The Beach- Sunday morning

[throughaphase]

It wasn't like her beach back home, and she didn't have her friends with her, but Cleo couldn't resist getting in the water at least for a little while. It wasn't like anyone was around to see, right

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[its_theclimb]

"They won't find me here," Miley muttered to herself as she hurried across the beach, still in insanely high boots that were absolutely ridiculous for walking in the sand. "They'll never -- oh. Hey."

[throughaphase]

Oh no! Looked like Cleo was just going to have to stay in the water a little while longer. Luckily it looked like she was wearing a bathing suit top and not like she was skinny dipping or anything. Kids's show and all. "Hi!" she called back. "Just going for a walk?"

Hopefully a quick one?

[its_theclimb]

"Hiding, actually," Miley said, casting a furtive eye in the direction she'd just come from. She paused to bite her lip, hesitated -- and then shucked her leather jacket and dropped it in the sand before starting to kick off her boots. "Mind if I join you?"

It wasn't dirty if she was hiding, okay.

[throughaphase]

Cleo's eyes went really wide. "You mean here? In the water?"

[emoclops]

Look! In the distance, above the horizon! Is that a lightning bolt? Is it some sort of shooting star or comet?

NO! It's Flyclops!

"WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" he yelled as he zoomed above the beach, still shooting punches from his eyes into an unbreakable umbrella like the manliest, punchiest Mary Poppins impersonator on record.

And then he was gone.

[throughaphase]

Did she really just see that? Congratulations, FLYCLOPS, you made the mermaid go "Huh?"

[wrongkindofsith]

"Hello?" Cara did not have an Australian accent. She did however have one that sounded like one around the vowels edges. "I don't suppose you know where we are?"

She also had an expression that hoped the bathing girl would be more helpful than the one sitting in the hallway had been.

[throughaphase]

"The beach!" Cleo called helpfully. And then more apologetically, "Other than that... not sure."

She hadn't questioned it too much, because she'd been mostly just grateful to get away from her sister for a while.

[wrongkindofsith]

"I could tell that much." And because this was not the Mord'Sith version of Cara, that came out less sarcastic and more sincere. "I was hoping you'd know more than not being in Minnesota."

Cara still had no idea where that was.

[throughaphase]

"I wish I did," she frowned. "...Minnesota? Really?"

[unburnt_queen]

Danny liked the beach, okay? He'd had some of the best times of his life (all seventeen years of it) on a beach, and really, what wasn't to like? There was sun, you could smoke, and girls ran around wet without wearing a lot of clothes.

Speaking of, when he spotted the pretty brunette out in the water, he paused for a minute before calling out, "You should be careful. There's like, undertow."

He didn't know what he was talking about. But hey, he'd saved one Australian girl's life on a beach before.* It wasn't bad, as far as pickup lines went.

*It's in the lyrics and everything. Even if Sandy doesn't seem to agree.

[throughaphase]

"Oh, I know!" Cleo called back. "I've got it covered."

The tail was great for things like that.

[unburnt_queen]

He raised a brow, watching her, and added, "You sure? I'm a really good swimmer. I can help!"

Altruistic.

[throughaphase]

"Uh, no!" Cleo said quickly. "I'm a really strong swimmer. It's not a problem at all."

Unless she got caught in a net like that one time but what were the odds of that happening twice?