Cory felt a rush of adrenaline as she drifted through the water. The feeling of floating through the calm ocean was amazing. Her eyes looked down to the coral reefs growing from the seafloor rocks below. She swam down to get a closer look. Seeing fish of different shapes, sizes, and colours going about their business.

She spotted a bright red tail floating by and moved to catch up to Rikki. They both grinned at each other. Continuing to swim through the sea.

Rikki had gotten Cory up early that morning. Hoping to finally get her out for the swim, she promised her at Cleo's house. Since Emmett was still on call at the fire station, Cory figured it would be fine to go out for a quick swim before school.

Cory continued to weave around the water. Using her hands to help steer her in the direction she wanted to go. Her bright auburn hair flowed behind her back until she slowed when Rikki pointed something out to her.

A dolphin had started swimming up to them. Making high pitched whistles as if it was saying hello. Rikki and Cory beamed at the sight of the dolphin swam away from them. Cory pointed towards the surface. Silently telling Rikki, she was going for air. Rikki nodded and followed her.

After a little while, they headed back to the beach to dry off. When seeing that Cleo had sent them each a text, they started heading to her place.

"Wow," Cory said in amazement as the two of them walked up the beach.

"I know." Rikki agreed.

"I mean..." Cory shook her head. Trying to find the right words. "Just wow!"

Rikki laughed at her friend's reaction. Understanding completely.

"And look!" Cory opened her palm to reveal a small silver key attached to a little orange dumbo octopus keyring. "Found it when we swam by Mako."

Rikki let out a sarcastic sigh of relief and placed her arm around Cory's shoulders.

One walk later, and they were both lying on Cleo's bed. Stretching out across the sheets. With Rikki laying on her back and Cory laying face down on her belly. The smiles never leaving their faces. Emma sat at the edge of the bed while Cleo made her way out of the bathroom. Holding a sizeable squeezable tube.

"This is a catastrophe of the highest order!" Cleo exclaimed. Moving to rest her arms on the frame of the bed. "Moisturiser contains mostly water."

This didn't really occur to Cory. Rikki had knocked on her door so early that morning. She didn't even have a chance to try anything like putting on moisturiser.

"If dolphins could swim for miles," Rikki thought out loud. Completely ignoring Cleo's complaint. "So can we?"

"Betcha if we tried, we could go even further," Cory said as she twisted her body so that she could lay on her back like Rikki.

"We can never moisturise ever again," Cleo said. Shaking the bottle at them. Trying to get the other girls to understand why she was so upset.

Emma had been unusually quiet the whole time. She was just sitting there, listening to Cleo's rants.

Rikki turned her head to look Cory in the eye. "We could swim all the way to Fiji."

Cory let out a small giggle at the thought of that. Rikki turned to Cleo and Emma. Hoping they would find the idea as cool as Cory did. "Could you imagine that?"

"Our skin will be dry and wrinkly," Cleo said in concern. "We'll be geriatrics by the time we're 21!"

"I missed training today," Emma spoke up. Sounding a bit defeated. "First time in six years."

Cory felt a wave of sadness wash over her at the thought of Emma not being able to swim competitively anymore.

"See?! See how bad this is?" Cleo said to Cory and Rikki while gesturing to Emma.

Cory rubbed her eyes. Slowing starting to see Cleo's point.

"We have to tell someone," Cleo said. Wanting this whole situation to just go away. "Our parents, a doctor..."

"And end a mermaid in a straitjacket, with moisturised skin?" Rikki argued back. She shook her head. "No way."

"No one can know about this. We have no idea how they would react." Cory said.

Emma got up from the bed and made her way over to Cleo. "Rikki and Cory are right, Cleo. We can't tell anyone."

"Not even Mum?" Cleo asked in disbelief.

"No," Emma told her best friend. "No parents."

"But I tell Mum everything," Cleo said. Confident that telling her mother it would be fine.

"Well, not this time."

"We can't risk it, Cleo," Cory said, leaning up from the bed. "We don't know how people will react. "

Emma nodded and rubbed Cleo's shoulder sympathetically. "We'd be locked up, Cleo."

Emma wanted to tell her parents just as much Cleo but knew that Cory was right. They'd have no idea how people would react, and she didn't want to risk it.

"Why would we be locked up?" Cleo asked.

"Because we're different," Emma explained. Hoping Cleo would start to understand. "Because we can do things that other girls can't do or even because they'd be scared of us."

