A young girl sat down in her bedroom, clicking around YouTube. She was quietly hunched over looking into the monitor, when she let out a shriek of sheer happiness.
"FOR TRUE LOVE CONCORS ALL!"
"SHUT UP AMELIA!"
"NOW IS NOT THE TIME MOM!"
"WHAT ARE YOU YELLING ABOUT!?"
"TRUE LOVE'S KISS!"
"KISS!? IS THERE A BOY IN YOUR ROOM!?"
"SHUT UP MOM!"
"I'M COMING UP!"
Galumphing footsteps came up the stairs where Amelia wait. The door swung open to a red faced mother looking for any boys. Amelia only glared at the lack of faith her mom had in her.
"What are you doing," was what the mom asked.
"I'm having a moment."
Her mother marched over to the computer screen, suspicious, but all she was the prince from Snow White singing up at said princess. One Song man, that's all it takes.
"… Again with the Disney movies."
"Not just any Disney movie, I'm talking about the one to rule them all."
"I thought Cinderella was your favorite? I remember all of yesterday you were dancing around the living room with your arms in the air as if someone was actually dancing with you. So this is love, so this is love-"
"I was dancing with someone!"
"Who?"
Amelia put her arms together and sighed lovingly, "My dream prince."
"… Dream prince. Where have I heard that one- oh yes! Last week, when you went into the forest and we had to get the police to go find you!"
"Dad is the police, you're being way too dramatic mom."
"You were trying to sing with the birds. A squirrel attacked you."
Amelia huffed folding her arms, not at all like a lady should but she didn't care. Her mom gave a disapproving nod as she started picking up the numerous things on her daughter's floor. Fairy Tale books, movies, blankets, a limited edition magic lamp. Hell, there was even a tiara on the floor, the plastic jewel dulled from constant usage.
"When are you going to grow up," sighed the mother.
"Grow up?" Amelia jumped to her feet on her bed, "I'm never growing up! Off to Neverland!"
She jumped and smacked her head on the ceiling, falling back onto the mattress. It was painful to say the least.
"Amelia, I'm making a new rule."
"A new rule?"
"You are going to go out this weekend or I'm taking away your concept art materials."
Her daughter flinched. Not her concept art materials. It was all Amelia ever wanted. She dreamed of being a lead animator and storyteller. She had all sorts of wonderful ideas, and her mother appreciated that, really she did, but she was always worried her daughter was missing out on a normal life.
"Go out… like… with friends?"
"Yes, like a normal high school girl. This is your senior year, you should be having fun."
"Mom," she hesitated, "It's not like I don't appreciate you worrying about me, really I do, it means a lot, but my friends don't like to watch Disney movies."
"Amelia, I'm going to spell this out in a way you'll understand. Tiana in The Princess and The Frog."
Amelia was shocked by her mom's logic, she had her in a corner. All Tiana ever did was work. All work and no play keeps you from becoming a Disney princess. Finally, Amelia gave in.
"I'll be normal this weekend."
Her mom was pleased, so much that she lightly punched her daughter in the shoulder, "That's the spirit. Maybe you can even work toward getting a boyfriend."
"I don't want to date boys mom, I want to find a prince!"
"Good luck Kate Middleton."
"DON'T DISS KATE!"
Amelia ran to her desk and cradled her assorted books and magazines with the woman. Even her friend Kiki agreed that Kate was cool, even though it was only because she was shown in some historical anime the Japanese girl loved to watch. Yup, two animation buddies, only Kiki left her house even less than Amelia.
Her mom was essentially satisfied that her daughter was going to be normal this weekend, go out with the girls and all that jazz. If the woman was lucky, maybe Amelia would warm up to that nice Canadian boy Matthew, because he was polite. Amelia's mom appreciated polite.
And so the next day Amelia schlepped all the way to Pangaea National Academy, the world's most diverse academy for high school students. Nothing was really special about that day. Amelia walked up to Kiki as they spoke of what they could do that weekend to fake out their persistent mothers. Kiki had it taken care of, there was supposed to be a new Karaoke Bar opening downtown and they could get a room and Kiki could sing all the anime themes she wanted and Amelia could sing as many vocally challenging Disney songs as she wanted. They cheered at the idea and even considered bringing pens and paper for drawing, but decided against it, as it would tip off their parents.
