{"sf1_id":1043364,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Aquata Cove - Chapter 73","author":"Mirron Tenshi","words":7637,"posted_at":"2016-07-09T19:45:00.000Z","tags":["Kissing","Mermaid","Otter","Rimming","Romance","fish","merman"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1043364-aquata-cove-chapter-73","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/1043364","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=1043364\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"\nAquata Cove\nChapter 73: Wedding Planner\n \n \n \n\"Almost got'em! Almost\ngot'em!\" Luther said out loud as he strains on his reel.\n \n\"Not so hard! You'll break\nthe damn thing!!\" Captain growled.\n \n\"It's breaking the surface!\"\nAdam exclaimed as he sees the fish thrash about as it is pulled up from the\nsea, up on the super tall docks.\n \n\"Easy... Easy...\" Captain pulls\nthe line manually as Luther reels in the slag while Adam stands by with a large\nnet. Adam laughs with glee as the flailing catch is lowered into the green net\nand captured.\n \n\"Whoo!\" Luther huffed as he\nwiped his sweaty brow, \"Dayum, that took a few hours off my life.\"\n \n\"You'll git over it.\" Captain\nslaps his back, \"Nice catch there, Bryant.\"\n \n\"Anytime there, Grugger.\"\nLuther replied.\n \n\"Fishboy,\" Captain takes out\nhis camera, and holds it out for Adam, \"Make yourself useful and take a picture\nof us with this thing.\"\n \n\"Heheh, aye-aye Captain.\"\nAdam accepts the camera, as Luther and Captain stand side-by-side, holding the\nlarge fish. Luther and Captain go way back - they went to college together for\nseveral years - Adam was practically guaranteed a job at the Fish House when he\nmoved to Hawaii, being the son of a very good old friend. \n \nLuther even introduced\nCaptain to his currently estranged wife... Needless to say Captain's family life\nis a bit dicey. \"Alright, hooold...\" Adam aims the lens, and waited a moment for\nthe two older men to pose, before snapping the picture. \"Got it.\" He winds the\ndial for a moment, \"Ok, Dad, your phone.\" Adam exchanged the old camera for\nLuther's Smartphone, and took the same picture with it.\n \n\"There we go. I'm headed off,\nCaptain.\" Adam said as he takes off his uniform cap, and wipes off some sweat\nwith his sleeve.\n \n\"Alright alright, fuck off\nnow.\" Captain crowled as he walks away.\n \n\"I'll wait for you at the\nfish stands inside, boy.\" Luther said, \"There's something I need to tell you in\nthere.\"\n \n\"Oh, sure.\" Adam said before\nhe and his father walked in different directions.\n \n \nMoments later, Adam strides\nin, wearing his casual clothing, and spotting Luther waiting for him over by\nthe ice bed full of halibut. \"Hey Dad!\" He came up to him quickly, slinging his\npack over his shoulder, \"So what did you want to talk about?\"\n \n\"Alright, so...\" Luther began,\n\"This is about your wedding.\"\n \n\"Oh?\" Adam shifted, \"What do\nyou mean?\"\n \n\"It's nothing bad, you can\nrelax.\" Luther said, \"Just passing of the torch.\"\n \n\"Passing of the torch?\" Adam\nasked, \"What do you mean?\"\n \n\"We have a... An old\nhand-me-down in our family, son...\" There then took out a moderately small, black leather box,\n\"Now, your grandfather, may he rest in peace,\" He said, \"Never got along with\nyour mother. He never approved of her, even after you were born. And, if I am\nto be honest,\" Luther looked Adam straight in the eye, \"I've had to come to my\nown terms after you came out of the closet.\"\n \n\"I\nknow...\" Adam nodded, even though he can't altogether blame him - his first\nboyfriend was a 26-year-old black man, when Adam was only 15 and half years\nold. The relation ship only lasted 3 months before they broke up when Adam\nultimately decided that he wasn't as sexually ambitions as he thought.\n \n\"Regardless,\neven though he did not like Donna one bit, he did note refuse me my birthright\nas his son. And it's true that I love you more as a son than ever, gay and all,\nso it's time for me to leave our most precious relic in your hands.\"\n \nAdam\nlooked at the box, and saw a familiar insignia on the tab of the lock. \"Dad...\"\nAdam looked up at Luther, \"Are these...\"\n \n\"With\nhis blessing, however full of spite,\" Luther chuckled, \"Your grandfather gave\nthese to me to wear on my wedding.\" He then held the box for Adam, \"And now\nit's time I pass these on to you. My son.\" \n \nAdam's\nheart pounds as his stomach feels heavy as he takes the box, but Luther puts his\nhand over Adam's.\n \n\"Now\nbe careful with them, alright?\" Luther said sternly, \"After having them\nrefinished, I learned that they are 75 years old as of last week,\" He taps his\nfinger on them firmly, \"Now I want you to keep them somewhere safe. Don't ever\nlose them. And, one day, if and when you and Merrick ever have a son, it's\ngoing to be YOUR job to pass these on for HIS wedding, and make sure he knows\nhow important these are.\"\n \n\"I...\"\nAdam smiled as he shook his head, \"Dad, I don't know what to say...\"\n \n\"Don't\nsay anything.\" Luther said with a slight shrug, \"These are yours now. And I\nexpect you to take care of them, as I have before you, and as my father did\nbefore me. And so on.\"\n \nLuther\nlet go of the box and Adam held it in his hands. His thumb rubbed onto the\nlock a little, before he steps up, and hugs his father. Luther hugs back and\npats him.