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Amphi slid across her table, one set up nicely in the shade of a tree where she could write a letter to her sisters. So far the academy had its bout of interesting characters to meet. She had met a fair share of ghost, monsters and even Reapers. She had yet to meet a demon but that could always be saved for later, not that it bothered her. Oddly enough after her shyness dissipated she was eager to make some kind of friends. Her legs kicked from her seat as she wrote to her sisters a long yet heartful message. A feat not easily done since her sister's had more talents writing then she did.

Dear Sisters, (Amphi just referred to her clan as sisters.)

Amityville has been an interesting place as of now........

Her hand scribbled across the paper as she sighed, spelling errors and possible grammar mistakes mottled the paper as she tried to write what had happened so far in the school.After disappointed attempts, she crumbled her fourth piece of paper and threw it. This was getting her no where and she was just well, getting really frustrated. "Should've asked a reaper for help, don't they no how to write better? for magic? Argh."

She tapped her hand on the table and started to stare off, thinking that she might ask if Sparrow might be able to help her or maybe someone else? Possibly the doll Mei. No she wouldn't bother them. Her head slapped on the desk.

Amphi looked up, after rubbing the red spot where her forehead had met the desk. There in front of her stood one of the messiest boil's she had ever seen. Well, not really the messiest because there had been haunts that secreted all sorts of other disturbing...stuff and to see dirt on someone wasn't that really big of a deal. "I'm okay I think." She kept rubbing it, causing the mark to redden even more, though it started to melt into her flush.

"Oh!" She stared at him more, a little bit a embarrassed flush reddened her pale cheeks. He caught her talking out loud! "Well um, you see...." She ducked her head shyly before flushing redder. "I am suppose to be writing a letter to my sisters you know? There undersea but sometimes they go to land to hear news from other clans and um..." She ran her hand through her hair as she rambled, "Um, I was suppose to tell them how I am doing? But I don't have that good of writing skills, because under sea we never had to do it. And-" She flushed red, "I've only been a student for awhile and I haven't learned to write. I know Reapers are better of the writers right? Are you a Reaper?" Her eye's looked over him almost pleading that he be one, because she really needed help. Really really needed help.

Amphi was starting to look like a boiled lobster with her face turning so red. She looked up only a little bit and saw that he was grinning at her and then ducked her head again. Was...was it bad that she wasn't good at writing? Oh maybe it was too unnatural, even for a mermaid. Darn it, she didn't have good people skills so she wasn't sure what to make of it. She looked up at him again and then focused on his face. "Hey um, do...Do I know you from somewhere?" She thought hard before her face blew up in a surprised expression, her mouth forming an O as she stared at him.

"Weren't...weren't you in sex-ed?" She whispered as she thought of the class. Personally the class had left a deep dark impression on her, and it was still going on. She tried to remember all the students.

"Interwebs?" She cocked her head and thought of the groanspring she had set up after moving in the dorm. "We don't have them underwater? But I learned from the students how to set something up on there?" She ducked her head yet again shyly, her voice meek. "Oh, A voice recorder would be awesome, we have conch shells but they don't hold a lot of sound and a lot of them get disrupted by the waves." She shook her head before staring at the blank piece of paper, still to shy to fully hold his gaze. "I....I know how to write? but sometime I have trouble with words and spelling. Plus My writing is...." She pushed the paper to him as he sat next to her, "It looks like scribbles."

She sighed sadly as she looked at it, she just wanted to send a letter to her sisters to let them know she was alright. "Oh!" She jumped, "Your a reaper! I would, Can...Can I borrow you for today? Just to help?" She shuffled the paper around as she continued her red blush. "I don't know how I'd be able to repay you though, but yes I do need help. My sisters will be worried if I don't send at least one legible letter."

"Oh nice to meet you again Mac. I'm Amphitrite, though you can just call me Amphi for short." Amphi smiled at him before ducking her head back down. Her hand reached out to take his, shaking it before dropping it back over her lap. There was a moment of awkward silence as Amphi sat there.

"Well its not all that bad I suppose, but I think living on land is hard so who knows?" Amphi smiled at him, "Oh I'm not sorry, I have more fun lazing about then being on the internet though I am sure if I took the time to get used to it, I would probably like it." She laughed and then saw him push the paper back. Aw man, she knew it, her writing had been worst then she thought. It was....horrendous, a sense of dread filled her.

"Oh...." Amphi pulled out of the quick depression and gave him her pearliest white smile, "Oh thanks so much Mac! I really owe you one for this!" She gave him a a small hug and then pulled back, covered in some of the crackling dirt. "Oh..." She looked down and then back him and stifled a giggle, "Well, Alright then? I suppose I should change as well, is there some where I should meet you?" She didn't catch his joke though, what about dirty letters? It totally flew over her head.

