Hey there guys! Oh my lord the feels in this chapter, just the feels.
BTW this chapter may be a bit longer than usual :)
Also I've started to put at the top of the chapters what day of the week it will be in the story.
Anyway I hope you lot enjoy this chapter.
~ Thursday ~
Ariel's eyes flickered open as she woke up. She groaned and rubbed her eyes. Ariel looked at the blinds and realised it was still dark outside. She rolled over, put on her glasses and looked at the time on her phone. It was 5:36. Yes enough time to dance before I need to get ready, thought Ariel as she sat up and stretched. She quietly climbed down the bunk bed, trying not to wake up her older sister Andrina. Andrina was only a year older than Ariel and was in her senior year of High school. Ariel looked at her older sister who was sleeping in a strange position. Even when she was asleep she was making people laugh. Andrina was the joker of the family. She hated people who couldn't take a joke. Her short sunny blonde hair was sticking up everywhere and she had drool running down her lip. Ariel giggled at her sister and went on to quickly change into some dancing clothes. She wore her purple leotard with a cropped white tank top over it and white stockings underneath. She had cut holes in the feet of her stockings so she could easily put her feet through them. Ariel put on her black slip on dance shoes, which helped her not to slip on the wooden floors and put her glasses on her shelf near her bed. She put her hair up into a bun on top of her head so her hair wouldn't be in the way. Ariel walked in to the en suite to put on her contacts. She hated them, they hurt her eyes but she needed to wear them for when dancing or she couldn't see what she was doing. Ariel moaned as she saw her face. Her skin was irritated, dry and she had dark circles under her eyes. Her cheek bones stuck out along with the rest of her bones. Her skin was pale and dry. Ariel made a face in the mirror in annoyance. She'd need to care for her skin later, right now she wanted to dance. She quietly walked out the other side of the en suite which was connected to her other sisters bedroom. In there were her other older sisters, Arista and Aquata. Aquata was 19 and Arista was 18. They had both left school but were still living with them, unlike the other older sisters. They had both separate sides of the room and were both almost completely different from each other. Aquata had long brown hair that was usually in a ponytail. She was tough, sporty and could easily get angry. She was currently in college studying to become a fitness instructor. Even though all the other sister could dance pretty well, especially Ariel, Aquata couldn't dance at all. Arista had pale blonde hair that was long and had a fringe cut over her left eye. She was a fun loving girl who loved music and was currently praying that she's get into one of the top music schools in the country. She was amazing at playing both the saxophone and the clarinet, she was a hoping to make a career out of those two instruments. Though both the sisters were like two sides of a coin, they both loved each other and there fights would always end because of that. Ariel walked out of the room and down the hall way. She quickly stepped down the stairs and down another hall into their own personal dance room. Ariel's father was a wealthy business man, but he always found time for his daughters. Their house was quite large and had everything they could need and want. Triton loved spoiling his daughters whenever he could. Not only did they have the dance room with its own ballet bars, mirrors and installed speakers, but also a music room where the girls could practise their instruments and singing. They also had a lap pool at the back of their house, which Ariel and Aquata used for when they weren't at their swimming clubs. Ariel walked into the large room and switched on the lights. She loved it in here. She could practise as much as she wanted, which some girls and guys at the dance company didn't get the opportunity to. Ariel plugged her phone into the system and decided to do a contemporary sort of warm up. Ariel put on her playlist of songs and the first one that came on was break free by Ariana Grande. Ariel smiled and put the phone down. She walked to the middle of the room and faced the large mirror which was covering the whole wall from bottom to top. Ariel began to roll her head around to warm up the joints in her neck, she then started to rotate her head around in the other direction. She then put her legs out and started to stretch her arm over her head to the other side of her body, stretching her whole side. She repeated this on the other side, stretching as far as she could. Then she grabbed her left leg and bent all the way down to it, as far as she could. Her nose touched her knee and then she moved to the other side. She then let go of her leg and just swung her head in the middle of her legs, stretching her whole back. She went into her splits and leg swings to continue to warm up her body. She continued to warm up her body and danced on her own for about an hour and by the end of it she was sweaty and rubbing herself with a towel. I need to practise my dance for the competition coming up soon, thought Ariel as she threw her