Someone asked about this song from The Little Mermaid animated series, so enjoy your request! I thought it would be fun if Melinda used one of her special songs to cheer James up after a bad day at Royal Prep, because she knows how well he responds to music! And she and Roland give James a lesson on the origin of his spy characters' names. The song Melinda got James' middle name from is Harmony by Gordon Lightfoot, which was featured in chapter 3 of my story The Missing Memory Mystery. The Little Mermaid is not mine.
Melinda came into James' room, seeing him on his bed, looking sadly through his stories. "James? What's wrong?" she asked. "Amber said you got a gold star on your new story, but you look like how you did when you got your first gold star."
"My character...why did I name him Andrew Harmon?" James asked, showing her a folder containing a story he'd written. Melinda saw that he'd gotten a gold star for it, but he looked sad, just like what had happened when he got his first gold star on a story.
"Well, you named your characters after yourself and Amber, but you said you used your middle names as their first and last names," Melinda reasoned as she leafed through it, "Why do you ask?"
"Princess Deidre laughed at my new story," James sighed, pushing the folder away. "She said 'Harmony' was a stupid name for my character. I told her that wasn't his first name, and I tried singing the song my name came from, but it didn't work, even if some other people liked it."
Melinda pulled James into a hug as she pretended to scold him. "James Andrew Harmon Milledtion, what have your father and I always told you about people like Princess Deidre who don't like your stories?"
"His full name, Melinda? James, what did you do now?" Roland asked, coming in and hearing part of the conversation.
"Nothing!" James protested.
"A likely story," Roland smirked as he sat next to him on the bed.
"Roland, I'm in the middle of a lecture…where was I? Oh yes. Tell me again what your father and I always tell you about people like Princess Deidre who don't like your stories, James," Melinda repeated.
"If someone doesn't like my stories, that's their problem?" James asked.
"Exactly!" Melinda agreed. "And if someone doesn't like the song your name came from, I think this one will help you too."
(sings) What makes someone special?
I suppose it all depends
It's what's unique in each of us
That we all share as friends
Roland nodded as he joined in, The difference is our differences
Maybe smaller great
Variety add spice to life
So we should celebrate
They sang together as they sandwiched James in a hug, In harmony
Harmony
You're you, I'm me
Together we
Can live in harmony
James smiled as they sang. They were right; he should have remembered that he was a brilliant writer, and that he shouldn't let some mean princess like Deidre keep him from doing what he loved.
Roland caught his smile and mussed his hair as he sang to him, If there was only one note
How boring life would be
Melinda smiled as she joined in, I'm glad there are so many notes
In many different keys
I hear each voice singing
Roland smiled as he sang with her, With a special quality
And when we sing together we
Bring music to the sea
James smiled as he sang with them, In harmony
Harmony
You're you, I'm me
Together we
Can live in harmony
"That's what I like to see," Melinda smiled as she and Roland pushed him onto the bed.
"That's what I like to hear," Roland agreed as their fingers found his sides.
The three of them sang together as Roland and Melinda tickled James, In harmony
Harmony
You're you, I'm me
Together we
Can live in harmony
"The singing, or the laughing?" Melinda grinned, hearing James laugh as he tried to sing with them.
"Both!" Roland grinned, kissing her on the cheek.
They smiled as James soon gave up singing due to laughing so hard, and Roland continued the verse, In harmony
Harmony
You're you, I'm me
Together we
Can live in harmony
Melinda smiled as she finished the song with him, In harmony
Harmony
You're you, I'm me
Together we
Can live in harmony
"So are you going to remember this lesson?" Melinda asked.
"You bet I am!" James laughed under them.
