You could always think of the fish as someone else or the blue jay. Or both. The blue jay could be Romeo and the fish is Juliet. Now you have Shakespeare. Or Desdemona could be the blue jay and Othello could be the fish.
You're her secret lover! Or she's yours... Either way you're with Laura but you realized you loved Fishy and are now cheating with Fishy because you can't let Laura know for complex unknown reasons. Also you're hiding it from us because of your pride and you don't want us to tell Laura. But someone found out. And told everyone.
My god this like is a soap opera.
You can ignore that I suppose. If you really felt like it.