Mulan's Friday had been eventful. As she left the school grounds Shang had caught up to her and harshly told her that she had made the team "miraculously" and that practice started Monday morning. He barely let her reply before strutting off. Mulan, despite having failed her audition and her cheer try out was less than happy. She didn't want to be on the team, she didn't even know how to play soccer properly. There was a guy or two on the team she didn't mind so much like Hercules but the rest were mean and misogynistic. Mulan moped at home most of the weekend and when she told her friends the news they were all way more excited than her. The group chat exploded with 'congratulations' and motivation but Mulan was so not enthusiastic. She also had to tell her parents who were so proud that she had joined some extra curricular but where disappointed when they found out it was soccer.

"Isn't that a boys sport?" her mother commented,

"They let you in? Is it really a girl's place?" her father asked

"Oh hush, I'm sure Mulan will be great" Mulan's gran defended her and the dog yapped happily.

"I don't know" Mulan admitted "I may not even be playing, they could just bench me"

"Well if that's the case it isn't even a proper club" her mother said negatively and Mulan felt herself growing more and more defensive.

"I need some trainers" she told them bitterly,

"I'll take you to get some, let's go down to the mall" her gran offered. Mulan and her gran left the house, her father and mother muttered to each other as they left and Mulan knew for a fact they'd have been happier if she were cast in the play or was a cheerleader. She knew they were disappointed, she was even disappointed in herself. It was like the school year was going from bad to worse.

Esmeralda and Pocahontas made sure that their costumes were complete and that they had the right make up and accessories sorted. Their parents knew they were off to a party and each girl promised to be safe. That morning Naveen had phoned Esmeralda and offered her and Pocahontas a place to stay that night, Esmeralda sceptically asked if Phoebus, Flynn and Al could join and Naveen was very happy to oblige. He seemed to pin himself to their group somewhat over the past few weeks. Esmeralda and Pocahontas were looking forward to staying in his big house, excitedly they packed their things as if they were off to a hotel. Flynn, Phoebus and Aladdin were more hesitant.

"Why do we have to stay? I have my own home thanks very much" Phoebus said down the phone. Aladdin took the phone from his friend, "He's going to think he can start hanging out with us!"

"Stop moaning" Esmeralda scolded them like a mother, "Phoebus pick us up, yeah?"

"Sure" Phoebus sighed "But be on time"

Esmeralda scoffed "Remember pyjamas" She hung up and threw her phone across the bed. "Pocahontas we are going to look so great tonight" she said, but Pocahontas didn't seem to be listening. She was sat staring at her phone screen with an annoyed expression.

"I have to ring John Smith, I completely forgot we were meant to go out tonight"

"No! Don't cancel! Just invite him!"

"To a high school party?" Pocahontas frowned,

"Come on, it's not like we'll be playing 'musical chairs' is it?"

Pocahontas considered this and then sighed, "I guess" She hesitantly began ringing his number, nibbling her nail nervously. It took five rings before he answered and his slick British accent greeted her, "Hi Pocahontas"

"Hey, I've got to talk to you about tonight" she said slowly, Esmeralda held up two encouraging thumbs up.

"What is it?" he asked

"I completely forgot I agreed to go to this party... I'm going to have to cancel"

Esmeralda frowned and the line was silent for a minute

"That's fine, we can do next week" he said happily. Esmeralda shook her head furiously, "Invite him!" she whispered frantically "Invite him!"

"Hey look you could come if you wanted" she said quickly.

"What's it going to be like?" John Smith asked,

"It's a costume party... there'll be alcohol, music. It's in Pegasus Park"

John Smith whistled lowly, "Pegasus Park? Swanky real estate. I guess I could come, I don't have a costume but- "

"Oh that doesn't matter!" she rushed, just excited he had agreed.

"I can pick you up then, yeah?"

"Yeah, how's eight sound?"

"Perfect" he said and then he said goodbye. Pocahontas hung up with a weight off her shoulders.

"I can't believe he's coming! I'm so excited to meet him!" Esmeralda grinned. Pocahontas grinned too, sure she was excited but she had a scary image in her head of him grimacing and thinking that she was some little kid.

Anna spent the afternoon researching exactly what went into fake snow. There were lots of blog posts and WikiHow's and it didn't take her long at all. She made some notes and then sent an awkward Facebook message to Kristoff.

"Hi Kristoff. I was thinking we could go to the mall today and buy some things for the science project as we're quite behind already. If you aren't busy, would that be OK? x"

He replied an hour later with one letter.

