Published 9-7-20
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I stared at the imagine of myself on the screen in stunned disbelief. I had seen these boys recording me in the shop, but why was I seeing the footage of they encounter now?"

The voice began to speak again, "Hi if you are new here, I'm GDigs1288 and you may be familiar with my serious on here  What It is like Living at the Shore. This episode was supposed to be about the kinds of crazy people that end up moving to the beach , but this whole series has taken a different turn of events since this encounter occurred.

"Whoah!" Victor said from somewhere in the room, "I've watched one of the videos this dude made before, I think it was  Ten Things only Shore Kids will Understand! "

"Shhh," me and Natasha said in unison.

"Okay just saying..."

"It all began here. At a shop on the boardwalk. I can't say the name, because the man that owns it is powerful and people that have crossed him have disappeared before under mysterious circumstances."

The video began to move again on the screen, and camera abrupt cut to the wall of colorful tea-shirts, that hung in the back of Whales Tales.

"I'm back here," the camera returned to me. "I'll be out with you in a sec!" My voice came out way higher than I had expected.

I appeared again though the strings of blue  and purple  beads, with a decorative mug in my hand. My head was tilted downwards and long black hair hid most of my face. The video once again stopped.

"I'm not going to say the name of this girl  ...at least not yet.  She had been pulled out of the bay naked, about three weeks before this video was record, while screaming about Dolphins. Two coastguard members had subdue her. So, naturally we wanted to interview her, although my buddy Jackson couldn't stop laughing about the Dolphin thing, which made us. By the time we stepped in that shop, we couldn't even look at her without laughing.

A dark haired boy suddenly approached the wooden counter and the image zoomed out again. He stopped right in front of me, and the screen froze once again.

"That's my friend, Bennet. He's one good looking kid, he's also a complete idiot. He wasn't supposed to go up and talk to her, but dude is a magnet for the crazies. And this chick right here was certainly what I would call crazy."

The boy and I talked while the two boys behind the camera laughed hysterically. The camera zoomed in on us again and my eyes flashed with green light and the video paused.

I looked at the two green glowing specs on my face in utter confusion. Was it some kind of trick? My eyes did not do that!

As if she read my mind, Natasha reached out and paused the video. "Bet you didn't realize your powers showed video, did you? Found that out about five years ago when I did yet another clean up for your sister. If you bothered to keep in touch, I could had told you that."

"I didn't keep in touch with any
of the land servants. I barely spoke to my sisters. I only came back to this coast because someone I loved died."

"And before that, you were shacked up with your fiancé in  the North Atlantic."

"How did you get this video?" I asked changing the subject.

"It was posted on YouTube, it's a place where humans watch videos made by other humans."

I frowned, "So how many have seen the video?"

"Oh, about 50,000."

I took a sharp intake in breath and looked back at her. "Fifty thousand humans have seen this!? Are they going to come and try to kill me and my sisters?"

"Relax most of the people watching this video think it's fake . At least that's what that comments are saying...And our exact location is not mentioned."

Natasha started the video again and blew smoke out from between her lips.

"Look at her eyes, do you see how they are glowing green?" the boy's voice grew more excited. "I swear to you ,we didn't edit that in. And it happens again, just watch!"

My image leaned over the counter, my hair fell around my face. There was another flash of green light through the curtains of my hair.

It was only than that the dark brown hair boy turned towards the camera with a glazed expression on his face. He walked closer and closer to the camera until he disappeared from sight. The screen cut to black.

"I don't know what that light what that light was but Bennet started to act weird. It's like those green lights that came out of her eyes hypnotized him, or brain washed him or something."

An imagine of the dark hair boy appeared on the screen. He had a pile of fries in front of him, and stared off blankly into space while he shoved them into his mouth.

"Bennett... where you hungry or something?"

