John sat on what passed for a bed under the sea, it was some sort of sponge like substance which was made using highly anti-corrosive material, it reminded him…no her, she needed to keep that in mind she was a woman now not a man that the oils on her new mermaid skin protected her from salt water however it ate at anything that wasn’t specially designed to resist it or was naturally resistance. She was currently wearing white seashells (on the recommendation of her sister) top which looked like it belonged in a Disney movie. A lot of mermaids wore similar tops, some with multiple small shells tied together into a sore of tub top or a string top like she was. Still others wore nothing at all, some like her sister couldn’t because of the spin fines on her back making it all but impossible. Still most people wore belts of some kind to hold things like money which was all coin based or other items, a lot of people, merman and mermaids both wore necklaces, bracelets and the like most made of seashells.
Everything in the merpeople community they had now been in for two days was a made of natural items or highly specialized items which had developed on land. The homes where made out of concrete with sea floor covering them. For lights they had electrical power which came from what she thought of as underwater windmills but ran off the tides instead of the wind. They may have electrical power for lights and word was that someone on shore was developing water proof lap tops and other items to make the people who had become merpeople more like their lives on land but for the moment that was in the future.
She sat on her bed just looking at the bare walls of her room, it was a larger room then she had at her home on land, but it was just so bare it made her sad. The house the government had given them would soon be filled with the rest of their family but that was around 10 days from now, each of them would have their own room with a large living room, dinning room, a home office and a kitchen along with two and half bathrooms.
Learning how to go to the bathroom as a mermaid was something they never covered in any movie but it was something they had to deal with now.
“How you are doing John?” inquired her twin sister as she looked up to see her floating in the doorway. Seeing his sister topless was something she was not used to and while she thought she would never get used to it, she knew deep down she would. She was already getting used to see a silver/white haired mermaid looking back at her in the mirror, so anything was possible.
“Been better.” admitted John
“Well…why don’t we go out and spend some time away from here, we have 10 days before our parents arrive might as well live it up.” Offered Mary as John looked at her, she had not really left this house. She ate all her meals, turned out Mermaids ate a mix of sea food, seaweed and fungus all of which had different tastes then they would have as a human on land. What passed for liquids would have been called syrups on land but tasted like liquids to their new merpeople bodies.
“Come on, we can go shopping, we could go for a swim around the park, we could go out clubbing…hell we could find ourselves some partners and….” She stopped as she noticed her newly made sister glaring at her. She had been a mermaid for just over 2 days, she was not really thinking about sex…much. Mermaid culture was much…much more open to same sex relationships, there was fewer merman to go around. She wasn’t sure what she was, as a man she was straight, she knew that…down here she had caught themselves looking at both mermaids and merman…did that make her bi-sexual now…she didn’t know.
“Come on you have to get out of here…I don’t care where we go we just need to go somewhere.” Stated Mary “Where do you want to go?”