\n \n\"Thank\nyou, Dad... So much...\"\n \n\"You're welcome, son...\"\n \n \n~~~\n \n \n\"Uhhhh...\" Arnaav droned as he\nnods drearily in his seat on the couch.\n \n\"What's wrong, honey?\" Donna asked\nlightly as she gently stroked his head.\n \n\"I don't feel so well...\"\nArnaav groaned, \"I feel so tired...\"\n \n\"You just woke up a couple of\nhours ago.\" Yuri said softly. Merrick walks in with a few drinks for them, and\nsees Arnaav looking like he's trying to survive an Algebra test.\n \n\"Oh, Merrick, there you are,\"\nDonna says, \"Arnaav doesn't feel so good.\"\n \n\"Probably not.\" Merrick said\nas he set the try down, \"It's been about 3 weeks since he came here. It's about\ntime for him to go back to the sea.\"\n \n\"Oh! That's right.\" Yuri\nsaid, \"You homesick, little guy?\" Yuri rubbed his cheek. \n \n\"I don't even know that that\nmeans...\" Arnaav whines as he takes the bottle of water from Merrick's hand.\n \n\"In a way, I suppose you\nCOULD say he's literally home sick,\" Merrick said after a drink of his\nraspberry Crystal Light, \"He's becoming more and more dehydrated the longer he\nstays here. Honestly, I would've preferred him to go back to the Kenovani a few\ndays ago, but he doesn't want to leave.\"\n \n\"Awww,\" Danna cooed as she\nstrokes Arnaav's hair.\n \n\"How is he still here then?\"\nYuri asked as she picks up her fresh glass of iced tea.\n \n\"Well, first off, he's a\nTriton,\" Merrick answered, \"Like me. We're built a little more sturdier than\nregular mermen, so it stands to reason that we're able to stay on land longer\nthan usual.\"\n \n\"Didn't you say the Kenovani\nleader could barely make it for 2 weeks to begin with, even as an adult?\" Yuri\nasked.\n \n\"I've also been having Arnaav\ndrink a bottle of water every 1 or 2 hours to keep him hydrated. A lot more\nsleep seems to help to,\" Merrick said as he looks at Arnaav, dropping the\nemptied water bottle as he fights of the urge to drop himself, \"But it's only a\nmatter of time before his health starts to take a serious hit, though. He can\nprobably push it for a few more days before he absolutely needs to go back to\nthe ocean.\"\n \n\"I... I don't wanna...\" Arnaav\nmoves forward, and begins to fall.\n \n\"Whoa!\" Donna catches him\nbefore his face can crash to the table, \"I gotcha, sweetie, I gotcha.\"\n \n\"Ok, little guy, I think it's\ntime for you to take a nap.\"\n \n\"Mnnnhhh,\" Arnaav groaned as\nhe clings to her while she gets up, and carries the boy into her room.\n \n\"So,\" Donna says while taking\nher glass of pink lemonade, \"Have you and Adam set a date for the wedding yet?\"\n \n\"No, I'm-\" Merrick began\nbefore Yuri walks in from her room, \"He's doing ok?\"\n \n\"Yeah, just dozed off as soon\nas I tucked him in.\" She sits down, and sipped her tea again, \"So where were we?\"\n \n\"I was just wondering about\nthe wedding.\" Donna said, \"Have you two thought of anything yet?\"\n \n\"Oh yeah,\" Yuri turns, \"So\nwhat's it like to be a fiancé, Merrick?\" She asked, \"You know, as a merman.\"\n \nMerrick takes a deep breath\nand answered, \"Honestly, really perplexing...\" He lifts his hand up to look at\nthe fancy white gold ring on his finger, \"This thing... That proposal...\"\n \n\"It was a wonderful moment.\"\nDonna said, \"I can't tell you how much I started to cry when Adam took your\nhands.\"\n \n\"I know, I...\" Merrick smiled\nsheepishly, \"I really had no idea he wanted me to um... You know, marry him.\"\n \n\"But you DO know what\nmarriage is though, right, honey?\" Donna asked, \"When someone kneels, with a\nring, and all that?\"\n \n\"Yeah, I've seen enough\nmovies to get the jist of it,\" Merrick answered, \"And Adam has explained it to\nme on occasion.\"\n \n\"But... Are YOU ok with it?\" Yuri\nasked carefully, \"I mean, I realize that merfolk don't have this sort of thing\nin the sea, so I can't help but wonder how well you're actually taking this.\"\n \n\"Yeah, that's what I meant\nwhen I said it's perplexing...\" Merrick says as he looks at his ring and adjusts\nit slightly on his finger.\n \n\"In any case, all of us are\nmore than happy that you said 'Yes'.\" Yuri drinks her tea, \"Adam was so terrified\nthat you were going to say 'No', or ask 'Why'.\"\n \n\"And after all the expense he\nput into arranging the party and for all of us to be there,\" Donna added.\n \n\"Hahah, yeah...\" Merrick\nchuckled, \"I could have made it infinitely awkward, couldn't I... Part of me\nstill wonders why I agreed in the first place...\"\n \n\"Wait, so you're having cold\nfeet?\" Yuri asked. Merrick gives her a strange look, before looking at his own\nfeet.\n \n\"Uh...\"\n \n\"She means 'Doubt', dear.\"\nDonna corrected, \"As in, 'Are you having doubts?'\"\n \n\"Oh no, nothing like that,\"\nMerrick said, \"Just... Let me put it this way,\" Merrick leaned forward, \"In MY\nworld, where I come from, me and Adam are already married. In the eyes of the\nSea Mother, he and I are already bonded together for eternity.\"\n \n\"He did mention that,\" Yuri\nnodded, \"That's why he was so nervous.\"\n \n\"Mhm...\" Merrick looks down at\nhis ring again, \"We don't have an extravagant ceremony for only one pair of\nlovers to be bonded... It really is one night under a Red Moon, love at first\nsight, and that's it. Married.\n \n\"What's perplexing to me is,\"\nMerrick looks up, \"Is that me and Adam already do and have all the things a\nmarried couple have. I mean, we live together, we sleep in the same bed, we\nhave sexual relations, and we enjoy each other's company as much as we can...