Chapter Three: School
(12 years later, in The year 2034)
A dark-skinned boy with medium long reddish brown curly hair got up to the sound of his alarm clock and rushed to the bathroom and brushed his teeth. He put on a red tee shirt, black sweatpants, and some slippers. He ran out of his bathroom and room, past the corridor, and into his parent's room. "Dad get up!" Simba said as his dad snored and fluttered his eyes open "Simba…..It's 5:50 am…go away" Simba rolled his eyes "you promised you'd show me the kingdom!" Simba said while looking around "..." was all he heard from Mufasa "fine" Simba said and he clenched his fist and punched Mufasa as hard as he could on his shoulder "OW!" Mufasa said while getting up "um…dad get changed" Simba said looking his dad up and down "No I thought I'd go up there in my boxers" Mufasa replied sarcastically "SHHH" Simba said pointing to his sleeping mother "no need to be quiet. I awake" Simba looked back at her sheepishly and smiled "I'm not mad, I kinda was already up before you came in," Sarabi said as she looked at them, she continued "...but, Simba you need to take this sweater it's kinda cold," she said as she took a black Nike jacket from under her pillow " 'ight, see ya later!" Simba said as he and Mufasa left the room.
They went up to the escalator, instead of the elevator because it was quicker. They made it up to the 55th floor and stood out of the office and into the rooftop. They sat down and Mufasa started speaking "Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom" Simba looks in awe at the busy and beautiful country that extends even farther "wooooow" Mufasa looks at the country then looks back at him, "A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun. One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here, and will rise with you as the new king" Simba looked at him and then back at the lands "And this will all be mine?" Simba said as his eyes focused on a tiny dark shadow area. "Everything." Mufasa said while looking at his apple watch "Everything the light touches. What about that shadowy town?" Simba asks and he looks back at Mufasa, whose face turns serious "That's beyond our borders. You must never go there, Simba" Simba scrunches his eyebrows "But I thought a king can do whatever he wants." Mufasa chuckled "oh Simba there's more to being king than getting your way all the time" Simba looked in awe, until….'RINGGGGG' and Zazu came running in "SIRE THUGS ARE ATTACKING THE BORDERLINE OF THE PRIDELANDS!" Zazu frantically while trying to catch his breath "Zazu tell Scar to take Simba to school wh-" "Can I come, dad, pleaseeee, I promise ill stay in the helicopter" Mufasa shakes his head "No! You have school, did you forget?" "Simba sighed and Mufasa grabbed his 44 Magnum and left. "Ugh, I can't ever go with him on his cool missions!" Zazu looked at him and gave him a small smile "You know you can chase those dumb, ugly, losers away when you're king…..Now cmon get changed before 7:20 and I'll take you to your uncle's house, so he can take you to school" Simba looked at his watch and looked shocked but then looked fine, so Simba went back to his room and the 6:30 reminder alarm rang, he zoomed to his room and went into the bathroom and rewashed his face, then he got out and put on stud earrings and he put on some chains, he also changed into Baggy grey sweatpants, a black shirt that says 'King' and Nike hoddie over it. Simba then grabbed his backpack and his iPhone that was charging (lucky him he's got the iPhone 27 lol) and ran out of the house and into Zazu's black Mercedes.
Simba attended school at Pridelanders high school and his teacher was Zazu! Zazu disguised himself as a math teacher so people wouldn't know he was head of security, for Mufasa. "I hope you did your homework," Zazu said as he looked at him through the mirror. 'Shit I forgot to do my homework, I'll have to borrow Nala's homework' Simba thought to himself "Yup, I did all my homework" Simba said with a fake smile. Zazu eyed him with a suspicious look but ignored it. They finally made it to Scar's house. "Ok, bye Simba" Zazu said as Simba got out of the car "bye!" Simba said as he watched Zazu drive away. Once he did Simba smirked and Scar opened the door "Ah…well if it isn't my favorite nephew" Scar said as he evilly smirked and let Simba come in "Guess what?" Simba said while looking in his pantry for a snack "oh, Simba you know how I hate guessing games" Scar said dramatically, Simba rolled his eyes "of course you do. Anyways my dad showed me the whole kingdom and ima rule it all" Scar rolled his eyes and caught as Simba threw him his car keys "forgive me for not leaping with joy, bad back you know" Simba grabbed Scar's coat and passed it to him "so when I'm king what will that make you" Simba said as he and Scar walked while Scar was putting on his coat "a monkey's uncle" Simba rolled 'that's true because I'm a monkey and your my uncle' Simba wanted to say "you're weird" was all he said. Scar smiled slyly "You have no idea" Simba rolled his eyes "So he showed the entire kingdom, huh" Simba nodded his head as they walked to Scar's driveway "He didn't show you what's beyond that rise at the northern border..?" they stop to face each other Simba looks down disappointed "No…..he said I can't go there" Scar unlocks his challenger, which causes Simba to look back at him "And he's absolutely right. It's far too dangerous. Only the bravest go there" Simba sighs "Welll, I'm brave. What's out th-!" "No Simba, a ghost town is far too dangerous-OOPS," Scar said acting fake surprised "WOAH A GHOST TOWN!" Simba says excitedly "oh god, I've said too much, well I suppose you would have figured it out you being so clever and all" Scar says. He bends to Simba's level "just promise me you won't visit that dreadful place" Simba thinks for a moment "I promise" Scar smiles "Oh yeah remember, uncle Scar, you said you'd let me walk to school" Simba looked at him slyly "Ah yes, I remember. Go ahead Simba" Simba already started running he waved goodbye and Scar thought 'getting rid of him would be easy'.
