Another chapter down! Yay! So soon, which is really surprising to myself. Hopefully it'll get actual plot- sometime- when the intro chapters are done. I OWN NOTHING! NONE OF THE MOVIES USED ARE MINE! If they were, well, this story would be a movie by now. Just with a different script writer than me. : )
"Great, where's the office...?" M.K. wandered through the emptying hallways. Classes where starting, but she, being a new student, still needed to get her class schedule. She caught sight of a rectangular sign that meant the office was close, and breathed a sigh of relief. She thought she would have to wander around the whole school trying to find that office. M.K. walked around to the front desk, and decided to wait there. There, a woman caught sight of M.K.
"You must be Mary Katherine," the woman said kindly. M.K. winced slightly at her old name. It reminded her too much of her mother. Her mother- M.K. felt some tears working at the thought of her deceased mother but swore she wouldn't cry again.
"Yes, that's me," she said finally. "I need my class schedule."
"Yes, they told me you would," the woman said, turning and rifling through a stack of papers. M.K.'s gaze drifted to the walls, where a framed photo of a student smiled down. She squinted and read the inscription under the photo. It read, 'student of the year'.
"Hiccup..." M.K. read the boy's first name.
"There it is!" the woman startled M.K. as she handed over a sheet of paper. "You'll need to hurry up dear- class started." M.K. looked at the schedule. Looks like she had English first.
"Thank you," M.K. said, turning to leave.
"No problem dear! Enjoy your classes!" the woman called after her. M.K. doubted she would, but found the English classroom pretty easily. It was just down the hallway and to the right.
"Okay M.K., you can do this," she told herself, reaching over to open the door. Another hand beat her too it. She looked up in surprise at a boy who had his hand on the door handle.
"Late?" the boy guessed with a smile.
"You could say that," M.K. said back awkwardly.
"I have to say, I've never seen you in English before," the boy said, giving her a once-over. M.K. noticed his gaze lingered a little too long on her hips and frowned. "Might be 'cause I always skip English, but I've never seen you anywhere else either."
"I'm new," M.K. resisted the urge to slap this boy for checking her out. "My name's M.K." Still, she didn't want to be rude. Even if this boy was...
"Flynn," the boy said with a charming look. "Name's Flynn Rider."
"I need to go into class," M.K. avoided his gaze. "Nice to meet you."
"I'm going in too," Flynn said, grabbing the door handle again and opening it. M.K. had no choice but to follow him inside. Rows of desks with bored-looking students were the first thing M.K. noticed, along with
"You're going to open to page 36 in the textbook," the teacher, an peppy woman with multicolored streaks in her hair said excitedly. "We're going to be reading Shakespeare. He's such an influential writer in literature-" Only then did she notice the two students waiting by the door.
"Sorry I'm late," Flynn said, and slid into a chair next to a girl with short brown hair. "I overslept."
"Well Flynn, let's go to bed earlier next time, okay?" the teacher said, and turned to M.K. "You must be Mary Katherine, " she said. "Welcome to my English class!"
"Yeah," M.K. said slowly. "Umm, I'd actually prefer it if you called me M.K. I haven't gone by Mary Katherine in a long time."
"No problem," the teacher said brightly. "I'm Miss Tooth, and welcome to CGI high!"
"Thanks," M.K. said with a slight smile.
"Here, sit next to Eep over there," Miss Tooth said, pointing to a girl with frizzy auburn hair and an orange shirt.
"Okay," M.K. said, and sat by Eep. Miss Tooth continued with her lesson about Shakespeare, and M.K. flipped open the textbook on her desk. It was full of short stories, most of old dead authors's work. Looked boring. No wonder most of the kids were dozing.
"Why don't you like the name Mary Katherine?" someone said suddenly. M.K. looked up to see Eep, who looked genuinely curious.
"I- I don't want to talk about it," M.K. faltered as she studied the desk. How could she tell this stranger that her name brought back too many memories of her mother, and of her parent's marriage together?
"Oh" was Eep's startled reply. M.K. felt pretty bad after seeing Eep's rejected-looking face.
"I just hate my name, that's all," she was quick to add. "M.K. sounds way cooler."
"M.K. is an interesting name," Eep said with a smile. "Way better than my name."
"No, your name is really unique. It sounds awesome," M.K. said nicely. Eep smiled back again.
"Thanks," she said. M.K. looked down on the book, trying to find the page the class was on. Eep helpfully showed M.K. the corner of her book, which contained the page number. With a grateful smile, M.K. turned to that page and started reading. Some backstory on Shakespeare, and it was boring.
"Ugh," M.K. muttered to herself.
"Hey," Eep whispered, trying to catch M.K.'s attention. "I saw you walk in with Flynn. Do you know him?"
"No, I just met him," M.K. rolled her eyes.
