"And that's it…"
After two short hours, Lilo had finished the story. Stitch seemed to be interested, Pleakley was on the verge of falling asleep, his one eye at half-mast and chin resting on his right palm and Jumba seemed perplexed by his lack of understanding what life had been like back in the ancient times.
"So what happened after happily ever after?"
Jumba's question was apparent to Lilo that he need an extra sense of understanding.
"I guess you could say that while Moana and Maui did live happily ever after, the point is that they lived."
"Lived for how long?" Pleakley's eye was locked onto Lilo, waking up instantaneously after hearing about the "lived" part.
"Did they at least get married?"
The question uttered by Pleakley was enough to put the girl's mood into something that was not too far from an expected fairy tale ending.
"Moana and Maui," Lilo said strongly. "Decided to live their lives in peace…separately."
Now fully awake with his jaw slowly falling, Pleakley was beginning to assume that what Lilo really said was…"They never saw each other again."
"You mean they never talked or saw each other again?"
Lilo perked her smile like something decent had come out of it.
"I'm sure, they did, but they never got married. I don't think Moana wanted to anyway, or so Sora told me."
That being said, Lilo closed the book and placed her hands on her joints. She took a deep sigh and resumed.
"Consider it as a tip, a word of advice that even if her parents wanted to produce an heir, Moana enjoyed her freedom as she wanted to find other lands."
She sat, smiling a big grin across her face as she stepped onto the lift and it elevated her downstairs. Her face remained in the place of a clever trickster when she met Nani in the living room, sitting on the pink couch.
"I heard you telling a story to the others," she looked up from her Mana magazine. "What was it about?"
"A Polynesian princess who learned that it was best to follow your heart rather than the duties of others."
"And what does your heart tell you?"
"That things will turn out all right in the end. Like with Myrtle and keeping a civil tongue in front of her and all that stuff."
Nani smiled and nodded her head twice. Lilo had taught herself a valuable moral from all that time she read. Then the two sisters sat next to each other on the sofa and reviewed the magazine together. They found it to be very interesting.
When the next day came, she was off to school again. Myrtle and the girls were unusually silent around her for the following week, and when they started causing her trouble again, she simply replied an equally gross remark and continued on her way, making sure that the balance between herself and her classmates remained in check without causing anymore violence.
Neither Stitch nor Lilo ever mentioned to Jumba and Pleakley that Sora had gotten the tip from a Scottish princess named Merida, but that's another story.