Ocean eyes, salty kiss ((2 person!))

It became shallow quickly, surpisingnme and making me sit down in the water, still holdin his hands. I gave a laugh, my hair pooling around my shoulders and down my back.
"so what do you think of this?" I asked, gesturing to my body.

"Think you look just as beautiful." I said softly as I sat next to her.

I blushed lightly as I looked down, "This is nothing; at the end of the summer is when my scales change color." I moved closer to him, gently resting my head on his shoulder.

I wrapped my arm around her shoulder, shivering at the feel of the scales, drawing her close as my other hand took her hand gently.

He was warm; a nice and stark contrast from the cool water. I snuggled closer, practically sitting in his lap by now.

I held her tight, feeling an urge to never let her go, to protect her despite how little we knew each other.

I looked up at him, just looking at his face for a moment. Then, slowly, I leaned in, placing a soft and shivery kiss right at the base of his neck. When I leaned back out again, there was a small stain of salt where I had kissed.

My hand reach up and touched the area, feeling the salt then my lips, "Why is it that salt doesn't form on my lips?"

"Well, first of all, I can hold my salt backfrom forming." I too brought a hand up, tracing the outline of the mark with one finger, "But, I don't know how salt doesn't form on the lips. Back at my home, we explain it by an old fairytale, but no one knows what it trully happens."

"Fairytale?" i asked, raising an eyebrow

A nodded, "A fishman (I'm just calling them that from now on) fell in love with a human, though he was already betrothed to another. He did everything in his power to prove his love for the human and leave his betrothed. In the end, when the leader asked for proof of salt on the human's lips, the fishman could not do it. His pain at loosing his loved one caused a change in all the ocean. From then on, no fish people could ever leave a salt stain on a human and show proof of love."

"No one?" i asked, intrigued

I shook my head, looking back up at him as I repeated "No one."

"never on a human? or can you leave it on fishmen?"

"I can leave a faint one on fishmen, but only sometimes. Never on a human."

"No reason at all?"

"Not that I know of."

I smiled, "Maybe it's just cause it shows that your meant to be with someone."

"But then... Wouldn't that mean that I'm not meant to be with a human?"

"not what I meant." I said thinking, "If you left salt everything you kissed, I personally would find that annoying."

I gave him a crooked smile, "If I left salt all over you, or others?"

"Well both." I said getting confused and mumbled

I gave a small laugh, pushing away from him as I moved out to slightly deeper water, absentmindedly looking over the scales covering my hips. They all were pastel sandy pinks and yellows, but to my surprise, I found some scales were darkening further, blushing red.
"It's summer, right?" I asked, "What month is it?"

"late may." I said frowning, "Why?"

I gently tugged at a darkening scale, it coming off easily in my hands. Extending my hand forward, I showed it to him, "My scales change color with the season. Late summer, usually at the end of August is when I usually start to change. I'm going to have to be really careful if my scales are changing this early."