Eloise was curled up against her caregiver and hugged her deeply. "Nanny, we don't want to go to school," she finally came out with it. "It's right for anyone else, but it's not right for us... We miss you so much, and I miss everyone in the hotel! I even miss Philip..."

"You must be upset..." Nanny knew how much Eloise hated her tutor.

"But we don't wanna let Mother, Uncle Atticus or Aunt Mo down..." Eloise frowned.

"We just don't wanna go back to school..." Vincent begged. "I like seeing Jenny all the time now, but this school is just too much for us."

"You would never let any of us down, dears..." Nanny soothed them. "But if you guys leave school, what are you going to do without Skipperdy or your Pokemon?" she asked, revealing she had known about the bet all along.

"We'll think of something." Akito said.

"I can't believe we made that bet..." Estelle sighed.

"If only there was a way that we didn't have to lose them." Akito said before getting an idea.

"Get some rest..." Nanny hugged them all. "I'll see what I can do with Philip for after your cousins go back home, Eloise."

Eloise nodded and went to her bed to get some sleep.

"What're you thinking?" Estelle asked her twin, knowing that look in his eye.

Akito began to whisper to his twin about his idea AKA entire plan.

Estelle's eyes widened, but she smiled and nodded. "Perfect!" she chirped. "But wait until later..."

"Oh, yeah, of course..." Akito nodded to her.

Eloise and Vincent went in the room, unaware of what was going on between the twins.

"Well, we better get to sleep." Akito smiled.

"Guys, I actually feel a little better now..." Eloise said to her cousins once she got into her bed and Weenie joined her. "I'm glad we told Nanny the truth."

"The truth is always very important." Vincent told her.

"Yeah," Estelle nodded. " You should always tell the truth."

"And I will from now on..." Eloise nodded with a promise. "Well... As much as I possibly can."

The others laughed a little with her about that.

"Hey, now, you four, it's bedtime!" Nanny reminded them.

"Sorry, Nanny!" the four cousins said before winding down and getting ready to go to sleep.

Akito and Estelle were going to unleash his plan. Eloise and Vincent had fallen fast asleep. Lavitar and Vulpix nuzzled against Akito and Vincent while Weenie and Skipperdy nuzzled against Eloise. Estelle hugged her Pokemon egg in her sleep.

'I sure hope that tomorrow is a much better day than these school days have been for them.' Larvitar thought to himself.

Nanny gave a call to Darla, Atticus, and Mo to tell them what had happened.

"So that's what happened." Atticus sighed as soon as Nanny told all three of them.

"Yes, I'm afraid so..." Nanny replied.

"Oh, my poor baby..." Darla sighed, shaking her head. "I should've known she wouldn't like it..."

"Well, I'm glad they came out and told the truth, even if it was hard on them," Mo added. "We always knew homeschooling would be best for the kids."

"I've let Eloise go to nursery school, but it was too much for the teachers that they all quit, so I asked Philip to tutor her." Darla added.

"Philip's said he's quit, but Eloise misses him." Nanny remarked.

"Maybe I should talk with him..." Darla had a sneaky tone of voice.

"I'm sure he'll say yes as soon as he hears that Eloise misses him." Atticus said.

"Eloise has always been a high strung one, I think she gets that from Urchin." Darla remarked.

"Darla, could you patch me through to Philip?" Nanny requested.

"Of course, send her my love." Darla agreed.

"Same with us to Akito, Estelle, and Vincent." Atticus and Mo said in unison.

"No problem, you all have a good night now." Nanny smiled before hanging up on them.

"Hopefully Phillip will agree to become Eloise's tutor again." Atticus said.

"Oh, I'm sure he will..." Darla said as she kept the phone in her hand, but pushed a button to patch through another line and put the phone to her ear. "Philip Marcus please."

"Philip Marcus speaking?" Philip answered.

"Philip, it's me, Darla..." the blonde woman greeted, batting her eyelashes.

"Ms. Fudo!" Philip gasped. "Look, I'm very sorry, but I'm afraid I can't tutor your daughter, niece, and nephews anymore! Eloise was bad enough on her own, but-"

"Philip, I know..." Darla nearly narrowed her eyes. "And they're sorry for their misbehavior."