Cleo thought about it a second, then let out a defeated sigh. "Fine, I won't tell anyone... Except Lewis."

Cleo looked down, trying not to let the other see the smile on her face. Cory shook her head. Knowing what was going through Cleo's mind.

Rikki rolled her eyes. "No, Cleo. Not Lewis, not anyone."

"Okay, okay." Cleo nodded her head but still didn't look a hundred percent convinced. "Don't worry, I'm really good at keeping secrets."

Cleo beamed at them and tossed the moisturiser back into her toiletry bag. Cory, Rikki and Emma all give each other concerned looks. Getting the feeling that Cleo was as great a secret keeper as she claimed.

Cory couldn't help but think about what would happen if she did tell her uncle about what really went on during the full moon that night. She knew he wouldn't lock her up or send her to a lab. Nothing like that, but he had always been protective of Cory after her dad's accident. Cory just didn't want to scare him.

In the end, she decided it was best to keep the secret. If she was the only one to become a mermaid, she would have reconsidered, but it wasn't only about her. Cory had to think about Rikki, Emma and Cleo and what was best for all four of them.

A couple of days later, Cory said goodbye to her friends as the school bell rang. She found Rikki, Emma and Cleo by their lockers. Cory was leaning against the side of Emma's locker when she heard the voice of Miriam heading towards them.

"It's party time, people! No excuses," She called in an overly peppy tone. "In honour of our very own surfing god, the beautiful Byron, for winning his special prize."

"What prize?" Cleo asked curiously.

"Whatever it is, they give out for surfing." Miriam shrugged.

"The Coast Surf Classic," Emma told Cleo. "He won by a mile."

"I was having a spray tan-" Miriam told them.

"As you do." Cory joked.

"But I'm sure he was amazing." Miriam continued after giving Cory a dirty look. "Cory, Rikki. I'm sure I have some blanks."

"Do you really?" Cory said with a forced smile that she dropped seconds later. "Don't bother."

"Sorry. I'll be flossing my teeth that night." Rikki said. Causing Miriam to walk away with an annoyed look on her face.

As Lewis made his way over to Cleo, Rikki gave Cory a pleased look while Emma shook her disapprovingly at them.

Later on, the girls walked home from school together. Cleo began to talk about Miriam's upcoming party. Lamenting that they couldn't go.

"It's so un-cool to miss one of Miriam's parties," Cleo complained as she turned to walk backwards to face the other girls. "She won't ask us ever again."

"You say that like it's a bad thing," Cory commented.

"Yeah. If anything, that's a plus." Rikki countered.

"It's a pool party." Cleo said. "I know it's dangerous, but maybe if I told Lewis about us, he could look out for us?"

"Again with Lewis?" Cory sighed. "We already agreed not to tell anyone."

"You did the right thing, Cleo," Rikki said, getting a bit tired of Cleo trying to make excuses for Lewis. "None of us are going."

Emma stopped. "No, wait. I think we should go."

"... Why?" Cory asked.

"For Byron, not for Miriam." Emma smiled. "Surfing is just like swimming; it takes a lot of hard work and training. You need to know everyone's supporting you."

"You like Byron, don't you?" Rikki teased.

Emma chuckled and started walking again. "No way."

Cory raised an eyebrow. "The smile on your face says otherwise."

"You sound like an ad for breakfast cereal." Rikki joked.

"Well, if we learn more about what's happening to us, we might be able to control it enough to go to the party."

"Really?!" Cleo exclaimed.

Cory let out another sigh. In all honesty, she really wasn't interested in going to the party. She didn't see a point in hanging out with people she didn't talk to.

"What's there to learn?" Rikki said." We touch water, and ten seconds later, we grow tails."

"Maybe it's about developing some discipline." Emma began. "Learning some control."

"I don't think discipline is in Rikki's dictionary." Cory joked. Rikki responded by giving her a friendly shove.

"Control? That would be perfect," Cleo said happily. "Then we could go to the party! I'll text Lewis."

"Yaaay," Cory said in a deadpan tone while Cleo pulled out her phone.

"You do realise you're going to have to swim to test this theory?" Rikki said while gesturing to the sea.

The girls had been trying to get Cleo back in the water since finding out about their tails. She stubbornly refused each time.

"What?" Cleo slouched her shoulders in disappointment. "No way. Forget it."

