JUST ADD WATER» ❝ Find the place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.❞ - Joseph Campbell
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PROLOGUE
Rikki Mara Chadwick, was born May 23rd, 2002, in Gold Coast, Australia. Rikki had been born with her soulmark. Two of them actually, while not unheard of, is rather rare enough to be seen as odd, weird and at worst something to hate and seeth. At first, both started with what looked like a birthmark; it was long words that couldn't be easily read. As Rikki aged, the soulmark slowly came into sharper focus. The summer before kindergarten was when the Chadwick family were able to read one of soulmarks with great ease. That day Rikki had come running in from the beach, soaking wet from playing in the in the ocean with her friends, screaming about how one of her marks could be read.
' She who shall not be named is a complete heartless bitch and doesn't deserve a soulmate...' was marked across her shoulder blades. It was the one that Rikki couldn't read. In her excitement of begging able to read her one of her soulmark. She knew the other would be readable soon. She had ran inside and raised the back of her lavender shirt. Her mother gasped before then reading it out loud. Her parents weren't so found of the fact it had bad language and contained messages of someone not begging worthy of soulmate; a very questionable message indeed. But, for Rikki's sake, they choices to believe that message was in protective manner. That of someone had seen a friend, or possibly even family hurt by someone else; That they were warning Rikki.
Despite the message, Rikki was happy with her knowledge of what one of her Soulmarks said. Soulmarks were marked in the soulmate's own handwriting. The soulmark was written in very upright handwriting, a no frills, straight to the point, kind of person. It wasn't the neatest handwriting Rikki had ever seen though. Her grandmother coming to mind whose cursive was a thing of art. It wasn't tell a week after Rikki's sixteenth birthday; a birthday in which she and her friends fell into the moon pool and accidentally turned themselves into a mermaids; that her second Soulmark came readable.
'Umm... you have tail? A fish tail?' marked her collar bone. The writing was smillar to that of her other soulmarks but little curler. It seemed uncertain and maybe a little timid and rather confused. Which she understood why. It's not like everyday that you find your soulmate has fish tail, weirdly cool powers, and is all round pretty mystically badass. Though begging able to read her Soulmarks meant covering them up, especially her second one due to both saving herself from other jealous, and ignorant remarks, but also her mermaid secret.
It won't be in tell the spring break of senior year when she and her best friend, Isabel Hartley, a fellow mermaid who they had found out was not only a princess but also the last of her pod; the pod of Whitecap Bay, go on a trip to the small town Mystic Falls, Virginia that she finds her soulmates. Her prefect matches. Her true loves.
