shes-got-legs.livejournal.comSo much for spending her first shift at Groovy Tunes looking into some new music. Ariel had almost considered just skipping the whole first day things, considering her current visitors, but it was good to have something else to distract her. Or at least try to distract her, because being confronted with two children, apparently from the future, apparently from two very different futures, was just a bit mind-boggling.
But at least Bruce and Melody seemed to be getting along together and they didn't mind coming with her to the shop for a little. Melody had almost sort of taken Bruce on as a little brother, which made sense, because he was, but, at the same time, he wasn't, and...
Ariel groaned, rubbing her head again and trying not to think about it. It was just too weird thinking that she could have a ten or seven year old daughter or son right now. She let the two of them run around, playing tag and hide-and-seek around the store as she tried not to think about it, but only wound up thinking about it more. Because, okay, Bruce kind of made sense in a way that if everything was actually perfect and life wasn't what it was sort of way, but who the heck was Prince Eric? Did she know him? Would she know him? Was he handsome? Well, duh, of course he was, and a prince, too...
Ariel's thoughts started to drift a little, but not enough to catch a snippet of conversation from Melody. "And sometimes," she said, thinking her mother wasn't paying attention and that she was speaking much quieter than she actually was, "I even pretend....I have fins!"
If she was eating anything, Ariel would have choked on it. "Melody!" she said, eyes going wide. That was another problem with a mystery future; she had no idea what this little girl knew about her or Atlantica or anything! It could be just a time bomb, waiting to go off. "Don't talk like that!"
Melody looked surly as she winced back apologetically, with a look that made Ariel wince, too, and made her think about her father, and she was pretty sure that, as the kids went to go find something else to play with, she heard Bruce whisper, "I do that, too."
Ariel buried her face in her hands. Being a parent was hard!
Groovy Tunes is open!