"I'm very disappointed in you four..." the Headmaster said to them, very firmly.
"We know, but it was Mrs. Hedwig, she was being so mean to us!" Eloise piped up.
"Especially to Robert!" Akito and Estelle added together.
"But it's rude to disobey and question her teaching methods..." the Headmaster shook his head at them. "Disobeying rules can be quite unacceptable."
"We know, sir; but we aren't ashamed of what we did, we just told her the truth and she's not only mean, she's evil; she wasn't even being fair she only shushed the rest of the students to hear Robert's report and even though that was fair, that was only the one fair thing she has ever done!" Vincent glared.
"Yeah!" Akito, Estelle, and Eloise agreed.
"I'm sorry, but rules are rules..." the Headmaster told them. "If you are sent into my office again, you will be expelled immediately!" he then told them firmly, but sounded soft compared to their teacher. "Oh, I know you're used to doing things your own way, especially you, Eloise, but here, it's the Hawthorne way or the highway. I'm sending you all home early today so you can think about your behavior and you'll return Monday with a productive school day. Now, I'll send your nanny to come get you..." he then started to call the Plaza Hotel line.
The Headmaster connected through the line, introduced himself, and handed the phone to Eloise since it was her nanny and the Fudo siblings' parents were out of the country with her mother.
"Hello, Ms. Thompson?" Eloise greeted softly. "It's me, Eloise with Akito, Estelle, and Vincent. Can you please connect us to Nanny?"
'I'm afraid she's out right now, dear.' Ms. Thompson informed on the other line.
"Oh, she is?" Eloise smiled a little. "We're getting out of school early today..." she then looked to the headmaster. "Nanny's out."
"Oh, if we can't have somebody to take you home, you'll have to just sit here in my office until 3:00, Hawthorne rules." the Headmaster informed.
Eloise didn't like the sound of that. "Ms. Thompson, aren't Bill or Maxine just getting off work about now?"
'Yes, actually.' Ms. Thompson then said.
"Yes!" The Fudo siblings cheered.
It was agreed then, the Fudo cousins just had to wait.
Ms. Thompson rang the bell at her desk to alert Bill and told him what happened and he headed for the door.
"Where are you off to?" Mr. Salamone asked him.
"To the school," Bill replied. "Eloise and her cousins got in trouble, so I have to bring her back."
"Can I go with you!?" Maxine sounded desperate.
"Sure." Bill said.
They both then left before Mr. Salamone could say anything.
"You seem really attached to Eloise, Max..." Bill noticed.
Maxine blushed a little. "Well..." she chuckled bashfully. "I actually would like to be a mom... When I first worked here, I didn't think I'd make it, but anything to feed my family... Plus, Eloise is just always so happy and cheerful, it actually doesn't bother me."
"That's wonderful to know; Eloise's cheerfulness doesn't bother me either." Bill told her.
"I don't get why everyone doesn't like it too much..." Maxine said. "Um... Bill, if you're not busy or doing anything after 5:00 tonight, would you like-"
"Oh, I'll be right back, I think I know what might cheer them up..." Bill left her on the streets for a moment and then rushed back into the hotel.
Maxine sighed and let him go. "That was so pointless anyway..." she mumbled to herself.
Maxine waited a while until she saw Bill come out with something that would cheer up Eloise, Akito, Estelle, and Vincent. "What are those!?"
"Well, this is Weenie, this is Lavitar and a Vulpix." Bill explained to her as he came with the kids' pets, knowing that they would cheer up the kids instantly.
"What on Earth...?" Maxine looked overwhelmed by the 'animals'. "Um... You're not going to bite me, are you?" she nervously asked the Pokemon.
Larvitar and Vulpix shook their heads, showing that they were nice and kind to all that were nice and kind to Eloise, Akito, Estelle, and Vincent.
Maxine's hand shook, but she found the strength to and pet the Pokemon. "Good... Whatever you ares..."
"I believe Akito, Vincent, and Estelle called them 'Pokemon'." Bill said.
"Ohhh... Okay..." Maxine smiled. "Let's get to the school then..."
They both then walked down the street to take Eloise, Vincent, Akito, and Estelle back to the hotel to cheer them up since Nanny was busy right now.
'I sure hope Bill will get here soon.' Akito thought to himself.
The kids lazily sat behind the headmaster's desk and were then called out of the school. Bill and Maxine decided to take the kids to the park.
While their pets did cheer them up, they were still down in the dumps about this whole school situation.
"Why don't you tell us what happened?" Maxine offered, loving to hear Eloise's stories. "They usually don't send you home early unless you get sick or you're in trouble..."
"Um, well, we did get in trouble, but we're not ashamed of what we said to that witch of a teacher." Akito said.
"I don't think we did anything bad though!" Eloise added. "She just made Robert feel bad during his oral report!"
"Oh, I know what that's like..." Maxine sighed. "Though, it couldn't have been worse than what happened to me..."
"What happened?" Vincent asked.
Maxine blushed and looked away. "I-It's kind of embarrassing even nowadays."
"Well, this is what happened..." Estelle said.
The cousins began to tell Bill and Maxine everything that happened.
"Wow, it's hard to stay quiet when you see something that's unfair about someone you care about..." Bill could understand that.
"But besides that, there's so many rules to follow all the time," Vincent added in. "You have to talk a certain way, you have to walk a straight line all the time, you have to wear the same clothes as everybody else, we just wanna be ourselves!"
"We don't want to be like everyone else." Estelle concluded.
"I miss staying at the Plaza with Nanny and all our friends," Eloise pouted. "We could be anyway we wanted to be there."
