Lucy was at the beach sun tanning on a towel by the sand. Watching her was Chelia, waiting for Lucy to go into the ocean and get wet, exposing her tail. After an hour of waiting, she saw Lucy stand up, check to see if anyone was around, and walk toward the ocean. Her foot was just about to make contact with the sea water when Lucy's cellphone rang. She went back to her towel and took out her phone from her beach bag.

"Hello?" She answered the phone. "Oh hi Erza what's up?...Wendy? What did she tell you?...They did what?! Are you sure? Okay I'll be right over!"

Lucy hung up her phone and immedately went to meet Erza, Juvia, and Gray at her house. Chelia tried to follow her but Lucy, sensing that she was being followed managed to give her the sliping through a crowd of people.

"Where did she go?" Chelia wondered.

"Chelia!" Romeon called following after her. "Chelia! Wait!"

"Romeo what are you doing here? Did you get anything on Juvia?"

"No I couldn't find her but I need to talk to you."

"About what?"

"About this whole mermaid thing."

"You don't believe me?"

"Right now I don't know what to believe but I have to tell you that you've over looked something."

"What?"

"If Juvia and her friends are mermaids, should we really expose them?"

"What do you mean? Of course we have to. Otherwise no one will believe us."

"But have you thought about what'll happen if you expose them? They could be taken away or locked up or worse."

"They're not human Romeo."

"You don't know that for sure and even if they weren't, we've known Juvia and Lucy forever. They're family and they've always looked out for us. Human or not, can you really do something that might end up with the two of them getting hurt? After all they've done for us?"

It wasn't until now that Chelia realized what she was really doing. She had known both Juvia and Lucy since she was four years old, they were like sisters to her and even though she didn't really know Erza she knew how much Wendy loved her. She also remembered watching movies about science fiction and modern fantasy, how once those paranormal creatures were exposed to the world the government did horrible things to them. If her theory about the girls being mermaids turned out to be true and she exposed them then she would be putting them in danger.

"You're right Romeo." She said feeling instant guilt. "I wasn't thinking about that."

"So are you going to give up on this?"

"I still wanna know if they're mermaids or not but I won't tell anyone."

Back at Lucy's house, it turns out Juvia and Gray suspected that Romeo knew their secret so they called up Erza. Wendy overheard their conversation on the phone and she decided to confess to what she, Romeo, and Chelia were up to. That was when she called Lucy telling her everything.

"How could you keep a diary about our secret?" Lucy asked Juvia.

"I'm sorry but this whole mermaid thing is very stressful and I have no one to talk to about it. I need some outlet for my emotions."

"You can always tell me." Gray said.

"Gray you never want to listen to my feelings. Every time I've tried to tell you how I feel about something you always make up some excuse on why you can't listen to me at the moment."

"Oh yeah...Sorry about that."

"Well right now we need to find some way to get the kids off our trail." Erza said. "Wendy is convinced that she read your diary wrong and that there's no way we could be mermaids but I think Romeo and Chelia are convinced."

Juvia thought for a moment. What could she tell the kids to convince them that she, Erza, and Lucy weren't mermiads. Then she remebered a project that she had done in her literature class a year ago. She figured that it would be the perfect excuse for what she had drawn and written in her diary.

"I know just what to tell them." Juvia said.

"You do?"

"Yes I just hope that they'll believe me. In the mean time we should probably lay low for awhile. In other words let's not go swimming for at least a few days."

"Agreed." Erza and Lucy said.

Later that day when Romeo and Chelia came home later that evening, Juvia and Gray confronted them on what they did.

"I can't believe you two read my diary." Juvia scolded.

"Technically she read it, I didn't." Romeo said.

"Chelia I've told you a million times to stay out of my private business but you never listen."

"Well you can't blame for being curious, you're always keeping secrets." She defended.

"She has a right to keep her own private secrets you little snoop." Gray said.

"I'm sorry. I won't do it again but I just want to know one thing."

"What?" Juvia asked.

"Are you a mermaid?"

"What?!" Juvia said acting surprised. "No? Why would you think that?"

"Well in your diary-"

"Chelia it's not what you think. It's a school project for my literature class, we had to rewrite classic fairy tales. I chose the little mermaid."

"Oh...Well what about Lucy and Erza? Are they mermaids too?"

"Of course not! How on earth could we have become mermaids? That doesn't make any sense. Besides you know how scared of the water I am, there'a no way I could be a mermaid."

"I feel so stupid."

"Good maybe next time you'll think twice before sticking your nose where it doesn't belong and you Romeo, I thought you knew better."

"I didn't want to do it."

"But you did it anyway."

