Me: Sorry guys I have work to do no chapters

Also me: procrastinating and stressed like hell so here's another chapter

This chapter is HUGE progress for a certain pairing and I'm excited to write! Enjoy

Mulan attended training every morning, early on the pitch and jogging circles around the guys. She had a gym membership now and often went with Hercules who was still great company and personal trainer.

She jogged along with them, even overtaking Yao and Chen Po, and Hercules spotted Shang raising his eyebrows, pretty impressed with her. No one made any comments that time and she was ignored as opposed to ridiculed and when they finished she headed back to the changing rooms with Hercules,

"Hercules!" Shang jogged over, carrying a ball in his arm, "good work today"

"Thanks Shang" Hercules said, "Ah there's Meg, see ya later" he jogged off to his girlfriend leaving Mulan alone with him, as Gaston and the rest of them slow walked behind them

"Good work" he said automatically, "you've improved, have you been practising over Christmas?"

"A bit" she said smugly, "Hercules has been helping me"

Shang nodded with a considerate face, "Good guy, Hercules" he said, "Good guy"

"He's the best, really good at soccer too"

Shang's face twisted into a kind of jealous frown and Mulan was sickeningly glad about it,

"We have a game at the end of the year" he said, "You could definitely be a major attribute to the team. Keep it up"

Shang nodded curtly and Mulan smiled and he slowed to walk with the other guys,

"Shang why are you talking to her?" Lyle scoffed,

"She's a teamplayer" Shang said, "And a good one too"

"Why don't you just marry her" Ling teased,

"Oh grow up" Shang cried, fast walking away from everyone. Leaving Mulan smug, and the guys part in shock of her new talent and part laughing at Shang still.

Since Tiana had agreed to take Pocahontas' place in the school play, she had spent the weekend leaning over the counter on her break learning Kelsey's lines. Admittedly she was quite happy as it was a small role, there were no sequences to learn and Kelsey's personality was pretty shy; plus she liked the caps she was going to wear. So she learned most of the lines and showed up to rehearsals second free period where Clopin and Crab greeted her happily. Pocahontas had obviously told them they had swapped and they were absolutely fine with the decision, so they briefed her on the dress rehearsals starting soon and the Easter show for the staff leading to the final show for the entire school at the end of the year. The cast were all friendly classmates, apart from Vanessa who Tiana couldn't quite stand the sight of, and today was a very special day as Clopin and Crab were starting work on the singing and dancing sequences.

"As promised, we're starting the sequences' Clopin announced, "I of course am working on the choreography and Mr Crab here is working on vocals"

"We've made the decision to start with the Ryan and Sharpay song, it's quick, easy and fun"

Esmeralda fidgeted in her seat excitedly, "Which one?"

"'What I've Been Looking For'"

"Yes!" she said, and her and Naveen jumped onto stage,

By this point in production a stage crew had been gathered and were backstage working on lighting and sets, not that the sets were overly dramatic. The main was of course was the tree and the big moon which was ready to be painted. As for music, the school band were briefed and practising in seperate hours.

Naveen and Esmeralda stood up front, and began working through the song and dance for about fifteen minutes, however, Clopin was most unimpressed,

"No no no!" he cried theoretically "where is the movement?"

"What?" Naveen asked, "I'm a good dancer!"

"There needs to be more involvement, teamwork, you're both focusing too heavily on your feet not on each other"

He paced and tapped his temple, "Hmmm"

"Sir?" Esmeralda asked, "We can try again"

"I have a better idea" he clapped loudly and turned to the cast, "everyone find a dance partner"

As predicted, Vanessa and Eric paired up, Phoebus and Esmeralda paired up, Aurora partnered with Tiana and Naveen took Ariel by the hand with a friendly smile,

"No no" Clopin said again "same partners as always, you all need to get to know each other this is ridiculous! Right..."

Everyone sighed. If there was any thing students hated hearing, it was that a teacher was choosing their partners.

"Eric and Ariel" he said, "Vanessa and Esmeralda,"

The four paired up, Clopin considered again

"Naveen and Tiana, Phoebus and Aurora"

Tiana winced and headed for Naveen who's friendly smile with Ariel dropped and his eyebrows raised at Tiana,

"Ah," he said "dancing!"

