Sometime in their spearfishing lessons, Dusk learned the girls name was Sonata. Ironically enough, to boot, Sonata, Dusk. Caused a good laugh between them when he told her his name. All the while, Dusk continue to pester her with any, and every, question he could ask that he didn’t feel would jeopardize his identity. Not that Sonata seemed to mind. Actually, to his delight, unlike most people he knew when he’d go twenty questions on them, Sonata was more than happy to answer. Which in turned, caused Dusk to have a funny feeling in his chest.

“Yeah,” Sonata said continuing on such a conversation as they swam through a sea grass meadow. “Although, if you ask me, it’s not a good birthday cake if there arn’t any sardines.”

“Incredible!” Dusk gawked, fallowing behind Sonata as the mermaid was swimming backwards and with her hands behind her neck. “But i still don’t get how you can even start a fire if everything that would be in your reach is damp.”

Sonata shook her head in bemusement. “Well I’m not sure how they wouldn’t have fire where you’re from, but,” she sat up, smiled, and darted past Dusk. The confused boy turning around to see Sonata had spotted something in the sandy grasses.

“Oh my gosh,” she giddied, picking something up. “Dusk, look at this!”

Dusk blinked serval times before realizing Sonata had found a bottle cap.

“What do you think it is?” She asked in excitement, holding close in examination. “Do you think it’s a button of some kind? Oh! Or maybe it’s rare type of human coin?”

Despite the fact that, to him, it was only a piece of trash, he felt warm inside at seeing Sonata’s excited reaction. But before he could decided on if he should humor her or not, he noticing something in the grass Sonata’s tail had brushed aside.

“No way,” he mouth, picking up the fossil, lost for words. “Oh wow!”

It was a trilobite. Definitely a new species, he was sure of it. Although what stood out as the most amazing thing, was that it had features more associated with a crab. Did this mean the two groups were related? Did one evolve into the other! If so, then was it a trilobite evolving into a crab, or maybe it was the other way around? Either way, Dusk was confident that this would be the scientific discovery of the decade!

“What?” the scientific discovery of the millennium asked. “Now you act like you’ve never seen a trilobite before.”

“Um, I’m sure no one’s seen a living one.” Dusk scoffed at the idea, before recalling who he was talking to.

“Sure they have.” Sonata giggled in a way a kid might when trying to act all ‘sweet and innocent’ over something. He almost swore he even saw a halo around her head. “That particular kind goes great with red kelp.”

The fossil slide out of Dusk’s hand. “Alive, I, live, lie, I… oh…” His mind shut down while Sonata bursted out laughing

“Wow! You really aren’t from around here, are you?”

Dusk blushed and bit his lip. “Was it that obvious?”

Sonata rubbed her chin. “Well,” she glanced behind him, and her eyes widened in horror. “Get down!”

Before Dusk could say what, Sonata lunged forward and pinned him down into the grass. coughed as the Sonata pushed him into the sand. He tried opening his month, but Sonata covered it. She placed a finger to her lips, then used said appendage to point in the direction his back had been.

Looking upwards from where he laid, Dusk a bizarre mixture of fear, and lust filled excitement, as the plesiosaur swam into sight. Seeming not to have noticed, the prehistoric monster swam over them, close enough for Dusk to see the various scars and bruises such a predator had acquired in its lifetime. Slowly, he slide his right arm across Sonata back, and lift his left, and camera, upwards. Realizing what he was doing in the nick of time, Sonata grabbed Dusk’s wrist and pinned them down.

“No!” she quietly hissed.

“Let, me,” he grunted, trying to break free. Which he likely would have been able to do, if Sonata, pressing up to him nose to nose, didn’t glare directly into his eyes and said,

“Listen here, human, I’m not about to let you get us killed just because you’ve never seen a fucking plesiosaur before!”

The camera fell lifeless to the sand. Unable to process, Dusk attention turned to closeness the circumstances had brought them. The way their bodies pressed tightly together, how her face sparkled in the middays suns reflection one the beast had passed, her eyes, and the fact he felt something poking Sonata’s lower half. Which didn’t go unnoticed by the mermaid judging by her maddening blush. Only once she was sure it was safe, did she quickly push off of him.

“Whoa! Wow, yeah, sorry about that.” She, kicking at the sand and looking anywhere but at him.

“Um, it’s fine.” Dusk let out a shame filled laugh. “Friends are always telling me I tend to get ahead of my myself. That one day it be the end of me. Didn’t think it would be so literally.” His started to rub at his wrist. “So… Ah hell with it! Let’s not dance around with the subject.” He rubbed his head before asking, “What give me away?”

Sonata shrugged. “What didn’t?”

Dusk cringed to that, before adorning a cheeky grin.. “By chance this a common occurrence among your kind?”

Sonata let out a puff. “Well if it helps, most wouldn’t believe you were a human even if you could prove it.” She rolled her eyes. “I find most people are dense like that.”

“Ah!” Dusk nodded in empathy. “I know the feeling.” He smiled warmly at her. “Glad you’re not as dense as the other fish.