\n \n\"So, logic dictates that this\nring... The proposal, me walking down the isle,\" Merrick shook his head a little,\n\"In hindsight, it's unnecessary.\"\n \n\"Oh honey.\" Donna pouts as\nshe tilts her head.\n \n\"I mean, we already have\neverything we could want. Everything we could have, or will have. I keep asking\nmyself, 'Why am I so excited? What's the point? Sure, it's important to Adam,\nand he wants this, so I should accept'...\"\n \n\"Buuut?\" Yuri said.\n \n\"So why do I feel like I need\nthis too?\" Merrick finished with an earnest voice, \"When Adam got down on one\nknee, my insides feel like they were turning inside out. I was so excited and\nso emotional, and I could hardly breathe.\"\n \n\"My guess is the power of\nsuggestion.\" Donna said, \"Maybe you've lived on land long enough to become a\nlittle bit human yourself. Perhaps our world has imprinted on you?\"\n \n\"Maybe, yes...\" Merrick nods,\n\"I can't think of any other reason...\" Just then, they turn to see Adam and\nLuther walk in from the front door, \"Oh hi, babe!\"\n \n\"Hey, sweetie,\" Adam said as\nhe comes in and kisses Merrick on the lips, smelling lightly of fish.\n \n\"We were just talking about our\nwedding.\"\n \n\"For God's sake, I hope she's\nnot getting you a peach dress.\" Luther rolled his eyes.\n \n\"Wait what? Peach?\" Merrick\nsaid, \"I've heard of Lady Gaga making a dress made out of raw meat, but what's\nthis about a dress made of peaches?\" They snicker and laugh at his statement,\nleaving him in bewildered confusion, \"What? Whaat?? What're you laughing at??\nAnd aren't dresses for women??\"\n \nDonna snickered as she speaks\nup, \"He's talking about one of my favorite movies.\" She dismissed.\n \n\"Are you talking about\nMonster-In-Law?\" Yuri asked, \"Hah, I love that one!\"\n \n\"Oh, it's a movie?\" Merrick\nasked.\n \n\"One of the very few chick\nflicks that I don't mind.\" Adam answered.\n \n\"It's about this snobby\nmother-in-law who doesn't approve of her son's fiancé,\" Yuri explained, \"So she\ngoes out of her way to ruin their relationship. Eventually, the bride-to-be\ncatches on, and starts to screw with the mother-in-law right back.\"\n \n\"Sounds amusing.\" Merrick\nsmiles.\n \n\"Ooh, we have to watch it\nbefore we go back home!\" Donna said.\n \n\"Oh for the love of God.\"\nLuther groaned.\n \n\"That sounds awesome!\" Yuri\nsaid, \"I can make some kettle corn and Pink Ladies!\"\n \n\"Sweet, we have a plan!\"\nMerrick grins as he adjusted in his seat.\n \n\"Never thought I'd say this,\nbut can we PLEASE get back to the wedding plans?\" Luther said.\n \n\"Oh, right!\" Donna said, \"For\ninstance, have you two set a date yet?\"\n \n\"Oh, um...\" Adam ponders,\n\"Well, I was kind of thinking of having it in December or January.\"\n \n\"What?!\" \n\"What?!\" Donna and Merrick\nsay simultaneously.\n \n\"Is that 5 months?\" Luther\nasked, before shrugging, \"That seems about right.\"\n \n\"But that's so looong!\"\nMerrick whined.\n \n\"More like too soon!\" Donna\nsaid, \"Do you have any idea how long it takes to plan a proper wedding??\"\n \n\"Mom, it'll be fine, 5 months\nis plenty of time.\" Adam says, \"And I want Merrick to see what snow is like, so\nI want us to have a Winter wedding.\"\n \n\"Oh, so it really snows\nhere?\" Luther asked.\n \n\"It was all over the news a\ncouple of years ago.\" Yuri said, \"During November, Honolulu was experiencing\nits very first snow flurry.\"\n \n\"I know what snow is like,\"\nMerrick says with a wide smile, \"But I've only seen it very few times,\nincluding last year.\"\n \n\"So, how CAN it snow?\" Donna\nasked.\n \n\"A friend of mine, Atarah,\nshe's sort of... A very old shaman who lives in a river here a long way from\nhere,\" Merrick explained, \"When I first saw snow, everyone was raving about how\nit being so weird and unusual in Hawaii. So I went to Atarah, and asked if she\nknew anything about it. Turns out, she's the one who's making it snow here.\"\n \n\"Wait. Wait, wait, wait,\nwhat?\" Donna asked as she put down her drink, \"Hold on one moment.\" She put her\nhands together and looked at Merrick, \"You're saying that this woman, is some\nhow making it cold enough in Hawaii - one of the world's warmest tropical\nlocations - to actually snow here???\"\n \n\"Yeah.\" Merrick nods, \"She\ntold me she was going for a change of pace, so she started to manipulate the\nweather around late November. The trade off is that when she's doing this, she\nbecomes very drowsy and inactive - with a wide-range of power like that, she\nhas to spread her power really thin.\"\n \n\"You mean like she's\nhibernating?\" Adam asked.\n \n\"Am I the only one who thinks\nthat this sounds crazy? ... And supernatural?\" Luther asked.\n \n\"Well she is the first Noita\nin the history of merfolk.\" Merrick said, \"And she was forever changed when she\ndied under the Black Sun. Plus she's had and has practically an eternity to\nwork out all kinds of secrets of nature and energy.\"\n \n\"But wait,\" Donna said, \"How\ndoes this all even... You know what, never mind. None of this is making sense to\nme, I'm just going to take your word for it.\"\n \n\"Now you're talking some\nsense.\" Luther agreed.\n \n\"Anyway, me and Merrick are\ngoing for a small wedding. In fact, I was thinking of having it here.