the Little Mermaid (2023) [H.S. x J.C.]

Chapter seventeen

The next morning, Sabrina flies into Harry's bedroom. Her feathers are on end from what she overheard during her morning flight around the castle. She shakes her head in exasperation when she finds both Harry and Zayn still asleep. How can they be sleeping when the place is abuzz with such amazing gossip? The prince is to be married!

Sabrina:

Hey, wake up, wake up, wake up!

Sabrina stirs the two from their sleep and shares the news.

Zayn:

What?

Sabrina:

Hey, have you not heard the scuttlebutt?

Zayn:

Your butt?

Sabrina:

No, the gossip! The buzz!
The who-said-what-who-does-that, yeah, the Scuttlebutt!
Well, I was flying over land and sea
An ear to the ground
Then I came flying here for you to see
And hear what I found
Remember the swamp?
Remember my song in the swamp?
When I was like
"Womp, chicka womp-womp, chicka womp-woooomp"

Zayn:

I remember

Sabrina:

Well ever since!
The what's his name?
The guy with the hair and the shirt—

Zayn:

The Prince?

Sabrina:

Yeah, the Prince! Has been droppin' hints
He wants to
You know when humans dress all nice like they're penguins?
Throw rice for the pigeons?
They're tryin' to blow up the pigeons
But those are just urban legends
I know a lot of really fat pigeons—

Zayn:

Sabrina, I—

Sabrina:

Will. You. Just. Listen!
Zayn, I got the scuttlebutt!

Zayn:

Hurry up!

Sabrina:

You'll be like, "What?!"
When I drop the scuttlebutt!
Okay, now huddle up, buttercup
From the women who wash all the clothes
To the hunter who arrows the bows
The chatter all over the palace
Is that your Prince John is gonna propose

Zayn:

What?

Sabrina:

To somebody nobody knows
They're saying he suddenly chose

Zayn:

Who?

Sabrina:

Who? You sound like an owl
I'll bet it's the kid with the new set of toes

Zayn:

No!

Sabrina: