-Sertori house-

Cindie was absolutely fuming! Why couldn't her mother see that her 'sisters' didn't obey her at all? Well Angela did, but only if she received payment. Kim wasn't much home anymore, because of her boyfriend. Cleo ignored her altogether when she was home, which wasn't much. And Samantha...she was a total mystery to Cindie. No matter how much she wanted to snap at her older sister she just couldn't. There was something about Samantha that demanded respect even if she wasn't doing anything. And she was Katherine's boss so Cindie couldn't do anything that could cause Katherine to lose her job. She would never admit it to anyone, but she was also little afraid of Samantha, especially after seeing her lose her temper once. It was terrifying.

"Grrr! What the heck I'm supposed to do?" Cindie looked around her room that was too small for her. "I need a bigger room!" She saw the letter on her dresser and it only worsened her foul mood. "Even grandma Louise didn't leave me anything in her will. Well I sure don't miss her! Good for nothing old hag!"

*ring ring*

"Hi Charlotte! So nice of you to call." Cindie put on a fake smile even if her friend couldn't see her.
'Hey Cindie. You said earlier that you wanted to tell me something important?' Charlotte asked, but she didn't sound too enthusiastic.
"Yes this is important. Did you know that Cleo, Emma, Rikki and Bella are all after Nate. Some time ago I saw them at the JuiceNet. Bella would have gone in too, but her boyfriend pulled her away along with Samantha."
'Samantha isn't like that! She must have been in the wrong place at a wrong time!' Charlotte sounded angry at the preposterous accusation Cindie had just made.
"Still aren't you worried that those other four are going to steal your boyfriend?" Cindie cringed at her slip up.
'Of course I am!' Charlotte snapped loudly.
"Meet me at the JuiceNet in 15 minutes. Then we can head over to my house and we can interrogate Cleo!" Cindie hung up before Charlotte had a chance to say anything else. And went to the JuiceNet to meet up with Charlotte. She hoped that Cleo's friends would be gone by the time they got back.

xxx

*knock knock knock*

"Cleo someone is at the door!" Rikki yelled. Emma, Bella, and Samantha had to go to work. And since they work in two different places they had to leave early. Sam had graciously given Rikki a day off. Lewis was off somewhere with Zane, while Ash was at work and Will was training for a free diving tournament.

*knock knock knock*

Rikki sighed as she turned and went to answer the door.

When she opened it she came face to face with Charlotte. A very upset Charlotte and a smirking Cindie.

"I need to see Cleo." Charlotte said with a frown on her face.

Inside Cleo's room Charlotte began to interrogate Cleo on Nate's whereabouts.

"I haven't seen him, I have been sorting through some things I had bought at a second hand store." Cleo lied half way, while it was true she had no clue where Nate was. She lied about how she had 'bought' the stuff laying around her room.

"Are you sure?" Charlotte asked, she wanted to make sure. They may have mended bridges between herself and the group, but she still felt insecure about them. And Cindie wasn't making things better. Nate refused to be around when Cindie was with her. And for the life of her Charlotte couldn't figure out why.

"Yes, I am very sure." Cleo answered as she moved out of the way of one of the notice boards that were in her room.

Suddenly both Cindie and Charlotte's eyes were drawn on to the two pictures that were pinned on one of the boards.

"Where did you get that?" Charlotte asked. The picture was of her grandmother. Cindie was having similar thoughts as she looked at the other picture.

"Oh that was just with the rest of the junk." Rikki answered.

"What's so special about them?" Cindie asked as she took one of the photos, while Charlotte took the other.

"No reason they are just pretty pictures." Cleo answered this time.

Cindie and Charlotte looked at the pictures and said in unison.

"It's my grandmother!"

Both Cleo and Rikki looked shocked and Cleo asked. "What?"

Charlotte looked at the picture. "Her name was Gracie." She sounded sad.

Cindie also looked at the picture in her hands. "And her name was Louise." Her voice sounded bitter, for not being mentioned in Louise's will, no one other than herself knew this.

Then they both in unison looked up and asked. "Why do you have pictures of our grandmothers?" Leaving the two mermaids speechless.

-JuiceNet-

Charlotte and Cindie were sitting on one of the outside tables.

"That was Cleo's room? It was such a dump." Cindie wrinkled her nose, but on the inside she was screaming! 'Cleo's room was so much bigger than mine! And she has her own bathroom! It's not fair! That room should be mine! MINE!'

"Grandma Gracie." Charlotte whispered as she looked at the picture in her hands. 'Why did she have it?' Charlotte had taken the picture from Cleo's room and house.

And Cindie had taken the picture of her grandmother too. Even if she didn't like her very much at the moment. She still had fun memories that she held close to her heart.

-Sertori house-

The whole gang was in the living room. Everyone had been called in.