towel on the ground. There was a dance large competition that would be taking place in early May and Ariel was so excited for it. First there were the heats that would be happening in in the local city, then there were the semi-finals that would be held in each state and finally the finals would be happening nationally and would be televised. It was huge and almost every dancer wanted to compete, it meant scholarships to some of the biggest ballet schools in the world. Ariel quickly ran over to her phone and put on the song in which she was dancing to for the heats. It was her edited version of 'pulls me under' by butterfly boucher. Ariel had to make it shorter for the time limit in the competition is three minutes at the most. She had cut the music off just before the third verse started, which ended perfectly. Ariel still needed to come up with some more choreography for the second verse and second chorus but so far the dance was already incredible. If only she believed that though. She started the music and quickly ran to her position. She started on the floor, sitting on her knees and looking at the floor. She slowly looked up as the music started. As the bass in the background started, she stood up slowly and began to dance. Her moves slow and graceful at first but as the chorus began her moves became faster and stronger. She spun and leaped. She moved with her emotions, her body telling the story instead of her mouth. Then all of a sudden her alarm went off on her phone, sounding ten times louder through the speakers. Ariel fell over as the noise scared her to death. It was her alarm to tell her to start getting ready for school. She laid in a mess on the floor but got up and quickly ran over to turn off the horrible noise. "Crap that scared me" She said to herself. Suddenly the door opened to reveal four sleepy faces. Her sisters looked unimpressed where as her father smiled happily at his youngest daughter. "Sorry, my alarm went off and I'm really sorry for waking you guys up" Andrina laughed but her two older sisters just yawned unhappily. "I thought it was someone dying but alrighty then" said Andrina as she left the room with the other sisters. Her father walked into the room with his night robe still on. "Sorry daddy for waking you" Her father just smiled. "It's alright Ariel, I needed to start getting ready for work anyway" He stared down at his youngest daughter and immediately thought of his wife, Athena. She had died when Ariel was only 6 years old. He had already noticed how Ariel didn't eat enough and how she was getting so thin, but didn't question it. He wanted to let her figure things on her own, which probably wasn't the wisest choice. Ariel looked up at her dad and noticed all the little crinkles in his skin. She smiled lovingly up at him. She really wanted to tell him everything, from how she never ate anything to how she was being bullied. She wanted to but never did. She felt like an idiot. Her father chuckled to himself at how perfect she was. "C'mon let's go upstairs and get ready" Ariel nodded in agreement, unplugged her phone and left the room with her dad.
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Ariel pulled on her small ankle high boots and stood up with a smile on her face. For once she wasn't going to be alone at lunch or have to face Aurora on her own. She quickly walked into the en suite to check her outfit one more time. She wore a dark navy knitted jumper over the top of a light purple button up shirt, black skinny jeans that were getting too big for her. I'll need to get a new pair soon she thought. She left her hair down, checked her braces and straightened her glasses. Her makeup covered everything it needed to and was looking pretty good. Ariel walked out of the bathroom pleases and grabbed her red satchel. She left the room and ran quickly down the stairs. She slid on the tiles into the kitchen and opened the fridge door as she stopped sliding. "Why the rush? I thought you hated school?" Asked Andrina as she ate a piece of jam toast. Ariel shrugged as she grabbed the apple and mango juice carton. Ariel opened the lid of the carton and started to drink out of it. It would be all she would drink for the morning. She never ate anything in the morning or lunch time. The only thing she would eat would be dinner when her family was watching, but even then she didn't finish all her food. Ariel almost spat out the juice as she looked at the clock. "Andrina were going to miss the bus!" Andrina looked at their wall clock and her expression said it all. Ariel but the carton on the bench and Andrina jumped down from the stool she was sitting on. They both ran out of the kitchen and towards the front door. "Bye daddy, Aquata and Arista!" They both yelled as they ran out the door. They didn't even bother to hear there reply. They both ran into the cold and down there street. They ran around the corner of their street and around another corner, then they both saw the bus stop. There was a large bus pulling into the stop as both girls stopped running. They puffed and all the students stared at them. "Late much?" Ariel noticed the accent and immediately knew who it was. She looked up to see the curly headed girl. "Hey Merida, ya.. very.. late.." Ariel wasn't as strong as she used to