Simba was walking to school while waiting for his best friends Nala, Chumvi, and Malka. Nala is a light brown-skinned girl with curly long black hair with hints of yellowish brown on the bottom that was tied in a high ponytail with her edges done and was wearing gold hoop earrings. She has blueish-green eyes, she was also wearing a baggy tee shirt that said BOSS, it was tucked in her ripped jeans, she also wore plain white Nike jordans. Simba had a serious crush on her. Malka is a brownish-white boy because he is mixed and has brown eyes. He had jet black curly short hair, he was wearing a black tee shirt and blue jeans, and he wore a gold chain. Chumvi is a dark-skinned boy with dark brown short afro hair and dark brown eyes. He wore a white tee shirt that said DIS FACE THO, black baggy pants with white X's, and golden brown boots with a greyish brown hat. He wanted to walk to school because his friends were walkers. He saw Nala and his other friends leaving their neighborhood "SUP GUYS" he yelled over to them "HEYYY" they shouted back while going toward him they made it and walked in a horizontal line "So yall ready for the first day of school" Chumvi said while looking at his phone. Simba and Malka started laughing "What kind of dumb question is that?" Simba said while Malka agreed, nodding his head "yeah and the fact we get spring break homework was even dumber" Nala rolled her eyes "I'm not really excited but, I don't mind going back to school, all the teachers love me, so I know I'll have a good year. How about you?" She asked Chumvi who put his phone back in his pocket "eh kinda" he said while looking back at Simba and Malka "UGH I see the school" Simba groaned. They walked inside and Nala saw her two besties: Tama and Kula. Tama: has ivory skin, short blonde hair, and brown eyes. Tama wore a yellow Nike shirt and light blue jeans with white sneakers. Kula: has dark skin, dark brown hair in braids and she has dark brown eyes. Kula wore a brown oversized sweater with black jeans that were ripped on both sides of the knees. She also wore silver hoop earrings and soft brown slippers. Nala saw her two other besties and ran to them "Heyyyy Nala!" The two girls shouted "Hi Kula! Hi Tama!" Nala yelled as she ran and hugged them, Simba and his friends rolled their eyes and went to the other side of the lockers a few feet away from them. They hated the girls, except Nala of course, and the girls hated Simba's group, "keep rolling those eyes and maybe you'll find a brain back there" Tama yelled over to the boys' group "Tama, obviously, you'd say sum, your mouth is gigantic! So you can't really shut up" Simba replied Tama was about to go slap him but Nala and Kula held her back "It's okay Tama, he's not worth it," Kula said as Simba stuck his tongue out, Nala rolled her eyes "You guys fight over the littlest things. Grow up it's getting annoying" Nala said looking at both groups. She and Kula let go of Tama, and she took a breath "Nala, Simba is a bad influence, it's not a good idea you guys be friends! He is ugly, annoying, rude, stuck up…." Tama continued saying more bad stuff and Nala rolled her eyes and closed her locker "Tama, he's my best friend! I can't just leave him like that would be rude" Tama sighed "ugh! Fine!" Tama closed her locker, but something caught the school's attention "And these are the lockers" said a heavily accented Indian man. He was the janitor, "Over dere you see Simba, his father said he told him to give you a tour" Simba looked confused as the janitor continued talking to a shy blonde boy with blue eyes wearing a light blue tee shirt and brown trousers. Then all of a sudden Simba's phone rang "Hello…WHAT!...Ew, no way…..ugh…I'm not doing it…whyy…FINE!" Simba said as he rolled his eyes and put away his phone "sooo what happened" Malka said while looking at the new kid he walked to a locker nervously "ugh my dad said that I have to give that new kid a tour" Malka and Chumvi looked at each other, Nala just sighed "Simba you don't even know him and you're talking about him like he's your enemy! Just give him a chance!" Nala talked as if she was his parent which annoyed him and he rolled his eyes the bell rang and Simba grinned "oh well I don't wanna be late" Simba said as he ran off. Nala rolled her eyes and walked over to the new kid "Hey man what's good? I'm Nala! And you are?" he looked down shyly "I..I'm T..Tojo" he said, still looking down. Nala looked at her phone and saw it was one minute before the bell rang then she would be late 'oh no ima be late…but I can't leave Tojo' all of a sudden a woman with blonde hair and blue eyes comes in "Tojo there you are! Guess what you don't have to start school today, you'll start officially tomorrow" Tojo sighed in relief, and surprisingly Nala did too, "Welp buh-byeee," Nala said as she ran to her first class and he waved back.
