Hey guys! Sorry that I haven't updated in a few days! My family was busy! Well, here is the next chapter! Please review and enjoy! I do not own H2O: Just Add Water.
When we returned to the mainland, Lauren and I practically sprinted all the way to Emma's house. As we arrived at her doorstep, I pounded on the door. Emma opened it not even a split second later. "Upstairs. Now," was all she said. When Lauren and I entered her room, we saw Cleo and Rikki on Emma's bed, with Lewis sitting in a chair facing them with a guilty expression. Emma and Lauren sat on the bed while I stood next to it with my arms crossed. "Lewis, how could you let Denman get ahold of Cleo and Will's DNA samples?"
"What?!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. This was bad. Really bad.
"You don't understand!" Lewis began. "It was an accident! And besides, she's a scientist. This is what scientists do!"
"Sell out their friends?" Rikki asked angrily.
"No, compare notes!" Lewis corrected. "That's the thing about us!"
"Us?!" Rikki and I asked at the same time. I was actually getting angry, which was pretty rare for me. I'm usually the happy-go-lucky kid. I'm always happy. I guess the current situation proved that my last statement was false.
"We scientists. Our need to know is what drives us! Believe me, she's cool."
"What if her need to know ends up with her dissecting us?" Rikki asked.
"Yeah Lewis!" I agreed. "She's a world renowned marine biologist! She'll jump at the chance for a major discovery!"
Lewis tensed up. "She's not like that. Look, I have to go; I'll talk to you guys later. I heated up the doorknob as Lewis headed for the door. Once he touched it, he immediately pulled his hand back in pain. "Ouch! Rikki!" he complained.
"It wasn't Rikki," I smirked.
"Look Will I'm sorry for what happened. She didn't even seem that interested in the slide though."
"You believe that? Lewis, she saw not one, but two different DNA samples that changed form when in contact with water! Of course she's going to be interested!"
"She's not like that!" Lewis defended. "I gotta go."
Once he left, I pounded the wall. "I thought we could trust him," I said sadly.
"Lewis isn't usually this erratic," Cleo shrugged.
"Those in favor of not trusting Lewis as far as we could throw him raise your hands," Rikki said. Both of her hands, along with Lauren's, shot into the air.
"Agreed," Emma said. "Let's keep an eye on him." Her hand was raised now too. Cleo and I were the only two with our hands still lowered.
I didn't realize that I clenched my hands together so hard, that they started to steam. "I gotta go," I said. I then walked out of Emma's house. I needed to clear my head. I decided that Mako Island was the best place to go. As I ran onto the beach, I heard Lauren call after me, so I stopped in my tracks.
"Are you okay?" she asked as she caught up to me.
"I thought Lewis would be more careful. Denman not only saw my DNA, but Cleo's too!"
"We all thought he would be more careful. Look on the bright side; she doesn't know where the DNA came from."
"She'll get it out of him eventually," I said sadly.
"Watch out!" I heard someone say. I turned to see Kyle coming straight towards Lauren and me on his surfboard. We were so close to the water, that when he swerved to avoid hitting us, water sprayed all over us. Lauren and I stared at each other in shock, and then ran into the water. Once our tails formed, I could see Kyle making his way over to us to see if we were okay. "Sorry about that! Are you guys okay?" he asked. He was still too far away to see our tails.
"We're fine Kyle!" I said hoping he wouldn't come closer. "Don't come closer!"
It seemed today wasn't my day because Kyle kept coming closer to us. "What? Have you got something to hide?" he playfully smirked.
He had no idea how true he was. "Just don't come closer! Please don't!" Lauren pleaded.
"Aww c'mon! Lighten up! I won't bite!" As he came even closer, his eyes widened. He started to see the outlines of my tail. He then started to back away in shock.
"Don't freak out, don't freak out," I said as calmly as I could.
"You're... a fish," Kyle finally managed to say.
"Well technically speaking, I'm a merman," I said casually. I tried to keep this conversation as light hearted as possible.
Suddenly, a smile appeared on my brother's face, which was the last thing that I expected to happen. "Cool!" he said.
"Wait, you're not angry or scared?" I asked surprised.
"No, why would I be?"
"Well, maybe because I'm a mythical creature," I suggested.
"Will, that doesn't matter, you're still my brother no matter what," he smiled.
I chuckled a bit. "You sound like Kaylie."
