This is inspired by a dream I had. The characters weren't in the dream just the idea. Zack is owned by Celrock. I own everyone else except the Rugrats.
It was a bright sunny morning and three year old JI Yeon was preparing for her first day of pre school. She was wearing pink shorts with a white shirt with Moana on it and white sparkly shoes with pink laces.
Once she was dressed Ji Yeon wandered into the master bedroom to find her mother getting ready for the day.
"Go get the brush so I can fix your hair. We have to leave soon." Mi Sun told her. Ji Yeon went into the bathroom adjoining the master bedroom and came back with a blue brush and two pink scrunchys.
"Can you put it in pig tails?' Ji Yeon asked handing the items to her mother.
"Of course. Come here." Mi Sun said lifting Ji Yeon into her lap and brushing her hair.
Once her hair was done Ji Yeon got her turquoise Moana backpack off the kitchen chair and they locked up the apartment and went to get some breakfast.
"What do you want to eat?" Mi Sun asked as they pulled into the drive through line.
"Chocolate milk and french toast." Ji Yeon answered.
Mi Sun placed their order and once they got their food they sat in the parking lot and ate.
"Can I have syrup?" Ji Yeon when her mom handed the box of french toast sticks.
"I don't want you making a mess and they have sugar on them already." Mi Sun said.
Ji Yeon opened the box and saw white powdered sugar on the french toast sticks. She took a bite and realized they were sweet enough. They finished eating and headed to the pre school.
"Are you excited?' Mi Sun asked as they entered the building.
"No." Ji Yeon answered quietly staring up at the big red brick building clinging to her mother's hand a little tighter. She was used to her leaving but this was a new place with new kids.
"You'll have fun." Mi Sun told her when they reached the door with an ocean theme on the front.
Mi Sun lead Ji Yeon inside the room where a few kids were already running around with toys or clinging to their parents. One little boy caught Ji yeon's attention. He was a little chubby with dark hair and brown eyes and he was wearing a blue shirt with Maui on it and red shorts and blue and black sandels.
"Why don't you go talk to him and I'll see you at dinner time." Mi Sun said giving her daughter a little push towards the boy.
"Ok. Bye mommy." Ji Yeon said giving her mother a hug.
Before Ji Yeon had a chance to approach the boy the teacher clapped her hands to get everyone's attention."Ok everyone it's time to say goodbye to your parents and find your seats."
At the mention of their parents leaving some of the kids began to cry as did a few of the parents. The kids found their seats with their names on the back of their chairs with the help of two teacher's aids. Once everyone was seated the teacher began to explain the class rules and what they would learn while in pre school. After her speech she let them have some free time to get to know each other.
"What up my pre school brotheren." A strawberry blond boy that was seated at Ji Yeon's table greeted."I'm Dil. What are your names?"
The kids were confused by his greeting but answered his question none the less.
"My name is Ji Yeon." Ji Yeon answered.
"My name is Min Jun." The boy in the Maui shirt added.
" I've never heard names like that before. I like them. Are you guys twins?" Dil asked."You look like each other."
Before either kid could answer the other girl at their table spoke up."Of course they're not twins. It's just all Asian people look like each other."
Min Jun and Ji Yeon stared at each other studying the other's features. While they both had black hair and brown eyes they didn't look alike. Ji Yeon's eyes were wider then Min Jun's and Min Jun had a bit darker skin tone.
"We're not twins. We never even saw each other until today." Ji Yeon explained.
"Yeah and not all Asian people look the same." Min Jun added.
"Well my mommy says they do so it's true." The blond haired girl insisted.
"If it't true then how come my auntie has curly hair and my mommy has straight hair like me?" Ji Yeon asked.
This statement put an end to the arguement just in tiime for circle time.
While the kids were taking their places on the blue and red circular rug Dil whispered to Min Jun and Ji Yeon."Sorry for asking if you guys are twins. I just thought you was cuz of your shirts." The kids looked down at their shirts then back up at Dil."You both just like Moana I guess."
"Yeah. It's my favoritest movie." Ji Yeon whispered back.
"I just like Maui." Min Jun added."And the chicken."
"Ok class. Today we're just going to get to know each other so one at a time stand up and say your name and one thing about you." The teacher told the class.
