Dinglehoppers

Eighteen

18. Write a scene where your main character sings “Be Our Guest” to a dinner guest.

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“Travis: But Miss Charlotte, you said ‘later’ two hours ago!

 Lottie: Travis, when a woman says ‘later’ she really means ‘not ever’.”

 -Charlotte, The Princess and The Frog.

 

 

“Okay. Now I need you to go in the fridge and fetch me the mushrooms."

Ellie felt like an especially productive person today.

It had begun to snow last night, and that made her happy because she really liked the snow.

It was the last weekend of November, and there was only a few more days left before she got out of school for Christmas break.

Today Saturday was also the day she had programmed to have Jack over to the lasagna he’d been practically killing Ellie over for since she mentioned it in their food battle.

She could have sworn his eyes were about to pop out of their sockets from excitement when she told him the good news.

So last night she had watched ‘The Princess and The Frog’ because she sort of, kind of, hoped that watching Tiana march here and there and everywhere while cooking and adding this and that to the pot and tasting -Oh god now she remembered why she didn’t know how to cook- would help her somewhat in preparing the lasagna for Jack.

She had also begun to watch the first 30 minutes of ‘Ratatouille’ but had then fallen asleep because it was literally one in the morning and she was dead tired.

Besides, the fact that she was watching a movie in which a – very cute- rat knew how to cook better than her kind of, sort of, made her very depressed.

She honestly wasn’t sure what she was going to do when she got married and her husband would arrive asking where dinner was.

She’d most likely just point at the pizza place number on the fridge –which she probably would already know by heart anyway.

Whenever her dad was cooking, she’d always plant herself on the kitchen counter and watch him, especially because she liked to eat whatever left overs there were.

It wasn’t as if she was going to make the lasagna because let’s face it, the kitchen would explode, but at least she could tell Jack she had been the one to taste everything.

Secretly, Ellie wished she would like to cook, because the way Tiana had been so enthusiastic about wanting to open her restaurant and make it famous, it kind of inspired Ellie to do the same.

She thought it would be awesome if people from all over the city and the world came to her restaurant and compliment her and oh dear lord, marrying a prince!

Of course Ellie lived in the real world and that was never going to happen.

“Daddy, do you want me to sing you a song from the movie I was watching last night?” she asked him as she opened up the fridge and glanced around for the mushrooms.