Chapter Three

Chapter Three

New World

I reached out as she reached out with her hand and our hands touch. I realized that I needed to come back up to the surface or I would fall unconscious. So I swam towards the surface and broke it. I took a deep breath and dived back down in time to see the mermaid coming up behind me. She touched my legs and mouthed something. My legs were sucked together and formed a tail.

I stared at the now purple tail and was amazed. It had tiny specks of gold in it as well. I was so busy staring at the tail that I didn’t realize that I was breathing though the water. When I did finally realize it I was amazed once again. The mermaid motioned for me to follow and I did as I was told. She swam back down to the bottom of the pool and pulled the cover off the vent. We swam through it into a cavern and came up to air.

“Who are you?” I asked as I pulled my self up onto a rock.

“I’m Kelsi Singo one of the princesses of mermaids.” She told me as she also pulled her self up onto a rock.

“How is it possibly possible that you can be here? No offense, but I’ve never seen anything like you…ever.” I told Kelsi as she stared at me.

“But aren’t you the princess of the moon?” She asked as I looked confused. I shook my head no. “But isn’t your name Alice Narelle?” I was amazed that she knew my name and dumbly shook my head yes. “Then you are the princess of the moon.”

“But…” I was cut short as light flooded the cavern. Someone jumped down to the rocks behind me. It was James, while Kris, Tray, and my parents stood up on the shore. I jumped into the water and Kelsi followed. “How do you know I’m the princess of the moon when I don’t?” I asked as I looked up into the faces of my parents. There was a confused look on their faces.

“Kelsi where are you? We need to ask you a question.” Kris called from above and James slipped into the water as I swam lower. His legs turned into a tail as he swam towards Kelsi.

“We need your mom to read the stars and see if it’s time to tell Holly, Shannon, and especially Alice.” Kelsi nodded and swam towards me grabbed my hand and spun us around and we ended up in a clearing full of little mer-kids playing tag. When they saw us they all bowed and continued to play. I smiled as a little kid came up to me and said hi. The little girl ran back to the kids she was playing with.

Kelsi took my hand and swam away at a fast speed. We swam for about five minutes and stopped in front of a castle. Kelsi nodded to the guards and the gates opened. She let go of my hand and we swam through the gates.

“So this is where you live.” I told her as we swam through the big chestnut doors. It opened up into a great hallway with door lining every side of the room. “Nice.” I looked around and swam over to a painting. It was of a man stand with what looked like his wife. It was so regal.

“Alice; this way. My mom should be in the dinning hall for her before bed snack.” Kelsi said as she pulled me towards a door across the hall. I was still staring at the picture. The face of the man was so familiar.

“Who’s that man?” I asked as I turned around and pushed the door open.

“Oh he’s my great times ten grandfather.” She said told me as she pushed open another door on the other side of the room. This one led into a great big hall with one big table in the middle. A woman sat at the far end of the table. “Hey mom.” Kelsi said as the women looked up.

“Honey it’s only nine your normally out until ten or eleven. So who’s this?” Her majesty asked as she shook my hand.

“Um mom this is Alice.” Kelsi said as she looked sideways at me. I smiled and looked back at the queen.

“Um the queen and king of the moon need you to read the stars for them.” Kelsi answered.

“Right.” She and her daughter turned and drifted out of the room.

“Ahem.” I said as they turned around.

“Right she needs to come with us.” Kelsi told her mom. Her mom shrugged grabbed my hand and turned around. We ended up back in the cavern where my parents stood. I swam downwards so they would not see me and pulled Kelsi down with me.

“Can you can my hair so it’s a different color?” I asked “At least until I get out of the water. And when will this tail disappear?” Kelsi touched my hair and it immediately turned electric blue.

“The tail and hair will disappear when you’re fully out of the water.” Kelsi said as she dragged me up to the surface.

“I think it’s time to tell your daughter the truth Sabbith. She needs to know that she’s the princess of the moon.” I stared at my parents and couldn’t believe my ears.