Tiana fumbled awkwardly with her fingers,

"We'll start with something simple" Crab suggested, "good idea?"

Crab muttered and Clopin's face lit up,

"Yes yes a quick waltz, nothing too romantic and then we'll go with some tap!"

"A waltz?" Esmeralda complained, taking Vanessa's hand awkwardly and the two came together,

Phoebus and Aurora joined too, it wasn't entirely awkward, they had been friends since elementary school anyway but Phoebus also felt awkward putting his hand on her waist, it didn't feel right.

Eric and Ariel came together, but Ariel held his hand loosely as Vanessa cut her a killer look,

"Ever danced?" he asked politely,

"Only with my dad" she admitted with a blush, "he used to stand me on his toes and waltz around the family room, but with six sisters you have to take it in turns"

Eric chuckled, "Oh right yeah, forgot you were a Triton sister"

"Arista and Andrina are in your year" Ariel said tryingly,

"Yeah I know, I don't know them all too well though" he shrugged,

"Right right, let's start- the thing with the waltz is it's all about listening to your partner"

"Tiana, you know... to waltz you have to take my hands" Naveen told her,

"I know, I know" she said awkwardly, taking his hands and stepping in

"Shall we start then?" he asked,

Tiana looked down and her hands loosened, backing away somewhat as Aurora and Phoebus began dancing beside them,

"I-" Tiana stepped backwards a little and folded her arms, now surrounded by their classmates dancing to the music Clopin had put on

"I can't dance" she shrugged, "I've never danced"

Naveen tilted his head and frowned, he took her hands hesitantly, "we'll start slow"

And indeed they did. The two began slow, slower than everyone and Naveen felt his uncle Clopin giving him an odd look but with a deep sigh, he sped up somewhat and his footwork increased. He was after all, a very good dancer and Tiana was a natural too. She kept up and her form was tight, her feet were almost perfect despite the stepping on his toe twice in the beginning.

When they had finished with a spin, Tiana backed away rather hot now,

"Well.." she said slowly, "thank you"

Naveen mimicked a bow and Tiana giggled,

"You're light on your feet" she commented "Sorry I was pretty heavy on yours"

Naveen laughed a lot at that, "You are secretly funny" he commented

"See" Clopin said, flipping the music off, "it feels a lot better when you can feel and listen to one another!"

Everyone nodded, in genuine agreement

"Now, next lesson Vanessa and Eric are going to be working on vocals with me and Esmeralda and Naveen you'll be doing some choreography with Clopin; the rest of you work on lines and stage direction with Miss Radcliffe"

"The english teacher?" Vanessa spat, "stage direction?"

"And body language" Crab said, "she may be an english teacher but she's trained in both... ever wondered why she's so graceful?"

Vanessa folded her arms in reply and Ariel rolled her eyes. So did Tiana, who prayed that Vanessa would break a leg... not in theatre terms.

The majority of the soccer team sat around the cafeteria table, Lyle and Kokoum were tossing a soccer ball between each other and the others were scoffing into food. Anna perched awkwardly on the edge besides Hans and Kronk listened to Gaston and Le Fou discuss whether they preferred Kylie Jenner blonde or brunette,

At that moment, Naveen walked past and of course his rich and party animal status caught him attention from the jocks,

"Naveen!" Gaston called, "Pull up a chair!"

"Ah, I'm afraid not today" he said, backing away "I... I er have to go see Clopin about something"

"The play?" Gaston said with a raised eyebrow,

"Yes" Naveen said proudly, he did expect some teasing for having taken up role in the play but since his party the guys hadn't been rude about it at all, particularly since Phoebus and Esmeralda were participating too

"Cool" Gaston said bleakly, "We'll be there opening night"

"You will?" Naveen was shocked at how much he was sucking up, all because of a big house and one party

"Sure" Gaston nodded,

"Oh great!" Kronk said enthusiastically "I love musicals!"

Naveen chuckled, getting to know Kronk in cooking class and other lessons he had really discovered that he had a liking for him and his rather stereotypically feminine hobbies. Even if he was a massive guy on the soccer team.