"Oh, they are?" Philip questioned.

"Yes and Eloise misses you." Darla said.

"She... She does?" Philip sounded amazed, but then narrowed his eyes. "How do you know she wasn't lying?"

"Eloise would never lie to me..." Darla insisted. "Yes, she might play sick or cause mischeif, but I am her mother and I know my daughter. What do you say you come see them sometime again soon?"

"Well... I'm flattered..." Philip considered it.

"So you'll come back?" Darla asked.

"Yes, I'll come back..." Philip confirmed.

Darla told Atticus and Mo, they then celebrated and she went back on the phone. "Thank you, Philip..." she smiled as she curled the cord against her fingertips. "It was pleasure doing business with you..." she then peacefully hung up and celebrated with her adoptive brother and sister-in-law.

"This is amazing news! No, joyful news!" Mo cheered.

Darla giggled and hugged them. "I'm so glad they told us the truth..."

"So am I, that school they went to did make it sound like it was a nightmare." Atticus said.

"That's just how Prep Schools are..." Mo sighed. "They always push the kids to follow strict rules... I never understood them."

"Is that like the school James and Elizabeth sent you to?" Darla asked.

"Oh, no, they sent me to a private school, it still had strict rules, but it was much more pleasant than that Hawthorne place." Mo reassured.

"And I'm so glad that it wasn't as unpleasant as that terrible place." Atticus said.

"I heard Mr. Salamone went with his brother when they were kids..." Darla muttered. "I should've known he'd make arrangements for them to go there..."

After breakfast, Nanny told the kids to go downstairs in the Palm Court and that someone wanted to meet them there, but she didn't say who, but told them to be on their very best behavior. The four of them were confused of why they needed to be on their best behavior downstairs, but agreed with Nanny that they would be on their best behavior. They waited patiently, the others greeted them, but continued to work as today was a bit of a busy day due to being the weekend.

"Children..." Philip arrived, surprising them.

"Good afternoon, Philip," Eloise shook his hand politely. "It's lovely to see you again."

"Yes, very lovely to see you again." Estelle said before she curtsied.

Akito and Vincent bowed in equal response.

"Impressive..." Philip was surprised and took a seat.

A waiter came to take their drink orders.

"Just coffee for me please." Philip told the waiter.

"Just a glass of milk please." The Fudo siblings told the waiter.

"Shaken, not stirred." Eloise added maturely, surprising Philip.

The waiter nodded and walked off to fetch them their drink orders.

"My, my, my, you four certainly have matured since the last time I was here." Philip said surprised.

"We'd just like to apologize for our rather risky behavior the last time we saw you," Vincent spoke up. "And we'll make it up in any way we can."

Philip's eyes widened. "Apology accepted... Perhaps going to school was a better fit for you with no tutor around."

"I don't think we'd fit in..." Eloise shook her head, but smiled. "Though we learned so much there, such as respect for others and, well, I didn't know how good I had it when you were my tutor even before Aktio, Estelle, and Vincent came to stay."

"That's very nice of you to say..." Philip smiled a little.

"Please come back, we know you're angry with us, but you were a little strict and boring," Estelle spoke up. "But we know that it could be worse."

"Nanny said Eloise took you for 'granite' and I think she's right." Akito added, though he misworded that.

"Yeah." Estelle and Vincent nodded.

"I believe she said Eloise took me for 'granted'," Philip corrected, catching the error. "And I guess you didn't like school?"

"Please, school was too much, just please come tutor us again and we promise that we'll try to be more cooperative." Eloise was nearly begging.

"Eloise, I must say I'm surprised you're asking me to come back..." Philip replied as the waiter came back with their drinks.

"Please, please, please, please." Estelle begged.

Akito and Vincent got down on their knees.

"Children, please, get back in your seats!" Philip whispered, seeming embarrassed that children were on their knees and begging to him.

"Pretty pretty please with a cherry on top?" Eloise batted her eyelashes, reminiscent of her mother as a child.

"Okay... I'll come back." Philip gave in then.

"Oh, thank you, Phillip." The Fudo cousins said before going back to their seats.

