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Chapter 3: Plotting
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The next day Lewis went down to the Juicenet Cafe extra early to wait for Ash. He waited around plotting his revenge strategy when Ash arrived.
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"Ash, great you here, is Emma working today?"
"Not till later on."
"Excellent, I've already started planning how we're going to get even."
"What'd you have in mind?" Ash unlocked the cafe and began going about getting the cafe ready to open for business.
"Well for starters they're going to be getting a lot of exercise when they constantly have to run for safety.
"Catch."
Lewis tossed Ash a squirt gun.
"For the next few days we will look for opportunities to shoot them and make them run for safety any chance we get. Now obviously we have to make sure they have a safe hiding place nearby and they can access it easy before we get them wet so we don't blow their cover, and we have to be careful that other people don't get suspicious."
"Clever; I like it."
They began discussing specific time, locations and strategies for getting the girls wet.
The girls met up that same morning for what was almost a daily ritual for them, a morning swim together. Without saying a word to each other Emma and Rikki made eye contact and then took off running as fast as they could for the water leaving Cleo standing on the shore watching.
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"Oh c'mon," Cleo yelled out to them in vein, "Do you have to do this every time?"
Cleo stood on the shore shaking her head and trotted into the water and swam off in pursuit of Emma and Rikki.
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Emma entered first and surfaced looking back as a second later as Rikki surfaced.
"When you gonna learn? I'm faster than you."
"You say that now but one of these days I will get you."
"In your dreams maybe."
While they were busy with their usual debate of if it was possible for Rikki to beat Emma Cleo swam in and surfaced in the moon pool.
"Isn't this whole racing thing getting a bit old? Rikki when are you gonna learn, you not going to beat her, and Emma you've proven you're the fastest and always beat her, so why do you encourage her?"
"Could this have anything to do with you always being last?" Rikki asked.
"No, I've accepted that and don't care, besides it's not like I always come in last in every thing we do."
"Yes you are Cleo."
"Remember when you two were first seeing how long you could stay under for? You both went 15 minutes while I lost count at 16 ½ minutes."
"You know I did have some news for you guys that you might find interesting but now I'm not so sure I want to share it with you."
"Rikki, out with it or I'll freeze you in the pool."
"Em, you know that won't do any good; I'll just melt the ice."
"Yeah I know, but if you don't tell us I'll do it anyway."
"Ok, calm down. I thought you and Ash were working this morning and I was going to steal you for a morning swim. When I got there I overheard Lewis and Ash making plans to get even for yesterday."
"They plan to get us wet, multiple times and in public."
"WHAT?" Emma and Cleo shouted in unison.
"Relax, they're just looking to scare us and make us run for cover. They're plan on having a safe escape route available for us and then get us wet and make us run for cover."
Emma and Cleo breathed a sigh of relief.
"So here is what I'm thinking, we cannot be alone in public with them, we have to be paired up or all together when we are around them in public. We have to watch out for each other and turn this around on them. Whenever we see them getting ready to get us wet we have to use our powers to stop them and if possible to make it backfire on them."