"I was smoking on Shellfish Bridge, thinking about how I had completely screwed up my life, when an idea occurred to me; what if I jumped?"
What happens when you make a suicidal jump off a bridge and everything goes completely wrong? Ask Tarabelle...
"I think she's pretty and smells nice." She answered, switching dolls. It was then her turn to ask him a question. "But why does she always look so sad?"
That caught him completely off guard. Not only because he wasn't expecting for a question like that to come out of a six years old mouth, but because he didn't really know how to explain it to answer her. But after thinking about seriously for awhile, he came up with a reply easy enough for her to understand.
"Tara is not very happy." He said to Margot, rather happy with his simple answer.
"Why is she not happy?" She then asked, as she put a big red dress on one of her dolls.
He had been prepared for this type of question, unlike the other one. "Because her life is not very fair."
"What does fair mean?" Margot asked, shoving a pair of Barbies into a car.
"It means that you do not always get what you wish." That was the simplest way that he could out it.
"What is it that you want Prince Taiven?" For you to stop asking questions, he thoughts but didn't say.
It was strange how his subjects back in the kingdom would wait hours outside the castle waters only to ask of him one question or favour. And right now, six year old Margot had not only had him playing Barbies, but was now starting to ask very deep and personnel questions.
"I want to be happy." He decided to answer. "And I wish for my kingdom to be happy."
"What makes you happy?" Do all young ones ask so many questions? Was she even aware of the type of questions that she was asking?
"I do not really know." He lied, hoping that she wouldn't notice. He even tried putting a pair of jeans onto a Barbie to prove that he wanted to play, no answer questions that his mind wasn't already asking.
"Does Tara make you happy?" And there it was. The question that he had been asking himself now for way to long, but now was the moment to answer.
He took a deep breath and said "Yes."
He started looking for her in the ocean, in the usual spots that she usually played around in. He knew very well that Tara would be anywhere but at the castle, because she would be avoiding him. But he wasn't going to allow that anymore. He didn't know how long he looked, or how much time had passed, but one thing was for certain; she was not in the water. He sighed, and swam up to the surface and onto the supply boat to put clothing on. When he got into the boat, he noticed that many things were misplaced; someone had recently been here. Yes, he got his hopes up.
When he had changed into warm clothes, he then got out of the boat and started to look for her around town. At some moments, he was able to pick up her lovely sent, but it never led him anywhere; it was very frustrating. It was twilight time, and his search had led him nowhere, maybe she was gone for good, far away to the other end of the ocean. Yes, he was giving up; and yes, he needed to pee. He went to nearly place that had a bathroom, which just happened to be the restaurant that he and his father had first talked to about Tara; it seemed like such a long time ago. As he walked up to the place, he noticed two figures embracing each other close to the door. He immediately recognised Tara, among the two of them. And he just knew, that she had seen him too.
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PS: Can I just say, when you think about it, the Barbie song is really perverted....think about it.
- NocteLamia101
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