I do not own these characters. Aladdin, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The Princess And The Frog, and Tangled are all owned by Disney. I write just for fun.

Hangtown - Volume IV

"Welp…that's me, you're probably wondering how I got myself in this situation, to be honest, I don't got a fucking clue, but here we are, might as well talk nonetheless"

"Hey Esmeralda, Esme, Ezzie, old friend, old chum, old…"

"Phoebus cut the BS, and say hi to me like a normal person", Esmeralda said cutting Phoebus off because the situation was getting a bit strange

"Right, sorry about that, anyways see that you gotten your hands full"

"Yeah, Naveen's feeling pretty under the weather, I told him to rest so he can save up that 'Big Naveen Energy', as he likes to call it, for whenever he comes back…and for his big party he hosting, which I am helping to promote as you can see"

"Oh, sorry to hear that, hope he gets better"

"Thanks"

They both pause in an awkward silence as they are both waiting for the other to say something to each other. Esmeralda continues to put flyers up, while Phoebus just stands in the exact same spot that he's been in the entire time for their conversation. Eventually, he is the first one to speak up.

"Well, I'm going to head off to class, I…"

"Don't want to be late", she finishes his sentence with a smirk, "I know Two Shoes, see you later"

"Yeah, see ya, catch you on the flipside". Phoebus makes his walk across the hallway…until,

"Phoebus," she says, stopping him from walking any further "Two things, one, stop being weird, and two no more offish interactions, I want to talk to you more, you still are one of my best friends"

Phoebus looks down to the floor, and then to Esmeralda's bright green eyes

"Ok, cool, will do," he says before continuing his walk again. All Esmeralda can do is sigh and watch.

Phoebus has his class and it is, for lack of better words, the epitome of boredom, he puts through it though because, one, his parents want the best for him and for him to succeed, and two, he wants the best for him and he wants to see himself succeed. After all, he really wants to pass all his classes. He manages his way through the hallway and eventually meets up with Quasimodo and spills the details about his interaction with Esmeralda.

"Hey man"

"Hey", responds Quasimodo back

"How was class?"

"Um, pretty boring, as usual, how about yourself?"

"About the same"

"Yeah, I figured", said Quasimodo as he and Phoebus continued to walk to their next class

"Hey Quasi"

"Yeah, Phoebus"

"Can I tell you something"

"Go on", Quasimodo speaks with a bit of intrigue in his voice

"As I was making my way through the hallways to get to class, I stumbled around Esmeralda"

"Really? How did that turn out"

"It went…okay, I guess"

"Why do you say, okay?"

"I don't know, she said I was a bit awkward, and she has a point, I mean I can't remember the last time that I had a good, genuine conversation with her, probably on the last day of junior year is my best guess"

"That's quite a while"

"Yeah, tell me about it, anyway, she had stopped as I was walking to class saying to me that she wanted to talk to me more"

"Well, are you?" Quasimodo asked curiously

"I'm not too sure, I still don't even know who out of the two of us started to just stop talking to each other"

"Was it when she started seeing Naveen more often?"

"No, and I think that's the craziest part about it, speaking of Naveen, do you know he is sick and Esmeralda has been sticking up those flyers about the party?"

"Really…interesting," says Quasimodo looking for the hallway that ties in with his next class. "Well this is my turn, see you at lunch", he says finding it

"Alright, see ya at lunch", said Phoebus to his friend as he made his way to his next class alone. As he was making his way to his next class, he overheard two girls having a conversation about the posters

"Ooh, this looks like it's going to be so much fun!", says the one girl excited about this poster, "We have to go and put on our best outfits"

"I don't know", says the other girl who is a bit skeptical, "This could be some way to stir up a whole bunch of trouble"

"Oh don't be silly Tia"

"She kinda has a point Charlotte", says Phoebus chiming in, "I mean the only real trouble is going to those teeth starring you right in your soul" he continued with a little chuckle from Tiana

"Which would be amazing Phoebus", said Charlotte trying to stand her ground, "I mean you wish that your teeth would be as white as his, Tia back me up on this"

"I mean Lottie, you do have a point, good hygiene is important, but can you imagine the creepiness of the smile just taking you under control" said Tiana giving her comments

"And you act like that's a bad thing, I want to be taken under control by someone who's fine like him" Charlotte, said with a wink

"Um, I wouldn't, one, because I have better stuff to do, two, I have better stuff to do, and three I have better stuff to do", chimed in Phoebus

"I'll say I have to agree", chimed in Tiana, "Like heading to class, Lottie, come on are going to be late

Charlotte sighs, "Fine, see ya Phoebus", she says and walks with Tiana to the opposite side of the hallway. Phoebus gives a wave to Tiana since she is also trying to class on time. She waves back and Phoebus goes on to his second class before lunch

Phoebus finishes his class and looks for Quasimodo so they can sit and eat lunch together. He eventually finds him in the long and treacherous hallway system, gets in line to get their lunch, finds a spot, and enjoys their midday meal. As they are eating their lunch, which is rice, chicken, some fruits, and vegetables with some water, they overhear some back-and-forth bickering between two people that they know so well

"Ok, you've had some pretty terrible ideas, but this outfit you put together, is one of the worst ideas you have ever pulled off," said one voice

"I get your concern but trust me, dude, this is going to work out," said the other voice

"In what fucking part of the space-time continuum is this going to work out"

"Flynn, buddy, friend, acquaintance…don't deny Ali, this is going to work"

From a distance, Phoebus and Quasimodo are looking on

"I don't know about you Quasi, as much as I want to enjoy my lunch before the second half of the day begins, a part of me wants to know, what going on on that table"

"Have you been reading my mind, because I have the same thought" Quasimodo responded to Phoebus as the two of them got up from their original spot and approached Flynn and Aladdin's table

"Hey you two knuckleheads, what seems to be the prob…what in the hell are you wearing Ali?" Phoebus said stopping his original thought to focus on the outfit choice of Aladdin who was wearing a shirt saying 'Hot Stuff', with a graphic of a variety of spicy peppers that had the peppers with smiles on their faces, some male short shorts, and some shoes that had flames with skull and crossbones on it. As for accessories, he had his hair slicked back and wearing a pair of aviator glasses. Aladdin gives his responses to Phoebus's comment

"What, you don't like the style, come on Phoebus get with the program, this is pretty fire, am I right?, Quasi, ain't I right?

