do they even make ring pops anymore?–a post-ep cs ff

this-too-too-sullied-flesh:

spoilers for 6.14. angst. hope. candy without fluff.

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Do They Even Make Ring Pops Anymore?

Emma remembered it so, so clearly: an old commercial from when she was a kid, silly and stupid like all commercials aimed at kids, colorful in her memory because it had been the eighties and so catchy that it stuck with her all these years later. A boy with a box behind his back, standing in front of a girl with a high side ponytail. “Will you wear my ring?” he asked, presenting the box with the candy ring in it. “Ring Pop!” she exclaimed, because all girls want to get married to some boy, right?

And because kids are susceptible to good marketing, it became a thing at the school she’d been in at the time for girls to go around wearing Ring Pops on the playground, proposing to each other and dissolving into ridiculous laughter until the teachers confiscated the illegal candy.

Not Emma, of course. She’d never really made friends in the schools she attended. You have to remain in a place long enough to actually make a friend to get one that would fake propose to you with a giant grape-flavored engagement ring on the playground during recess.

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