“This is so cool!”
“By rights, it ought to say “Well Done, Team,” hoặc something,” Meg pointed out. “But it’ll do since we couldn’t find anything else at the last minute.”
As good as his word, Mr Ratcliffe also provided alcohol but limited them all to only two coupons each. It was fair enough, thought Belle; this was a school after all, and none of them wanted its reputation to be sullied bởi wild drunken rampages on behalf of the students. But lack of alcohol didn’t stop it from being a good party.
“This is so cool!” squealed Lottie.
Meg laughed. “Well, don’t go thinking it’s always like this at school, Lottie! There’s a lot of hard work and serious stuff involved too!”
“Please!” Jim, who was standing nearby, glanced over at them. “When was the last time we did anything serious in this place?”
“Except form relationships?” Audrey added, squeezing his arm.
Meg grinned. “Ok, fair point!”
“Besides, we’re goin’ to the bờ biển, bãi biển soon and I can’t wait!” Lottie gushed.
In a far corner of the room, Rapunzel, Flynn, Aladdin và cây đèn thần and hoa nhài were watching the couples who were dancing.
“They’re such a cute couple,” hoa nhài sighed, leaning against Aladdin, and looking over at Belle and Adam.
“Speaking of which,” grinned Aladdin, turning to Flynn and Rapunzel, “I’m guessing bạn two are official now, then?”
Flynn flushed bright red. “Well, it was inevitable, we all knew that!”
“You always đã đưa ý kiến bạn liked brunettes!” Rapunzel pointed out, with a slight teasing pout.
Flynn shrugged and put an arm around her. “I was never serious. I like bạn blonde hoặc brunette; although bạn probably would look cute with brown hair.”
She began playing with a strand. “What if I cut it? I do keep tripping over it.”
“Would your mum let you?” asked Jasmine.
Rapunzel shrugged. “I don’t know.”
In another corner of the room, Merida and Linguini had been snogging for what felt like hours. Finally, breathless, they broke apart and Merida giggled at the look of astonishment still plastered on Linguini’s face. “Oh, come on, like bạn didn’t see this coming!”
Linguini went as red as both their hair. “Well...I did hope that...you might...like me back...like that.”
“Of course I do, bạn daft thing!” Merida ruffled his hair. “You might not be the sharpest tool in the box but you’re incredibly sweet and bạn make me laugh!”
Hercules grinned. “I think they make a good couple, don’t you?”
John chuckled. “Sure...if Linguini can put up with Merida wearing the trousers in that relationship!”
“Aw, come on, lay off her, guys,” đã đưa ý kiến Adam, pulling Belle into a hug as they came up. “After all, she won us the race.”
“Yeah, we should be grateful,” agreed Hercules, soberly. “Hey, so, when are bạn getting the stitches out, anyway?”
“Tomorrow, apparently,” Adam replied.
Belle gave him a teasing smile. “Don’t worry. I’ll hold your hand.”
Eventually, Mr Phil came into the hall and reminded them, gently, but firmly, that it was coming up for midnight and they all needed to be in bed.
“And, team,” he added, dashing a quick tear from his eye. “I just want bạn to know that I was proud of bạn all today. Especially Merida. bạn did the school proud.”
“Yeah, three cheers for Merida,” Aladdin và cây đèn thần said, raising his glass. “Hip-hip!”
“Hooray!” everyone else chorused.
“Hip-hip!”
“Hooray!”
“Hip-hip!”
“Hooray!”
“Aw, stop, guys! You’ll make my head big!” Merida grinned.
“it’s already big!” Flynn crowed.
“Punzy, thump him for me!”
Everyone laughed, and then they laughed even thêm when Rapunzel actually did hit him. “Ow!” laughed Flynn. “Ok, ok, at the risk of being hit again, I take it back!”
“Alight, everyone,” Mr Phil insisted. “Bed!”
So, everyone did as they were told and Mr Phil placed the trophy in the school trophy cabinet in the foyer before he too retired to sleep.
The tiếp theo morning, everyone was still buzzing about winning the race. Well, everyone except Belle and Adam, who had gone down to Dr Sweet’s surgery in order for Adam to have his stitches removed.
“I’ve đã đưa ý kiến it before, and I’ll say it again,” smiled Dr Sweet. “You’re lucky the wound wasn’t deeper.”
“But he’s going to be alright now?” Belle asked, slightly fearfully. “I mean, no infections hoặc anything?”
Dr Sweet laughed, kindly. “You’re worrying too much, Miss French! He’s going to be just fine.”
Adam grimaced as the last stitch was removed and then relaxed. “So I’m alright for the bờ biển, bãi biển trip, then?”
“As long as bạn don’t care about the scarring, yeah,” Dr Sweet replied.
Belle was slightly nervous about the bờ biển, bãi biển trip, and she confessed as much to Adam as they walked back into the school together. “How come?” Adam asked her.
“Well...” Belle took a deep breath. “My swimming costume just looks like an old schoolgirl one; bạn know, with the little shorts and very covered up here...” She gestured to her chest. “It makes me look very...non-sexy. I’m going to stand out against everyone else.”
“Well, they’re not going to care,” Adam replied, wisely, squeezing her hand. “And neither am I. bạn always look beautiful no matter what bạn wear.”
Belle smiled. “You’re very sweet. And very brave.”
Adam pulled her to him for a kiss. “Come on, we’d better get to Art class.”
“Alright, everyone,” đã đưa ý kiến Mr Wiggins, looking slightly flustered as he came into the room. “We have a new teaching assistant.”
“Teaching assistant?” Belle whispered as they sat down.
“Sometimes they get these like trainee assistants in for classes,” Rapunzel whispered. “Miss Maleficent started out as a teaching assistant, and look at her now!”
“This is Miss Ting-Ting!” announced Mr Wiggins, as a beautiful Chinese woman glided into the room. Now Belle understood his nervousness. The poor Art teacher was smitten. “Now, as bạn can see, Miss Ting-Ting” began Mr Wiggins, pulling what he thought was a meter stick from his bàn drawer and tapping the blackboard with it, “We’ve been studying the modern artists and-!”
He broke off with a nervous chuckle seeing that he had picked up the Mũi tên xanh hairband he had been wearing on Belle’s first ngày in Disney High and been pointing at the board with that. Miss Ting-Ting seemed to see the funny side of it, however.
“Aw!” Lottie whispered. “Isn’t that cute?”
Belle smiled to herself. It looked like yet another romance was blooming at Disney High.
“This is Miss Ting-Ting!”
