Mykaela's Pov

I get home from school, ready to play my guitar and go for a swim with the girls, I run up to my bedroom and dump my bag, I turn to my guitar stand, it's not there, my Gibson Hummingbird Acoustic, pride and joy is not in my room!

'Natalie, have you seen my guitar?' I ask hopeful

'No, Mykaela, maybe you left it at school'

'No, Nat I never even took it to school today'

'Call your friends, maybe it's at one of their houses'

'yeah, good thinking sis.'

I first call Eleanor, I was at her house with the others on Saturday, maybe she has it

'Hi, Ella, do you have my guitar at your house?'

'No, sorry Mykaela'

'That's fine, see you tomorrow' feeling disheartened, but optimistic, I call Leanna 'Hey, Lea, is my guitar at your house?' I ask, hopeful, she responds with

'No, Mykie, I am afraid it isn't, sorry'

'Okay Leanna, I'll see you tomorrow'

'See you Mykaela, I hope you find it'

'I hope so too' I solemnly say and call Ashley 'Hey Ashley, did I leave my guitar at your house?'

'no you didn't Mykaela, sorry'

'okay' I sigh, disappointed 'see you later Ashley'

'see you later Mykie' I run downstairs and out of the house, I know where it must be now, my boyfriend's house, Oliver only lives a few houses away, so it isn't a long run.

I approach his house and knock on his front door, he answers it 'Hey, Mykie, what's wrong?' he must've noticed that my eyes are watering slightly, he pulls me inside and into his arms, and repeats his question, I answer this time 'I've lost my guitar.'

'A Gibson Hummingbird?' he asks, looking into my eyes, I nod, not trusting myself to speak, he takes my shaking hand in his and leads me to his room, I sit on his bed

'Is this it?' he hands me a black and green case, I open it and see my beloved guitar, I smile ear to ear at my boyfriend.

'Ollie, thank you so much!' I kiss him, grateful, for him, and that he kept it for me

'you left it here last night when we were playing together' we sit on his bed and play together again, I go home at 6 for dinner, taking my guitar with me.

The Next Day

We get to school and Ashley sees on a bulletin board, for our year, a camping trip to Mako Island, it lasts three days, being run by our home-room teacher, we go to English and then at lunch we sit down, just the four of us and talk. 'What do we do? That's our place!' Eleanor says

'I know, we could be uncovered as mermaids if we go, but if we don't go people may get suspicious of us' Leanna says

'And then there's the issue of the moon pool, what if someone finds it?' Ashley asks the three of us

'Mykaela, any thoughts?' Eleanor asks, I swallow a bite of sandwich and say 'Yeah, on all three issues raised, I say we go, but on a boat with everyone else and as for our moon pool, I say we go by there later on, after school, I have an idea' I say

'What is it?' Ashley asks

'I'll tell you when we get there' I say. We go to our last class of the day, Chemistry then go to my house to do our homework.

At 5 we leave and run to the beach, into the water our tails take us to our moon pool, we come up for air and talk 'So, what is it that you're going to do Mykaela?' Eleanor asks me

'We need to get out of the water for me to do it, I'll show you' I say, we sit on the rocks and Ashley dries us off, we leave the cave and I point out all of the surrounding plants 'You see all of the vines, trees and bushes girls?' I ask

'Of course we can Mykaela, why?' Leanna says, I respond 'Watch this' I raise my hand and make the plants grow tall enough to cover the cave mouth and mountain and grow thick enough so that no one can see through them. 'It'll be as if the moon pool doesn't even exist' I say

'How did you do that?' Leanna asks, stunned

'We've only ever seen you transform water' Ashley points out

'All live plants have water in their roots, I use that to manipulate them, I first tested this power out on my mother's roses back in Canada' I explain

'Will we be able to get in?' Eleanor asks

'If you're with me, yes as I have the power, to manipulate plants, if I can grow them, I can shrink them' I say

'It's getting kind of late, we should head back' Eleanor says, we dive into the water, transform and swim back to shore. Head back in doors and the girls get their stuff and we bid each other a good night.

The Next Week

We arrive at school with our bags full of our stuff, we're the only ones without a tent to sleep in because we're sleeping in the moon pool, it'll help us strengthen our powers and we can be away from everyone else. Mr Wallace registers us all then we get going down to the docks, board our boats and head up to Mako Island.

Once we get to the island, we're instructed to set up camp, everyone pitches their tents while we sneak off to set our sleeping bags up in the moon pool and sit down to talk. 'Do you think anyone will want to come in here?' Ashley asks 'No, because of what I did to the plants no one will even know this place exists' I say. Leanna asks me, for what I know, the first time 'How did you feel when you first used your powers?' I ponder the question then say

'Scared, I was scared of being found out, scared of myself and I thought that people would be scared of me and that's why I'm so particular about guiding you three through this, with these powers and these tails, there is nothing to be scared of' my three best friends smile at me.

That night, Eleanor decides, as power practice to have us play a game in the moon pool, she'll levitate a ball of water and whoever uses their power first on it, wins a point, we start, Ashley boils the water. We play to 25 rounds with Ashley winning, Eleanor turns mine and Leanna's ice, crystal, gel and glass balls back into water and re-sets them back into the pool. We get into our sleeping bags and talk until we all fall asleep.

The next day we decide to go for a hike with Michael, Brandon and Oliver (too bad Andrew isn't here) and Brandon asks Ashley 'where are you guys camping?'

'In the Moon Pool, why?' she asks

'We just didn't know where you four were' he says, then Michael asks 'Why are you camping there?'

'So no one else finds it, if anyone found it, they'd find out about us, and that's just not a risk we want to take' Eleanor says, I move my hand around absent-mindedly and make the plants grow.

We get back to the mainland a few days later and are sent home, I get in and hug my sister, unpack and get some sleep, once I wake up I go for a bath to get the island air out of my hair and the humidity off my skin. Then play guitar.

No one has found out about us yet, and if I have anything to do with it, no one ever will.