"She made me do it! She blackmailed me! She threatened to squeal about Gray's laptop!"

"What about my laptop?!" Gray asked.

"Uh-oh." Romeo said upon realizing that he had just given himself away.

"You little runt! I knew it was you who wiped out my hard drive! That's it! It's wedgie time!"

"No please! Have mercy! I'm just a child!" Romeo pleaded fearfully.

"Gray I really don't think that's neccessary." Juvia said. "Let's just tell Porlyusica what they did."

"No way! Not this time! I told the little weasel not to touch my laptop or I would take his allowance and he would be getting a wedgie unlike any that had ever been known."

Gray picked up the scared boy.

"Gray put him down." Juvia said.

"No. He's had this coming for a long time."

"Gray put him down or I show everyone in school those pictures of you trying on Porlyusica's make up when you were six."

Wait you did what?" Romeo said.

Gray blushed and quickly did as Juvia.

"I knew I should have burned those pictures." He grumbled.

"Now let's go talk to Porlyusica." Juvia said.

"Fine but I'm still taking his allowance."

"For how long?" Romeo said.

"Until I have enough to pay for a replacement hard drive!"

"Aww man!"

They told Porlyuscia and the two were punished by cleaning the entire house tomorrow and not being allowed to go anywhere except school for all of next week. But Chelia and Romeo weren't the only ones who would be scolded by their actions. Wendy was greatly reprimanded by Erza.

"I'm disappointed in you Wendy." Erza said. "How could you violate Juvia's privacy like that? You were raised better than that."

"I know I shouldn't have done it Erza and I'm sorry I did it. I just wanted to find out what's wrong with you."

"There's nothing wrong with me."

"Then why do you keep so many secrets? Why do you go out and never tell us where you're going? I was scared Erza. I was scared that you had gotten into some trouble."

"Wendy." She sighed. She understood her younger sister's concern and she wanted to tell her everything just to ease her worries but she couldn't. It was just her who had been transformed into a mermaid then maybe she could tell her but it wasn't just her secret. It was Lucy and Juvia's too and she couldn't just betray them. "Wendy you're heart was in the right place and I can understand your concern for me but you should never ever pry into someone's private life. Nothing excuses that."

"I know."

"I promise you that I'm not in any trouble."

"You're not doing anything wrong? Like stealing?"

"Come on Wendy you know me better than that. I'd starve before I ever stole anything."

"And you're not in a cult?"

"Do you even know what a cult is?"

"I know it's bad."

"No I'm not in a cult. Please, Mom would have to be sedated if she ever found out I was into something like that."

So if you're not into any trouble and if you're not doing anything wrong then why won't you tell me anything? Why all the secrets?"

"Because sometimes it's a good that you don't know everything. Ignorance is bliss as they say."

"I don't understand."

"Let me put it to you this way, you trust me don't you Wendy?"

"Of course I do."

"Can you trust me enough to understand that if I won't tell you something it's for your own good?"

"I...I suppose I can."

"Good now can we please forget about this?"

"Alright but can you answer me this? Will you ever tell me this great big secret of yours?"

Erza sighed again and thought long and hard about her answer.

"Maybe someday. It all to depends on how well you can keep a secret." Erza said with a wink. "So what should you be punished with?"

"Punished?"

"Yes because what you did can't go unpunished. I think that tomorrow I should bring you over to apologize to Juvia and you can help Romeo and Chelia clean their very large house

"You don't have to make me apologize, I planned to do that anyway but do I really have to help them clean the house. I didn't tell anyone what I read and I didn't even want to read it."

"But you still did it didn't you?"

"Yes." Wendy sighed in shame.

"How about this, either you take my punishment or I tell Mom what you did and she can decided your punishment?"

Wendy gulped after that.

"On second thought home cleaning does provide a few good benefits if you think about it. It gives you excersise and excellent working skills."

"My thoughts exactly."

So the next day Wendy to apologized to Juvia for reading her diary and she forgave her. After that she, Chelia, and Romeo cleaned the whole house from top to bottom.

"I really am sorry about what I did Juvia." Wendy said as she mopped the floors.

"I forgive you Wendy. I'm just relieved that you didn't read my most embarrassing secret." Juvia said as she wrote in her diary.

"What? What is it?" Chelia asked as she dusted the windows.

"Trust me Chelia you'll never know."

Juvia let out a giggle before glancing down at the page she was doodling on. This one was a picture of a heart with the words: Juvia Loves Gray Always. Inside of of it. She closed her diary, put it in her drawer which she locked, and hid the key in her fish tank.

"Hey Juvia." Gray said. "Wanna go to the jucie bar for a smoothie?"

"I would love to." She said with a smile.