Time seemed to drag on for the three girls. Nobody said anything; they all just felt too miserable as they sat on the bathroom floor unsure of what to do next.
Emily suddenly spoke up. "Where did the note go?"
Melissa and Stefanie stirred; the latter quickly found the note on the floor by the toilet where she had let it fall and handed it to her sister. Emily read the note over again several times.
"What are you looking for?" wondered Melissa.
"I was trying to think of what Serenity might have used as her as her way out; how she transfered her curse onto you rather than simply infecting you too."
"Any theories?"
"Only one so far. She sought you out and kissed you. Her note says a mermaid sought her out and warns you not to kiss any girls. You see what's missing there?"
Melissa thought for a moment. "She's never once mentioned men."
"Exactly. What would happen if you or Stef kissed a guy?"
"I don't know. We first met, Serenity did say that mermaids were only girls. But she was trying to get me to kiss her at that point so who knows if it was true?"
"Mermaids are only girls" pointed out Stefanie. "Guys would be mermen. She didn't say there weren't mermen, did she?"
"She didn't" admitted Melissa.
"So do we try it?" asked Emily.
"But we don't know what happens to the guy. Does nothing happen to him? Does he become a merman? Does he become a mermaid, but it allows us to kiss another girl and switch with her? What guy could we even get to try it out on? I don't want to be like this, but I don't want to force someone else into this either. This is all just a theory."
Uncertainty and silence fell upon the girls.