"Daddy I'm home!" Jasmine said dropping her expensive Coach purse on the thick loveseat by the door. She didn't hear a reply, he must be working. I knew I should've invited Mulan over, or even Belle. The first day of school had gone well, ditto for the second. But now the excitement was beginning to wear off and the routine of it all was getting boring. Jasmine was still unsure about this party tomorrow. Ariel was her oldest friend but she could sometimes get bad ideas. Mulan and Jasmine had become really close too. Both had parents who weren't born in the United States, both had extreme social and cultural pressures to do well in school, and both were very careful about Ariel's ideas.
Jasmine walked up the big marble stairs to her "bedroom". It was really more like a loft that took up half of the upstairs. Her house had four stories (not including the basement or the main level of course) and her "room" was on the top most one. It had a balcony and everything.
Jasmine took out her math book opened to the right page and started. She got almost half of it done before shutting the book and throwing her pencil on the ground. Then she picked up her phone.
"Mulan, are you busy?"
"Not at the moment I just got done with Geometry."
"Oh thank God, I'm soooo bored!" she whined to her friend, Mulan just sighed she was used to her friend being like this.
"What do you want me to do Jasmine?"
"Can you come over?" Jasmine asked excited. She knew the rules were no friends over until her homework was done, but she had finished half of her geometry, and done all of her biology in study hall! Besides she could always finish simplifying radicals in study hall tomorrow.
"Is your homework done?" Mulan asked. Crap, foiled again. Mulan got really picking with her dads rules. Most likely because she didn't like getting Jasmine in trouble.
"Well..."
"Jasmine don't even think about lying to me! Plus I can't go over to friends house's after 4:30 on school nights." Right Mulan had uber strict parents too. Honestly they made her dad look normal.
"Right, so we're all sleeping over at my house tomorrow right?" No one elses parents would let them go to a party, and Jasmine had already let her father know about it.
"Is Belle coming over too?" Mulan asked.
"Yep, I like her."
"Yeah, she seems nice. Anyway I have to go! Bye Jazz!" Jasmine sighed, now she didn't have any excuses for not doing her homework!
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"Belle, did I tell you how much I love your neighborhood?" Jasmine said the next morning as they were picking her up, Belle blushed.
"Yeah, I know it isn't much, we live in my grandmama's hold home-" She started to justify the old styled homes but Jasmine shook her head.
"It's just so cute! And all the older people who live around here seem so sweet!" Mulan shook her head.
"Don't mind Jasmine, she likes things out of the ordinary. She thinks your house is romantic." Belle laughed.
"Not really, it smells like old people, but my neighbors are really nice. They bring me cookies and I water their flowers and rake their leaves in the fall." She explained. "Most of them don't have people who visit them very often so I try and hang out with as many as I can."
"That's really sweet of you Belle! I know my grandma would have it out for us if we didn't visit her. Then again she lives with us so there really is no way we could." Mulan laughed. The girls were still a few blocks from school when Mulan called out.
"Belle look! There's Jane, the girl in book club I was telling you about? Her dad's an English teacher here. Jasmine slow down!" Jasmine sighed but did as she was told.
"Jane! It's me, Mulan! Need a ride?" Jane looked embarrassed, but she hopped in anyways.
"Wait I know you! You're in my Algebra II class!" Belle said and Jane smiled.
"Yes I am, you're the other Sophomore, right?" Jane said in a faint British accent. Belle nodded in reply. As Jasmine parked the car Mulan saw Rapunzel's mom's car pull into the parking lot.
"HEY 'ZEL!" She called out, using Rapunzel's nickname. Rapunzel hurried out to them.
"Hey guys! Have you seen Ariel yet? I need her art notes, I forgot I had a doctors appointment yesterday."
"Nope, she'll most likely show up last minute, as usual. I have to go to biology see you at lunch!" Jasmine headed off to English, Rapunzel behind her.
"You want to walk to Algebra together?" Belle asked Jane.
"Sure, I have a few questions on the homework from last night." Jane confessed as they
sat down.
"Here I think I can help..."
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"But Tia you have to go!" Lottie whined to her best friend during lunch. "Please, please, please, please, please, please, PUH-LEASE!" Tiana just shook her head.