\"\n \n\"What about Aquata Cove?\"\nMerrick asked, \"That's where we've spent most of our time when we were still\nnew.\"\n \n\"I dunno... It seems kind of out-there, you know?\" Adam said.\n \n\"Actually, that does sound\nromantic.\" Yuri said, nodding, \"That is where the two of you first met, right?\"\n \n\"Is it?\" Donna quirked her\nhead a little as she turned to them.\n \n\"Sort of,\" Adam scratches his\nneck, \"Technically, we first saw each other for the first few times over by the\nrocky reef out back. We actually met personally inside the cove itself, behind\nthe waterfall.\"\n \n\"There's even a sandy path\nthat leads around the rocks above the grotto!\" Merrick said as he grins, \"We\ncan make THAT the isle!\"\n \n\"I think you should do it.\"\nYuri commented.\n \n\"I second that.\" Donna raised\nher right hand.\n \n\"A good a place as any, I\nsuppose.\" Luther shrugged, \"Not like a lot of churches are going to open their\ndoors for you two.\"\n \n\"Oh come now, Luther,\" Donna\nsaid as she reached over and smacked his arm, \"There are lots of churches who\nhost gay weddings!\"\n \n\"None around here, really.\"\nAdam said, \"I already checked.\" Adam sighed, and smiled, \"Alright, Aquata Cove\nit is then.\"\n \n\"Mmmhhhee! Thank you, Adam!\"\nMerrick hugs Adam tightly.\n \n\"Alright, now,\" Donna said,\n\"Location set. What about catering?\"\n \n\"Me and Dad were kinda hoping\nto have KFC cater our wedding.\"\n \n\"Ohhh God, no!\" Donna\nscowled.\n \n\"Adam, are you freakin\nserious?!\" Yuri asked.\n \n\"What?! We love KFC!\" Adam\nchuckled defensively, \"Besides, almost every place I've ever been to that's had\ncatering is always Mexican food, and I don't even like Taco Bell.\"\n \n\"Adam,\" Donna said firmly,\n\"This is a wedding we're talking about. Not a backyard pot-luck.\"\n \n\"Mom, we don't have that much\nmoney to invest in expensive catering.\"\n \n\"And I don't have much\ndiscerning between differences of the class and quality of human food.\" Merrick\nadded, \"As far as I know, KFC is as gourmet as it gets.\"\n \n\"It's not, Merrick,\" Yuri retorted as she shook her head, \"It's not.\"\n \n\"Just trying to keep it\nsimple!\" Luther said, \"How many weddings do you see that actually have KFC for\ncatering??\"\n \n\"None. That's the point,\nhoney.\" Donna said lowly.\n \n\"That's two for, two against,\nand one neutral.\" Adam said, \"I'll just wait for Jamal to get home to break the\ntie.\"\n \n\"Adam, that's not fair, and\nyou know it! Jamal's black, you're cheating!\" Yuri threw at him. Luther spat\nhis beer in a harsh fit of laughter.\n \n\"Exactly.\" Adam grins. \n \n\"We'll get back to it.\" Donna\nsaid with a low glare, \"What about outfits? Merrick, are you going to be\nwearing a tux?\"\n \n\"I doubt it.\" Merrick shook\nhis head, \"The only pants I like wearing are jeans. And I've tried on some\nformal clothes once, and I can't stand how it feels on my skin. I'm going to\nhave Yuri's mother make my clothing again.\"\n \n\"Oh, Yuri, I didn't know you\nmom makes clothing.\"\n \n\"Yeah,\" Yuri nods, \"She's a\nsmall-town designer. She actually illustrated a couple of clothing designs for\nthe Hunger Games. Only a few though.\"\n \n\"Really??\" Donna raises her eyebrows, \"That's very impressive! She could make a\nfortune!\"\n \n\"It's more of a side-hobby\nfor her though.\" Yuri said, \"She makes money off of it, but it's not like she's\nlooking for a career.\"\n \n\"So can you get me in contact\nwith her?\" Merrick asked, \"Wait, she speaks English, right?\"\n \n\"Merrick. She speaks better English\nthan you.\" Yuri said with a snide slurp of her tea, \"It's my Dad that has an\naccent, be he's a marine biologist, so I doubt you and he have any business,\nunless you want to help with his research, as a fish yourself.\"\n \nMerrick shrugged, \"Sure, I'd\nbe willing to help him. I can even do that in exchange for my outfit.\"\n \n\"Sounds great.\"\n \n\"Now I'm getting excited!\"\nDonna said as she grins and shifts in her seat.\n \n\"Ok, theme.\" Adam said, \"We\ngotta have a theme here.\" Adam leans forward, \"I almost want to go with a\nsnowflake theme, but seems a little cliché... We don't have to go with a specific\ntopic either...\"\n \n\"Like, maybe just something\nas simple as two colors?\" Yuri asked. \n \n\"Yeah. Like... White and gold.\"\nAdam said.\n \n\"We can do that.\" Merrick\nnods.\n \n\"... Maybe even some glitter\nsea-objects for table pieces?\" Luther asked.\n \n\"Oh yeah!\" Adam said nodding\nwith enthusiastic approval, \"I love it!\"\n \n\"You mean like those things\nme and Arnaav made for you guys for Easter?\" Merrick asked, \"Oh, I can really\nget behind that!\"\n \n\"I got a buddy who works for\na furniture company,\" Luther said, \"I'll call him up and see if I can make some\nkind of deal for some rental tables and chairs.\"\n \n\"Oh, really??\" Adam beams,\n\"That would be awesome!\"\n \n\"I'll call him right now...\"\nLuther grunts as he gets up out of his chair and gets his cellphone out, \"I've\nbeen bored for the past 10 minutes.\"\n \n\"Spoil sport.\" Donna remarks\nas she hits Luther's rump as he walks to the back sliding door.\n \n \n~~~\n \n \nJamal wipes down the bar with\nthe moist towel, as his shift is about to end for the day. He flops the towel\nover his shoulder and strides to punch out of work, when walks around the bar\nto head for the door. He blinks as he sees Adam waiting for him at the end of\nthe bar.