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exclaimed.
    “What?” asked Cai.
    “Vibrations.” Antonia grinned, suddenly feeling much happier. “Someone’s swimming this way and I bet I know who.”

Chapter Two
    A few seconds later, two dolphins arrived. “Bubbles!” laughed Antonia, as her favourite dolphin surfaced beside her.
    “Flipper Feet!” squeaked Bubbles. Then, whipping up the sea with his flippers, he clicked, “Water fight!”
    Antonia, Bubbles and Cai splashed water ateach other until Antonia remembered the second dolphin hovering a short distance away. Diving underwater, she swam over to greet her.
    “Hello, Dream.”
    “Hi.” Dream hesitated, then gently rubbed Antonia’s nose with her own. “Dad said we could play, if you’ve finished your work.”
    “We’ve nearly finished,” said Antonia, pointing to the clear sack of rubbish Cai was holding. “We’ve just got to get rid of that.”
    “Leave the bag on the rocks for now and come and play Sprat. Race you. Last one there is ‘it’.”
    Bubbles sped off, leaping in and out of the water, his body a flash of silver. Antonia helped Cai with the bag of rubbish and Dreamswam alongside so the three of them reached the rocks together.
    “I’ll be ‘it’,” said Antonia once the rubbish was safely out of the water. “I’ll give you a three waves’ head start.”
    Everyone scattered as Antonia counted three waves.
    “Coming,” she called.
    The sea was empty. Cai and the dolphins had dived under the water to hide from her. Antonia dived too and was just in time to see Bubbles dart behind a rock. Slowly, she crept towards him but Bubbles had seen her and swam away. Antonia grinned, knowing she’d have to be much faster to catch the little dolphin. Something was moving to her left. Turning quickly, Antonia saw it was Cai. Shechased after him, catching him easily and tagging him as he surfaced.
    “Phew,” puffed Cai.
    It took ages for Cai to tag someone. Finally he caught Dream. Then Bubbles started a water fight by leaping out of the sea, twisting and smacking down on his back. Soon you could hardly see anything for all the splashing. It was Dream who calmed things down.
    “Listen,” she clicked. “I can hear Dad whistling. It’s time for us to go.”
    “We should go too,” said Antonia, “Claudia’s expecting us at Sea Watch.”
    “One more game,” Bubbles begged but sensible Dream shook her head. “If we don’t go now, Dad might ground us,” she clicked.
    Bubbles swam towards Antonia as if to rub her nose goodbye, but at the last moment he somersaulted and smacked the surface of the water with his tail, splashing both her and Cai.
    “Bubbles,” said Dream warningly.
    “Spoilsport,” clicked Bubbles. “Isn’t she?”
    Dream looked offended and Antonia held her breath. It had taken ages to make friends with Dream and she felt torn between the two dolphins. Then Cai whispered something, making Dream smile and Antonia relaxed. It was good to see Cai and Dream getting on.
    “Bye, Bubbles,” she said, rubbing her nose against his. “Bye, Dream. Thanks for coming. It’s even more fun when you’re here.”
    Dream flushed. “I enjoyed it too,” she said shyly.
    Antonia and Cai watched the dolphins swim away, laughing as Bubbles suddenly leapt up and, balancing on his tail on the surface of the sea, turned a full circle.
    “The twister,” said Antonia wistfully. “I wish I could do it.”
    “You can do everything else,” said Cai.
    “Not everything,” Antonia protested.
    When Bubbles and Dream were out of sight Antonia and Cai collected their bag of rubbish and swam it ashore. As they waded through the breakers on Sandy Bay beach, the water poured from them, leaving their clothes as dry as if they’d been sitting in the sunshine. The only clue that they’d been in the sea was their damp hair. It was a short walk from the beach to Sea Watch, but the rubbish seemed to growheavier with every step and Antonia was glad when they arrived. They sorted the