When Life Gives You Fins by Elaina H (classic books to read txt) 📖

laughing around the bend.

            When we turn we see three beautiful men and three beautiful women. The youngest seventeen or so, the oldest maybe twenty-nine.

            They turn to us a smile. My body relaxes when one of the boys speak to me. “Hello Celia,” his voice is musical and beautiful, “want to sit with me?” He pats his knee and I nod. Why did I nod? I sit on his lap while two of the girls pull Haden and Zak over.

            One of the girls whispers in Haden’s ear, and he smiles. Zak is basically making out with the other girl. Then the other girl kisses Haden.

            The merman is trying to whisper in my ear, trying to get me to kiss him. But, I push him back, just like I did with the coin.

            I do the same to the two girls and I grab Haden and Zak by their arms, I pull them a good two hundred yards then push them to the ground.

            I ‘pace’, “Wow! Wow! Wow! That was crazy!” I look at Haden, he has a worried expression on his face, but he’s still kind of out of it.

            The mighty Prince Zak has hot pink lipstick all over his face. He is also dazed.

            I snap my fingers in front of their eyes. Nothing. So I go to the worst, I slap them. And with that they are no longer dazed.

            “What the heck!” they both scream at the same time.

            I hand Zak a shard of glass, he catches his reflection. “Crap!”

            “What,” I joke, “not your color?!” he looks sorry, but I’m not really mad at either of them. I’m kind of mad at myself.

            Zak looks at me, “What? At least my hair doesn’t look like a bulldozer ran through it!”

            “Well, I guess you need a bigger mirror!” I yell.

            Haden looks at both of us, “You both look pretty bad,” we glare at him, “but if nobody else noticed, Celia just threw a huge guy off of her! Using water!”

            Shoot! Another thing Haden doesn’t know, “Haden, at the market that day, I stopped the coin. Well, Destin, thought I could move the coin too, so he taught me.”             “Well, that’s fine. Was Zak there?” Haden is waiting, because he knows he was.

            “Yes, only because Destin was there.”

            Zak pipes up now, “Stop CJ, you don’t have to make excuses for him!” he turns to Haden now, “I was there because she wanted me to be there, Haden.”

            “Listen, Haden,” I start, “I like you, a lot! But I don’t know if I like you like that. I know we’re good friends, but I think to myself, do I really want to screw that up?”

            Haden gives me a bored look, “That’s what girls say when they try to get out of dating their best friend.”

            I look at Haden, “You’re right. I’m trying to get out of it. Haden I like you, but I don’t know if I could date you! Sure on land, you are this cocky, brilliant, and you are extremely hot. Down here…”

            Haden speaks, “Are you saying I’m not extremely hot down here.”

            “I’m saying that you’re not you down here.” I wait for what seems like an hour for a response.

            “Well, Celia, I’m me wherever I am. So I guess you’ll have to live with it. Because I’m not changing for a girl I can find at the next corner!”

            My mouth false open, and Haden realizes what he said, “Celia, oh my god, Celia I as so sorry! I didn’t mean it! I was mad and and…” he stutters for his next word.

            “Go to h…!” Zak covers my mouth.

            “Haden you need to leave.” As Haden walks away Zak continues to hold my mouth as I scream nasty words. Then I cry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depression Then Prosperity

 

            Zak puts his arm around me and takes me back to the castle.

            I talk to Zak, “How could he do this to me? We were best friends, Zak. Was he talking about our friendship or was he talking about me being nothing…?” I continue to mumble on to Zak, he just nods.

            By the time we are in my room I have stopped crying like a mad person. Zak sits next to me on my couch.

            Zak says his first words since we left, “I really don’t have much to say, CJ. But I do know that he actually cares about you. Granted he shouldn’t have said that. But who knows, the guys in love with you and you basically tell him that you don’t want to date him.”

            I stare at Zak, “You aren’t helping!” I start crying again.

            Zak looks worried. He stands up and goes to the door. He opens it and looks around outside. “Please, come here.”

            A minute later he’s bringing in Adrianne. I moan, “Take her away!” I call.

            “Oh shut up!” she snaps. “I’m here to help you.

            “What!? Are you going to kill me? Put me out of my misery?”

            “Unfortunately, no. My little brother needs you, for some project he’s doing.”

            “Oh, then where are we going?”

            “Well, 2:21, so there is not much we can do. But I’m going to give you an idea for revenge.” Her smile is wicked.

            “I don’t want revenge!”

            “Then why am I here.” She gets up, ready to leave. Zak goes up to her and whispers something in her ear.

            “No! she wouldn’t like it any way!” Zak gives her a look.

            “Fine! Meet me at my room at 7:00 tonight, okay flounder?”

            “Why?”

            “Just do it!”

            “I don’t really trust you, but I’ll meet you.” And she’s gone.

            “CJ,” Zak tells me, “you should try and trust Adrianne a little more. She’s gone through tons of break-ups!”             “Zak this is not a break-up! It is the tragedy of two friends,” I look up at him, “not being friends.”

