The Door on a Beach [EDITING]

Chapter 13: Princess Ali

Boo

--

Boo lounged on the beach, adorned in her usual outfit though sporting jean shorts as apposed to full on overalls but these were better should she choose to get wet. She had probably been there for an hour before she saw a large, nearly hairless monster of blue and peach colouring.

Curious as to who this might be, she shook off her shoes wading into the endless, crystal blue ocean. Making her way towards him, she saw that he had only three singular hairs atop his head, and his build was very hippo like, making her giggle.

"Hello, little girl, how can I help you today?" He asked in a slightly Russian accent.

Boo had to look up to see his face, when she did she saw four eyes and the insides of his mouth was blue. "Who are you?"

The monster puffed out his chest as he said, "I am Jumba Jookiba, you know Lilo?"

Boo nodded. "Yeah."

"I am Lilo uncle."

Boo raised a brow. "Where are you from?"

"I am from planet Keltikwan- I mean from Island." He corrected himself, realizing what he had just said. Does this happen often, how many people around here knew what he really was though the term planet struck her as a tad odd. She new of worlds. Entire worlds lay separate from this one like a realm undiscovered by the humans of earth whom seemed hell-bent on killing everything they touched. Entire species that feared the humans. This fellow was not like that, was from another plant which meant...

"So you really are from outer space?"

Jumba shook his head. "That is top secret information, little lady."

To Boo, this seemed like a very unsatisfying yet understandable answer. If she had one day slipped up and said her friends were all of another world rather than another town, she would certainly cover it up. Tell them it was top secret and they wouldn't give her a second thought except may the comment of her being crazy, but those came often enough. It was those comments that couldn't be counted or categorized as they came by the dozen in words a second grader could grasp in his tiny hand. The best way, it seemed, to get him to talk is to share information. That's the only way she would spill but it looks like this time she had to go first. "It's okay. I have monsters in my closet."

Jumba's eyes widened. "Tell me everything you know."

---

Lilo

---

The girl paced back and forth in front of the traitorous creature. "I can't believe you divulged our secrets to that lunatic."

Jumba shook his large, nearly bald head. "I don't know what you mean, little girl. Boo seemed no lunatic, she had discovered fairytales of age."

This... now this caught Lilo's attention for the girl to have discovered anything seemed to be a longshot but maybe it was important. Maybe it had to do with her aliens. "Fairy tales?"

Jumba nodded, "Stories of her monsters of the closet. Horrors to children but I suppose they are true."

Lilo blinked, not sure she heard right. Monsters? Like monsters of the closet? Aliens were one thing, she could deal with those. They made sense there was tons of undiscovered space up there but... that's nothing like. It wasn't even a parrell to the idea that a closet could behold a world all on its own. There was nothing to back it up, no physics.

But a lot of things didn't have physics. Exceptions and rules. All the things that always made her fail that class as nothing could ever be simple and cossistant, ever.