Four Little Miss Nothings
Copyright WillowSuzzaGleeee
A/N: Thanks for the wonderful reviews. I know its only four, but to me, four reviews piling so quickly upon each other really inspires me. Anyways, here is the second chapter. Hope you enjoy.
Cleo's POV:
Flashback:
I closed my eyes as I waited for silence, peace, the stopping of all the horrendous thoughts enclosing my head. But they wouldn't stop. They just kept flickering lights into my head.
Seeing Bella sob into the water, Rikki's strange disappearance three days before, the video of Emma, and then those eyes; the strange ambers eyes with a twist of insanity; that smile, the creepy evil smile.
When I opened them, Bella was standing there. We were in the moon poolroom. Me, soaked in water. Her standing there looking lost and confused.
"Bella…what just happened?" I asked. I couldn't remember. All I saw was a big blank of black. I had heard shrieks and giggles, then screams and cries. Now I was just floating in the water while Bella creased her brows and shook her head.
"Cleo…" Her eyes squirmed. "Your alright. I thought you had passed out or something. When the moon came over the entrance to the water…I thought….then you passed out…I was so scared."
My memory fumbled in confusion. I looked up at the dark sky where the moon once hovered. What were we doing out here swimming on a Full Moon? Where was Rikki? Why couldn't I remember what happened moments before?
What was Bella clutching so tightly in her hand?
"Bella, what are you holding?" I asked. My voice was no longer filled with fake naïveté's. I wanted someone to explain what was going on.
"Um…nothing." She quickly balled it up into her fist, and shoved it into her dress's pocket. She smiled at me, full of care, or at least what I believed was sincere. "Cleo, I think we need to get you out of here. Your moonstruck, aren't you?"
"No." I answered. I wasn't. The last thing I remembered was going to Will's boat shack, with Bella, and Rikki. We were hiding from the Full Moon, it used to have an effect on us to make us go crazy, since we were mermaids. But not anymore.
"Where's Rikki and Will?" I asked.
"Waiting. For you." Bella smiled. "Come on. They've got a boat waiting for us." Something was eerie. But Bella was my best friend so I trusted her. She controlled the moon pool water to pick itself up and crumble in mid-air. She held out her hand for me to hold, and pulled me up.
Somehow I dried, and we walked out onto Mako's jungle. As she said, Rikki and Will were waiting for us. They swallowed me in a blanket, and somehow with the sound of water moving, and the full moon above, I fell back asleep.
My eyes opened. Everything was fuzzy at first, and very white. Then, things became clearer. Rikki's worried face in front of me. Her face was red, and her tangles of blond fell over her face. She gasped when she saw I was awake.
"Cleo!" She was crying. Rikki Chadwick was crying because of me.
That's when I realized where we were. A hospital room.
And I was sore. Things hurt. My eyes, my head, and my wrist.
"What happened?" I hated this guttered feeling of confusion. Why couldn't it just go away? Why couldn't I remember?
I was Cleo Sertori. I lived in Australia, on the Gold Coast. Five years ago, Emma, Rikki, and I found ourselves on the mysterious Mako Island. The next day we found out we were mermaids. Then Emma moved away. Bella came, and we found out she was a mermaid. Bella, Rikki, and I became the best of friends. That Full Moon Night we were going to lounge around at Will's boat shack. Until something happened.
"…" Rikki scoffed and looked at the incoming nurse that was rushing around the room. When she saw I was awake, she breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. Then she whispered something to Rikki.
"No, no. Cleo's dad and step-mum are in Aruba for their Anniversary. Yes, the doctors have alerted them, and they'll be here as soon as they can." Rikki sighed, annoyed.
"Now, please. Can we have some privacy?" The nurse pursed her lips, but nodded, and left the room.
Rikki hugged me first, when we were alone. I was surprised. This was so unlike Rikki, I didn't know what to do.
"Do you remember anything about what happened?" She asked me in a half-scared whisper. I shook my head.
"You went moonstruck. I have no idea how the hell it happened, but the Moon was doing weird stuff to you. You took off for Mako Island, and we found you there… Remember that?"