"K"

She wrote out another quick message and asked to meet him outside the mall at 4:00pm. Again he replied with one letter. "K"

Anna sighed and got dressed. She pulled on a dark blue skater dress and tights with her magenta boots and pink cardigan. She hadn't heard from Hans since she text him good morning, she guessed he was still sleeping. Her parents said goodbye to her and so did Elsa even though the two were speaking less and less.

When she got to the mall she lingered by the entrance watching everyone head in and out and she was reminded of when Hans left her waiting for twenty long minutes that time. If Kristoff was anything like his messages he'd probably be late and unapologetic. Anna was wrong though, at exactly 4:00pm sharp Kristoff approached her dressed rather neatly in jeans and a brown jumper with a beanie over his blonde hair.

"You're on time" she stated, not hiding her shock.

"Why wouldn't I be?" he asked. Anna just shrugged, she didn't really know what to say.

"Shall we buy some stuff then?" he asked

"Yes, yes!" Anna said with a smile. They spent a while in the mall, they purchased some baking soda and shaving cream and food colouring and decided to try out a few methods of making fake now to see the best way. They had a difficult time locating lavender oil and spent nearly forty minutes searching for it.

"I'm hungry" Kristoff complained.

"We just need one more thing" Anna said "Then we can get food"

"Let me just grab a hot dog"

"Oh fine! I can order some oil online... Amazon maybe"

"Great" Kristoff said flippantly "Let's go I wanna try out the new food court" Anna followed Kristoff out to the mall courtyard where sure enough there was a smell of hot dogs. She wasn't particularly hungry but figured she'd grab some food anyway. Kristoff went out the back entrance of the mall and Anna stared excitedly at the new ice rink that had been built surrounded by benches of food stalls and hot chocolate drinkers.

"An ice rink!" she giggled "I haven't been since I was a kid!" Kristoff watched as she rambled on about Elsa and ice skating on holiday and then the two headed over to the food stand to order some food. They then clambered onto a free bench and began eating. It was a tad awkward for Kristoff as all Anna did was babble and Kristoff mainly replied with one syllable words. They did talk a little about the project until Anna began to mindlessly narrate what she saw,

"Aw that baby is so sweet! He just fell, oh no! Oh... OK He's fine!" and "Haha that couple have the cutest dog! I love dogs! I'd love a dog!"

"I have a dog" Kristoff stated, more interested now "His name's Sven"

Anna stared, a little surprised he was conversing properly now.

"He's a big dope really, but he's harmless" he continued "do you have any pets?"

"No" Anna frowned "I'd love a dog, oh! Or a cat!"

"Dogs are better than cats! They're great company too, but maybe I'm bias. I'm an only child so I guess Sven acts as a sibling" he half laughed

"I'd hate to be an only child" Anna slurped on her lemonade, "Elsa and I are like best friends- at least we used to be"

"I've seen her in school, she looks a little scary"

"She isn't scary! She's just shy. She doesn't make friends easily"

"Stinker" Kristoff said "Are you opposites then?"

"I guess" Anna shrugged "I've always been more outgoing"

"So why aren't you like best friends anymore?" he asked, finishing up his fries.

"Oh... well- we kind of had an argument"

Kristoff blinked, clearly waiting for the rest of the story.

"She doesn't like my boyfriend" Anna admitted. Kristoff scoffed a little bit. "Right, who's your boyfriend?"

"Hans, he's a senior" Anna said proudly

"I know who you mean" Kristoff nodded "The guy with the smug smile- you been dating long?"

"Well no- but I know him very well"

Kristoff chuckled "Sure"

"What's that supposed to mean?" she asked defensively,

"Nothing. It's just you've been together like a month and you're acting like it's true love"

"It is true love!" Anna crossed her arms

"Right" Kristoff said rubbing his hands clean with a napkin "What's his surname?"

Anna paused for a split second trying to remember. "South" she finally answered.

"What's his favourite food?"

"Sandwiches"

"Foot size?"

"It doesn't matter" she retorted, wondering exactly what his foot size was.

"You barely know him" Kristoff stated "I bet he picks his nose"

"Excuse me, he's a gentleman!" Anna cried

"All guys do it" Kristoff shrugged and laughed. A few moments of silence pass as Anna calmed down, she threw the remainder of her hot dog away and Kristoff finished his drink.

"You wanna go ice skating?" he asked, looking over at the rink that was now emptying a bit.

Anna looked up hopefully "Do I!"