"Well, don't look now, but he's giving you the eye," Eep said. "I think he might like you."
"I disagree with that," M.K. said, but turned to see Flynn was, indeed, giving her an attractive look. M.K. frowned and turned back to her books.
"He's got a girlfriend though," Eep said. "Rapunzel. They've been dating for two years now."
"And he's totally fine with flirting with me?" M.K. said in a creeped out tone, looking back down at the book.
"Flynn is a huge flirt," Eep shrugged. "It's not like it's the first time it happens either."
"What happens?" M.K. asked curiously, taking her eyes off of Shakespeare and turning back to Eep.
"Flynn sets his sight on some girl and tries to go out with her," Eep said, disgusted. "It's so vile of him, since he's still dating Rapunzel."
"Ugh, what a slug!" M.K. agreed. "Does his girlfriend never find out?"
"Nope. It's twisted of him but Rapunzel is so trusting of Flynn that she'd never question his actions," Eep said.
"Why doesn't anyone tell her?" M.K. said. "She ought to know!" Eep nervously played with her hair before answering.
"Rapunzel's a special kind of girl," she said. "No one wants to see her cry, she's far too nice for that!"
"That's stupid. I'll tell her if no one will," M.K. scoffed. Eep shrugged.
"Be my guest. I'm not on Flynn's side here, I just don't want to see Rapunzel get hurt," she said.
"She won't get hurt by something this ridiculous," M.K. rolled her eyes. Who was this Rapunzel girl, and why didn't people want to break her heart?
Merida plopped her lunch tray down by Hiccup's paper bag lunch.
"Don't get the meatloaf," she said, taking an apple off of the tray but avoiding the meat entirely. "I swear it just moved."
"I'm not big on meat anyway," Hiccup said. "I brought my own lunch just in case the cafeteria served gross stuff. Want some?" He took out a container of salad and waved it in Merida's face. Merida shook her head, making her red curls wave every which way. Hiccup shrugged and took out his fork to eat it himself.
"There you guys are," Jack Frost slid onto the bench by his friends. He placed his skateboard that he took everywhere next to him, and took Merida's milk.
"What if I wanted that?" Merida asked shyly, crunching on her apple. Hiccup raised an eyebrow. Merida was never shy. Jack shrugged, shook the milk, and took a sip. He scrunched his nose.
"Warm," he said, placing it back on Merida's tray. "Do you have any ice?"
"I've got some," Hiccup said, taking out a semi-frozen water bottle. Jack took it gratefully and unscrewed the top. Then he dumped it on his head.
"Jack!" Merida scolded, jumping up from the bench. "You just spilled water all over the table!" Jack shook his wet hair out of his eyes, smiling triumphantly at Merida's annoyed look. Merida giggled finally. Hiccup knew something was definitely up. Merida never giggled. Annoyed, he also wiped water off of his salad plate.
"Great. Now I have to wait for the ice to melt before I can drink my water," Hiccup said, taking the emptied bottle from Jack's fingers. Jack shrugged in a what-can-you-do kind of way.
"It's hot outside, I hate feeling warm," he said. "Thanks Hiccup." Before Hiccup could answer, he was interrupted by an arrival.
"Hey, move over," their friend Nod slid in next to Jack. Following Nod was another friend, Guy. Both of them had the cafeteria's lunch trays.
"Word to the wise- avoid the lunch today," Guy said, sticking his fork in the unintelligible mass that was supposed to be meat.
"So we're been told," Jack said, sitting back on his hands.
"You're not eating, Jack?" Nod asked. "You can have my lunch if you want."
"Uh, as tempting as your lunch sounds, I'm going to pass," Jack said. "I'm not hungry anyway."
"Okay," Nod shrugged.
"Why aren't you eatin'?" Merida asked, seeming concerned. Another thing Merida never was: concerned. Something was up with his best friend, and Hiccup really wanted to know what.
"Not hungry," Jack said without further reason.
"Here, at least drink the milk!" Merida shoved her carton back into Jack's face.
"Alright Red, if it helps you sleep at night, I'll drink it," Jack said, and downed the carton's contents. Merida blushed lightly. Hiccup was really curious now.
"Where's Once-ler?" Nod asked, taking a drink from a juice box. "Haven't seen him yet."
"He's over there," Jack grinned, catching a sight of his friend, "With Mavis."
"Oh please, Once-ler doesn't have the balls to even talk to Mavis!" Nod said, following Jack's vision path. Sure enough, Once-ler was talking to Mavis in the lunch line.
"No way," Guy said. "He's finally talking to her!"
"Yeah, but he's as red as a tomato," Merida snorted. "So he's still the same idiot he always is." Hiccup thought to himself, that is more like Merida.