“How could you.” I blurted out. Every one looked at me as I climbed out of the water and my legs and hair changed back to the way they were before the magic. “Why didn’t you tell me about this?” I said as I stood there staring at my parents. “I was the freak at my school because you guys couldn’t tell me that. I went through six year of bullying just for that. What were you thinking of.” I yelled as I ran towards the house and through the back door. The kitchen was alive with staff members as I ran through. As I raced across the room the back down opened and I turned to see my parents and the boys racing through the open door.

“Honey!” my mom yelled as every one in the kitchen stopped what they were doing. She grabbed my arm.

“NO!” I yelled at her as I ripped my arm out of her grasp. “I’m done listening to lies. When you and dad are ready to tell me the truth I’ll be in my room, but until then don’t come and tell me more lies!” I yelled as I ran up the steps. I throw open the door to my room and slammed it behind me. Shannon and Holly had cleared out of the room by now. I fell onto my bed with tears in my eyes which had flooded my face by now. I buried my face into the pillow and cried my head off.

“Are you okay Alice?” I sniffed and looked up to see my cat sitting on my bed. “I’m Screech, but of course you knew that. What I don’t know is what are you crying about? I loved it when I found out that I had magical powers.” Screech told me as she settled down in front of where I sat cross legged.

“It’s not so much as I’m disappointed that I have powers, but my parents have kept them a secret from me until I was 16. And you wouldn’t understand your mom probably told you when you about a month old. I’ve been through things where I wished I could avoid it, but I didn’t know I could.” I told her as I stroked her head.

“It gets better you just need to wait. Plus being a princess comes with advantaged…you don’t have to go to collage, you get to live in a big house, you have servants waiting on you hand and foot…” but I interrupted her in mid sentence.

“But I want to go to collage, I don’t want servants waiting on me hand and foot, and as nice as it is to live in a big house slash castle thing it’s really hard to remember where everything is and I like to know my way around my house.” I told her in defense.

“Well I know the castle by heart so until you know where everything is you can have me show you where you need to go.” She told me as I laid on my back and she climbed on my stomach.

“All you need is a good nights sleep and you’ll be fine.” Screech told me as she closed her eyes and when to sleep. I also closed my eyes and also fell asleep.

I woke up to a completely new sight. I was no longer in a bed in the middle of the room. Nor was there a book case. Now the bed was a king sized one against the wall with curtains around the edge in burgundy. And now there were about twenty bookcases around the room. Screech had moved to my hip, and I quietly slipped out of bed and walked around the newly transformed bedroom. I ran my fingers along the spines of the books. They were all bound in leather. The leather was sturdy so the books were new. I plucked a book off the shelf and looked at the binding; it read “Incantations and Spells for Beginners”. I opened it up and sat in the chaise and read.

The book was simple enough that by the time I was done I was able to cast all the incantations and spells that the book went over. I sighed walked over to the book shelf and put the book back. I pulled the next five off the shelf and walked back to the chaise and set them down. I looked over at the grand father clock as it stroked midnight. I walked back over to the bed and grabbed a blanket from the foot of the bed, petted Screech, and walked back over to the chaise. I moved the books to the table in between the couch, love seat, and chaise and sat back down. I picked up the first book on the stack and started to read.

I read till four a.m. and then fell asleep. I woke up the next day with the sun shining in my eyes. Screech had moved over to the chaise in the night and had cuddled up by my hip again. I stroked her head softly so not to wake her, but it didn’t work her head piped up after about the fifth time I stroked it. She purred and climbed onto my lap.

“Morning Alice. So you decided to read last night. Anything useful?” she asked as she laid her head on her paws. I waved my hands and recited a spell under my breath and a tray with wet cat food, a saucer of milk, a plate with toast, a bowl of cereal, and a glass of passion tea lemonade. I smiled as the plate floated over towards us and set it’s self on the table in between all the books I had read. The plate of toast, and the wet cat food rose into the air and set its self on my lap.

“Try not to make a mess on my lap please.” I told Screech as she started to attack her food. I picked up the plate and ate my toast in silence as Screech talked about how she found out about her powers.

Later that morning when we had finished up breakfast I was in the studio singing when someone walked in. I waved my hand at the light switch which turned on the other lights. When the lights had been turned on I saw my grandma standing by the booth I was singing in. I frowned as she waved at me to come out of the booth.

