Chapter 51
Cleo was breastfeeding Jennifer when the gang walked in, Zane in tow. Cleo had decided to work at the marine park only half time in order to be home more for Jennifer.
"Lewis," Cleo shouted, "Rikki's here for her ultrasound!"
Lewis came down the stairs with his equipment.
"Oh, hey everyone!" The group made themselves at home collapsing on the couches.
"Rikki, want to come into the spare room please?" he asked in a professional tone.
"Sure thing," she responded in the same way.
Everyone laughed and Zane followed them in.
Lewis placed the gel onto Rikki's stomach and began moving it around.
"That is some cold gel. I expect it every time but it still shocks me!" Rikki exclaimed. Ten seconds later, she had a tail.
He continued moving the gel and looked up at the screen.
"Hey, I can't be sure...but it looks like you have twins..."
"TWINS!" Rikki shouted. All the friends could hear her from the other room and sat up, peeling their ears to hear more.
"Yeah...see those two separate objects...there's a head. Wow looks like those are their tails," Lewis said gesturing to the screen.
"But...how are we going to cope with two at once!" she exclaimed
"I'm sure we'll manage," Zane replied, "We could set up a nursery in part of our office if you want so we can take them to work with us,"
"Sounds like a plan,"
"Rikki, this will probably make your stomach increase in size more, more than Cleo's and Bella's stomachs did," Lewis informed her.
"Great! I'll be really fat."
"Pregnant is not fat. Besides, I am sure when you start swimming again after the birth you'll go back to your original size – your body is very strong. That is what keeps you young,"
Rikki nodded remembering those notes of Denman's that they had uncovered. She paused in thought.
"Hey, that'll mean that when my kids are twenty, I'll look just a little older than them! That's just going to embarrassing,"
Lewis laughed at her remark, though it would most probably be the outcome.
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Jacob Forest Benjamin was a very happy and healthy baby boy. Soon Bella and Will had found out the same things as Cleo and Lewis had.
Jacob was a merman and had the same change time as Jennifer. Jacob had a reddish tinged tail – this was a little lighter than Ben's. They found out their baby was intellectually advanced and he figured out his power relatively quickly. He had his mother's power with a twist. He could turn water into jelly and harden it, however he could also make the hardened gelatine substance so it could stretch – like elastic, this twist was a surprise to everyone.
Will and Bella were very proud of their son. Bella had quit her job so that she could look after Jacob more intimately and Will brought in their income. Despite this, it seemed not to make a dent in their living style.
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When Jennifer was three months old and Jacob was two months, Cleo and Bella decided to take their prodigies (who both could swim very well already in the bathtub) swimming with them in the ocean. The mothers swam their babies very slowly over to Mako Island and the Moon Pool. They swam along the surface their babies lying on their backs as they did so. They decided to dry off on the beach and walk to the moon pool, as they did not want to risk anything by swimming their children through the deep tunnel. They sat them on the sand and proceeded to slip into the pool transforming before soon after taking their charges in and sitting them on the step (they had already recently learnt to sit up)
Jacob and Jennifer continued, much to their mother's surprise, to push of the step with their miniature tails and swim around the pool.
Bella and Cleo looked at each other shocked but smiling. After all, they were the offspring of mermaids.
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Bella and Cleo let the little mermaid and merman slowly swim beside them, watching them like a hawk, on their way back to the mainland. They were both pleased and shocked at their children's progress. They said their goodbyes and left to walk back home.
"Lewis! I'm home! Guess what?"
He emerged from the study, "What?" he said and proceeded to kiss his wife.
"Jen can swim all by herself! ALREADY! Isn't that amazing? She's three months old, can't walk but can swim perfectly,"
"Wow." He looked at his baby girl with a new light.
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