✎ Write a chapter where your main character meets someone with the name of a Disney character.
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Sleigh!
Bark and Boops has that friendly image that is similar when you pass by a cutesy Donut shop. Or so, that's what Nala thinks. It's the only colorful establishment she still considers in this bland small town they moved in a month ago and it is much more decent looking than the 80s themed mall they usually pass by when going home.
The small pet house and grooming center just screams COLOR!, from the glistening purple roof up to the bright yellow bricked wall with doodles of different kinds of animal, it didn't harm that Nala chose Bark and Boops as her new workplace for the next two months.
She peeks through the see through glass mirror and a Dachshund head suddenly appears in front of her making her stumble a little. The Dachshund yawns and Nala moves her head closer eyeing the little puppy with too much interest. The fur animal sees her enthusiastic look and it starts wagging its tail. Happy by the response of the dog, Nala starts making circles on the glass and the Dachshund follows her fingers, sniffing against the barrier hoping to get a smell of her.
It's been a plan for Nala to at least get a summer job before she graduates from High School. She and her friend Natalie decided to work in a Surf Shack at one of the beaches in California but her parents made a spontaneous decision to move to another city because they're producing a grand musical sponsored by Disney and they quote to her, "it'll give us a lifetime supply of glory, honey". To be honest, she's never a fan of Disney. She heard the production house a thousand times already and she admits that she hasn't watch any films by Disney.
She suddenly remembers her mother that time when she was just a toddler and her technique to lull her to sleep is through listening to Disney music. Her mother will comb her hair while she belt out her voice to songs about a girl wanting to join the human world or sometimes she will hear her attempt to sing an African song from a movie about lions - the memory of the movie was already blurry in her mind but she remembers that she was traumatized by it. Though these things about Disney, she outgrew them quickly.
Having parents who are both playwrights, they never really spend too much time with her. They used to drop her off at her Grandmother's house whenever they need to be out of town or out of the country because of their job. Being a playwright means they need to be wherever the production is going to be. It's a demanding job and Nala saw her parents didn't sleep for 2 days just to finish a script they keep on revising. They didn't even blink at her or acknowledged her presence at their very own house. Nala is a nobody, just a fly lurking around her parents.
They never tag her along because they didn't want to disrupt her education. Her parents want her to pursue whatever she wants, be liberated at her own will but she feels like it's the lack of support that made their relationship a little bit distant to each other. She didn't hate them for it, her grandmother taught her to be understanding because her parents are doing their best at their job to give her what she needs in life.
