Swimming? No thanks

Chapter 32

I looked down at my dress, smoothing it out one last time.

"You look good, Alyssa," Maddy told me from where she sat on our bed.

"Really?" I looked over my makeup and my hair in the mirror.

"Yes. Cameron's jaw is going to meet the floor."

I patted the loose curls I had put my hair into. "Thanks." I turned and smiled at her. I looked at the clock and saw it was almost time for Cameron to pick me up for our date. I grabbed my bag with jeans, a T-shirt, and flip flops.

"What's with the bag?" Maddy asked.

"We're going out to dinner and then we're going to his place to watch movies. I have to look good for dinner and then I want to be comfy over at his house."

"When will you be back?"

"I don't know. Probably late. Don't wait up for me."

"I won't. Go have fun." She smiled at me.

I jogged down the stairs and paced by the door until the doorbell rang. I opened the door and Cameron was smiling back at me. "Hey. Ready to go?"

"Yeah." I walked out and he intertwined his right hand with my left one.

He glanced down at my promise ring and smiled. "I love seeing that ring on your finger."

"I love seeing it there too. Every time I look at it, I think of you." I smiled up at him. He opened the car door and I climbed in. "Thank you, Cameron."

"You're welcome." He shut my door and went to his side, climbing in. He intertwined his hand with mine again. "I love you, Alyssa Elizabeth Mason."

"I love you too, Cameron Tyler Hunter." I pecked his lips before he pulled out and started toward the restaurant. We rode in silence until we got there.

We pulled up and got out of the car, walking in. Cameron went up to the podium. "Table for two?" He said to the young woman.

"Okay. Follow me." She smiled at us as she grabbed two menus and walked into the restaurant.

She led us to a table and set our menus down before Cameron and I sat down.

"So, you ready for the full moon?" Cameron asked me.

I looked at him over my menu and sighed. "Can we not talk about that right now?"

"Alyssa, I know you're scared, but-"

"Scared?" I interrupted. "I'm terrified. If that-that thing gets control of Dalton, there's nothing I can do. Maddy told me that if a merman has control of the trident when you're trying to destroy it, then all it will do is destroy the stones and us. The person I trust the most in the world could become the biggest threat I've ever faced. Do you know how hard it is to look your twin in the face and know that there's a possibility that he'll try to kill you?" I fought the tears that wanted to come out.

My boyfriend gave me a sympathetic look. "Alyssa, I'm so sorry, but you're going to destroy the trident before it does anymore damage. Dalton wouldn't try to kill you, you know that."

"Yeah, in his right mind he wouldn't, but you didn't see the empty look in his eyes on the full moon." I gazed off into the distance, shaking my head as I thought back to that night. "He wasn't there."

"Well, Maddy helped him conquer the moon spell, right? It shouldn't happen again."

"But what if it does? I don't think it's the moon spell. It's something else. He started acting weird as soon as the moon rose last time. It was like Tremp was calling to him from inside my house. We carefully covered every place moonlight could even get in. So it wasn't the actual moon, like the moon spell is. Plus, I was with him when he went weird and the full moon did nothing to me. It shouldn't have done anything to him."