Bennett didn't reply. He just continued to stuff the rest of the fries into his mouth. Still chewing the fries in his mouth, we stood up and walked over to a simple white and red building  beside the wooden table he had been sitting at. I immediately recognized the building as Mountey's, the fast food joint that was located right beside us on the board walk.

Of course he had gone there after he had left the shop, I had told him to go there after I had hypnotized him . I had told him to go eat some fries, so I could close they shop and also go eat.

Natasha came up along the side of the desk, " You don't have to watch the rest of the video. Basically, the kid , Bennett I believe, goes on to eat a bunch of fries till he throws up. And then , he just obsesses about you for another hour. The next day they interview him, and he can't get you out of his head and blah blah blah. Then that GDigs talks about Sirens back in the old days and all that crap.  It is the next video that concerns me."

"So before we watch the next video, let me give you some back story. After this video was posted, which was about a two days ago, someone began to follow Bennett around. He couldn't see who it was, but he could just tell that someone was following him around. He posted about it on his Reddit account, which is just a place other humans read what other people wrote. This next video was posted to his account last night."

"And just to warn you, only ten thousand people have seen this video, but a lot of people believe this one is real."

Another video appeared on the screen and it started to play. It was of a boy with wavy light brown hair.  He looked terrified and he had bags on top of bags under his eyes. He was dressed in what looked like a dirty pink hoodie. He sat alone in a dark room.

"My name is Jackson, I'm not GDigs1288, his name in real life is Malcom Smith and yesterday he went missing. The police didn't believe me, and they think he faked  his own disappearance for attention, because he's a YouTuber."

Tears began to roll down Jackson's face and his breaths came out in hiccups.

Natasha let our a sigh from besides me. "And he just marked himself  a wanted man by talking to them, all the police officers in Portmore are land servants. If they think that someone might expose you or your sisters, poof that person is gone. They're probably the ones who kidnapped his friend."

"And those same people that took Bennett are after me now," Jackson continued in a shaking voice. "When I came home today, I could tell someone else had been there, been in my room. All my drawers where disturbed. And there is no one that can protect  me. I'm all alone."

"Did our land servants take his friend?" I looked over at Natasha.

"I wouldn't know for sure , I participate in making the mess, I just clean it up. At least now I do. But to answer your question, yet most likely."

Jackson went silent and hung his head. When he lifted his face again tears were no longer rolling down his cheeks.

"There are a lot of people that went missing around this town. There's so many, and I'm not sure why more people are  talking about it, it's like the whole town has been silenced. Something is going on here...and if has to do with that girl from the shop."

The boy paused and he turned around to look behind him before slowly turning back.

"Thought I heard something. Anyways, that same day we were in that shop, I was hanging around the boardwalk with someone I been chillin with, when I saw that same girl from the shop girl going down to the beach and caught this on tape. I was never going to show it to anyone, not even Malcom, because I knew it would be a bad idea. But now this could be the only thing that might save me."

The screen changed and the pier came into view. I watched while I waded into the water in my pink bikini beside it and I felt my heart sink. How had I not seen anyone was watching me? I cast my net to the ocean and began to sing the song of the sea.  I pulled up the net, now full of fishes. I grabbed one of fish and ate it whole.

"What the F**k," the voice muttered from behind the camera. "She really just a ate fish whole?!"

From just below the waves, a shadow appeared. The shadow drifted closer and closer to me.

"Oh GDigs is going to love this! This chick keeps getting weirder and weirder! Wait what is that?"

It was Delphine, and she was about to emerge from the waves and expose that mermaids were real.

The video than cut back to Jackson.

"The rest of these videos could change the world forever. Unless the people that took Bennett and what to take me too, give him back. We will post the rest of this video, and we will do whatever instructions are given to us. But if anything happens to me, an anonymous source will release the rest of the footage and everything else I know within 24 hours . And trust me I know a lot."

I turned to look at Natasha, my eyes wide.

"Where is he now? This Jackson?"

"That's the thing, I don't know. He's missing so I reckon we have 12 hours before the second video is released."