Jasmine, Ariel and Rapunzel decided between them that they just had to go to Naveen's party that Saturday. It wasn't like they'd be doing much else anyway. They worked around costume ideas and had to go for something simple considering that they had been asked so last minute, but costumes weren't their priority. Protective parents were. Rapunzel's mother would have locked her away if she knew her daughter was sneaking out to a party so the girls devised a plan to pretend Rapunzel was at a sleepover, even that came at a cost. Ariel was invited to Rapunzel's apartment on the top floor for lunch to make a good impression on Gothel. Ariel was appropriate since she was the best at performing and improvisation. She was polite and modest she talked mostly and purposely about her straight A's and how her father was strict and how she had never been interested in boys since she was more interested in her studies. At this, Gothel was highly impressed and deemed Ariel an appropriate friend and influence so she gave her daughter permission to sleep round at Ariel's house that night. Her mother walked her to Ariel's house, said hello to Ariel and then left.

As for Jasmine, she had half convinced half argued with her father to let her go to Ariel's that night mentioning that they were going to a small Halloween party with a handful of friends. It took about an hour and then another thirty minutes of sulking but eventually Sultan gave in to his daughter. Finally the three girls curled up in Ariel's basement on the sofas. 'Princess Diaries' was on the TV in the background while Jasmine and Ariel pulled out their makeup sets. The basement was where the Triton daughters usually hung out, they had spent years in this room arguing and giggling and pimping it out with colourful chairs, beanbags, sofas, a TV, a mini fridge and hiding alcohol from their father. Triton was away again, he truly hated leaving his daughters since he was so protective but Arista had sweetly convinced him they'd all be fine. He was back Sunday evening and claimed he 'wouldn't be away now for a while! I need to be with my girls."

Arista, Andrina and Adella joined Ariel, Jasmine and Rapunzel and the five girls sat, giggling and trying out all new lip glosses. Arista, Andrina and Adella had received their invites earlier and so had longer to figure out their outfits. Arista was going as a mermaid. She had bought a fancy dress, red, scaly tail and a clam bra. Ariel pointed out that she'd probably be really cold but Arista shrugged. Andrina had picked out a little black dress and was adding fangs and a cape to be a vampire and Adella drew a few stitches on her face with eyeliner and passed herself off as a zombie in the tightest black dress Ariel had ever seen. Jasmine didn't want to buy a huge costume, mainly because her father would see it and probably disapprove, so instead she wore her purple bandeau and matching harem pants. She wore a gold arm cuff and some body jewellery and was a Genie. Ariel's outfit was a lot more fun, she paired a black cropped turtle neck with some of Adella's old combat trousers and she stuck an old phone in her belt and was Kim Possible. Finally, Rapunzel dressed in one of Jasmine's old sparkly, pink dress with spaghetti straps and tulle skirt. Ariel headed upstairs and came back down with a plastic tiara and some toy fairy wings. With the props on, Rapunzel looked like a very cute pixie and by 7, all girls were ready complete with hair and makeup ready to party.

At around 7:30, Naveen strutted down the stairs of his lovely mansion ready in his Captain Jack Sparrow costume. He had set up speakers, a huge table for snacks and drinks and had opened the french doors to allow access to the garden that had been lined with fairy lights. He had locked up the rooms upstairs and left the bathroom open, he was rather suspicious and didn't want anything stolen from any bedrooms. As he reached the bottom of the staircase he checked himself in the mirror and answered the ringing door.

"Naveen!" Esmeralda grinned and gave him a quick, friendly hug "Nice costume, Jack Sparrow!"

"Captain Jack Sparrow" he corrected her, "You too! You look great!" Esmeralda gave a twirl and showed off her Wonder Woman costume, her bushy hair flew in the air behind her, "Thanks!" she grinned.

"Whoa you guys went all out!" Naveen said, looking at Phoebus and Flynn.

"It's a me, Mario!" Flynn said, head to toe in the Nintendo character, Mario's outfit complete with a fake moustache and hat.

"And me, Luigi!" Phoebus said, also dressed precisely like the character. They all laughed a bit before Naveen showed them to their rooms. Naveen gave Esmeralda a small guest room with a double bed for she and Pocahontas to share, Pocahontas hadn't arrived yet she was waiting to be picked up by John. The boys were given another guest room with two single beds.

"There's only two beds" Aladdin pointed out, blowing the feather from his turban out of his face.

"Two of you will have to share, I'm afraid" Naveen said awkwardly. They shrugged, "Thanks, man" Phoebus said throwing their stuff down all except Flynn who it appeared hadn't bothered bringing anything. From downstairs they could hear the door ring again and music started up.

"Let's go party" Flynn said in a Mario voice and the group of teenagers rushed downstairs.