do you know how long i've been waiting?

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She was mesmerizing the first time the young mermaid had seen her, she was wearing those weird round shaped thing around her eyes, her long blonde hair was a mess on her back and her dress was a little crippled after messing around with what the mermaid assumed was her friends.

She was a messy eater as well, but that didn't turn off the sea creature. It actually just made her more mesmerized with the short human.

She was so mesmerized, that she didn't notice she had followed the human to land.

It was a stupid move, a stupid decision, reckless and wasn't thought through. But the young mermaid really felt like the girl was her soulmate and.. well, mermaids were hopeless romantics. They dreamt about being with someone who will cherish them, support them and love them, no matter what. Have someone there for you.

And she had really wanted that.

"Who the hell are you?!" Taeyeon had shrieked, the moment her eyes had landed on the halfnaked woman on her apartment's living room, it wasn't a good choice to yell at such an ungoldy hour at the morning- 7 AM -since her neighbors are uptight pussies, but can you really blame her?

"Hello!" The mermaid had brightly greeted the older, as if this was such a normal occurence.

Taeyeon was about to scream- again. But stopped herself, remembering that it was not appropriate. And so she released a breath she didn't know she was holding and then, "wHO THE FUCK ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU IN HERE-"

Well... That plan to 'not scream' certainly went well, absolutely better than I had expected to write... Hmmm...

The mermaid winced from the loudness of Taeyeon's voice, she attempted to speak, to introduce herself but then remembered.. 'Hello' was the only word she knew.. Internally smacking herself on the inside, the young mermaid had decided to just- "Asdhasnsjd nsdjsk hasha?" speak gibberish.

"What-? Wait- You know what, if you're not going to say anything I'm calling the police!" Taeyeon threatened her, inching her hand close to the telephone lying on the table behind her but instead of getting a.. Normal reaction where the supposed to be criminal panics.. Instead the other just stares at her in confusion.

"What the fuck." Taeyeon mumbles, staring at the other.

-

"Are you Asian?" Taeyeon had decided that the other was no harm.. Also, nothing really was missing so yea, she took the younger woman, plopped her on the couch, took a thick blanket from her room and draped it over her so her tits weren't so out in the open, then she opened up junk food, placed them on the table and decided to have an interview with the latter.

The younger mermaid had nodded.

Huh.. Taeyeon got confused. "Okay.." She trailed off, thinking about how weird the shit happening right now, is.

"Do you know where you are?" Taeyeon asked again.

The younger woman nodded.

Taeyeon blinked.

Fishy..

"Okay, how did you get in my apartment?"

The latter had nodded... Again.

What.

Taeyeon scratched her head in confusion. "How did you get in my apartment?"

Another nod.

Her eyebrows furrowing in confusion, Taeyeon asked another question. "How old are you?"

Nod nod.

"What's your name?"

Nod.. Nod.. Again.

Taeyeon groaned, annoyance seeping in her veins. The latter seemed to just nod at whatever she was saying as long as it was a question!

"Whatever, so you look Asian.. But we're in Spain.." Taeyeon had to try again.

The latter just blinked at her.

"Are you latin?"

Blink.

"I'll take that as a no.. Or maybe uhm, hola? Que hablo spania?" Well shit Taeyeon, that was probably wrong.

And she was right or like wrong still.. The latter just blinked at her still, this time, blinking at her thrice before snatching the chip bags of her grip and sniffing the plastic bag.

And then.. Ate it.

"Hey! No!" Taeyeon reached for the chips but the latter held it back, holding it protectively to her chest. Taeyeon groaned, "no! Like! Uhm, I meant you can't eat the plastic. You can have the chips just NOT the plastic."

The other just growled at her, and Taeyeon was taken aback with the inhumane sound.. But then let it go seeing as the other really wanted to eat the plastic bag.

Taeyeon grabbed another fish chips bag and opened it. She shook the bag of chips, to get the other's attention.

"Okay, you see this?" She motioned to the plastic. "No-no!" she wagged her finger, "you, can't eat it. So you do this.." She put her hand in the bag and took out one fish chip, wagging it a little before she ate it.

The other's eyes brightened, and then took the bag that Taeyeon was holding, startling her to the moon and back.

And then started to do what Taeyeon had demonstrated... Only messier.

