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L is a natural dolphin linguist who fights to share her inner knowledge with the rest of the world. She is seduced by R, who cannot control his desire for her whenever she wears the rose perfume. Together, R and L collide with common goals to discover the true meaning behind the mermaid statues on the beach, but after L sees a dark shadow above R's head on his birthday, the night descends into trauma and betrayal. Despite R's undying love for her, she disappears into E, whom she said was her destiny all along.
L's friend M says only nerds hang out with dolphins, and invites her on a path to popularity instead, which L accepts.
M did not follow the usual rules. Despite the danger, part of L was desperate to be included in M's ability to make friends easily, and wherever M went, L went also. When M invited L to her house after school, L went anyway, even though her mother forbade it. Unable to resist M's freedom and lack of restrictions, L discovered the truth behind the illusion M presented to the world: M's siblings bullied her. While L sat on the floor with the snacks M snuck in, M fought off a brother and sister who called her wounding names and made her cry. No adult came to stop the fight until it was over, and her father took her sister's side. At that moment, L realized the price of self-governance was not what it seemed, and M was fighting an internal battle she had not seen from the outside. L saw that M needed her as much as she needed M. L decided then that no matter what happened, they had to stay friends forever.
Until the day came when M finally got the opportunity to hang out with her sister's cooler crowd in a bar downtown, even though they were underage. M said it was a surprise to celebrate her driver's license and drove them all the way there. But when they arrived, L said she did not want to go inside, and M could not forgive her.