Ahem: a collection of stories from my older sister's birthday that I am now posting individually.
Rules: I shall put my music library on shuffle and pair her top 10 ships with the first 10 songs. Each ship gets a story related to the song with decreasing times: ship #1 gets 10 min., ship #2 gets 9 min., ship #3 gets 8 min., etc. So ship #10 is a hot mess 1 min. panic attack.
You don't HAVE to listen to the song first...but you might want to. And author's notes are bolded.
5. Kat HarveyxCasper McFadden (Casper) - "Bubblegum Bitch" by MARINA - 6 min. timer
Well, I mean I guess I kind of ship them. Like they're cute. But also. What? Ghostie things.
Kat sniffed the bottle of stuffy brown liquid in her hand. "You sure this is safe, Casper?"
"Sure I'm sure!" he chirped from behind a rather large pile of dusty books. "It says so right here in my dad's journal. 'Safe for human consumption, tastes sour, and will turn your tongue blue.' That's how we'll know it's the right one!"
Kat rolled her eyes and sniffed the contents suspiciously. "Why did your dad even try it for himself if the potion is supposed to bring you back to life?"
"I don't know, he was a mad scientist, or something."
With all excuses gone and one last sigh, Kat picked up the bottle and took a sip. A grimace overcame her pretty features, and she gagged. "That's awful. Your dad must've been a terrible cook."
Casper chuckled. "Okay, now stick out your tongue!" She obeyed, but it came out disappointingly pink.
"It didn't work! It's not the right one!" he cried.
"Here, I'll drink more just to be sure." She held the bottle to her lips and chugged. He felt honored that she was so desperate to get him human again, but after a few more minutes, and several more swigs, the bottle was empty, and her tongue still pink, though her lips were now a pretty shade of red.
"Sorry, Casper."
"It's all right."
"Imma get some bubblegum, that stuff was rancid." She climbed up the stairs from the lair and returned a while later, gum smacking in her mouth.
She swayed a little when she walked, and her voice was rather slurred when she said, "Hiya, Casssper." And suddenly she was over him and whispering something about candy and dolls and how he was hers, and he couldn't argue with that, so he let her.
And then she kissed him, well as best as she could with her being drunk and him being… see through, but he could still imagine that she tasted somewhere between liquor and bubblegum.
Ughh, the timer really hurt on this one lmao. I was gonna write you a whole slurpy drunk thing. Oh well, maybe some day.