Someone special is in here! ;)
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Ritz smiled, her plastic whiskers wrinkling as she giggled with such enthusiasm. She stood among the cobblestone pathway of the beautiful city.
Paris.
A beret flew down from out of nowhere and planted itself atop of her huge mouse ears. The pink toy squealed with delight as she ran down the pathway of the place she thought was the most romantic, most wonderful place on Earth.
Skipping...dancing...she jumped into a basket full of fresh roses. She sniffed one, enjoying the wonderful scent only Paris could provide. She lay on her back, placing the sniffed rose across her clock body, smiling up at the clear blue sky. She felt like wanting to start a conversation with it.
"Ritz..."
The sky must have read her mind.
"Ritz..."
"Mmm, yes, lovely clouds?" The toy mouse murmured, snuggling against the pile of roses.
"RITZ!"
The toy mouse's eyes immediately flew open. She gazed around to see that she was not in her Paris fantasy place but back in Ruby's backpack with all the other toys. She looked up to gaze into the face of Gumby, whom was looking at her with a raised clay eyebrow.
"Holy gee, Gumby!" She squeaked angrily. "I was in my happy dream about Paris!"
"Don't dream anymore, my ticky-tocky friend..." Lotos intervened, getting between them before either her or Gumby threw an insult at the other. "We're here." And he motioned to the zipper opening through Ruby's backpack.
"We're here?" Ritz squeaked before she shoved Gumby out of the way and peered through the opening which was leaning against Ruby's plane window. "Oh, wow..." The toy mouse gasped.
Fields of green surrounded the area known as Paris, and the toys saw beautiful colors of nature form into one whole place, making it look like such a genuine piece of artwork too precious to be displayed. Rtiz sighed happily, feeling her fantasy dream was already coming true.
Now where was her tiny beret that was suppose to fall from the sky?
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After Ruby and her family got their luggages, they later took a taxi; thankfully, Daisy had learned French in high school. The taxi drove for a good thirty minutes before it finally stopped in front of a huge gate.
"This must be where Aunt Deb lives..." Lotso murmured to the toys as soon as the gate opened and the taxi drove into the estate.
It was a large house. No it was a mansion. Ruby had mentioned something about her Aunt Deb working as a designer and her fiance was one of the models she had made a design for a while back. They got to know each other, then they began dating. One thing led to another and now they were engaged. Ritz thought it was so romantic.
""If it ain't my little red man..." A tall women in designer clothes chuckled as she came down the steps of the mansion.
Ruby's father smiled as he opened his arms. "Hey there, Debs."
"Bonjour, so good to see you!" Deb squealed before she ran into his arms and embraced her younger brother. "So good you could make it for the wedding!"
"Hey, Debbie," Daisy greeted, her hand holding Ruby's.
"Why, if it isn't my little sister-in-law," Deb said with a smile before she walked up to her and they embraced. Then they french-kissed each other on the cheek. Then Deb's eyes gazed down at Ruby, and her smile immediately grew bigger. "And little Ruby..."
"Hi, Aunt Deb!" Ruby greeted happily before she let go of her mother's hand and raised into her aunt's welcoming embrace.
"Oh, look how big you are!" Her aunt cooed as she tightened her embrace. "And so pretty! You look just like your mom!"
"Oh, Deb..." Daisy said as her cheeks flushed with embarrassment.
"Guido isn't here right now..." She told them as she helped them unload their luggage. "He had a last-minute thing at work."
"Oh, that's okay," Filmore assured her. "I can understand how models are. Always running the runway, always running out of time."
Lotso and Purry peered once more through the opening of Ruby's backpack as the family walked inside the mansion. Everything in it looked so expensive and lovely...
"You think they have a toyroom?" Ritz squeaked in question.
"Sugar, they're getting married," Purry pointed out. "soon, they'll be getting a toyroom."
"Wonder what kind of toys they can buy with the money they got..." Gumby pondered. "Bet it's one of those special toys from Japan, with all the shooting action and fast phrases."
"Your room will be up here," Deb said as she led the family up a wide set of stairs. "Oh, you're going to love it!"
After Deb showed them to the guest-room, she led Ruby to another room in particular.
"Ruby..." Deb began as she motioned to the door. "Guido and I will be planning to have kids later on...and so we thought about having a room setup for the future."
"Does it have toys?" Ruby asked, her eyes sparkling hopefully.
"Well, not many," Deb said. "Just a couple. We've been too busy having the bed and wallpaper designed we thought we'd save toy-shopping last on our list. But we did buy these really nice toys from some trinket store a few months back. It really reminded me if your toys for some reason..."
"They're probably good-looking..." Gumby whispered to the other toys, holding a broad smile. "But not as much as me."