One by one the class introduced themselves until the last kid stood up. It was the mean blond girl that Dil, Min Jun, and Ji Yeon had to share a table with.
"My name is Olivia and I love my cat." She sat down and the class got ready for snack time.
The rest of the day was uneventful and Min Jun and Ji Yeon were greatful that the teasing had stopped. The school day might've been over for the pre schoolers, but it was only halfway over for the older kids, which is where Ji Yeon found herself staying until her older cousin came to get her. While Dil and Min Jun waited in the lines to go home or go to daycare Ji Yeon was taken to one of the kindergarten classes. The situation had been arranged before school had started.
"Class this is Ji Yeon. She'll be joining us in the afternoons." The teacher announced then motioned for Ji Yeon to take the empty seat next to a blond boy and boy with purple hair.
"Now let's get back to science." The teacher continued as Ji Yeon took her seat."Can anyone tell me what this is called?"
Both the blond boy and Ji Yeon raised their hands as the teacher continued to point to the skeleton filled with plastic organs. Usually the kids would learn this kind of thing in middle school, but they already knew letters and numbers so teaching them an advanced science that still wasn't to hard became the norm. They were learning about organs and their functions.
"It's the kidneys." Ji Yeon answered when the teacher pointed to her. As the teacher continued to point to different organs Ji Yeon and the blond boy were the only ones to raise their hands.
"You know a lot about the human body for only being in pre school." The blond boy commented once they had moved on to coloring pictures of the human body."I'm Zack by the way and this is Tommy."
" Nice to meet you and to answer your question, My mommy is a nurse and when you spend as much time at the hospital as I do you learn some things." Ji Yeon told him.
"Looks like you got some competion." A boy with short brown hair sitting behind them commented.
Zack turned around and glared at the brown haired boy and then turned back to Ji Yeon."Let's see who the smartest is."
"How do we do that?" Ji Yeon asked.
"Who ever can name the most body parts in five minutes is the smartest." Zack declared.
"I don't know how to tell time." Ji Yeon said.
"Don't worry. I do so I'll let you know when time is up. Go sit by Tommy. he'll keep track of how many parts you name." Zack said.
Ji Yeon did as she was told and sat down by the purple haired boy as Zack got up and sat by a boy with spikey orange hair.
"Ok. Time's up." Zack called."I named all the organs."
"I named all the argans and some bones, but I don't know all of them yet." Ji Yeon declared.
"Woah we got a kid smarter then Zack in our class." The brown haired by yelled excitedly.
"Shut up Phil." Zack yelled back at him. He wasn't used to being shown up. He was the youngest in the class thanks to skipping a grade, but it appreared that was no longer the case. Zack ddin't speak to anyone for the rest of the day. He just concentrated on his work.
The rest of the day passed by fast and soon enough it was time to go home. All of the kids filed out of the building. Ji Yeon watched all the kids go to the bus , daycare, or the pick up lines. She sat on the steps waiting for her cousin. She didn't have to wait long until she saw her cousin's blue Cruze pull up. She ran to the car and got in the backseat.
"How was your first day of school?" Mun Hee asked as they deove down the rode.
"It was ok except for this mean girl that said all Asian people look the same, oh and this one boy in the kindergartent class is really smart, but I think I made him mad cause I know more about the human body then him, but he can tell time and I can't ." Ji Yeon rambled.
"Wow. Just ignore them or I'll come up there and have a talk with them." Mun Hee said turning into the parking lot of their apartment building.
Ji Yeon went outside to the small backyard to play while her cousin did homework. She was tossing a small sparkly pink ball up in the air when a gust of wind came and blew the ball over the fence. Ji Yeon sighed thinking that her ball was gone forever when it suddenly flew back over the fence and landed at her feet.
She picked up the ball and walked over to the fence trying to see into the next yard. She had no luck due to the lack of holes in the fence.
"My ball came back over the fence all by its self." Ji Yeon called as she ran back inside.
"What are you talking about?" Mun Hee asked looking up from her laptop.
"My ball went over the fence and then it came back all by its self." Ji Yeon explained.
"it was probably the neighbors." Mun Hee told her.
"No it wasn't." Ji Yeon insisted."I didn't hear any noise in their backyard and my ball came back. Maybe it's magic."
"Maybe." Mun Hee agreed."Now go play. I'm almost done and then we can eat dinner."