be. She didn't know that not eating would make her lose muscle. Ariel noticed her sister walk off to a bunch of her friends. Andrina was really popular, all her sisters had been in school. She felt sick just by thinking about it. Merida laughed as she straightened the black beanie that was on her head. Somehow it fitted over her mass of curls. She was wearing a long white shirt with a cigarette brand printed on it, an old bleached jean jacket and ripped black leggings with a pair of black doc martins. She looked as tough as usual. Ariel was still wondering how they had become friends. "C'mon we better line up then" They lined up together. "So hows life been?" asked Merida as she stepped up the first step of the bus. "Good actually, you?" Merida paid the bus driver and waited for Ariel to pay. "Not too bad, was that your sister who you were running with? Cause if so you look nothing alike" Ariel giggled at Merida's comment, she got that quite a lot about all her sisters. "Yeah she is my sister, her names Andrina. All my sisters and me look nothing alike, not really sure why though" Merida laughed as she made her way down the bus, looking for Jack and Hiccup who got on the bus before her, Ariel being not far behind her. Merida spotted Jack's white hair and walked towards him. They heard Hiccup and Jack arguing. "I swear I cut my lip by falling over while bitting my lip and hitting my jaw on the bench, that's how I cut it" Hiccup was rolling his eyes and shaking his head. Merida couldn't but smile as she saw his face. God he's handsom. "Sorry it just really doesn't look like that" Merida raised her eyebrow at the two. "What's going on?" Both heads turned around and Merida knew why Hiccup thought otherwise. Jack's bottom lip had a fresh cut on it with blood still stained on his lip. "Yeah I agree with Hiccup, that doesn't look like you bit your lip" "Well I did okay, I'm sorry it doesn't look like a perfect lip bite but I did" Jack ruffled his hair as he talked. He really didn't like lying to his friends, then again he wasn't really lying. He did fall and hit his jaw on the bench while bitting his lip. He just fell from Pitch pushing him over because Jack didn't move fast enough out of his way. Merida and Ariel sat in the two seats in front of Jack and Hiccup. "If it makes you feel better I did the same as well and bit my lip, only I was dancing and slipped on the floor. I hit my chin on a ballet bar" Ariel got all nervous when talking about dancing, she felt embarrassed by it. "Wait you can dance?" Asked Jack hoping to take the conversation away from him. Ariel nodded slowly and shyly smiled. "That's right you said something about that yesterday! What styles of dance?" Asked Merida excitedly. "Umm a few different styles. Ballet, a bit of hip hop and jazz, but mainly contemporary" Before Merida could say anything else Hiccup leaned over the seats right in front of Merida to block her off. "The reason she's so excited right now is because she can dance to, she just doesn't tell anyone" Ariel smiled excitedly. Someone else who could dance, thought Ariel. "Hiccup! That was so not cool" Jack sat there laughing at the two and added in. "I've seen her dance, she just doesn't know that either" Merida leaned over the seat and punched Jack in the shoulder and then Hiccup. The both said ow as she punched them and Ariel giggled at them all. "When on earth did you see me dance?! If you don't talk frosty I swear I'll shove your ass down to hell" Ariel giggled as she grabbed Merida's shoulder to pull her back down into her seat. "If you don't calm down, the whole bus will know you can dance" Merida groaned in annoyance. "Fine, but talk, now Jack" Jack Laughed as he remembered what happened. "We were at a party, you were drunk and you just started dancing out of nowhere. You didn't dance like you were drunk, you danced really well and it was freaking awesome" Jack left out the part as to where she also took her shirt off and only had on her bra underneath. He also left out the part that she threw up everywhere and he had to take her home, luckily she didn't remember that. "God I don't remember any of this" Merida scratched her head as she tried to remember what had happened. "So what style do you dance?" asked Ariel with a huge grin on her face. "Hip hop, bit freestyle but that's all. I'm self-taught though" Ariel sat there talking with Merida and Hiccup while Jack zoned out completely. He pulled up his hoodie and stared at the other students on the bus. His eyes landed on a girl whose hair was a white as his. She was sitting right in front of Astrid and Ruffnut who were fiddling with her hair and making fun of it. She sat there staring at the chair in in front of her and ignored them. She had on blue headphones and was tapping her hand on her leg to the beat of the music while mouthing the lyrics to the song she was listening to. Jack half smiled as he decided to do the same as her. He took out his earphones and swiped though the songs on his tiny phone. It was a cheap phone he bought from the money he saved up from work. He landed on one of his most favourite songs. It was 'King for a day' by pierce the veil ft. Kellin Quinn. He pressed play and started to mouth the lyrics to the song as the bus drove further and further towards school.