"Look, here he comes," Jack said, elbowing Hiccup. Once-ler was walking towards their table with a happy look on his face.
"Hey," he said, sitting by Merida. "What were you guys-" Merida punched him in the arm. "Oww!"
"Ask her out, you big oaf!" she said sharply.
"What?" Once-ler said, shocked by Merida's words. "No way! Mavis doesn't like me like that!"
"You'll never know unless you grow a pair and ask her," Jack taunted.
"Merida, you're her friend, right?" Guy turned to Merida, who nodded. "And you're Once-ler's friend. Soooo- you can hook them up!"
"What the hell I'm not playin' Cupid!" Merida said, loudly. "He can ask Mavis out some other way, I am not-"
"Someone might hear you," Hiccup hissed. Merida rolled her eyes.
"Well, you could still do something for them," Nod said. Merida shook her head.
"No," she said. "I don't do that stuff."
"It could work," Jack said, thinking it over. "How about it, Merida?"
"Sure, why not?" Merida said quickly, turning red. Hiccup studied his best friend's face. She was doing it again. Maybe it was because of Jack?
"Hello, I'm right here. And I don't approve," Once-ler said.
"Too bad. By this year, you'll finally ask out Mavis," Guy said. Once-ler gave his friend an unamused look.
"You guys suck," he said. "Why am I friends with you guys anyway?"
"Because we're awesome" was Nod's reply. Once-ler groaned.
"Merida, are you okay?" Hiccup whispered to her while Once-ler, Jack, Nod and Guy were in a heated discussion about who was more awesome. Merida snapped out of her thoughts.
"Yeah, uh- why wouldn' I be?" she stammered.
"You've been acting weird-" Hiccup said.
"Yer one to be talkin', Haddock!" Merida punched her best friend in the arm.
"Oww!" Hiccup complained, putting a hand on the spot Merida hit. "What was that for?"
"Hey, Merida, you done with your lunch?" Jack chimed into their conversation.
"Yeah," Merida flushed red again.
"I'll take it for ya if you want," Jack offered, holding out his hand for the tray.
"Oh, er, thanks," Merida said sweetly, handing Jack her tray. Hiccup frowned. Merida was saying thanks? To Jack? Now he knew something was up with her. Could his best friend be crushing on Jack Frost?
"You know something, I realized I can stick my whole tongue out while I talk," Dash Parr told his older sister Violet. "Want to see?"
"Eww, no," Violet said, disgusted. Dash went ahead and started blabbering with his tongue hanging out.
"Lek I can shtick my fhole ton-" he said and Violet hit him.
"God, you're such an idiot," she said. The siblings were waiting for their mother to pull up, as their dad worked at the school as a teacher.
"Violet!" her friend Roxanne came over to her. "So sorry to bother you, seeing as you're waiting here for your mom, but I was wondering if you could answer some questions for the newspaper?" Roxanne was the school's news anchor, and also a reporter for the newspaper.
"Sure," Violet said.
"What do you think about the new teacher, Mr. Pitch Black?" Roxanne asked, pencil poised above a notepad. The latest addition to the teaching staff, Mr. Pitch Black, was the Chemistry teacher. And he was seriously creepy.
"He's a good teacher," Violet said uncomfortably, "And he knows what he's talking about."
"Is he that teacher that everyone says is super creepy?" Dash chimed in. Roxanne was writing this all down.
"Dash!" Violet hissed. "This will go in the paper, and you're here blabbing away your mouth!"
"Oops," Dash muttered.
"No, it's fine," Roxanne grinned. "We won't use names, if you wish."
"My name's Dash," Dash said. "You can have my name in there."
"You, Vi?" Roxanne asked.
"Please don't," Violet huffed. Her mom's car pulled up. "Oh, my mom's here, Roxanne. I've got to go." She grabbed Dash's arm and yanked him to the car, wishing she did not have a brother like him.
"Did you hear about the party at Rick's house?" Mavis asked Rapunzel as they were leaving the school. "It's this Friday."
"Yeah, I did," Rapunzel said. "Ella invited me today in English. Are you going?"
"Yup. I promised Rick I'd stop by," Mavis said. "At least for a little. Will you go with me?"
"I don't know, if Flynn goes with me I might," Rapunzel said. She spotted her aforementioned boyfriend walking nearby, talking to his friend Wilbur.
"There he is, ask him," Mavis said. "Because I'll go if you will."
"Alright," Rapunzel bounded off to Flynn. "Flynn!" Rapunzel threw her arms around her unsuspecting boyfriend.
"Woah, Blondie, slow down there," Flynn laughed.
"Hey, see you later man," Wilbur said, leaving Flynn's side.
"Are you going to Rick's party?" Rapunzel asked, letting him go.
"Yeah, I was planning to," Flynn said. "Want me to pick you up?"
