CHAPTER TWO
THE TAIL
The next day, Stella, Aria and Vicki got out of bed, but when they took a bath they could no longer feel two legs. When they looked down they realized they now have tails.
All of a sudden the door to the bathroom opened, and in came Cleo.
"Mum!" Aria said. Cleo could tell her daughter was freaking out, she did.
"What's happened to me? Why am I a fish? Mum? I'm freaking out." Aria said with a ton of questions.
"Ok, honey calm down. We can work through this together ok?" Cleo said, Aria just nodded, and then Cleo called in her husband.
"Yes!" Lewis shouted.
"Can you come up here for a sec?" Cleo shouted back down to him.
"Ok. What's up?" Lewis said coming to the upstairs bathroom, Cleo used her eyes to tell him to look inside, so he did, and what did he see? His fifteen year old daughter, in the bathtub, with a golden orange tail.
"Wha-what the? She's you." Lewis said shouting the last two words. Aria looked from her mum to her dad.
"Mum? What's dad talking about? What does he mean I'm you? Mum? Oh god." Aria questioned, now hyperventilating. Then all of a sudden water floated in midair, which was no help. At all.
"Oh my god! Am I doing this?" Aria asked.
"No. I am." Cleo said, she thought that maybe if she used her powers it could calm her daughter down, but it didn't. It went the total opposite from what she wanted to happen.
"Ok Aria, look at me ok? Who am i?" Lewis said.
"What?" Aria questioned her dad confused.
"Who am i?" He asked her again.
"You're Lewis McCartney, me and Zoe's dad, mum's husband. You own the water park, and you're a Marine Biologist." Aria said.
"OK. Now who is Cleo?" He asked me.
"Cleo McCartney. She is me and Zoe's mum, your wife. She too owns the water park, and is also a Marine Biologist, and a dolphin trainer…ooohhhh." Aria said, finally realizing what her dad was trying to point out.
"How long?" She asked her mum.
"Twenty-five years." Cleo said.
"You're not hyperventilating anymore. That's good." Lewis pointed out.
"Ha-ha very funny." Aria said sarcastically but smiled.
"Was Stella and Vicki with you when this happened?" Cleo asked. Aria then realized something.
"Stella and Vicki!" She said wide eyed.
At Stella's house.
"Stella, honey is everything ok in there?" Ash asked his daughter. The house phone rung and Emma picked it up.
"Yeah. I'm fine." Stella replied.
"Emma! Cleo's on the phone, she needs to talk to you. Now." Ash said. Stella was relieved, but was curious to why Cleo was calling.
"Hello? Cleo?" Emma said.
"Hey Em. Aria said Stella and Vicki were at Mako with her last night. Emma my daughter's got a tail; yours might have one as well." Cleo said.
"Thanks Cleo, I should go. Stella's in the bathroom right now." Emma said, and then ended the call.
"Stella honey? I know." Emma said from outside the bathroom door.
"What do you mean? I don't know what you're talking about?" Stella said, trying to hide that she has a tail.
"I know you have a tail. Because Cleo called and said Aria has a tail, from what happened last night on Mako, you and Vicki should have one too." Emma explained.
"Wait. How do you know all of this?" Stella asked her mum.
"Because you're just like me. A mermaid. Stella I've been a mermaid since I was fifteen years old, Me, Cleo and Rikki and help you girls." Stella's mum said.
"The doors not locked." Stella said, in appeared her mum.
"Honey, you'll be fine. Trust me." Ash said coming in.
"Trust us." Emma corrected him. Ash stuck his tongue out at Emma. Stella, Emma and Ash then bursted out laughing.
At Vicki's house.
"Vicki, we know what's going on, Aria's mum called explaining everything. You don't have to hide, being a mermaid is basically normal for us." Rikki told her daughter.
"Mum? You are going to guide me and help me right?" Vicki asked her mum.
"Of course. Me, Cleo, and Emma will guide you girls." Rikki said.
"And the dad's too of course." Zane said while smiling, as he was leaning against his daughter's bedroom door, this caused Rikki and Vicki to laugh.
"Most definitely, otherwise without the dad's we probably wouldn't be alive right now." Rikki said making a very good point.
"You better get ready; we're heading to Mako soon." Zane said.
"Why are we going to Mako?" Vicki asked, with her smiled disappeared, and turned into a confused look, while her parents were still smiling.
"You'll just have to wait and see." Rikki said, getting off of her daughters bed and walking out of the room with Zane following, leaving their daughter still confused.