Hey guys!

So I've been thinking a lot lately, and I don't think I'm going to have Cleo chose a baby name. My reason is that if she chose one, I feel like it would just be the winner. But anyway, the new suggestion-makers are Emma, Rikki, Bella, Ash, Zane, Will, Lewis, Kim, Don AND Sam (separate suggestions.)

DA

Chapter 14- Cleo's POV

As I drive home from my visit with Kim, I feel a little upset that the only real thing I'm mulling over in my head is her name suggestion. I mean, shouldn't I be reeling from my discovery? But then again, should I? I'd be just as shocked if I found out she had a boyfriend … I think.

Anyway, just before I left, Kimmy had looked at my stomach. "Isla," she said softly. Eye-la. beautiful.

I hum along to the Lana song blasting in my car, enjoying the baby's kicks as they match the beat. Lewis doesn't like her, says she's too American, but who cares?

Just then my phone rings. "Hello?"

"Hey, Cleo, it's Rikki. We're just coming from Mako and long story, short, Charlotte's back. You need to get home ASAP, see you soon."

Wait … what?

"... Rikki?" I ask into the phone, voice trembling. The line is dead. "RIKKI?"

After a minute, I put the phone down and pull over. What did Rikki just say? Charlotte's not … back. She can't just be back.

A sharp kick from the baby snaps me out of the haze and I blink a few times. Okay. Okay. Got to get home.
***

About twenty minutes later, I pull into the apartment driveway. Rushing to the entrance, I quickly go up the elevator and fumble around in my purse for the key. As soon as I open the door I see that Rikki, Bella, Emma and all the boys are sitting around our coffee table.

"What's going on?" I ask, breathless. "Charlotte?"

Emma stands up and takes my arm. "Cleo, calm down. It's okay."

I can feel myself getting worked up as tears well in my eyes. "No, Em, I won't calm down! Charlotte's back!"

Bella looks worried, but Rikki just looks mad. Zane whispers something in her ear and kisses her hair.

Once we girls got back from college, Will and Ash had been waiting to throw a party for us, excited to see their girlfriends again. Lewis wasn't there but Zane was, an awkward addition they'd invited out of sympathy. The party, however, changed things.

Rikki hadn't seen anyone in school. She had never really gotten past Zane, and that evening, when he had been leaving, Rikki followed him out. I never knew what happened, but they've been together ever since. Zane was a good guy. I liked the name he suggested for the baby, Bay.

Anyway, in a few minutes the gang fills me in on everything that happened on Mako.

"After she told us she was going to get revenge, she said, 'Oh, Lewis, don't look so worried. Not right now, of course. It's too obvious. I just thought I'd let you know of my arrival,'" Lewis explains. "And then she told the girl, Angi, to get in the water. Her tail was blue, Cleo. But once she was a mermaid, Charlotte told her to 'do it,' and then everything went black and they were gone."

I slowly take this in, but then Bella speaks up. "Cleo, she also said one other thing. It was just before they disappeared." I see Rikki shake her head, as if Bella shouldn't tell me. What the hell could it be?

"She said," Bella continues, "to tell you congratulations."

I lift my head and stare at her.

Charlotte knows about my baby.