More Like Greta

One Recess, Rigelli had an announcement; that her mother was taking her to a girl’s toy shop called GIRL’Z TOY’Z R UZ and she wanted someone to go with her. None of the boys wanted to, so Rigelli asked Greta to go with her.

At the toy shop, Rigelli, her parents and Greta were looking at the Shrek princess dolls and Mrs Rigelli pulled down the Cinderella doll. Greta explained that Cinderella shouldn’t have been shown as a Princess in the 1st Shrek film since she was only one by marriage, which Mrs Rigelli applauded her on. Rigelli was uninterested, so Mrs Rigelli told her to “open her mind,” like Greta, and said she needed to be “more like Greta.”

At home, the family were watching wrestling, but then the TV went off and Greta fixed it. Mr Rigelli then asked her if she could play the piano. Rigelli still wanted to watch the wrestling, but the family told her to forget it. Greta played “No place like Home,” on the piano, but Rigelli went out the room, slamming the door behind her, which her parents thought was Greta’s doing.

The next day, Greta approached Rigelli, but she snapped at her and said she was not her friend anymore. CJ explained to Greta that when parents meet a gifted child, they wonder “why can’t their OWN child be great,” and urged Greta to visit Rigelli’s family again.

That night, at dinner, Greta showed up at the Rigelli family house unannounced, talked with her mouth full and sang No Place like Home while burping repeatedly. When she left, Rigelli explained that if Greta was the way she just acted, then her parents wouldn’t want Rigelli to be like her. Her parents were sorry and realised what they had said. They said that they DIDN’T want their baby girl to change. They then watched the previous night’s wrestling where they had finished off, for Mr Rigelli had taped it.

The End.

Note: The outing at the girl’s toy shop, GIRLZ TOYZ R UZ, was based on an outing that me and my family had at Toy’s R Us when buying a Princess Fiona doll for my sister.