Eloise came out with her teeth all brushed and she had her clothes on, ready to start her day.
"Ready to start the day, Eloise?" Akito asked.
"Just about," Eloise nodded firmly, then looked to the door. "Breakfast should be here any minute."
"Great." Estelle smiled.
Ditto crawled up to Eloise's head and became her hair ribbon again.
"Hey, cut it out!" Eloise laughed as she picked the Pokemon off her head.
"I can't help it!" Ditto giggled back.
"Silly blob." Eloise smirked to her new Pokemon.
"So, Ditto, know any moves yet?" Akito asked his cousin's Pokemon.
"I know how to use 'Transform'." Ditto said.
"Signature move, I assume." Eloise smirked.
"Yep." Ditto smiled.
"Good boy." Eloise hugged her Pokemon while Weenie and Skipperdy looked up in slight jealousy.
"Uh-Oh, I think we got two pets that are jealous." Teddiursa said as soon as he saw the facial expression on the two pets' faces.
The pug dog and turtle glanced at the Teddy Bear Pokemon.
"Teddy~..." Estelle hugged her Pokemon as he clung to her, a little worried about maybe getting hurt by these creatures.
"Oh, you guys know I love you too..." Eloise knelt down and then hugged Weenie and Skipperdy, giving them both kisses. "Weenie, my mother picked you out for my fifth birthday and Skipperdy, the Plaza is the only hotel that allows someone to have a pet turtle."
"True." Both pets said.
"Ditto's just extra special..." Eloise told her pets gently. "I would never replace either of you."
The pets then smiled and hugged Eloise back.
"So, uh, where did you get Skipperdy?" Estelle asked curiously.
"My mother told me she was visiting someone far from home on the way back here one year." Eloise explained.
"Perhaps her father?" Felicity assumed since they had found out Eloise's father was a merman in Atlantica.
"Yeah, possibly." Akito shrugged.
After a bit, there was a knock at the door. Eloise skipped along to the peep hole to see who it was, highly assuming that it was room service, once she saw she was right, she smirked once she knew how to greet the guest.
"Let me guess, it's Bill, right?" Akito asked.
"Who else could it be?" Nanny chuckled, happy for Eloise, Bill was one of Eloise's best friends in the whole hotel as he had known her since she started walking before Darla started to travel.
"It's been a while since we've seen him." Larvitar said.
"Which one's Bill again?" Vulpix asked.
"He wants to be an actor." Misdreavus reminded.
"Ohh, yeah." Teddiursa smiled.
Eloise put her finger to her mouth as she went to open the door and let Bill come inside with room service for her, her cousins, and Nanny.
"Let's see what performance he'll be doing today." Vulpix smiled.
The doorbell buzzed as Bill finally arrived with breakfast. Eloise opened the door with a smile.
"Bonjour, Eloise." Bill smiled back to the blonde girl he oh-so adored.
"Bonjour, Monsieur." Eloise giggled.
Eloise talked with Bill as he came in and sorted everything out for their breakfast. The Pokemon looked to Bill with small smiles, being warmer toward him than they did before, especially Vulpix.
"My mother's in Paris," Eloise continued. "She went to see the new Fall collection. Very oui oui, you know?"
"Hello, William." Nanny greeted the aspiring actor.
"William?" Teddiursa asked his mother since she was one of the lucky ones that could understand animals and Pokemon.
"It's long for 'Bill'." Estelle explained.
"Ohh." Teddiursa smiled.
"Shouldn't Bill be short for 'Billiam'?" Larvitar asked.
"I don't understand that either..." Estelle said. "It's just how they decided... Like Bob being short for Robert or Jim and James..."
"That just makes no sense what so ever." Vulpix said.
"Some people call me Flick." Felicity smiled sheepishly with a shrug.
"Good point." Misdreavus said.
Felicity hugged her ghost Pokemon. "Oh, you are my best friend."
"Morning, Nanny." Bill greeted as he presented breakfast for everybody.
"My, my, my," Nanny smiled. "Doesn't that look good?" she then looked out the open door and gasped once she saw who had just passed.
"Mm, breakfast." Larvitar smiled.
Ditto came to Nanny's foot and looked out the door as a man passed.
"Here's what Nanny likes; Sir Wilkes," Eloise smirked to her cousins to bring them up to speed. "Here's what I like; secrets."
"Good to know." Estelle smiled.
"Nanny likes Sir Wilkes." Eloise then told Bill.
"Does she?" Bill replied, actually listening to her and not pretending to care so she would go away like most of the hotel staff.
"Yes, she gets all red in the face and breathes a lot when he's around," Eloise explained. "At first I thought she was sick, but then I realized, she just likes him."
"Aw! Love." Estelle smiled.
Nanny nibbled on the piece of bacon that was on the breakfast platter as she watched the mysterious man 'get away from her'.
"Why doesn't she tell him?" Eloise sighed, feeling bad for Nanny to keep her true feelings bottled up. "I always say what's in my head."
"I noticed." Bill gave an amused nod to her in agreement to that statement.
"If only there was a way for her to tell him her feelings towards him." Estelle wondered.
