The time has fiannly come...DUN DUN DUN! Clark finds out they are mermaids! Hope it suffaces your reading enjoyments!

Lois had taken her sisters advice and was more determined than ever to put Lex behind bars. Though she still felt bad about leaving her sister so early, so she asked if Clark and Chloe would take them out for the day…today was meant to be the hottest day yet and they all knew how hot Kansas summers can be.

"Well, girls, Lois has left it up to us to decided where to take you today, and we thought with all this heat, what better place than Crater Lake…you can go for a swim…or not Cleo, you can always sunbathe on the beach" Chloe cheerfully explained, feeling less enthused with what she thought to be a great idea, when all three girls faces dropped at the news.

"I'm not really good around water…can't we go somewhere else, somewhere dry?" Cleo innocently asked, looking to Rikki and Emma for support.

"Yer, it's not fair us going swimming and leaving Cleo by herself" Emma added, trying desperately to persuade Chloe to change her mind, but she didn't seem to be budging.

"Oh don't worry about that, I'm not much of a swimmer either, I can keep her company" Chloe said, smiling brightly, at the anticipation of going out for the day at Crater Lake.

"Besides, you haven't seen Crater Lake it's beautiful in the summer…we'll have a great time" Clark tried to lighten the atmosphere, yet still the girls looked unfazed by his attempt.

Rikki eyed her friends defeated, knowing that they weren't going to get out of this, that they should just go long and be extra careful.

"I suppose it won't hurt for one day…we can just stay away from the water with Cleo" Rikki accepted, trying to sound as convincing as possible.

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Cleo helped Chloe lay the towels on the sand, getting them ready for a peaceful day of sunbathing.

Not long after, Clark decided he was going to go for a swim, leaving Chloe to talk girly stuff with Rikki and the others. He knew he was no good at that stuff, best to leave it to…well, girls.

"Look Rikki I think we got off to a bad start with the whole Zane thing when you first arrived, if it's ok with you, I would love to put that behind us and start afresh" Chloe nervously asked, determined to have a loving relationship with her cousin, she always cherished Lois's closeness and can't bare to thinking that she wouldn't have the same with Rikki.

"Sure why not…I was a little touchy that day, sorry about that by the way" Rikki replied, nudging Chloe warmly, ensuring her that she had no hard feelings.

"Great…so…I have already have heard all about Lewis from Cleo and I want to know everything about this Zane…I swear this is off the record, nothing you say will be on the front page of the Daily Planet tomorrow I promise" Chloe clarified, smiling widely at her words.

"I trust you…well; I don't know what to say…"

"He's get an edge about him…, he's pretty good looking, in a mischievous, bad boy kinda way…if you like that sorta thing" Emma continued for Rikki, enjoying the trivial gossiping of their girly conversation.

"Emma…I'm shocked, don't you let Ash here you saying that, he'll flip and you know what happens when rivalry competition comes between Ash and Zane…" Rikki stressed playfully, staring towards her friend completely shocked.

"Who's Ash then?" Chloe asked teasingly, leaning closer to Emma, eyeing her suspiciously.

"Emma's boyfriend" Cleo sang out, her face lighting up at the redness of Emma's cheeks.

"Well you kept that quiet missy, come on then spill…what's he like?" Chloe asked, feeling as though the girls were finally letting her in for the first time and she was genuinely enjoying their company.

"He's really sweet and caring…for our first date he snuck into my house and had laid out an Italian dinner for us" Emma gushed, becoming lost in her fond memories of Ash, remembering just how much she was missing him, knowing that Rikki and Cleo must be feeling the same way.

The afternoon continued in the same manner, as the girls conversed on just about everything. Clark had been swimming for a while, happy to see his girlfriend befriending Rikki and the other so well. Although, he was getting too cold even in this heat, so he decided that he would make his way back up.

Clark came walking out of the water, dripping wet, his muscles gleaming under the sun, his perfectly defined body looking absolutely delicious as he made his way up the beach.

Chloe was stopped mid sentence, no matter how many times she saw Clark's perfect physic, it never ceased to amaze her and cast her dumb struck. At first the girls were clueless as to what was reducing Chloe to a mindless zombie, but as they followed her gaze, they too lost al voice of reason, as the stared completely and undeniably drooling just like the young teenage girls they are.

Lost in their perfect view, Rikki didn't notice Clark touch her on the shoulder with his wet hand, as he greeted her and slumped onto the towel beside her.

"Rikki! GO!" Emma immediately shouted, noticing Clark's hand wet Rikki's shoulder, fearing the worst that she would turn into a mermaid there and then right on the beach. Rikki jumped at Emma's loud cry, only just realising just in time to head sprinting towards the pear, jumping into the lake.

"Rikki? What is she doing…what's going on?" Clark yelled, confusion covering his features, receiving no help from the expression of guilt and concern on the other girls faces.

"She…um…well…she…" Cleo stuttered unable to fathom a clear thought in her mind, trying to come up with a reasonable explanation, but she had nothing and neither did Emma.

Clark would have let the strange mishap pass if he wasn't too busy noticing how Rikki hadn't surfaced in a while, concerned, she had injured herself just as Lois had many summers ago, he took off running off the pier to help Rikki.

Emma and Cleo looked towards each other, now even more worried that if Rikki hadn't swam away already, that Clark would discover her little secret, along with their own. They couldn't worry about that now…they immediately took off running towards the lake after Clark, knowing that they had no choice but to reveal their secret if they were going to explain this in any way other than lying.

Chloe stood beyond confused; she knew that Clark could more than handle himself along with Rikki if she was hurt, but now she was completely lost seeing Emma and Cleo, the person who she thought was scared of the sea, running without a moments pause into the lake.

Once could focus under the water, he swam as fast a he could towards a floating figure far off in the distance under the water. Before he could reach the figure he assumed to be Rikki, he was knocked off guard by something swimming by him and a lot faster than he could swim…which was very fast.

He came to an abrupt halt, gathering his bearing again, Clark was shocked to see Emma and Cleo floating before him…with tails!

Well...What did you think? Hope you liked it :D

The next chapter will cover the explanation and revealing of not only their powers but Clark's YAY