Dulce sees his mom and sister doing girly things together. When he feels left out, he goes to his dad.
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Dulce walked around the house with a couple of toy cars in his hands. One was for him to play with, and the other was for his sister. He wanted to have a race with her on the new track that his mom and dad had got him. Dulce was very good about sharing his toys with his sister, and wanted every possible opportunity to play with her.
He heard giggling coming from mommy and daddy's room. He recognized the giggles as his sister's. He ran to the room, bursting with excitement at the thought of racing with his sister. He pushed himself through the curtain that acted as a door. He saw his mommy and sister playing together. Both of them wore fancy dresses, their hair was done up, and their faces were painted in make up. They sat at a little round table, with a bunch of Fleur's dollies taking up the seats.
"Mommy! Sissy!" Dulce said, getting their attention. "What are you playing?" He asked.
"Princess tea party" Fleur said.
"Can I play too?" Dulce wasn't the kind of child to care about whether something seemed too girly for him to play with or not. If his sister wanted to play dollies with him, then he would play. If she wanted to put makeup on his face, then she would let him. He just cared that he got to play with his sister when they did those things.
"No!" Fleur crossed her arms over her chest as she shook her head. "It's a princess tea party and you can't be a princess because you're a boy"
"Fleur" Rose sternly said. "If your brother wants to play with us, then you let him"
Fleur pouted. "But mommy, only you and me have princess tea parties"
Rose sighed, knowing there would be no getting through to her daughter. She viewed that as their time together, something special between mommy and her, and she didn't want her brother intruding on that. "Dulce, you play with Fleur all the time, don't you?" Rose asked. Dulce nodded. "So can you let her have her time with mommy? I'm sure you two can play together later"
"Yeah, we'll play together later" Fleur promised.
Dulce sniffled. "Okay" He let his sister be and returned to their room. He did start to cry when he got there, but he didn't start having a tantrum. He may have been upset but he knew better. He didn't feel like playing with his cars any more, so he put them back in his toy box.
But there were a couple of things in his toy box that did catch his eye. They were hats to a pirate costume that he had. He grabbed the hats. He suddenly felt like playing pirates now. But he didn't want to play alone. Pirates had a crew. Maybe his daddy would play with him if he asked.
He ran out of the house to go find an Oompa-Loompa. Luckily, there was one just outside tending to the cotton candy tree. "Mr. Loompa!" He called out. The Oompa-Loompa stopped to look down at Dulce. "Can you take me to daddy's office?" Dulce knew that he and Fleur weren't allowed to wander in other parts of the factory without supervision. And if mommy or daddy couldn't be with them, then they'd ask one of the Oompa-Loompas. "I want to ask him if he'll play pirates with me. Mommy and Fleur are playing princess tea party, but I'm not allowed to play with them"
