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.
8. Madeline FoggxPepito (Madeline) - "The Best Day Ever" by Spongebob Squarepants - 3 min. timer
Every time I listen to "Bad Boy", the music video fanart montage thing that you made for them plays in the background. It's kind of forced the ship on me, but I'm not mad.
This. Was undoubtedly. The best. Day. Ever.
The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and everything was wonderful in Paris because Miss Clavel had given the girls a free day.
Madeline lay back in a field of flowers, dreaming of everything and nothing, red hair spread like a fan beneath her, gleaming against the grass like fire.
And then he came.
And he teased and he tormented, and he tried to make her feel silly for sitting around doing nothing, until finally she demanded that he try it with her, if only for a minute, so he could see how wonderful it was.
Pepito sighed, and lay down next to her, arm barely brushing hers.
And, before she knew it, a minute became an hour, and an hour became more until day turned to night in the Paris sky.
And maybe, though Madeline would never admit it aloud, maybe it was still the best day ever.
Just so you know, they slurped. ;)