Me: Hello my dear readers! I am back with another story.

Ella: Shouldn't you be working on your other two stories?

Me: Yeah but, I've been getting uninspired for chapters lately so I'm starting a new fic to get those creative juices flowing.

Ella: You're only using that as an excuse because you're bored with the other stories aren't you?

Me: *Smiles sheepishly* Yeah. But you're in it; does that make up for some of it?

Ella: A little.

Me: I have recently watched one of my fave movies of all time: Aquamarine! I got inspired by it and this is slightly based on that movie, so without further ado A Mermaid Tale!

Misty's POV:

There they come, strutting down the boardwalk like they own the place, when they so don't! Brianna and her gang are only 'popular' because of their daddies and their money. It sure isn't because of their 'lovely' personalities. Blech.

I nudged Dawn and Leaf and pointed at Brianna and her shark squad.

"Look now they're kissing up to Drew and his crew." I said.

"Misty; when aren't they kissing up to the crew?" Leaf deadpanned.

"Yeah but with the beach bash coming up in three days I bet they're hoping to get them as dates." I stated.

"Yeah and so is the entire girl population," Dawn paused and grimaced "And part of the boy population at East Wave High." Dawn exclaimed.

"And so are you!" Leaf accused.

Dawn turned a bright shade of red and protested, "No I am not!"

"You too Leaf! I saw the way you were looking at Gary in the library today!" I pointed out.

Leaf turned as red as Dawn and spoke her protests too.

I got a text on my phone at that moment. I sighed and looked at it, 'Misty like come home like right now!' it said.

"Ugh, my sisters want me home now. Gotta jet girls!" I told my two BFF's.

"You'll be able to go to movie night tonight right?" Leaf asked me.

"Yeah I will! 8:00 pm at your house Dawn, right?" I asked Dawn.

"Yup! And don't forget to get the popcorn this time!" Dawn told me.

"I won't!" I replied with a giggle.

I gathered my stuff and headed toward the exit of the beach.

"Ever heard of girl clothes?" a menacing voice asked.

"Oh, it's only you Melody." I replied in a bored tone.

"What do you mean it's only me! For your information I am very popular!" She screamed at me.

"And a drama queen." I stated.

"Who's yanking your chain now Melody?" another voice said. Butterflies fluttered in my stomach when I saw the goofy grin of the owner of the voice.

"Oh! Hey Mist!" Ash greeted.

Ash had been one of Leaf's, Dawn's, and mine's best guy friends. We've been good friends since kindergarten, but ever since middle school Ash hung out with Drew more and became part of his popular crew. Don't get me wrong he's still the same down to earth dunderhead that we all know and love he just hangs out with the popular crowd more than us now. Same with Gary and Kenny, Gary was really close with Leaf and Kenny was really close to Dawn. Childhood friends and all that.

"H-Hey Ash." I said, there they are again those annoying butterflies.

"What's new Mist?" he asked.

"Nothing much, we're having a movie marathon at Dawn's house tonight though." I replied.

"Well have fun with that." He said. He waved to me and went back to his other friends.

I walked back to my house, goodbye sanity hello chaos.

Leaf's POV:

Oh god, I can't be late again! Dawn will hate me for that! I put my apron on the hook by the door and ran out of it before my boss could yell at me for leaving work a little early. I started my motorcycle and rushed home so I could grab my stuff and try to make it on time to the movie night at Dawn's house.

Dawn said she would have a special guest at the movie night. I wonder who it'll be.

I made it to my house and quickly packed everything I would need for the night. I got back on my motorcycle and raced to Dawn's house before she ambushed me with an attack of texts.

When I got to Dawn's house I got off of my motorcycle and looked the place over. One of my favorite places in the whole world has got to be Dawn's house. Her house is pretty big, and thanks to her dad her house is chock full of the latest electronics and video game systems. It was a video game nerd's paradise.

But my all-time favorite part of her house has got to be her backyard. She has this huge pool in her backyard, and a beautiful garden next to it I might add. And then, less than a mile away is the beach shore. Dawn's house is right on the beach and it's our favorite hangout spot during the summer. I walked up to the door of her house and rang the doorbell.

"Hey Leaf!" a voice said. I couldn't believe my eyes! It was my friend Marina!

I ran into Dawn's house and trapped Marina into a death hug.

"Marina! I haven't seen you in months!" I exclaimed.

"Well modeling does keep you busy." Marina replied with a chuckle.