Taeyeon stared at her deadpan. And then grabbed the banana chips, "Mine." Taeyeon hissed, holding it to her chest.. Much like what the younger woman had done earlier..

The other frowned at her and then clutched her chips as well.

-

An hour had passed.. A full hour of Taeyeon attempting to speak almost 15 languages.. Just to get the other to speak. Also, her defending her banana chips.

So far, no progress. Taeyeon cried mentally as she stared at her banana chips getting devoured by the other.

"This is hopeless." Taeyeon grumbled. "So, uhm- right, I don't know your name. And you don't have clothes.. Seriously hasn't your tits froze by now."

As usual, she got a blink in return.

Taeyeon sighed, getting up from the couch. Then, grabbing the younger woman's wrist, who chewed on her chips in confusion.. She also looks so stupid with those crumbs on her face, Taeyeon thought as she dragged the other to her room.

"Sit here. And stay." Taeyeon carefully instructs as if she's talking to a kid.

And when the other blinked in response, Taeyeon took that as a yes and she turned her back to head to her closet and find the other some clothes.

"Hmm.." Taeyeon hummed, going through her drawers, looking for leggings, sweatpants, jeans or pajamas? Really, anything that'd be long enough for the other, she's a lil too offense..

"Aha!" Taeyeon cheered when she saw Sooyoung's leggings. "Huh, I didn't notice I bought these with me. She's so killing me when she finds out it's here.. It's even her favorite.. Eh, whatever. Finders keepers, losers weepers." She muttered as she moved on the other side of he closet to look for a T-shirt big enough for the other.

When she finally found one, she turned on her heel and was about to walk out when- "WHAT THE FUCK!" she shrieked when she saw the other standing there, innocently staring at her with a curious gaze.

"Oh my god." Taeyeon wheezed, "I think my heart is about to burst out of my chest and fucking run away."

As usual, the other just blinked in response.

"Y-you know what?" Taeyeon tried to calm down. "Just.. take these." She placed the clothes in the younger's hands, who just frowned and stared at them. And then she placed her empty chips bag on the floor, the thick blanket temporarily sliding off her shoulders to reveal skin.

Taeyeon found herself staring at them, and only stopped when the younger got up and started sniffing the clothes.. then tried to eat the fabric.

"Noo!" Taeyeon scolded and then groaned. "Seriously? From what place did you come from? Or did Jessica and the others put you up to this? Really? You don't even know what to do with clothes?"

Blink blink.

"Seriously, who are you?" Taeyeon took ahold of her shoulders and then shook her.

The other just suddenly smiled and shook Taeyeon back as if.. it was a game..? What?

Taeyeon is so confused right now. She doesn't even know why she didn't call the cops on the other and instead, she's doing.. this, whatever the fuck this is she's trying to do.

"W-wait! Stop!" Taeyeon grabbed the girls wrists to stop her from shaking her so hard. "I'm- going to get dizzy."

The other just blinked.. As usual. Again.

Taeyeon literally facepalmed, letting go of the other's wrists.

Then, the other grabbed her wrist.. Like how she did to the other too.

Confused, Taeyeon slowly removed her wrists from the other.. "Okay.. Weird." She remarked.

The other just smiled at her.

"Whatever.. Okay so like.. We're both girls anyway.. Nevermind the fact that I'm gay... Are you homophobic? Wait- I- whatever." Taeyeon rambled, and then mentally facepalmed, she grabbed the clothes again and then instructed, "these, are clothes. We wear them to protect our body and private parts- oh right, your chest.. Wait, they're small anyway, I don't think you're going to need support-" and then she stopped.

"No offense.." But really, silence and a blink was just the response she received. "Whatever." She grumbled. "Here, clothes. You put them on." She gestured to her outfit. "Like this okay?"

The other nodded as if she understood what Taeyeon was saying, but really, she just nodded at Taeyeon's questions.. Whatever they were.

Taeyeon just nodded back awkwardly and then excused herself out to give the other some privacy.

She headed to the living room, to clean up the mess and get more chips out, don't ask why she has an unlimited stock of them, the fourth wall is already beginning to crack as I type this.

