"We said we were sorry." Shenzi said as she, Banzai and Ed walked T home.
" 'Sorry' doesn't change the fact that I had ta spend seven hours of the day with humans!" T said.
"Alright alright. But if it makes ya feel better, we found a four-room house today and the one with the biggest space has got your name on it." Shenzi said.
"Yeah, we felt kinda guilty lettin' ya get dragged off by a cop." Banzai said.
"It was a truant officer, genius." Shenzi said to him.
While T was at school, Simba and Nala managed to find places for everybody to stay. The royal couple got a three room house, they used the other two rooms as guest rooms. A bathroom with two sinks beside each other, a big kitchen, and a very comfortable living room. The outside had a porch on it, with patio furniture and even a porch swing.
Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed found a house that was a little small but it had four rooms that were sized decently for three young adults and one adolescent, so they got it.
The bathroom was upstairs and was to the left when you came up the stairs. T's room was straight ahead of you when you came up the stairs. And to the right of her room, in this order, were Shenzi's room, Banzai's room, and Ed's room.
Downstairs there was a living room, and beside that a kitchen. Under the staircase, there was a closet everybody kept their coats, umbrellas, jackets, etc. in. They also had a porch that was like Simba and Nala's, but without the patio furniture. The two houses were about two blocks from each other.
T sighed as she looked at herself in a mirror in her room.
"I look like a freak." she said.
Ed said something in his gibberish language as he shook his head. T smiled at him.
"Thanks Ed, but I know you're just sayin' that I don't 'cause your my best friend." she said. Suddenly, the two heard a noise downstairs. They looked at each other confusedly then ran out of T's room and down the stairs to the living room.
"Guys, what the heck's goin' on here?!" T said.
"We're just puttin' in a TV." Banzai answered, he and Shenzi were holding a television set.
"But it ain't goin' very well." Shenzi said annoyedly, looking at Banzai.
"Wow. Bigscreen." Ed said in gibberish. But T was not happy.
"What the heck are you guys doin'?! Aiding the enemy?! First it's a television set, then the next thing ya know, we're all drivin' cars and gettin' jobs!" T said.
"Actually, ta pay for the house, and this little baby, " Shenzi said, looking at the TV,
"I got a job at some clothes shoppin' mall." she said.
"While you two sit on ya tails all day." she finished, looking at Banzai and Ed annoyedly. T's eyes were wide, but then she crooked an eybrow at her friends.
"I don't even know you three anymore." she said. Then she got a look on her face like she just realized something, and pulled back her jacket and glanced down at her rear. Shenzi let Banzai handle the TV, which he started struggling to hold when she let go, and went to her.
"What are you doin'?" Shenzi said to T.
"I was just checkin' to see if I still have my tail, and that you're human life-style hasn't rubbed off on me." T replied, still looking down. Sure enough, she could see her tail sticking out of the back of her jeans, between the two back pockets.
The trio couldn't help but check to see if they still had their tails too, they looked relieved when they saw that they did.
Ed babbled something in gibberish. To his three friends it sounded like: "Think we still have our teeth?" T opened her mouth then pressed her index finger against one of her front teeth. Sure enough, she felt a sharp edge and when she looked at her finger again, she could see a small dot of blood forming.
Shenzi, Banzai and Ed looked in a mirror and opened their mouths, they could see they still had their sharp teeth right where they were supposed to be. The trio grinned at their reflections.
Banzai finally sat the TV down on a table against the wall of the living room. Then everybody heard static on the TV for a minute, then a weather broadcast appeared on the screen.
"Yeah! We got it!" Banzai said. Ed laughed happily. But then T got annoyed again.
"And I'm guessin' you three'll be sleepin' in beds tonight, right?" she said.
"Is that a crime in your book?" Shenzi said to her.
"Well you three can smother yourselves underneath all those blanket as much as ya wanna. I, am going to sleep outside tonight like the hyena I am!" T said, and she walked out of the living room, then peeked her head in again once more.
"Without sheets or blankets!" she finished, then left again. Shenzi glanced at the TV.
"It's supposed to rain tonight!" she yelled to her. Her response was a door slamming.
Thunder clapped as the rain poured down that night. T shivered as she struggled to fall asleep, and pulled her sweatshirt tighter against her, her teeth chattering. She heard thunder again and the wind started to blow. T tried her best to stay warm on the cold, wet grass beneath her.
Suddenly, she heard three pairs of footsteps heading in her direction, but she kept her eyes shut. Then she felt herself being lifted off the ground, she already knew who was doing it, and she didn't try to stop them. She could tell she was soaked through, because upon being lifted off the ground, her clothes seemed to weigh her down.
After feeling herself being carried a few feet, she heard a door opening then felt herself being carried more, then heard a door shut. Then she could tell the three were carrying her up the stairs. After being carried a few more feet, she felt her back against a soft, dry blanket, and her head rest on a warm pillow. Then she felt two pairs of hands let go of her arms, then heard two pairs of footsteps walk away then close the door behind them.
