Author's note: I was reading a review I got and realized that, yeah, I was somewhat destroying the characters. Thanks to TrudiRose for helping me realize that and helping me improve my story! I am now going to try and get each princess to discover who they once were. I loved your idea about Mulan doing football especially and hope that it's ok that I use it. So I guess that it's only fitting that this chapter be dedicated to TrudiRose.
"Ughh! Thank God it's finally time for lunch!" Snow White took a huge bite of her ripe red apple. She was having her usual, a big apple with mineral water.
"Hey! Watch it!" Jasmine snapped, flicking two chewed up pieces of Snow's apple off of her cheek. Snow gulped down her bite and apologized through her laughter. Belle tried to tune out her friend's playful bickering. She was more interested in what was going on a table over. Adam's table. He was sitting there with one of the weird French kids. She watched as Cinderella skipped over to his table and plopped her food down next to him. Suddenly her view was blocked by a pair of sea-green skinny jeans.
"Oh my gosh! I hate the service here!" Ariel stood over Belle with her lunch tray in her hands. "They totally skimped out on my fries. PLUS They didn't give me a straw," She whined as she slammed her tray down on the table.
"You're supposed to get the straw yourself," Eric said in an aggravated tone. Aladdin, Li-Shang, and Charming all snickered while the girls rolled their eyes. Ariel turned red.
"Why are you guys always picking on me?" Ariel whined. Belle could not take this anymore. She pushed her chair back with a screech and strode off to the bathroom. No one followed her, and she was perfectly fine with that. She wanted to be alone and away from the sight of Cinderella practically sitting on Adam. She burst through the doors of the girl's bathroom.
"OH!" Exclaimed three startled fairies, as their pixie dust flew into the air and sprinkled the entire bathroom.
"I'm sorry," Belle apologized, dusting the pixie dust from her shoulders.
"Hmph!" The fairies floated out with their noses pointed in the sparkly dust-covered air. Belle sighed and splashed some cold water on her face. Today was not going well at all.
"What's wrong with you?" a voice behind her said. Belle spun around. There stood Tiana, class president and head of the school newspaper. She had two pencils holding up her bun and she clutched a lime green notebook. Belle sighed.
"Look, I'm not interested in giving you your next big story for that stupid newspaper," Belle said. Tiana chuckled.
"Do you honestly think that your personal problems are even worthy of my next big story," she glared at Belle. "You and your friends think that the world revolves around you. What even happened to you? You used to be so...motivated. YOU used to be head of the school newspaper. Now you think that it's stupid?" Tiana shook her head and walked out of the bathroom. Belle stood there dumbstruck. Tiana's words stung. Everything she said was true. Belle turned and looked into the mirror. She had makeup running down her face. Gross. She never even used to wear makeup. She sadly turned away from the mirror and wiped her makeup off with the sleeve of her shirt, not caring that she was staining the fine blue silk. She walked out of the bathroom with her head down, when suddenly...
"OUCH!" She crashed into someone. She looked up to see who it was and gasped.
"Seriously? Can't you watch where you're going?" Adam snapped, rubbing his arm. He shot Belle the death stare.
"Sorry! I really didn't mean to! It was an accident, sorry!" Belle stammered. Adam let out an aggravated sigh and strode off down the hallway. Belle could feel tears welling up in her eyes. This is how she used to be treated when she was bookish and boring. Everyone thought that she was strange and they would whisper about what a freak she was. Nobody would ever talk to her like that when she was with her friends. With that, she took a deep breath and walked back into the lunchroom and made a bee-line back to her friends' table.
"Well, look who's back," Li-Shang flashed his shocking white teeth at her.
"Where'd you even go? And What happened to your face?" Aurora asked. She stared, scrutinizing her face. Belle ignored her and took her usual seat by Mulan. Mulan gave her a tiny smile before returning to her berry fruit salad.
"Ohkay, anyways,do you girls want to sleep over tonight? It's been, like a week since our last sleepover and I feel like having a girl's night," Jasmine flipped her hair, leaned forward, and rested her arms on the table. Aurora clapped her hands together.
"YES! We so need to do it tonight. Maybe then we can find out what's wrong with our little friend," She looked at Belle.
"Sorry girls, but we can't make it. Football practice today," Li-Shang stretched and yawned. Jasmine shot him an annoyed look.
"Girls only, Shang. I can tell why you were confused though," Jasmine high-fived Mulan. Li-Shang rolled his eyes.
"Go ahead with your little pampering party. Us MEN have more important things to do that would be much too difficult for you little girls to handle," Li-Shang smirked. Mulan stopped chewing.
"Excuse me?" Mulan swallowed. Aladdin let out a nervous whistle.
"Yeah, girls can't handle the same things as men. It's simple science," He ruffled Mulan's hair. Mulan smacked his hand away.
"What if I joined the team, and kicked your ass?" She countered. Li-Shang laughed.
"Boy's only, Moo. Try powder-puff," He got up from the table, still laughing and walked away. Mulan sat there fuming.
"You're not actually going to do it, are you? I mean football? That's kinda gross," Snow White leaned in and whispered. Mulan rolled her eyes and also got up from the table. She chucked her trash in the nearby bin and stormed off.
"What's her problem?" Ariel said, speaking with her mouth full of french fries. Aladdin gave her a disgusted look.
"Jasmine, let's go for a walk," He said, pulling her up from the table. They walked away holding hands. Eric and Phillip followed them, leaving Aurora, Snow, Ariel, and Belle alone at the table. Ariel watched Eric go.
"Eric hates me," Ariel huffed. Aurora and Snow just stared at her with pity clearly in their eyes. Belle finally decided to speak up.
"He doesn't hate you. It's just that, you throw yourself at him. That would annoy anyone..." Belle said, trailing off. Am I really acting as stupid as Ariel is? Do I really have the right to judge Ariel when I'm basically doing the exact same thing? Belle chewed on her bottom lip as she pondered her thoughts.
"Belle! I said are you going to be at Jasmine's sleepover tonight?" Snow tapped Belle's shoulder. Belle simply nodded and got up to go to her next class. Hopefully I'll feel better tonight.
