5Melody's First Date
It wasn´t a very calmly morning in Atlantica, this was because Prince Edward made a pajamas party with his best friend Finic, Jacob and his cousin Gary, they all stayed up all night and were exhausted when they woke up, it was very late, especially for Edward, he usually wake up very early due to his royal duties as a prince upon land and as the next heir under the sea.
The four kids were grabbing some snacks for breakfast, when Sebastian entered in the kitchen, he could notice they were all tired, even Finic was sleeping while the others were trying to cook.
"Oh boys, if da king see you like this you're all in big trouble", he turned to see Edward, mostly you, young man."
All the little ones begged the old crab to not tell King Triton, especially Edward, who also asked him to not tell Ariel.
"Please Sebastian, it's even fine if you tell grandpa, but if mom knows, she will not care and she will beached me until I turn 10."
The old crab understood that they were just having fun, he knew that Edward never had pajamas parties before on land, so he promised to not tell anyone, just if they got ready for the day as soon as possible.
After doing what the crab told them, Jacob decided to go by his own to explore Atlantica, so they were just, Edward Finic and Gary.
They were entering the throne room when King Triton called Edward.
"Good afternoon Edward, are you ready for the lesson of today?" Since the young prince found out he was going to be Atlantica´s next king, his grandfather had become his royal tutor, he believed that just the king himself should teach and prepare the next heir to take his place, showing him all that he knows and how to behave, but Edward´s favorite class was about how to use the Trident, unfortunately for him, he was going to learn about Atlantica´s history.
Just when Edward was about to nod the royal messenger entered the room.
"King Triton, you have a visitor" the old king rubbed his beard, he didn't expect any visits for that time, he gave the order that the visits started at 3´o'clock, in order to finish his lessons with Edward.
When he was about to protest and send his messenger to tell the mysterious visit to come back later, his face completely changed when he found out who the visit really was.
"Hi grandfather," said Melody while she gave him a hug, she turned to her brother and greeted him too "are you in troubles again?"
"Nope" wait AGAIN "And how do you know that I´ve been in trouble."
"Sebastian told me," answered the girl, the old crab entered the throne room a the same time, Edward looked at him with displeasure.
The king's advisor looked at the merboy, "What? I promised to not tell your parents, I never said that I wouldn´t tell your sister mon."
After a little chat the king asked his granddaughter what bring her in his kingdom. Melody just answered the king that she was coming to visit and that she was going to see a friend.
"A friend?" Edward asked, "you haven't been here as much as I, so how did you made a friend down here."
Melody told him that she was just hanging out with someone she knew the first time she was on Atlantica.
King Triton seemed very indifferent, because he didn't mind at all "Melody needs to have friends of her age Edward," he started his way to Edward's new classroom, so he just followed his grandfather, but his mind wasn't very empty at all, he just had one thought in mind, and it was to follow Melody.
Fortunately for him, this time history class wasn't so long, mostly because Edward himself was very smart, he just never had told anyone, he even understood his parents' kingdom economy and he even made an algorithm to increase it.
When he left the room, Edward found his friend Rebecca talking with Finic and Gary, she was telling them that her brother Alex was going to see a friend later that day and that she was worried because he was her brother after all.
"Wait," Edward said from the doorstep "so YOUR brother is going to have a date today?"
Rebecca nodded quite sad, "Alex never had a date before, I'm just worried for him, he's my big brother you know?"
"Well it seems that your big brother is having a date with my big sister," Finic's eyes winded upon hearing his friend's words, "so I was coming for Finn and Gary to stop the date, because...well I'm worried for Melody too...so you want to join us to stop them?" Rebecca turned to see her friends and agreed.
Meanwhile outside Atlantica, Rebecca's brother, Alex was waiting in the entrance, Melody was leaving the palace and greeted him.
"Hey Mel Mel," Melody just gave him a friendly angry look "So, are you ready to go," Alex asked.
"You know, for a while I was nervous when you told me that we were going to a restaurant," but then I found out today that was totally the best choice you could made."
"What, pizza and sea bowling isn't too royal?" Alex joked with his friend. They left laughing and joking without knowing that the new formed "Anti Date Squad" were listening.
"Eddie, how are we going to arrive before them?" Rebecca asked.
Finic giggled "Don't worry, Becky, Eddie and I know shortcuts to arrive to any place," Gary wasn't very sure of the idea of ruin a date.
"Eddie, don't you think that Melody will be mad at you if you do this?" the merboy asked his cousin.
Edward just shook his head, "Nope, because I have a plan," everyone looked at him curious "we won't exactly ruin the date, we will make a scandal on the place that will make them to leave with us."
Everyone looked confused and pretty unsure about Edward's idea, but they followed him. Finic was the most worried because of all of the kids that were forming the "Anti Date Squad," was the one who knew him the most and Edward wasn't acting like himself at that moment.
Melody and Alex had been playing for a while, both ordered pizza and some water, Melody found Atlantica´s food very curious and interesting, on land she never had tasted so different, yet so delicious. The place was even better than she had imagined, in fact, Atlantica was a complete new world for her and she loved the fact that it was her home too.