\n \n\"Oh hey, man.\" Jamal said.\n \n\"Hi, Jamal. Going to the\nluau?\"\n \n\"Yeah, I'm headed there now.\"\n \n\"Great, great...\" Adam said as\nhe clapped his hands together and rubbed a little.\n \n\"...\" Jamal tilts his head as\nhe looks at Adam's down-cast eyes, \"Somethin on your mind, buddy?\"\n \n\"Ah, no, I just... Well, I\ngotta ask you something...\"\n \n\"Oh, aight.\" Jamal picks a\nstool, and sits on it, pulling one for Adam too. Adam takes a seat, and leans\none arm on the bar, putting his fingertips together, \"How's yo day goin?\"\n \n\"Going great. We've got a lot\ncovered about planning the wedding.\"\n \n\"Awesome.\" Jamal nodded,\n\"Need anything I can help with?\"\n \n\"Well, first off,\" Adam\nbegan, \"I need you to settle something for me.\" Adam interlaces his fingers,\nwith his index fingers pressing together before he pointed them to Jamal. \"KFC\nfor catering. What do you think?\"\n \n\"Sounds great!\" Jamal said,\n\"You really goin fo that?\"\n \n\"We are now.\" Adam grins,\n\"But there's one other thing I need to ask you.\"\n \n\"Sure, man. Go ahead.\"\n \n\"Well...\" Adam took a breath,\nand exhaled, \"Jamal, you know how we are, right? Real close, like brothers,\nright?\" He said, looking deeply into those dark brown eyes, \"You know how much\nyou mean to me, right? After all the years we've lived together?\"\n \n\"Yeeeahhh...\" Jamal squinted at\nAdam for a moment, \"What'chu gettin at?\"\n \n\"It's... I'm getting married,\nyou know? So um...\" Adam smiled sheepishly as he took a moment, \"Would you\nconsider being... Well...\" Adam takes out a small box, and held it out.\n \n\"What's this?\" Jamal takes\nthe box, turning it around a little.\n \n\"I'm going to be wearing the\nsame set... And Harold, Nick, and maybe even Kevin if he's up to it, they're\ngoing to be wearing a lesser design to show them as the groomsmen...\" \n \nJamal opened the box to see a\npair of platinum cufflinks looking like swirled and curved angel wings with\nsmall white jewels mounted into them. Jamal's eyebrows rose as he looked at the\nsmall dazzling accessories presented on the black velvet cushion in the box.\n \n\"Adam...\" Jamal looks up, his\neyes rimming with moisture.\n \n\"Both pairs are family\nheirlooms, and they come in a set with other smaller ones...\" Adam said as he holds\nhis own box, along with the bigger box they originally came in, \"My Dad had\nthem refurbished a while ago to make them look as good as new, so...\"\n \n\"Don't do this man,\" Jamal's\nmouth pressed tightly as he shook his head, \"Ah man. Shit, dammit...\"\n \n\"Jamal,\" Adam took Jamal's hard\nhand and gripped it lightly, \"I want you to be my Best Man.\" He said lowly.\nJamal huffed and sniffed as he wipes his eyes. Adam smiled and scoffed slightly\nas Jamal keeps his tough guy look. \"Please.\"\n \n\"Fuck, man.\" Jamal rubs the\ncorners of his eyes, \"I told you not to make me like this, man... Shit,\" Jamal\ncloses the box and moves forward with his arms open. Adam grins as he hugs his\nbeefy black brother. \n \n\"I'm sorry...\" Adam muffled, \"I\nknow you don't like showing you have feelings.\" Jamal scoffed as he contains\nhis tears, \"Is this a 'Yes'?\"\n \n\"Ghhh...\" Jamal nods, \"Shit,\nman...\"\n \n\"Alright, big guy,\" Adam\nparts the hug, and pats that broad chest, \"I know how to fix this. Lets get you\na hooker, two enemas, and a bottle of Jack.\" \n \n\"Ghah hah hah,\" Jamal laughs\nas he smiles with his long-time roommate, \"Dayum, man...\" Jamal wipes the corners\nof his eyes with his thumb and index fingers.\n \n \n~~~\n \n \n\"So, a few things I'm\nwondering,\" Yuri said as she and Merrick walk along the mall's shops, both of\nthem holding a couple of bags of merchandise, \"About the wedding.\"\n \n\"Oh yeah!\" Merrick nods as\nthey pick a dessert vendor and ordered some fancy churros and sat at a table, \"I\nhad something to ask you, but go ahead.\"\n \n\"So, usually,\" Yuri said as\nshe sat down, \"In a wedding, there's a handful of people the bride and groom\nchoose to be beside them at the altar.\"\n \n\"Yes, the groomsmen and the\nbridesmaids, right?\"\n \n\"Yeah. Now, since this is a\ngay wedding, who are you picking to be your Best Man?\"\n \n\"Actually, I'm kind of going\nin a different direction.\" Merrick countered.\n \n\"Oh? How so?\"\n \n\"Well, you know how femmy I\ncan get, right?\" Merrick grinned. \n \n\"Yeah. I've seen your\nwardrobe. And your lingerie arsenal.\" Yuri smirked.\n \n\"So, I'm going with the female\nsaid.\" He closed his hands together, \"Which leads me to my next question.\"\n \n\"Oh?\" Yuri shifts in her\nseat, \"Go on.\"\n \n\"I want to show you what\nyou've been to me, Yuri,\" Merrick said with meaning, \"We're close friends, you\nand I. On land, you're my best friend and my confidant. Even so, I need you to\nbe by my side at the wedding...\" Yuri raised her eye brows at this.\n \n\"Whoa, Merrick... Are you\nasking me to...\"\n \n\"Mhm,\" Merrick nodded as he\nsmiled, \"Yuri, would you be my Maid of Honor?\" \n \n\"Wow, Merrick...\" Yuri puts a\nhand to her chest, deeply touched, \"I jus-... Wow, this is really unexpected...\"\nShe chuckles lightly as she smiles with glee, \"I always thought you'd have Nick\nor someone be your-, well, I\" She stammers a little before laughing, \"Y-Yes,\nI'd love to!\"\n \n\"Wonderful!\" Merrick said\nwith joy as they smile.\n \n\"Wow, now I'M getting excited\nfor this!