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[Color=7bcdc8][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]SAN FRANCISCO[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][INDENT][sup][COLOR=SILVER]May [SUP]9th[/SUP], 2019 - 11:39 AM | Baker Beach[/COLOR][/sup][/INDENT][/COLOR]
It was just a normal day at the beach. People of all ages were here, enjoying the cool waves of the sea under the scorching heat of the sun. Children were laughing and building sandcastles, teenagers were playing volleyball, and adults were either relaxing under the shade of their beach umbrella, grilling meat for lunch, or having conversations with one another. All this, the young girl named Mareena had observed from afar.

All that time, she was studying how the humans behaved and interacted with each other, hoping to gain something from them and be able to blend in with them. First of all were the clothes: some loose, skimpy, showing large amounts of skin, or tight suits suitable for swimming. She looked down on her body. She wore a regular looking black swimsuit so she guessed that'll do. 

Next were the skin and the hair color, and Mareena was genuinely surprised. It didn't occur to Mareena how similar the humans are to her kind. An Atlantean could easily pass as a human whenever one wants to. Honestly, she didn't even know why she's hiding behind rocks on the far reaches of the beach. From new-girl jitters, perhaps? In any case, if she wanted to live independently from now on, she came to the conclusion that she'll have to do big swims of faith and make do with what she has.

Mareena jumped in place and shook her whole body to fight off the nervousness. She paced around a bit and exhaled a few times before taking in a deep breath and walking confidently towards the humans on the beach, which made her land face-first on the sand with her first step. She grumbled and stood up to further study how the humans walked. [color=7bcdc8]"Okay, so right foot first, then left-woah!"[/color], Mareena exclaimed as she wobbled a bit. She looked at the humans in alarm and breathed a sigh of relief when they didn't hear her. "You can do this Mareena. Just, concentrate", she said to herself. [color=7bcdc8]"Just breathe in, breath out, relax-"[/color]

"What language is that?"

Mareena looked back to see a young man sitting on the rocks, watching her. He wore a red tank top and beach shorts. He also had a darker skin complexion that Mareena's because he was tanned. Like her father, the man before her had blond hair but has dark green eyes that seemed to look at her curiously and intensely. Mareena blushed and looked away.

"Oh hey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you", the man said. He stood up and approached Mareena. "I'm Jonathan, by the way, but you can call me Jonah", he said with a smile as he reached out his hand.

Mareena glanced a few times at the man before looking at him completely. The man seemed to be the same age as her if not a few years older. Other than that, this man that called himself Jonah was still shrouded in mystery. She looked at his outstretched hand in confusion before putting on her hand atop of his. Jonah looked at her in bewilderment before laughing.

"You're very weird, a good kind of weird in fact", he said while looking at Mareena in amusement. Mareena, on the other hand, continued to look indifferent and confused at him. It took him seconds to realize something. "You don't understand me, do you?".

Mareena coughed before speaking. [color=7bcdc8]"Me understands you, but me no good speaking your languages"[/color], she said. It took a lot of effort and hand gestures for her to say that sentence and Jonah really saw how obviously Mareena struggled. 

"It's okay, I understand completely", Jonah reassured her. "If that's the case, I'll speak more clearly from now on so you can catch up, alright?", to which Mareena nodded. "Awesome! Now let's start over. My name is Jona- hey wait! Where you going?".

Before Jonah was able to continue, Mareena quickly turned to look at the sea behind her and felt the cries of a sea creature calling for help. She quickly dived and swam to the source of the cries where two fishing boats encircle the poor creature in the far reaches of the sea.