However Grace was planning to plan a wedding was very much unlike Ariel's. When Ariel got married all she wanted to do was GET MARRIED, partly because one was already planned for Eric and Vanessa/Ursula. Grace, however, was planning everything out as if she was going to war. "OK, so you three will be on the left as I walk up the aisle. I will wave to my father, which will be the signal to start the music and then my mother will rush forward with the flowers. When I meet Joseph at the alter, Amazing Grace will be played and then we shall start- Ariel are you listening?" Ariel was off in her own world. Literally. She was talking to the merfolk below the ship they were on. Flounder was there. She missed him dearly. If she could only relive the past, she would talk herself out of marrying Eric. At least he's trying, the voice in her head argued. Better focus on Grace. Her ears tuned back to the battle- wedding plan and her eyes drifted towards the seating arrangements.
Coral was in a fit. Joseph was getting married? To some random person who had SUPPOSEDLY saved him? She did. Coral did. If only she could tell him. Ariel could though. Ariel could understand her writing and speak the language of humans. But Ariel was friends with Grace and probably not help her. Well she might as well try...
"Of course, I'll help you destroy this wedding! I don't want to see my best friend crushed but this bastard- who I'm sure is a very nice man." She ended the sentence there. Coral jumped for joy and smiled warmly. How? She wrote. "I think I can help." She ran over to a balcony and screamed something in the distance. Wait what was that? A seagull screeching? This couldn't be good.
Ariel hadn't called for Scuttle in a while. His high pitch and annoying voice brought back memories of her original home and made her sad. Luckily, braking up a wedding would be the perfect pick-me-up. Too long had she been silenced (although she could speak) and she wasn't going to put up with any crap now. She waved Coral over and turned her attention to Scuttle. "Hey babs, how 'ya doin'?" She mumbled some words of reassurance before whispering to him her plan. "Uh Uh Uh, aye? A wedding brake-up? I haven't done that since- well since you were getting hitched! I'm in!" Scuttle laughed and nudged Ariel.
Coral was unsure why she could understand this bird. He was chatty and annoying, yet she seemed to like him. He had that aura. The three plotted out a plan on the beach sand. "OK, so when the soup falls-" "What are you doing?!" Grace had come up behind them. "Shoo shoo!" She had also shooed away their most experienced wedding destroyer. "Ariel what is this, and who is she?" Grace shoved her chin in the direction of Coral. "Well, we were all- I mean the two of us...um...we were planning a girls night?" Coral was surprised that the foolish girl marrying her man believed this. "A wedding party.. Oh my, well then.. I'll keep my mouth shut! I didn't see anything. Ha ha... well I'll see you when we go wedding dress shopping! This.. girl can come too. Toodles!"
Wedding dress shopping was probably the most painful way of rubbing salt in the wound. After agreeing to Ariel that they would only harm Joseph's side of the wedding, Coral was forced into the dress shop and was near tears when she saw the final choice. 'Don't you just love it Ariel! I can't believe it's half off!" Grace was in a beautiful white strapless and Coral wasn't too happy. She would look better in it, but of course she couldn't say that or else she would get kicked out of the inner circle. She had plans and would just have to push through the pain now, wait for revenge. Lets just say she wasn't sticking to her side of the deal.
Dye was fiddly! Coral poured the bright orange dye in the washing machine. The machine holding the precious wedding dress. White was so easy to dye, Coral thought as she pushed through the water, as to get an even colour distribution. Hopefully Ariel would forgive her.
Ariel was quiet. She saw Eric leave Joseph's room, followed by Joseph and saw her opportunity. She crept through the door and saw wedding ring on the table. She couldn't leave any other trace that she was here. She swapped the ring for a candy one and pocketed the diamond.
Coral was still pushing through the dye when she heard Joseph and Eric coming down the hallway. She would be caught red handed! Well, orange handed. She couldn't let her love see her destroying his wedding and hid behind the door, before quietly slipping out the back way.
Ariel ran. She sprinted down the halls before colliding with an equally fast Coral. Orange dye was spilt over both their clothes and understanding this was a bad thing, Ariel rushed to change. She re-pocketed the ring and met Coral on the beach.
Coral changed clothes, yet still couldn't get the dye off her hands. Hopefully the bride wouldn't see till tomorrow when the dye would be gone.
On the beach, the scream was only distant.