So, thank you for the review. I am glad that you enjoyed it. Yes, she was busy, which is exactly what Aggie wants from her granddaughter. It is not so much that Spinelli will not be safe during school hours, but more so that she has to behave during school hours as well, and everyone will surely have something to say about Spinelli's new appearance, and the fact that she won't know what will happen to her room when she's at school. Well now onto the chapter.

Chapter 5: A new look

Spinelli had been so exhausted yesterday from everything that she had to do yesterday, so she had fallen asleep rather fast. She was sound asleep when she was woken by her grandmother blowing a whistle. She looked at the alarm clock. It was 5 o'clock in the morning. Her grandmother threw a pair of sweats at her and told her to put on her running shoes before coming outside. Spinelli barely had time to wake up before doing as she was told. Once they were outside, Aggie started talking. "Okay Ashley, I want you to put all that energy that you have to good use. Now do ten jumping jacks. It is time you got into shape. Once you are done, you will go upstairs to take a shower." Aggie then proceeded to blow in the whistle, which meant that Spinelli was going to do the jumping jacks. Spinelli sighed and did as told.

After they were done outside, Spinelli went up to the bathroom to take a shower. Her parents were still asleep. Aggie had put in some special soap for her to use. When she was taking the shower, Aggie had laid out the dress that she had sewn on Spinelli's dress, along with some underwear.

Once Spinelli was finished taking the shower, she went into her room where grandmother was waiting. Aggie then spoke up. "I laid out a dress for you to wear today on your bed. Once you are done getting dressed, you will meet me in the bathroom." Aggie then left Spinelli to get dressed.

Spinelli looked at the dress and frowned. It was super girly and something the Ashleys would wear. It was a light pink, with a square cut on the front. She really did not want to wear the dress. She knew that if she wore that dress, then her reputation would be destroyed even sooner, and she highly disliked anything that was remotely girly.

Once she got into the bathroom, she was told to sit on the toilet, while her grandma would do her hair and makeup. Before Aggie started on the makeup, Spinelli started talking. "Why do I have to wear this dress, and why do I need to wear makeup."

"Because it is only right that a young woman like yourself start to dress more like a lady, and if you look like a lady, then perhaps you'll start to act like one. Remember what I said about complaining. Now close your eyes." Spinelli sighed and did as told. She could feel something on her eyelids, then her entire face, then her checks, and then something on her lips. She was then told to open her eyes, as her grandma put something on her eyelashes. Then she was told to face the wall as her grandma started combing her hair, and then a pink hairband was put in her hair. She was finally told to stand up and face her grandma.

Aggie looked at her and said. "Hm almost perfect, but something is missing." She said, as she found a black velvet box, and opened it. Inside was a necklace with a crystalized A on it. Spinelli barely managed to say something before the necklace was put on her.

"Now that is better. Go look yourself in the mirror." Aggie said, as Spinelli looked at herself, and was shocked at how different she looked. With the makeup, necklace and new haircut, her face was softened by all of these changes. She looked nothing like herself. Worse, she looked like an Ashley. Her face had been powdered, while she had pink eyeshadow, rouge, and lipstick on, along with some black mascara and eyeliner. She was upset about all of these changes, but she was not allowed to be upset, so she just sighed and looked in horror at herself. Now her reputation would definitely be destroyed. People might associate her with the Ashleys, which was the opposite of everything she ever wanted to be. Now no one would see her as the tough girl she had worked so hard to be. What would her friends say. Worse, what would the Ashleys say.

Aggie eventually started talking and said. "Okay, now come downstairs and help me make breakfast." Aggie then walked downstairs and told Spinelli to follow. She then followed her grandma down to the kitchen. When they were down there, Aggie gave her an apron to wear, while she helped her grandma out with breakfast. She was eventually told to set the table. The breakfast was healthy

After a while, her parents woke up and went down to get breakfast. Flo was overcome with joy once she got a good look at her daughter. "Oh Ashley you look so pretty honey. Oh, and you guys made breakfast, how wonderful."

Bob was a bit shocked at how different his daughter looked, but he knew that his mother-in-law was being extreme, and if it helped Ashley stay out trouble then so be it. He eventually chimed in. "Oh hey, you guys made breakfast. Looks great."

Eventually they all sat down to eat breakfast, and even with that, came a set of rules that Spinelli had to follow. She really did not like the breakfast due to it being healthy, but she ate it anyway, albeit with her grandma correcting her on her eating habits. The adults were all lost in conversation, but she said nothing. She would usually talk to her dad about wrestling, but since that was forbidden from the house, she had nothing to talk about.

Once breakfast was over, she was told to clean up the table. Her grandma believed it to install a work ethic and gratitude into her.

After she was done with cleaning up everything, she went up to her room to grab her backpack and a hoodie. She was planning on wearing the hoodie for the day, hoping that it would help her cover up the dress and her face. She was going to meet up with T.J first, and then they would catch up with the others, and she would inform them on the way to school what was really going on. She went down and grabbed her skateboard. She was just about to walk out the door when her grandma started talking. "and what do you think you are wearing."

"Uhm a hoodie, just in case i get cold outside."