"No can do I have to work-"
"But you work EVERY night! I'm sure whats-his-face will let you take one day off! Besides everyone is going to this party! It's at Giselle's house! I can't just show up there without you! Everyone else on the cheerleading team has boyfriends! Well except Giselle, she and Edward broke up, and she's probably going to end up wasted and I'll have to hold her hair back while she pukes! Do I LOOK like the friend that holds people's hair back? NO I DO NOT!" Tiana sighed. Lottie had been freaking out about this party all week. Tiana knew she wanted to make a good impression because she was upset that Giselle had come up with the idea and not her.
"Lottie I told you-" She started for the umpteenth time.
"And I'm telling you. You are going to that party tonight, if I have to kidnap you from work and drive you there in my trunk!" Tiana rolled her eyes.
"Fine I'll go, but I'm only staying until 9:30! You know I work the late night shifts at Rafiki's on the weekends!" Lottie just made another high pitched noise of excitement.
"YAY! YAY! YAY!" She hugged Tiana and bounced up and down in happiness.
"Lo-tt-ie let m-e go-o-o." Tiana said as her head bounced up and down with her.
"Sorry I'm just eee! See you tonight!" Lottie them scampered down the hallway flashing Tiana a big thumbs up, Tiana just chuckled. What had she gotten herself into now?
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"It's Friday, Friday gonna get down-"
"Flynn Rider I swear to God, if you sing another line of that song, I will come over there and rip your vocal chords out of your throat." Esmeralda growled.
"Well someone is a prissy princess this morning. What happened, stay up to late studying?" Flynn laughed at the sheer ridiculousness of the idea.
"What? I had to have a C+ grade point average if I'm going to stay on the dance team, no dance team no school!" Esmeralda groaned. "I hate school." and dropped her head on her desk.
"Alrighty class today we are going to go over Romeo and Juliet. Who did the assigned reading last night?" Mrs. Radcliffe asked the class. Tiana was the only one to raise her hand, Flynn and Esmeralda rolled their eyes at each other. Mrs. Radcliffe breathed deeply and rubbed her temples.
"Really people? It was the first ten pages! We did half of them in class!"
"Romeo and Juliet are crap. No offence or anything, but reading's dead. Why do we even have to read this old, girly, crap anyways?" A deep male voice said from the back of the classroom. There were sounds of sighs from three blonde girls who sat next to him.
"You have to learn to read so you can get a job, and graduate high school, and so you don't have to retake your freshman year of high school." Mrs. Radcliffe said back sweetly, but the overall meaning was clear. If you don't want to end up like Gaston, you have to read this play! Of course the underlying message was lost on Gaston.
This was why English was almost everyone's favorite class. Mr. Porter let you goof off in Sophomore year, Mrs. Radcliffe wasn't afraid to call you out when you needed it, but was very kind, she also taught a majority of the English electives, so many kids stayed on with her.
"Class is going to be dismissed for the assembly soon anyways, Tiana you get extra credit, everyone else better have those pages done by Monday, we'll be having a quiz over them!" Mrs. Radcliffe said sitting at her desk. Of course mainly the talk was about the party that night. Esmeralda called Tiana over.
"Hey Tiana right? Are you coming with Lottie to the party?" Tiana was confused. Esmeralda had never really talked to her before, unless she was giving Tiana her order.
"That's the plan. Why?"
"No reason, well no there is a reason. She's a lot less annoying when you're there. Anyways see you tonight!" The bell dismissing the students to go to the gym rang, and everyone rushed out. Most of them were ditching the assembly anyways. Esmeralda and Flynn met up with Aladdin and Phoebus by Flynn's car.
"Couldn't convince Pocahontas to skip?" Esmeralda asked.
"Nah, she has to give a speech. Something about her being team captain of the track team?" Aladdin replied. "Anyways, Flynn you're driving me to Giselle's house right?"
"Correct you are my friend, now lets get out of here!"
A/N: And thus ends chapter four! Sorry if you wanted to see them at the party you'll have to wait! As always any ideas are much appreciated! Tell me what you liked, disliked, want more of, ect! Thanks!
