Walt Disney College

Chapter 21

"I brought some snacks. Brain food." Attina, one of Ariel's sisters, placed a tray of cheese and crackers on the table.

Desmond, Kida, Isabel, Elsa, Attina, Mateo, and Tinkerbell gathered chairs and sat around the table.

"We've done very well for just a day." Isabel said, chewing a cracker.

"Yeah, I think we got four scenes done!" Desmond smiled.

"Four isn't enough. It's Tuesday morning and we still have who knows how many scenes to go." Elsa sighed.

"That's enough time! I'm sure if we film at lunch and after school, we should have more done." Mateo said.

"The effects and green screen are no  problem." Tinkerbell reported.

"And everyone is willing to give their time." Attina said.

"Great! So we can do it! Don't give up too easily Elsa!" Kida took a few crackers and crammed them in her mouth.

"Competition week is coming up. People need to practice for that." Elsa told Attina.

"True. I know I promised Ariel I'd time her at first break. I'm free after school, I know that."

"It's okay. I'm sure Tiana's snacks will be enough." Elsa shrugged.

"For all participants? I don't think so. I can ask Megara if she'll make anything." Tink said.

"Thank you Tinkerbell." Elsa smiled gratefully.

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"So I told her not to open it, or it'd be disastrous. And guess what, it was."

Fawn rolled her eyes as Cinderella told her story to Aurora and Snow. She was partnered with her for Biology, and they needed to discuss the project!

She saw Andy pass by and gave him a small wave. He smiled back.

"Oh, Fawn! So sorry. Just grabbing a few things." Cinderella giggled and bounced up to Fawn.

"So, the biology assignment-"

"Of course! Whatever you won't do, I'll do. We can divide it. I'll write it down in my- Fawn, why is that boy staring at you?" Cinderella jerked her head towards Andy.

"Oh, Andy? He's a pal, no biggie." Fawn laughed.

Cinderella shrugged and wrote down her part in her notebook.

The bell rang and Cinderella said goodbye to Fawn and wandered off to her class.

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"Just take it easy, you do not want to chip your wood. You want it nice and smooth, and to do that, you have to carve carefully."

Rapunzel was taking Mr. Gipetto's carpentry class, and she hated it. At the start of the year, she'd thought it would be an easy course. She was wrong.

"Not meaning to stare or anything, but you kinda look like you want to murder your sculpture."

Rapunzel looked up to see a handsome face staring at her smugly.

"Well I kinda do." She huffed.

"Why? The poor guy never did anything. Ooh. You got a few chips in there." He inspected her sculpture, and Rapunzel's face got very hot.

"I'm not very good, okay?" She snatched the sculpture back and slammed it on her table.

"Ah, excellent work Eugene. A masterpiece indeed." Mr. Gipetto smiled.

That's when Rapunzel saw Eugene's work. It was a perfectly carved knight, with the sword and everything.

"I'm good at art, but I'm obviously not good at this." She pushed her sculpture lightly.

"Ah, Rapunzel. I'm sure of you give it your all you might get a fine sculpture too." Mr. Gipetto said.

When he left, Rapunzel turned to Eugene.

"Teach me your ways."

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"Just do it. Go up to her. Say something nerdy like, 'wanna study in the library?'" Wilbur said.

"Or something two people working on a project would say." Violet rolled her eyes.

Penny was secretly hoping she'd get paired up with Hiro, but instead she had Clio, who wasn't bad, but wasn't...Hiro.

"What do you mean?" Hiro spluttered. "I can't talk to her!"

"Well you need to talk if you're going to get this project done." Violet said.

"Oh look, she's coming over herself. We should go." Wilbur gestured for Violet and Penny to follow him.

"Ugh, fine." Penny groaned.

"Guysss! Don't- Oh, H-h-hi, Tiger Lily." Hiro put on a fake, wide, smile.

"You can just call me Lily. So, about this project. We need to create a model of these following rooms in the college." Lily pulled out a folded piece of paper and showed it to Hiro.

"Oh."

"So we can work on it together, or take different rooms and work on those individually." She smiled.

"Mhm."

"So...what do you wanna do?"

"Oh. We c-can work on it together." Hiro stuttered.

"Okay, we can meet up in the library at lunch. Bye!"

Hiro couldn't trust himself to speak, so he just waved.

"Oh hi Hiro. We totally weren't eavesdropping." Wilbur appeared beside him.

Hiro jumped back in surprise.

"You barely talked! C'mon Hiro!" Violet laughed.

"Uh, guys," Penny said, not wanting to talk about this anymore, "are we going to talk about that thing that was in that burnt, abandoned, warehouse?"

"Oh yeah, my substance. It must've turned mutant somehow." Hiro tapped his chin.

"Maybe there were some toxic stuff in there, then it fell on your...whatever and turned it into whatever that was." Violet shivered with disgust.

"And it's so big, if we were to touch it I'm sure we'd get swallowed." Wilbur exclaimed.

"I've really screwed up this time..." Hiro muttered.

"You haven't screwed up Hiro. You've just...had a setback." Penny patted his back.

"Righttt."