Walt Disney Academy

seven

E L S A

"Which class are you in now?" Ariel asked me as we pushed our way past other students to leave the Music corridor. As my mentor, Ariel had to leave class early and arrive to class late because she was hiking all the way to the opposite end of the Academy to take me to my classes. I did feel really awful about it, but she insisted that she loved being my mentor, which made me feel slightly better.

"Maths with Mr...Zienlinski?"

"Call him Jafar. Never to his face, though," She told me, linking her arm with mine. She glanced down at her timetable and sighed. "Shoot, I got Art. Do we have any classes together?" She pouted and I just chuckled quietly. We walked in silence for a few seconds until she stopped at a line waiting outside a classroom with a blood red door.

"This is you," She told me, examining my classmates. "He's mean, but just try your best and keep your head down. I'll pick you up after class, alright?"

"See you then," I smiled as she rushed off down the corridor, trying not to be late to her Art class. I stood behind a girl with soft brown hair and the classroom door swung open, causing me to jump slightly.

"In you come," Jafar sneered at us, disappearing into the classroom, expecting us to follow. A few students began to talk quietly among themselves as we made our way into the Maths room.

"Silence!" He shouted as we filed into his class. "I have a seating plan, so just stand at the back of the room."

The whole class groaned, but they were cut off by Jafar hitting the front desk with a measuring ruler. "I said silence!"

My eyes widened and I silently followed the girl with the soft brown hair to the back of the room.

"Firstly, Aladdin, get to the back of the room. I don't want to see your face more than I have to. Now, at the front of the room, from left to right, Alice, Adam, Mulan. In the middle is Eric and Jasmine. Then Phoebus..." The students shuffled around, making their way to their desks. I watched as almost everyone else was assigned a seat, and I glanced around to see I was the only student left standing. I instantly turned pink, knowing he must have forgotten about me because I was new. Without looking up from his seating plan, he spoke again.

"Lastly, Elsa, you'll have the unfortunate displeasure of sitting beside Aladdin for the rest of the school year."

I looked up to see that the last free seat was beside the boy from the office line. More recently, the boy I had accidentally bumped into this morning.

I pulled out the seat and quickly sat down, grabbing my maths notebook and a pen from my bag. Jafar started talking about the syllabus for the year, and I wrote it all down, but I didn't care to pay attention to what he was saying.

As Jafar was barking about the importance of Pythagoras's theorem, he was interrupted by a phone call, which made him briskly leave the room without an explanation.

"Complete up to question 5 before I get back," He muttered as he pulled the door open, slamming it harshly behind him.

The class erupted into noise, a few of the boys sitting along the back to my right started throwing paper airplanes and crumpled pieces of paper at the students at the front of the room, and I was very, very grateful I was placed at the back.

"Sorry again about this morning, I hope my directions were useful," Aladdin spoke up suddenly, not making eye contact. I smiled slighty.

"It was my fault, so I'm sorry."

That made him look up at me, cracking a small grin. "Are you liking it here so far?"

I set my pen down for a few seconds to think. "Yeah, I am. I was originally going to be attending Dreamworks but my guardians changed their mind at the last minute." I smiled awkwardly at him. "I'm glad they chose here, though."