"There you are, folks," Eloise smiled to the various guests. "Thank you for your patience."
"Hopefully we'll be invited to the ball." Teddiursa smiled.
Eloise came to the front desk with her cousins and their Pokemon. "Any messages, Miss Thompson?"
"Let me check," the woman replied as she did a quick check for the little girl. "Oh, the owner of the Yankees called. He wants you to throw out the first pitch at tomorrow's game."
'Tell him I'm sorry, but I have to repaint the Sistine Chapel next week, and I can't risk an injury to my wrist." Eloise replied.
"Yeah, and besides, there's still so much to do for the Debutante Ball." Estelle smiled.
"So there is." Miss Thompson smiled back.
Eloise then went with the others over to the hotel manager. "Good morning, Mr. Salamone."
"Good morning, Eloise..." Mr. Salamone forced himself to greet her back.
"Have our invitations for the Debutante Ball arrived yet?" Eloise asked.
"No, no, and I don't expect they will." Mr. Salamone replied bitterly.
"What?" Estelle asked. "Why?"
"We expect it'll be awfully fun!" Akito added.
"Please don't cause any trouble, Eloise, the same to your little friends." Mr. Salamone replied.
"Moi?" Eloise gawked. "When do I ever do that?" she then smiled and skipped away.
Miss Thompson handed papers to the hotel manager.
"Complaints about Eloise?" Mr. Salamone took them with a low groan.
The Pokemon decided to stay behind and hide so they could hear what he
meant by that. Mr. Salamone groaned as he saw the papers were mostly complaints about the little girl who lived around the hotel unsupervised.
"After my morning rounds, I always make sure to exercise." Eloise said as they waited for the elevator and she stretched her leg back, balancing it.
"What kind of exercise?" Felicity asked.
"The kind that I stay healthy." Eloise replied like it was obvious.
The door opened up.
"Eighth floor, please." Eloise requested as she walked in with her cousins and started to do jumping jacks.
The Pokemon rushed into the elevator before the doors closed. They made it just in time. Eloise started to touch her toes and her cousins followed suit as they thought they should exercise too.
"Lobby, please." a woman requested as she came in with a younger woman.
"Six, please!" Eloise said then.
"Why the lobby, Miss?" Akito asked the woman.
"Please mind your own business..." the woman glanced down at him while talking with the younger woman, speaking about a man who went to Yale college with a good family to be an escort.
That got Eloise's attention instantly. "Escort to what?"
Suddenly, the elevator dinged.
"Oops, that's us." Eloise left the elevator with her cousins and the Pokemon, preforming a somersault.
"Please enjoy the rest of your day, ma'am." Akito said politely.
The woman snorted as a man came into the elevator with her and the other young woman.
"Come on, this way!" Eloise led her cousins to a door that had an emergency staircase.
"Coming!" Akito told her.
"Stairs?" Felicity sounded exhausted.
"Good exercise, Flick!" Eloise smiled as she started to run down the stairs with the others.
The others did their best to keep up with her, Ditto of course had an easier time since he lived with the girl and was probably used to this on an infrequent basis. Eloise waited for the others with Ditto as they came up to an elevator that was on the floor of the staircase they came out from.
"What took ya?" Akito smirked as he leaned against the wall, relaxed.
The others panted heavily and came into the elevator with Eloise as it opened up.
Eloise swayed her arms up and all around. "Escort to what?" she asked the women they had seen earlier.
"Little girl, what are you doing?" the older woman glanced at Eloise like she was a major annoyance.
"Exercising," Eloise replied. "I can show you my routine."
"Now back to her question." Akito said.
The elevator dinged and opened, allowing the women to take their leave, ignoring the question. Eloise firmly folded her arms and pouted as she walked out with Ditto by her side in defeat.
"That lady sure is suspicious." Estelle said.
"We'll have to work on her... Right?" Vincent asked.
"Absolutely." Eloise nodded with her arms folded, she then looked over to a clock and pushed a guest's bags up against the wall of the clock and stood on top of them, trying to move the clock hands.
"That explains why Mr. Salamone had to change the time on the clock." Akito said.