“Hi Honey. So I heard you found out about your powers the hard way and ever since then you’ve stuck up here in your room.” She said as she hugged me. “I’m sorry about that, but you were to young and there were dangers that you could have died from when you were young.” She told me as she sat me down in a chair still holding onto my shoulders, almost as if she thought I would run away again. “You know what you need?” I shook my head no and she went on. “You need a day out with your best friends and a grandma who’s willing to spend money on anything her lovely granddaughter wants.” She told me as she raised her eye brows.

“Okay just let me get dressed.’ I said reluctantly as I got up and walked out of the recording studio. We walked over to the dresser and I pulled out a pair of jeans and a short sleeve shirt. I pulled the stuff on behind the changing board with a painting of a Chinese cherry blossom tree and a landscape of hills behind it. “So any one else going to come with us?” I asked as I stepped out from behind the screen.

Well would you like Shannon and Holly to come with us? They all so had a tough night with the news.” Grandma answered while she picked up the book I had read last night. “You read all of these last night?” she asked in amazement. I shook my head amazement. I shook my head yes I said as I snapped my right fingers while I ran my other hand through my hair, while muttering “Haironcos braids” My hair formed into two braids resting on my shoulders. “So you learned something less than twenty four hours after you found out.” She said as she hugged me. I pulled on shoes and socks as we walked out the door.

“Hey guys you want to come to go shopping with us?” I asked as they stood up and shook their head yes. We all filed out into the hall way where my parents, Holly’s parents, and Shannon’s parents stood. I shook my head no and walked past. “I’m not talking to you guy’s, at least not until you give me a good explanation.” And I walked right on by. Holly, Shannon, and my Grandma followed close behind. My Grandma shook her head just like I had at the parents.

“We’ll be out getting makeovers.” She said as she rushed us out of the castle by performing a disappearing spell. We’re getting what?” I said as we reappeared in the middle of a court yard. Around me there were cherry blossoms, apple, and cherry trees. There were people buzzing around trying to get what they wanted.

“Makeovers. Honey I know you like the way you look, but I think you could be even prettier, not by much, if you wore some make up. And if we got you some cute glasses.” She answered as pulled me through the door into what looked like a mall. “Let’s get some new clothes first. Plus a fancy ball gown.” She said as we looked confused. “For you coronation of course.” I almost choked on the air in my mouth.

“My coronation. What?” I said as I looked dumbfounded. “No one said anything about a coronation. And on that note why do I need a coronation?” I asked as we walked into a shop Lucy’s. “Possible a knock off of um I don’t know Macy’s.” My Grandma shook her head no.

“Our world has been in existents longer than earth so we are more evolved and we came up with almost everything before earth.” She told us as we walked into the misses department.

“But then that means that scientist were wrong about how humans came to be. We couldn’t have evolved from apes, unless there are space monkeys.” Holly pointed out.

“Yep. You see this book I read last night said that there was one powerful faire/witch that created the worlds/realms and life it’s self.” I said as I picked up a plain short sleeve t-shirt. Shannon grabbed it from my hands and put it back.

“Go wait in the dressing rooms and I’ll find some stuff for you to wear.” She said as she pushed me in the direction of the dressing rooms. I walked away with a worried look on my face. I had never been the whole gorgeous clothing type I had always bought from stores like Walmart, Target, and places like those. I almost never cared what my hair looked like as long as it was brushed and out of my face, which normally meant it was in a ponytail or braids.

“Here.” Shannon said as I turned around and she handed me a pile of clothes. “Go try on.” She said as she turned me around and pushed me into the dressing room. I pulled a purple strapless mini dress out of the pile and a pair of jeans. The dress had gold sparkles on it. I pulled them on and walked out of the room. My grandma smiled and Shannon and Holly shook their heads yes. The shopping went on for about another three hours and I ended up getting everything I tried on.

We headed out of the shop and my Grandma led us into a hair stylist.

“Hi Suzie how can I help today?” a woman behind the counter asked as my Grandma smiled.

“Hello Ann I need to get these girls their hair done.” She whispered something in the woman’s ear and then nodded.

“Okay we can help you right now.” Ann said as she led us back into three seats. “Now relax, sit back, and get comfortable because we have some major work to do.” Ann said as she sat us down.

