{{Our episode title is courtesy of the immortal Bard William Shakespeare.—tmw.}}
The happy were-mer couple had a great time in the Stovall family's fresh water pool, enjoying the moments swimming and just being with each other.
A brief round of underwater "Marco Polo" led to kissing that got very intimate on both a physical as well as emotional level, but neither cared.
Julie Stovall longed for Eric Anderson's touch. Whether it was just him holding her webbed hand in his, their lips touching, or sensation of their scaled tails against each other as his were-mermanhood was deep within her body, filling her beyond belief even as they shuddered in orgasmic bliss together.
But alas, all good things must come to an end.
The happy couple were holding each other as they laid on the bottom of the pool when Julie said, "You know, I really do have a large amount of homework to tackle tonight."
"Me too," admitted Eric, as he gave his fiance another kiss.
Then, holding hands, each were-mer went back to their Stage 2 forms as their tails split into scale covered legs as their webbed feet reformed.
Together, they walked toward the shallow end of the pool, and Eric gave Julie a symbolic parting kiss before their heads appeared out of the water.
By the time they had ascended the steps, both had resumed their relatively normal human forms but since weres in general, let alone were-mers specifically, have no taboos or hang ups about being nude, they continued to walk hand in hand back to the table.
There, they dried each other off, playfully kissing and caressing body parts as they went, but careful not to start something new that they might not have the time to finish.
Once they were relatively dry, Eric draped Julie's bathrobe over her, and she his, but neither bothered to tie them up as Eric held her chair.
Then the two romantic teenagers sat down and started tackling their homework together.
While they didn't actually have a specific class together, each took basically the same subjects, so they shared notes and thoughts while enjoying the snacks, but more importantly was the pleasure of each other's company.
At one point, Julie wasn't totally surprised to look up from her homework to see Eric just staring at her.
"Do you know how beautiful you are?" he asked.
"Yes. At least to you," she replied. "Now are we going back to Algebra or..."
"If I haven't said this before, I need to say it now," began Eric. "Thank you."
"For?"
"Everything."
Julie Stovall actually start to feel herself blush as she looked slightly away from both Eric and her homework as she said, "You're welcome. And I should thank you too," she added, turning to look at him again. "You've made all my dreams come true as well."
"I really am getting that longing feeling for you when we're apart under control, but sometimes I wish we were already out of high school so we can get married, because I would love for you to be the first thing I see when I get up every morning, the last thing I view before falling asleep, and present for every possible moment in between," confessed Eric.
"That is so sweet, but we don't want to run the risk of endangering our dreams of the future, especially the ones concerning the children we'll have once we've graduated college and have our professional careers underway," pointed out Julie.
"I know," agreed Eric.
"You know, we haven't practiced our dancing for Saturday night yet," Julie realized, as she got up and started fiddling with her cell phone.
Slow dance music began to play on her phone as Eric stood and took her hand in his.
Together, they stayed in a small area on the bare concrete between the table and the pool edge, just slow dancing together in that one spot.
Their respective bathrobes were still open, and if either happened to look down, they would have a very good view of their partner's more intimate areas, but neither cared as they just held hands and continued to dance.
Although Julie's phone continued to play music, eventually all pretexts of dancing were forgotten as the two teenagers just stood there holding each other. Arms wrapped lovingly around their mates as Julie laid her head on Eric's shoulder and happily sighed in contentment.
They enjoyed the intimate romance of the moment, and probably would have stayed there like that holding each other until either one of her parents came home or they finally noticed the sunset, but it was the alarm going off on Eric's cell phone that finally broke the spell.
"Damn!" exclaimed Eric, which was the first time Julie could ever recall hearing him curse. "I've got to get dressed and go home."
"I understand," said Julie, before giving Eric a kiss. "Skype tonight?" she asked after their lips parted.
"Always," he said, before kissing her again.
While he was a bit reluctant about doing so, Eric was soon dressed and ready to go, as Julie just stood there in her open robe.
"Someday," he promised, reaching inside the robe to wrap his arms around her before giving Julie a parting kiss.
"And then forever," she promised in return, before walking Eric to the back gate.
Julie finally tied her robe closed before opening the back gate, and then just stood there watching until she could no longer see Eric.
Only then did she close the gate, collect her things, and go on inside the house for the evening.