"Yes, it makes everything so much easier..." Eloise agreed, then randomly placed a piece of lettuce on top of her head. "I'll have to come up with a plan... Hmm..."
Bill smiled quietly and shook his head at Eloise's antics.
Eloise then stood up in her chair once she remembered something. "Did you know we're going to the ball tomorrow?" she then asked the man. "My mother was a debutante, she has grace... Would you like to go with me?"
"Can't," Bill frowned apologetically. "I'm working the ball."
"Really?" Vincent asked.
"I can only see you there." Bill replied.
"Quelle tragique." Eloise sighed melodramatically, clinging her arms gently around his neck as she flung and swayed.
Akito, Estelle, and Vincent looked to Felicity for a translation.
"Oh, 'how tragic'." Felicity translated.
"Ohh." The Fudo siblings said.
Felicity smiled that she was able to translate Eloise's French blurbs here and there due to knowing the language a lot better than English.
The others then ate their breakfast and once they were done, Eloise took her cousins around the hotel like she often did, but before they could go, the telephone started to ring.
"Hello!?" Eloise answered, hoping it was her mother, then sighed once it wasn't. "Oh, hello, Mr. Nye."
"Who?" Ditto asked.
"My mother's lawyer," Eloise looked to him in reply before putting the phone back up to her ear to talk with the person who was on the other line. "You want to meet? How about tomorrow, say 3:00, I'm rather busy."
The others came closer, very curious and concerned.
"Doing what?" Eloise then repeated. "Just everything!" she then hung up on her mother's lawyer.
"Is he always calling?" Akito asked.
"He has been lately, I'm not sure what though..." Eloise said as she came into her room and sat lazily at her desk, staring at her arts and crafts while Skipperdy crawled around.
The others sat boredily with her as there wasn't anything really going on.
Nanny walked by, then looked down to them. "Being bored is not allowed." she reminded the children as she then continued off.
Eloise smiled to that, feeling it was a sign. "Here's what I do..." she then began to demonstrate a list of random activities that she did to kill off her boredom. "Put a rubber band on the end of my nose, stand on my toes for the longest amount of time, get dizzy and fall down, run down the halls and skitter two sticks along the walls, making a really loud and terrible racket..." she then took them out into the hallway and hopped up on a small stand in front of a mirror and made funny faces in it.
"Wow, that sure is some plan." Vulpix said.
Ditto climbed on top of Eloise's head as she made funny faces.
"One day, your face will freeze like that." Mrs. Thornton firmly told the blonde girl.
"Oh, no," Eloise turned to the woman and stuck out her tongue, stretching out her cheeks. "My face is an absolute popsicle!"
Mrs. Thornton shuddered and walked away in disgust. "Oh, disgusting little girl!"
"Yeah, well, you're no prize either, lady!" Estelle glared.
"Estelle!" Felicity's eyes widened.
"She started it!" Estelle pointed to Mrs. Thorton.
Mrs. Thornton mumbled and walked off. Eloise then smirked in satisfaction once the mean old woman was gone down the hallway.
"She might be a mean old lady, but I sure am glad she's still living here." Akito said.
Eloise merely shrugged at that, then heard the elevator go off. "Come on, guys!" she skipped to the elevator.
The other kids followed behind and they were in the elevator now.
"Lobby, please, Max," Eloise requested to the silent man. "Time for my morning rounds."
"Yep, and we're joining her." Estelle smiled.
Max glanced down to them and shut the elevator doors.
"Getting Max to notice me is a rather favorite hobby of mine..." Eloise reminded her cousins as she looked up at the man who almost never spoke a word. "I'm thinking of dying my hair hot pink."
Max glanced down to her and kept his eyes forward, not speaking.
"If staring contests had prize money, Max would be a very rich man." Eloise then informed.
"Yes, yes, it would." Akito nodded.
"So, he never looks down long enough to talk to anyone?" Larvitar asked.
"Nope," Eloise shook her head. "He doesn't even bat an eye at Ditto."
"It's true, and I've tried all of the transformations I know of to get his attention." Ditto said.
"Why not transform into Eloise?" Teddiursa asked.
Ditto looked down to his new trainer. "Should I?"
Eloise looked up at him. "I see nothing wrong with that, hurry though, we have at least fifteen more floors before we make it down!"
"Okay." Ditto smiled before getting down his trainer's head and onto the floor before transforming into Eloise, only to look like a male version of her.
Max kept his eyes forward. Ditto coughed to be noticed. Max glanced down for a moment and did a double take.
"Hi, Max." Eloise and Ditto, now a male Eloise, greeted.
Max's eyes widened slightly and he looked back to the doors as they made it into the lobby. The kids then came out into the lobby.
"Close enough." Eloise told Ditto.
"Yeah, sorry it seems I can only transform into male versions of whoever or whatever I transform into." Ditto said, transforming back into his blob form.
"That's okay, Ditto," Eloise smiled. "You did good."
"At least it caused Max to do a double take." Estelle giggled.
"Oui, oui." Felicity agreed.
They then hopped over to the front desk.
