white lab coat with black pants and a blue dress shirt.
He placed a jar of small pills into my hand and told me to take one if I felt pain.
"You were very lucky to not have broken anything" he nodded at me then to Sam then left the room.
Sam's eyes hardened and his jaw was clenched and his nose wrinkled as Dr. Cullen walked out.
An hour later we were back home after the nurse gave me another test for a concussion.
Ever so slowly with precaution I made my way up stairs to my bedroom and collapsed onto the bed exhausted even after all my time being knocked out and just having woken up before my graceful decent of the staircase, which reminded me I was still in my pyjamas. But I came to the conclusion that I was not going to get out of them anytime soon.
Picking up my phone of the night stand I checked for messages.
I had 3 texts and 2 calls from Rikki
5 texts and 6 calls from Cleo
4 texts and 2 calls from Emma
And shockingly I had 17 missed calls from Lewis
What the hell was going on, this isn't like them.
Dialling Lewis's number I pressed the phone to my ear and waited for him to pick up.
Lewis picked up the phone on the second ring.
"Alyeea is that you?!" Lewis exclaimed
"Yeah it's me what's going on?" I asked
"We were so worried, Cleo had spoken with Jacob and said that you were in hospital but he didn't know why. We thought they might have found out about you being a mermaid" Lewis said his voice not dropping down a level when he said mermaid which told me he was alone or at least with the girls.
"What? No that's not what happened at all it was just a fall. Kind of stupid really I tripped on my pyjama pants and tripped down the stairs and knocked myself out. I woke up in the hospital I have no idea what tests they ran when I was out of it. But really guys I'm fine. Are the girls there?" I asked him
"Yeah here's Cleo" he answered
For the next hour I spoke with them all on speaker phone and told them about Leo and how all the boys on the reservation wore like no clothing.
"Aleeya? You home?" I heard Jake's voice call from downstairs
"Guys I got to go" I told them then hung up.
"Yeah coming!" I called out walked out of my room and being extra careful going down the stairs.
Keeping my eyes on the steps I almost bumped right into Paul who was standing at the bottom with a smirk on his face
"What?" I said putting my hands on my hips and looking up at him.
I didn't like Paul he seemed like a trouble making jack ass.
"Just making sure you don't tumble down to your death again" he laughed
"Yeah well as you can see I'm at the bottom and I'm fine" and with that a pushed past him and walked into the kitchen.
"Hey Ali, Sam and Emily went out and they wanted me to keep an eye on you and so all the boys invited themselves to" Jake said coming to stand in front of me.
"Well I'm fine just hungry" I answered as my stomach growled and I now realised I hadn't eaten all day.
"I'll fix you some dinner" Jacob smiled then went to the fridge and started pulling out food to cook.
I took a seat at the dining table and watched Jake cook.
"So what's fun to do around here?" I asked Jake but it was Embry who answered.
"Well there's not a lot of girly things to do, but there's cliff diving" Embry smirked and sat down at the table next to me.
"Cliff diving?" I said excitement filling my voice.
Shock flickered in Embry's eyes "wow a girl who likes cliff diving" he laughed leaning back in his chair.
Oh crap... I mentally scolded myself because there was no way I could go cliff diving and not have my secret revealed to them all.
"Well yeah it sounds cool" I flicked my hair and tried my best to sound bored and to ignore the weird look Embry gave me.
20 minutes later I had a huge bowl of spaghetti in front of me and I wolfed it down like it was last night on earth because I was starving
"Wow someone's hungry" Paul chuckled as if walked past me to the kitchen.
"I'm hungry you got a problem?" I snapped
"No problem" he smirked then went into the kitchen and began to pour himself a glass of water from the tap.
Payback Time, twisting my hand under the table I manipulated the water from the tap to spurt him in the face.
He began shouting and sputtering water.
I practically fell out of my seat laughing
"Did you do that?!" Paul growled
"From all the way over here?" I giggled
"I know it was you!" he growled and had his eyes pinned on me like daggers.
I tried my best not to squirm under his gaze and kept my smile planted on his face.
"Paul" Jacob said firmly.
It was then that I noticed Paul's skin was rippling like there were small waves underneath.
Then it just stopped and Paul walked out of the room muttering curses.
That was very odd.
About 2 hours later the boys left and it was just me and Jake home he decided to wait till Emily and Sam got home.
We were sitting on the couch together watching a movie.
"You know I don't need a babysitter Jake" I said
"I know, I'm just keeping you company" he smiled at me
"So really what is there to do for fun here?" I asked him.
"Well there's a bonfire down at the beach tomorrow night, the guys planned it but you should invite some of your friends" he suggested.
"What if it rains?" I asked
"The rains meant to hold of tomorrow, why you scared of a little water?" he chuckled
"No, just don't want to get sick "I lied smoothly.
After another hour of just watching TV Sam and Emily still hadn't come home and I was starting to fall asleep.
"Jake I think I'm going to go bed I can't stay awake much longer" I said
"Yeah okay" he said, when I looked at him he was still wide awake.
Standing up from the couch I walked past Jake and headed for the kitchen to get a glass of water.
I looked over my shoulder and into the lounge room to make sure Jake wasn't watching me, I didn't want to get my hands wet and turn so I was going to manipulate the water to go into the glass.
