The Little Mermaid | 1989

4.

"Sabrina, dear." Taylor called her sister from outside her bedroom "Time to come out! You've been in there all morning!"

When Sabrina came out of the dressing room, she was humming

"What is with her lately?" Dove asked. All of her sister took notice and stood behind her as she fluffed her hair in the mirror. She placed a sea flower and inhaled its smell deeply. As she swam out of the room, she bumped into King David

"Oh!" She giggled "Hi, daddy." She smiled to him, putting a flower behind his hair then continued to swim off with a song in his heart

"Oh, he's got it bad..." Shannon now realized what was up with their sister

"What?" David asked in confusion "What's he got?"

"Isn't it obvious, Daddy?" Dove asked before looking all romantic like "Sabrina's in love..."

The sea king pulled the flower out of his hair and smiled curiously "Sabrina? In love?"

***

"Okay, so far, so good." Niall paced back and forth,  "I don't think the king notices anything."

Meanwhile, Sabrina, above the pacing Niall, was plucking the petals off a flower

"He loves me." She smiled at the petal before dropping it lightly. She groaned and frowned at the next petal, grumbling "He loves me not." Her eyes widened and her smiled stretched widely across her face as she plucked the last petal triumphantly and squealed "He loves me! I knew it!"

Niall rolled his eyes, swimming up to Sabrina "Sabrina, will you please—."

"I gotta see him again." Sabrina interrupted "Tonight. Peyton knows where he lives—."

"Sabrina, listen!" Niall said

"I could swim under his window, then Corey will splash around to get his attention then—." Sabrina said

"Down here is your home!" Niall shouted, before swimming in front of Sabrina's face to stop his pacing "Sabrina, listen to me." He pleaded "The human world, it's a mess. Life under the sea is better than anything they got up there!"

Sabrina sat back down, frowning, and looking up dreamily at the surface. Niall realized the only way to communicate to the young mermaid was through song

Niall

The seaweed is always greener, in somebody else's lake
You dream about going up there

Niall yanked down Sabrina's chin so she was staring back down at him

But that is a big mistake
Just look at the world around you
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things around you
What more is you looking for?

Under the sea, under the sea
Darling it's better, down where it's wetter
Take it from me

Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun, they slave away

Niall dramatically mimicked a slaving human, making Sabrina roll her eyes

While we're devoting our time to floating under the sea

Niall noticed a lobster playing the seashell drums and joined him to play the beat

Both

Down here all the fish are happy
As off through the waves they elll
The fish on the land ain't happy
They're said cause they in a bowl