After the winter break, it just so happened that there were a few more mermaids in the area, and more around the world. There is a little organization of mermaids here in Washington D.C. It is called the Mer of Fins. We became friends with them, but that story is for another day. Also, we finally had friends. Each mermaid had a little trinket with the same pearl-like rocks that we had in our goggles. They also all had gone through a parent death.
We had lots of fun during that winter and the next summer thought we had to spend some time hiding our identity from our dad) who wasn't really around, so it wasn't hard, but it was more hiding it from our maids and housekeepers. Evvin Dderick (our top maid who was also a guy who wore a dress)was really onto us.) We spent more and more time underwater, yet our dad didn't notice our disappearance. That is why our secret was kept really well hidden. Or at least, until the summer a year later.
It was a normal day, about 10 members of the Mer of Fins were racing (without our trinkets) and having fun. A giant cruise boat was about 4 miles away. We saw a lot of people on the side of the boat looking off in an odd manner.I then noticed a small girl, drowning on the side of the boat. (she was 5, now she is ten and we are good friends.) I had to save her, but if I did, there would be footage of it with all the news reporters on the boat. I was also the only one that saw it. It was far, I would have had to use my lucky goggles.(we have other goggles that we used during races) I decided to go for it at the last second. I am told that if I had waited one more second, she would have died. Right after i got her out of the water, I took off my goggles in hope of that no-one would have seen it. Then I did C.P.R.
Sadly, a video was recorded and sent out onto the news and youtube. It went viral. Could anything be worse? When I went home later that day, My dad was there. He told us that our mom was a mermaid and that he was ok with us being mermaids. It ended up fine, except for the popularity.
