A/N: Viola! My first and possibly only Lilo and Stitch fan fiction submission. Nothing against Lilo & Stitch, I LOVE that film series, I have all the movies on DVD and I even have a DVD game, Lilo and Stitch Island of Adventures (doubt anyone knows or remembers that game) but I never really had a thought of a Lilo & Stitch fan fic. Until now of course, I've seen some fan fic submissions about Mr. and Mrs. Pelekai, so this is my hand at some origins of the Hawaiian family we all know and love. There will be some surprises, please read & review, reviews help me fuel and get inspired to write more for stories or else I'll get bored and leave it alone, so please please please read & review!
"Lilo, are you ready for hula school?" Mrs. Pelekai asked as she poured a morning coffee cup for herself while her younger daughter was eating a bowl of cereal.
"Uh-huh," Lilo smiled and ate her breakfast. "Will Nani be there with me?"
"Oh, no, dear, Nani is all grown up now, she went to hula school when she was your age, even I did."
"What about Dad?"
Mr. Pelekai chuckled as he was mentioned. "No hula school for me, but I played the ukulele and listened to Elvis records."
"Elvis is the king!" Lilo made a fist bump.
"Yes, he is," Mr. Pelekai smiled. "Maybe someday you'll be a rock and roll hula dancer, Lilo."
"Rock and hula!" Lilo cheered.
The parents laughed a bit. Mrs. Pelekai looked at the clock. "Oh, it's almost time. You better hurry and finish your breakfast before I gobble it up." she teased, taking out her stirring spoon to take some of the cereal from her bowl.
"No! I got it, Mom!" Lilo pulled her bowl away which made her parents laugh again. She then happily finished her breakfast. "Mom, do you think Nani will be home in time for my birthday?"
"I'm sure she will, honey," Mrs. Pelekai patted her younger daughter's head. "She promised during a week off she would have in college that she would come see you and us."
"What if I can't make friends in hula school?" Lilo frowned.
"Hey now, I know you will, besides if you don't you have your ohana," Mr. Pelekai told her. "Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten."
Lilo smiled brightly at him and hugged him real tight. "You guys are the best parents I know."
"We're the only parents you know." Mrs. Pelekai told her lightly.
"Still the best!" Lilo chirped as she finished her breakfast.
"Okay, grab your backpack and I'll see you in the car, Lilo." Mrs. Pelekai took her bowl to wash out.
"Okay, Mom!" Lilo jumped from her seat and dashed to her bedroom.
"She's just like you when you were little." Mr. Pelekai smiled at his wife.
"And Nani was just like you, only more stressed." Mrs. Pelekai teased, then they shared a kiss.
Lilo came back into the kitchen with her backpack and covering her eyes with her pudgy hands. She bumped into the table and backed up a little.
"Lilo, what are you doing?" Mr. Pelekai asked with a laugh.
"I don't wanna watch you two suck face!" Lilo answered, nearly cringing.
Her parents laughed.
Mrs. Pelekai picked her up. "Come on, let's get you in the car."
"Aloha, Dad!" Lilo waved.
"Aloha." Mr. Pelekai waved back as his wife and daughter left.
Mrs. Pelekai strapped herself in her seat belt after helping Lilo in hers. She then started the car and drove to the direction of the hula school. The directions hadn't changed since Nani went to the school.
"Mom, could I have a doll?" Lilo asked.
"When your father and I go out of town next week, we'll buy you the best doll we can," Mrs. Pelekai told her with a smile. "Maybe some new friends you make will want to play with her if you get one."
"Yeah!" Lilo cheered happily, excited about getting a present she already knows she'll get. "Mom... What if I can't make friends?"
"Just be yourself, nothing's better than that. Don't worry about what other people think, they don't do it often."
Lilo giggled a little at that advice. She looked out the window as her house was drawing back out of view and the hula school was coming into view. She sunk low in her seat, feeling very nervous. She was going to be with people she didn't know and they didn't know her.
"If it makes you feel any better, there's a new girl to Hawaii in there," Mrs. Pelekai said, sensing her daughter's anxiousness. "She didn't grow up here."
"She didn't?" Lilo asked, sounding a little calm now, but concerned about the girl. "Where's she from?"
"Your teacher told me she came from New York City," Mrs. Pelekai shut the door, then helped Lilo out and held her hand on their way inside the school. "Her name's Mertle Edmonds."
"Mertle?" Lilo wrinkled her nose at that name. "Sounds like an old lady name."
"Lilo," Mrs. Pelekai sent a scolding tone slightly. "Don't make fun of someone for being different. It isn't nice. You wouldn't want to be made fun of for being different, now would you?"
"No..." Lilo's voice sounded low and distant.
"Just give her a chance, she's new around here, we were all new once," Mrs. Pelekai opened the door and smiled as she saw three other girls with their parents before they left. "Go join them, okay?"
Lilo smiled at her mother and went to the other girls while Mrs. Pelekai was signing Lilo in to join their class. Lilo walked over to the girls, one girl had blonde hair in pigtails wearing pink, another girl had short brown hair wearing green, and the last girl had curly dark hair wearing purple.
"Aloha, my name is Lilo."
The girls looked at each other, then at her. They looked a little quiet and overwhelmed as she was.
"Umm... Hi..." the pigtailed girl spoke up. "My name's Elena..."
"Teresa." the dark-haired girl gave her name.
"My name's Yuki." the final girl with short hair said.
Lilo smiled a little at them, twiddling her fingers. "Umm... So... I guess we're going to all hula together."
"Yeah, I guess..." Teresa sounded anxious.
"Do you wanna play dolls with us?" Yuki asked, sounding excited.
Lilo's smile disappeared. "I-I don't have a doll..."
"Oh," the girls frowned.
"Umm... I guess we'll get to know each other better later..." Lilo stared at the floor.
There came a orange haired girl with big blue glasses. She looked at the girls and looked as though she were afraid of them and quickly went to a nearby table and hid under it. Lilo frowned, seeing the girl in distress. She then got on her hands and knees and crawled to see the girl.
"You must be Mertle." Lilo greeted.
The girl turned to her and shook a bit. "Please, just leave me alone..."
"Are you scared, Mertle?"
"No! Just leave me alone! I didn't wanna move here anyway!"
Lilo sat next to her. "It's okay to be scared, we're all new here. You're from the city and I never been hula dancing before."
Mertle turned to her. "How did you know that I was from the city?"
"My mom told me, the teacher told her... Maybe your dad told them...?"
"I...I don't have a dad anymore..."
"You don't have a dad?" Lilo frowned, she couldn't imagine what that might have felt like.
"No," Mertle stared at the floor. "He ran away... He left us a while ago and Mom said we should move to Hawaii. But, I didn't wanna come here! I wanna go back home with my old friends!"
"You can make new friends, Mertle," Lilo smiled a little. "Right now, you could use a friend. My name is Lilo."
Mertle looked at her and looked down to see Lilo had extended her hand to shake. She smiled a little and took her hand, shaking it. "I hope we can be best friends, Lilo."
"Me too, Mertle."
The girls then went from under the table to Yuki, Teresa, and Elena. Mrs. Pelekai smiled once she saw her younger daughter make friends with the other girls. She already knew that this hula school was going to be a great idea.