The final bell rang and Nala made it a second before it rang. Panting, Nala sat down next to Simba, who looked at her and smirked. She rolled her eyes and grabbed her notebook, pencil, and homework "Uhm N-Nala" Nala scoffed "lemme guess you want to copy my homework. Hm?" Simba nodded, Nala grabbed her homework from her paper and gave it to him, he stared at it blankly "oh my god! Simba what is wrong with you? You seriously left your HOMEWORK! How does anybody do that? Ugh, who am I kidding. I should know what to expect, cuz your not ANYBODY but…..It's not hard to forget pape-or maybe it is. Teachers can't expect to give us homework over spring break
and think we'll do it." Simba laughs sheepishly and smiles, Nala then grabs an empty homework paper and gives it to him "Phew! Thank you, Nala! You legit my favorite best friend." Simba said as he started copying down the answers from her homework to his. Nala rolled her eyes "you owe me." Nala said while taking her phone out to go to TikTok. Jacob: a student who was sitting behind them, couldn't miss the opportunity of saying "Simba likes Nala! Haha! Simba and Nala sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G first co-" Simba and Nala stuck their middle finger at him, which shut him up. Simba gave Nala her homework and then two teachers came in, "Hello students I'm Professor Zazu and this is Mr. Stewart. We were late because of a meeting" Simba rolls his eyes and whispers to Nala "ha! More like a death mission" Nala smiles "Simba would you like to say that to the class" said with a smirk "Nope das why I whispered it" Simba said as the smirk disappeared "well time to check if you did your homework" Zazu says as he snickers, Simba rolls his eyes "Okay….eh it's all right Jacob…dear god Luka….you can do better Kayla…..You to Layla…..seriously Nia…Excellent job as always Nala….hmm…Simba?" Zazu says as he looks at Simba's paper "yes?"
Simba asks confused "Why does your paper say Nala's name at the top?" Simba looks at Nala and then back at the teacher "Uhm I was talking to Nala when I was doing my homework and I wrote her name on accident. You see when I talk to people and do stuff it just gets in the way…..its…..peoplestuffititus…ya its peoplestuffititus…mhm das what I have" Zazu raised an eyebrow "cough..bullshit..cough" Zazu looked at Nala in shock "Nala, please refrain from using bad language! Please and thank you!" Nala rolled her eyes "my. Bad." She said as she looked at giggling Nia "Nia shut up! At least I didn't get all the answers on my paper wrong" Nia went silent and the class went by.
Nala and her group along with Simba and his group were walking in the hallways and Simba seemed to be smiling about something "TOMORROW IS BASKETBALL TRYOUTS! I'M THE BEST AT BASKETBALL, I'M GONNA ACE TRYOUTS!" Chumvi laughed "you right man, me, you, and Malka are de G.O.A.T!" Nala smiled "I know right! Tomorrow is cheerleading tryouts. Me and Kula will definitely get picked!" Nala said as Kula squealed and hugged her. Tama rolled her eyes "Ha! Your guy's sports suck! Ima play football and win!" They all laughed in shock "HA! Don't kill me with laughter haha! Please tell me your joking!" Nala said while posing for a picture with Kula "no, I'm serious" everyone stopped laughing "Bro you don't even play football" Chumvi said while rolling his eyes "I-I can learn" Tama said while looking down "well you better hurry cuz tryouts are tomorrow" Malka said as they walked out the school Tama rolled her eyes and her and Kula started heading to the bus "Bye NALA" they said in unison "BUH-BYEE GIRLSS!" she said as her and the boy's group started walking home. "So…" Simba started "after tomorrow, my house?" Chumvi said as he walked into his neighborhood with Malka "Sure!" Simba and Nala said as they walked away. Nala saw her neighborhood and the castle ahead "well Simba, I gotta go." Nala said as her mother, Sarafina stood there and waved at her "bye Nala" Simba said as looked at his watch to check the time "Buh-bye Simba" she replied as hugged him. Simba didn't realize he was hugging Nala too tight "Simba?" he quickly let go "m-my bad" Nala giggled "uh huh, buh-bye" Simba grinned "byeee," he said as he ran towards the castle.