(Below is writing that is much neater and finer than the usual.)

Hello, darling refers to you as his 'friend' right? Hi, I'm Merry. Sorry if you were waiting for darling, but he is staying the night at Victoria's tonight. He didn't give me any warning either, I was told by some servants. Anyway, darling is not home and TNA has already gone to sleep so I don't have anything to do right now. I thought maybe you would like to know what I do while darling is at work?

After our morning swim together I grab my fishing gear and head out to sea. Tally has had a healthy appetite lately so I have to work extra hard to find enough food for everyone. Thankfully I've gotten to know the area and have made friends with some of the locals so it's never that difficult to find enough food, but I always make sure we have enough in reserve to last us a few days. It can be a thankless job at times but seeing a happy family gathered at the table to eat my cooking is like a dream come true for me.

The first thing on the list every day is collecting sea vegetables. Nutrition is extremely important, especially for Tally now that she is pregnant, so I have to make sure I collect a variety of plants for a balanced meal. I check all my usual spots looking for mature healthy plants to be gathered; but I do more than just harvest the plants. The last thing I want is to have to find different places to search so I always make sure to tend to the area they grow as well. I remove any parasites and sick plants I find and even attempt to plant new plants.

After I have enough vegetables it is time to hunt down some fish. The others in the area know the fish locations better than I do so I make sure to ask if they know of any good spots for the time of year. If I am lucky I am asked to join them in hunting a large school, I can catch up to a week worth of fish in one go! But normally it is just me and my net catching one fish at a time. I always feel bad for the little things, but we have to eat so the only thing I can offer them is a quick death. As for how I kill them, I'll leave that a secret. ;)

Since I kill the fish quickly to ease their suffering I have to clean the fish shortly after I catch them. I settle on the bottom and lay out everything I need so I can work quickly. Using a knife or my claws, if I choose to use my more monstrous form, I easily shave off the scales, remove the guts, and lop off the head. After dicing the fish into bite sized chunks I place it into one of my marinating jars. The jars are filled with a sauce made from mashed sea vegetables, fish liver, some spices, and my blood. The sauce itself not only adds flavor but also acts as a preservative, gives energy, and can even possibly extend my darlings life, I try to make sure he gets some for every meal.

The whole process of cleaning the fish inevitably attracts a lot of small predatory creatures looking to snatch up anything I don't use. Sometimes even a few sharks will show up to investigate. But don't worry about me, unless it's a really big and aggressive shark I am more of a threat to it than it is to me. Even if the shark is really big and hungry I would be able to out swim it. But more often than not the sharks that do approach are probably just looking for the fish heads that I tend to just throw out. Some of the sharks are pretty smart and have likely gotten food from mermaids before. I even once knew a mermaid who kept a couple of sharks as pets. I do think sharks are neat, but I think it would be too much of a hassle to have one as a pet.

After I have gathered enough food for the day I usually have enough time to talk with some of my friends before coming home. For example; today I was able to talk with Flou the charybdis, Aris the merrow, Mizuna the mermaid, and Sally the scylla. Since Flou does not like to leave her burrow, we often meet there to talk. We normally talk about a lot of things but ever since she found out I was getting married Aris starts all our talks by asking; "So has your darling hit you up yet?!" She always approaches the subject with extreme enthusiasm. You've meet her before, darling, she was the red head in the hat that was trying very hard to tempt you. She is really a merrow, a more energetic and flirtatious type of mermaid that normally wears a hat. Her red hair is unchanged but now it matches her tail.

I used to have a hard time talking with merrows, their obsession with sex was hard for me to deal with. But now that I have darling and have lots of experience I can share the details that they love to hear. "Sadly, no." I answered her. "We try every night but we are just having no luck. Looks like we need to make the trip."

"You try every night?!" She excitedly exclaimed. "I'm so jealous!" She swam to me and held onto my shoulders, her eyes were practically sparkling. "So tell me, what positions have you tried?! Do you have an orgy alongside those imps?! Does your darling get the job done?! C'mon Merry, don't hold out on me!"

I used to be too embarrassed to answer her, but as I spent more time with her I slowly began to tell her what she wanted. Now I happily share, I take it as a point of pride. "We haven't tried experimenting that much, the basics work for us for now. The most I've had is a four way along side TNA, with a three way with Tally being the usual lately." It's just the last question that makes me flustered to answer. "And darling always does his best but I sometimes have to force the last bit out of him." Sorry darling, but you already know it's true.

It almost seemed like she had an orgasm just listening to my answers. She tightly hugged herself as she moaned, "Oh, I want a man of my own so bad!" She then quickly clasped my hand. "You already share him right?" I already knew where this was going. "Let me borrow him, please?! Or at least let me join you!" This is the only question I'm hesitant to answer.

TNA found darling at the same time I did and even saved him a couple of times, so I don't really mind sharing with them. But I already share the bed with ten other girls and that is enough, I don't even get to sleep next to darling thanks to Tally. But at the same time I also remember the loneliness, falling asleep alone every night never knowing if I will find someone to love. I remember, I can never forget, and knowing that some of my friends continue to feel that loneliness makes me sad. But I found darling, I found him before anyone else. There were times I thought I would lose him, times I thought he would never love me. But now he is mine and I am so happy, a happiness I hope everyone can feel at least once. But still, to just let others have time with darling, to share him with someone new? I just don't want that. Is that wrong? Does that make me selfish?