Three women worked on our hair and were done in another hour. When we were finally turned around I saw what I had never though my hair would look like. It had been layered so that I could still put it back in a ponytail and there was a purple streak running through it. My mouth fell open. “My parents are going to kill me.” That’s all I could say.

“No because it washes out.” Grandma said as she held up the tube of purple hair paint.

Fine. I like it a lot.” I told Ann as I got out of my chair. “Wow I like your guy’s hair too.” I told Shannon and Holly. Holly had gotten her hair cut layered as well and there was a pink streak going through it. Shannon had gotten her hair cut so that it was to her shoulders unlike Holly and me who still had our hair down to the bottom of our rib cages, and also got her red streak redone so that it was nice and visible again, and straightened.

“Come on girls we still need to get you a new pair of glasses and contacts for swimming,” she said as she pointed at me. “a new pair of contacts for you,” she pointed at Holly. “and a new pair of sunglasses for you and me.” She finished as she pointed at Shannon. “Hurry up girls.” She said as she started off again in a new direction. We followed right behind her and a minute later she stopped in front a window with pictures with people with glasses on. “Come on you’ll love this store.” She said as we walked in. grandma picked up a pair of Prada sunglasses and tried them on.

“How about these you guy’s?” I asked as I tried on a pair of glasses with diamonds on the side in a star and moon.

“Perfect. I’m buying you those ones.” My grandma said as she took off the sunglasses. “All of you chose a pair of sunglasses. Then later we’ll come back and get some more.” She said as she picked up another pair of glasses.

We ended up in the store for another half hour choosing sunglasses. I ended up with sunglasses that had big square frames with followers on the side and they were in burgundy. Shannon Holly and my Grandma ended up buying an array of different glasses, some big, some small.

“Okay so you need two sets of contacts and three set of lens?” The man behind the counter asked as my grandma shook her head yes. “Okay.” He waved his hand over the two contact boxes and the three set of glasses. “Here they’re done you can wear them now.” He said as he handed us the glasses. I plucked my contacts out and put the glasses on.

“Come on girls four more stops before we head home.” Grandma told us as she walked out of the store yelling thank you behind her. “So on to the makeup counters in the department stores.” She said as we walked into one of the department store. “Hi these three need a makeover please.” She added to the sales women behind the counter of a Hansinar makeup booth.

“Great. Let’s get started.” The woman said as two other women came out from behind a shelf. The women sat us down in three chairs and started putting makeup on our faces.

“Grandma I look terrible in make-” I started as the women finished and turned me towards my Grandma.

“Honey you look great. Just look at your self.” She said as the woman turned me around to look in a mirror. I was amazed, I never wore makeup except for dance recital, and that was always too much because my mom could never put makeup on some one other than herself. There was a Light Dull Pink as the label said on my lips, a Medium Pink Red on my eye lids, and a Pale Weak Red on my cheeks.

“Remember, this make up is all powder before you add water. To make lip stick add a little bit of water, to make eye shadow add a little less, and no water to make the blush. Here’s our card if you ever need any more makeup. And our virtual site is on there as well. Have a good day ladies.” The woman said as we wave goodbye.

“Well now you look like a princess, her cousin, and the royal best friend.” My Grandma told us as we walked out of Lunar Style. “Come on let’s go get something to eat.” She added as Shannon’s stomach grumbled.

“So you guy’s ready for pedicures, and manicures?” she asked as we finished up our lunch by the ocean.

“Sure. This place rocks, I mean look at it, you can eat by the sea, and you can even travel to another world to eat at.” I said. I wish I could stay here forever instead of going back to a castle where you don’t know who any one is, and where your parents don’t trust you enough to tell you who you really are. We stared to get up and throw away our trash. We then walked away towards the exit.

“Well the manicure place is right across the street. I can’t wait till my feet get a massage.” My grandma stated as we walked out the exit. I laughed and she casted the disappearing spell so we ended up on the other side of the street.

“Why didn’t we just walk across the cross walk?” Holly asked with confusion.

“Because there are no cross walks. The city was made for magical creatures and all magical creatures are able to fly.” I told her as we started to walk down the street.

“How do you know that?” Shannon asked while staring at me.

“I read it last night.” I told them.

