The Mysteries Of Swan Cove

Chapter 11

After the movie finished there was a knock on the door. I ran from the TV room to get it and saw Briar. She had chocolate skin and dark brown eyes. Her curly black hair had a flower clip in it. A rose. Her favorite flower. My face just lit up.
"Briar!"
"I persuaded my mom to let me stay with you for 2 weeks! Except my mom is coming the second week but still!" We hugged for a solid 45 seconds.
"Did you pack sweatpants?"
"Hon, sweatpants are a fashion DON'T. I don't even own a single pair." she said  proudly.
"Ok but you can at least sleep in them."
"No!" She said strictly.
"So you told me you were a mermaid?" She said raising her eyebrow. I got a cup of water and packet of salt. I knew what was coming next so I just poured it on me.
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0 and tail.
I landed with a loud thud.
"So you are a mermaid. And Maggie was right."
"Basically yeah." I mumbled shrugging it off. I dried off and got my legs back.
"Hey you know you couldn't just le-Briar."
"Wait Luke Montgomery is staying with you?"
"I thought I told you this."
"Probably."
"So is Briar staying here too?" He asked.
"Two weeks!" I exclaimed.
"You should tell her the thing." He said motioning toward my legs.
"Already did. You should tell her."
"No."
"Hey Briar Luke's a merdude. Hey you never said I couldn't tell her." He glared at me and I smiled back. An evil smile. Suddenly I felt a cold brush of air brush by me.
"She's gonna kill me!" She screamed. And little sis was back.
"Wait is that Kaitlyn? Cool." She said, fascinated by my ghostly sister.
"Who?"
"Adeline."
"Why may I ask?" I said gingerly and slowly.
"I don't know?! Ask her!" she snapped.
"Kaitlyn you are dead!" Remember that calm silky voice? It was now rugged and rough. Like being stabbed by a zillion knives. Her voice was tight and loud.
"I did nothing!"
"Where. Is. The. Locket!"
"In your room in the top dresser drawer on the right." She said flinching. She glared at her.
"Do not go in my room. Ever." She hissed and stomped away.
"Hey have you guys heard about the eclipse in 3 nights?" Briar said.
"No." I said shaking my head.
"Shoot." Luke grumbled under his breath.
"What?" We asked.
"Will full on mer people like your mom and I it makes us go loopy." 
"Oh. Just to be clear it won't affect me."
"Thanks for the sympathy. And no." He said rolling his eyes.
"Also whatever you do don't let me or your mom go in the ocean."
"That seems easy enough. Right?" Said Briar. I nodded in agreement. My mom came down stairs from her room and she looked terrible. She was stuffy and had a hoarse voice and breathing. She took out her asthma inhaler.
"Hey Briar." She shuffled across the floor to make her self some chai tea. Luke walked over to the salt shaker and poured a bunch in his water and took a long sip. Me and briar looked at him in disgust. My mom shuffled back up the steps and locked herself in her roomwhile Luke drank more salt water. What was going on with everyone?

So the pick at the top is an original design of Heidi. I have like a zillion more pics which I'll probably just add to previously chapters so go revisit the other chapters to see other pics. Also, it starts on ch. 2-3 IDK. And the signatures has some characters that weren't introduced and the old times people is  Adeline. Thanks for reading!
~rainbowmorkie