"That's impossible though; mermaids don't exist, it's just a myth" Aubrey says shaking her head 'they're being deluded' she thought to herself.

"Well what else do you think we are? Dolphins?" Beca says really sarcastically not understanding what Aubrey's nonsense was all about.

"We did get a tail when we were in the water. It does makes sense that we're mermaids Aubrey." Stacie says thinking about the whole thing for herself.

"Exactly so who's up for a swim in the sea with me after school?" Beca asks ready to test out her new tail.

"Yeah sure I'm there, it will be good to see what we can swim like now with this tail" Aubrey says after listening to them talking enough to start believing it all.

The two of them turn their heads to face Stacie waiting for her to agree to come.

"No way guys, I'm not getting in that water. No way." She protests not being a fan of water nor swimming.

"You have to come with us sometime Stace, after all you are a mermaid now." Beca says hoping to somehow coax her into coming. The bell rings for classes to start so all 3 girls end up separating running off to class.

-x-x-x-x-

Stacie walks into a small cafe that they always go into and takes a seat in the booth areas. Flopping her head down not wanting to talk to anyone. It wasn't long until one of her friends comes over with two drinks in her hands and sits down facing her. She waits hoping Stacie was going to talk to her first but got nothing from her.

"Where'd you and Aubrey go yesterday? I missed seeing you guys." She says to her looking right at Stacie who had her face planted in her folded arms on the table.

"For a hike" is all she says not interested in talking.

"Oh right; she's always dragging you out for hikes why don't you just say no?" She says still trying with Stacie, normally she would talk more to her than this it was seeming strange.

"Did something happen? You're not looking too good." She says moving herself so she was next to her now.

"I'm...I'm fine don't worry about it." She says lifting her head up from her arms looking over at her friend.

"You on break or something Chlo'?" She asks finally realising that she wasn't walking away quickly.

"Nope just finished my shift. Wanna go for a walk on the beach with me?" She asks standing up and lending out her hand. Stacie takes her hand and gets up a few seconds later she feels that her hand was wet. She instantly runs into the toilet knowing exactly what was going to happen.

Just like she predicated she lays there flat on the ground with a long golden tail and not knowing what she could even dry herself with right now. She reaches up and grabs a massive handful of toilet tissue and reaches down to her tail trying her hardest to get herself to dry up.

"Stacie you okay? You kinda ran off quickly. If you didn't wanna come you could have said no." Chloe says sounding hurt by her running away so abruptly.

"I do want to come Chloe I err, just needed the toilet real badly I couldn't wait. Wait for me at our booth okay" she says still trying to dry herself pulling more and more of the tissue down just needing to be dry already.

Aubrey and Beca come walking into the cafe talking about what they'd been up to with each other. They see Chloe sitting there waiting, they take a seat in the booth and wait for Chloe to speak they could both tell she was going to burst with something. They could see it all on her face like always when she had a lot to talk to them about.

"So did anything happen yesterday on your hike?" She comes out with starting small with her questions.

"Not really no. Why?" Aubrey says not liking that she's snooping already.

"Oh no reason." She plays with the straw that was in her drink "Stacie just seems different and also she came in here today and basically ignored me at first."

"Really you're worried because she didn't say anything to you? Seriously?" Beca says mocking her for the way she was acting. She gets a glare sent her way within seconds from Aubrey.

"Where is she anyway?" Aubrey says assuming that she should be there.

"Toilets, she's been in there for ages though." She says looking really sad and feeling like she just rejected her.

Aubrey gets up and walks over to the toilets, she bangs on the door hoping Stacie would answer her but she got nothing.

"Stace, it's Aubrey you okay?" She asks sounding worried for her.

"Yeah I'm okay, almost done now. Ugh why won't this thing dry already" she says angrily the tail just not drying quick enough for her liking.

"Want me to come in and help?" She says assuming that she would accept with how she has been complaining.

"Nah I'm good." Just then her tail vanishes and her clothes and legs reappear. Aubrey hears a loud cheer through the door when she is back and knows she's fixed. She walks back over to the table knowing everything is gonna be okay.

"She's almost done Chlo' won't be long." Aubrey says seeing Chloe still looking sad and just wanting to assure her that Stacie wasn't trying to ditch her. Just then Stacie walks back through the second Chloe sees her her smile reappears.

