• THE INTRODUCTION
    How the dog ate my pie, I don’t know. He just flew above me and ate it! First of all my family is not normal, we are magical. My name is Jackie Norman and I’m not like other girls either. I love sports, and I HATE makeup, but I’m getting off subject. My dog, Snicks flew over me and took my pie! (My dog can fly because my mom put a spell on him. I wanted a poodle but no, I got a mutt!) And then there’s my mom. She is a witch. Literally! I myself think its cool. I’m a mermaid… only if I touch water. My dad is a were wolf only on a full moon. I only eat seafood; my dad only eats meat, and my mom… I don’t know what she eats because she always eats in her room. I go to a normal school with normal kids except my best friend, Lilly Chen. She’s a mermaid too. We always swim together at my pool, and of course we turn into mermaids and pretend that the pool is the ocean and that the pool toys are ships trying to attack us.
    It’s hard to keep my secret from other people, because there are always pool parties in the summer and icicles dripping in the late winter. And there is always rain! I always ditch school when it rains and Lilly comes over too, but when it was drizzling because we have to be completely wet to transform. I have always tried to sleep all that day and pretend I’m sick so incase a person wants to invite me over.
    At holidays and special events my relative’s come over. They are magical too. Aunt Leila is a genie so on Christmas I get anything I want! One time she had a huge flood at her house so she had to stay with us, but instead of a sleeping bed, she bought a lamp! Uncle Harold is a wizard. It’s so cool. I want to put on his hat and use his wand for my Halloween costume. My cousins’, Felicity, John, and Harry are fairies. They wear clothes that look like rags though. And Grandpa is a leprechaun, and Grandma is a Kelpie, but a nice one. She lets me go on her back and ride her around my backyard. She only appears a human when she goes shopping and parties and etcetera. I forgot to mention, my brother Mark. He is a goblin. I forgot about him because he is hardly home. He is with his goblin buddies. He is so ugly, and he always plays pranks on my human friends. I only see him when he is hungry because he can’t afford a meal at a diner. Now that is basically all my little magical secrets so here is my story.







    1st Chapter January
    It was January 5th and it was my birthday. I only had Lilly’s family over because I wanted a pool party. Mr. Chen (who is an elf) gave me a new shell for my collection. Mrs. Chen (who is a flower fairy) gave me a flower that never dies! Lilly gave me a dragon scale from Sparky the dragon up in Dragon Cave. My family all chipped in (except stinky ole’ Mark) and bought a new tiny Jacuzzi next to our pool and is going to be installed in February. After all the gifts and cake
    Lilly and I went in the pool even though it was January because us mermaids can swim in any weather and any water. We just played Marco Polo under water. After we got out, Lilly, and her family all went home. I put my shell on my shelf and put my flower in a jar. I then got the dragon scale and put it in my tiny treasure box. That night I dreamed of a dragon that was protecting a shell with a flower in it. Really weird right?
    ~*~
    On January 19th it snowed! On TV it said we could skip school because there was so much snow in the road. I saw Mark today throwing snowballs at some random people. I yelled at him, but he just threw one at me so as I ran home the icy cold snowball started to melt and the water ran down my legs. My legs were getting scaly, and I kind of felt like a lizard. I went home and took off my winter pants and rolled up my jeans and saw the horror! I was half mermaid half human, which looked like a person with scales everywhere on their body. I just
    dressed into my swimming suit and jumped into the pool. I turned into a normal mermaid and swam most of the day
    When I told my mom said, “ I need to change the play quickly or else your drama teacher…?”
    “ Mrs. Foltz “ I said
    “ Yes or else Mrs. Foltz will get all messed up because if it gets to close to the play Mrs. Foltz will get confused and need to get brain surgery and live in a mental hospital. Also nobody will know what to do at show time. ”
    “ Ha-ha, ok “ I said.
    . After I dried off I spent the rest of my day in bed with Snicks texting Lilly on my phone. I had to go back to my middle school, Henry C. Beck the next day. In drama class we are going to do the play: The Little Mermaid, but I had a big problem. I’m Ariel and Lilly is the oldest mermaid sister. We have to be wet for the effect! I just hope my mom can put a spell on my drama teacher to change the play. The play would be in June. When I got home I told my parents and my dad said the play was the night of a full moon. So my dad will be out hunting with his wolf buddies. He’s probably going to hunt sheep from distant farms. That evening my grandparents came over and Grandma gave me a horse ride, and Grandpa gave me a lucky gold coin to cheer me up about the play. I put into my pocket.
    “ Thanks! “ I said
    “ Your welcome “ they chorused together.
    My grandmother transformed back into her real form, a water fairy. Watching this was completely amazing. Sparks ran all around her while her hooves turned into hands and feet. They stayed for dinner and ate potatoes, and seafood.
    After they left I got the gold coin from my pocket, and I inserted it into the slit of the shell. Now I call it my official piggy, wait uh… Shell Bank!
    It’s January 28th, for today I would be grateful because it’s a Friday, but today I get my report card. I know I got bad grades. I just know it. All day at school I’m nervous what my mom would say. I couldn’t concentrate during math so I got a lunch detention. The last core of the day we had to go back to our homeroom. That’s when our homeroom teacher gave us our report cards. It was just one slip of paper with no envelope so anybody can look.
    “This is so retarded Lilly” I said to Lilly.
    “I know!”
    “I wish we were back in elementary”
    “ Me too… I want the envelopes because Nick O’Donnell looked at my report card and laughed so hard he fell out of his desk!”
    “Someone did that too.”