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Rapunzel waved goodbye to her mom at the art room and started to walk towards her locker. She felt way better knowing a lot more about her mom then she did before, it made her trust her more even. She got to her locker and heard a familiar voices. She turned to see Ariel, Merida, Hiccup and Jack walking in her direction. She closed her locker and walked over to them. "Hey guys! How.." Her voice trailed off as she saw Jack's lip. "Jack what happened!" Rapunzel ran over to him and went to touch it with worry in her voice. She was so worried last night when they dropped him off that he would get hurt. Jack grabbed her hand before she could touch it. "It's fine. I slipped and hit my jaw on the kitchen bench while bitting my lip. I was just being clumsy" Jack shrugged and let go of her hand. Rapunzel didn't think slipping would cause that cut but she just went along with it. "Okay if you're sure" "I'm sure. Anyway how is everyone" Everyone answered with good except for Merida who was on her phone. "What are you looking at?" asked Hiccup as he leaned over to have a look but Merida turned off her phone before he could see. "Stuff and I'm also good" Hiccup was curious as to what she was looking at but didn't ask. "Hey people" everyone turned around to see Jim standing there. "Hey Jim" said Ariel a little too excitedly. She blushed as Merida and Rapunzel stared at her with a smirk. "Hey Ariel, how are you?" Jim eyes seemed to lift as he looked at Ariel. Ariel shrugged her tiny shoulders. "Pretty good, you?" "Yeah I'm good" Merida looked at Rapunzel and winked. Rapunzel winked back. They were onto something here. Then suddenly the bell went and the commotion in the hall started. "Better get to class, what do you have Rapunzel?" Asked Jack hoping they would be in the same class. "I've got health up first, I haven't done it before but it sounds boring. What about you?" Jack smile widened. "C'mon blondie we have the same class, it's over this way" Rapunzel bit her lip to try and hide the huge grin on her face. "Okay bye guys!" She waved towards her new friends and walked side by side with Jack. "I have Industrial tech shit, I'll see you at lunch then guys" said Jim as he started to walk off. "I have English I think, see you later" said Ariel as both her and Jim split off in opposite directions. Merida looked though her books, trying to figure out what she had next. Hiccup's curiosity took over. At that moment he quickly stuck his hand in Merida's pocket and grabbed her phone. "Hiccup! Give me it!" Merida swung her hands around trying to get it from him but Hiccup was too fast for her. Hiccup laughed as he watched her trying to get the device. He quickly turned it on and went into what she was looking at before. He stopped laughing as he got a look at what was on the screen. They were texts from different people with unknown numbers.
Unknown: Eww so fat, how can you even get out of bed in the morning? hahaha
Unknown: Stupid red head, you need to stop trying
Unknown: Such an ugly bitch
Unknown: What's wrong with your voice like omg
Unknown: Where's your fashion sense? Oh that's right in the trash along with your personality lol
Unknown: C'mon don't you get it? No one wants you so just do us all a favour and die
Merida bit her lip as Hiccup scrolled through the messages. "I didn't want you to see that" Hiccup wished he had knew what people were saying about her. God I'm so dumb why didn't I know about this, I could have helped her, and I could have done something thought Hiccup as he turned off her phone and handed it back to her. "Who's saying this shit to you?" Merida shrugged sadly. "I don't know, whoever these bitches are they don't deserve to be alive" Merida kicked the nearest locker in anger. Hiccup knew exactly who it was. Aurora and Snow, and whoever else they got to message her as well because he knew Belle and Cindy wouldn't do this. He got an idea and knew he couldn't wimp out of it. Hiccup grabbed Merida's hand and led her down the hall to some place. "Wait what are you doing?" Hiccup didn't answer he just kept walking and dragged Merida along with him. "Hiccup stop, where are you taking me?" He kept walking and stopped when he got to a janitors closet. He opened it up and dragged Merida in there with him. He locked the door behind him and turned on the light in there. "Hiccup what on earth are you doing? I understand if you want to skip class but what the hell" Hiccup put his finger on her lips to try and shut her up but she kept talking. "No seriously this is the most cliché hiding spot Hiccup what the fuck are you doing?" Hiccup put his whole hand on her mouth this time and he had a serious expression on his face. She stopped