Ursula sat around her layer, thinking about, well, really nothing at all. Toying with a suction cup on one of her tentacles, she sighed. She hadn't wanted this. Not at all. She longed to be back in the palace by Triton's side.

"Oh stop your moping, for heaven's sake!" her sister came out of a small crevice in the wall that served as a gust house. "I know what you're thinking about and it's not very pleasant." Morgana glared in Ursula's direction.

"Why do you test me so, little sister?" Ursula glared back. "Just because you can read my mind does not mean you have to." Ursula argued. "You could just very well not. Now, leave me alone. I want to-"

But she was cut off by Morgana. "Be miserable in peace I know, I know." She ducked just in time for a bottle filled with some spell ingredient to hit the wall where she had been. Chuckling, she went back into her room.

'Doing god knows what in there' Ursula thought. She sighed once more before going to her own room and laying on a bed, closing her eyes, not so much of daydreaming but wishing to go back in time.

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Ursula ran fingers through her long blonde hair and watched her fins move back and forth absent mindedly. She was waiting for sun high to come around so she could start to get ready for the gathering she was going to. She had already gotten her scales polished, painted, and de- oiled earlier this week and she was anxious for the party. She would see Prince Triton there and was positive she would be the girl to catch his eye tonight.

An alarm sounded in her head as she watched the sundial on the floor move to the correct time for her to start getting ready. She popped up and swam to the lavatory, preparing her hair curlers and all thins necessary to be presented before a prince, and for Ursula, that was a lot of things.

"Ursula!" Morgana pounded on the lavatory door. "C'mon get out! You've been in there for ever and you're not the only one who's going to this ball!"

Ursula glared at her sister, though she could not see it through the door. "Okay, okay, I'm coming out." She said in a hurried and some-what frustrated tone. Ursula came out of the bathroom seconds later as Morgana's face twisted in jealously at the sight of her big sister so beautiful. Ursula smiled deviously as she sauntered past Morgana, knowing full well of her jealousy. Her blonde hair was brought back half up and curled the rest down. She had a light pink complexion to her face and her full lips were redder than normal.

Morgana scowled as she went into the lavatory. Now wanting to mess up all her hard work, Ursula sat perfectly still and straight as she waited patiently and soon Morgana came out, looking lovely but not quite as lovely as Ursula. That was how it had always been. Beautiful but not as beautiful, cunning but not as cunning. She was always second best and they both knew that.

The two girls got to the cathedral sooner than expected. They made their way inside and were taken aback at the beautiful décor and underwater crystals everywhere. Ursula saw Triton and, under all her made- up, blushed. They had met before but only a quick hello between classes at the local school. She looked down to prevent a meeting of their gazes.

"Ursula?" A voice from behind her questioned.