Ji Yeon walked back outside and coontinued playing with the ball until it went over the fence again, only this time it didn't come back.
"Mun hee." Ji Yeon hollard running back inside."My ball didn't come back."
"Well it's dinner time, so you can get it back tomorrow." Mun Hee told her as she sat two pizza boxes on the table.
Ji Yeon sat at the table and grabbed a piece of cheese pizza and put it on her plate."Ah there's a pepper on my pizza. Get it off."
"Just pick it off." Mun Hee told her as she got her own pizza slice, only hers had Canadain bacon and pineapple on it.
"I don't want to touch it." Ji Yeon cried pushing the plate away from her. Mun Hee reached over and grabbed the green pepper slice and put it on a napkin.
"I can taste it now." Ji Yeon complained when she got to the part where the pepper had been.
"Then don't eat that part." Mun Hee said as she finished her pizza slice.
"Rip it off for me." Ji Yeon whined shovong the half eaten pizza slice in her couin's face.
Mun Hee sighed and ripped the small pepper infested erea off the half eaten slice and put it on the napkin and handed it back to Ji Yeon, who happily continued eating until the slice was all gone.
"Go brush your teeth. It's almost time for bed." Mun Hee noted as she looked at her phone. Ji Yeon did as she was told and came back dressed in turquoise shorts and a turquoise tank top with Moana on it.
"Can we watch a movie?" Ji Yeon asked as she sat on the couch.
"Yeah, but you have to try and sleep. Your mom won't be happy with me if she comes home and you're still up." Mun Hee said joining Ji Yeon on the couch and putting on the live action version of Beauty and the Beast before Ji Yeon had time to protest.
"She fell alseep soon after the movie started." Mun Hee told her aunt when she walked through the door later on in the evening.
"Thank you for watching her." Mi Sun said picking Ji Yeon up off the couch and carrying her to her bed while Mun Hee left to go to her apartment upstairs that she shared with her mother.
The next day Ji Yeon was dropped off at pre school. This time was a little easier since she already had at least two friends in her class.
"What up guys?" Dil asked as he took his seat.
"What does that mean?" Min Jun asked scratching his head in confusion.
"How's it going?" Dil asked again.
"Good. I guess." Min Jun answered still a bit confused.
"You want to have a sleepover at my house and hunt for ghosts?" Dil asked with a huge smile on his face.
"Why would we want to have a sleepover with a weird cootie covered boy like you?" Olivia asked.
"Cooties aren't real." Ji Yeon spoke up.
"Oh yeah."Olivia glared."My older sister went to a boy girl sleepover and came back home all covered in red marks."
"Well my brother has girl and boy friends and they stay at our house lots of times and nobody goes home with red marks." Dil explained.
"Well I'll come to your sleepover and prove there's no cooties." Min Jun declared and turned to Ji Yeon."You coming?"
"Um I don't know yet." Ji Yeon said quietly.
"Just let me know by tomorrow?" Dil told them as they all got up for outside play time.
Soon enough pre school was over and it was time for Ji Yeon to join the big kids and leave her friends for the day.
"Have you guys ever been to a sleepover?" Ji Yeon asked as she took her seat next to Zack.
"Yeah." All of the kids around her answered.
"We go to Tommy's house a lot." Chuckie answered.
"I got invited to one, but I don't know if I want to go." Ji Yeon explained.
"You ahould. They're really fun." Tommy told her. My brother is having his first one. You're in his class aren't you?" Ji Yeon nodded."He doesn's have very friends, but he's fun to be around."
"What's his name?" Ji Yeon asked.
"Dil." Tommy answered simply.
"Oh he sits at my table. I think Min Jun is going to his sleepover so he can have one friend that goes." Ji Yeon explained.
"You should go. It's going to be fun." Tommy encouraged her.
"Maybe." Ji Yeon said quietly. She had never been to a sleepover before, even when her mom worked nights her older cousin would always come over to stay with her.
She didn't want to think about the sleepover anymore so she turned to Zack and said."Sorry if I made you mad yesterday. You're still the smartest kid in this class."
"You didn't make me mad."Zack inssited."I'm just not used to someone knowing more then me, but I know I can't be the smartest all the time."
"How about we take turns answereing questions that we both know the answer to." Ji Yeon suggested.
