<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4080FF">"I think,"</span> she said, laughing as she broke free <span style="color: #4080FF">"That ya a hormonal teenagah indeed who doesn't have to make anything up to me. It's more <span style="font-style: italic">me</span> who owe <span style="font-style: italic">ya</span> a favor! Traveling, wow..."</span> Alannah whipped her powerful tail and shot upwards through the waves, cutting back through the surface a little way from Dimitri and inadvertently soaking the part of him above water. She laughed soundlessly as she wound around him. She wasn't entirely sure that Dimitri understood just how great the mere idea of going out state was to her. She had momentarily and happily forgotten that she needed to figure something out with work first. For now, all that existed was the him, her, and the water.<br/><br/>Alannah popped back up beside him. She had considered pulling him under with her by his legs, but decided against it. Instead, she clasped both sides of his face and kissed him, hard, before pulling away again, still laughing and whooping breathlessly. <span style="color: #4080FF">"Man, I can't <span style="font-style: italic">wait</span> to go with ya! I wanna meet ya ma! Ohohohoh, and ya pa, if he's there. Y'know, the good guy, not the othah one."</span> She whispered conspiratorially, but still unable to hold back a giggle. Her eyes were glowing manically as she pressed a finger to her lips. <br/><br/><span style="color: #4080FF">"D'ya wanna go for a swim?"</span> She blurted out. <span style="color: #4080FF">"I mean, I know we're right in the middle of the ocean, but I haven't seen ya swim. Could ya use ya god-given magic thing to swim fastah? Or do ya even know how to, country-boy?"</span> She snickered. <span style="color: #4080FF">"I've only seen ya walk and sink! And well, bend, but any mermaid can do that."</span> She proceeded to dramatically punch through the water, briefly leaving an arm-shaped hole behind her. She waggled her eyebrows at him. <span style="color: #4080FF">"C'mon, ya never tested how far out ya could go? Who knows,"</span> she shrugged <span style="color: #4080FF">"Ya might need to know ya limits soon."</span></div>