"well take it off. Grab a jacket if you feel like you might get cold. Let everybody see you in the dress and put down the skateboard." Spinelli sighed and did as told, before Aggie started talking. "Oh, and your mother informed to me that you prefer to go by your last name. Well not anymore. You will start to go by Ashley from now on. It is your name, and so you should go by it. So if someone calls you Ashley, you will no longer correct them."

"What no, but I don't want to go by my first name." Spinelli complained.

"And why not. It is the name that your parents picked out for you, and it is a beautiful name."

"Because of these other 4 girls who are a clique, have the same first name as me, and I don't want to be associated with those girls."

"well that is a silly really. You will go by your first name, and that's that." Aggie was final in her statement. Spinelli sighed before taking off the hoodie and putting down the skateboard. Now, she was really nervous about school. She walked outside to meet up with T.J, who could not believe what he saw. Spinelli looked so different, and that was shocking to T.J. The girl standing before him was not his wrestling loving tomboy friend, but rather someone who was friends with the Ashleys.

It took a while for T.J to come to his senses before he started talking. "Okay Spin, what is up with you. You look so different. You never wear a dress, let alone a pink one, and you never wear makeup, and what is up with your hair."

Spinelli took a deep breath before she started talking. "Long story short, my grandma happened. She wants me to dress more like a 'girl'." She said the word 'girl' with air quotes, before she continued talking. "I will explain everything once we meet up with the others."

"Eh okay." T.J said, even though he was confused about why Spinelli looked so different, since no one could make the tomboy do something that she did not want to do.

They walked in silence, due to T.J still not completely over the shock of Spinelli's new look, and he was dying to know what was going on with Spinelli.

Eventually they caught up with the rest of the gang, who was just as surprised as T.J by Spinelli's new. They all questioned her about it, and she said. "I will tell you all about it during lunch, but for now I will go with this; my grandma happened. She wants me to start dressing me more like a 'girl'."

"Since when do you listen to other people." Vince said.

"Yearh you never take any orders from anyone." Gus said.

"It is rather odd that you would listen to your grandmother about your appearance." Gretchen chimed in.

"It is so weird that you would dress that way." T.J said.

"Well I think you look absolutely wonderful my dear Spinelli, although it is odd, you are finding new interests." Mikey said.

"Look I will explain everything over lunch, but for now can we just drop it." Spinelli said before she continued. "Man what am I going to do at school. Everybody is going to be talking about me behind my back, and I really cannot afford to get into trouble, so I cannot fight off everyone. Everybody is going to be staring at me."

"They will all be looking at you because you look so pretty." Mikey said, who was the eternal optimist.

"Look just ignore everyone at school, and if we all stick together, then nothing can go wrong." T.J said.

Spinelli was a little less nervous than before, but she was still a bit scared of what people would say. She knew that this meant the end of her reputation. She knew that she had to face everyone at some point, so she sighed and started talking. "I guess you're right. I am just glad I do not have classes with any of the Ashleys until after lunch. Well here goes nothing." She said as they finally stood in front of the school.

Meanwhile at the Spinelli household, Flo and Aggie were drinking coffee while talking about Spinelli.

Flo started to talk and said. "Oh mom, are you sure about redecorating Ashley's room. I mean I have been wanting to redecorate it for years now, but I do not see how it is going to help improve her behavior. I'm not sure that she's going to like it."

"I am sure. Right now she has the room of a boy, and it causes her to act in a violent way. If she has a more feminine room, then it can inspire her to act more like a girl. And it is not right that a young girl like Ashley has a boy's room. She needs a girl's room. Besides the new furniture will be here at noon, so let us go up and clean out her room."

So, they went up to clean out Spinelli's room. The old furniture would be thrown out, the clothes was packed into boxes and sent to goodwill donations, the wrestling posters were taken down, and everything else was put into boxes and put into the garage. Once the room was cleared out, the walls were painted pink.

Eventually it became noon and the new furniture had arrived. The movers were putting the new furniture into the room, and afterwards Flo and Aggie decorated it, and then they put in the clothes they had bought for Spinelli. Starting tomorrow she would begin to wear her new clothes. Once they were done, the room looked completely different from what it had looked like before.

The two adults then went down to get something to eat.

Once they were finished eating, Aggie started talking and said. "What about Ashley's friends. How good an influence are they on her."

"Oh they're not a bad influence on her. Though she does not have a lot of female friends. She has one female friend in Gretchen Grundler, but Gretchen is unfortunately not particularly feminine herself. Gretchen is however smart and very mature for her age"

"So she needs more female friends. I am certain that with this pageant, Ashley will gain more female friends. There are plenty of activities leading up the pageant. If Ashley were to gain more female friends, then they could help steer her in a more feminine direction." Aggie said.

Next chapter: Spinelli faces everyone at school, and possibly meets her tutor.

So, that is it for chapter 5, hope you all enjoyed it.

As always, I do not own recess or its characters, only my oc's.

Oh, and sorry for updating sooner, but I was having issues with my computer. Every time I would write something, my computer would delete what I wrote.

Oh, and let me know who Spinelli's tutor should be, and it won't be Gretchen, or if it should be someone that was on the show or an oc.

Please R/R and let me know what you all think, if you have any suggestions, feel free to comment.