It had always been the four of us Marina, Misty, Dawn, and I. That is until Marina started modeling, Misty started taking over the Cerulean Gym and Dawn started heading uptown to go to her fashion design classes. Me, I had my music to fall back on, but it just wasn't the same without my best friends with me.

"Time for movies!" Dawn yelled out and tore me out of my thoughts.

"Misty! Did you remember the popcorn this time?" I teasingly asked her.

She laughed while coming out of the kitchen while holding a bowl full of the hot buttery stuff.

"No I didn't!" she said with a giggle.

Marina looked at all of us and smiled "What are we waiting for? Let's get this movie marathon started!" she said.

I pumped my fist in the air. "Oh Yeah!" I yelled, we all laughed at my childish act and ran to Dawn's living room that was full of HD movie equipment, once again thanks to her dad as a college graduation present.

Dawn's POV:

Isn't this great? Being together with the girls and catching up with each other.

Too bad there's a horrible storm tonight, otherwise it would be perfect!

"Boom!" the thunder from the storm was heard, suddenly all the power in my house was cut. Oh crap!

"Ahhh!" Marina and Leaf yelled, which woke up Misty who was asleep since halfway throughout the movie.

"Guys calm down; the emergency power will come on in a sec." I told my friends. Of course the power came back on right after I said that and Leaf and Marina visibly relaxed.

"Hey guys! I think the storm is clearing. Hey it's the first star of the night! Let's all make a wish." Misty suggested.

We all grabbed a popcorn kernel from the bowl and Misty started the wishing, "I wish that I'll be able to get away from the gym." Misty whispered.

"I wish I'll own my own modeling company." Marina said.

"I wish my designing career will take off." I wished.

"I wish that my music career will take off." Leaf murmured.

Then we all said together, "But most of all we wish that we'll find love this summer!" after we said that as loud as we could, we all laughed and threw our popcorn kernels behind our shoulders. As soon as we did that a loud "BOOM!" shook the house. As I looked out the window I could see the sea and waves reached my pool, they brought in seaweed and a bunch of other things into the pool.

Suddenly as fast as the storm came in, it disappeared.

"Hey guys, can we check out my pool? I think the storm brought something into it." I told my BFF's.

"Okay." Misty responded, Leaf grabbed a baseball bat that was nearby, Marina took a lantern from a cabinet in the kitchen, and I tool a bag of gummy worms. I was still pretty hungry.

Marina's POV:

As soon as we got outside I turned on the giant flashlight.

I waved it around the pool, I didn't see anything.

"I don't know Dawn. Maybe you imagined it? I definitely don't see anything in your pool." I told Dawn.

Leaf then pointed at something in the water, "Look something is shimmering!" She exclaimed.

Just at that moment Dawn dropped her bag of gummy worms into the pool. But the strange thing was; A HAND SHOT OUT OF THE WATER AND CAUGHT THE BAG!

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" we all screamed.

"Ugh will you be quiet! I've had a difficult night and screeching like a pelipper won't help the major headache I'm starting to get!" a voice complained.

Then another voice said, "Geez Ella, you need to relax. Here have a gummy worm."

Then we could see the upper halves of the two girls. One had long wavy black hair with light purple streaks in it. The other girl had long straight chestnut brown hair with red highlights throughout it.

"Uhh, Marina, Dawn, Misty?" Leaf asked.

"Yes…" we all replied.

"You see the two people in the pool too right?" she asked again. We all slowly nodded our heads.

"Okay, good. I thought I was hallucinating for a bit." She uncertainly stated.

"Uhh, excuse me but we are still here." The girl with the black and purple hair said.

"And we're not people." The one with the brown and red hair giggled.

I was about to say something along the lines of "What do you mean?" when I was interrupted by the splashing of two tails.

TWO TAILS!

The creature with black and purple hair smiled, or was it a faint smirk? And said, "As you probably noticed; we're mermaids."

The other mermaid started to talk, "My name is May. My sister over there is Ella."

The supposed Ella talked again, "And, we are kind of stranded in your pool." She then gave a sheepish smile.

Misty instantly started to help get Ella and her shimmering purple tail out while Leaf helped get May and her iridescent red tail out. Dawn just stared at the two with her mouth wide open.

"Would you like to explain why you guys randomly showed up in Dawn's pool?" I asked.

This time May was the one who gave a sheepish smile "It's kind of a long story." She said.

Misty sat down on a nearby lounge chair and told her, "We have time."