"Still wanna go for a walk on the beach?" She asks hoping she would still get to do the one thing she so desperately wanted.

"Sure but can you dry you're hands first this time? They were kinda wet earlier." Stacie says throwing her a towel she saw on the counter. Chloe dries her hands a little confused but not bothering to ask anything more of it.

"See you guys later. I got my phone if you need me." She says showing that if they had any mermaid problems they could still call her.

The two of them walk hand In hand down the beach; Stacie was making sure that she was nowhere near the water though and had to keep tugging Chloe away from it. The girls spot a group of kids from their school not friends though; these were the kids that usually teased Stacie and Aubrey.

"Maybe we should just go back?" Stacie says ferrying herself away from where they were.

"It's alright you're with me they won't do anything to you." Chloe says pulling her back so they could keep walking together. A few of them from the group notice them and start walking over to where they were.

"Look who we have here Chloe Beale with Stacie Conrad." One of the guys say almost laughing to himself at seeing those two together. The group slowly start to crowd round them not leaving any room for them to break out from them.

"You on a date or something little red?" One of the girls who was actually friends with Chloe asked.

"Nope, we're just friends. Trying to have a nice walk on the beach." She says showing to them that this was an Inconvenience.

"Where's your other girlfriend today?" One of them asked wondering where Aubrey was.

"I don't know and leave her alone." Stacie says getting angry and just wanting to move away from them.

She could feel the water pulling to her telling her she had to do something, she didn't have a clue what but she lifted her hand, curled her fingers just slightly and she moved the water so it landed on the group that hadn't come round them. This was enough for those crowding round her to go back over at them laughing at seeing how soaked they had gotten. Meanwhile Stacie just ran off leaving Chloe standing there amused at the site she was seeing until she turned round seeing that Stacie had left her.

"Guys we need to talk and we need to talk now. Come to my place I have to show you something." She says ringing Aubrey while being in her bedroom practising what she had just done.

A few minutes later they arrive walking straight in and right up to her room. When they walk in they see this massive water line floating in the air being controlled by Stacie.

"Wait, how are you doing that? Why are you doing that? When did you discover you could do that?" Aubrey says standing there amazed at what she was seeing.

"I don't know I just got drawn by the water and it just lifts it up. It's neat huh?" She says being mesmerised with her new gift she has.

"I wonder if this means we have gifts like this too" Beca says walking around looking at the water. "Stace let the water go" she says wanting to see what's gonna happen once she stops controlling it. She does let go and the water just collapses on the floor almost hitting Beca who hadn't bothered to move.

"That is so awesome"

"Okay my turn I wonder what I can do." Aubrey says far too excitedly over thinking she was going to have some sort of ability. She holds her hand up and focuses on the glass of water Stacie had out, within a few seconds it started to freeze over.

"Wow that's amazing" Beca says still really excited over the gifts the other two have.

"My turn" she says concentrating on the now frozen water trying to use whatever gift she was going to get, moving her hand trying to get it to do something. She sits there trying and trying concentrating really hard with it but nothing was happening.

"Maybe you're just not supposed to have yours yet. I'm sure you will figure it out soon." Stacie says seeing how disappointed Beca was looking that she couldn't figure out her gift.

"Yeah maybe." She said sounding really sad just desperately wanting to have a gift.

"I wonder why we got this, like what was the reason us three got chosen to be mermaids. Oh and who do we work for like are we the Charlie's Angels of mermaids or something?" Stacie says wanting to know more about her gift and the reason they were turned and their whole purpose behind it.

"I hardly think so, mermaids don't exactly fight bad guys or anything." Aubrey says replying to Stacie but not knowing anything herself.

"We will have like some sort of purpose though. Think about it the full moon came right above us and made the yellow swirly thing happen; the next day we are doomed by the smallest touch of water which, either forces us to be in more water or to hide and dry ourselves until the tail has gone." Beca says trying to make her point and siding with Stacie's point too.

"Wait so does this mean we should be living in the water not walking around?" Stacie asks innocently not really getting the whole of Beca's point.

"No I don't think so but I think it means that the water is the key to this. We were in like a pool right? So maybe that pool is where we should be, it might hold our answers in there."

She says heading towards the door ready to leave and go explore.

"You guys coming?" She asks turning her head round waiting for the girls to join her.

"You two go I'm just going to stay here."