Nellie Lyons looked around the woman's department of the local K-mart again to make sure they were alone.
Sure, there was probably security cameras watching them, but neither lady planned to steal anything.
Her biggest concern was making sure no one, especially a normal human, was within hearing distance as they talked.
"Listen," began Nellie, moving closer to her old friend Martha Anderson, who she hadn't seen since leaving Minnesota but was happy to meet once more. "It would be great for your family and mine to reunite. The twins wouldn't know you since they were born here, but otherwise..."
"A couple of little future minks, huh?" said Martha with a smile, knowing what a pregnancy in Moon Lake meant.
"Yeah. Still years away from puberty and their first transformation, but growing by leaps and bounds every day. Spry and agile girls too."
"I remember you mentioned loving gymnastics in college," replied Martha, while looking over shorts.
"Yeah. But there's one thing I never mentioned in all our years of friendship before, since at the time I thought you wouldn't be interested," said Nellie, while looking at her more closely.
"What is that?" wondered Martha, arching one eyebrow in curiosity.
"Ever since late high school, I've known I was bi, but as much as I wanted to be more than a friend to you... I– that is, with William and all..." said Nellie, blushing.
"I see," said Martha, while putting a couple of pair of shorts in her basket. "College and later wasn't the best of times for me personally. Repressing part of who I was because I allegedly wasn't supposed to be that way," she added, while moving closer to Nellie. "But that's the past. I'm proud of who and what I am now, in and out of my fursona, and if you ever want to..." before giving her a quick peck on the lips.
"I want to," answered Nellie, before giving Martha a more passionate kiss in return.
"Okay," Martha said with a smile. "Let me finish my shopping. It's barely 2 now," she added, looking at her wristwatch. "William's not expecting me home before 6 at the earliest, so if you're free on your end..."
"I can be," replied Nellie with a smile, reaching out to hold Martha's hand.
MEANWHILE...
"Oh.... yesssssss....." moaned Melissa Stovall, enjoying her husband thrusting deep into her hungry body.
After she and Martin finished discussing the important matters revolving around their daughter Julie's future with Eric Anderson, more passionate needs arose.
The were-mermaid had been without her mate for over 3 days while he drove down to California to check on his mother, who still insisted on living near the coast despite the facts she was pushing 250 and hiding in plain sight amongst normal human beings.
At first they gave into their longings and seduced each other right there on the living room couch. Quickly undressing and making up for lost time, the couple would say their initial orgasms were mind blowing if asked.
Now, with the initial edge dulled, Martin took his wife's hand and led her to the fresh water swimming pool they maintained in the back yard.
The high privacy fence insured that both their modesty and the fact they were were-mers would remain private as they entered the water, each quickly shifting to their Stage 3 form, with the full mer tails as the ends of their now scaly legs merged together.
Quickly swimming hand in hand to the deep end, Melissa reached out to caress and tease Martin's were-merman cock out of its hiding place within the protective folds of his tail.
It wasn't long before that proud organ was drifting in between the valley of her bountiful breasts, even as she sucked the head of his shaft with every thrust.
Martin loved the way Melissa's beautiful long blonde hair fanned out around her in the water.
Then again, he loved his wife every second of every day from the moment they first saw each other at the gas station he was working at all those years ago when she was just passing through town on her to Seattle for a job interview.
Unfortunately, Melissa's one regret about their relationship was that it took her 10 years to accept the facts that Martin WAS the one for her, because "love at first sight" and "happily forever after" were proven scientific facts for were-mers.*
But other than that, Melissa loved every second of being with Martin.
As his loving wife.
As the mother of their daughter Julie, and as his beautiful were-mermaid.
It was a bit of a shock when Martin pulled the tasty treat away from her luscious and hungry lips, but Melissa simply smiled when she realized he was about to insert his penis into her other hungry lips.
"Oh... yesssssss..." she moaned, enjoying one orgasm after another even as her husband continued to ram his long appendage deeper into her mermaid tail, his troutish scales rubbing lovingly against her salmon colored ones.
When he was about to erupt, Martin grabbed her hips for the final thrust.
Melissa wrapped her arms lovingly around him and pulled them closer together.
They passionately kissed even as the hard nipples of her bountiful bosom scraped across his chest as Martin's cock continued to throb and pulse within her long after it delivered the last drop of semen it could give her, for now.
When at last their forms were finally still, Martin's sea mist gray eyes stared deeply into his wife's sea green orbs and said, "I love you."
"I know. I love you too darling," replied Melissa with a smile, holding him close as they drifted off to a blissful nap in the bottom of the pool.
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*At least on Earths 1 and 3. Their absence has created serious problems for the Stovall family throughout the course of the Moon Lake of Earth 2 series thus far.—tmw.