Kasei yawned, finally turning off the hair dryer. “Soon, huh? You said that twenty minutes ago.”

“I guess I got more wet than I thought.”

“And you got covered in the mud, too.” Kasei sighed, hanging his head. A moment to think and he sighed, “Araiso.”

“Yeah?”

“How’d you say your born?”

“From deep ocean trenches,” Araiso blinked, “Why?”

“Cause you don’t seem to have any kind of uh, reproductive organs.” Kasei said, looking up.

Araiso chuckled, “No, I don’t. Not in my original form at least. It’s not needed. But for whatever reason, I have them as a human.”

Kasei shifted onto his knees, “So then you’ve never had sex?” Araiso stared at Kasei for what seemed like hours. “…You know, sex? Mating?”

Then Araiso’s fare white face turned pink as he looked away, “No… That sort of thing never really crosses our minds. Why?”

Kasei smirked a bit, resting his chin in a hand. “Ahhh~ You don’t know what you’re missing.”

“Isn’t it just some… joining of a male and female’s bodies for the sperm to go in?”

“In a technical sense, yes.” Kasei laughed. “But, for those of both males and females, there’s a… sweet spot in you that just makes you feel soooo good.”

“Sweet spot?” Araiso blinked, “What, are humans suddenly dessert trays?”

Kasei fell onto his face forward laughing, “In a perverted sense, yes!” Araiso stared in confusion as Kasei tried to calm down from laughing. It only took a few minutes. After Kasei was calm, he took Araiso’s hand nearest him. “You want to know what it feels like?”

Araiso’s face flushed all over again, “Wha-what sex feels like?”

Kasei nodded. “I promise, I won’t go all the way. I won’t hurt you. And if you get scared, just pull my hair and I’ll stop. Sound fair?” He gave a very trustworthy smile, the sort that just melted the merman’s uneasiness away.

Araiso nodded slowly after a moment.

Kasei smiled, shifting into a more comfortable position. “I’ll start with a massage. I want you to feel good.” He began by gently rubbing the hand he had in his, gentle small circles with delicate motions from his palms and more solid ones from his finger tips.

“Starting at the tips of the fingers, to your wrist… to your elbow…” Kasei said as he slowly moved his hands. “This is to make you more aware of what your body’s feeling, to acute your senses.”

Araiso was silent, watching shyly as Kasei’s massage spread slowly.

Kasei spoke softly, never moving his body in anyway in a position that would put him over Araiso and make him frightened.

“And to your shoulder… Gently across the collar and to the neck, down your chest. It’s important to not use too much pressure, or you risk turning the gentle pleasure into something unpleasant.” Kasei explained. “To your torso, ribs, to your abdomen and down to the hips. Gently down one leg, being mindful of the inner thigh and knee - as these are sensitive areas. Down the calf to the ankle, and being just as gentle on the ankle and foot as on the wrist and hand.”

Araiso watched as Kasei looked up to him with a smile before moving to the other foot and working back up the leg toward the hip.

“Returning to the hip and up the body, massaging the edges and back as you go.” Kasei said, shifting a bit so Araiso would lay down a bit and arch his back up. “Up the spin to the shoulders and then to the other arm.” He was mindful to not be too much directly over Araiso, but rather pull Araiso’s arm gently toward him. “Back down the arm to the neck, massaging gently up the edges and the back to the back of the skull. And ending at the ear lobes.”

Now, Araiso and Kasei were almost nose to nose.

“Feel good?” Kasei asked after a second.

Araiso blushed, nodding a bit. “Yes… Is this what sex is like?”

“Not really.” Kasei said, bumping his nose against the other’s. “Sex is more like… Well for males with a girl partner they push in and try to make the girl feel good while rubbing the tip of their cock against that sweet spot.”

“And if the partner is a boy?”

“Same thing, unless you mean the boy being penetrated.” Kasei shrugged. “Then he’s being rubbed at his sweet spot deep inside his stomach. It differs from person to person, but some like that spot rubbed roughly, other like it more slowly and gently- like that massage just now.”

Araiso nodded, wrapping his arms around Kasei’s shoulders. “I like you this close to me.”

Kasei smiled a bit, “Me too.”

For almost a minute the two stared each other in the eye.

Then, ever so slowly, Kasei gently neared and kissed Araiso’s lips while pulling the other up to sit next to him.

After the gentle kiss, Kasei blushed, shifting to stand up. “Uh… Sorry about that. I gotta take a shower now.” He got up, waved to Araiso and quickly left the room.

Araiso called after him, but his voice had gone. He’d fully transformed human again. He sighed looking down, cursing mentally. This always happens right when I need to say something important, he thought.