Trapped

21 - NEW!!

I was shocked at the sight of her rainbow coloured tail, my heart constricted and for a moment I was convinced that it was the same person. After I took a longer look I realized that they didn't look the same, the other woman had red hair, the pearl had purple hair. The other difference was that the pearl's tail was very glossy and more metallic in colour than the other woman's tail.

I didn't ask about it, fearing that I might anger her and then she wouldn't help us. She led us into a large and very bright pearly room, in the middle there was a clam-like throne with small pearls around the outer edge of the clam. She sat down on it and let out a deep sigh and looked at Zac.

'So, as you know Zac, there is a price to pay when you ask me for a favour,' she said.

'But we don't have any money,' I said.

'Well, then you can thank the stars that I am not after material possessions, I want an emotional reward because it makes me stronger,' she said and I was surprised, I didn't protest though.

'So, what do you want?' Jeremy asked.

'I want each of you to tell me your biggest secret, something that your friends wouldn't know about you, then in return I will give you each a pair of legs,' she stated.

'Well, I wasn't expecting that,' I said, more to myself than to anyone else. The pearl laughed at my comment but quickly put on a serious face. I wasn't too worried about it, Adam, Jeremy and Angela knew what my biggest secret was. Zac is the only one who didn't know about it.

'Who's first?' She said. Jeremy flinched and I wondered what he could be hiding that made him react that way.

'Wait, can't we pay you in some other way?' Zac asked and he looked nervous.

'Yeah, isn't there anything else you want?' Adam asked before she could answer.

'No, I want to know your biggest secret and nothing else,' She said sternly and then smirked before continuing, 'Actually, let's spice things up, you have to tell me your biggest secret and the story that goes with it.'

I could see all their faces fall, this made me extra curious to know what made them so nervous about telling their secrets.

'I'll ask again, who's first?' The pearl said.

'Wait, how is Angela going to tell her secret if she's unconscious?' I asked.

'Great, Luna will be going first then,' she said, again not answering my question.

'Okay, fine. But could you please heal my friend first?' I asked.

'Tell me your secret and I will heal your friend and give you legs, how does that sound? It's a great offer, two favours for the price of one,' She said, lifted her eyebrow and gave me a smirk. Why couldn't she just tell me that from the beginning?

'Okay, my biggest secret is that I -' I was interrupted by the Pearl who said: 'No wait, you have to hold this stone on your palm while you tell me so that I can be sure that you're not lying. The stone will light up if you lie.'

'Ugh,' I said and took the lime coloured stone from her, then I proceeded to tell them all my secret: 'Luciana Johnson, the girl that hosted the party we went to on Friday before we went to the mansion, she likes Adam. She also has a lot of dirt on me and she was threatening to tell everyone unless I brought Adam to the party, that's why I made you all go to the party with me,' I said quickly.

'I think the dirt that she has on you is the true secret that you should be telling us about' the pearl hinted.

I gulped and squeezed my eyes shut, I didn't want them to know this about me, 'My dad's never home and he hardly leaves us with any money to take care of ourselves so I became desperate for a job. I ended up asking Luciana's parents if I could work for them and her mom said she would pay me to be their maid and clean their house after school. I was too embarrased about it to tell any of you,' I said and I could feel that my cheeks were turning red, my tail turned light pink along with me and when I looked back at The Pearl she was staring at my tail.