"Literally what am I doing?" Taeyeon plopped ungracefully on the sofa, she rubbed her forehead, a habit she developed whenever she was stressed. She grabbed a banana chip bag and quickly opened it, and devouring them. The pretty intruder- as Taeyeon had decided to call her, though pretty was an understatement for her features- had been too touchy with chips.. She liked the fish and shrimp chips the most but wouldn't let Taeyeon have any! Like, ANY.

It was unfair.

But Taeyeon had no choice.

Wait.

SHE DOES HAVE A CHOICE.

Thing is, why does she not want to do it?!

She's weird, too pretty, is tall and weird- wait, I already said weird, urgh.

Oh yea. I don't want to feel guilty. Like, she looks harmless and pretty- I mean weird and innocent, she looks like she can't hurt a fly!

Though Taeyeon has to know where she's from.. And the language she speaks..

The excuse that "what if the pretty intruder was mute?" was already discarded since the other could say 'hello!' in English.. but she looks Asian..

Urgh, whatever. Taeyeon munched some more on her precious chips, before the pretty intruder would come and snatch HER own food from her.

After a few more minutes.. Really, how long does it take to get dressed in leggings and a T-shirt? Definitely doesn't take forever!

Then again, she is weird and intruded on her home- well, her temporary apartment since she's on an indefinite vacation..

"Hello!" The pretty intruder jumped on the couch just beside Taeyeon, scaring her for the 134340th time.

Taeyeon wasn't even religious but she sent a silent prayer to God before facing the other, her heart still pounding and urging it to calm down.

"What the actual fuck." Taeyeon deadpanned, staring at the other. "How the hell did your head even fit on the sleeve? Yo were supposed to put your head through the middle bigger hole! Oh- atleast the leggings are somehow right..? W-wait.. It's backwards. Seriously, you don't even know how to dress yourself?"

Taeyeon groaned when the other just smiled at her proudly.

"What the hell am I doing. Really. What the fuck." Taeyeon grumbled out as she decided to fix the other.

~

"You." Taeyeon pointed her finger at the other and then gestured to the guest room. "Stay here, okay?"

The other just nodded.

Taeyeon rubbed her face with her hands before sighing and leaving the other to the room.

The young mermaid was confused though, and a little bummed out.. The pretty human didn't understand her. Then again, she is human and all she did was try to communicate telepathically.. in mermaid language. And she kept saying that "hello" all over again, but the other still didn't understand. It's not fair! She saw two humans say that to each other on her way to following the pretty human and they understood each other pretty well.

"Oooohh!" The young mermaid stared fascinated at the bed, her attention diverted from her thoughts easily, the bed was a lil, jumpy when the pretty human had sat her on it.

A little curious and childish, the mermaid decided to jump on the bed. It was a little wiggly, just like when she was trying to walk first, but eventually just like when she saw how humans walked and balanced theirselves on their feet, she learned to too. She applied it to the bed and soon, she was happily jumping on it.

However, she eventually got bored and decided to follow where the human went when she last saw her.

When the young mermaid had lead herself to the living room where the human was on the couch, a laptop perched on her lap.

The young mermaid peered behind the human, curiously looking at the weird thingy on the human's lap.

And then, she jumped on the couch, slightly startling the elder who was starting to get used to the other's startling presence.

The young mermaid leaned on the older, trying to get a better view and then took the laptop from the human, pressing on it's keys, as if trying to figure it out.

"Hey!" The elder protested but it fell behind ears since the other didn't pay any mind to her. "Whatever. I have any iPad anyways. Take the laptop, my chips, might as well take everything I own. Tsk." The elder grumbled, heading to her room, not planning to leave until the other would bother her again or if it was morning and she had her sleep.

Fortunately for her, the pretty intruder didn't bother her at all. And it was quiet once again, as if the other's presence wasn't really there and maybe, she will wake up and the other was just a dream.

~

It wasn't a dream. Taeyeon grumpily thought when she walked into the living room, the other still there and.. "What the hell! Did you stay up all night on the laptop?!" Taeyeon exclaimed when she saw the painful purple bags under the other's eyes, her hair disheveled and looking like she got dragged through a bush multiple times.

"What's your name?" The other suddenly asked.. in Hangul..

"AHA! I KNEW YOU CAN TALK! AND IS ASIAN!"

"I learned what language you were speaking when I went through this box." The other remarked as if it was normal..

Taeyeon was weirded out. "What?"

"Your name?"