Cleo put her phone away and started walking again. After all giving each other another look, Cory, Rikki, and Emma followed after her.

They managed to drag Cleo down to the beach after changing her mind again. Only to have her start sulking when seeing the water. The girls started trying to convince her to no avail.

"Come on. It's not even deep here," Rikki told the brunette.

"No," Cleo said. She had her knees tucked underneath her chin. Refusing to move.

"Please, Cleo. Nothings going to get better if you keep ignoring this." Cory pleaded.

"No," Cleo repeated. The others keep looking at her. "No!"

"Fine," Emma said. Shaking her head. "Come on, Rikki, Cory."

Cory and Rikki both sighed as they followed Emma over to the water.

"Control and discipline start with the mind. "Emma told them as Rikki and Cory each stood on either side of her in the water. "So, concentrate."

Cory didn't say anything but had a feeling that it wasn't going to be that simple.

"No tail, no tail, no tail," Emma started repeating to herself. Rikki and Cory looked at each other and started doing the same. Hoping for something good.

Unfortunately, after a few seconds, the girls turned to water for a moment causing the tails to appear. "No tail-" They said one more time before falling onto the wet sand. Cory lifted herself up with her elbows, and a disappointed frown appeared on her face as a wave hit the backside of her head.

Cleo, who was watching from the beach. Had an even more disappointed look on her face. Realising that the idea wouldn't work. Rikki spotted Lewis walking past Cleo and motioned for Emma and Cory to hide. They were able to get behind a large rock before Lewis spotted them. With nothing but their heads in site.

"Who leaked information?" Lewis joked, turning to Cleo. "This is my secret, highly classified fishing spot. Someone must have blabbed."

"Sorry." Cleo apologised.

Rikki and Emma gave each other a look while Cory narrowed her eyes at Cleo in suspicion.

"It's fine," Lewis told her. "Hey, I got your message about going to the party."

"Oh," Cleo cringed. Trying to avoid eye contact with any of the four people looking at her. "That was an old message. I'm not going anymore, too much homework."

"Okay," Lewis nodded. He placed his fishing gear on the sand. "Well, I might just join you all for a swim then."

Cory's eyes went wide. Her brain suddenly stopped working, and she turned to Emma, who was also struggling to come up with a good excuse.

"We're naked, Lewis," Rikki said out of nowhere.

Cory let out a surprised 'eh' sound but quickly started nodding along with Emma.

Lewis stopped. With a bit of an awkward look on his face. "Just a quick dip, then?"

Cory frowned at him. "Nooo, I don't think so."

"Goodbye, Lewis," Emma said to him. Her tone made it very clear for Lewis to leave.

"The offer was there," Lewis stated as he leaned down to grab his equipment. He wandered off the beach. Slightly annoyed about not being able to fish in his secret spot.

Rikki, Emma and Cory all collectively let out a sigh of relief.

The girls later decided to head over to Emma's place after their failed experiment. They each made their way into the kitchen. Where Cleo headed for the sink. Emma went to the fridge. Rikki leaned against the counter, and Cory sat down at the bench.

"We're never gonna be invited anywhere cool ever again," Cleo complained again. Cory felt a twitch of annoyance at having to hear this same speech again. "And why? Because we've got tails."

"My swimming career is over," Emma said as she grabbed a carton of juice out of the fridge.

Cleo placed a glass of water next to her and stopped to think for a second.

"I just have one question. Why me? I didn't ask for any of this to happen." Cleo said as she used her powers to float a bubble of water into her mouth.

"You think you've got problems? I've been training to be a swimmer since I was six months old." Emma stressed again. She placed a paddle pop stick in her glass of juice. Then made it freeze instantly.

Cory let out a sigh and placed her hands on her cheeks. Not really knowing what to say to either of the girls anymore. Cleo seemed pretty dead set on not listening to a word she said.

"Well, say goodbye to that dream because we're mer-freaks now." Cleo huffed.

Emma pulled out the frozen juice and started licking it with a sad look on her face.

Rikki looked between them with a look of disbelief and annoyance. "You two are unbelievable. Look at yourselves!"

Rikki turned to Cleo. "You're drinking water from mid-air!" She then made her way over to Emma. "And Emma, you just made an instant icy pole."

Rikki walked out of the kitchen. She stood next to Cory and continued to rant. "Anybody else would love to be able to do that. You've both got these amazing powers, and all you do is whinge, whinge, whinge."

