It was a hot day at the Plaza as it was summer which meant that a certain little girl who lived there wouldn't have to do boring tutoring instead of playing with her friends. Darla didn't tell anybody she was coming in today and decided to surprise everyone by her arrival. She came to the front desk and rang the bell at Mr. Salamone's desk as he had his back turned briefly.

"Yes, how may I help-" the hotel manager turned and looked surprised. "Oh, Ms. Fudo!"

Darla chuckled. "Yes... Could you not inform my daughter and her nanny of my arrival while I go up to the penthouse of this lovely hotel?"

"Oh, of course, Ms. Fudo, please, have a great day." Mr. Salamone said.

Darla smiled as she went to the elevator, hit the top button and stepped inside of it. This would take a while, but it was all going to be worth it.

Eloise was trying to keep cool as she turned up the cold air in the room.

"Eloise, not too much, I know you're hot, but that costs money!" Nanny slightly scolded her.

Eloise sighed and set it back. "I'm bored, Nanny..." she sighed.

"Don't worry, I'm sure something will come knocking on our door." Nanny assured as she made a pitcher of ice cold lemonade to keep in their fridge.

There was indeed a knock at the door and Eloise answered it, looking rather happy at who she saw. "MOMMY!"

Darla picked up Eloise and hugged her instantly. "Hello, sweetie..."

"Darla, we didn't know that you were going to be here today." Nanny said, surprised in a good way.

"I wanted to surprise my favorite daughter and babysitter." Darla chuckled.

"We're your only daughter and babysitter!" Eloise giggled.

Darla laughed a little herself as she gently put Eloise down on her feet. "Nanny, if you'd like to take some time-off, you may... I was planning on taking Eloise to the beach with me."

"Well, I could use a little break." Nanny said.

"So nice this worked out for everyone then." Darla giggled.

This summer wasn't so boring after all, Eloise was going to spend some time with her mother, something she rarely got to do. It was one of the reasons why she was a little troublemaker sometimes, because her mother was barely there and she needed to entertain herself since she was unlike most kids who had parents there almost all the time and went to school.

"Ms. Fudo, how long will you and your daughter be out?" Mr. Salamone asked.

Darla shrugged. "I guess until September when Philip comes back from his cruise so he can tutor Eloise again."

The mother and daughter went out the door and Mr. Salamone looked rather relieved.

"Eloise is gone... For the whole summer!"

This relieved most of the staff while the rest of the staff that liked Eloise were going to miss her terribly. They all remembered how terribly quiet it was when Eloise decided to go to public school and she would rarely be in a good enough mood to come down and see everybody when not doing homework.

Darla held her daughter's hand as they walked to the beach together with the ocean waves gently splashing and crashing in the distance and there were bird calls. Strangely enough, they weren't in their swimsuits, because Darla brought Eloise to the beach for a completely different reason.

"Mommy, if we're going swimming, why aren't we wearing our bathing suits?" Eloise asked as she looked up to her mother.

"Because dear, we're going swimming, but not with the other people," Darla said as she took out her shell necklace that was hidden under her shirt from everybody else. "We're going under the sea."

"Ooh, under the sea. What does that mean exactly?" Eloise asked, not knowing what her mother meant.

"Well dear... You're probably wondering why your father hasn't been around the often..." Darla said as she handed another seashell necklace to Eloise.

"Yeah..." Eloise agreed, she met her father not too long ago, before then she didn't even think she had one.

"Well, you're about to find out... I told him we were going to meet him in time for Father's Day." Darla said as she held Eloise's hand and they took off their shoes, putting their feet in the water before going in.

Eloise was a little surprised at her mother, but in an instant, they grew tail fins like merpeople and took their merfolk forms as they were now under the sea. "Wow! I'm a real mermaid!?"

"Yes Eloise, you are... Because, well, mostly because of your father..." Darla smiled to her. "He was born a merman and I was adopted by your Uncle Atticus who is the cousin of King Triton's now human daughter, Ariel. Come along, I'll show you Atlantica."

"Yay! Atlantica, here we come!" Eloise cheered.

Darla giggled as she went with her daughter, very pleased to spend this kind of time with her.

A familiarly evil mermaid came out from the rocks as she watched the two go off. "Ah... That little Darla returns and she seems to have her own little guppy... They'll all pay for banishing me and Manta from Atlantica! Or my name isn't Marina Del Rey!" she grinned rather darkly as Darla and Eloise went off without even seeing her.