"We are here!" Clar announced when they came into the dining.
"Come and sit." The mother gestured for them to take a seat next to her.
"What of the others?" Clar glanced around the dining, and at the empty chairs.
"They are—"
"I'm sorry I'm late." The husband apologized as he took a chair, and it left two more chairs empty.
"I had to call my friends. That's why I came out late," Rain explained when he came into the dining room.
With little thought, he sat down on the chair next to Lyre, who stiffened, but not from fear.
The merman can't explain the feelings he gets whenever the handsome boy is close to him.
"Hi." Rain smiled at him, much to the shock of his family.
"What?" The mother asked as she glanced at Rain, to make sure he was still the son she has been living with for close to nineteen years.
"What's it?" Rain frowned at his family, who was acting as if he committed a crime.
"Nothing." The mother shook her head as she tried to hide the smile on her face.