"Good idea." Zack agreed.
Later on that day Ji Yeon was looking for something to play with outside when she remembered her ball had flown over the fence. She stood on the top of her purple and pink slide and peered over the fence only to be met with loud barking, which startedled her and made her fall down the slide. She went inside no longer feeling like playing outside.
"What's wrong?" Mun Hee asked as she notced Ji Yeon plop down on the couch.
"My ball is gone forever. Two big scary dogs have it now." Ji Yeon answered sadly.
"The neighbors might be home now. Why don't you go over and see if they'll give it back to you." Mun Hee suggested.
Ji Yeon got up and went to the apartment next door. She didn't hear the dogs so she knocked on the door.
A few seconds later a familar face appeared in the doorway.
"I didn't know you lived here." Ji Yeon said as the boy shoved something back inside and closed the door behind him.
"I just moved in not to long ago." Min Jun explained.
"Well can I have my ball back please?" Ji Yeon asked."It's pink and sparkly."
"Oh I was wondering who's that was." Min Jun said."Wait here and I'll go get it."
Min Jun hurried inside and came out holding the pink sparkly ball and a towel.
"What's the towel for?" Ji Yeon asked as Min Jun began wiping the ball off with the towel.
"My dogs really like your ball so I'm wiping all the slobber off of it for you." Min Jun explained as he finshed wiping off the ball and handed it to Ji Yeon.
"Thanks." Ji Yeon said taking the now dry ball in her hands and heading back to her house.
"Are you going to Dil's sleepover?" Min Jun called before Ji Yeon reached her door.
Ji Yeon sighed and turned around."Can I tell you a secret?" Min Jun nodded."And you won't laugh?" Min Jun shook his head."I've never been to a sleepover and I'm scared I'll miss my mommy."
"I've never been to one either." Min Jun admitted."I'm kind of afraid I'll afraid I'll miss my daddy."
"Maybe we could have a sleepover first and then when we go to Dil's we won't miss our mommies and daddies." Ji Yeon suggested.
"That's a good idea, but who's house can we have it at and I don't have a mommy to miss." Min Jun stated.
"Well I don't jave a daddy to miss and we can't have it at my house cause my mommy is working late tonight." Ji Yeon admitted.
"Well we could have it at my house and eat Korean food and watch Moana if you want." Min Jun suggested.
"You eat Korean food?" Ji Yeon asked. Min Jun nodded."It's my favorite food."
"Mine too." Min Jun grinned."I'm part Korean."
"I'm all Korean. I was even borned in Korea." Ji Yeon told him.
"I'll go ask my daddy if you can stay." Min Jun said rushing back inside. He came back a few minutes later."He said yes since we live next door and you're in my class."
"Ok. I'll go call my mommy and ask her." Ji Yeon said running back to her apartment.
"Mun Hee can I use your phone please?" Ji Yeon asked once she was back inside and had put her ball safely in her room.
"What for?" Mun Hee asked turning away from her homework.
"I need to call mommy and see if I can stay with my friend tonight." Ji Yeon explained.
"What friend?" Mi Sun asked as she walked through the door with her arms full of text books.
"My friend Min Jun from pre school." Ji Yeon started."My other friend Dil is having a sleepover on Friday and I'm scared to go and so is Min Jun so we want to have a sleepover together so we won't be scared to go."
"Did his parents say it was ok?" Mi Sun asked.
"He just lives with his dad and he's Korean like us." Ji Yeon explained.
"I gyess it's ok. I have some studying to do tonight so I'll be up late in case you want to come home." Mi Sun said.
They got Ji Yeon's stuff packed and walked over to Min Jun's place. Mi Sun knocked to door and it was soon by a handsome Asian man.
"Ji Yeon you're here." Min Jun cried running passed his dad.
"Sorry he's just excited. My name is Jin." the man introduced himself.
"I'm Mi Sun." The two adults shook hands and Mi Sun gave Jin her number in case he needed to get a hold of her.
"Ready for the sleepover?" Min Jun asked.
Ji Yeon nodded silently watching her mother walk away as she tried to hold back her tears.
A/N I was going to write this as one long story but the ideas got away from me. So how will the sleepover go and will they go to Dil's? Find in the next chapter that I will try to have up soon.