Hi guys, Julie here, this is my first fanfic, so feel free to comment! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I wake up to my mom's voice yelling, "Audery! Come on, or you are going to be late!" Right, how could I forget. I had just moved to hot, sticky Florida yesterday, the day before school started. I groaned and got up. I brushed my teeth, careful not to touch water. Did I mention I'm a 16 year old mermaid? If I touch water, I turn into one. So I was REALLY nervous about school. At my old school in Maryland, my closest friends knew who I was, and I didn't have to worry so much. I put on my pink tank top, black shorts, and black sunglasses. I tied my long back hair into a ponytail and put mascara onto my almond shaped blue eyes. I grabbed my black and pink shoulder bag with all my books and started walking to school, eating a waffle on the way. At the steps, a gorgeous boy suddenly appeared. I accidently bump into him, and we both fall. I feel my cheeks grow warm, and he gets up and offers me a hand. His hazel eyes look concerned. "Are you alright?" he asks. I just sputter. "Y-y-yeah, I'm fine" Suddenly, a teacher comes up to us. "Well"she demands. "Are you going inside or what?" The boy hurriedly pushes through, and I follow. I stop by the locker the school asigned me, and I shove my books inside and closed it. Right next to mine, a blonde girl with green eyes is leaning against her locker with a bunch of other blondies surrounding her. The green-eyed blonde glares at me. "Are you sure you are in the right grade?" she smirks. I grit my teeth. Just because I'm only about 5'1", doesn't mean she can pick on me. "Are you sure you are? Last time I checked, dumb girls were always in kindergarten" I say, and walk away. Glancing back, her friends are whispering to each other and she is glaring daggers at me. Great, I think. An enemy on the first day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I walk to my first class. English. I walk in, and glance around. Most of the girls are perky blondes, and the guys look huge and muscular. I spot the boy I bumped into earlier, and he is sitting alone at the table. Then I see the teacher. She looked half vulture, with a wrinkled pink face and mean little eyes. I look around again, and see that the only open seat is next to the boy I bumped into. I quietly head towards it, but I also pass the blonde that made fun of me in the morning. I reach my seat just as the teacher starts roll call. Since my name was Audery Allain, I was first on the list. "Present" I piped up when she called my name. She called "Jake McKarthy later on, and the boy next to me answered "Present." The girl who made fun of me was Isabella Smith. I try to remember everyone's name. After roll call, the teacher turns to us "These seats is where you will be sitting all year, and no moving seats. The person next to you will be your partner if you happen to need one." she says. "My name is Ms. D. I will only be addressed as Ms. D. Got that?" when we started to say yes, she broke in "No back talk" I sighed. This was going to be a long class. After English was math, and Jake and Isabella were in my class again. The teacher was Mr. Harvey, and he looked nice. Once again, I ended up next to Jake. I passed him a note: Hi. I'm new here, do you want to show me the ropes? He sends it back: Hey. Audery, right? I'll show you around the school, and btw I'm Jake. . And so on it went till the end of math. After science, (which was also with Jake and one of Isabella's cronies, called Taylor) it was lunch time. At lunch, I sat by myself, and I noticed Jake hanging out with his friends. They looked like they could make sumo wrestlers cry for the mommies. After lunch, we had a 30 minute break. Jake showed me the school, and we compared schedules. It turned out we had every class together! It was just like a dream. But the problem was, one of Isabella's minions or the leader herself was always there. Which meant troublе. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I start heading home when I see Jake start up his car. "Need a ride?" he asks. I nod. I get in his white BMW. "Nice car" I say. He grins at me. When we get to my house, I watch the car park into the house across from mine. He lived next door to me! "See you tomorrow Aud." Jake says, pushing his brown hair out of his hazel eyes. I nod and wave, then walk into my house. Immediatly, I notice something is wrong. The furniture is shredded, the money is stolen and there is glass all over the floor. In my mom's bedroom, I see my mom. Dead on the ground. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sorry! Short update! Longer one next time!