And then their friend Francis bounced over. Francis was a year older than the other girls. He was also a man whore and only started talking to them because their socially awkward virgin status was appealing to him. It was only after he found they had interesting personalities and goals that they wouldn't let anyone get in the way of that he decided they would make better friends than girlfriends. This was a pattern with all boys who found them to be attractive. It was actually pretty common, so common that the girls stopped noticing it.
"What's up Francy Pants," said Amelia, half listening as she drew pictures on her homework.
"We've got a new student in my class," smiled the bearded boy, a Flynn Rider vibe coming off it.
Kiki stood up, "DOES HE SIT BY THE WINDOW!? IS HE AN EXCHANGE STUDENT!? ARE HIS EYES TWO DIFFERENT COLORS!?"
The French boy sighed at this reaction, "I should have expected this. Hoh hon. No, he's not anything like that. This conversation is mostly for Amelia."
"So what about this guy," asked Amelia still not interested.
"He's a prince."
Amelia's eyes bugged out of her head as she looked at her classmate. YOU BEST NOT BE JOKING SON OR SHE'LL KILL YOU NO LIE! Her pencil snapped in her grasp. She beckoned the boy to lead the way and he did gladly. Kiki followed, interested in the idea of turning Amelia's love affair into a manga. They went to the classroom where the homeboy waits. To Amelia's despair she did not see the prince, but instead saw swarms of girls, all of them trying to get a shot at fame and awesomeness and most importantly: princess status. Amelia's frown only deepened when she realized she was going to try and meet the guy for the same reasons. They aborted mission and went to class before the bell rang.
It was lunchtime and Kiki was buying food while Amelia waited in the grass. She looked up at the clouds, wondering if any of them resembled the prince hiding in the school somewhere. She rolled around and hummed to herself. She decided to take out her notebook and draw princes, a whole bunch of them. She wondered what king od prince he was? Was he tall, handsome, Indian maybe? Disney was limiting on their princes but the fact is that he could really be anyone. She looked around, being an anti social she couldn't even give you the names of half the kids in her English class, much less point out a new face. To her, everyone was a stranger.
"But- But- I love you!"
She looked up, the prospect of a love confession as seen on TV made her get up and peer around the corner behind the school.
"I've told you a thousand times to please stop stalking me."
And now she was even more interested, a love crazed school girl. Oh Kiki would eat this up! Where is she anyway? She's taking way too long.
"Just give me one reason why we can't be together!?"
"I can give you ten."
"I only asked for one!"
It was then Amelia stepped on a twig and was noticed by the two. There was that one girl from New Zealand or something and then the boy turned around revealing his face. And what a face it was. Amelia felt her heart stop, he was absolutely perfect looking. He smirked at the sight of Amelia's dopey face. She smiled to herself as she realized she was referred to as dopey.
"One reason," he said approaching Amelia with a smirk and British accent, "I'll give you one reason."
Amelia was suddenly pulled by the waste close to this hottie, "Because this girl is my girlfriend. No buzz off ya bloody prat."
The girl stared at Amelia, who stared back in shock. Did she hear that right? Was she dreaming? She looked at the arm around her, her face only heating up more. She wasn't used to this, she was used to being loud and expressive while at the same time avoiding the gazes of her fellow humans. Who was this guy? The other girl ran away and Amelia went into a total zonk state of mind.
"Well, thanks for going along with that," he said releasing her, "What's your name?"
"M-my name? Wait you just said that I was your girlfriend?"
"Yeah, because starting now you are," he responded as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Really," was all she could say.
Is that how it works? She always knew that movies were supposed to be over the top and embellished, but she never figured it would happen like this?
"Really really," was what he responded with.
"But… I don't even know you," she responded letting the situation sink in.
He stared at her, "Me?"
"Yeah."
"You don't know who I am?"
She nodded no and he only laughed. Who is this guy? What?
"I'm Arthur," he said, "So, where are we sitting for lunch?"
Yay! Idk, I saw this video on the top 25 most romantic moments in Disney movies and I love Disney and I love Hetlia and I sort of wanted to put them together but I never did until now!
