Stitch yawned and pounded his alarm clock off.
"That's the third one you've busted this week," said Lilo matter-of-factly from the doorway of her and Stitch's dome bedroom. "You're going to miss breakfast, and we're going to miss school. Come on."
Stitch obligingly rolled out of bed. He dug in his dresser and pulled out his gray khaki shorts and yellow Dave Navarro t-shirt. He put them on and then slipped into his clean, fresh white Nikes. He glanced in his mirror on the way out. Ah, good, he thought pompously.
Lilo combed back her waist-length straight black hair into two curled buns above her ears. She pulled down two strands from each bun to lay in the front, and used Nani's curling iron to give them a wave. Having achieved her desired results, she reached for the hair spray bottle and coated herself thoroughly. She then smoothed down the front of her shirt, tightened her belt, and straightened her zippered black leather boots. Lilo then walked out the bathroom, yelling for Stitch.
"Come on, I'm going to catch the bus, you're going to miss it."
"I'm coming!" yelled Stitch from upstairs.
He came cascading down the stairs and promptly tripped on his shoelace and fell. "Nice entrance," mused Lilo.
She ran into Jumba's room and yelled that they were off to school. Jumba flashed the okay sign over his shoulder groggily, and promptly returned to his snoring. Lilo clambered back out over all Jumba's equipment and experiments and returned to the kitchen.
"Come on, Stitch," she said, grabbing his hand. "I hear the bus." They ran outside to get on the bus. Lilo sought out a seat by Keoni, the extremely popular boy who was a year older than she was, but lucky for her, took an interest in her. Stitch sat across from them in an empty seat. However, it didn't remain empty for long. The next stop was Mertyle and her cronies'. Mertyle, who still liked to antagonize Lilo, sat by Stitch, squishing him up against the window.
"I may just get asthma and finally be able to sue you," he wheezed out. Mertyle laughed. "What a sweet sense of humor." She tried to coddle him, but soon a black haired, frenzied something was atop her, and in a flash of light, Mertyle was sitting on the bus floor with her hair a mess, and Lilo was next to Stitch, looking completely unruffled.
Stitch snickered.
Mertyle glared at them and slid into the seat with Keoni. Lilo glared at her but didn't move from her spot next to Stitch. Their day at school was fairly boring. Nothing happened... well, besides Lilo getting detention for smarting off to her really pratty music teacher, Mrs. Dawwe.
During lunch, Lilo went extra early to catch Stitch before he went to class. She handed him a note. He opened it to find, scrawled in Lilo's beautiful, curving handwriting: "Meet me at Jumba's place for birthday party planning. Keoni's coming." Stitch pocketed the note and walked on to class.
After the last bell rang, and Stitch rode the bus home,heran all the way to "Jumba's place"--- the little clearing in he and Lilo's woods where Jumba and Pleakley had landed their spaceship eight years ago-- and plunked himself and his bookbag down by a tree.
A few minutes later, Lilo and Keoni showed up. They sat down on the ground next to Stitch. Lilo pulled out a notebook and a pencil. "Now, let's get down to business," she said in a business-like manner. "What day are we having it?" She pointed the question at Stitch.
"Saturday, even though my birthday's the next Sunday," he said. "Some people can't make it on Sunday."
"Okay," said Lilo distractedly as she made a note on her paper. "What games are we going to play?" she asked, not looking up.
Stitch grinned. "Um... how about spin the bottle?" Lilo looked up, taken aback. Then she returned Stitch's evil grin.
"Okie-dokie," she said, sniggering. Keoni smiled slightly. "What else?" asked Lilo, scribbling hastily.
"Well," replied Stitch, "How about we have a bonfire, and no real planned games? Because I kind of wanted to have a sleepover, and we could do allot more games then."
Lilo smiled wickedly. "Yeah." In a slightly offhand voice, she added: "Keoni, you're invited."
"Okay, but what games are we going to be playing at the sleepover, Stitch?" Keoni asked.
Stitch thought for a moment. "How about we all make a list of five Stitch's Birthday Resolutions? That would be fun."
Lilo paused in her writing and looked sincerely thoughtful for a moment. "Good idea. Stitch's birthday resolutions... hmmmm...." She smiled widely all of a sudden. "I think I have an idea."