Chapter 1: Little Ruthie
Rikki walked in to the big house with her mom. Her mother had moved in not far from where Rikki and her dad lived. She had offered to let Rikki stay with her and her other daughter Ruthie, who was about the same age as Kim and Eliot.
"Wow, this place is big and nice," Rikki told her mom.
"Your room is down that hall next to Ruthie's. My office is up stairs. There is a room up there with a TV and computer for you and Ruthie to share," Her mom told her.
Now I know how Cleo feels having to share everything with Kim Rikki thought going in to her room.
A girl with short brunet hair stood outside of Rikki's room looking in at her.
"So you're the girl who claims to be my sister," She said.
"Ya and you're Ruthie," Rikki said getting up to greet her sister.
"I don't like other people taking my thunder. So back off and no one gets hurt," Ruthie said leaving.
The next day
Ruthie sat at a table with Kim and Eliot. They watched as their sisters talked really quietly.
"You'll get use to the fact those girls are keeping something from us." Kim said.
"I don't think they're hiding something. Emma tells me everything," Eliot said.
"Eliot, wake up and see what's going on right in front of you," Kim said.
"Kim, the last time I believed something you said I was grounded for a weekend," Eliot reminded Kim.
"Well if those girls are hiding something then we will have to watch them closely. I know we can find it out," Ruthie said.
The sibs looked at their sisters and they were having a pretty secretive conversation.
"Guys, this will be harder then anything we have ever done. I'm living with a marine biologist. What if she finds out we're mermaids?" Rikki told her friends.
"Why can't you stay with your dad?" Cleo asked.
"He is moving to England. Do you want me in England?" Rikki Answered.
"Rikki has a point. I think after one month she would have burned down half of England," Emma said.
"Right, let's not burn down England. Rikki is much safer with her mom and us," Cleo said.
Ruthie, Kim, and Eliot moved to a closer table. They could only hear mummers.
"We need to get closer without them seeing," Ruthie said.
"If we just disappear the girls would freak-out or a least Emma would," Eliot told her.
"Then we will have to be sneakier than them." Kim said.
"What do you think this is anyway?" Ruthie asked.
"Go ahead, tell her," Eliot said.
"Ok a year and a half ago I found this dairy of Cleo's that said something about her, Emma, and Rikki were mermaids. It was proven right then proven wrong. Now I think it is being proven right again. The only problem is I can't find the dairy again. I think Cleo did something with it so it would never be found again," Kim told Ruthie.
"So this thing with the mermaids, How could be true if they have legs not tails?" Ruthie asked.
"They grow tails when they touched water," Eliot told her. "But we can't tell anyone if it's not proven and we already sprayed Cleo with water we think."
"Well back then you didn't have me," Ruthie told them. "I'll help you bust our sisters. Even if it takes forever."