            He rolls his eyes, “Same idea.”

            “Or not.”             I get off the couch, it’s 2:30, “I have to get ready to leave.” I wipe the tears out from under my eyes. “Zak do you think you could take me to the castle nursery?” Zak wrinkles his nose.

            “What?” I ask whining.

            “Well, I just didn’t expect you to choose the nursery as your job choice. You did get to pick didn’t you?” I nod to answer his question. “Sure I can take you. Do you think you’ll be able to find your way to everything tomorrow?”

            “Yeah, I might get a little confused trying to get to my professor, but I’ll ask around.”

            “Okay!”             “Zak? Who was Jennifer? An old friend?” I ask trying to get my answer.

            “Oh, old girlfriend, I guess, you could call her.” Zak looks away.

            “Do you miss her?”

            He looks up, surprised, “Heck no, I was annoyed out of my mind. But obviously she’s still obsessed.”

            “No kidding,” I mumble.

            He laughs at me or with me I don’t know?

            I sit around listening to Zak tell all sorts of crazy stories for twenty minutes. I lounged around and laughed until I had five minutes left.

            “I guess we got to go?”

            “Probably!”

            We stand up and walk out the door. I almost run into Destin, “What’s up?” I ask surprised.

            “I was wondering if I could throw some heavier objects at you?”

            “What kind of heavy objects?” I ask worried.

            “Just some usual stuff: chairs, dressers, records. You know?”

            “Actually, not that I don’t want stuff chucked at my head, but I have to go to my ‘job’.”

            “Too bad it would have been fun!” Destin looks depressed.

            Zak leads me around Destin into the hallway, his hand on my back. “Let’s go.”

            We swim down the hallway toward my new job.

            I wave good-bye to Destin, but his frown reminds me of Haden.

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Think I Hear A Lie Coming On

 

            Zak leads me to the nursery and when we get to the door he tells me, “CJ, you didn’t let me say it earlier, but,” he smiles, “I guess I’m falling in love with you.”             Now normally any guy telling me that they ‘guess’ there in love with me would be pretty bad. But, Zak did a play on my first words to him. It’s kind of cute. “Zak, I…I…,” he raises his hand cutting me off.

            “You don’t have to say it back, or say anything at all. I just wanted you to know. I know it’s a lot with Haden and all. But like I said, I thought you should know.”

            “Well, thanks for letting me know?” I smile, very confused on how to answer.

            He shakes his head and chuckles, “You sure are a strange character.”             “That’s me!” I point to myself. “I guess, I got to go, and do my job.”

            “I guess so.”

            I open the door, and back away. Zak smiles and turns around leaving me to my training. I swim into the room and instantly hear crying. Oh my god, I think, this is going to be a long five weeks.

            A blonde girl with a green tail turns around and gives me a sickly smile. “Hello, Celia, right?”

            “Yes.” I stare into the eyes of the beast.

            “Well, Celia, I’m going to be your task manager, so you better like me real well.” Of course there’s a hidden meaning to those short fourteen words.

            “Well, Blondie. Oops! I mean Jennifer! You better like me quite a bit too because your going to see a whole lot of me at the ball.”

            She gives me a hard glare, “You can start by changing all the diapers and then taking out the trash.”

            “Okay, where’s the trash?”

            “On the roof. We float it up to New Brunswick, they are such a dirty city!” I clench and unclench my hands, “Oh wait!” she cries, “that’s where you live.”

            “You better watch your step b…..!”             “Ah, ah, ah! Kids around, don’t want them repeating that to their mothers, do we?” she raises her eyebrows as she reprimands me.

            “Well, I guess, you should leave because we don’t want to give the kids nightmares, do we?” I raise my eyebrows and reprimand her.

            “Get going or I’ll be forced to report you to management!”

            I roll my eyes and swim over to the changing booth. This is going to sound really weird, but I’m actually really good at changing diapers. I knocked those babies out in fifteen minutes flat! (not what you think)

            I grabbed the trash a made my way to the roof. About halfway down the hallway I realized I didn’t know how to get to the roof. And I would feel really odd swimming up the side of the castle with a bag of poop filled diapers.

            I swam around leisurely looking, until I realized the bag stank like no other. The next person I saw I asked how to get to the roof, and I held up the trash. He pointed to a staircase and gave me a dirty look.

            I went to the staircase and followed it up, up, and up some more. Holy crap! This is a long staircase. Finally, I made it to the top.

            I walked around the whole roof until I realized I wasn’t looking for a Waste Management Dumpster. I was looking for a hole in the ground.

            When I found it I threw it in and turned around to go back down the steps. Unfortunately, there are like five stair cases that lead to the roof and I don’t remember which stair case I took.

            I look down each stair case but they all look the same. So I choose the one I think it is. After a couple minutes the stairs fade out into a room and I hear a voice.

            “Destin get out of my room!”

            “Sorry, thought Celia might be up here. I really wanted to throw