Recap
"Were you the one that saved me?" He asked, his voice nasally. My eyes widened even more as I crouch down to his level.

"You can speak?"
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The wet skinned boy nodded and gave me a small smile, his teeth were slightly pointy. "What do they call you?" He questioned further, using my ankle as leverage to pull himself towards me more. I quickly glanced around the dusk dusted beach, seeing it was empty I sat down completely in the shallow water. The boys grip released on my ankle and he used both his arms to hold himself up by resting his palms on his chin.

"Uh.. Keith. Keith Kogane."
"Keith Huh?" I saw the other smirk a little, making me furrow my brows defensively. "My names Lance McClain." Lance smiled brighter this time, a twinkle in his eye that I couldn't really explain. Lance... interesting. "So Lance.." I began. "Your a.. your a mermaid?" I said, not entirely convinced myself even though it was pretty obvious. "What gave you that impression?" Lances sass covered words entered my ears. All I could do was roll my eyes and glare at the fish a little annoyed. "Sorry that I've never seen a mermaid."

Lance cocked his head to the side, the playful grin dancing on his face. He flapped his tail up and it splatted back down to the golden grains of sand under him. "Um.. don't you need water.. to breathe?" I asked, eyeing his gills that were fanning a bit more furiously. "Well technically yes, but mermaids can survive on the surface for about an hour before we start to dry up." The blue eyed creature explained. After I processed the new information my eyes widened. "Wait.. then how long were you tangled up on the shore!?"

This caused lance to chuckle nervously. "I wasn't really keeping track, but I'm sure if you didn't come along I would have died." He shrugged. I jumped up to stand on my knees, the sand crawling up my dry thighs. "How are you so nonchalant about that!?" My words gained another shrug. "I dunno. Creatures die all the time. I kinda accepted my fate at that point."

"How did you even get tied up anyway?" I exclaimed, flipping my wind blown hair over my shoulder and behind my ears, sitting back on my knees. "Well.. I kinda.. sorta might of gotten caught?" Lance bit his lip. "Really?"
"Yeah, I was swimming around and I got towed up by the net. After they got me properly tied together, they got distracted while talking to each other. I was able to flop off the side of the ship. The big waves from it dragged me to the beach though."

"I see"

We both sat in silence, quietly observing each other for the first time. My eyes fell to his lips, they looks so chapped and ripped, which surprised me since since his kind literally lived underwater. "Your lips look really rough." I said under my breath, but I'm gonna assume that mermaids have enhanced hearing because he heard me. "Uh.. Yeah. It's a habit of mine. I bite at them when I get bored or nervous."

I reached behind me to get my small handbag that I had set there when I sat down. The bottom was soaked since it was so thin, but everything in it was ok to get wet. I stuck my pale hand inside it and retrieved a small tube. I handed it to him and pointed to my lips. "Put that on, it'll help. Plus my chapstick is water proof." I smiled at the end, while lance just looked at the small object confused. I sighed and grabbed it back, opened it and pressed it to his lips. "Like this." Lances eyes went half lidded while I quickly applied the sticky cream.

Lance smiled, then perked up suddenly. "Oh.. I should get going. Allura is calling me." He gestured behind him to the big shining sea, the waves picking up and tumbling into my lap by now. "Calling you?" I asked. "Yeah, we work like whales with that sort of thing." He replied and I nodded in understanding. He smiled at me one last time before rolling back into the sea.

Just before he took off, Lance looked back over his shoulder and waved at me, his lovely deep blue eyes shimmering in the sunsets light. I couldn't help but blush. He finally plunged back down into the giant pool of water. His scaly tail swinging up before following with the rest of his body. I smiled to myself as I watched the sky, in awe of what just happened.

I really hope I can see him again.
I really really hope so.

:)

Should I do another part to this?