“How many books did you ended up reading any ways?” my grandma asked as she opened the door to a shop called nails. “Hey girls.” She called across the room as people said hello back.

“I ended up reading eight books.” The three of them just started at me as a woman sat me down in a massage chair. She stuck my feet in foot bath and the tools started to go to work. I sat there for about an hour with files, nail clippers, and nail polish making my nails beautiful. I had chosen a purple with gold tint and an orchid painted on the big toes and my thumbs. “So where else do we have to go before we head…home?” I asked as we all turned our heads towards my grandma.

“We have to go get your guy’s measurements for your dresses for Alice’s coronation ball.” She answered as she got out of the chair. “Come on. We need to head over to Keiko’s so he can measure you guy’s.” she said as she slipped on a pair of flip flops. We all got up and slipped on our flip flops as well. We followed her out and before she could get her hand in the air I had already cast the disappearing spell. “Nice.” She said as we reappeared in front of what looked like an office building, but I wasn’t going to make assumptions, since this world was much different than the one I was just recently living in. “Come on girls.” She said waving a hand to follow her. “Keiko. How good to see you again.” She said as she hugged a man shorter than her.

“Suzie, or your majesty which ever one you like, what brings you here?” He asked as he looked at the three of us standing behind her.

“Suzie, these two are my lovely granddaughters and this is their best friend who’s like a granddaughter. They need custom dresses made for her coronation.” She said as she pointed us out. I blushed as she pointed to me for the coronation ball.

“And what may I ask are their names?” he said as he grabbed his tape measure.

“Shannon Preston.” Shannon told him.

“Holly Narelle.” Holly answered.

“Alice Narelle.” I told him.

“Oh so you’re the princess I’ve heard so much about. It’s very nice to meet you three.” He told us as he motioned for Shannon to come towards him. He measured her waist, her height, and her bust. He then motioned to Holly to come forward. He measured the same things on Holly and me and then he asked us what color we would like our dresses to be.

Shannon told him “I would like my dress to be Dark Pink red.”

Holly told him “I would like my dress to be Obscure Dull-Cyan.”

I told him “I would like my dress to be Dark Hard Pink please.”

“Okay well when is the coronation?” he asked as he wrote down the colors.

“The coronation is um… hu…next Saturday.” My grandma told him as he looked up.

“Okay you guy’s have to come back every day until then if you want your dresses done.” He told us as we shook our heads yes.

“Come on girls we should go. We’ll be back tomorrow to see the designs for the dresses. Thank you Keiko.” Grandma told him as we walked out. “Okay first thing Alice you need to change.”

“What? Why?” I asked as we stepped into the bathroom.

“Because I want to show your parents what you can look like. Now hand me your purse.” She said as I handed her my purse and she took out the minimized shopping bags. She resized the bags and dug through them. She pulled out the strapless mini dress and a pair of jeans. She then dug through the shoe bags and pulled out a pair of peep toe cork screw pump in a purple. “Go.” She told me as she handed me the clothing items and pushed me into the stall.

I came out in the outfit and they attacked me, Shannon and Holly went after my hair as my grandma started to do makeup. When they had finished I looked at them in dislike and turned around to see how bad I looked. I saw what looked like an almost completely different girl. I could still see the real me, but the makeup and clothing just accentuated my figure and I was amazed. I never in my life ever thought I could look this pretty. I turned back to the other three and saw them all smiling. “Ok one last thing.” She said as she handed me my contacts and the sunglasses. I put them on and looked back in the mirror to take one last look at what I thought I would never look like. “Come on we should get home.” My grandma said as she handed me back my purse with the shrunken bags of clothing, makeup, eye wear, and shoes.

We walked out of the bathroom just in time to catch the elevator. We rode it down to the first floor got off and headed out side. We walked back to the castle instead of transporting because we wanted to see the city. We walked and talked for about half an hour before coming to a stop at the castle gates.

“Men this is Alice the princess.” Grandma told them as she brought me forward. “This is Holly her cousin.” She told them as she brought Holly forwards. “And this is Shannon their best friend.” She told them as she brought Shannon forwards. “Let them in when ever you see them.” She said as the gates opened and she walked through. I signed thank you to them and walked through.