The third person, who had carried both her legs, stayed behind. Then T felt her shoes being pulled off, then her sweatshirt, then her wet bangs were moved from out of her eyes. Then T felt another blanket being pulled up to her chin. And the last thing she heard, was a door opening and closing again, before she went into a deep sleep.
The next day...
T woke up the next morning in what she guessed was her bed, that was in what she guessed was her room. Her clothes were still a little wet, but she ignored it and pulled the bedsheets off herself. She hated herself for finding comfort in a human object, but she was so tired last night and her friends probably wouldn't let her go back out anyway, so she pushed the thought out of her mind.
She changed out of her wet clothes and went downstairs. A strange but delicious aroma tickled her nose. She realized it was coming from the kitchen. She walked in to see Ed sitting at the table and Banzai trying to fix breakfast. T saw that Banzai wasn't wearing his jacket, then saw it hanging on a chair at the end of the table. She figured he took it off for safety reasons.
"Where's Shenzi?" T asked the two males as she sat down across from Ed.
"Whoa!" Banzai said as he jumped back when a huge flame came up from the stove and almost caught him on fire, but then he just slid something out of a pan and onto a plate, then turn the stove off.
"Work." he answered. Then put a plate with eggs and bacon on it in front of T, but she didn't really want to eat human food. Then she heard Ed whimpering and looked up at him, she could see him staring at her plate.
"You have it, Ed." she said, pushing the plate towards him. Ed got a happy expression on his face and gobbled up everything on it.
"Hey, I said your plate was comin' up next! Hers was first 'cause she's gotta get goin'!" Banzai yelled at Ed.
"Goin' where?" T said, resting her head on her hand with her right elbow on the table.
"Shenzi said ta make ya go to school again." Banzai answered.
"School? Banzai I'd be old enough to be in college if I was a real human." T said.
"Hey, isn't that where kingy and queeny are goin' to?" Ed said in gibberish.
"What?" T said.
"Oh yeah." Banzai said.
"Why?" T asked him.
"Eh, queeny thought it'd be fun an' she made kingy go with 'er." Banzai replied, then laughed a little.
"Guess that shows who wears the pants in that relationship." he finished, then laughed again.
"First of all, Nala wears a skirt. Second of all, why do I gotta go back ta school anyway?" T said.
"Hey, I don't make the rules. I just follow the ones Shenzi makes." Banzai answered.
"Now eat up." he said, shoving a plate with eggs and bacon in front of her. T didn't want to, but the scent of meat proved to be too much for her. And she figured since Banzai cooked it there wasn't anything wrong with it. T sighed and took a fork in one hand and started eating.
"Since when do you cook?" T asked Banzai as he took his black jacket off the chair it was hanging on and pulled it on himself.
"Since me an' Ed found out Shenzi couldn't when she tried ta fix dinner last night." he answered. Ed laughed.
"Alright you maggots, listen up!" came a strict male teacher's voice.
"Today, we will be performing excersises that will test your strength, speed and agility." he continued, walking in front of a line-up of kids and looking at a clipboard in his hand. All the students had their gym uniforms on, which were white shirts and purple shorts. T found it confusing that they had to change clothes before a class, but figured it was just humans being stupid, as usual.
T got an annoyed look on her face as the gym teacher continued to yell.
"What's this class called again?" she whispered to Erin and Alyssa.
"Gym." they whispered. Then the three girls cringed when the gym teacher blew his whistle.
"Alright people, we're going to start off today's class by runnin' 15 laps!" he said. Then the whole class groaned. T, with her newfound human knowledge letting her know what a lap was, looked skeptical.
"That's it?" she said, a little too loud. The gym teacher got a little angry and walked up to her.
"And who, are you?" he said.
"Tiana." T answered, she may have used her nickname with Erin and Alyssa but she used her fake name with every other human.
"Well then Miss Tiana..." the gym teacher began quietly.
"YOU JUST EARNED YOURSELF FIVE EXTRA LAPS!!" he yelled.
"Whatever." T said. The class, including Erin and Alyssa, gasped. The gym teacher got more angry and got in T's face.
"You just earned yourself five more laps." he said.
"Fine." said T.
"Well, if you think it's so fine...THEN YOU CAN BE THE ONE TA START US OFF!" the coach yelled at her, so loud her fur shifted under his voice. T meerly glared at him, then got in a starting position at the starting/finish line.
The gym teacher blew his whistle again, and T was up in a flash. Everybody, including the gym teacher, couldn't believe their eyes; T's speed had to be at least 3 times that of a regular human. And after finishing 25 laps in 2 minutes, T stopped at the finish line, not looking the least bit tired.
"That it?" she said.
Later that day...
"I still can't believe how fast you were going!" Alyssa said as the three girls walked on the sidewalk after school.