"Hey Mel, I think it´s your turn now," Alex told the girl, neither of them had noticed that just a few tables behind them, the whole Anti Date Squad was planning their move.
Gary wasn't paying so much attention to his cousin, it was the first time on a place like that, he just wanted to play with the others, in fact he didn't even remember why they were there.
Edward had a very unique hat and wore sunglasses in order to not being seen by his sister, Rebecca wore the same outfit, instead of the hat, she decided to use a black wig to cover her blonde hair.
"Okay guys, so here's the deal, Gary," Edward pointed at the other merboy who was in front of him "you will start to play so very well and for each time you score you make noise as loud as you can" the kid just nodded because he just wanted to play bowling.
"Gary, you go and order plenty of food, my grandpa gave plenty of shells for all the afternoon so that won't be a problem," the redhead said to his friend.
"And finally Becky and I will be interrupting any romantic sign from Melody and/or Alex and after I make the signal we pretend to start a fight between Finn and I, so the manager won't have any choice but ask all of us to leave, including those two over there," said Edward pointing Melody and Alex.
The 4 kids started their operation, Gary wasn't very good playing bowling, so he couldn't make so much noise saying he was the best because clearly he wasn't, Finic had ordered as plenty of food as he could, the problem was not even with the four of them were able to finish all, and finally Edward was almost caught by Melody when he walked too close to her and his hat almost fell to the ground.
"Hey, big guy," Rebecca said to Alex, still undercover, "could you please help me grabbing the ball, it's too heavy for me you know, but still, I want to make a score so if you don't mind.
Alex was nervous, he didn't know who this little girl was and still she was asking him for help.
"I don't want to sound very indifferent, but why don't you get a ball according your size, I'm sure I can help you find someone who can give you one," he turned to Melody and gave her an apologizing look, she just nodded with a smile. She didn't know why but the fact of seeing Alex helping a little girl made her see him quite cute.
After trying to make the whole process as long as she could, Rebecca, just thank Alex and went with the rest of the group.
Melody as curious as she was started to think that was something with those four kids that didn't feel right, so she headed to them.
"Um, hi…" the 12 year old said to the kids, Edward jumped scared from his seat, that was because Melody was just behind him, "I wasn't able to apologize when I almost throw your hat...Eddie."
Edward's eyes winded as much as he could, how could she figured it out? This was the perfect plan. "I'm sorry lady, but I think you're confused," he was about to continue when Melody took his hat and his sunglasses, revealing his bright red hair and his blue eyes.
Alex joined his friend, thinking that maybe she was going to do something unusual, he didn't saw all the picture since he was distracted making his third in a row score.
"Hey Mel-Mel, what's up?" asked the blonde to his friend.
"Nothing, just I think we have some stowaways right here," she said as she crossed her arms.
Alex could see Melody's brother in front of them when he finally found out, "wait Becky?" he said astonished as he looked at the girl he just helped getting a comfortable ball. The girl just gave him an apologizing smile.
"How did you found out we were...well us?" the merboy asked the princess.
Melody just said calmly "well, first, it was very strange that with all the empty tables around here, you guys chose one very close to ours," Finic gave Edward a I told you look.
"Second, during your whole time here, we couldn't focus on our game because you guys were just interrupting, and third and the most obvious one, Finn and Gary aren't undercover."
Edward slap his hand to his forehead. "Why did you guys came here anyway?" asked Melody.
Edward and Rebecca looked at each other trying to convince the other to speak first.
"We...we didn't want you two have a romantic date" Rebecca answered "so when we figured it out you two were going to hang out we decided to ruin your date."
Edward looked at his sister "I was the one who started this whole thing, I didn't want to have a boyfriend because if you had one, you will just spend time with him and not spending your time with me as we used to back at home."
Melody was very confused "wait...romantic date?, boyfriend?, Eddie, clearly you're still very young," she lifted her brother's face "Eddie, Alex and I just wanted to have some fun, just as friends, we're not dating, we just wanted to have some fun."
Alex looked at his sister who was starting to fuss "Becky, you don't have to cry, it's ok, we're not mad at you, just, well surprised."
"Seriously you took the time to buy all this stuff just to be undercover" said Melody grabbing the sunglasses and Edward's hat," she giggled.
"Hey, just for the record, Gary and I didn't want to ruin anything, we were just here for food and bowling," Finic said to Melody.
"Well, I think that your plan didn't succeed after all...well not quite." The little group looked at each other confused.
"What do you mean not quite?" asked Gary.
Melody just gave him a smile "well because it seems that this isn't a "romantic date" anymore, but a bowling date with all of us."
Alex smiled at Melody's comment, this was a great idea, she didn't let this situation ruined their game, in fact, she made it more interesting including each other's siblings and two more friends.
After all the Anti Date Squad archieved their goal, they ruined a date for two and they made it a date for six.
So here it is the final chapter of the one shots, I know it took me very long to complete these stories, but I had a few problems with my laptop, so anyway, the sequel of How Really Happened will be uploaded soon, don't forget to R&R.