Anyway, setting the depressing topic aside for later. Mizuna saw the distress the question was causing me and opted to help me out. "Leave the poor girl alone, Aris." Her sultry voice showed no signs of interest as she continued to drink from her goard. "I'm sure you will find a man for yourself one day." You meet her as well, darling. She was the black haired, heavy drinker that enjoyed teasing you. She looks basically the same in her true form but black hair and scales are a really dark blue.

"That's easy for you to say." Aris crossed her arms and glared at Mizuna. "You've already got a man." She grabbed her hat and pulled it tightly around her head. "Oooh, I want to get rid of this hat soon." Which is merrow talk for she wants to get married. "I'm a type of mermaid as well, it's not fair you two already have someone."

"Well…" We were all surprised to hear Flou suddenly speak up. Her soft shy voice hardly ever raises above a murmur. "…at least you can leave to find a man, I can't move from here. I once tried to create a whirlpool to bring down one of the passing ships…" She sank down into her whole until everything below her eyes was hidden and he voice was barely audible. "…but the city guards got mad at me." You see she is a charybdis, a mimic like monster that lives in a burrow and releases bubbles from barnacle like holes in her exoskeleton. They are usually very timid or shy but posses extremely powerful water magic, unfortunately for her trying to sink boats to get a man is a big no-no so close to Alnor. She has short black hair and a petit body and when combined with her timid nature it makes it real easy to feel sorry for her. But she's not exactly lonely.

"Aww, who needs a man anyway?" It was Sally who was nuzzling Flou as she slowly pulled her a little ways out of her hole. She tightly grasps Flou with a sly grin, it looked a lot like a cat holding onto a tiny mouse. "Don't forget that you have me." Sally is a scylla like the pirates we ran into before. She has curly blond hair and practically lives in Flou's hole, and I mean that in more than one way.

Flou desperately tried to push Sally off of her to no avail. "You just showed up one day and made yourself at home." No matter how hard she pushes, Sally never loosened her grip. "I still want to get a boyfriend one day."

"Aww," She playfully pouts, "Don't you enjoy my company?"

"Well…" Flou blushed, "…it is nice."

Sally squeals and hugs Flou tighter after seeing her flustered reaction. "Eeeeee! You are just so cute! I'm in love!" Having no shame in her PDA, she slowly trailed her tongue along Flou's cheek. "How about we leave everyone to their business and have some more fun?"

"Please…" Flou became even more flustered. "…not in front of everyone."

"What are you worried about?" The more embarrassed Flou got the more enthusiastic Sally became in her hugs and nuzzling. "They can't even begin to understand what we have."

Hearing that, I had to raise my hand. "Actually I've been with TNA, just us, and it wasn't bad." I still prefer being with darling, but they certainly know what they're doing.

"Oh ho?" Sally playfully grins at me. "Well, if you ever get tired of your darling you can feel free to join us." She then looks at Aris. "I don't mind sharing, we can have a harem with ourselves."

Aris nervously chuckles as she scratches her cheek. "Thanks for the offer, but I haven't given up on finding a man yet."

"Speaking of men," Mizuna stretched as she floated off of the rock she was sitting on, "it's about time I go have some fun with my own darling."

"I don't suppose you would be willing to share?" Aris pouts at Mizuna, trying her luck one last time.

Mizuna chuckled before meeting her pout with a smirk. "Sorry, I'm afraid my darling is kind of young and delicate. I need some time to train him properly. Maybe in a few years."

"Really?!" Aris excitedly clasped Mizuna's hands. "You're not just teasing me are you?"

"Yes, I am." Mizuna answered with a cold chuckle.

After that we went our separate ways and I came home for the day. I always have to ready myself for the state the house is in when I return. Ina digs through the cabinets looking for sweets, Su makes booby traps, Nip's roughhousing knocks over things, and there is no telling what the rest of them will do once they get bored. Thankfully they are usually busy catering to Tally all day but don't even get me started on the things they bring in to satisfy her cravings. I don't mind picking her up a few things myself but I don't even know that some of the things I found are or were. But I don't want to get into that, it just gets me in a bad mood so let's move on.

Before I do anything else I have to prepare lunch for Tally. She has really gotten arrogant with everyone having to take care of her and she has no problems even ordering me around. I may tolerate it while she is pregnant but she best remember everything she makes me do after the children are born; I bet the other members of TNA feel the same way, things will get very interesting when the time comes. Anyway, once Tally is taken care of I have to get to work on cleaning up their mess. It's not an easy job and not only do I have to do it by myself but TNA sometimes gets a few laughs out of making my job difficult. It is particularly bad when Sis takes a day off to spend time with darling. Without Sis to keep them focused on taking care of Tally they just build on each other's energy and get more and more hyperactive, even the mild mannered ones like Abigail. They act like children and if I treat them like children I can handle a few of them on my own, but eight is total chaos and today I had ten!

But I always pull through. I straighten up the house, I deal with Tally's commands, and I play with TNA to burn off some of their energy. All before I manage to always greet darling at the door after his day of work. I do this because I love darling and all I ask is that he loves me back. I love you darling, don't you ever forget that.

After that, darling gets home and I will leave the explaining up to him. So thank you for keeping me company while darling is gone. This is surprisingly fun, I might have to get a journal of my own. Anyway, that's it for me. Goodnight :)

My entry 2:
Hi, me again. Darling won't be coming back today either. It's alright though, so what if I had to put up with all ten members of TNA not once but twice and maybe even tomorrow as well. I know that whatever it is must be pretty important and darling won't do something I'm going to have to make him regret. Isn't that right, darling?

Isn't that right, darling?!