"Anyway guys I'm gonna get going-" he said, heading off but he was soon thumped on the shoulder and he turned to see Kronk grinning stupidlly at him

"Kronk, what's up?" he asked,

"Naveen, I was wondering if I could have some advice?"

Naveen rubbed the back of his neck somewhat worried, "Sure, fire away"

"Prom's coming up, this summer and... and there's this girl I want to ask"

"Oh that's great Kronk, you should do it, ask her!"

Kronk sighed, "I'm not really sure how to ask her"

Naveen's smile faltered, "Ah I see, nerve issues"

Kronk smiled sadly, "So will you help me?"

"Of course, you see Kronk the thing with ladies is..." Naveen stopped and thought for a moment about prom, who was he going to ask?

"Is?" Kronk asked,

Naveen faltered. Is? Is be smooth? Buy a bunch of roses? Use a few pick up lines? Offer them a ride in the limo? He thought of Tiana, how none of those things would impress her.

"You have to be honest" he admitted, "tell them why you're asking, why you like them"

"Even if it means I'm nervous?" Kronk asked puzzled,

"If you're nervous it just proves you care" Naveen shrugged

"Wow Naveen" Kronk said, "You're right, I'll be honest!"

"Good luck with your girl" Naveen said,

"What about you?" Kronk asked with big eyes like a puppy, "Who are you going to ask to prom?"

"Me?" Naveen cried,

Kronk nodded keenly,

"If I tell you... that is- you can't tell any body" he said quieter,

"Of course not" Kronk agreed, "It's safe with me"

"I'm thinking about asking Tiana"

"No kidding!" Kronk said, "I always thought you'd go for someone like Aurora... you know, rich"

Naveen chuckled, "I guess Tiana's just-"

"-Your Evangeline, right?" Kronk finished

Naveen nodded, "Right"

"What does that even mean?" Kronk asked, "What's an evangeline?"

Naveen shook his head, "Nothing important, I guess- now you promise you won't tell?"

Kronk mimicked zipping up his lips and Naveen patted his shoulder, and headed off.

Flynn headed out of school early, he really couldn't be bothered for science anyway and Phoebus' new oath to attend all lessons was really getting on his nerves, who else would he skip school with? Not Esmeralda or Pocahontas (who had gone and given her number to that fancy British guy from Naveen's party and now Esmeralda was calling her 'Mrs Bond') or even Aladdin who was going crazy planning a second date with Jasmine. In short, he was finding his friends pretty boring at the moment.

He headed out the front of the building, he had been hiding out in the common room and waited ten minutes into lesson to skip out. It was only as he passed the main corridor did he spot Rapunzel, wearing a very cute floral dress and cable knit tights, a huge woollen scarf wrapped around her neck and a cream bobble hat on her head.

"Rapunzel!" he called out, before he realised he had done it

"Oh, hey Flynn" she grinned, closing her locker

"Cold by any chance?" he laughed, pulling her hat off to reveal her red cold ears

She giggled, "Just a bit" she unwrapped her scarf and took her mittens off too,

"My mum likes to keep me wrapped up" she explained, "Otherwise I could get the flu or hypothermia or even a cold"

Flynn mimicked heart ache and his voice went higher, "A cold!" he cried, "God forbid you get a cold!"

Rapunzel laughed, "Yeah I guess she is a little over the top"

"It's sweet she cares" Flynn said, "God knows I haven't worn a proper coat in years"

Rapunzel frowned, "Well why not?"

"I just... my mum never got one"

Her big green eyes grew sad, "That's a shame"

"I know" he shrugged, "but what can you do?"

"Get a job?" she suggested

Flynn grimaced, "I'll think about that one"

"So aren't you going to your lesson? I'm running so late I had to get all these books"

Flynn hesitated, "I'm kinda skipping my last period"

Rapunzel gasped, "But... you can't do that!"

"You shouldn't do that" he corrected her,

She still stood, shocked "Oh Flynn, that's not good"

"Come on" he said, "you're telling me that there's some days you're tired? You want to go early? You want to just not go to Math?"