"Charlotte and Cindie recognized it was Gracie and Louise the moment they saw the pictures." Rikki said.

"They took the photos with them." Cleo added.

"And you let them?" Zane asked the question that was in the minds of Ash, Will and Lewis.

"Well how could we say no?" Rikki asked. "How would you tell a person that they can't have a picture of one of their relatives? Especially if that relative is dead."

"Do you guys think that they know? About Louise and Gracie being mermaids?" Ash asked.

"This is really really bad..." Cleo said, what if Cindie finds out! As if they had not other things to worry about.

As the boys tried to calm down their mermaid girlfriends Samantha slipped away, she needed to finish copying down the information from those papers. No one noticed that she had left.

-Beach-

Charlotte and Nate sat under the trees that were on the beach.

Nate was looking at the picture over his girlfriend's shoulder, "I can see the resemblance, you're both pretty and have the same smile."

"I don't remember her very well, she died when I was 6. I remember little snippets, she told me all these stories about the sea, mermaids and things." Charlotte said with a small sad smile.

Nate didn't like this look on her face. He liked it when she smiled and laughed. "Really?"

"She was so different then anyone I ever met." Charlotte added.

"What do you mean?" Nate asked curiously.

"I don't know she just had this way about her. Like we had a connection. But my mother never got along with her, so I didn't spend much time with her. And when she had died, mum said that I cried for months. I just remember feeling really sad." Charlotte said then she smiled. "It was freaky that I found a picture of my grandmother in Cleo's room."

"Ya it is, maybe she was a model or something. Well let's go grab a juice!" Nate said but before he got up he was pulled back down.

"Nate that locket! It's like the one's around Cleo, Emma, and Rikki's neck!" Charlotte almost yelled, this was too weird.

"Maybe they were massed produced? You could always ask your mom, maybe she would know something." Nate answered, but he had to agree with his girlfriend. It was odd that Cleo, Emma and Rikki had the exact same locket that her grandmother had on in the photo.

Charlotte called Cindie. "Cindie please answer your phone, or meet me up at the JuiceNet later on. Bye." After she had hung up she knocked on the Sertori's front door.

Angela had opened it instead of Kim or Cleo.

"Hello can I see Cleo?" Charlotte put on her best sweet act.

"She's not here." Angela was in a foul mood. Cleo had told her that she couldn't borrow any money from her. And she had told her that Samantha was forbidden to give anyone in the family money. Unless they did a job for her. It was dad's new rule.

"I came by because we are working on a project together." Charlotte lied.

"Yeah right. I'm not Kim you can't lie to me! What is your real reason." Angela demanded, she wasn't fooled she knew that Charlotte and Cleo didn't like each other much. And Cleo had no project from school. Otherwise Sam would have one too.

Charlotte sighed and dug around in her purse and pulled out 40 dollars. "You let me into Cleo's room and I will give you 40 dollars."

Needless to say Charlotte left the house with a couple of photos and a old filmstrip in her bag.

Later she got it transferred to DVD, on her mother's advice.

-Sertori household-

Cleo, Emma and Rikki came through Cleo's door. But she slowed down to a stop.

"Why is my door open?" Cleo asked then she moved to sit on her bed and looked around to see if something was missing. And back to the place where she had set the old film only to see it was missing. "And where's the old film gone?"

The other two looked just as confused as Cleo. So they cornered the only one in the house... Angela.

"I didn't touch anything in your room, nor did I take anything." Angela sneered at the three. And it was true she didn't even set foot in Cleo's room.

"Well stuff is missing and you're the only one that has been home! " Cleo countered she was not giving in, she wanted the truth!

"Why would I want to take anything in your room anyway? " Angela threw back as she walked away from them. Only to be cornered again before she could go upstairs.

"She's got a point why would she take it?" Emma asked as they cornered her again.

"Because she's Angela!" Cleo answered. "What did you do with it!" She demanded as she pointed at her younger cousin/sister.

"I didn't take anything, someone else must have." Angela smirked smugly at Cleo.

"You let someone else into my room?" Cleo asked, disbelief clear in her voice.

"Maybe." Angela said smirking.

"Alright you have had your fun! Out with it!" Rikki told Angela.

"Or we can tell Sam." Emma added.

"Okay okay it was Charlotte. She said you guys had a project." Angela said in a hurry then she bolted up the stairs. As all three mermaids ran out the door and went to tell Lewis.

- JuiceNet-

Nate looked at his girlfriend. She had just broken into Cleo's house or rather bribed her way in and she had taken something from Cleo's room... He need to get his girlfriend to stop hanging with Cindie, this was just wrong.

Cindie was on the other side of Charlotte as they watched the DVD, after a few minutes all three of them got a surprise. The boy on screen threw Gracie into the water, then it showed her as a mermaid, just before it cut off it showed Cindie's grandmother and another girl swim up as mermaids.