While you were sleeping...
Caroline walked out of her bedroom, a robe wrapped around her. She stared for a few moments a Neil sleeping on the sofa. Thoughts of things done and not done.
She shook her head, quietly sliding the back door open and stepping out onto the pool deck. Standing by the pool, she held the robe tight against herself in the cool night air. She looked over the pool for Topaz and spotted her relaxing on the bottom. Noticing her, Topaz pushed off from the bottom and surfaced by the edge of the pool near Caroline.
"Is the pool warm enough?" asked Caroline.
"Yes, it is most pleasant. Do you have control over it?" wondered Topaz.
"Heaters to keep a pool warm. Human magic, as it were."
"I think you have come out here for more than to ensure my comfort. You are troubled." It wasn't a question.
Caroline stood silent then spoke at last with a sigh. "When Neil first told me he'd got a mermaid, my first thought was how to profit from you. Money. To be able to keep all this..." she said, waving dismissively at her house. "But after meeting you... I feel like a rotten person now. You're a mermaid, but you're as much a person deserving respect and decency as any human. I'm sorry."
"I accept your apology. But you know you can leave your worries on land behind and join me in the sea."
"What? How?"
"Neil has not told you of my offer?"
Caroline cast a confused glance back at the house and a sleeping Neil.
"What offer?"
"To join me as a mermaid."
Stunned, Caroline sits down on the edge of the pool by Topaz, her feet dangling in the water. "No, he didn't mention it."
"I made the offer to him before you arrived at his home. I think he has chosen to conceal it from you. He claims he desires you, but thinks the feeling is not mutual. And now that he has met me, I think he desires me more."
Caroline cast another glance back in the house. "I've known him awhile. I've thought about it...but...maybe my divorce hurt more than I've ever admitted to anyone. Well, until you now, Topaz. You're a beautiful mermaid. Any man would desire you." Almost as an afterthought she added "Hell, even some women..."
Topaz smiled shifted herself to the side, placing her body between Caroline's feet dangingly in the water. "Do you desire me?" she asked. Then with one hand on either side of Caroline's legs, she lifted her torso out of the water, her perfect breasts pert with water sensously running down her breasts and torso.
Surprised at Topaz's forwardness, Caroline wasn't sure exactly how to respond.
"I..."
Topaz lifted herself as far out of the water as she could, leaning toward Caroline. As she did, her tail - still mostly in the water - rubbed against Caroline's legs and feet that dangled into the pool. It was the sensation of tail against skin that finally snapped Caroline's hesitation.
She put both hands to Topaz's cheeks and pressed her lips to the mermaid's. Time seemed to stand still.
When their lips parted, Topaz was grinning. She lowered herself back into the water then, with the combined efforts of her tail and arms, propelled herself out of the pool and onto Caroline. Caroline caught her, but slowly feel backwards onto the pool deck.
The two lay there for a moment, Topaz on top of Caroline and the water from Topaz's body dripping onto Caroline, quickly soaking her robe. Caroline and Topaz kissed again, this time tongues intertwining. Caroline fumbled for the drawstring on her robe, clumsily untying it and pulling the robe open with only bare skin underneath. The sensation of Topaz's mermaid tail rubbing against her vagina drove Caroline wild.