She considered, "I guess"

"See!" he said, "it's not all bad- anyway see you later" and he headed towards the door,

"Wait, Flynn!" she headed towards him, pulling her bobble hat back on "I'm coming with you!"

"Are you crazy?" he cried, "I can ditch, you can't!"

"Why not?" she asked, pouting

"Be-because you're good and your mum will be angry and-"

"-And I'm tired, and I want to go early and I really don't want to go to math!" she repeated

He stood staring. She had used his argument against him? Actually... he rather appreciated her argument

"I can't be a bad influence" he said, "So if anyone asks you did this of your own accord"

She flipped her scarf around her neck, "Agreed!"

They headed down the road, Flynn felt more nervous than usual skipping. His mum had headed out on another road trip with her newest boyfriend as usual so he was planning to head home and flop out in bed, flip on a film from his array of DVD's and fall asleep blissfully to the background of Men in Black. The plan had changed, it wasn't like Rapunzel could go home early. Her mum was crazy by the sounds of it.

"So what do we do now?" she squealed, "Gosh this is so exciting!"

Her positivity worried him even more, she was definitely going to get them into trouble

"Oh well I usually go home but-"

"That's boring" she stated, "I'm at home all the time, let's do something I couldn't usually do!"

"Like what?" he asked, "Go to the mall?"

"I have no money" she sighed, "plus me and my mum went once and it was so boring all we did was look at clothes and then she made me eat a salad- of all the burgers! A salad!"

Flynn laughed, "OK OK let's just go watch a film"

"I've hardly seen any films" she frowned, "We watched 'Princess Diaries' at Jasmines that was good but mother doesn't let me watch many in case they're inappropriate"

"Alright" he took a deep breath, "we'll find something appropriate"

They headed a few blocks away and down a small drive, run down and dull. Flynn pulled keys from his inside pocket of the denim jacket and they headed inside a small bungalow. It was modest, blandly decorated and looked clean- to clean as if hardly lived in.

"It's not much" he said quickly, "but it's home"

"It's sweet" she said, "We live in Pegasus Apartments, top floor, Feels like I'm stuck in a tower"

"Must suck" he admitted, "Pegasus apartment though? That's pretty nice living, huh?"

"Oh it's nice" she said, "Mum runs an anti ageing cream company... but there's so little to do, so little company... it's not all that great"

Flynn headed over to the small cabinet holding an even smaller TV, he pulled open the doors and sat staring at the DVD's

"We don't have Netflix" he said, "but I've got every film you could think of... nearly"

"I told you" she said, plopping into the little grey sofa, "I don't watch films"

"Alright alright" he said, "I'll choose one"

He searched for a few moments, he had to get to the back to the kids films past all the Will Smith and Marvel films and found a small stash of kids films he had.

He picked one out, perfect for her and put it in, he turned and saw her pulling out a tiny little flip phone and dialling a number on the old keypad

"Who you calling?" he asked,

"My mum"

"Whoa! Don't tell her you're with me! Remember that day in the office she did not give me a friendly look!"

"Relax!" she assured, "Now be quiet!"

Flynn covered his mouth as Rapunzel greeted her mum on the line,

"Hello, Mother- Could I head over to Ariel's for a while after school to help her run lines for her play? She loves extra curricular"

"Oh wonderful- I'll be home soon- yes love you more- goodbye" and she hung up

"You talk to your mum like a robot" he laughed, "Why Ariel?"

"Mother's met her and trusts her,"

"I see, I suppose she wouldn't trust me?"

Rapunzel sighed, "Possibly not"

He shrugged, "I'm used to that- anyway let's watch this"

"What did you choose?"

"Thumbelina"

"Thumbelina?"

"Thumbelina! But could you imagine ze trouble for a little girl no bigger than your thumb?" The TV continued, and Rapunzel watched intently, swaying to each and every song. Flynn fell asleep 50 minutes in, his head in her lap and his mouth wide open. Rapunzel stroked at his hair, moving it away from his face and continued to watch her new favourite film. Then, when it was over she switched the TV set off. She pulled a post-it note from her school bag and a pen and scribbled a little note in her round, bubbly writing,

"The film was amazing, thank you so much for letting me come over. I hope you slept well see you tomorrow :) "