Carefully I turned on the tap and water spurted out everywhere, spraying me with water.
I screamed and dropped the cup and it smashed on the ground around my feet, I felt the shards cut me.
Turning of the tap quickly I looked over at Jake who had now run into the kitchen to see what had happened.
Fear painted my face and I stood frozen.
My 10 seconds where up.
I fell to the ground and transformed.
Jacob ran around the counter and came to a shocked stop when he saw me.
"Jake please… I can explain" I whimpered.
Jacob stood there shocked and just looked at me.
"Jake please I need your help" I begged and reached out my hand to him.
Tears ran down my cheeks and I could feel the stinging cuts in my tail from the glass.
"please Jacob" I cried looking back at him
He stepped forward and took my hand and kneeled down in front of me.
"What can I do?" he asked
I breathed a sigh of relief.
"I need you to pull me away from the glass" I said my voice shaking
"Okay" but Instead of pulling me he moved around to the side of me
"Put your arms around me" he said
I reached up and wrapped my arms around his neck
He slid one arm behind my back and the other under my tail then lifted me up with surprisingly no effort.
"now what?" he asked
"Put me down over there" I said pointing to the ground next to the table.
He set me down on the ground and kneeled down next to me.
I took a deep shaky breath and tried to calm myself down because inside I was freaking out.
Never have I had to explain what I was to someone id never even told anyone except for Lewis because he was the only one that seemed to know what was going on and then he introduced me to the girls.
"What now?" Jake asked snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Okay don't freak out" I said looking at Jacob
"I won't" he nodded
With a shaky hand I reached out and began to pull the water of my tail, I manipulated the water to move into the kitchen and go down the kitchen sink.
When I was dry I looked up Jake whose eyes were wide with shock.
I felt the tingle in my tail and then I turned back.
Jacob stood up and went to the kitchen and opened up a cabinet pulling out a first aid kit.
He came back over to me and kneeled down at my feet and began to take out bandages and tweezers.
"Don't move okay" he said firmly
"Okay" I answered.
He began to pull small shards of glass from my feet. None of them where too deep except for the one near my ankle.
A huge chunk of the glass had cut me leaving a deep cut.
"This one needs to be cleaned, it's too deep" Jacob said looking up at me
"You can't use anything with water" I told him
He pulled out some alcohol wipes and ripped one open.
"This is going to hurt, but you got to stay still" Jacob said.
He began to clean the cut and it took everything in me to not jerk my leg back.
I bit back my cries of pain and tried to focus on Jacob's face so I wouldn't think about the pain.
A cry escaped my lips as he worked on the cut
"I'm sorry, I'm almost done" Jake said.
He put down the bloodied wipes and looked at me.
"You need to go to hospital" he told me
Pulling my self away from him I scrambled back.
"No, don't Jake please!" I cried
"Ali -" he began but I cut him off
"You can't turn me in! Please Jacob" I begged him
I tried to scrambled back further but my back hit the chair at the dining table
Jacob moved forward quickly and placed his hand on mine.
"I would never do that to you, it's just you need stitches Ali" Jacob explained
I let out the breath I didn't realise I was holding in.
"please Jake I can't go back to hospital" I begged him.
"Okay, calm down. Everything's going to be okay" Jacob assured me then moved back to my feet and began to wrap my ankle with a bandage.
After he was finished he lifted me up of the floor and carried me upstairs to my bedroom and sat me down on the bed.
"I want you to stay here and just calm down, I'll go clean up downstairs" Jacob said then left the room.
I tried to calm down my breathing and get my thoughts together because when Jacob came back upstairs he would probably have a lot of questions.
A bit later Jacob came back upstairs and sat down on the bed next to me.
"So you're a mermaid" he spoke
"Yeah… it's kind of a long story. I've been a mermaid for 2 years now. I became one after finding a pool in the bottom of a volcano on an island of the coast of Queensland" I told him
I then explained that if water touches me I have ten seconds before I turn into a mermaid and that I had power over water.
"Are you the only one, is there anyone else who knows?" he asked me calmly
"It's just me, and you're the first person I've ever told" I lied.
I didn't want to tell him about the girls if something happened and my secret got out I would give myself up before I gave them up.
"Please Jacob no one can know about this" I begged him
"I promise I won't tell anyone" he said firmly
He put his arms around me and hugged me
"I'll keep your secret" he said.
We sat in silence with his arm around my shoulder.
I tried to think how the tap could have sprayed me like that because it was perfectly fine before.
"Jake did you look at the tap?" I asked him v=breaking the silence.
"no, why?" he asked
I stood up and limped towards the door.
"Ali you shouldn't walk" Jake rushed forward and grabbed me
"Help me downstairs" I told him.
He helped me downstairs and into the kitchen.
I limped towards the sink and inspected the tap.
"Does that look loose to you?" I asked Jake
He moved forward and looked at it.
"Yeah it does, like someone twisted it"
"Someone?" I growled.
"it was Paul" I said anger painting my voice.
"why would Paul do that but?" Jacob said then his face changed and he realised.
"it was you earlier that made the water hit him" he realised
"Yes, and now I am so getting him back for this" I swore.