"Were you some kind of trackstar back at your old school?" Erin asked her.
"Old school?" T said.
"And I still can't believe the gym teacher begged you to join the track team the whole time during class." Alyssa continued.
"That's the first time I've seen him beg to anybody." Erin said.
"First of all, I'm 19 so it's not a very fair advantage anyway." T began.
"Sure T, you're 19." Erin said sarcastically, though smirking, Alyssa smirking too.
"Second of all-" T said just a little louder, ignoring Erin's comment.
"That's nothin' compared to what my friends can do." she finished.
"Then I'd like to meet your friends." Alyssa said, laughing a bit.
"They're right over there." T said, pointing up the sidewalk. Erin and Alyssa looked up and saw Shenzi and Banzai walking in their direction.
"Hey guys!" T said, waving her arm. Shenzi and Banzai looked up and saw them.
"Oh hey T." Shenzi said.
"What happened to your job?" T asked her.
"Turns out they were just showin' me around. The actual job doesn't start 'till tomorrow." Shenzi answered. Alyssa cleared her throat, trying to get T's attention.
"Oh yeah." T said.
"Uh, Shenzi, Banzai." T started.
"Erin and Alyssa." she said turning towards the two girls.
"Erin and Alyssa." she said again.
"Shenzi and Banzai." T finished, waving her hand in their direction. Alyssa smiled but Shenzi and Banzai looked confused though; didn't T hate humans? Erin looked a little scared though. She remembered how she felt when she first saw T, but with these two, it was much, much worse.
Then T saw Simba and Nala walking in their direction.
"I didn't know you were bringing them along with you." she said.
"What?" Shenzi and Banzai said, turning around.
"What're you two doin' here?" Shenzi said when she saw them. Simba and Nala looked up at her.
"Well, I was just coming to pick T up after a job interview I had today after college." Nala replied.
"Ya don't say?" Shenzi said.
"But we see you two have that taken care of." Simba said. Erin and Alyssa gave T confused looks, T saw this.
"Simba and Nala." T said.
"Oh." Erin and Alyssa said. Simba and Nala walked up to Shenzi and Banzai.
"Where's Ed?" they asked them. Shenzi and Banzai's eyes widened. Then the two started looking around, then they faced each other.
"I thought you were watchin' 'im!" they said to each other at the same time.
"Oh boy." Shenzi and Banzai said. Then both quickly ran back the way they came to find Ed.
"Well it looks like we are the ones picking you up from school today." Nala said, then saw Erin and Alyssa.
"Who're these two?" she asked.
"Erin." T said, waving her hand at Erin.
"And Alyssa." T finished, waving her hand at Alyssa.
"Hi." Erin and Alyssa said to them. Erin didn't feel scared when she was around these two. She certainly prefered them over Shenzi and Banzai.
"Hello." Simba and Nala said, politely but just a hint of confusion as well. Both cocked their eyebrows at T, but then everybody heard insane laughter coming from around a corner.
Everybody looked down the street to see Ed coming out from behind a bush.
"Looks like we found 'im for Shenzi and Banzai.." T said. Alyssa giggled, she liked Ed's laugh.
"Who's that?" she asked T.
"That's Ed." T answered.
"Hey Ed, over here!" T said, waving her hand. Ed looked over and saw them, then just walked up to them with his goofy expression. T looked up at Simba and Nala.
"You two can go on home, I'll be fine going myself." T said to them.
"You sure?" they asked her.
"Yeah." T answered.
"Well alright." the two said, turning around and waving while they walked back down the street. T talked to Erin and Alyssa while Ed was still coming up to them, she wanted to ask the two something.
"Say uh, that thing I did yesterday, when I said my parents were dead without meaning to, what was that?" T asked them. Alyssa laughed a bit.
"It's called thinking out loud. Erin does it all the time." she replied. Then Ed came up to the three girls, and laughed again. Alyssa giggled a little more.
"He's funny isn't he Erin?" Alyssa said. Erin didn't say anthing thing though.
"Erin?" Alyssa said.
"Huh?!" Erin said, snapping out of it.
"I said 'he's funny isn't he?' " Alyssa said again.
"It's kind of 'is thing." T said. Ed laughed a little more. Erin looked away.
"Well, guess I'll see ya guys later." T said as she and Ed walked towards their house.
"Okay." Alyssa said, then she and Erin started to walk to their block.
"I like Shenzi and Banzai." Alyssa said.
"I prefer Simba and Nala." Erin said.
"Oh I like them too." Alyssa said, then paused for a minute.
"Say Erin?"
"Yeah?"
"What do you think of Ed?" Erin was quiet for a minute, then got a dreamy sort of look in her eyes.
"He's cute." Erin answered without meaning to. Alyssa laughed a bit.
"You're thinking out loud again, Erin." she said. Erin began to blush.
"Oops." she said.
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