Ahem: a collection of stories for my little sister's birthday. 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. CathyxHeathcliff (Wuthering Heights) – "My Friends" from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 3 min. timer
HEATHCLIIIIIIF! IT'S ME! I'M CATHY! I'VE COME HOME!
"Well, what are you sulking about now?" Cathy teased, and Heathcliff hunched his shoulders further. She never took his melancholy moods seriously.
"Hindley said my hair is too long."
"So?" She laughed gaily, and he felt his mood improving just from the sound. "Your hair is too long!"
"Then I'll go to the barber and get it cut."
"No!"
"No?"
She had sounded quite pained.
"No! I love your hair! It makes you look so...so…"
"So?"
"Um...well, Father would flog me if he heard me use this word." So she whispered it in his ear, moving his long hair out of the way with her pretty fingers.
Good thing you didn't go, Heathcliff, you would have been a pie.