Cory stood up. "Rikki's right. I'm in the same boat as you two, and you don't hear me complaining, do you?" Cory continued. "We're all having to give up things. We're all making sacrifices."

Cory remembered back to her uncle and how much it was eating away at her to not tell him. As well as her painting. She hadn't even tried painting since she got back from Mako. She was too scared to find out the answer to whether her paints were water enough to trigger her transformation.

"Rikki doesn't even have a power. No added benefit to this situation and she hasn't complained once."

"Well, I've had enough. I don't want to hang around with whingers." Rikki turned to Cory. "Care to join me, Cory?"

Cory thought about it for a second, then took Rikki's hand. She was fed up with the complaints. She and Rikki made their way out the door without another word.

The next day Cory was standing in the bathroom, brushing the knots out of her hair. Her mornings had become all the more exhausting with the tail. She never realised how much of a difference having a bathtub could make in one's life. Cory's morning showers now had her crawling up into a ball to fit her large tail into the small shower space. She was slowly getting used to it, but it was still a bit tiresome.

She had agreed to meet Rikki at the Juice-Net Café. But she didn't need to be there another hour or so.

Cory made her way out to the kitchen. Where Emmett was eating away at his breakfast. They gave each other a hello as Cory grabbed a muesli bar out of the cupboard to munch on.

"I'm gonna get a replacement for your key today," Emmett told her.

Cory suddenly remembered her swim with Rikki the other day. She told Emmett to wait and ran to her room to grab her received house key.

"I thought you said you lost it when swimming out of Mako?" Emmett said, taking the key to give it a look.

"OH! Um well," Cory tried to come up with an excuse. "It turns out it fell out of my pocket on the boat. The water police returned it yesterday when you were at work."

Emmett stared at her and passed the key back. "Alllll right. That's convenient."

"Sure is! Don't have to bother wasting money now." Cory said a bit too loudly.

"So, what's going on with you?" Emmett asked.

"What do you mean?" Cory nervously asked back.

"I dunno. You seem a bit nervous lately."

Cory paused, then spoke up. "It's my new friends."

"The pirates?"

Cory let out a laugh. "Yeah them. We're having a spat... About a school project," Cory added. Trying not to reveal too much. "Emma and Cleo won't stop complaining about it."

Emmett shrugged his shoulders. "Not much they can do about it."

"Exactly!" Cory exclaimed. "I try to help, but it feels like they won't listen to me."

"If they're not careful, they'll regret it later. Keep trying. They'll come around."

Cory let out a sigh and thanked her uncle.

Emmett looked at her for a second but turned back to his breakfast. He found it a bit odd how much Cory was getting worked up about a group project. She didn't usually care that much about things like that.

An hour later, Cory headed to the juice café. She spotted Rikki already sitting in one of the booths. She made her way over.

"Hello, beautiful."

Rikki looked up and smiled back at Cory. She told her to have a seat. The two started discussing when to go swimming next. They were interrupted when Cory felt a tap on her shoulder.

"Cory, Rikki, can I sit?" Lewis asked. Looking a bit scared.

An irritated look appeared on Rikki's face when seeing Lewis. "I certainly hope so. Just not with us."

Cory gave Rikki a 'be nice' look as Lewis ignored Rikki's comment and sat next to Cory. Unexpectedly forcing her to shuffle along.

"I know we've had our differences. Um..." Lewis stopped mid-sentence when a waiter placed a coke in front of him. "Thanks. But I want to know what's wrong with Cleo."

"Why are you asking us?" Cory said.

"And what makes you think there's anything wrong?" Rikki added.

"Well, I asked her to go to Miriam's party like a hundred times," Lewis explained. "And every time she's changed her mind. "

"We haven't seen her. Maybe something personal keeps coming up." Cory told him.

"Or maybe she doesn't like you?" Rikki sarcastically asked. Pointing a finger at him. "Did you think about that?"

"Yes. Actually, it did cross my mind." Lewis said with a sad nod, which quickly changed to a smile. "But then I thought, oh no, she hangs around you two, so her standards must be pretty low."

"Okay. I think you just outstayed your welcome." Cory said. Offended by Lewis' comment.

"Goodbye, Lewis," Rikki said, gritting her teeth. She started tapping her fingers on the table. Just wanting Lewis to go away.

"Can you tell me what's wrong or not?" Lewis pushed.

Cory snorted. "Why should we?"