Eloise did a great big cheer, but she toned it down once she saw Philip looked miserable. "Oh, everybody please excuse my happiness..." she then said politely and joined her cousins back down in her own seat. "I apologize for that, Philip."

"What're you doing right after this?" Philip asked them.

The kids frowned, feeling like they would have to learn during the weekend.

"I'm just kidding," Philip chuckled. "We can start again on Monday."

"Better make it Tuesday, we have something we need to do on Monday." Eloise informed.

Philip nodded and agreed to that.

"Actually I think you better make that appointment on Monday, Eloise because I have a plan." Akito said.

"How about in the afternoon?" Philip compromised.

"Deal." Eloise nodded to that herself.

After a drink, Philip went to get home for the rest of the day and the kids walked out of the court.

"So, what's this plan of yours, Akito?" Vincent asked his brother.

Akito began to whisper his plan to his older brother and cousin.

"Ooh..." the others liked the sound of that.

"Let's do it then!" Eloise put her hands together. "Guys, I know it was hard, but I want to go back to school for just one more day. To say goodbye to all the friends we made."

"Okay, one more day, the very last day." Akito said.

"Yes... I promise..." Eloise told them.

AKito, Estelle, and Vincent agreed to that, besides, Vincent should say goodbye to Jenny. The kids then went back to see Nanny and they felt so much better. And where for a long time Estelle began to dance like she had never danced before while they were making their way to Nanny.

Everything was just set back to normal as of right now. Lavitar and Vulpix were happy that things were back to the way they were before.

"Wow, whatever happened really got them back to their normal selves." Larvitar said.

"I'm so proud of them..." Vulpix cooed.

Nanny was very happy that things were back to normal for the children.

"This is so great to have them back to normal." Larvitar said.

Eloise started to playfully dance with her pug dog. "Let's dance, Weenie!" she giggled.

Weenie yipped happily, dancing with her. Estelle began to start dancing with her cousin and Weenie and where they began to have fun. The others laughed to this as they continued to have as much as they could.

Maxine was dealing with phones that were ringing off the hooks.

"What's going on?" Bill asked her.

"There's several noise complaints in the penthouse!" Maxine cried.

"Well, then I guess Eloise, Akito, Estelle, and Vincent are having fun." Bill said.

"Isn't it wonderful?" Maxine was delighted.

"It sure is but, I bet it's stressful for Mr. Salamone." Bill chuckled.

Maxine laughed a little with him. The kids continued to have fun, even after dinner, but soon had to go to bed and had very pleasant dreams. And where through the whole day; Mr. Salamone truly was stressed out about all of the complaints and was grateful that it was now night time. Maxine and Bill hid laughs before they went to leave the hotel after their shifts were over. The rest of the night was peaceful, but unfortunately for Mr. Salamone, he would have many more stressful days ahead.

The next day, Eloise took her cousins to the lobby, when they got down there, it was misery already.

"Oh, no..." the Fudo cousins groaned.

Bruce and Bobby were down there and Bobby looked very sinister as always.

"Looks like you four have some turtles and Pokemon to cough up!" Bobby reminded them of their little bet they made about going to school. "Heard ya got kicked out!"

"Yeah, about that; we're not going to be giving them to you." Akito said.

"Oh, don't you remember our deal?" Bobby asked.

"Yes, but we're not going to do it!" Estelle folded her arms at the rotten boy.

"We may have chosen not to go to school anymore, but you're not taking our pets!" Eloise added.

"Wait, did you guys say that you chose to quit school?" Bruce asked, he seemed to see where this was going, even if he wasn't in on the plan.

"Yep, we chose to quit school." Vincent smirked.

"They still couldn't do it!" Bobby hissed.

"Yes, but the bet was if they got kicked out of school, you'd have Eloise's turtle and Akito, Estelle, and Vincent's Pokemon," Bruce reminded his twin. "And since they left school on their own decision, they won the bet!"

Nanny hid a small chuckle, happy for the children that they had won against the mean boy.

"Oh, this is a happy, happy day." Akito said.

"Why you!" Bobby glared at his brother.

Bruce laughed and ran away.

"Come back here!" Bobby chased him, very aggravated with losing to Eloise.

"Well, looks like he's aggravated." Akito smirked.