\" She said, \"Ok, now, what about the bridesmaids? Who else is going to\nbe there on your side?\"\n \n\"The number is 3, right?\nIncluding you? Probably going to have Syrinx and Belinda. Adam is going with\nJamal, Nick, and Harold.\"\n \n\"Wow, you're really going to\nhave Belinda up there with you?\" Yuri said with a snide tone, \"I thought you\nhated her like poison.\"\n \n\"I don't HATE her,\" Merrick\nsaid, \"I am disdained with what she's done, but I owe a lot to that reptilian\nbitch.\"\n\n\"Hey, harsh.\" She remarked.\n \n\"Besides, she's also a\nmermaid.\" Merrick added, \"She's of my own kind, and so is Syrinx. It's only\nfitting I have them up there with me.\"\n \n\"Gotta say,\" Yuri smiles, \"I\nfeel a little honored. I'm not even a mermaid.\"\n \n\"No, but your father's a marine biologist, that's the next best thing.\"\n \n\"Ah heh heh, awesome.\"\n \n \n\"Alright, so next, who is\ngoing to walk you down the isle?\"\n \n\"Walk down...\" Merrick pondered\nfor a moment, but then it quickly dawned on him, \"Oh yeah! Um...\" Merrick\nthought, \"Usually, the father of the bride is supposed to walk her down, huh?\"\n \n\"Her father is traditional,\nyes,\" Yuri agreed, \"Or she could walk alone if the father is absent. Otherwise,\nit could also be a close male family member or even a very close friend.\"\n \n\"And that cuts MY Father out,\nthen,\" Merrick dismissed, \"Even if he was fine with me marrying a human - which\nI deeply assure you, he is NOT.\"\n \n\"Mhm, yes.\" Yuri nods.\n \n\"He still wouldn't know how\nto walk on his own two legs. Besides, he hates going on land, especially during\nthe daytime. In that case... I COULD ask Samudra if he'd be willing to walk me\ndown the isle.\" \n \n\"The Triton of your current\npod?\"\n \n\"Yeah. He's the closest thing\nI've got to walk me down. I'm sure he'd be willing to, I don't see why not.\"\n \n\"Sounds promising.\" Yuri's\ncellphone started to chime up, and she checked it, \"Oh, the luau's open! Lets\nget going!\"\n \n\"Oh, right!\" They quickly got\nup, and left.\n \n \n~~~\n \n \n\"Woooow!\" Arnaav coos as his big\neyes gleam from the exotic fire dancers up on stage, wearing only a grass skirt\naround his waist over some small boxers, with a yellow/white lei around his\nneck, besides a shark tooth necklace. He flinched and gasped as the two men\nswishes and swing their torches in rabid succession, \"I wanna try! I wanna\ntry!\"\n \n\"NOO! No, no no no.\" Yuri\nholds him back, \"That sort of performance takes forever to perfect.\" She wears\na pink bikini with a grass skirt, and a blue/white lei wrapped around her head\nas she holds Arnaav in her lap.\n \n\"I'll never get over how\nfestive humans can get.\" Syrinx commented on a table.\n \n\"And I'll never know how to\nrespond to that.\" Kevin smirked back.\n \n\"Oh, shut up,\" Syrinx playfully\nslaps him.\n \nAdam smiles as he stands\naround the snack table, wearing a grass skirt with one of his father's colorful\nHawaiian shirts, drinking a tiki cup full of punch. He giggles as he sees\nMerrick across the party, shirtless and wearing a blue lei around his neck on\nwhite leis around his wrists and head, chatting with Nick and Sasha. Just when\nAdam was going to take a deep breath and reflect how profoundly lucky he is,\nMerrick takes up a corndog. \"Hehehe...\" \n \nMerrick glances at him, and\ngrins at Adam as he licks the top of the corndog. Adam grins as he adjusts and\nlooks at his fiancé. Merrick signals to Nick and Sasha, before Merrick starts\nto lick up the corndog's golden hide.\n \n\"Yeah, you want that\ncorndong, don't ya?\" Adam muttered, \"You want it so bad, it hurts, doesn't it?\"\n\n \nSasha snickers as Merrick put\nhis lips onto the summit of the corndog, and suckled the top of it. \"It's ok,\nbaby, you can take your time~\" Adam said lowly, \"Don't want any chokin, just\neeeaase it down...\" Merrick slid the corndog into his mouth, and subtly bobbed up\nand down, \"Ooh, yeah, he's going for it...\"\n \nAdam blushes as he feels his\nown member stir in his shorts as Merrick licked up and all around the corndog,\nstopping for a moment and biting it when someone walked by, and then looked\nAdam right in eyes as he goes for a deep-throat.\n \n\"Yeah, you're a dirty boy~\"\nAdam said before sipping his drink, \"You wanna suck that corndog until you cream\nall over yourself...\" Merrick blows the corndog a little more, \"Yeah, I know what\nyou're on about...\" Adam grinned, \"You don't care if it is a party, you just\nwanna come over here, rip my pants off and suck my dick like a cheap little\nwhore... Then you'd slobber and lick my balls all over till they're soakin wet\nwith your spit... Mnnnh~\" Adam feels himself harden as he imagines what he wants\nto do to Merrick, \"Then I bend you over that table over there, and yank your\nskirt down to spank your hot ass... Mnn, yeah, and you'd love it, wouldn't\nyou?\" He mumbles, \"Next you'd beg me to fuck your cute brains out...\"  \n \nNick puts his fingers up in a\nV up to his mouth, and lolls his tongue out while Sasha does this hard-core\npose as she points both fingers at Merrick, \"Oh shut it, Nick.\" Adam snickered,\n\"... Oop,\" Adam stopped and assumed an innocent demeanor as he sees someone\ncoming by.\n \n \n\"Gohd, gay sex is so hot.\"\nSasha said, wearing her own revealing set for the party, \"Are you sho I cahn't\nget in on some of you?\" Sasha asked, \"You won't even know I'm there.