"Please?" Lewis didn't back down. "I know something's going on."

Rikki looked Lewis dead in the eyes. "We're not even speaking to her at the moment, okay?" She curled her hand into a fist. "We just wanna be alone right now, so if you could just..."

Suddenly the coke in front of Rikki and Lewis started bubbling and steam.

"What the?" Lewis explained as she tried picking up the glass, only to put it right back down. "It's hot! Is this somebody's idea of a joke?"

Rikki and Cory shared a look then at Rikki's fist. Cory started pushing Lewis out of the booth.

"Sorry Lewis, we have to go. Hope the stuff with Cleo works out." Cory said to Lewis as Rikki exited the café.

Once they were a reasonable distance away, Rikki turned to Cory. "I've got a power."

Rikki and Cory grinned and laughed at each other like excited little girls. "Come on! I've got to try it again." Rikki said, running off.

They found some puddles of water on the beach. Rikki reached out her hand, and the small pool started to bubble like it had at the café. She closed her fist, causing the water to get even warmer then turn to steam.

"We should tell Emma!" Cory said, pulling her phone out of her pocket.

"Good idea. I need to see the look on her face."

Cory found Emma's number and told her to meet them at the canals they picked her up from in the zodiac.

Cory and Rikki leaned against the railing as they waited for Emma. A few minutes passed by, and Emma came walking down the stairs.

"I'm glad you called," Emma said sincerely. "I'm sorry I was talking about all that negative stuff before. I'm not normally like that. It's just that I was..."

"Em, It's cool," Rikki told her.

Cory took Emma's hand. "Rikki has to show you something."

Cory and Rikki took Emma to the same rock that they were hiding on the other day. The three of them sat side by side in their mermaid forms. Rikki and Cory were buzzing with excitement. Making Emma all the more interested in what was going on.

"Okay, I'm officially curious," Emma said. "What did you want to show me?"

None of them realised that Lewis was walking right up to them. With his fishing gear in hand.

"Is that you guys?" Lewis called out. Causing the girls to lean down to hide as much of their bodies as possible. Lewis noticed them ducking. "Are you naked again?"

"Umm," Rikki glanced towards her tail. "We're having a bit of a girl talk, Lewis."

Lewis looked uncomfortable again. "But are you naked?"

"Go away, Lewis!" Cory told him.

"No, no," Lewis stubbornly told her. "I'm here to fish. I'm having withdrawals. I need the relaxation. If anyone's going, it's you guys."

"Don't push it, Lewis!" Rikki told him in a warning tone.

It was starting to feel like Lewis was everywhere they went.

"Yeah, shouldn't you be following Cleo around?" Emma questioned.

"No. No way, I'm totally over that, trust me." Lewis told him. Trying to sound like he didn't care and wasn't doing a good job of it. "I don't know what's going on with Cleo lately. She just can't make up her mind."

Lewis' pocket beeped, and he pulled out his phone to see a new message from Cleo. "You see what I mean? It's Cleo. She's going to the party again!"

The three girls looked at each other in a panic. Knowing that something was going to go horribly wrong if Cleo was at that party.

"Lewis!" Emma shouted to him. "You've got to do us a favour." She pleaded. "Make sure Cleo doesn't go to the party on her own. Call her back!"

"No," Lewis said. Shaking his head. "I'm here to fish."

"Lewis, this is important," Rikki shouted next. "She could be in trouble."

"I am not some lackey." Lewis raised the phone up to his ear once he dialled Cleo's number. "I am not some all-purpose servant. Do you really think you can tell me what to do and I'll jump?" He continued before hearing Cleo's voicemail. "Her phone's off."

"She could be in real trouble, Lewis!" Cory told him. "You like, don't you?"

"Well," Lewis tried thinking of to say. "In a friendship kind of way."

Cory rolled her eyes. "Well?"

Lewis slumped in defeat as he went to pick up his gear again. He turned around and started making his way back up the beach.

Each of the girls started moving to get back to land. Rikki tried drying their tails with her powers. Which hurt a little but was much quicker than waiting in the sun. Rikki dried Cory first, and she rushed off as soon as she got her legs back.

She made it to Miriam's place and ran in through the backdoor so she didn't have to waste time talking to Miriam or the guests. Just as she stepped through the gate, she saw Cleo being thrown into the water by Zane, Nate, and a couple of other boys.

