It was again time to celebrate my most favorite occasion. Elen and Eldora's birthday had arrived and my two precious guppies would become teenagers today!
I was preparing salmon for the party guests. I gave an open invitation to all mermaids who could attend so I left a little more than half the fish uncooked cutting down my cooking time considerably.
It was another beautiful sunny day on Sunlit Tides so we celebrated on the beach. Eldora was the first to blow out her candles.
She aged into a lovely teenage girl. I knew she was going to be even more breath taking in the water.
Elen blew out her candles next. My girl was so excited she was finally going to be old enough to go deep sea diving.
I have to say I do lovely work when it comes to children as Elen aged into a raven haired beach beauty. Now that they were teens Eldora and Elen were now full fledged mermaids.
The two now needed regular contact with the ocean and only raw fish and kelp would satisfy their appetite. Luckly we had our own private beach and the mermaid reef was a short swim away.
Fasya and Feivel would soon celebrate their birthday as well and my dear little elves were growing so fast. All three of them were already potty trained and Gene was nearly walking.
I took a break from the triplets to have Kelly come over to the temple to babysit while I went out for the afternoon.
He had recently graduated and received a houseboat for his graduation gift from Octavio. He was really taking to life on the sea and spent much of his time fishing and snorkeling.
While Kelly was home with the babies I went down to the grocery store for fishing lessons. I wanted to have more fresh fish on hand for Eldora and and Elen. I also hoped to have more merbabies someday so the skill would be very useful.
After my lesson I had Alcander show me around a good fishing pond for beginners. He gave me a few pointers and talked about how Greggory and he loved going deep sea fishing on Kelly's houseboat.
I didn't make any big catches at the pond but I did bring home a bucket full of excellent minnows for the girls. They were thrilled and offered to take over bedtime duty for the triplets for the night.
I spent the evening relaxing watching romantic vampire movies. Vampires were all the rave now that sightings of them were more frequent.
Sunlit Tides was steadily becoming a prosperous island community so our vampire population was growing as the nightlife was becoming just as active as the day.
I returned to the pond the next day to continue refining my fishing skill. I was daydreaming about finding a handsome vampire to neck with when a little dog dove into the water and stole my bobber. "Hey you drop that right now you fuzzy thief!" I yelled after the dog.
"I'll take that you little trouble maker," said a handsome redhead as he took the bobber from the dog.
"I'm really sorry about that miss. Pluto is just really playful and got away from me. My name is Rene by the way." Rene's glowing skin and eyes clearly identified him as a vampire.
Jackpot! Not only had my daydreams come true but as a bonus Rene the vampire was powerful enough to go out during the day without smoking like a chimney. "It's okay the fish weren't really biting today anyway." And Pluto led me to an even better catch. "I'm Aphrodite, it's nice to meet you Rene."
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