Chapter 2
"AHH!" all four screamed with surprise when Jake popped his head out of the water and said hello. "OW! MY EARS!" Jake cupped his hands over his ears and said "Geez I say hi and you all scream at me?!" The girls looked stunned and Rikki was the first person to speak up. "well I definitely didn't expect to run into a merman. In fact I don't think any of us did which is probably why we all screamed." "well I didn't expect to run into four mermaids either and you don't hear me screaming." Jake said and Bella replied by saying "He has a point. I'm sorry Jake we were just surprised. My name is Bella, this is Emma, Cleo and Rikki." and each girl said hi "Nice to meet you all." Jake said then Cleo said "Why don't we talk somewhere else. The middle of the ocean isn't exactly a good place for the conversation we need to have." so they all headed to Cleo's house and when they got to the beach they all dried off and when Rikki came to Jake to steam dry him she saw him use his heat power to dry off and then he said. "I've gotta go get something so I'll be right back." and he used his superspeed to run to his house where he got his flash drive and laptop and ran back. "I'm back!" he said "Wow that was fast!" Rikki said then Jake said "Unlike mermaids, mermen are not only fast underwater but on land as well." "I've gotta make a call" Bella said "Me too" said Cleo "Me three" said Emma. When Cleo called Lewis he answered "Hello?" "Hi Lewis can you meet me at my parents house?" she said "sure but I thought you would be at your dorm getting ready to move in by now." he replied "Yeah but something came up." said Cleo. "Okay I'll be right there." he said and hung up. Meanwhile during Bella's call… "Hi Will can you meet me at Cleo's parents house?" she asked "Sure but I thought you'd be at your dorm by now." he replied "Something came up." she said "Okay I'll be right there." he said then hung up. and during Emma's call "Hi Ash can you meet me at Cleo's parents house?" she said "Okay but aren't you supposed to be at your dorm?" "Yes but something happened during our swim." she said "Oh? What happened?" he asked "I'll tell you when we meet." she said "Okay I'll see you there." he said then hung up. Once everybody was present Lewis, Ash and Will were wondering who Jake was and Rikki said "We bumped into him during our swim." "WHAT?!" all three men exclaimed then all started shouting. Then Jake whistled to bring silence and said "It's okay I'm a merman!" and everyone shut up and he told them how he became a merman and they all shared their stories and when they were done Lewis asked "Jake, you said you found a website that had a download of an old book about merpeople?" "That's right I did." he said "can I see the site?" Lewis asked "Sure I'll bring it up on my laptop then write down the web address for you." Jake says "Thanks" Lewis says as he peruses the site. "Oh my. This book is the one I found a couple years ago that had the wishing potion in it." he said "What? Really?" Cleo asks and takes a look and sees what Lewis is talking about. "You guys know about that book? Jake said. "Yeah we had a copy but it accidentally got destroyed." Emma said. "what's all this about a book?" Bella asked. And the three girls tell everybody what happened with the book and the wishing potion. "…and I never thought I'd see that book again. Let alone available for download. I'll download it to a flash drive for each of you." Lewis said. "Okay Thanks Lewis." Cleo said. "OH MY GOD! We were supposed to move into our dorms today but with all that's happened we forgot!" Emma said. So they all ran to get ready and Jake went to Rikki's place to help her get her stuff and move while each boyfriend helped their girlfriend respectively.
At Rikki's Dads trailer…
"Who's this?" Rikki's dad asked. "Dad this is Jake he's a friend and he's helping me move into my dorm." Rikki said "Oh okay. Nice to meet you Jake." Rikki's dad said. "Likewise." Jake said. "I guess it's time to get to work." Rikki's dad said and so they did and when they got to a really heavy piece of furniture Jake said "I got this." and picked it up and Rikki's jaw dropped along with her dads. Then Jake put it in the moving van and turned around to see two dropped jaws and said. "what? I just moved it for you." and he walked past them to keep working and he said "Are we working or not?" and Rikki and her father snapped outta it and got back to work. Pretty soon everything was in the moving van and they went to the dorms. When they met everybody else at the dorms they got to work moving in. Everybody had their own room in the dorm with their own kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom along with a living room. Pretty soon the work was done and they were about to order pizza to celebrate when Jake said "I can make us some pizza." "Really?" Rikki asked. "Yeah back in the states all my friends loved the pizza I made." so he got to work in the kitchen and when he was done Emma said "Looks good. Who's gonna take the first bite?" and Rikki said "I will." and she bit into her pizza and her eyes widened and she swallowed and said "Wow this is some seriously good pizza!" so everybody else bit in and soon they were all singing their praises to the chef.