After a while, Eloise kept pushing the buzzer on her room door over and over.
"I'm just surprised that hasn't gotten on Nanny's nerves." Ditto whispered.
"It hasn't?" Larvitar, Teddiursa, and Misdreavus asked.
Nanny officially opened the door after a short while and appeared to have her reading glasses on. "You rang?"
Eloise smiled and skipped into the room, but she suddenly stopped once there was a familiar man in the room and looked rather firm with the little girl. "Phillip..." she muttered.
"Eloise..." Phillip replied.
"Oh, no, not him." Ditto groaned.
"You cannot be serious." Vincent also groaned.
"Unfortunately..." Eloise mumbled.
"Oh, great." Estelle groaned.
"Ah, I see you have friends over..." Phillip spotted Akito, Estelle, Vincent, and Felicity. "Perhaps they would like to learn as well."
"Are we given a choice?" Felicity asked.
"Please let us be given a choice, please let us be given a choice." Akito prayed.
"I'm sure you all won't mind a little education, it never hurt anyone." Phillip said.
The kids groaned that they were going to be forced into tutoring with their cousin's tutor. Phillip sat in his seat while the kids sat down and the Pokemon were asked to be kept away with Weenie and Skipperdy so they wouldn't get in the way of tutoring.
"I hate that man." Larvitar groaned.
"I really wanna use my Flamethrower on him..." Vulpix snarled in agreement.
"Poor Mama..." Teddiursa pouted as Estelle looked suffering from the tutoring.
"Alors, nous commencerons." Phillip said as he cracked his book open to start the lesson.
"So we will start." Felicity whispered to her other cousins.
"Alors, nous commencerons." Eloise copied in a mockery tone of voice.
"Here we go again." Estelle said.
"Shall we settle down?" Phillip glanced down at the girl.
"Shall we settle down?" Eloise repeated.
"That's quite enough, Eloise." Phillip scolded.
"That's quite enough, Eloise." Eloise continued anyway.
"I'm in no mood for childishness!" Phillip stood up sharply.
"I'm in no mood for childishness!" Eloise stood up as well until he would give up and call for Nanny.
'And he should be giving up in three... Two... One.' Akito thought to himself.
Eloise and Phillip kept going at it, until...
"NANNY!" Phillip sounded more like the child when he yelled it.
"Nanny!" Eloise echoed with a victorious smile.
Nanny opened the door and ran inside. "Oh, no, no, no, Eloise..."
"Looks like someone couldn't handle Eloise anymore." Akito smiled.
"It happens to the best of them." Eloise smirked.
"She's impossible, Nanny..." Phillip sounded like he had the last straw and collected his books.
The doorbell then buzzed.
"Oh, she's not as bad as all that..." Nanny cooed as she then left to answer the door.
"Maybe Tech should be her new tutor." Akito smiled.
Bill came to the door with a drink for the elder woman.
"Thank you, William," Nanny accepted it, then offered the drink to Phillip. "Eloise is not that bad... She has her mother's looks and her father's sense of humor... Now, why don't we just calm d-"
"I don't drink..." Phillip declined right then and there and took his leave, shutting the door behind him.
Nanny sharply sighed.
"I don't want a tutor, Nanny." Eloise pouted.
"Eloise, if you don't get a tutor, then how will you learn?" Akito asked.
"Precisely..." Nanny agreed. "How unattractive that will be... Going through life uneducated. Besides, Phillip's having a bad time... He broke up with his girlfriend."
"But that was three years ago." Eloise pouted as she hid behind the chair with Ditto.
"Learning can be a wonderful experience, Eloise." Akito smiled.
"Yeah," Estelle added. "Why, Dad told us how excited your mother was about going to school for the first time."
Vincent covered her mouth with the four of them already having to experience the life of school. Estelle glared and Vincent shook his head at her about not mentioning school around Eloise.
"It's a terrible thing to have your heart broken..." Nanny continued about 'poor Phillip' as she sipped her drink and then let out a small hiccup.
"Here's what I like to do..." Eloise stared at the floor then. "Fix what's broken... Even broken hearts."
"That's right." Akito said.