\"\n \n\"Hey, I maybe be a bit of a\nexhibitionist, but even I have standards.\" Merrick said as he eat his corndog.\nThey leer over at Adam, chuckling as he idly wanders around the food.\n \n\"Man, I can tell all the way\nfrom here he's rockin a boner right now.\" Nick smirked.\n \n\"Looking about the snacks,\ntrying to keep his willy out of view, waist JUST below the table level.\"\n \n\"Hehehe,\" Merrick giggled, \"I\nhave a good mind to just pull him away somewhere and grab his package.\"\n \n\"Do it.\" Sasha said with an\nwicked smile, \"Do him over the stage.\"\n \n\"Damn, gurl, I'm scared'a'you.\"\nNick chuckled.\n \n\"MERRIKU-KUUUUN!\" Came a\nloud, young voice.\n \n\"Oh for the love of God...\"\nMerrick whines as he holds his forehead, \"Please tell me that is not who I\nthink it is.\"\n \n\"Hentai Fangirl, 6 O'Clock,\nman.\" Nick answered, \"She's with Ryo too,\" Nick hissed, \"Shit, man...\"\n \n\"Uggghh\" Merrick dropped his\nshoulders, \"I hate to be mean, but I've had enough.\" He took a drink.\n \n \n\"Hey, Arnaav,\" Yuri pats him,\n\"I think I see someone here for you~\"\n \nArnaav looked, and gasped in\njoyous surprise to the sight of that young Japanese girl from Easter.\n \n\"Go on, go say Hi.\" Yuri\nencourages as she helps the boy off of her lap. Arnaav skids on his feet for a\nmoment, before trotting away to them.\n \n \n\"Merriku-Kun!\" Fumiko squeals\nout, before Merrick turned around.\n \n\"Hang on, hang on,\" Merrick\nturns around, squats down, and brandishes a piece of paper. Clearing his\nthroat, Merrick began to read, \"Fumiko-San. Anata wa watashi o aishite teishi suru\nhitsuy? ga arimasu. Watashi wa anata to koi ni naidesu.\" As Merrick talked,\nFumiko's look of happiness started to drain, while Ryojin's face started to\ndistort with growing anger, \"Watashi wa otoko to koi ni shite imasu. Watashi wa\nsono otoko to kekkon suru tsumoridesu. Anata wa, watashi o sut?kingu shite\nkudasai teishi suru hitsuy? ga arimasu.\"\n \nFumiko whimpered lightly as\nshe took a step back, huffing with angry tears as she shoved Merrick a little,\n\"Ah- hey!\"\n \n\"Bakameh!\" Fumiko turns\naround and runs as fast as she can. \n \nArnaav looked in horror as\nFumiko runs away. \"Wait!\" He calls out as he reaches his hand out, but she is\nalready gone.\n \n\"Oh no.\" Yuri gets up, and\nwalks to them.\n \nMerrick\nstands back up, only to get a harsh shove from Ryojin, \"Hey!\"\n \n\"Dono\ny?na jigoku, j?ku! Dono y? ni sono y? na watashi no im?to to hanashi o aete-\"\n \n\"Hey, Back off, Ryo!\" Yuri\nslapped his arm away, and stood between him and Merrick, \"This is YOUR fault to\nbegin with.\"\n \n\"MY Fault?! MINE?!\" Ryojin\nasked.\n \n\"You were the one who didn't\ntalk to her in the first place, don't beat up on him just because he had the\nballs to set her straight!\"\n \n\"He did no have to be rude to\nher jus now!\" Ryojin said in his choppy English.\n \n\"He wouldn't have had to if\nyou just told your sister that he's gay and engaged!\"\n \n\"Look, I-\"\n \n\"No, Ryojin, I don't want to\nhear it,\" Yuri dismissed, \"If you had just taken the time to explain to Fumiko\nto STOP stalking him because one: He is too old for her,\" She listed with her\nfingers, \"Two: He is a homosexual. And three: He is in a relationship. Now, if\nyou're going to get mad because Merrick is a better, more informative brother\nthan YOU are, then you still need time to improve yourself. I mean for God's\nsake, Merrick learned ANOTHER LANGUAGE just to get your sister off his back!\nYou couldn't take 5 minutes to tell your sister that her obsession is out of\nher damn reach?!\" \n \nRyojin gives Yuri a look of\noffense. He keeps trying to talk, but he can't find a proper response to slap\nback at her. \n \n\"Yeah,\" Yuri crossed her\narms, \"And you wonder why we broke up. You can't even tell me a good reason why\nyou're so irrational. Now go on, your sister's waiting for you.\" Ryojin glared\nat her, before turning his back, and leaving. Yuri lets out a rough sigh, and\nturned to the merman, \"Your pronunciation as shit, Merrick.\" She said lowly\nbefore taking an apple flower orderve from the table.\n \n\"You REALLY learned to speak\nJapanese just to tell her to stop stalking you?\" Sasha asked.\n \n\"No, not at all.\" Merrick\nanswered, \"I just learned enough to tell her to go away.\"\n \n\"Google?\" Nick asked.\n \n\"Exactly.\" Merrick nodded.\n \n\"Hey, babe,\" Adam came to\nthem, \"Everything ok?\"\n \n\"Yep!\" Yuri said mouth full\nof apple slices, \"Just end of an era.\" \n \n\"Huh?\"\n \n\"I just had to explain to\nFumiko that I'm not in love with her.\" Merrick said, \"And Ryojin got pissed at\nme because I made her cry.\"\n \n\"Ah no... So she BARELY just found\nout that you're with me?\"\n \n\"Had to be done.\"\n \n \n\"Fumiko...\" Arnaav mumbled as\nhe started, his stomach sinking from the display, \"She... Was in love with\nMerrick?\" His eyes feel moisture coming on as he takes deep breaths, \"But... She\nran away... Merrick made her hurt...\" He looked to the grown-ups talking amongst\nthemselves, \"But why, Merrick... Why...\"\n \nThe boy's eyes blinked as he\ntook a moment to think, '... Merrick made her upset... She can't love him anymore...\nMaybe I can make her happy...' His insides switched from heavy sadness to light\nhope, 'If she doesn't like Merrick anymore, maybe she can like ME.' His chest\nswelled with growing optimism. \n \n\"Oh my gosh, I need to go\nhome.