“Yeah, well,” Sonata started, before realizing that was a compliment and blushed. Although to save fave she added, “I can swim circles around them any day!”

Dusk chuckled. “I don’t doubt it.”

Sonata face smiled and figured with her hair. “So, how did,” she blinked, looking down at Dusk’s tail eyes started to twinkle as she leaned down to look at his tail, and what had sprouted out from it.

“Sorry! Sorry!” she bashfully cried out when he noticed his errection, and that she had been staring at it.

“Well, um, I!” Dusk stammered, covering it with his hands. Of all the things to happen today!!!!

“You know,” he started, moving his hand away to look. “I was actually starting to wonder about that, truth be told.” He shallowed as Sonata bite at her hands. “Um, I swear! I wouldn’t know what I can do to help the situation!”

“No, no!” Sonata waved off. She sucked in some water, exhaled, then looked at Dusk dreamily. “I’m actually somewhat flattered.”

Dusk gluped. “You… You are?”

Sonata smiled. “First time anyone’s found me attractive.” she frowned. “Most think I’m too irritating.”

Dusk fumed. “What? No! Why wouldn’t they? Idiots if you ask me. You seem like a smart, inquisitive, cheerful, pretty—

She let out a depressed sigh. “Something about being a human geek and not showing interest in simply popping out babies makes you unattractive to most guys for some reason.”

Now, it’s safe to say Dusk had never been successful with the opposite gender before. Not for lack of trying. Once, twice. Okay, A lot! Or rather, it was never something he considered bothering with. He had friends, but they were proving to be complicated enough. Truthfully, he hadn’t want to add romance before to make his busy life all the more hectic. Which as a consequence, made the few times he tried miserable failures. Even that one prostitution Berry had secretly arranged for him couldn’t fallow through and demanded her money back. That being said, most of the girls his friends tried to set him up with just didn’t do it for him, no mater how hot the guys claimed they were. It seemed to be their personality’s, or lack there of, that never clicked with Dusk before.

Then there was Sonata. In spite of her not being human, she had everything and more Dusk though of in an idea girl. Cute, full of charm and energy, and a character he could help it fall for in only the short time he’d know her. Add on the fact she didn’t seem board and irritated with him either.

So , for once in his life around the opposite sex, Dusk said the thing she needed to hear, had it been intentional on his half or not.

“Well, I care a lot more that you’re a charming, beautiful, and the funnest girl I’ve ever hang out with and talked to.”

They were quiet for a second, before Sonata softly said, “You think I’m beautiful?”

Dusk blinked in confusion at such dumb question. Fortunately, he only said, “Absolutely.”

Sonata held a hand to her chin, circling around in the water for awhile, before lunging forward, pressing her lips against his.

Dusk recoiled at first to the sudden display of affection. His brain telling him to get this crazy girl off. Which briefly brought up an, particularly, bad memory of a girl Elusive set him up with. However, this forced kiss didn’t feel the same. Where that other girl’s kiss had been drunk, hollow, and meaningless, Sonata’s had, heart, love, determination. For lack of a better word he could describe. So what if it was sudden? He thought as the two of them laid back down on the sand, their tails starting intertwining. He liked her and, incredibly, she liked him back. For once, he couldn’t care less about logic or what might be rational. From what he read, when had romance ever been logical? Which he knew wasn’t not true. The proof of that came as he felt his member poked at Sonata’s tail.

Sonata pushed, laying besides him in the grass to get a good look at his shaft.

“So,” Sonata stayed, tugged at her hair.

“I mean, NOT, that I wouldn’t want too!” Dusk spoke up. “Not because I don’t think you’re beautiful, I.” He chuckled his tongue. “If that’s okay with you, I’d rather not rush. Please?”

Sonata gave him a look to that. If it was more of relief or disappointed, he could guess. Maybe it was a mixture of the two? Either way, he let out a breath when Sonata nodded happily to his request.

“Of course! Although,” she let out a sly grin, “as a pair of curious young minds who have never seen a merman’s erection before, wouldn’t it be such a wasted opportunity to not… Study it?”

Dusk stared at her. Although from the way he felt his lower half twitch, he couldn’t say no.

“Sure,” he nodded. But before he could lift a hand, Sonata stopped him.

“And, I suppose,” Sonata said giving a so-so motion. “Now that we’re past the liars revealed trope, I’m guessing since you’ve meet me, you’ve been, shall we say,” she flashed her eyelashes. “Curious to study my lower half?” She lifted her tail up in display.

Dusk was sure he saw a few boiling type bubbles floating around his head. “Well I mean! Er, that is, if you’d be okay with it.”

Sonata kissed him on the cheek. “I promise only if that would be okay with you.”

He answered her with a kiss to the lips. With that, Sonata lifted up off the sand, arched her body to circle above him, and placed her tail next to his face. Landing herself by his upper torso by his tail, her hand right around his pelvic bone would be.

