Love is Strange

Chapter 17

Harmony sat across the table from her parents. They had invited her back to her childhood so they could discuss some ideas for the heir's coronation. Despite not having been living in their once family household in years,the Pod still felt familiar and like home. Nothing but, her and her siblings old bedrooms seemed to have changed.

Harmony's former bedroom had been turned into a creative personal work space for the couple to do their more messier hobbies,like Poppy's scrapbooking.  Harmony had the biggest room when compared to Aiden and Pippy. Pippy's bedroom had been converted into a guest room while Aiden's room became a storage room. Branch and Poppy needed the extra space so all three birds left the nest and got settled, they did some remodeling.

" So what's first? What's the agenda?" Harmony asked thrilled.

Without any hestiantion, Poppy dropped a thick and heavy folder filled with colours, themes, arrangement examples, invitation designs and so much more! In Pop troll history,every coronation was catered to the heir or joining consort's tastes,preferences and desires but, usually more over the top. Branch's coronation was more simple and quieter than Poppy's coronation but,again their own desires and wants for the day were met. Now it was Harmony's turn to figure out what hers were.

Seeing the size of the folder both surprised and scared the Princess. Questions she didn't know she had until now flooded her mind. How things went into planning a coronation? She thought the standard one month time was mostly preparing yourself for the change of role and status and then short planning period. Was there a standard that she would have to go by?

" We got two and a half weeks to plan this. There is no need to rush into making decisions. " Branch reminded.

Harmony let out a deep breath. For a brief moment there she was nervous over a planning process she hadn't even started yet. Maybe it was just the whole change becoming official aspect hitting her differently now. Everything seemed and felt so new to her again despite growing up the Pop Royalty way. Her inexperience was an obvious contributor.

" Harmony,now how would you like your coronation to be like? Don't think about any standards or our coronations. Just focus on your vision and we'll handle the rest. " Poppy said comfortingly.

Harmony paused. She always knew that she would become Queen one day but, she never really thought about her coronation as it's own separate topic. The Princess always treated it as an minor afterthought than something special in it's own right. About time Harmony changed that way of thinking but, what exactly did she want though? She didn't know...

Later that day, Jinx was practicing his date asking skills on Minnie. For some reason he had been having trouble in reaching Rosie. The Match Maker had insisted that she just needed more time for herself when he asked so respecting her time Jinx let her be. However he couldn't help but, notice how differently she was behaving. It wasn't any big changes but, still Jinx could tell something was stressing her out. He hoped that Rosie was doing okay during her break from Love Life handling.

" Jinx. Jinx? Earth to Jinx!" Minnie waved her hand in front of his face.

Jinx snapped out of his thoughts realizing that he had spaced out. All of his words seemed to had escaped him. Sure it was somewhat easier practicing on Minnie than a Harmony look- a-like but, still he was still afraid of actually asking Harmony out. No matter how many times he rehearsed or practiced, he would mess up at the end. Just like when Jinx asked her to be his date to the Hair Ball.

" Oh... Sorry..." Jinx apologized.

The smaller troll took a step back on the overgrown root she was using as a platform. She sighed handing Jinx a stress ball to squeeze. In her eyes, he needed one to take his worries out on. Jinx accepted the toy not thinking much about it.