"She knows too?" Kyle asked surprised. "I'm guessing she reacted the same way?"
"Yeah, only with a lot more questions!" I laughed. Kyle laughed with me.
"So Lauren took it well too? I mean she is in the water with you." Lauren and I just looked at each other and broke out into laughter. "What's so funny?" Kyle asked completely oblivious to why we were laughing. Lauren just smirked and lifted her elegant red tail above the water. "Isn't that just convenient?" Kyle laughed. "You two are going out and the both of you have tails!"
"Yep!" Lauren said. "Why don't we go back to shore and dry off?"
Kyle and I nodded. Once we got close to the shore, we made sure nobody was around and hopped onto the sand. "Watch this!" I said. I held my hand over my tail and clenched it together. Within seconds, my legs came back. I then did the same thing to Lauren.
"How did you do that?" Kyle asked curiously.
"Merpeople have special powers. My powers are controlling water and boiling or heating water. I also can create winds fast enough to blow people off their feet and I can summon lightning strikes whenever I want."
"My power is that I can freeze water. If I combine my power with Will's, we can create a full on hurricane."
"Whoa! That sounds so awesome!" Kyle said. He then looked at me and smirked. "Hey Will, you're birthday's coming up in three days! Did you let Lauren know that?" I winced. He knows I don't like to make a big deal of my birthday. I didn't tell Lauren when it was because I didn't want her to tell everyone. I knew that if she did, they would all try to surprise me. Lauren then looked at me with a surprised look. Uh oh. Here it comes.
"What?!" Lauren squealed. "Why didn't you tell me your birthday was soon?"
I shrugged. "I don't like to make a big deal out of it."
"Of course it's a big deal! It's your sixteenth birthday! Oh, I have to let everyone else know!"
I glared at Kyle. He in turn grinned at me with his thumbs up.
"Well we gotta go now," I said.
"Okay, I'll see you at home!" Kyle said as he ran back out into the ocean.
Lauren and I walked off the beach and back into the neighborhood. "Do you think Denman kept the slide?" Lauren asked.
"I wouldn't put it past me," I said. "On a lighter note, do you want to come over my house for a bite to eat?"
"Sure! I'd love to!" We then started to walk to my house. I kind of hoped that my parents weren't home because they didn't know about Lauren yet, and once they knew that she was my girlfriend, they would never leave us alone because they would bombard us with questions.
Once we reached my house, we walked through the door to see Kaylie sitting on the couch and watching TV. "Hey Will!" she said happily. "Who's this?"
"Kaylie, meet Lauren," I said. "She's my girlfriend.
"Oh! Hello Lauren! I didn't know my brother had a girlfriend! Has he been treating you well?" she asked teasingly.
"Of course he has!" Lauren said cheerily. "He's been nothing but good to me!"
"That's what I like to hear!" Kaylie said.
I laughed. "What are you, my mom? Speaking of Mom, where are her and Dad?"
"Oh, they went out for the day," Kaylie replied.
"Okay cool," I said. "Oh, and Kyle knows."
"Knows what?" Kaylie asked.
"You know what I'm talking about."
"And he's okay with it?" I nodded. "Does Lauren know?"
I didn't reply. I grabbed some orange juice out of the fridge. I then turned to Lauren. "Hey Lauren, could you make us some ice pops?" I asked as I poured the orange juice into three glasses and put popsicle sticks into them.
"How is she going to do that?" Kaylie asked.
"Like this," Lauren said as she held her hand up. In no time at all, the orange juice turned into ice pops.
"Wait, you're a mermaid too?" Kaylie asked shocked.
"Yeah! It's funny isn't it?" Lauren said.
"Yeah! You've got like a whole clan of mermaids!" Kaylie said.
"Hey! I interjected. "Everyone seems to forget that there's a merman in the mix too!" Everyone then bursted out into laughter.
"Whoa! Imagine if you have kids!" Kaylie said. "There's gonna be little merbabies running around!"
"Kaylie, we're only fifteen!" I laughed. You know, this day had its ups and downs, but I think it'll be okay. Lewis just needs to have some sense knocked into him. I know he wouldn't sell us out completely. I just know it.
Another chapter done! Sorry if it wasn't the best but as I progress through this story and future stories *hint hint* I hope that my writing will get better! The next chapter hopefully will be out tomorrow! Thanks for reading!