"That woman is evil just pure evil." Estelle whispered.
"You said it..." Vincent sighed.
Jenny caught up with them.
"Jenny, how do you put up with going to school here?" Vincent asked the girl he liked.
"I just do..." Jenny sighed. "I know it's hard, but it won't last too long... I'm really sorry."
"Hasn't anyone ever you know told their parents about this school and replace the teachers that are mean or evil with teachers that are nice and kind and fair?" Akito asked.
"That's the thing about prep schools," Jenny said to him. "All the teachers are like that unlike public schools."
"Why?" the twins asked.
Jenny honestly shrugged. "That's just the way things have been in prep schools, just be thankful you're not in a Catholic school."
"Why?" Vincent asked. "What happens there?"
"My mother went to one," Jenny winced then. "If you use your left hand to write, they'll hit you with a ruler because they believe that left-handed people are the devil's minions."
"Yeesh." Akito said.
"Eloise, what do we do; if we quit school, we lose the bet; if we don't quit school, this school is going to be a complete nightmare!" Estelle said out of worry of what to do.
Eloise sighed, agreeing with her. "We can't quit... We can do this, I know we can!"
Nanny met them at the door and walked them back to the hotel. Things were very quiet in the hotel and it was very bothersome to most.
"Eloise and the gang!" Charlie smiled to the kids.
"Hi, Charlie..." the kids muttered to her.
Charlie frowned. "School not go too well today?"
"Sorry, but we have homework to do, I don't think we'll be down for the rest of the afternoon." Eloise said, sounding her complete opposite today.
"Yeah, the teachers there are terrible, they are evil, evil I say!" Estelle cried out.
"I'm sorry to hear that, kids..." Charlie attempted to soothe them.
The four kids then went to the elevator to get to Eloise's room and get started on their homework. Bill looked very sad to see Eloise so down in the dumps, he hadn't seen her like this ever since it was likely her mother wouldn't be able to make it home for Christmas.
"Maxine, do you hear that?" Mr. Salomone asked an employee standing next to him behind the front desk.
The girl, Max, looked around, put her hand to her ear and shrugged. "I give up... What am I hearing? I don't hear anything..."
"Exactly!" Mr. Salamone laughed since Eloise was quiet for a change.
"Yeah, it's quiet and I find it weird." Maxine said.
"Well, get used to it..." Mr. Salamone laughed rather villanously.
Max glanced at her boss. "Um... Right..." she then looked to the lobby to see guests coming in. "Uh, I'm gonna say hello!" she then zipepd off to meet the new hotel guests.
Eloise sighed as she went up the elevator with her cousins and nanny.
"Hey, guys!" Bobby greeted them sinisterly as always.
"Hey, Bobby." Akito said, uncaringly.
Estelle, Vincent, and Eloise just folded their arms at the evil twin boy.
"Just came by to find out how your first day of school went." Bobby smiled evilly to them.
"It was absolutely wonderfully..." Eloise replied in her usual optimism, but wasn't happy at all.
"That's not what Edwin said..." Bobby mocked them.
"Oh, really?" Estelle asked. "What did he tell you?"
"Oh, just that you're the laughing stock of the class and high class troublemakers." Bobby mocked.
"What do you want, Bobby?" Eloise sounded impatient with him.
"I just thought I'd introduce my new turtle and Pokemon to my room..." Bobby rubbed his hands together.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Nanny had not known about the wager that the kids made together.
"Nothing," Estelle and Akito told her.
"Go away, Bobby," Vincent pointed away. "You're lucky we won't hurt you."
Bobby laughed and did walk away.
"Eloise, please, please, please, we have to tell Nanny about the bet, so then it can be called so then no one loses anything; please, I beg of you." Estelle whispered.
"We can't let Bobby win though, we can get through this, I know that we can..." Eloise insisted. "We'll just make the most of it!":
Her cousins sighed, just feeling this wasn't going to work out like they had hoped.
Weenie greeted his young mistress as soon as she opened the door and was eager to play with her.
Eloise went into her room with Akito, Estelle, and Vincent to get started on their homework and shut the door behind them so they would have some quiet. "It was only the first day..." she said to her cousins. "I'm sure it'll get better..."
"No it won't, I can already tell that it won't, let's just call off the bet; that way we won't have to lose anything." Akito said.
"You guys don't know Bobby like I know Bobby..." Eloise said to her cousins. "If we lose, I'll never hear the end of it, but I am positively, absolutely angry!"
"So, you're not gonna let it stop you?" Estelle asked.
"I don't quit!" Eloise folded her arms. "Just ask the grown-ups who work here, I never quit and I won't let Mrs. Hedwig push us around!"
"Please, Eloise, just this time and we'll never let you quit on anything ever again, please!" Vincent begged while kneeling down on the ground.
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna still go back to school and show them!" Eloise insisted. "Nanny always tells me to try something new and not let it stand in my way and that's what I'm going to do."
'This girl is going to drive us insane.' Vincent thought to himself.
Akito and Estelle weren't so sure about trying school again, but maybe thought that Eloise was right and helped her out with her homework as requested. Eloise did not come back down from her room after she went upstairs, which worried the hotel staff.
Bill and Charlie even commented it was way too quiet and felt too eerie with Eloise being away from the hotel due to being a school student now.
"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" Max wailed and tried to run out the front doors.
"Maxine, calm down!" Mr. Salamone said.
"Yes, sir..." Max bit her lip in fear of disappointing her superior and went back to behind the desk, fiddling with her white gloves.
"Besides, ever since Eloise went to school; it's been quiet and I have been enjoying it." Mr. Salamone said.
The others glanced to him, but gave grim smiles to keep him in a good mood. Mr. Salamone nodded and was called upstairs, so he left. The others then frowned, really missing Eloise, even if she was annoying half of the time.
Eloise concentrated her best on her homework with her cousins as she wrote with a pink pen and chose her words rather carefully.
'Maybe Eloise is right; maybe this will get better.' Estelle thought to herself.
After Eloise wrote her paper, she gave it to Vincent to check.
Vincent skimmed through the paper. "It looks fine to me..."
"I even found skitter in the dictionary!" Eloise folded her arms. "I'll show her what's not a real word!"
"Yeah!" Akito and Estelle nodded.
Eloise put the paper in her bag, ready to take to school. "I feel much better... But I think I wanna stay up here..."
"Us too." Akito and Estelle agreed.
"Yeah, big day..." Vincent nodded, going to stay with them. He then looked around the room. "Must be cool living in the Plaza with your nanny, Ellie..."
"It's okay..." Eloise shrugged with a small smile. "Sometimes I wish Mother could stay with me."
"And I bet she wishes for the same thing." Vincent said.
Eloise smiled to her cousins and hugged them, feeling a little bit better. Nanny saw this and smiled herself and started to order room service for their dinner.