\" He sputtered quietly.\n \n\"Sorry about that, Arnaav.\"\nYuri sighed, \"Had some business to take care of. I'm so sorry that-\"\n \n\"I'll be right back!\" Arnaav\nturns around and runs as fast as he can to the docks, \"Ocean stuff! Don't wait\nfor me!\"\n \n\"Wha-?\" Yuri turns and looks\nas Arnaav kicks his grass skirt off, about to dive into the ocean.\n \n\"Ooookaay?\" Yuri said,\nclueless, widening as Arnaav ditches his shorts, and dives into the sea naked, \"Be...\nCareful, I guess...\"\n \n \n\"So-\"\n \nJust as Merrick spoke, Adam's\nphone rings out in his pocket. \"Ah sorry, honey, hold on.\" Adam pulls out his\nphone, and looks at the number. After pressing the green circle, he holds it up\nto his ear, \"Hello... Oh, you have it ready? ...\" Merrick tries to zero in on the\nvoice in the phone. It's slightly familiar, but he can't place it...\n \n\"Uummm... Naw, go ahead and\nmail it. I've never used a Fax Machine in my life... No no, it's ok, I'm in no\nhurry... I don't know, I'm just a nice guy.\" He said, \"... Alright, sounds great,\nthank you so much. Bye.\" He hung up the phone, and slipped it back into his\npants.\n \n\"Who was that?\" \n \n\"Erin.\"\n \n\"Erin?\" Merrick tensed, \"What\ndid she want??\"\n \n\"Nothing, I just asked for a\nfavor. It's nothing, don't worry about it.\" \n \n\"Ok...\"\n \nAdam and Merrick hold hands\nas they browsed around the luau, the various tables of food and trinkets, along\nwith the sexy fire dancers twirling and swishing their torches around as fast\nas they are, passing by the various other party goers enjoying the dusk-lit\nfestivities.\n \nMerrick glanced down on\nAdam's lap, and nudged him a little. Adam turned to get a kiss from his lover,\nsnuggling each other as they walked. Merrick led the two of them to a small,\nsecluded corner. Merrick giggles as he pulls Adam's hand further down.\n \nAdam has a general idea on\nwhy Merrick is bringing them away from the party, smirking as Merrick presses\nhis back to the wall, \"You are a dirty boy, aren't you?\" \n \n\"Oh, I'm as clean as they\ncome...\" Merrick bantered as Adam puts his hand on the brick wall.\n \n\"Can't it wait till we get\nhome~?\" Adam asked. He feels pants get tighter as Merrick had already tucked\nhis hand between Adam's thighs, and groped a hearty handful of Adam's crotch.\n \n\"Course it can.\" Merrick\nsaid, massaging Adam's package firmly, \"But pecks on the lips aren't doing it\nfor me right now~\"\n \n\"Alright,\" Adam softly grabs\nMerrick's lower jaw, \"How about this?\" He opened his mouth, and leaned forward,\nhis tongue already standing out even before he pushed his maw against Merrick's\n \n\"Mmff...\" Merrick closes his\neyes as Adam's tongue tucked under his while his lips eat onto his own mouth.\nMerrick grunts as his one hand grabs Adam's side, and the other abandoned his\nloins to hold onto his hip. \n\nAdam growled lowly as he lapped his mouth and forced further into Merrick's\nhot, wet mouth. Merrick can feel his own penis hardening very fast as Adam\nasserted his manly power into him, almost jamming his tongue down his throat as\nhe gnaw on his mouth.\n \nThey parted the long, deep\nkiss, panting quietly on the spot, \"Nnnhh...\" Merrick groaned as urges started to\npull at his logic. \"Qui... Quick rimjob?\" He asked quietly.\n \n\"Gheheh...\" Adam chuckled, \"Four\nminutes. Time it, before anyone notices we're gone.\" Before Merrick even\nbrought out his phone to set the timer, Adam forced Merrick to turn around.\nMerrick gasps and blushes as he feels Adam pull down his grass skirt and\nshorts, exposing his flawless lower body. \n \nAdam kneels down, seeing\nthose beautiful mounds jiggle slightly as Merrick adjusts, \"Nnnhhh,\" Adam grabs\nboth soft cheeks with his hands, his cock pushing his own shorts as he feels\nthe tender, smooth flesh of Merrick's bottom, \"Hohhh yeah,\" Adam spreads those\ncheeks, and moves his face into Merrick's fresh crack.\n \n\"A-Awwh!\" Merrick gasps and\nmoans as he feels Adam's face dig into his pristine ass, before feeling that\nwet sliver slide up his pink bud, following Adam's bristly chin pushing up his\ntender anus. Merrick bits his lip as his member twitches, while he quickly sets\nthe timer on his phone, and entering 4 minutes. \n \n\"OOhh~!\" Merrick drops his\nphone, which is saved by the shock-absorbent case equipped on it. He whines and\nmoans as Adam's facial hair both tickles and stimulates the most intimate areas\nof Merrick's crevice, while the broadside of Adam's tongue wipes up in\nMerrick's taint.\n \nMerrick starts to masturbate\nwhile Adam's nose rubs the top of his crack while his fingers dig and squeeze\nMerrick's ample, beautiful butt. Adam's thighs rub against each other as he\neats Merrick out, while digging one fist into his lap to rub his cock bundled\nin the fabric of his undies to sate his own throbbing manhood. \n \nAdam huffs as he laps and presses his tongue on and round Merrick's hole with\nsloppy vigor, making his twink moan as he can see Merrick's arm jump up and\ndown on his lap.\n \nMerrick moans quietly as he\nlooks down to his phone on the ground. \n \n2:49 minutes in counting.\n \nHe huffs and gasps as Adam\ncontinues to toss his salad, wanting nothing more than just to sit on Adam's hard\nmeat.\n \nWhen they get home tonight,\nhe needs to blow him in the Jacuzzi.\n","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1057201-aquata-cove-chapter-74.json"}