- Bella: [catching up] How are you?
- Will: Okay.
- Bella: So what did you think?
- Will: About what... exactly?
- Bella: The song, what else?
- [soft snicker]
- Will: Interesting. Really... from the heart.
- Bella: I, uh... I was swimming, and I found... something...
- [hands over shell]
- Bella: and I thought... I thought maybe you'd like it.
- Will: [it's big and ancient-looking] Wow.
- Bella: I know. I've never seen anything like it.
- Will: Where did you get this?
- Bella: Can you keep a secret? I got it from the octopuses' garden.
- [she nods, he nods, looks at her intensely]
- Bella: It's a joke.
- Will: Oh, all right.
- [looks at shell]
- Will: It's... it's amazing. It's really amazing.
- [she snickers, he hands the shell back]
- Bella: Oh, no! No, I want you to have it.
- Will: Are you... sure?
- Bella: [smiles] Yeah, yeah, add it to your collection.
- [goes off]
- Will: Thanks.
- [calling after her:]
- Will: Hey, why don't you come by my place later?
- Bella: What for?
- Will: We can talk.
- Bella: What about?
- [smiles]
- Will: This.
- [holds up shell]
- Will: Your singing. That okay?
- Bella: Yeah. That should be fine.
- Will: Great. Say five PM?
- Bella: It's a date.
- Will: [at laptop] Hey, check this out! I looked it up on the Net, and that shell is rare. Really rare. It says here it's only found in the deepest parts of the ocean.
- [taps computer key]
- Will: Where exactly did you find it?
- Bella: Told you. The octopuses' garden.
- Will: Oh, really? Where?
- Bella: It... it was washed up on the beach.
- Will: You told me you found it when you were swimming.
- Bella: Yeah, no, it was... it was on the shore as I was getting out of the water.
- [nods]
- Will: Where? Mako Island?
- Bella: [shrugs] So what?
- Will: I knew it! Anything strange is somehow connected to that place.
- Bella: I don't know what you mean, but...
- Will: You do. I think you know a lot more about that place than you say. You always seem to be going out there.
- Bella: [defensively] Not always.
- Will: [piercing look] You're hiding something.
- Bella: I thought we were gonna talk about music, that's... what you said.
- Will: I am... in a way.
- Bella: [frowns] Sorry?
- Will: Sometimes when we talk, I get the feeling that... there's something you're holding back. But when you sing, it's different. It's like the real you. Someone... honest.
- Bella: Is this why you wanted me to come here?
- Will: Yeah.
- [nods]
- Bella: Great.
- [starts leaving]
- Will: I just wanna know the real you.
- Bella: Then stop questioning every little thing.
- Will: Then how am I supposed...?
- Bella: It was really great hanging out with you today, but...
- Will: Where did you have to go that you could swim through faster than you could walk?
- Bella: Listen, I can't see you anymore.
- Will: [shakes his head] Why?
- Bella: I don't wanna talk about it.
- Will: I can't make you talk to me. But I wish you would. There are... there are
- [shakes his head]
- Will: so many things about you that just... don't add up.
- Bella: I think you're reading way too much into this.
- Will: The only time I've ever seen you go into the water, you disappear. I know you're hiding something from me. Whatever it is, I'm not going to judge you. You can't run and hide forever. I know this big secret of yours has something to do with water.
- [nods]
- Bella: No.
- [shakes her head]
- Will: You're lying to me.
- Bella: No!
- [and then he takes a glass of water and throws it over her hands]
- Bella: I trusted you!
- [has to run off]
- Bella: At least our secret's safe.
- Cleo: For now.
- Bella: No, he won't change his mind.
- Rikki: [shakes her head] Never say never.
- Bella: No, he... he really won't. He's a good guy. He's a really good guy.
- [the other two smile]
- Bella: Hey, Rikki, that sketch that you saw of me... What was it like?
- Rikki: Oh, here we go!
- Bella: Was it cute?
- Rikki: [shakes her head] You are unbelievable!
- [picks up pillow to throw at Bella]
- Bella: [giggly] Would you tell me?