"Is the human world really this big? Please tell me this is a dream," Oscar worried.

"I'm sure that if we just stay positive, it won't seem that bad…" Bea said, trying to stay positive. But she wasn't so sure for once that it wouldn't be that bad. For the first time since she could remember, Bea's half-glass-empty attitude wasn't working so well; and she didn't like it.

"Well we shouldn't waste any time standing here in awe. We need to get moving," Oscar suggested. They agreed to it and began their descent through town. As they walked, they looked around at the tall buildings surrounding them, the numerous cars on the streets, and the many people walking the streets beside them.

They were definitely not used to air and walking on feet, though. They kept taking heavy breaths, and to anyone else it looked like they were out of breath. They also took large (or sometimes tiny) steps and it looked like they had also just learned to walk. People stared as they walked by, wondering why three teenagers were acting so strange. Not that teens acting weird wasn't the norm of the world, but whenever it happened in public people couldn't help but wonder.

And as they walked, Oscar, for the life of him could not keep his eyes off of Bea. He thought she was beautiful as a fish, but she was just absolutely gorgeous as a human. Her flowing strawberry red hair flowed even more prettily down her back, her eyes sparkled with curiosity even more so as a human and her long legs and hourglass figure were complimented by her mid-thigh length red skirt, yellow and orange striped tank top and red long-sleeve underneath. Oscar tried looking away, but his eyes averted themselves back to her. Luckily she was too concentrated on the city sights to notice that she was being stared at.

"Bro, if you like her then just tell her." Milo said as they walked behind Bea, startling Oscar out of his trance.

"What? Who said I like her?" Oscar panicked.

"Dude. It's so obvious." Milo said plainly. Oscar sighed in defeat, as he knew he could trust his brother to keep a secret.

"Well I can't tell her! I seriously doubt she feels the same way!" Oscar worried.

"Don't doubt yourself so much. There's still a chance that she could like you back. You just gotta take a chance," Explained Milo. Oscar sighed sadly yet nervously.

"But every time I look at her—e-even the back of her head—I just get so nervous and when I think I'm finally going to do it, I chicken out!" Oscar panicked.

"Bro, calm down! I know you can do it, you just have to wait for the right moment." Milo said. Oscar sighed.

"Can you guys believe these city sights?" Bea said excitedly. They looked around. It was a pretty big place. Compared to Fish-Downtown, that is.

Yet as they were walking down the street, Bea was bumped by a person passing by on the street. Bea stopped walking and turned to him.

"Excuse you," She spat. He stopped and turned to her. Bea couldn't put her finger on it, but something seemed wrong with him. He was almost examining her. From her feet to her head, he looked her up and down.

"What's it to you?" He slurred. Did he have some sort of speech impediment or something?

"It's rude to bump into people without apologizing." Bea said.

Oscar, however, wasn't liking this guy's attitude. He had the urge to step in front of Bea and tell him 'Hey, dude, back off. She's just trying to tell you that you're being rude.' But he knew the guy would probably tear him to shreds; he was like a human Jocktopus or something.

The guy snarled. He looked like he was about to hurt someone.

"I think I can do whatever I want," He growled.

"Well if you're nicer about it then maybe more in life will begin to go your way." Bea said, with a hint of irritation hidden in her tone.

"I think you need to shut up, girl." He growled. This only made Bea angrier. Why were people so...rude, in the human world?

Now Oscar actually stepped in. He stepped in front of Bea in a way to shield her from whatever he was going to say or do next.

"Hey, back off. She's just asking you to say you're sorry." Oscar defended. This took Bea by surprise. Oscar had never been one to step up like this.

"Hah, you need your little boyfriend to protect you?" He laughed. Oscar blushed heavily at this. "Psh, whatever. It's not even worth it." He mumbled and walked away.

"Wow, could he be any ruder?" Bea said, annoyed.

"I hope its just him that's rude like that in the human world…" Milo commented.

"I don't know. He looked dangerous, maybe it's a good thing he walked away." Oscar said. They kept walking.

They didn't really know where they were going, either, but for now their plan was to just walk in whichever direction and hope that they came upon a cave where an old witch lady stayed. Maybe they could make the most of their time, right?

~…~

"It's getting kinda cold, guys, maybe we should find a place to stay for the night." Bea said, shivering. Oscar immediately took off his coat and wrapped it around her shoulders. She grabbed it and folded her arms, trying to keep as warm as possible. It got colder than it usually did in the fish tanks in the people world.

"But who would take in three teenagers who don't know anything about being human?" Oscar asked, sharing his usual doubts.

"Maybe there's a motel somewhere we can stay at." Milo suggested.

"But we don't have any money, Milo! We have fish dollars! They're probably not even good here. People will think we're crazy if we hand them our money." Bea explained.

"Well what choice do we have? It's not like anyone will take any random three people off the street for the night! And we can't possibly sleep outside all night. We would freeze to death!" Milo retorted. The three friends went silent for a few moments in thought.

"What do we want to do?" Bea asked.

"We're going to have to hope there's some really cheap motel somewhere nearby and hope we can find a way to scrape a few bucks together…"

So they searched a few of the blocks nearby and found a cheap motel room for as low as $10 per night; hoping they'd have that money in the morning.

~…~

"Ugh, ew. This place is gross," Bea complained, pinching the bed sheets as to try to touch them as little as possible. "And ugly. Haven't they ever heard of a maid? Or an interior decorator?"

"Maybe I should clean it a little…" Oscar offered.

"No, don't bother. It's just for one night. But the only problem is there's only two beds," Bea said. They examined the room. She was right; someone would have to sleep on the couch. And although Oscar dreamed of romantically holding Bea as they slept, or even just sleeping face to face with her, being just that close to her, he knew he had to be a gentleman.

"You and Milo can take the beds, I'll take the couch." Oscar offered.

"Are you sure? It doesn't look too inviting." Bea said.

"Yeah, It'll be fine. It's no big." He said, placing a pillow on the armrest of the couch and grabbing a blanket to pull over himself.

Laying down on their beds, the three teens stared at the ceiling, wondering what would become of them.

Okay, okay, shoot me. I took too long to update. Boohoo. Sorry, I've been kinda busy lately…but please review?