You're Not the Boss Anymore
Summary: 5-year-old Angelica is starting kindergarten, and she soon realizes, that she's not at preschool anymore, where she was the big kid in class. There are other kids, bigger than her, including a huge, mean, bully, fifth grader, Jeffery Wilcock, who finally gives Angelica a taste of her own medicine. What will happen?
Editional Notes: New character Jeffery Wilcock is introduced, as well as his friends, Larry and Buzz, Jeffery's dad Linnard, Principal Brown at the elementary school, and Angelica and Susie's kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Lindaberry.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Rugrats, they're the property of their original creaters.
It was lunch recess on the first day of school, when Angelica and Susie are swinging on the swings.
"So, how do you like kindergarten Angelica?" Susie asked.
"Uh, it's alright. It beats spending all afternoon with those dumb preschoolers." Angelica answered snobbishly.
"What are you talking about Angelica? I for one miss hanging out with your cousin Tommy and his little friends, but I do like our new teacher Mrs. Lindaberry and all of the fun things we'll be doing in school." Susie replied with a smile.
"Yeah, and soon I'll be ruling the school just as I did with preschool last year." Added Angelica.
Just then, a rather large boy with black hair, wearing a dark blue shirt and brown pants comes up in front of Angelica on the swings, and stops her.
"That's my favorite swing pigtails, hand it over." Snapped the boy.
"Look mister, I was here first, and nobody makes fun of Angelica C Pickles hair, got it?" Angelica snapped, raising a fist to the boy.
"How old are you anyway, Goldylocks?" The boy asked.
"Uh… I'm 5 and in kindergarten." Angelica replied.
"Well, you otta know, I'm Jeffery Wilcock, fifth grader, and the boss of this school. Nobody messes with me, understand? So get off my swing and we'll forget this whole thing ever happened." Snapped Jeffery.
"Uh… Ok." Angelica answered in a nervous tone of voice, as she got off the swing and ran towards the big toy on the other side of the playground, Susie following close behind her.
Later, while on the big toy, Angelica is walking across this bridge that seperates the two ends of the toy, when Jeffery and his friends, and Larry, a redheaded boy wearing a green and black striped shirt and blue jeans, and Buzz, who has purple curly hair and is wearing a white Buzz Lightyear T-shirt approach the toy.
"What this fellows, I'm a professional wrestler." Said Jeffery as he approached the big toy and climbed up the stairs that led to the bridge.
"Oh look who it is, it's pigtails." Snapped Jeffery as he approached Angelica.
"Listen buster, you may have gotten your swing back but there's no way I'm giving up my spot on this toy." Snapped angelica.
"Oh yeah? Well we'll just see about that." Barked Jeffery, as he picked up Angelica by her pigtails, and starts twirling her around in the air, throwing her off of the toy, and making her land face down on the woodchips down below.
Angelica starts to cry, as she stands up to reveal a huge cut on her face, blood dripping everywhere. By this time, Jeffery and his friends have run off so as to not get caught. Mrs. Lindaberry sees what has happened and rushes over to see about Angelica.
"What happened?" Asked Mrs. Lindaberry.
"That big kid Jeffery, he threw me off of the big toy." Angelica answered in between sobs.
"I don't see anybody Angelica." Answered Mrs. Lindaberry as she looked around to see a few other kindergarteners up on the big toy.
"But let's get you inside to the nurse." Mrs. Lindaberry continued, as she took Angelica's hand and led her into the school.
Later on that afternoon, Charlotte and Angelica arrive at the park, Angelica now has stitches in her face where she was wounded earlier. They spot Aunty Celeste and Taffy on a bench.
"So glad to have run into you here. Look, I need you to watch Angelica this afternoon while I attend a meeting that had to be pushed back because poor Angelica here got hurt on the playground on her first day of kindergarten." Said Charlotte.
"No problem, we'd be glad to watch her." Replied Aunty Celeste.
"And I'll be happy to drive Angelica home later when we're finished at the park." Taffy added, getting her guitar out of its case.
"Drop her off at Stu and Didi's, we're having dinner there tonight," Said Charlotte.
"And don't let." Just then, Charlotte is interrupted by her cell phone ringing. She picks it up.
"Hello Jonahon," She says into the phone walking away from the group. Just then, Angelica spots Zack, Chuckie, Kimi, Phil and Lil in a sandbox and heads over to them.
"What happened to your face?" Chuckie asked Angelica, pointing at her stitches.
"Nothing I'm gonna tell you dummies about." Angelica answered back rudely.
"Where are grape head and drool boy anyway?" Angelica asked.
"Tommy threw up in the water table." Replied Phil.
"It was neat!" Exclaimed Lil.
"Guys, I don't think it was a lot of fun for Tommy. He didn't feel good and had to go home and missed our nature walk." Said Chuckie.
