Secrets in Paradise

~Scales~Chapter 2~

~An hour and a half later~

"Aria?" I faintly heard someone was knocking at the door. I recognized the voice as my sister. She's the only one who calls me by my middle name. "Aria!!??" The knocking got louder."Aria are you okay? You've been in there for a while."

SPLASH!!! I flinched and sat up remembering I was still in the bath tub. I looked at my finger tips and they looked like unedible raisins. "Aria? Are still even in there?" My sister called out.

"Yeah I'm-" I went to check my toes. "AHH!!!!!"

"ARIA!! What's wrong!?" Emily ,my sister, franticly asked.

Where my legs suppose to be was was a scaley yet very colorful tail. I thought it was some kind of illusion so I moved my legs but instead the tail moved up and down. "AH!!" I ended up squeaking.

"ARIA!! What. Is. Wrong. Let me in!" She sounded like she was starting to sound irritated. Probably because wasn't answering her. But you never know. "Unlock the door! It won't open!"

"I can't. I.. I can't feel my legs. I.. I don't think I even have legs!" Thinking something makes it possible, but saying it can make it true.

"WHAT!!!!!!" Emily said very quickly like she was about to faint. Then, suddenly she burst through the door and I ,probably in panic, quickly grabbed a towel an covered my um . . , developed chest. "I found a key. I was right above to door." She had not yet seen the big scaly tail that were my legs where suppose to be.

"Well then why did you barge in like you trying to break the door down!" I personally felt kinda violated.

"Oh, I just wanted to make sure the door was op-" She saw it.

Is .. is that what I think it is?" She had tone in her voice that I had never heard in her ever before. I was like a weird mix of panic, relief, and shock.

"I don't know, what do you think it is?" I flopped the tail; it was actually kinda fun.

I think, it's a mermaid tail." Like I said, thinking it makes it possible but saying it out loud can make it true. "It all makes sense now." She sat down in the closed toilet seat. "But why now? Why not earlier when it was suppose to be?" She started talking to herself in a soft whispering voice. Like she was saying it to hopefully make more sense.

"Well, I've kinda got a question myself. How do we get rid or it!!!??" You could say I as flipping out. Pun unintended.

"I don't know." She almost sounded confused. "T.. this has never happened before."

"No, really?" I replied with sarcasism, which I usually do.

Emily looked like she was in deep, deep thought mixed with complete shock. "Wait!" Sounds like she found a possible solution. "But," she briefly paused. "Now?"

I flopped my tail. "Sooo, how we gonna get rid of," I flopped it again. "This?" I was anxious to get rid of the apparent tail I had developed. Was this a normal thing in the 'changing body?'

"Well, you could get out of the bathtub." She said in way that applied I was stupid.

"Um, I kinda can't with this tail that has magically appeared." I had to use sarcasim. Its just what I do.

"Fine I'll help you." I tied the towel around me so nothing would show as she rolled up her sleves and tried to pick me up. "Oh my god, I forgot how heavy you were." She moaned. "Okay I'm gonna put you on your bed." She told me ,stumbling toward my room. Then plopped me on my bed. "I'll get a hairdryer."

"Wait. Why?" I asked but she was already in the bathroom wiping up the water and grabbing my hairdryer.

I looked at my tail. It was actually quite pretty. It wasn't just blue or just green. It was a mixture of the rainbow. It had quite a bit of yellow that faded into orange then pink. The tail had purple then eventually to red and then back to yellow. At the top it had a bit of a turquoise at the top.

"Alright." My sister walked in, plugged in the hairdryer, turned it on and blew it toward my scaly rainbow tail.

"Ow, that's hot." I blurted.

"Oh, okay." Emily turned it to blow cool air.

"Sooo, do you know why I this has suddenly appeared?" I pointed to the scales.

She sighed deeply. "Um. . . Its a long story."

"Would it explain anything?"

"It would actually explain a lot."

"Then tell me. It would be great to know why have a scaly yet very colorful mermaid tail!"

"Well first, things first. The fairy tale mermaids. . they're real. And you're a descendent of one." She stopped to make sure I was taking it all in.

Then something popped in my head. And it wasn't a great topic. "Does this have to do something with mom and dad's dispperence?"

Emily seemed a bit shocked by my question. She took a deep breath before speaking. "Yes."

I wasn't actually expecting that answer. Even if I was the one who asked a question.

All of a sudden a vagly familiar tingling sensation rushed through the place of my legs. I looked at my mermaid tail and it was disappearing back into the form of legs. As I was getting my legs back the tingling got more intense. Like seriously intense. I started to giggle, the tingling almost felt like a bunch of people tickling me.

Next thing I knew my rainbow tail was gone and my sister was had me a pair of underwear and pants as well as a shirt and I was changing under my blanket. Once I finished, which actually didn't take that long, I wanted to talk about my parents disappearance. But I didn't want to go on forbidden ground.

"So . . ." Paused to rethink my words, any signs I shouldn't say anything. But I didn't receive any. "What happened to mom and dad?" I shuffled on my bed in my black leggings and a Fall Out Boy tank top I had changed into to get comfortable. My gut told me it was gonna be story time.

Emily once again took a deep breath before talking. "They were on a sailing trip and they never returned. Don't you remember?"

"N-" I was about to respond when Emily's phone started ringing violently that you could hear of clearly from the other room. It was her ringtone when there was an emergency at the marine.

She went to answer it in her bedroom which is where it was. "Oh . . . Okay . . . Alright, I'll be there soon. Bye." She hung up.

"What happened?"

"Apparently ,according to the security guard, one of the dolphins in about to give birth. And she's the one we've had to keep an eye on so I gotta go." She grabbed her marina doctor bag and started to head out. "I'll see you later okay?"

"Okay, see ya," I said as she left. "There is always an excuse. But I guess she's gotta do her job" I was talking to myself now.

I walked down stairs to see Cocoa ,my Chesapeake Bay Retriver, she looked like a chocolate lab, on the couch sleeping. She was only five months old so she was that big but she wasn't a newborn puppy. However, she had a habit of sleeping during the day and staying awake at night.

I looked out side it was completely dark except for the stars and the moon in the sky; they shined what seemed like brighter than usual. I took my camera and went outside to take pictures. I should of been smarter and put on shoes but it was that perfect tempature between warm with a cool chill.

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I hope you guys liked this chapter and if you did even a little bit pls vote for it. So I know what are my better chapters and which are not so much. I tried to make this chapter longer too. Pls comment what you think of this chapter.

Oh and the mermaid tail in media is her tail except the tail part its self is wider and ya know, more realalistic.

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