"Oh, that's just Bobby, you can never work with him..." Eloise sighed and shook her head. "What can you do?"

"Try to ignore him for the rest of our lives?" Estelle shrugged.

"Don't worry about him," Eloise smiled to her cousins. "He's not so tough."

"Do you four think you're ready to go back to school to say goodbye?" Nanny asked the children.

"Just one more day to say goodbye to our friends and then that will be it." Akito and Estelle promised.

"Yeah, after saying goodbye to our friends there; that will be it." Vincent said.

"I'm proud of you all..." Nanny smiled.

Eloise, Akito, Estelle, and Vincent then hugged her in return. The hug lasted for a few seconds and then they all went to the school to say their last goodbyes. Nanny walked them there and waited outside. Eloise took a deep breath before going through the doors one last time.

The kids were out of uniform and walked in the doors and the hallways were filled with students who then stared at them.

"And of course; they are all staring at us." Akito said, annoyed.

It wasn't a bad stare though.

"Guys, guys!" Jenny rushed over with Mandy and Robert. "You guys are famous!"

"We are?" the Fudo cousins asked in confusion.

"Yeah, everybody's talking about what you did with Mrs. Hedwig the other day, even kids in other grades!" Jenny smiled in excitement.

"Wow, so then everyone isn't staring at us like we're out of uniform?" Vincent asked.

"Oh, no, no," Mandy shook her head, but frowned. "We heard you were leaving though... We're just so impressed with what you did."

"Well, we had to tell her the truth." Estelle said.

"Yeah..." Robert understood. "I wish I was brave like you guys..."

"That courage is inside all of us, sometimes it just needs time to be brought out," Akito said. "Sometimes you also need to face your biggest fear."

Robert, Jenny, and Mandy smiled to them. The friends then all shared one last final goodbye hug.

"I'll miss you all very much," Eloise smiled in the hug. "I'll never forget any of you."

"And neither will any of us." The Fudo siblings smiled in the hug as well.

"Good riddance..." Edwin scoffed.

"May I hurt him?" Vincent asked, glaring at Edwin.

"You might get in trouble..." Eloise reminded him.

"Just make sure he doesn't come back to the hotel for a long time..." Jenny suggested, rather sneakily.

"Oh, trust me; I'll make sure he doesn't." Vincent said.

Jenny may not had known Edwin like Eloise or her cousins did, but she went to school with him and could understand how they felt about him. "Just make sure you don't get in trouble with his girlfriend, Mrs. Hedwig..." she then said in a teasing tone with a rather evil smirk on her face.

Vincent blinked in surprise. "Jenny, I've never seen this side of you before..."

"I'm full of surprises..." Jenny smiled bashfully for him.

"Yes, yes, you are, we can tell." Estelle smiled at her.

Jenny hid a giggle.

"This should be interesting..." Eloise said as Vincent walked up to Edwin.

"Hey, Edwin!" Vincent called.

"What do you want?" Edwin sneered to him.

"Oh, I just want to do something before leaving this school for good." Vincent said.

"What's that?" Edwin folded his arms at the slightly older boy.

'Oh, this is going to be so entertaining.' Estelle thought to herself.

"I'm waiting..." Edwin told Vincent, impatiently.

Vincent decided to now reveal of what he was going to do to Edwin.

"What are ya, a chicken?" Edwin taunted.

"If you even try to do anything mean or evil to Eloise or our friends, I swear that I will come into your dreams, turn them into nightmares and make them haunt you for the rest of your life, do you understand?" Vincent asked with a glare.

This caused for Edwin to become scared and for his legs to buckle.

"Do you understand?" Vincent asked with another glare.

"Y-Y-Yes, I-I understand." Edwin answered out of fear.

"Good!" Vincent grinned and walked off back to his cousins. "Come on, let's go now."

"Okay." Eloise smiled and led the way out.

Mandy, Jenny, and Robert waved to their friends as they were going off back to their old lives and things were back to normal in the Plaza Hotel from then on. Except of course for Edwin's visits there after Vincent's threat. Due to being nephew to the hotel manager, Edwin was going to still arrive here and there, especially around the holidays, but hopefully his next visit wouldn't be for a very, very long time.

The End