Suddenly, memory possessed me. Or a bit anyway. The weird noises and visions, then seeing Bella standing there; so ghostlike with her dirty blond hair and her light green eyes, in that long white dress. With the moon just had hovering above me. I squeezed my eyes shut, waiting for more. But none came.
I nodded. "Then I fell asleep on the ride back."
Rikki didn't answer. She was staring at my wrist. I gulped, and I looked there too, and was flabbergasted. Two large cuts were engraved. Two solid letters. B.C.
"Rikki, I didn't do that!" I shrieked, not wanting to look at it. "The moon….why would it do this? I…would never cut my…" I couldn't talk anymore.
"What happened to me?" I asked quietly.
Rikki took a deep breath. "We found you…at the roof of Zane's Café, near the edge…with a knife… You had that engraved in your skin. We thought you were going to kill yourself, so we called 911."
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. The Full Moon wasn't even doing this like it used to. And even when it had done crazy things, it would never physically hurt us like this…ever.
"Where is Bella and Will?" I asked suddenly.
I couldn't expect my boyfriend Lewis to come rushing over from California. He was in this huge Scientific College in the States. I went to College with Bella at University of Queensland. And Rikki, she did her own thing. Will went to a place specifically designed to help him train, not too much, of course. He still had time for Bella, and us. I had no idea what Emma was doing out exploring the world.
Rikki went solemn. "Once Bella saw you on the roof, she went mad. She started crying and sputtering, and she couldn't take it. After Will and I got you to the Hospital, Will went to try and find her."
"Has he found her?" I asked, full of worry. Rikki shook her head no.
"He hasn't called me if he has." She added with a glint of hope.
I nodded.
"I also called Emma and Lewis. Lewis says he's defiantly going to try and get a flight to come visit you. Emma…I called her. I don't know if she's coming." Rikki said, suddenly hushed.
"My parents are going to worry about me." I realized. "They'll think I went insane. That I'm crazy. But I'm not. Its just the Moon! I…"
"I know. We're going to try and come up with a story."
"You mean a lie?" I asked. I was so sick of lying to everyone. I loved being a mermaid, but it had its disadvantages. I had never believed it would have gone this far, into people thinking I was physco. That I was mental.
I could never live this down. Why had the Moon even done this? And to me? Don't think that. You wouldn't wish this on any of your best friends, I told myself. But maybe…No. I closed my eyes and took a breath.
Rikki coughed. "Yeah. Everyone lies."
I wanted to scream at her. I wanted to tell her that maybe she was too used to lying. She lied about being a mermaid. She had lied when she had gotten with Zane. She lied again about being with Zane. And then she lied about where she lived. And just three days ago, she had left the Gold Coast, telling no one where she had gone. It frightened me. I felt like in some ways, no one ever knew Rikki at all.
But I just sighed. My eyes peeped at the scratches again. B and C. So clearly written on my wrist, even with the clear bandage wrapped around.
Nothing seemed right. I missed Lewis more than anything. I missed his kisses, his stupid goofy science talk, and his wonderful sparkle in his eyes that told me he loved me. That he liked me most of all than anybody else in the world. That he would do anything for a smile upon my face.
And then Emma. Why wasn't she answering any of our texts and calls and messages? She appeared so different now, at least seen on Facebook. She had gotten skinnier, and that was bad, since she always had a slender fit swimmer's body. Her hair had gotten lighter, but the big thing was her style. The Emma I knew would never have worn such bold and low-cut dresses. The Emma I knew wouldn't have gotten spray tans either. And the fact that she had new friends and a boyfriend had always saddened me.
And why was the Moon so explicit in making my life Hell? Why did this happen to me? Why did I feel like I was surrounded by lies? And why those two letters, B.C.?
"Rikki," I asked quietly. "Where were you three days ago?"
I looked at the place she was sitting so pertly, so relieved I was okay, and got shocked. Any sign of Rikki Chadwick was gone.
A/N: Thanks for reading, and I sincerely hope you review. I'm really excited to keep writing more, and hope you feel the same about reading. xoxo -zz