"Eloise, you don't know how badly I wanted to have your childhood when I was your age..." maxine sighed. "You really are one of the luckiest little girls in the world and your cousins get to experience it with you."
"I used to be..." Eloise frowned.
"Then why don't you four just quit school already?" Maxine asked.
"We just can't..." Eloise sighed. "Look, we made this deal with Bobby, and... Well... I think we might as well just forget about coming back to school on Monday..."
Nanny was walking down the street and noticed the four of them. "Children, what are you doing out of school so soon?"
"It's a long story, Nanny..." the Fudo cousins told her together.
"What happened?" Nanny asked.
The kids giggled sneakily.
Eloise told Nanny everything and they walked back to the room.
Mrs. Thornton even stopped the kids on the way over. "Eloise..."
"What is it now, Mrs. Thornton?" Eloise asked sadly.
"I've come to ask you where you've been," Mrs. Thornton told her. "I haven't seen or heard you for a very long time now!"
"We go to school now." Akito and Estelle told her.
"Oh, so that's why it's been so quiet around here..." Mrs. Thornton actually sounded sad about that.
"Yeah and we would love to quit school if it wasn't for the bet." Akito said.
"Oh... Sorry to hear that..." Mrs. Thornton backed off then.
"So, you all had a pretty bad time?" Nanny frowned to them, feeling sad for them.
"Yeah, that school is a nightmare." Estelle said.
There was a buzz then at the door.
"Oh, who could that be?" Nanny wondered and went to get it for them.
Yuko, Margarita, and Bruce smiled as they saw their friends and greeted them cheerfully.
"Guys, could you come down and play with us in the lobby until dinner?" Margarita asked.
"No, we can't..." Vincent replied. "We had a bad day at school. We just wanna do our homework and go to bed early."
"Yeah, where I promise that Monday is going to be the day that going to school stops." Akito told them.
"You sure you don't wanna play a prank on my brother Bobby?" Bruce offered with a malicious smile, but not as evil as his brother's.
Eloise's eyes lit up then. "I'm in!"
"Us too!" The Fudo siblings added in.
"Nanny, I don't think we'll be going to bed early after all." Vincent smiled to the woman.
Nanny smiled to them and allowed them to go off and have fun with their friends.
"Oh, this is going to be so entertaining." Vincent said.
Nanny smiled to them and she went back inside the room. The kids laughed as they were going to play a few pranks.
"Oh, I can't wait to see the look on Bobby's face when we prank him." Estelle giggled.
It started to sound like the way things used to in the Plaza, but they would quickly die out after bedtime. Bruce opened his and Bobby's mailbox while the others loaded with water balloons.
The kids giggled sneakily. Once the water balloons were in, Bruce looked innocent and sweet, he usually was, but normally not with his brother. Bobby was talking with their father and he was walking toward the mailboxes in the hotel.
'Here he comes.' Akito thought to himself.
"Quick, hide!" Yuko told the others.
The others hid away. Bobby walked to Ms. Thompson to collect the mail key and get the mail for his family. He pushed over the step ladder, climbed up on it, put the key in the hole and turned it. The others quietly snickered as they knew what was going to happen.
'Oh, this is going to be so priceless.' Estelle thought to herself with a quiet giggle.
Bobby opened the door and yelled out once the water balloons fell on, popped, and soaked him. This made the others laugh at him.
Bobby growled once he was soaking wet. "This has Eloise written all over it!"
"That was absolutely priceless; I am so glad we did that." Estelle said while giggling.
"I'LL GET YOU!" Bobby growled at the group.
"Run!" Vincent called and they all ran with laughs.
Bobby growled and chased after them all through the lobby.
"You'll never catch us!" Akito called out.
The kids split up into groups to avoid Bobby. The boys and girls hid away from each other. It seemed like things were just how they were before, only, since it was Friday, it wouldn't last after Sunday evening.
"He'll never find us." Estelle whispered.
Bobby eventually did find them and he chased them around the hotel.
The kids laughed and hollered as they ran until they would be called for dinner.
The fun lasted for a good while, but then, a caramel brown haired woman came down to the lobby. "Bruce, Bobby, time for dinner!" she called.
"Aw, we gotta go..." Bruce said to his friends. "It was really nice seeing you again, Eloise."
"Bye, Bruce..." Eloise gave Bruce a hug which made him blush, she then waved him off.
Bruce went off with his brother.
"BOBBY, YOU'RE ALL WET!" the woman shrieked.
"Don't remind me." Bobby groaned.
"I'm going to have to give you a bath after dinner tonight..." the woman scolded.
Bobby glared at the others as he went off with his mother and Bruce for dinner.
"Yuko!" a sharp Japanese voice called.
Yuko turned to see her father and turned to her friends. "I am having to go now... Sayonara!" she then waved quickly and went to meet her parents for dinner.
"Bye, Yuko!" The Fudo siblings waved back to her.
"I'm sorry we can't play more..." Margarita said to her friends. "But maybe another time?"
"Okay..." Eloise sighed, then hugged the girl. "Buenos noches, Margarita."
Margarita smiled, she then waved, hugged Eloise's cousins and went off to join her mother and aunt for dinner.
"Well, that was fun..." Eloise smiled, but then frowned. "I'm still upset about school though... Guys, I think it's time to tell Nanny the truth."
"I think it's time we told Nanny the truth as well." Akito said.
"It's like they always say." Estelle said.
"The truth will set you free." The Fudo siblings said in unison.
Eloise nodded. After dinner, the kids were getting ready for bed.