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A/N: Long ass chapter, so sit back and enjoy the mess I wrote :V

Also, there's gonna be a little bit of gore in the chapter, I will add a small warning but just BEWARE.

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"And. . . That's how we met." Minho finished his storytelling while carefully sliding a piece of thin seaweed string through the tiny hole he had made on a small pearl. "I also gifted him a fish. . . He choked on the spines so I had to do a CPR on him."

Hyunjin snorted with laughter while San shook his head. "Typical of Jisung." His face then lit up and he nudged Hyunjin. "Hey, how about I tell you about the time that Wooyoung and I. . ."

San's voice suddenly faded away into the ocean's currents, carrying it away and letting it wander further and further from his frills as he bit his tongue and carefully added a few tiny clams, as well as those weird pointy things called augers and other types of seashells that Kai might like.

Would Kai really like it though?

I mean, he didn't know anything about romance or how the perfect gift might look, but he was being genuine and true to the feelings he felt for Kai. So. . . At least you should give him half a star for trying.

"Ooh, are you guys making promises?" A sudden voice cut through Soobin's thoughts and made everyone of the boys gasp with panic and huddled together as if the newcomer was some type of syren-eating shark sneaking up on them to eat their insides.

"Lia!" Minho, who was a natural flirt, was the first one to break the small silence that had engulfed them when the pretty syren came out of basically nowhere.

"Hey, girlie. Where have you been?" He put one arm around her petite shoulders. "Were you looking for. . . Moi?"

Lia looked at him weirdly and immediately swam away from him to take a place between Soobin and Hyunjin. "I was looking for all of you actually." She untied a small handmade bag and placed it on the rock where the four males had been working while the two oldest of the squad told corny stories about their above-water romances.

"I returned from Fire Tribe, you wanna see what they gave me?" After getting four enthusiastic nods from her friends, the siren buried her hands into the bag and pulled out a pretty necklace with an unusual pretty and shiny red gem.

"Woah," Hyunjin's eyes went wide while Soobin held out his palm so he could take a better a look at the pretty gem. "What is it?"

"It's a ruby," She moved her necklace away from the awing boys and put it around her neck. The red shine of the ruby contrasted beautifully against her purple scales and gave her a more glamorous look. "It was a gift actually," She smiled shyly and twirled her hair with her finger. "From. . . Well, you guys know who."

"Well, I didn't expect any less coming from her." San laughed before giving the younger a pout. "D-Did you see Wooyoung?" He pressed his index fingers together which made Lia gasp.

"Oh, yeah! He told me to give you this." She reached for her bag once more and pulled out a pretty bracelet which had also been made with rubies that surround a small zircone at the middle.

The 20-year old let out a tiny squeak filled with excitement. He took the necklace from Lia and covered it with his hands as if trying to protect it before anyone could steal it away from him.