Trust, Love, and Lost Relations

Pleasant Surprise

Felicity's P.O.V

I woke up the next morning to my phone blaring on my bedside table. Who would be calling me at this ungodly hour of 9 in the morning? I decided I couldn't ignore it any longer, and finally got out of bed to answer it. All that, and it was my adopted mother... calling me from downstairs. The communication in this family is amazing really.

So, I picked up my phone and answered it. "Hello?" I asked tiredly. "Hi sweetheart," my adopted mother, Spring, replied. "What do you need?" I tried to ask politely, hiding my annoyance very well, in my opinion. "We're having a family meeting in ten minutes," she replied brightly, too brightly at 9 in the morning. " Ok,see you soon," I said, really not wanting to have this conversation.

When I walked sluggishly down the stairs about five minutes later, I got my cereal out of the cupboard to have for breakfast. We all have our own cereal here, and the others aren't allowed to eat it. My cereal is fruit loops, Clarissa's is Frosted Flakes, Morgan's is Krave, Nick's is Lucky Charms, David's is Honey Bunches of Oats, and Spring's is Special K. We're very possessive about our cereal here.

I sat and ate my cereal in silence. After awhile, Spring and my siblings came downstairs. Of course, she wakes them up nicely and she wakes me up by blaring my cell phone at me. Humph. She made all of us sit down with our cereal and took a deep breath. "We're going to have a visitor in a couple days," she said slowly and cautiously, hoping we wouldn't freak out. Morgan and Nick lit up, they loved meeting new people and having visitors. While Clarissa and I on the other hand, we're not so keen on people. "Who?!" Nick asked excitedly. "You have way too much energy this early in the morning," I grumbled. "It's nine o'clock in the morning..." he said confused. "Exactly," I said as if he was crazy.

"ANYWAYS," my adopted mother said trying to get us to settle down, "it's an old friend of Clarissa and Felicity," she replied. Clarissa and I looked at each other confused. Who could it be? "Who?" I finally asked the question on all of our minds. "Do you girls remember Zayn?" She asked cautiously. "Yes, of course," the two of us said in synch. "Well he wanted to come and visit you for awhile. He said he misses you both, and he wants to get to know both of you because he never got to before you left."

Clarissa and I looked at each other shocked. Why would he want to come back all of a sudden now? Why didn't he try to keep contact if he missed us so much? All these questions of why? Why? Why? Were running through my head on repeat.

Clarissa and I looked at each other thinking the same thing. We need to go to the Moon Pool and think about this. Finally, one of us spoke up. "We need time to think about this," Clarissa said still kind of shocked. "We're gonna go for a walk for awhile," I finished for her. "Ok, take all the time you need," our adopted mother said understandingly.

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About an hour later, we were chilling in the Moon Pool talking about what had just happened. "Why would he all of a sudden want to be a part of our lives now?" I asked confused and hurt that he didn't even attempt any contact whatsoever and then has the nerve to say he missed us. "I don't know," she replied, thinking, "Maybe he didn't know we existed." I thought about it for a moment " No, because he said he missed us and wanted to get to know us since he didn't get the chance to before. He had to have known who we were and that we existed." She thought for a moment "Maybe.. I don't know. I guess we'll just have to figure that out when he gets here."

I stared down at my green tail-by the way, did I forget to mention we were mermaids-thoughtfully, trying to puzzle this out. I eventually gave up, deciding I wasn't going to figure it out right now.

I looked over at my sister with her dark blue, sparkly tail and thoughtful look. It looked like she was trying to figure it out too. I guess she finally decided she wouldn't figure it out either because she looked over at me. "So any cute boys you've met since yesterday?" We laughed and talked for about five more hours in our own little private pool in our colourful mermaid forms and talked about secrets and such that would never leave this cave.

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The next day we were gonna talk to Spring about the conversation yesterday. She was at work by the time we got home, and we needed to let her know that we weren't upset about the decision she made to let Zayn come and visit.

We walked downstairs to see she was drinking her morning coffee and reading the newspaper. "Hey Spring," we said in greeting. We had never called her our actual mother in the hope that one day we'd be brought home to our real family. "Good morning girls," she replied nicely, probably thinking we were upset with her. She was always trying to make them happy with her as she knew that she would never replace their real mother. "We just wanted to let you know that we aren't upset with you or anything," Clarissa said nicely. They could see Spring visibly relax. "Ya," Felicity continued. "We were just surprised, that's all. We're glad Zayn is coming to visit." They smiled at their adopted mother.

Now I was hungry. I got up and got my cereal out of the cupboard. Yummy, Fruit Loops. I sighed satisfied in my mind. I really did love fruit loops. It felt too quiet to me, so I got up and turned on the radio. Live While We're Young by One Direction came on and Clarissa and I looked at each other, grinned and started dancing around the house singing at the top of our lungs-horribly may I add, but who cares? We were having fun. This was one of the only songs by One Direction my sister liked.

Now on the note of One Direction, I have been a fan of them since the beginning of this year. A lot of my friends listened to them, so I figured, hey why not check these guys out? I've been a fan ever since. It has NOTHING to do with the fact that my brother is in the band at all- well maybe a little, but I actually genuinely love them. Not just Zayn. To be perfectly honest, Niall is my favourite actually. My favourite song from their Up All Night album is One Thing. My favourite song from their Take me Home album is Loved you First. I'm really excited for their new album, Midnight Memories. Their song, Diana was leaked from their new album about a month ago... oops.

I also listen to a lot of country music. Florida Georgia Line, Hunter Hayes, and Luke Bryan are a few of my favourite artists. I have strawberry-blonde hair, blue eyes, and very pale skin. I'm part Irish, part Scottish, part Indian, and part British. I love to read and sleep. Literally, I'm an 18 year old who takes a nap almost everyday. I'm very random, weird, and strange. I don't get embarrassed easily and I don't give two shits what other people think of me. I'm also very sarcastic, immature, and a smart ass.

I think I'll go for a swim. I haven't been in my mermaid form since yesterday, and if I go a day without being in my mermaid form-unless it's the full moon- I get very reprieved and grumpy. Don't want that happening again... My calendar- which I am quickly looking at before I leave- says tomorrow is the full moon. Oh boy, that'll be quite the first impression for Zayn when he comes. Well, I guess we're gonna have to cross that bridge when we get there. I'm itching to be in the water.

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Author's note: Well writing that in my own point of view was much easier than writing it in my sister's point of view is. I know my own brain better I guess. And once again, I can't take all the credit for this book, my sister is co-writing it with me. Zayn will be in the next chapter. Who's excited??

Co-author's note:oh look finally a little bit more interesting detail awesome right well anyway this was a long chapter so sorry I guess and thx for still reading luv ya

Felicity: um, ACTUALLY most people like long chapters. Just saying 😝

Clairese:I am not number 2 I'm number 1 sorry I just had too and I know I just thought to say sorry for those people who don't like long chapters sheesh smart ass 😜😜

Felicity: ☺️ Why thank you *posh accent*

Clairese: meanie*messed up glare*😛😛I wonder what it be like to be in a band omg what if 1D read this fanfic omg *high pitched girly squeal* whops were way of topic 😝😝

Felicity: Eh, oh well. Who cares?? It's an author's note