Barbie (2023) One-Shots

2 • Ken (Ryan Gosling)

The council had needed Barbie for a hearing, but she was no where to be seen. So they had sent me, a lower council member out to find her. The first place I'm sure anyone else would look would be her dream house.

When I walked up to the structure I noticed that her car was still there, pink shinny, and parked in the same place as always. Surely she was here

"Barbie!" I yelled from her walkway, awaiting for an answer but to no avail.

I bite my lip for a moment, but not for to long in fear of ruining my perfect lip color and I looked around.

Her door was bright, waiting for someone to enter.

I went to knock but the door just opened on its own, Barbie and I were friendly with eachother so I'm sure she wouldn't mind if I just walked in. I only had the chance to take a few steps before I welcomed to the sound of a piano.

I paused, listening to the melody, only for it to stop.

*click*

The notes flooded through the house again, so I followed the sound.

I had been here many times before, for parties or girls night, every night. But I'm also pretty sure that all of the dream houses are the same layout as well, why make something different if you already made something perfect?

"Barbie?" I called through her hallway, I move around the corner of her middle floor and was about to call out to her again

"Oh! Ken...what are you doing?"

Ken was sitting at a grand piano, pink ofcourse. But he wasn't playing just looking at the keys. When the sound stopped again he raised his hand to the top and pushed on the black button.

"Ken?" I walk closer to him and he doesn't move and keeps his eyes trained on the keys of the piano.

And then he spoke

"I know this song, but I don't know it..." I tilted my head at him, this was a standard Barbie piano song that played.

"I'm sure it's cause you've heard it a million times" I laugh and he turns his head to make eye contact with me

"No you don't get it, I feel like I'm in a club, a jazz club owned by me where there are hundreds of people watching me. I get the feeling of someone watching me, someone who I had loved before and I had lost. I regret everything I had done...she's married off to another man with a little girl waiting for her at home, I make eye contact with her and suddenly everything fades away. Almost like an ending to some romance story but they don't stay the couple that you want them to be...." Ken looks off into the distance through the open walls of the dream house and to the sign of Barbie Land

I stand there, stunned by the sudden monologue
"Ken that's beautiful. Do you know the name of this song?" I walk closer to him and press the button on top of the piano and it plays again.

It feels just like a movie, just how Ken explained it

Ken starts to whistle, following the notes of the song, to the intro.

I watch in awe but he pauses

"I buried in my brain, but I can't get it. Do you understand what I mean?"

"Yeah I understand Ken." I put my hand on his arm, we stood in silence and I was tempted to leave, give him his space.

"Well. That was dramatic, so what are you doing here Y/n?" My mouth opens slightly like I'm about to say something but I decided not to.

"Oh duh you're probably looking for Barbie aren't you? Well unfortunately for you she is not home, don't ask me where she is cause she does not tell me anything" he smiles brightly at me and I look at him with a confused smile.

"Uhm, okay thank you...Ken" I say

He pulls out his arm in a flex,

"You're welcome, now if you wouldn't mind I need to go beach. A job I take very seriously" he grabs his Jean jacket and starts to walk away from me, and he goes over to Barbie's slide.

He turns his head to look at me,

"Hey Y/N?" I look up from the piano and at him

"Yeah Ken?" I straighten out my dress and wait for his response.

"You're one of my favorite Barbies." He smiles at me

"Thanks..Ken you do know I'm not a Barbie right?" His face stays the same, and he laughs

"Yeah right." And he launches himself down the slide, I hear him yell the whole way down and I make my way to the edge of the dream house and look at where he stands,

"Bye Y/n!" He waves from below

"Bye Ken!" I watch as he walks away with a pep in his step.

I move away from the edge and back to the piano, these things always have something on them that tells you the song, I slide to the back of the piano and bend down as far as I could to look at the label.

"La La Land? Odd."

I stood back up and went to press the button again.

"Hey Y/N!" A voice sounds from behind me, I jump and almost knock over a plant

"Oh? Barbie! Hi!" She smiles at me oddly

"What are you doing in my dream house?"
I curse myself for forgetting my one task, the council meeting is probably over by now

"I was sent by Madam President to get you for a council meeting but got distracted!" Her mouth opens and a small 'oh' comes out, but then she smiles

"Well! Shall we then?" Barbie asks and I move to walk with her, away from the piano.

"Oh wait Barbie can I ask you a question?"
She turns back to look at me and nods her head

"What song plays on your piano?" Her eyes shift to look at the piano, and it looks like she thinks for a minute before looking back at me

"I believe it's called City Of Stars, Mattel partnered with them after La La Land was released, but we weren't given much besides the piano and a few outfits maybe." She replies

"Oh, well it's a beautiful song"

She smiles
"Yeah I believe so too"