I collapse in a sobbing heap on her body. "How can this be?" I cry. Suddenly, I hear a knock on the door. I open it, and I see Jake standing there. "Are you ok?" He asks, seeing my puffy, red eyes. I shake my head. "Can I come in?" Jake asks. I nod and let him in. His eyes widen, seeing the damage. "What happened here?" I say, "Same thing I was asking." He looks at me. "Let's go wash you face, and then we investigate." We head to the bathroom. Caught in the moment, I forgot about my tail, as soon as a drop hits my face, I grow a silver tail and I'm wriggling on the floor. "Oh crap." I say. Jake is in shock. I grab a towel and dry myself off and stand up. His eyes are as big as saucers. I glance at Jake. "I'm a mermaid, if you have not guessed." I say. He just gapes, but then blushes and closes his mouth. I giggle, but all of a sudden an image of my dead mom pops into my head and I starts crying again. Jake looks at me with concern. "What's wrong?" I don't say anything, but I motion for him to follow. He does, and when we reach the bedroom with my dead mom, he crushes me in a bear hug. "Oh, Audery, I'm so sorry" he murmurs. I look up and stare into Jake's mesmerizing hazel eyes. He smiles sadly, then he takes my hand and leads me to his house, where I calm down and dry off my tears. "When I came home, the house was like that" I hiccup. "I don't know how or when it happened. All I know is that my mom is gone" I say, and break into fresh tears. Jake hugs me again, and I bury my head in his chest. He pats me on the back. "Do you want to call the police? You can spend the night here, my parents are out of town." Jake asks, drawing away. I nod. We head to my house to collect my things, and then call the police. When they arrive, they invade my house like a bunch of ants. "We will tell you any clues tomorrow" says the chief of police. "Meanwhile, no one should come in or out of the house except us." I nod again, and Jake leads me to his room, where he pulls out a mattress, and says "You can take the bed. I've slept on the floor before" I didn't have enough emery to argue, so I just crashed on his bed. I was asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I wale up the next morning, not in my bed. I panic for about a minute, and then all of yesterdays memories came rushing into my brain. I realize that the mattress on the floor was empty, but a very yummy smell was coming from the kitchen. I got dressed, packed my bag and started getting ready for school, then I followed the smell like a dog. I reached the kitchen, and see pancakes with syrup on the table. I siy down, and soon Jake comes in. He has a black shirt and jeans. I glance at my outfit. Today, I had a black outfit on for my mom. My black tank top had a skull, and my black leggings matched my black flip flops. My hair was loose today, and I wore barely any makeup. I could see Jake's eyes pop out of his head when he looked at me, and I blushed. He sat down, regaining himself, and put a stack of pancakes on his plate. I do the same, we both drown them in syrup, and we eat. After breakfast, Jake drives us to school. I notice he glances at me once or twice. I realize I did the same, and I blush and look out the window. It's only a five minute ride, but we are so silent, it seems longer. We finally arrive and head to class. All day, Isabella and her group tease and gossip about me. After lunch, I hear them taking about my clothes, so I turns around and say, "Will you SHUT UP! Im wearing this for a reason, dumbo!" I run and hide in the janitors closet. I hear footsteps behind me. They stop in front of the door, and it opens, revealing Jake, handsome as ever. He steps in and hugs me. "Audery, you will be ok"Jake says. Then, suddenly, he kisses me. I push him away. "What do you think you are doing!?" I stalk out of the closet, leaving a dumbfounded Jake still there. He starts running after me, but I disappear into the girls bathroom and sulk until it's time for class to start. I dry my tears, and leave. After school, I walk home before Jake can leave, and I almost turn into my house until I remember I'm still staying at Jake's. I sit on the porch, waiting for him to come and open the door. With each passing minute, my anger fades. After a few minutes, I'm more sad than mad, and Jake comes home and opens the door, not glancing at me. I walk into his bedroom, where he is sitting on the mattress, head in his hands. I quietly walk in, and sit next to him. "Jake, I-" I start, but he interrupts . "Audrey, I'm really sorry for kissing you. I really like you, and I thought you felt the same way about me". He says. "I do". I say. "But I'm not sure of I'm ready for you to be my boyfriend." Jake hangs his head. I feel guilty. He turns to look at me. "Audery" he starts. "D-d-do you w-w-want t-to go to t-the movies tomorrow night?" he splutters out. I grin. "Sure." Tomorrow was going to be interesting...... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The next day, I wake up feeling happy. I put my hair in a braid, put my blue shirt with a giant pink heart on it, and khakis. I slide on my pink flip flops and add some makeup. I then grab my bag, and head down to Jake's kitchen while he is still asleep. He is so cute when he sleeps. I make some waffles and set them on the table, then I wait for Jake. He comes down, still in his pjs, and I have to giggle. I mean, who wears Pokemon pajamas? He grabs a waffle and pecks my cheek. I blush. Jake scarfs down his waffle, grabs another and runs upstairs. In about ten minutes, we are ready to go. Jake has a green shirt and his usual jeans, and he looks great. Jake gives me a smile and we are ready to go. Soon, we are at school. After school, he drives to his house to change. "Dress fancy" Jake say mysteriously. I put on a long red dress and curl my hair. Jake has a black tux, and he brushed his messy brown hair. I grab my purse, black high heels, Jake puts on his dress shoes, and we're out. First, we go to see a romantic movie, and then he takes me to this fancy restaurant. It had 10 floors and it's own elevator! There were crystal chandeliers everywhere, and it looked beautiful. Jake steered me toward a table for two, we ordered and ate. Two hours later, he drove us home. I change into pjs, and so does he. (In separate rooms, of course). After we are dressed, Jake pulls me down on his mattress and kisses me. I feel like I'm melting. No one has ever treated me this way. Because I'm a mermaid, I have never had a boyfriend. After 3 minutes, we break apart. Jake has a small box in his hand. He hands it to me. I open it. Sitting inside is a ring. "It's a promise ring."said Jake. "Audery, will you be my girlfriend?" I am speechless, but I manage a nod and slip the ring on my finger. Little did I know, that, tomorrow was not going to be as good as today. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The morning started out as usual. I put on a green shirt and pink shorts. My hair was in a French braid today, and my green flats were on my feet. Jake had a gray shirt and jeans, plus sneakers. We arrived at school, and he kissed my cheek, right in front of Isabella. She looked like she was going to explode. Isabella just matched away when I gave her a puzzled look. The first half of the day was normal, but when Jake and I were walking back from lunch, we passed a water fountain, and a spray of water hit me in the face. Another jet of water hit my pants. Before I knew it, I was on the floor in mermaid form. Everyone stopped and stared. Jake handed my a towel, and I dried myself. Meanwhile, Isabella and her cronies were gaping at me. I stood up as soon as my tail vanished, I turned to face them. Jake was glaring at Isabella with a very red face. All of a sudden, he punched her, and she crumpled. A bunch of her blondies surrounded her, while I lead Jake away before he knocked someone else out. I looked straight into his beautiful hazel eyes. "Jake, please, calm down"I pleaded. He looked at me, and seemed to snap out of a dream. Suddenly, on the loudspeaker, the principle's voice came on: "CAN I PLEASE HAVE JAKE MCARTHY AND AUDREY ALLAIN REPORT TO THE PRINCIPLE'S OFFICE. THANK YOU." I glance at Jake, and we head to Principle Manning's office. He is pacing the room, and his face is red. He stops when we walk in. The principle quickly composed himself. "Please, have a seat." So we do. He sits at his desk. "As I understand it, Miss Smith accidently spilled a drop of water on Miss Allain, and Mr. Mcarthy knocked her out. Is this true?" Jake shakes his head. "Isabella drenched Audery in water and I lightly hit her." I kept my mouth shut. I did NOT want to accidently let slip that I'm a mermaid. But, Principle Manning looked at me. All of a sudden, I couldn't keep my mouth shut. "I-I-I'm a mermaid." I stammered. "And her mom died a few days ago" says Jake. The Principle narrows his eyes. "I do not belive what Miss Allain just said" I sigh. I dip my hand in his glass of water, and im wriggling on the floor. Jake hands me a towel, and I become my normal self again. Principle's eyes widen, and then he faints. Jake shrugs and we walk out of his office. The crowd is surging around the office and the nurses office. Jake and I push through, and we receive many stares. A girl runs up to me. She os petite, but I'm still smaller then her. She has brown eyes and brown hair. "Hi," she says breathlessly. "I'm Violet" "I'm Audery, and this is Jake" I say. We walk to class together, and the rest of the day with my new friend is enjoyable. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~