"Um, I mean…yeah…you look…' creative'", said Quasimodo trying to be as nice as he could to his friend

"Ok, forget I even asked you, the real answer is going to come from Jasmine herself when she walks by"

"Is that right?", chimed in Phoebus who began to look off into the distance, "Well you better be prepared because she looks like she's headed our way

"Really!?", said Aladdin, starting to get a bit nervous, "How do you know?"

"Um, I'm pretty sure that she doesn't like to wear a lot of light blue-turquoise outfits all the time"

Aladdin gets a peek of the hallway and can confirm that the girl coming down from the hallway to the lunch hall is none other, but indeed Jasmine herself. Aladdin tries to give himself a little pep talk to himself

"Alright, bro, this is it…time to man the fuck up and be courageous as hell, you can do this…you can do this"

Jasmine is on her way to the lunch hall. As she approaches Aladdin tries to get in his best modeling pose. Jasmine now is in the lunch hall in line as she gets her lunch with her friends. After she makes it through the lunch line with her friends, she tries to find a seat. In that process, Aladdin makes his move since she is in his range of motion.

"Hey, Jasmine", he says with his best sexy accent with his best modeling pose

"Um…hey, Aladdin", says her just weirded out about the whole thing as she passed him by and found a place to sit with friends each lunch

"See, I told you it would work, she was totally impressed"

"As by impressed, you mean she thought you were a creep, a weirdo, and an all-around professional pervert", says Flynn chiming in about Aladdin's comment

"Oh ha ha ha, very funny Flynn", responds Aladdin sarcastically, "How about you talk to Rapunzel"

"And I will, and it will be better than whatever you tried to pull today"

"Oh really?"

"Yes really"

"Alright you two, that's enough, not trying to hear you guys fight", says Phoebus as he tries to mediate the situation, "Let's just continue eating our lunch"

"You're right, Phoebs, sorry about that Flynn"

"It's fine, sorry that I got a bit hostile with you"

"No worries, let's just move on"

"There we go", says Phoebus, "Now let's enjoy the rest of our lunch"

"For not too long", said Quasimodo who chimed in, "It's almost over, we got to get to class soon"

"Well, we better eat up quick"

And that's exactly what they tried to do, the four boys just trying to stuff as much lunch as they can. With the help of some water, they were able to do so. They each see each other out when heading for the second pair of classes today.

"Alight to you two later, bye", says Phoebus

"Great talk you guys", says Quasimodo

"See ya all", said Aladdin

"Bye, you guys", said Flynn as Phoebus was with Quasimodo and Aladdin was with Flynn as they were making their way for the second half of classes. Phoebus and Quasimodo continued conversing until they once again had to split paths of the hallway to get to their respective classes.

Once those two classes are done, Phoebus starts to walk back home to eat dinner, do some work, and go to bed. As he gets ready for bed he starts to think about the early conversation he had with Esmeralda

"Man, she wasn't kidding when she mentioned I looked awkward out there when I and her were conversing. I don't know why I was acting like that, and maybe I will never know, I mean I hope so…we'll just have to see where we are between the two of us. Hey, can't be all bad right, because she considers me still her friend, so somehow we are still on good terms. Kinda weird, awkward good terms, but good terms nonetheless. Anyway, I'm going to sleep, this day really kicked my ass."

MOVING FORWARD - NEXT WEEK

It's an all-new week and Phoebus is bringing an all-new attitude. Oh, who are we kidding, he's just the same. He does his usual morning routine, eating his breakfast while conversing with his parents, getting his bag ready for school, says bye to his dad, his mom kisses him on the cheek and he goes on his way as he notices once again how beautiful everything around his neighborhood looks so astonishing in the morning. He eventually reaches the school and enters the doors. He goes through the hallway as he's making his way and notices a small crowd forming in the middle of the hallway. He can't really make out much, but he sees there is a guy standing on a box with some flyers and a girl standing on the school floor next to him also holding flyers. He waits for more people to come and eventually, more people do come. He starts to speak

"Ehem, Ladies and Gentlemen, would you all please alert your attention to me!", the guy exclaimed

Phoebus looked on and with a little chuckle said to himself

"Well, looks like someone got better…really better"

Hey, guys, I'm back with a new volume of this story, find out if Aladdin is going to make a fool of himself more in front of Jasmine and what happens with Naveen getting everybody's attention...like he usually tries to do. That's happening next week. In the meantime, if you enjoyed this volume and the story overall at this point, consider leaving me a like, a review, and/or a private message. It will be greatly appreciated. Anyway, thanks to the people that have been reading and new people that have started to read. Look forward to a new chapter next week...See ya :)

I do not own these characters. Aladdin, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The Princess And The Frog, and Tangled are all owned by Disney. I write just for fun.