Posted by Zorro Daddy on July 24, 2009 at 00:25 [69.244.100.36]
In Reply to: Zeke and Lily - Making a Memory (Chapter Four ) posted by Zorro Daddy on July 24, 2009 at 00:20
Soon they were out the door, and onto activities around the boat. The sun shone down on them brightly and everything looked different from last night. Lily kept looking to the clouds in the sky.
“What do you see up there?” he asked.
“What do you mean?” she asked back.
“In the shapes of the clouds?” he answered. “For instance, that cloud looks like the letter Z…”
“And that makes you think of Zorro, right?” she said grinning.
“You betcha,” he said smiling back.
“Why do you like Zorro so much?” she asked.
“He’s a good guy, and a true King of Chivalry,” Zeke said with conviction.
“Sometimes I think you’re obsessed with him,” she said, ribbing him.
“No more than your obsessions with Disney Princesses,” he said, ribbing her back.
“Well, the Disney Princesses are sweet and fun and the stuff that fantasies are made of,” she said laughing. “Which definitely makes them better than Zorro.”
“I can’t argue that with you,” Zeke confessed. “But did you know that the year that Pocahontas was released by Disney, they had another cartoon movie idea in the works?”
“No. What was the other cartoon idea?” she inquired.
“Zorro,” Zeke replied.
“Nuh-uh!”
“I swear it. The year was 1995 and they decided to go with Pocahontas because they felt she was a stronger female character than Esperanza. Plus Esperanza wasn’t a princess so she didn’t fit the criteria to be a Disney Princess.”
“Not all the Disney Princesses are princesses. Some of them never were princesses and never became princesses.”
“Huh? How? They’re all called princesses.”
“Ariel, Pocahontas, Snow White, Jasmine, Belle, Aurora, Cinderella, and Mulan are the Disney princesses, but they weren’t all princesses,” she said. “You see, only Ariel, Pocahontas, Snow White, and Jasmine were princesses to start with. Now, you see Belle, Aurora, and Cinderella became princesses because they married a prince. And Mulan was never a princess.”
Zeke stared at her blankly.
“I didn’t know that,” he said, still trying to process everything she just said. “I didn’t know any of that. You think about this a lot, don’t you?”
“Not really,” she said. “But every girl knows about the Disney princesses.”
Ahead of them was a crowd of people surrounding two rock climbing towers. Zeke and Lily stopped to watch. Written on a sign were the words: “Rock Climbing Contest Today.”
“And the prize is two front row tickets to tonight’s production of Cinderella the Musical,” Zeke said. “Refresh my memory. Was she one of the princesses already, princesses-to-be, or never a princess?”
“She became a princess,” Lily said laughing.
“Well then, I’ve gotta try for these tickets,” he said while reading the contest rules.
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