"Ah that's true. I think Lazing is just a teenager thing?" She laughed before standing up and brushing some of the dirt off. He had hugged her back which made her a little embarrassed but good to know that he wasn't at all the shy type. She could feel that knowing Mac would really help her along with her land walker etiquette as well.

"Okay!" She smiled brightly at him as they both split to go to their dorms, she waved a quick goodbye and made for her dorm as fast as she could. For her it didn't take long for her to wash off, seeing as her room was all mostly a aquarium, the only part of dry land was the small amount of Islands for her pirate minipets at the very top. She jumped in the water, her body did a slow glow as her legs formed into her bright blue tail and she scrubbed all the dirt off. Then she jumped out and dressed as quickly as she could before heading back out. Her hair dripped water as she rushed back to the spot, a whole lot of early time. All in all, she had been gone only for 20 minutes.

"Okay!" She set up her books and paper for her new writing skill class. Well kinda of like a class, Mac would be a great teacher....Right?

Amphi had started practicing her writing, doodling on the page before she felt the heat of another person slide closer to her. Looking over she noticed Mac who was extremely close to her. Was it okay to be this close? Do Land walkers always get so close?

"Ah," She flushed red trying not to think of how close he was before looking at his face....which unconditionally was close as well. "Ah, Yes, but I didn't mind the dirt before either." She nodded before averting her eyes quickly.

"Oh um thank you very much!" she blushed all over again before doodling on the paper. A sign of nervousness as she wasn't sure why Mac was complimenting her. "Ah so writing-" She began before looking at him and cocking her head.

"I think its just legibility." She showed him the letter, besides being horrible to read, just by her writing, there were grammar mistakes and words that were either....wrong or just unnecessary. She looked hopefully at him.

Amphi was pretty sure that her head was burning at the moment. She wasn't used to having someone so close, one especially being a boil. Sure she had her sisters, and though they were close emotionally, they we're wary of invading each other's personal space, a problem that Amphi only seemed to share. Mac on the other hand was right at home.

So she focused on her doodling, and though it got a little more frantic the closer he seemed to get, she took a breath and held it in. Okay, just relax. This isn't the sea. Amphi mentally encouraged herself. A little of the red blush escaped her face, not so much that you couldn't tell she was blushing, but enough to tell she wasn't going to explode from embarrassment.

When he began the lesson, she focused on what he said instead before biting her bottom lip. Her speed? Well that would make a lot of sense considering she didn't really take her time with it. The paper was freed from her hands and flipped over to the blank side as Mac tapped it. Flushing again, she took the pencil. "O..Okay." She nodded and focused purely on the paper and writing. Her hand scribbled words over it, at a medium speed. It wasn't slow enough that every curve of a letter was perfect, but it was fast enough to have the letters melding together. "There." She dotted a period at the end of the sentence and looked up at Mac. If you looked closely it read:

.

She put the pencil down and looked at him. Her head cocked, and Blue eyes hopeful. "Does this look bad?"

Amphi was still staring at the reaper, with big round orbs hopeful that he would be able to tell her exact problem. It didn't come to her attention that her writing might be more horrendous then she originally thought, and had she known, she might have felt a little more embarrassed but...well she didn't and being that she wasn't a landwalker, it was understandable that in the end, she had no idea about grammar and spelling.

"Better??" She looked down at the paper and felt her chest puff with a little bit of pride. Well if it was better then that meant she was already improving. See there Amphi, she mentally congratulate herself. All you needed was another's opinion, not so bad was it.

"Oh um...okay like this." She looked at him again before her eyes darted down, he was looking at her too and it made her nervous as she slowed her writing. The words we're more carefully spaced though her loops for letters still seemed to meld together. She practiced a couple of the words she had written earlier and was pleased when her writing produce a more legible, MAC instead of MC. "Spelling too? Maybe a letter to my sister's is impossible with my skills." Amphi felt the early pride deflate, barely noticing that Mac's hand had moved over hers before feeling the slight pressure of his. She looked up at him startled. "Mac?" She stiffened as a new wave of a blush rose in her face before her eye's darted to the paper. Okay, all he was doing was helping. She waited for him to show him what he wanted to do.

"If it helps then I see no reason why you shouldn't..." Amphi said really...really quietly. It wasn't like her to be so bold but...one must sacrifice to reap the rewards and well, Mac was fairly nice guy...It didn't have to mean anything. Except its a boil touching my hand...