"Really." Taeyeon crossed her arms, staring the other in the eyes. "You broke in my apartment and don't even know what my name is?"

The other blinked at her, waiting for an answer.

"Taeyeon."

The other broke out in a smile. "I would tell you my name if I had one. Where are you from?"

"Wha..t."

Have I mentioned the young mermaid might have happened to stumble into a dating site stating what to ask on a date?

"I'll tell you if you tell me where you're from then." Taeyeon said instead.

"Faraway. I was raised surrounded by the ocean."

Taeyeon raised her eyebrow, "Be specific...? Is it Busan? In Korea? You are Korean, right?"

"Yes, I am those... Answer me now, I've answered."

"Urgh." Being slightly irritared that her question wasn't answered right, Taeyeon answered anyways, "I'm from busan.. Now how did you get here? In Spain? And in my apartment too, huh?"

"Too many questions.." The other only dismissed her, "can I have more of those food you had given me earlier?"

~

"Since, you're not going to tell me where you're from or even your damn name, and I'm pretty sure you don't have any bad intentions since you're quite dumb half of the time. You're going with me to work-"

"But I thought vacation means no work?" The younger asked.

"I thought so too." Taeyeon huffed. "Now come on," she says as she packs her briefcase of.. Papers that I do not understand since I'm just the writer and I'm too lazy to research, "Get your shoes on, you remember how I taught you right?"

Two weeks ago when Taeyeon found her... And questioned her about almost everything and got no sensible question, she looked for any "missing person" cases.. With her connections of course, yet she didn't receive any that matched Yoona's description, which was fucking weird. And then she asked the younger about IDs and papers and shit and the younger didn't know shit about those either.

It was weird, really weird.

Being a lil wary and cautious of her.. She almost dropped the younger in a "Lost And Found" box- wait, she actually did, but got back an hour later to check if the other was gone, only to be confused when she saw the younger playing with the random shit in the box.. Taeyeon felt really guilty and 10x more confused, cuz why did she do that and why didn't the younger know what she did?!

And so, spending more time with the younger, she came to the conclusion that she was dumb and had no bad intentions. She knew it was mean to call her dumb.. But what other word could describe her too much naivety of the world?

"Okay! Left is here, and right is here, and-" the younger skipped out the room.

Then Taeyeon walked out next, her briefcase in her hand. Just freely swinging around.

"Okay, you, let's go- the fuck are you wearing?" Taeyeon asked, staring at the younger with a what-the-fuck face.

"Shoes!" The younger cheerily replied.

"Yes. But they're mismatched!"

"But they're shoes!"

"Urgh, you know what, let's go. We don't have any time left." Taeyeon sighed, mentally facepalming, letting the younger out first.

"Yeyyy!"

~

"Have you not emabarassed me enough?" Taeyeon cries out as she tries to get the younger off of the shoe shelf.

After work.. Taeyeon decided to get the younger some stuff for hers.

She doesn't know why she's doing this really. The girl was dumb, didn't have a name and hated eating fish. WHO HATES FISH BUT LIKES EATING FISH CHIPS?!

"But those are pretty.." The other said, trying to reach for them.

"I'll get them for you, just get down!" Taeyeon tugged on the younger's tsirth.

"But.." Theother got down, "You're short."

Taeyeon huffed, a little sensitive about her height, "Do you want the shoes or not?"

"I want.."

"Tsk, okay."

~

"You happy?" Taeyeon asked the younger who was happily munching on fries.

The younger just nodded, smiling so wide, some of the fries spilling out.

"Good."

A few minutes ofsilence past through before Taeyeon asked again, "Do you really not have a name?"

"No.. I mean, we never really needed one. We travel together but don't interact much anyways, we're loners."

"Hmm.. What do you mean 'we'?" Taeyeon asks.

"As in we, me and my companions."

Taeyeon huffs. Again, another confusing answer.

"Whatever, do you want one tho?"

"Hmm? Well, do I need one?"

"Ofcourse you do.."

"Ohhh! Okay then! How do I get one?"

"Uhh.. You just call yourself that name you want.. Though, most of the time we get bamed by parents... My Mom named me, Kim Taeyeon." Taeyeon explains as if she was talking to a kid.

"I like your last name.." The younger said, "Can I be Kim Banana?"