Dusk shuttered at her touch. Although that didn’t keep himself from ‘exzaming’ her own tail. Which, sexual arousal aside, had been something her really wanted to do at some point. The issues being being on how he was supposed to ask without sounding like he wanted to... Well, do what they were short of doing right now!

The first thing he took note off was her tail fin. Noting as he fingered it, that along with being translucent, the texture was firm. Definitely made of cartilage. However, where his own took on the shape of an arrowhead like a fish’s, her’s was more crescents shape. Much in the way most marine mammals such as seals and dolphins would be.

Sexual difference, he concluded.

Speaking of, as he touched her fin, the tail started to wiggle. He looked nervously to Sonata, who gave him a reassuring nod while fingering his own tail fin. The warm pleasure running through his body, assured Dusk the he hadn’t hurt her, and continued his study.

Moving along, he looked to the part of the tail where the knee would have been if Sonata’s tail had been a costume. Although with a better and up close view, he noted to its flexibility. Poking it a bit, running his hand further up, he hypostatized this was due to individual fish bones of sorts at each bend. Not that he had anyway to confirm without cutting her open. He mental slapped himself for that. Thankful to have mature enough to figure out on his own that asking a girl if her could dissect her on their first date, would have likely killed any chance of a second one. Not that Elusive would let him live it down if he heard he even considered the idea at all.

While the fin, and possible bone structure, was fishy, he noted how the outside had a texture closer to a seal’s. Not that he knew what seals felt like from personal experience, it was simply how he would describe it. Moving on, her eventually reached the point where her tail ended, and her human skin began. Which while clearly not stitched, it did look to him almost as if the two half’s were sown together in some way. In part because her back side lacked the curve of a human buttocks, and was perfectly smooth up to the curve of Sonata’s human waistline.

“How’s the view?” Sonata teased.

Dusk jerked back. “Well I mean! It’s a very nice body. Tail! Figure, shape, sorry!”

Sonata snorted to that. “Well just relax, you dork.” She adjusted her positing, bringing her fingers to his fully erect member. “Still, I propose we should get to the main, feature, of one another?”

Squirming in her grasp, his tail arched back before composing himself to search for Sonata’s. It took him a bit, but soon enough he found an opening just inches below her divide. He tried to open it up, but found its strong resistance. Likely an adaptation to keep seawater out.

“What are you doing down there?!” Sonata giggled.

“Well, um,” Dusk muttered, a little taken aback. “Did you not want me too stop?”

“No!” Sonata paused for a moment. “Just stick your finger into it. Don’t worry, it won’t bit.”

He let out an unconvincing laugh. However, the good news of the implication was that it meant oral sex would probably never happen between them. Which was more than fine by him. As it was a sex concept he could never for the life of him figure out why it was appealing.

Doing as instructed, he stuck his pointing finger into her tunnel. The passage clamping tightly as he saw Sonata’s tail squirm. The mermaid repaid in kind as his breathing increased.

“Anything to note?” He question, adding another finger to start stroking her insides.

“It’s, ah, warm,” she cooed. “Mine?”

‘Well,” Dusk flushed, feeling around. “Also warm. Very tight.” Surprisingly dry, he thought of saying, but felt wrong. Not that there wasn’t any moisture, but he certainly wouldn’t have expected what felt like air pockets either. “Say,” he mouthed thinking of something he didn’t feel himself. “Do you see any testicals?”

“Any what?”

Already taking that as a no, he made sure by rephrasing. “Anything that looks like a pair of spheres?”

“Um, no,” Sonata answered quizidly. “Should I?”

“Don’t worry about it then!” he said to her, than to himself, “So they’re fully internal like any other marine animals. Well that be a first to all of —

Eventually, somewhere in the examination, the pair of them became more focused on as a sudden buildup of pressure in their abdomens. Dusk started to say more, but from the way he felt Sonata’s body tense, pushing his curiosity to the side, and started to pick up the pace. Moving his fingers back on forth much faster as he felt Sonata fallow his lead.

“Clo… Close?” Sonata asked a few minutes later.

“Ye… Yeah.” Dusk nodded, adding another finger to try and heighten Sonata.

“Oh, yes!” she hissed. “Keep that up! Good work.”

With that, he picked into a wild, unorganized rhythm. Only caring when a particular part he touched caused her tail to arch. His own arching back as he—

The way Sonata came down had Dusk, at first, question how truthfully she was about that not biting quote. After he wiggled his fingers to confirm that they were still attached to his hand, did he register Sonata’s screams. Realizing what this meant, the idea that he had been the one to bring a wonderful girl pleasure, it was more than enough to set him off. His shaft pulsing and squirming as he released into the open sea.

Once the two of them and calmed down, they turned to each to look at each other. Wordless, Sonata lifted herself up, then floated back down on Dusks chest,coiling her tail around his. They stared at each other, smiling goofly for a minute before bringing their lips together.

Author's Note

Happy singles, but better than forcing yourself into an unhappy arrangement, awareness month! Where like you, I like, I spend the month listening to and reading others romance/porn stories.
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