<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4080FF">"A weekly bath..."</span> She covered her mouth with her fist as she giggled. <span style="color: #4080FF">"I s'pose that's one way to put it."</span> So apparently, this suity guy was a sneaky fella. Just the type she knew she couldn't stand. Alannah slid automatically past Dimitri and began circling him, frowning. Would the best course of action be to pretend they had drifted apart? No, then suity guy might think he had accomplished what he came for, and never show up again, and she couldn't have that. Aside from the whole thing with Dimitri's mom - and if she was honest with herself, Alannah was almost sure that had just been a hallucination - she was super curious. What in the seven seas was so bad about some demigod messing around with mermaids? <br/><br/>She turned tail and began swimming the other way around him, absentmindedly rubbing her chin. Pretending was out of the question, then. <span style="color: #4080FF">"I agree that we have to find out who he is,"</span> she said, still swimming and occasionally pushing a jellyfish out of the way where they had glided into her path <span style="color: #4080FF">"But the question is how we do that. If he wont come here, maybe we need to find cleanah watah. Or just stay on land mosta the time."</span> Dimitri was right about her parents, friends, and job, though. Normally, she was pretty happy with the way she lived, but at the moment it just seemed like such an inconvenience. Then again, she had been working almost non-stop lately. Maybe she could ask for a week off. Or two. The teenager inside her immediately screamed at the possibility of a road trip and of seeing other places with Dimitri, and she couldn't hold back a smirk. That had definitely crept upwards on her bucket list in the week she had known him.<br/><br/>She came to a halt in front of Dimitri and put her hands together with an almost inaudible smack. <span style="color: #4080FF">"Right, here's what we do. Does the suity guy evah come by anywhere when ya're not around, ya think? I could always ask Howard if he's seen him. Howard sees everyone. He's the old man in the green jacket who always comes by at 12:15,"</span> she told Dimitri in response to his questioning expression. <span style="color: #4080FF">"And if he hasn't, we'll just have to lure him out. I've been working a lot lately, so I could probably try to get a few days off, more if I can. Whaddya say to that?"</span></div>