"Sure. Want to give Mavis a ride?" Rapunzel asked. Flynn made a look of discontent.
"I was hoping it'd just be us, though, babe..." he said.
"Oh, no problem, I'm sure Mavis will be fine on her own," Rapunzel was quick to add. "So- it's a date?"
"It's a date, Blondie," Flynn smiled and pecked her cheek. "See ya." He went on, and Rapunzel practically floated over back to Mavis.
"Someone's in a happy mood," Mavis commented. "So are you going with me then?"
"I'm going with Flynn!" Rapunzel squealed. "Oh- Mavis- you don't mind...?"
"Nah, I'll try and force Merida with me,"Mavis shrugged.
"You're the best, Mavis!" Rapunzel said, hugging her friend excitedly.
"So I've been told," Mavis said playfully. "Come on, my dad's coming soon. He could give you a ride, if you want."
"Mother won't be happy with that, sorry," Rapunzel said. "I'm walking today."
"You sure?" Mavis asked.
"Yeah. But I'll see you tomorrow!" Rapunzel said, waving at her friend and walking down the sidewalk towards her house. It wasn't far from the house to the school, so that way her mother wouldn't have to worry about her to much.
Walking down a street, she quickened her pace to get home faster. She didn't like walking alone, but mother couldn't pick her up today. Suddenly, she heard footsteps behind her. Rapunzel walked faster, but then the person matched her pace. Rapunzel's next instinct was to call the police, and she took out her phone shakily. The footsteps were still walking just as fast.
Rapunzel whipped around, making her braid swing out and hit the person in the face.
"Oww!" the person bent over, holding his face. "What the hell?" Rapunzel looked at him curiously. It was Jack Frost, a boy from her school.
"Why were you following me?" Rapunzel demanded, crossing her arms.
"Yeesh, I was walking to a friend's house," Jack groaned, standing upright. "I just started following you to mess with you."
"Well, it wasn't funny!" Rapunzel snapped.
"Alright, fine," Jack held up his hands in surrender. "Someone can't take a joke."
"I don't even know you, and you follow me? I was going to call the police on you!" Rapunzel said.
"Yeah, yeah, I get it," Jack said. "I'll be out of your hair- as long as you don't hit me with it again." He smirked. Rapunzel laughed lightly, but quickly covered her mouth.
"Don't- don't do it again," she faltered, loosing her intimidating edge. "Or I will hit you again."
"I'm really scared," Jack said sarcastically, walking past Rapunzel. Rapunzel couldn't help it, she blushed. Then decided to do something bold.
"Wait!" she called out. Jack stopped and looked back. "I don't think we've formally introduced ourselves," Rapunzel caught up to him. "My name's Rapunzel." She held out her hand.
"Jack. I know who you are," Jack said, shaking her hand.
"You do?" Rapunzel blinked. She knew Jack: Jack was considered one of the hottest guys at school (according to the girls in her Chemistry class) but why did her know her?
"Yeah. You're Flynn's girlfriend," Jack said. "And one of the nicest girls in school."
"Oh" was Rapunzel's surprised answer. "Thank you." She blushed again, lightly. Jack shrugged.
"Sure," he said. Rapunzel looked down at her feet and back up again.
"I need to go to my house now," she said. "Bye." She started walking away.
"Uh- wait!" Jack blurted out. Rapunzel turned to him. To her surprise, he looked like he was the one blushing now. "Umm... if you talk to Merida, tell her to call me?"
"Sure," Rapunzel said brightly. "I can call her if you want. Is there any reason you can't call her?" Jack froze for a second.
"Never mind, I can find her tomorrow. Bye," he said, continuing on his way. Rapunzel smiled to herself as she also walked on.
"I think I made a new friend," she said to herself. Meanwhile, Jack walked with his hands in his pockets angrily.
"I'm such an idiot," he muttered to himself. Why, of all girls, did he have to get tongue-tied around Flynn's girlfriend? It's not like he liked her or anything, but her green eyes were so unnerving. And her hair did make a pretty big impact. Literally.
Ooh, some Jackunzel. Jack will realize his feelings for Punzie soon, so don't worry. Merida likes Jack- and Hiccup is still unsure about that. Mericcup will happen soon, haha. And Pitch- what's up with him, anyway? So, in case some people were confused about characters, the ones I mentioned where:
Rapunzel and Flynn from Tangled
Hiccup from How to Train your Dragon
Merida from Brave
Jack from Rise of The Guardians
M.K. and Nod from Epic
Guy and Eep from The Croods
Once-ler from The Lorax
Violet and Dash from The Incredibles
Roxanne from Megamind
Ella and Rick from Happily N'ever after
I will never, ever have an OC in my story. They will always be a movie character, even if you don't know who they are. So if you don't know, feel free to ask. Thanks for reading!