Anna was really excited. It was her first middle school sleepover with her new friends that she'd only known a week. It was about two hours after school had ended, and she was scrambling around, trying to find all the things she needed for the sleepover. "Let's see… Sleeping bag, pillow, toothbrush, pajamas… What else?"
Elsa was standing and watching Anna run around. She smiled, then shouted, "You'll need a bag to put everything in!"
Anna stopped in her tracks. "A bag. Right. Is there one in here?" She peeking into a closet. "Nope. What about here… Aha! Found one!"
Elsa shook her head, smiling. She handed Anna her phone, then ushered her out the door where their mom was waiting to take her to Rapunzel's house. They stayed silent in the car, but once they arrived, Anna's mom turned to her and said, "Have a good time, ok sweetie? I love you!"
Anna smiled. "Love you too, mom." She hopped out of the car and waved as her mom drove away, then walked up to the house and rang the doorbell. Merida answered the door and grinned, then turned and yelled back into the house, "Guys, she's here!"
Punzie appeared behind her, and said, "Come on in, Anna. We're ordering pizza!"
"Ok!" Anna said happily. She followed Merida and Rapunzel across the house and into the basement, still carrying her stuff.
Ariel looked up from the movie she was watching when they entered the room. She gestured at Anna to sit on the couch. Anna put her stuff down beside everyone else's and sat on the sofa between Ariel and Merida. Rapunzel sat on the floor. After about ten minutes into the movie, without moving her eyes from the screen, Anna whispered, "What movie is this?"
Merida whispered back. "Paper Towns."
The doorbell rang, shocking them out of their movie watching reverie. Punzie quickly paused the movie, and they all followed Anna upstairs and to the door, reaching it before Rapunzel's mother could even get out of the kitchen. Anna opened the door and saw a familiar boy wearing a baseball cap. "Tadashi!" she yelled, scaring him slightly.
"Hey, Anna! Fancy meeting you here." Tadashi replied.
"Hold on a second!" Merida said, gesturing to Anna. "You know the pizza guy?"
Anna shrugged. "Well, you could say we order pizza a lot. Also, he's Hiro's brother."
The group of girls let out a collective, "Oh."
"Well, thanks for the pizza!" Rapunzel said, grabbing the box and handing Tadashi some money. The girls all let out their own goodbyes.
"Goodbye! Say hi to Hiro for me!"
"Bye, Tadashi!"
"I like your hat!"
Tadashi looked back and waved, before getting into the car and driving away. The group of girls trooped back downstairs to finish the movie and eat pizza.
"So, what do you all usually do during sleepovers, besides watch movies and eat pizza?"
The movie had ended, so all of them were just relaxing on the couch talking. Merida had somehow managed to turn herself all the way around so that her feet laid across the back of the couch and her head was almost touching the floor.
"Well…" she said, turning herself back around so that she was sitting upright. "Usually we play games, like typical sleepover games. Truth or Dare, Never have I ever, stuff like that. Sometimes we do other things, though. One time we played manhunt in the backyard, in the dark, without flashlights. It was terrifying, but also really fun. But, most of the time during sleepovers we just hang out and talk about our lives."
Anna seemed satisfied with that answer. They continued talking for a few moments until Ariel stood up and proclaimed, "I think we should play a game!"
"Ok!" Punzie said, standing up also. "What should we play?"
Merida looked out the basement window. "It's too light outside for manhunt, and it's not to our eleven o'clock curfew yet…"
Anna looked startled. "We have to be inside by eleven?"
"No, we have to be on the property by eleven." Merida said. "We can go anywhere we want in the woods, but usually we make it back inside by one in the morning."
"What's the latest you all have stayed up?"
Merida thought a bit. "Um, I think about five o'clock in the morning. Yeah, probably around five or five thirty."
"Wow."
Rapunzel interrupted their conversation. "We decided what to play since you all were busy. Let's play 20 questions"
About a million questions later, they were without a game to play once again. So, Merida said, "Hey, it's dark enough to play manhunt! C'mon! Let's go!"
Ariel quickly took over. "Ok, so who wants to be the person being chased first?"
Nobody raised their hand. Ariel looked around at everybody and sighed. "Fine, Anna's the person being chased. She's the newest."
"What do I have to do?" Anna asked, slightly scared.
Merida put a hand on Anna's shoulder. "Relax! It's just like hide and seek, but in reverse, and with a cooler title. All you gotta do is run and hide and try not to get caught. Ok?"
"Ok, do I go now?"
"Yeah, go! We'll count."
Anna ran into the woods, trying to make as little noise as possible, while the remaining girls got into a group huddle and started counting loudly. The woods were dark at night, and Anna was kind of scared, but she still found a rock to hide behind. In the distance, the shouts of "We're coming to get you!" were heard, and the game began.
The rustling of leaves and the stomping of feet echoed through the forest. Anna peeked around the rock, trying to see if anyone was approaching her. Suddenly, out of nowhere, someone jumped behind the rock and yelled, "Aha!"
Anna screamed and ran, not stopping to see who the person was. She made it back to the house and turned around to see Punzie run out of the woods. She ran towards Anna, and Anna, having nowhere to go, runs around the front of the house and jumps on the porch. Rapunzel rounded the corner, and stopping, seeing Anna on the porch. She smiled and yelled, "You won!" before turning in the direction of the woods and shouting, "You can come out now, she won!"
The rest of the girls came out of the woods and congratulated Anna, before starting another game of manhunt.
They played a few more rounds, but eventually they got tired and went inside. Rather than playing more games, they watched movies until early in the morning and fell asleep watching Lilo and Stitch.
The next morning, nobody woke up until noon.
Yay! So that's another chapter! It's only a filler, but for some reason, it's the longest chapter so far in this fanfic. ^.^ I might end up updating twice tomorrow, or just not updating on Saturday because I have to travel to Virginia that day, and I will have sucky/no wifi. There is no good wifi in Virginia, to my knowledge. Idk, i'll just have to see how it goes. But, I will be updating tomorrow, so see you then!
-D&ATF :)