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thing? And where had it gone?
    Neal and Mark each took their turns counting fingers. I watched their expressions as they came up. Neither one seemed to have noticed anything unusual underwater.
    Had I imagined the green thing? Probably just another piece of seaweed, I guessed.
    Next, Barry stood a few feet away from the side of the pool. We had to push off from the side and swim underwater to him.
    â€œIf I start to drown, you’ll save me, won’t you?” I murmured to Neal and Mark. I was only half kidding.
    â€œIf you don’t have to save me first!” Neal joked back.
    â€œGo!” Barry cried.
    I took a deep breath and went under. I pushed my feet against the side of the pool. The force propelled me forward.
    I glanced over to see how my fellow Guppies were doing. Mark’s arms were flailing all over the place, but he was clipping through the water.
    Neal’s face twisted with effort. But he cruised along too.
    Then I saw it again. Something green.
    Something that looked like a long green tentacle.
    And it was reaching for Neal!
    I broke through the surface of the water. I shook my head, spraying water everywhere.
    â€œWhat’s the matter, Tadpole?” Barry called. “Did you run out of air?”
    â€œNo! I—I—” My eyes darted around the pool. What creature could be so huge that it had a tentacle that long?
    A gigantic sea monster would have a tentacle that long. But if there were a giant sea monster in the pool, I reasoned, we would all see it.
    Wouldn’t we?
    Neal and Mark stood beside Barry. None of them seemed worried. None of them had seen what I had seen. Which made me wonder: Had I really seen it?
    Forget it, I told myself. You’re just afraid. And you’re letting your imagination run away with you. I spent the rest of the lesson actually having fun. Nealand Mark were cool guys. Even Barry wasn’t so bad—once you got used to him.
    â€œOkay,” Barry announced. “That’s it for today.”
    A lifeguard rushed over to tell Barry he had a phone call. “I’ll see you all tomorrow,” he called as he dashed off toward the resort lobby.
    I rubbed my head with my towel. I was feeling pretty good. I made it through a swimming lesson.
    â€œThat wasn’t so terrible,” Neal declared.
    â€œYeah,” Mark agreed. “I think I’ll even come to the next lesson. Hey, if you guys want to hang out later, come by. I’m in room one hundred four.”
    â€œOkay!” Neal replied. I nodded.
    â€œAdios, fellow Guppies,” Mark said. Then he slung the towel around his neck and jogged away.
    I said good-bye to Neal and headed back toward my room. I felt a little silly about imagining a green-tentacled monster in the pool. Maybe I had been reading too many horror stories about the sea. My mom always says I have a “vivid imagination.”
    That’s when I spotted my sister. She ran toward me.
    Her eyes were enormous!
    She was soaking wet and shaking.
    She jumped up and down.
    â€œThe creature!” she blurted out. “I saw it!”

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    I knew it! There was something in the pool!
    I grabbed Polly by the shoulders. “You saw it? You actually saw the creature?” I shouted.
    â€œYeah!” she cried. She hopped from one foot to the other.
    â€œWas it big?”. I asked.
    â€œMassive!” she agreed.
    â€œWas it green?” I demanded. I had to be sure I wasn’t imagining things.
    She stopped and thought a minute. “Yeah, it was mostly green. And it had this long tail and an enormous mouth.”
    â€œYou got close enough to see that? ” I asked in disbelief.
    â€œOf course,” she insisted. “I rode down on the tail,and it spat me right out of its mouth into this whirlpool! It was amazing, Tad. You have to try it! You just have to!”
    Now I realized which creature she was talking about.
    â€œIt was unbelievably cool! I slid down three times