#005
lay + kai   /   pg   /   376 words
mermaid!au: yixing and jongin's first meeting

Yixing met Jongin for the first time when Jongin’s best friend Zitao pushed him into his home, almost knocking him over.

“Oh, hello there,” he had greeted him, surprised but genial.

“GLUBGLUBGLUB,” Jongin had replied.

It had taken a bit of fumbling, but he’d managed to get the strange boy back to the edge of the lake. He was quite far out and a bit of a handful, but before long the two of them were flopped on the narrow pebbled beach of sorts, gasping for breath.

“GAH. I’m going to kill Tao, that crazy bastard!”

“Indeed. Who’s Tao?”

Yixing watched the boy lying next to him turn over, eye him up and down and turn a very pretty shade of pink. “Um…” he mumbled, screwing his eyes shut, “Tao is my friend. He pushed me overboard because a bug landed on my shoulder, or something. I can only guess but that’s the only thing that makes him scream that high.”

Humming, Yixing had studied him with curious eyes. The boy had overgrown brown hair plastered onto his forehead and down the bridge of his nose, his skin a golden hue. It had been so warm against his - Yixing hadn’t been out of the lake for long in many months, and he’d almost forgotten the feeling of bodies that weren’t as cold as his in his tailed form.

“Were you headed to the docks? You were really off course from pretty much...everything,” he informed him, sitting