Cherry Meets the Little Mermaid

chapter 9

When they finished their dinner, the four guests were given a different room while Cherry stayed in another room with her parents. There were plenty of guest rooms for everybody.

"So we only have three days to get Eric to kiss Ariel and for Darla to kiss Urchin before the third sunset or else they belong to Ursula... Just great, sounds easy." Atticus groaned to himself.

"Oh, totally..." Cherry overheard that and leaned on the door-frame.

"Cherry!?" Atticus turned in surprise to see her. "Um... How long have you been standing there?"

"Oh, long enough..." Cherry folded her arms with a smirk.

"Note to self: When speaking to yourself, make sure no one is around." Atticus whispered to himself.

"You can't hide from me..." Cherry teased. "So, Urchin likes Dimples, huh? Didn't see that coming."

"Same here." Atticus said.

"He's bad at hiding it..." Cherry shrugged. "I could help you if you want though... But, since you wanna do this alone..." she then walked off.

"No! Please help me, I could use all the help I can get." Atticus begged.

Cherry darkly chuckled to that.

"Since when do you like to help?" Atticus folded his arms at her.

"Hey, you're like a brother to me..." Cherry shrugged innocently. "I guess I care about ya."

"Gee thanks, Cherry." Atticus smiled.

"Don't say I never did anything for you..." Cherry shrugged.

"Okay, okay, anyways, we'll have to figure out how we're going to get them to....You know." Atticus said.

"Make sure they're alone and can fall in love," Cherry advised. "Find a way to get them together... I remember that Cogsworth, Lumiere, and Mrs. Potts tried to get Belle and Prince Adam alone together by getting them to ice skate."

"Well, ice skating is out, but what about a nice boat ride on the lake?" Atticus asked.

"We should either do it by sunset or by moonlight," Cherry suggested. "Those are always romantic for those girly girl types..."

"It might get dark after Eric's tour of the kingdom, so moonlight will have to do." Atticus replied.

"Precisely." Cherry noted, pushing her glasses back.

"Yeah and we'll also have to have some romantic music around." Atticus said.

"That's about all I got..." Cherry tried to think. "Oh, also, Eric should know Ariel's name."

"Yes, but we can't give it away, he's going to have to guess it." Atticus said with a wink.

"We can't just tell him?" Cherry glanced at him.

"We'll, whisper it to him while he's guessing." Atticus said.

Cherry rolled her eyes slightly. "Well... I'm going to bed... See you in the morning..." she then went to her own guest room.

Atticus waved to her and went to get some sleep himself.

Darla was already asleep and was lightly snoring as she was tucked into bed. Ariel wasn't asleep quite yet, she was too busy looking outside.

"Hey, Ariel...' Atticus said with an obviously tired yawn as he stretched.

Ariel looked back at him, waved, but then continued to look outside. Eric and Max were having some nighttime fun with each other before they would run off to bed themselves.