p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"Cleo/span/p
hr style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);" noshade="noshade" size="1" /
p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"Uh, hi. I'm Cleo. First thing you should know: I'm a mermaid./span/p
p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"Well, not all the time. When I'm wet I'm a mermaid, and when I'm dry I'm human. Simple as that. It may sound like the dream life - getting to live such a mythical relaxing life - playing with dolphins, swimming over reefs, practically living in the water. Then getting to keep all your human friends, possessions, and family./span/p
p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"Oh yeah, none of my family members are mermaids, by the way. Just me./span/p
p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"I'm not here to tell you about mermaids, though. I'm writing this for a specific reason: to tell you a story./span/p
p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"Which I really should be getting to by now! So I'll be vague with everything you should know before we start the actual story./span/p
p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"I'm a mermaid. Homo sapien when dry, aquatic humanoid while wet. I became a mermaid 4 years ago, when my friends Rikki and Emma and I stumbled upon this cave on this island called Mako. It was a full moon, we jumped in the water, we woke up the next day as mermaids. We each held sway over water, having different powers over it. And we then had to beware the full moon. Every full moon, we can't look at it, or our powers go haywire or we freak out or run away to Mako. That's the second biggest down side to being a mermaid./span/p
p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"Emma moved away not long after we became mermaids. Rikki and I met another mermaid, called Bella. For a long time, it was just us. We knew other mermaids - Charlotte and Mrs. Chatham - and heard of others - Gracie, Louise, and Eva. But it was just us. Us against the world. And the only people who knew our secret were our boyfriends./span/p
hr style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);" noshade="noshade" size="1" /
p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"Uh, hi. I'm Cleo. First thing you should know: I'm a mermaid./span/p
p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"Well, not all the time. When I'm wet I'm a mermaid, and when I'm dry I'm human. Simple as that. It may sound like the dream life - getting to live such a mythical relaxing life - playing with dolphins, swimming over reefs, practically living in the water. Then getting to keep all your human friends, possessions, and family./span/p
p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"Oh yeah, none of my family members are mermaids, by the way. Just me./span/p
p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"I'm not here to tell you about mermaids, though. I'm writing this for a specific reason: to tell you a story./span/p
p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"Which I really should be getting to by now! So I'll be vague with everything you should know before we start the actual story./span/p
p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"I'm a mermaid. Homo sapien when dry, aquatic humanoid while wet. I became a mermaid 4 years ago, when my friends Rikki and Emma and I stumbled upon this cave on this island called Mako. It was a full moon, we jumped in the water, we woke up the next day as mermaids. We each held sway over water, having different powers over it. And we then had to beware the full moon. Every full moon, we can't look at it, or our powers go haywire or we freak out or run away to Mako. That's the second biggest down side to being a mermaid./span/p
p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"Emma moved away not long after we became mermaids. Rikki and I met another mermaid, called Bella. For a long time, it was just us. We knew other mermaids - Charlotte and Mrs. Chatham - and heard of others - Gracie, Louise, and Eva. But it was just us. Us against the world. And the only people who knew our secret were our boyfriends./span/p