❝ What is that? ❞ ❝ Fish bone.❞       ❝ How much time are you willing to willingly spend with her?❞
Seyeon was pressing the end of the pen in her hand.   Her train of thoughts crashed before her when she shot her head up at the sound of halting footsteps.    Seungho was coming in for work when she exchanged a short, silent gaze with him before greeting him. "Oh Seungho."    Seungho walked over to her and stood next to her tidy desk; bascially the only cleaned and organized one in the whole room.    "It's five in the morning, you're three hours early." He said. She flash him a forced smile.    "Why? Did you memorize my whole schedule?" She teased. Seungho sighed a little.    "Jiyeon would kill me if I don't."    Seyeon chuckled at his funny excuse. "I just couldn't sleep so I decided to come to work early." She explained.    Unlike the bright and cheerful Seyeon he was used to; there was a gloomy and sulking atmosphere about her.    "Does it have anything to do with last night's get-together?"    "Kind of." She answered staring off into space. "Seungho. We definitely heard a woman's voice from the bathroom didn't we?"    Seungho didn't answer and let her answer her own question.    "We did didn't we. Soohyun was acting strange too." She mused. "Men....When they're two-timing they act just like that."    "What do you mean two-timing? Soohyun isn't dating you to begin with."    "No. You're right. Not yet. But he should know how I feel about him by now."    Seungho slide his hands into his pockets, "I don't like this you. Can't you be more like yourself?"    "You should know how I feel Seungho. Don't you love Jiyeon?"    "So, what are you saying?"    "How much time are you willing to willingly spend with her?"    Seungho sighed, "As much as I can afford to."    "So. If you are paid to spend your time with her, you're saying you'll spend all of it with her?" Seyeon questioned.    "Yeah."    Seyeon smirked a little, "I expected that answer from you. Jiyeon is my best friend but I know you better. You simply don't like Jiyeon the way she likes you."    Seungho watch as Seyeon leaned back against her seat with a heavy sigh. "Whatever. As long as you don't two-time her, I won't overwork you here."      "Here, wear this." Soohyun threw Gain a white dress. "I don't think you'll be able to fit your tail into pants so just wear my sister's dress."    Gain grabbed ahold of the wet dress and lifted it up high enough for her to see more of it. "Why do I have to put it on? Are you using this to net me back to the sea?"    Soohyun felt like someone mentally slapped him. 
"Huh? Why would I...? No it's just a dress, clothes, like how I'm wearing clothes."    "But why do I have to put it on?"    "To cover yourself with it...."    Gain looked at it and decided to put it on. She was curious as to how it felt covering her body, and even why humans trouble themselves with it. Once she easily slipped it on backwards she looked up at Soohyun. "Happy?"   Pretending she had put it on correctly he nodded. "Yeah, anyway it's early and I'm tired so I'm going to bed--actually nevermind. I can't leave you roaming in here freely. I'm going to cook breakfast do you want anything to eat?"    "Cook breakfast...?" She questioned.    Great more questions that can't be answer with human's words.    "Eat I mean. I'm going to find something to eat. What would you like to eat?" Without giving her a chance to answer he continued, "Actually what do mermaids eat?"    "We eat fish, clams, eels, and octopus."    "Live octopus...?"    "No we killed them then eat them."    "Without cooking them...?"   "What's cooking? We just eat them after we kill them."   Soohyun wanted to gag. The thought of raw food disgusted him. "So....You're fine with raw food I'm guessing?"    "Hm, correct."    "Then....I'll check the fridge for any fishes...."    "Okay!"    Soohyun opened the freezer in the kitchen. "Can she really eat a frozen raw fish...? Should I thaw it first?" As he thaw the food, he was also searching for his own meal.    He cracked an egg open over the frying pan. As he got to cooking, he was left out of what was going down in the bathroom.    Gain pulled the cap off the toothpaste and squeezed it, she giggled when the paste oozed out slowly. Once she've lost interest, like a child tired of a certain toy, she turned back to the counter, reaching over she grabbed Soohyun's shaver in hand.    She looked at the blade with some hair stuck in it. Slowly she ran her webbed fingers over it.    "Ow--" A small cut formed on her finger, angry she threw it onto the tiled floor. She frowned as she scanned the top of the counter some more, with her fingers pressing down ag