A new chapter! I couldn't wait! I hope it's alright!

Chapter One- The Disappearing Act.

Lucy sprang quickly up the stairs of a beach house near her shack, running in and letting the wind slam the screen door shut behind her as though she owned the place.
"Ana!" Kicking off her jandals* she ran into a cosy, sun-lit lounge and practically glomped a thin, tanned girl off her window seat, "Ana! Ana, Ana, Ana! I saw something you might term 'entirely romantic'!" Lucy was poking the dark girl repeatedly and grinning.
Another, almost identical girl sat on the big, black velvet couch, absorbed in an incredibly violent looking game on the flat-screen T.V, "Lucy! Don't let her get started! I'll..." She trailed off, too busy with her game to remember what she was saying.
"Shut up Aroha! She wasn't talking to you!" Ana linked arms with her best friend, "Anyway, Lucy, what was it?" Excitement seemed to be radiating off her in waves. Ana and Lucy didn't meet regularly, since they lived in different cities, but whenever they did, they had the most brilliant time.
"Well," Lucy grinned, plopping down on the couch next to Aroha and making the girl shout as she tried to regain her place in the game, "Yesterday, I think I saw someone swimming!"
"In the storm?"
"Yeah! And then there was a red flash and it was gone!"
Ana's eyes gleamed, "What if it was-"
"It was probably just a buoy or something," Aroha butted in without looking up.
"A boy?"
"A buoy. B.U.O.Y."
Ana glared at her twin, "It can't have been a buoy! And I wasn't going to say that anyway!" She smoothed her long black hair, "I was going to say, what if it was a mermaid? Or a siren?!"
Lucy laughed, "I don't know.. " The reason she had even told Ana was because of her wild imagination. It could make anything seem interesting.
Aroha just raised an eyebrow, remotely turning the volume up on her game.
Tugging on Lucy's arm and slipping a filmy red dress from the back of the couch on over her short-shorts and singlet, Ana said, "c'mon! Let's go outside and talk, maybe we'll see them!"
Lucy followed her friend outside, knowing that Ana really did believe that someone special was swimming around yesterday. Ana was completely consumed in fantasy books of all kinds, and Lucy couldn't help thinking it had made Ana the crazier of the two.

"Ana... I don't think we'll be finding your mermaid today.." Lucy walked along the beach working on a hokey-pokey ice cream and gazing at the incredible abundance of tourists and locals alike, sunbathing or swimming.
Ana gave her a defiant look, "I never said it was a mermaid specifically!" She kicked some hot, black sand, "It could be a siren!"
Lucy laughed, "Of course." She straightened her pale yellow, knee-length dress, green eyes sparkling, "Where do you think she'd be then?"
Looking very Solemn, Ana replied, "It might be a guy."
"Yes, yes, it might. I guess we should add 'merman' to the list?" Lucy laughed again.
"Exactly!" Ana gazed out into the ocean with the same dreamy look she was wearing at her window before Lucy disturbed her. She bumped into the latter.
"Oomf! Lucy!"
"Shh, see that guy?" She pointed to a well toned young man wearing blood-red shorts and had an unusual scarlet and black tone to his hair.
"Yeeeeah..." She smirked, "He's hot, huh?"
"No!" Lucy slapped her arm playfully, "No, the colour of his pants.. It's the same colour I saw in the water-"
"You think it's him?!"
"Again, no, you soft-headed idiot," she laughed lightly, "If you really want to find this 'mermaid', it was that colour."
"Ohhhhhhhhh!" She nodded, but then yelped as he was suddenly in front of them, looking down at Lucy and herself with what seemed to be a permanent smirk.
"H-hi!" Lucy waved, a very small wave.
Ana looked up at him uncomfortably. This close she could see that his hair was black. But it reflected red in the sun, like how some people's reflected blue, or like how Lucy's reflected gold. He also has a strange swirling purple tattoo on his tanned chest, like a crab of some sort, she thought.
"I'm Lucy!" Lucy gained some confidence, "This is Ana," she gestured to the same.
"Hello." He crossed his arms, "I'm. . ." He seemed to think for a moment, "I'm Kaine. Kaine Owens."
Lucy put on a smile, "That's nice. But me and my friend have to go. Goodbye." Without waiting for a reply she walked briskly off, tugging Ana behind her.

Sitting on a rock under a tree, Ana spoke for the first time since hearing Kaine speak, "He has such a hot voice." She looked out into the sea, smiling contentedly.
"Ha!" Lucy grimaced, "Hot?! He's freaky! And even if he hadn't appeared out of no where and didn't wear that terrible smirk, he's way too old for you. He looks at least twenty two. You're sixteen!"
Ana sighed, mesmerised, "Ah well. My parents are ten years apart..."
"Just forget about him. Okay? If you feel that way about him, I'm sure others do too. And he's probably taken anyway!" Lucy groaned, plaiting a small piece of her hair.
"But.. But he's American! OMG. He's American. I only just realised!" She squealed, a high pitched, short squeak, which annoyed Lucy to the core.
". . . Whatever."
They sat in silence for what seemed like hours, gazing into the sea and smelling the salt in the air, letting the wind push and pull at their hair. Lucy noticed that Ana was almost asleep.
Hearing laughing voices and splashing, Lucy glanced up, surprised to see two boys, around nineteen or twenty swimming around in the water like pros. Diving under then shooting up again, although below their waists stayed under the water.
No one ever came out this far. It was a long distance away from the life guards, and there were many sharp rocks beneath the surface of the murky water. . . She shrugged it off with a 'boys will be boys' and sat, content with just watching them laughing and playing. The older one, it seemed, had light blond hair with blue highlights and flecks through it, the younger looking one was blond too, but had black stripes through his messy locks.
She wasn't sure how long she sat watching them play and fight before she started nodding off, but before she even closed her eyes, they weren't playing out in the sea anymore. In fact, she realised, as she shook herself, they were nowhere in sight.

They had played the disappearing act. And well. She snorted.

*flip flops

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Aroha: *still playing Halo* Yeah right!

Me: -_-

If anyone tells me who the three guys mentioned are, I'll give you many energon cookies!