@vcndetta || Cleo & Rikki
Cleo knew she shouldn’t have go swimming. And not because it was in the middle of January, and the water in this little pond was surely way too cold to go swimming in there.
No, it was because her secluded little pond maybe was not as secluded as Cleo had thought. First, she was hearing footsteps, and then saw someone coming closer. This was not good. Like, there was no way to tell what would happen if they would find out Cleo was a mermaid.
She tried to hide behind a larger rock, glancing over it now and then. And everything went well…. until a squirrel was jumping down a tree next to her head, making Cleo shriek in surprise…