"I even picked some beautiful flowers on our nature walk to help him feel better." Chuckie added, getting the flowers out of his Dummi Bears backpack.
"Well I'm going there for dinner, I guess I can give them to Tommy for you." Angelica answered, taking the flowers from Chuckie.
"You'd do that?" Chuckie asked.
"After what I've been through today, it's the least I can do." Angelica said with a sigh.
"Wow why are you being so nice to us?" Asked Kimi.
"Well, if you little preschoolers must know, I got hurt today on account of a big kid named Jeffery. He hurt my face on account that I wear pigtails." Angelica snapped.
"Oh my gosh, I'm very sorry." Kimi said.
"Yeah, and if I don't find some way to avoid this kid, he's gonna beat me up forever." Replied Angelica.
"Hey, why don't you just change the style of your hair." Replied Zack.
"for once you dummies got a great idea! And, come to think of it, I am in kindergarten now, a grown up kid, and grown ups don't wear pigtails." Said Angelica.
"So, does this mean you're gonna be nice to us from now on?" Chuckie asked.
"Get real!" Snapped Angelica, as she punched Chuckie in the stomach, knocking him down into the sandbox, causing him to start crying.
"Hey, why did you hurt my brother he did nothing to you." Said Kimi, standing up in the sandbox and heading over to help Chuckie up. Just then, Taffy and Aunty Celeste came over.
"Were you being mean to the minis again?" Taffy asked.
"Uh… no, we were just… playing a game." Angelica replied.
"I think we'd better get going and take everyone home." Said Aunty Celeste, rounding up the kids.
"Yeah, and I'd better get Angelica to her aunt didi and uncle Stu's, I've got band rehearsal in an hour." Taffy replied, taking Angelica's arm and leading her out of the park.
Later on at tommy and Dil's house, Angelica is in the living room, watching Cynthia PI on the couch when dil enters the room and changes the channel to The Goober Show.
"Hey! You change it back mister I was watching that." Snapped Angelica.
"No, it's my turn to watch TV." Dil replied.
"Well, I might let you watch TV if you go get me some cookies." Said Angelica.
Dil walks off to the kitchen only to find the cookie jar is too high for him to reach. He returns, Angelica, spotting Dil, empty handed, looks angrier than ever, gritting her teeth together and growling.
"Sorry Angelica, the cookies are too high for me to reach." Said Dil sadly.
"Then go get your brother to get them for me, he's tall enough to reach the cookie jar now." Barked Angelica.
"Why don't you get them yourself? Besides, Tommy came home sick from school and mommy said not to bother him." Dil replied.
Just then, tommy walks into the living room, his hands holding his stomach.
"How are you feeling tommy?" Dil asked.
Tommy let out a huge moan as he sat down on the floor in front of the TV. Angelica walks over to him.
"Ah, just the man I'm looking for." Angelica said, coming up behind tommy.
"Angelica, leave him alone, he really doesn't feel good." Dil said from the couch.
"go get me some cookies, now!" Angelica shouted at tommy. Before tommy could answer, Didi calls everyone in for dinner from the kitchen.
At dinner, Angelica, her dad, Stu, didi, tommy and Dil are all seated around the table. Everyone has plates of spaghetti in front of them except for tommy who has a bowl of chicken noodle soup. Everyone is eating their spaghetti, but tommy sits there, staring at his bowl of soup, looking pailer than ever.
"How thoughtful of Chuckie to give tommy these beautiful flowers from their nature walk today that tommy had to miss." Didi said happily, looking at the bouquet of flowers, sitting in the middle of the table.
"Are you gonna eat that?" Angelica asked Tommy.
Tommy shook his head, continuing to stare at the bowl. Just then, Angelica picks up the bowl and throws it in tommy's face. Dil throws his plate of spaghetti at Angelica, and the three of them, start having a food fight.
"Children! Stop it!" Didi shreaked over all of the loud noise and fighting. Drew pulls Angelica aside.
"Go sit in the living room young lady." Drew snapped, dragging Angelica away from the table.
"But daddy it wasn't my fault." Angelica screamed.
Later on after dinner, Stu, Didi and Drew are sitting around the table having coffee and dessert.
"Is something bothering Angelica?" Didi asked.
"Charlotte called and told me Angelica had a bad first day of school." Drew replied.
"Hmmm, maybe it would be best if Angelica is home schooled." Muddered Stu.
"Now Stu, according to Lipchitz, attending school is important for boosting a child's social skills, creativity, and work ethic. It's especially important in the early years of preschool and kindergarten." Didi explained.
"Yeah well I just hope we can get to the bottom of this and change Angelica's behavior." Said Drew.
"We'd better be going, it's almost Angelica's bedtime." Added Drew, getting up from the table to leave.
And this, ends chapter 1. What will happen the next day? We'll find out, in chapter 2.