"Onc ther wer best friend's. Ther name's wer Ally, Jane, Werely and Lucy. The next day was Christmas eve. Werely's little sister told her to do a flip. 'ahhh! I won't do a flip! That's scary.' Werely and Lucy were at Ally and Jane's house."
ETHAN: What's the third friend's name? Whirly? Warily?
MADELEINE: Yeah. Werely. I made it up!
JULIA: Wait, they're at the FRIEND'S house on Christmas Eve? Why aren't they with their parents?
MADELEINE: (brightly) Oh! I'm pretending their parents all died!
I know the entire plot of the story is TOTALLY OBVIOUS from the above two pages, but just in case you're unclear, here's how things will unfold, according to the author herself.
MADELEINE: So, Lucy goes missing, and she dives into the water, and she finds mermaids, and she asks if she can be turned into a mermaid, and she IS! And her friends are, like, SO worried, because they think something bad happened to her, and Lucy is just hiding with one of her mermaid friends. And, like, this shark comes, and it's CHASING the mermaids!
Yup. Just as you suspected from the moment Werely's little sister told her to do a flip on Christmas Eve, right? You must have immediately known that a mermaid/shark adventure was about to ensue.
I tried to get more details on how the story resolves, but all Madeleine would tell me was that the mermaids will escape the shark and Lucy's friends will finally find her, before launching into an even more important topic:
MADELEINE: When I grow up and have a wedding, I'll try to make my hair get curls in it, because, curls that look like springs are really pretty. Like, if you have STRAIGHT hair, and then SPRING hair at the bottom, then...it seems really pretty.
And that ties into the mermaid storyline about as well as the Christmas Eve "do-a-flip" orphan friend play-date does, right?
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