"Oh, sure, green..." Purry rolled her eyes.
Deb opened the door of the room, and Lotso and his friends peeked through the backpack's opening just in time. There wasn't really much, except the walls were a bit painted with a creamy white color and some of the walls were covered with flowered wallpapering, a few cans of paint lying around an unfinished paintjob of the wall and a few rolls of wallpaper laying against a nearby table. A few childish chairs stood around a small table, and there was a large canvas standing at a corner for when someone wanted to fingerpaint, and baby trinkets hung from the ceiling, giving it a nursery rhyme glow. There also appeared to be a large chest of some kind laying atop of a nearby table, but there was no interest in that. Though the room was unfinished, it seemed perfectly capable of becoming a future playroom for Deb's future child.
"I know it's not much..." Deb said quietly. "But you're welcomed to play here whenever you like. You know, get that playful mood?"
"I'm sure I can manage," Ruby said with a smile before she dropped her backpack at a nearby table.
"Okay, well, pain sets are on the shelf," Deb informed her, "in case you ever think of fingerpainting. And be careful with around the unfinished walls." She patted Ruby on the head as she walked over to the door. "Have fun." And she was gone.
Ruby smiled to herself as she gazed about the new room. "Have fun, huh?" Then she reached into her backpack...
It was raining flowers, and Dr. Lotso home sat against one of the childish chairs, tapping his paw against his clipboard, waiting for his shift to end. He already gone through with Gumby's so-called 'life-threatening' condition as the piece of green glob had exclaimed, now he was hoping for no more patients for the day.
"Home." He knew that New Jersey accent anywhere.
"Oh, look what the cat dragged in..." He said with a dry chuckle as he gazed over at the stuffed cat nurse. "Itself."
"Spare me the humor, Home," Purry rolled her eyes as she shoved a piece of what appeared to be flowered wallpaper. "Gift delivery, head to the painting room."
"The painting room?" Lotso groaned. "Purry, you know those kids are always trying to find a target to make a walk-by artpiece out of! One of them made my hips look too big!"
"True artists," Purry said with a slight smirk before she gave the bear a gentle shove. "Noe get."
Lotso muttered under his breath as he took the flowered piece of paper to the requested room. He passed the giant paintcan buildings and crossed the bridge of wallpapering, then he finally made it to the 'canvas room', a massive white room where lay a few sets of paint waiting to be used.
"Good, no kids..." Lotso muttered to himself, satisfied. He walked over to a nearby paintset, picked up the huge brush, and dipped it into a green block. He lifted the brush up and began soft strokes against the white wall of the canvas room. He was painting to not only calm his senses, but to also work up a message code that 'awakened' the room, indicating he was present.
The green hearts and circles he drew in were scanned by the canvas room. A door slid open from one of the walls and Nurse Ritz came in.
"Tick Tock!" She sang as she pointed to her chest clock. "You're just on time!"
"Yippee..." Lotso rolled his eyes.
"Oh, what a lovely piece that is!" She cooed as she looked at the piece of wallpaper in his hands. "As you must know, the patient has been moved to a special room."
"The crazy room?" Lotso suggested with a mocking smirk.
"No, silly," Ritz giggled. Then she pointed over to an extremely large room. "There."
"Oh, so they're the solitude kind..." Lotso nodded.
"Um, we're not exactly sure 'what' is in there..." Ritz began quietly. "But still, you're the doctor! You figure it out!"
"Scaredy mouse..." Lotso muttered under his breath as he walked over to the other room. He slowly opened the door.
Ruby, clutching Ritz and Lotso under one arm, carefully lifted the lid of the old chest she had found earlier. She gasped as soon as she saw what was inside.
"Ruby!" Filmore called. "Guido's here!"
"Uncle Guido!" Ruby exclaimed happily before she dropped Lotso and Ritz on the table and scurried off.
As soon as she was gone, Lotso and Rtiz slowly got to their feet. Purry and Gumby joined them seconds later as soon as they climbed up the table.
"Well, that was interesting..." Purry chuckled before she smoothed her face with a paw as how a real cat would do it.
"That scene with the painting used as an access code," Lotso said, "I'm getting this feeling Ruby's going sci-fi all of a sudden."
They all nearly jumped when they heard a cough...followed by a squeak.
All eyes turned toward the open chest that Ruby had left. Lotso, being the leader of the group, took a deep breath before he slowly proceeded toward the chest. He lifted himself atop his toes and peered inside. His eyes widened when he was met with bright blue eyes.
"Oh, wow..." He muttered as he gazed into what was a porcelain face, mesmerized by the features. "Who are you?"
The other toy smiled at him. "I'm Bo."
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By the way, Aunt Deb's fiance, Guido, he's named after the little forklift character from the Pixar movie CARS. :)