talking and Hiccup put his hand down. "Do you believe what those texts say?" Merida just stood there kind of shocked. "Do you?" Merida nodded slowly and looked down at her feet. She really did believe she was fat and ugly. She had always believed it and those texts made it true to her. Hiccup tilted her head up with his hand to make her look at him. "You aren't fat or ugly. You're beautiful. Your voice isn't weird it's fucking beautiful. You aren't a bitch in any shape or form. What those texts say are lies, they aren't true. It isn't true to me. You are the most beautiful girls in this school, I only wish you'd know that" Merida felt tears fall down her cheeks. She never wanted Hiccup to see her cry. She quickly wiped them away. "Merida your beautiful" Hiccup lent down and kissed her on the lips. Merida didn't know how or why but here she was crying and kissing Hiccup in the janitor's closet. Hiccup kept kissing her and she kept kissing back. She felt like what those texts had said to her didn't matter anymore. That nothing mattered. That there was nothing except her and Hiccup together. Hiccup stoped and smiled down at her. Merida blushed big time but smiled back up at him. "Will you go out with me?" Asked Hiccup as he kissed her on the forehead. Merida smiled and nodded. "Yes, yes Hiccup" Hiccup chuckled with her and immediately went back to kissing her. He pushed her against the wall and couldn't help to smile while he kissed her. God I love this girl he thought as he continued to kiss her.
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As soon as the teacher's eyes shut, the class started talking and laughing at the teacher. No one cared about the work they were doing or if it was important or not, they just wanted to talk to their friends or go on the phones. Jack sat next Rapunzel and stared at her as she drew something on her page which should have been filled with notes from the class. "What are you drawing blondie?" he asked as he leaned over to see it. They were random drawings of different types of piercings and the places they go. "Just piercings I'd like to get or thinking of maybe getting. My mom said when Hiccup goes to get his ears pierced, that I can get my firsts done" Rapunzel looked really excited as she hugged her book. She couldn't wait for the weekend. "That'd be awesome, hey could your mom maybe pick me up? If it's possible that is. I actually haven't figured out how I was going to get to the tattoo parlour" Rapunzel nodded happily. "Oh that's right Merida told me where the place was and that it was a tattoo parlour as well. And of course we can pick you up, it'd be no problem. Mom wanted to see me get my ears done anyway" "It'll be great, also you'll look amazing with piercings" Rapunzel blushed a little at his comment but then smirked as she thought of something. "Are you saying I wouldn't look amazing without piercings?" she said with an eyebrow raised. Jack smile dropped as he realised what he had said. "No no I mean of course you'd look amazing either with or without piercings. After all you do look amazing, wait I mean oh wow" Jack scratched his head as he realised she was just messing with him. Rapunzel laughed as Jack blushed and face palmed himself. No girl has ever had this effect on Jack, ever. Then the phone in the classroom rang and one of the students ran over to it to answer it. "Wonder what they're calling for?" Wondered Rapunzel as she went on to continue drawing. "Have no clue, maybe someone forgot a detention or something stupid" Jack said as he leaned back in his chair. "Oi Jack Overland, the phones for you" Said the student as he held up the phone. Everyone stared at Jack but Jack just raised an eyebrow in confusion. Jack got out of his seat and walked up to the phone to answer it. Rapunzel watched Jack's facial expression as he talked on the phone. Jack hung up the phone, walked back to his seat and started packing up his things. "Where are you going? Who was it on the phone?" "The front office, they want me for some reason. I'll see you later okay, don't get too bored alright" answered Jack as he walked down the rows of seats towards the front door. "I won't, see you later" Jack walked out the door and the rest of the class went back to their talking. Rapunzel now sat alone wondering why on earth the front office wanted Jack. She hopped it wasn't for something bad or something he did wrong.
Ooooo who knows what'll happen to Jack.
Also those Merricup feels are overflowing. I will go down with that ship.
Anyways hope you enjoyed that chapter, please review so I know what to fix up or if you liked it.
Give me any ideas you have for the story (I need some of those)
Hope your having a great day and I love you all, Hannananaannana out!