She looked around to see if anyone had spotted her yet. When no one had their eyes on her, she concentrated on pushing the wind as forcefully towards the other kids as she could. When everyone noticed, they complained about the cold, and all started moving inside to get away from it.

Rikki and Emma got there just as Lewis started helping Cleo out of the water. "Where is everyone?" Rikki asked Cory.

"Inside. Follow me." Cory led the blondes over to the back door area. Once they got there, they saw everyone mingling away. Emma quickly froze the door handle. Making sure no one could get out.

They made their way back to Cleo and Lewis, trying to pull Cleo out of the pool. "Can you guys give me a hand?"

"We can't," Emma admitted.

Rikki looked over to Emma and Cory. "If we get wet, we'll grow tails too."

Lewis stared at them in shock. "The three of you? All of you?! Seriously"

They nodded, and Lewis exhaled. Trying to pull Cleo out of the pool again. "Should have gone to the gym." he joked.

"What are we gonna do?" Cleo asked as Emma and Cory walked away to keep an eye out.

Rikki was quick to dry Cleo off. Much like she had with Cory and Rikki before. Once the tail was gone, Cleo looked up at Rikki.

"There you go," Rikki grinned. "Stream dried."

"You found your power!" Cleo said. Happy for her new friend.

"Guys, what is going on!?" Lewis asked.

"No time. We'll tell you later." Cory said. Making her way back over to them.

Emma and Lewis helped Cleo to her feet, and the five of them made their way out of the backyard. Cory noticed that Rikki had stopped and turned back to see what she was up to. "Rikki?" She ran back and saw Rikki with her hand raised towards the pool.

Cory couldn't help but let out a laugh when seeing all the water boil away. "I never liked pool parties anyway." Rikki shrugged. It made Cory roll her eyes and smile.

Once they had caught up to the others, the group continued jogging along the beach. Wanting to get as far away from the crime scene as possible. They stopped when Lewis spotted Byron jog past with a surfboard under his arm.

"Hey, Byron."

"Hey, guys." Byron gave them a friendly nod. His nose was covered in sunscreen. Ready for the warm sun.

"Why aren't you at the party?" Emma asked.

"Huh?" Byron said, confused.

"Miriam put on a whole party for you. Did she even tell you about it?" Cory chuckled.

"She's the blonde one, right?" Byron guessed. "Parties aren't really my thing. See you, guys. "

Byron gave them a wave and headed towards the beach.

"Nice board," Emma said.

"Nice pics." Cleo continued, dreamily.

"Nice attitude," Rikki said as she turned to follow.

"Nice.. hair." Cory joked. Not really knowing what to say.

They later found another rock by the ocean and sat down to tell Lewis what was going on. Once they were done, Rikki turned her head towards Lewis.

"This probably goes without saying, but if you tell, we maim you."

To emphasise the point, Cory bumped her fist into her other hand in a threatening manner.

"I'm not that stupid," Lewis told them. "If anybody found out, you'd end up as science experiments."

Everyone went quiet for a second until Emma spoke up. "I quit the swim team today."

"Oh, Emma." Cleo sympathised. "I know how much that means to you."

Cory placed her hand on Emma's shoulder to comfort her. Emma put her hand on top of Cory's and sighed. "Still, what could I do?"

"This whole thing is just out of control," Cleo complained. "It's just too big."

Lewis grinned and held up his hands. "Let me get this straight." He pointed to Emma. "You freeze things. Then to Rikki. "You explode things." Next Cory. "You control the wind." Finally, Rikki "And you boil things."

All of them smiled, but Cleo's was a bit more forced than the others.

"And you all grow tails!" Lewis finished.

"It's bizarre, to say the least," Emma said.

"I think it's wild." Cory said with an electric look in her eye." There are a few cons, but overall it's kinda neat."

"It's... it's," Cleo started but hesitated. "I don't have a word for it."

Rikki stood up from her spot. "I do. Four of them." She said profoundly. "Totally absolutely, amazingly, awesome and fantastic.

Emma and Cory laughed while Cleo continued to grimace.

The whole situation was far from perfect, but one thing Cory believed was that if you focus too much on the past, you'll get stuck in it. She chose to look at the future.

Did you all like that High School Musical reference in the title?

I was going to have an extra sub plot where Cory accuses Cleo of bringing them to that part of the beach to get caught by Lewis on purpose, but I felt a little mean spirited and extreme for the second episode of the series.

Remember to comment so that I can keep up inspiration for this story.