Ella sighed and started to tell their tale. "May and I are the daughters of Neptune. His only two daughters mind you. Tonight was kind of supposed to be our double wedding; and well, we ran away."

May continued, "In the mermaid society the parents choose who you are going to marry and to say the least we didn't exactly like our husband-to-be's."

Ella interrupted her with a shout of "THEY HAD SHARKS FOR HEADS! YES I SAID HEADS AS IN MULTIPLE!"

May sweat dropped at her sister's brashness. "So we ran away, in search of real love instead of arranged hell."

Ella then finished the tale up, "We have this agreement with our father that if we can find true love in three days we are allowed to stay with the ones we love for the rest of our lives. This is cool with him because he still has our little brother as a backup heir to the throne. So, will you help us?" she asked with a small pout.

"Yeah, please?" May begged with a puppy dog look on her face.

I looked at them suspiciously, "Why should we help you?" I asked them.

Ella replied with "If you help a mermaid you each get one wish per mermaid that you help. That means if you help us you will each have two wishes."

I motioned to my friends to get into a group huddle. "I think we should help them." Dawn said.

"Everyone who agrees say aye!" I ordered.

"Aye!" we all said.

"So it has been said, so it will be!" I said in a mock serious tone.

Misty then said to the two mermaids "We have agreed to help you, but first things first where are you going to live?"

"We can just live in your pool." Ella simply stated. She grabbed an amethyst necklace she had on and with a small whisper transformed the pool area into a small house big enough for two.

"Well that settles that!" May said with a grin.

Ella's POV: The Following Morning

God, last night was weird. Ugh, now I have to find true love in three days. Life was much simpler when I wasn't old enough to get married.

I stretched and got out of the small house I made last night. I was careful not to get water onto my new legs, if they even get one drop it's bye-bye legs hello tail!

I decided to walk on the beach, it was a calm morning and I would usually float in the shore line in the morning when I was a mermaid.

Legs felt…weird. But they were cool! I never tried to have legs before since I was never interested in them before, but I was enjoying them. I started to do something that humans called jogging on the beach, I was having so much fun that I didn't pay attention to where I was going and I bumped into something, or should I say someone.

"Sorry!" the person I bumped into said. He was cute with dirty blond hair and brown green eyes like the Peridot gemstone. I was hypnotized by those eyes; they seemed as deep as the bottomless ocean engulfing me into their sheer brilliance.

"Are you okay?" the boy said again.

I shook my head and said, "Of course! Sorry I spaced out for a moment there." I sheepishly smiled.

He grinned at me. "I don't think I've met you before, what's your name?" he asked.

"My name's Ella. What's yours?" I asked him.

"Asher." He said with a kind smile.

"It was nice meeting you." I said.

"Same; hope I'll see you later!" he said with a grin on his face.

I giggled then headed back to the house, maybe this true love thing isn't as hard as I thought it was going to be.

May's POV:

I woke up and found that Ella's bed was empty. Oh well she must have gone on an early morning stroll. I decided that I would go on my own so I selected an outfit from the closet in my room and headed out.

I didn't want to get too close to the water so I walked along the beach and just stared at the water that I use to call home.

As I walked I saw Ella bump into someone on the beach, she was blushing a little from what I could tell and he seemed cute enough. I guess that Ella already wanted to find her love. I sighed; I hope it would be as easy as that for me.

"Asher is a clumsy idiot." A voice I didn't know told me.

I was startled and tripped over my own two feet.

"Guess he's not the only one though." The same voice said. I could practically hear his smirk in his voice.

The unknown person helped me up. He may be sarcastic, but was he cute! He had silky green hair (a little weird, but it looked so good it didn't matter.) and beautiful emerald green eyes that were shinier than the scales on fish in the ocean. In other words, his eyes were breathtaking.

"And who would you be?" he asked me.

I didn't like his tone of voice, but I told him my name anyway.

"My name's May. What's yours?"

"Drew. You new here June?" he asked me.

"My name is MAY, and yes I'm new here. I'm here for a short vacation." I told him.

"Well maybe I'll see you later. I hope not though." He told me with a smirk.

This guy is annoying, so I did what any other mermaid would do. I used my powers to create a huge wave and have it crash against him, of course he didn't know it was me that made the wave but he was still pretty pissed. I snickered and ran home, finding love might be hard, but I'll sure have fun along the way!

To be continued…

Me: LOL! Drew got pwned!

Drew: Not Funny!

Everybody else in the story: Hell yeah it was!

Me: Readers, please tell me what you think! Read and review!