My name is Vanessa and I have just been transferred to the Princess School for Royal Young Ladies. That is the longest my school name has ever been. Most of the girls there are either just plain mean or the preppiest people I have ever met. I suppose I should explain some more before I go on. My mother Trisha recently married King Something-or-Other, thus making me a princess. The king told my mother that I had to go to this dumb school to become a 'proper young lady.' As if he cared about me. He said that I would meet my twin stepsisters here but I'm trying so hard to stay away from anyone with the last name Kane, because they would probably end up being my stepsisters. I do not want to meet them, as you could have guessed. My whole first day, a girl named Snow White from the Disney Princess dorm that seemed completely out of it to me, showed me around the school. It's massive, because it's a castle. Then, when it was studying time right before dinner, she showed me to our dorm. Yup, I was going to be living in a dorm full of Disney Princesses. Only the royal ones though, not the ones who masquerade as princesses, who are inappropriately put in the princess category.

"So it appears as though you would be rooming with Merida and Rapunzel, through that door on your left. I'm with Ariel and Belle. Ariel likes to sing with me, but…" I went through the door before she could torture me with any more of her stories.

Once I was in the room, I could immediately tell that my roommates were weird. There was a target shot through with a bunch of arrows, a bow sitting nearby, and a bunch of blonde stringy stuff draped all over the room. Someone was in the shower, singing with a Scottish accent. Someone else was digging through the closet, throwing things carelessly behind her shoulder. Good, so they weren't neat freaks.

"Um, hello?" I called out.

A girl with long blonde hair in a purple dress leapt backwards, wielding a frying pan like a sword. That's when I realized that the blonde stringy stuff all over the place was this girl's hair. It was crazy long.

"Oh, you must be Vanessa! I hope you didn't want to take a shower because she is going to be in there for a while. She's a hot water hog."

"I heard that!" exclaimed the Scottish girl from the bathroom, water running in the background.

"So, are you Rapunzel or Merida?"

"Rapunzel. So the girl in there is obviously Merida. How was your first day?"

"Oh, it was fine, I guess, although, between you and me and maybe Merida, Snow drove me crazy with her constant jabbering."

All three of them burst out laughing so hard that a girl with dark skin in a yellow dress poked her head in.

"Are y'all okay? Y'all been laughing harder than I've heard in a while," she said with her Louisiana twang.

"We're okay Tia. Oh, right, you haven't met Vanessa yet! She just got here three minutes ago," I waved.

Tia seemed to be taking in my outfit, a pale blue, puffy but not ball gown skirted dress, and slight amounts of silver rhinestones at the top, where it was so obviously strapless. She nodded as if in approval.

"That dress is fine quality. Very nice."

"Oh, well, thank you."

Merida chose that precise moment to come out of the bathroom in a green plaid towel, hair wrapped up in one as well.

"Tia, what are you adoin' here? I thought it was just Rapunzel an' the new girl!"

"Oh, Meri! I just stepped in for a minute to check on these two. They were laughing really loud, so I was a little nervous."

"Acause they were alaughin'?"

"Well, yeah. That and I need my frying pan back. Quick question. Why is it in your hand?" her eyes widened. "And you dented this one too! What do you do to these things when I lend them to you?"

Rapunzel put her hand to her mouth and snickered. That was the universal sign for 'I'll never tell.' I didn't even want to know anymore. It might be something awkward. Probably not.

"Well, you owe me six now. Naveen wanted me to bring him some bacon for his birthday present and I can't make him any until Friday now."

Merida came back into the room from the bathroom wearing a simple green dress, her wild mane of curly red hair let loose. She smiled then looked at the clock.

"Oh no! We'll be late to dinner! Round up the troops Tia!"

Tia went out into the lobby and stood right in front of the main door. She stuffed her fingers in her mouth and whistled the loudest whistle I had ever heard. Every girl in the whole dorm ran down all of the five flights of stairs until there was a neat line up in front of Tiana. Rapunzel pulled me in line behind her.

"Alright, who's ready for some jambalaya? Helped make it myself."

She made some good jambalaya, as I would learn later. We made our way down through the main lobby and into the dining room. Once inside, we were allowed to start mingling with the princes from neighboring academy. All of the Disney girls appeared to have boyfriends except Merida and I.

"Well, I suppose we should sit together and eat our grub," said Merida.

"Right you are."

Where was I? Oh, yes! Dinner. Merida and I sat at our table talking, laughing, and just generally enjoying one another's company. We both loved the jambalaya, but Merida said that her favorite meal was haggis. Once she was finished describing it to me, and what was in it, I didn't ever want to eat it. Ever. I told her about my favorite food, spaghetti, and she looked at me like I was insane.

"What on Earth are you tryin' to describe to me? I dunna unerstand."

"Long stringy noodles, covered in tomato sauce. It's not hard to understand!"

"I ne'er heard of it afore. I'm a Scot, not a Brit."

"Spaghetti is Italian, and I'm not British. My mother is. I'm from Canada."

"What the blazes is a Canada? I ne'er heard o' that either."

"It's a new country. The Scottish empire wants a little island-like part of it, called… well actually, it doesn't have a name yet. We were visiting when my mom met the king, and then here I am now." I looked over and saw two girls with brown hair and violet eyes, just like what's-his-name. They had a princess air about them, so I turned away fast. They had to be Kirsty and Kayla. I looked at Merida. "Are those two girls behind me Kirsty and Kayla Kane?"

"Yeah. What's it to you? Are they atryin' to stick you up an' take yer bangles?"

"No, but they might try to later. My stepfather is King Kane, and they are my stepsisters."

"Ooh, that is a nasty piece of luck. Just dunot talk to them, and they will probably ignore you. They've never seen you, have they?"

"Never, and I never wanted to meet them. They seem perfectly horrid to me."

"Oh, aye! Truer words were never aspoken. Jus avoid them plainly, an' all should be well."

"They don't strike me as girls who'll ignore the new girl."

No sooner had the words left my mouth than they came forward, bombarding me with questions.

"Are you a Disney girl too? They are sooo lame!" said Kirsty with her overly squeaky voice.

"Yeah. You aren't, right? Tell me you're not!" Kayla seemed to be demanding.

I straightened my spine and glared at both of them. "If you think the Disney Princess dorm is lame, then yes, I will proudly admit to being one myself. Now shove off!"

"Losersaurus!" yelled Kirsty so loud that everyone in the room turned to look at her. Merida and I burst out laughing. She was the Losersaurus, merely for coming up with such a word in the first place.

"Um, Kirsty, honey, are you okay?" asked Tiana, putting a hand on her shoulder.

"Get your servant hands off of me! I don't take sympathy from the help!" exclaimed Kirsty.

"Kirsty, I have every right to be here. I paid, I'm from royalty, I…" Kirsty cut her off.

"You're only here because your boyfriend pulled strings for you! You are not from any royal family at all!"

"Three quarters of the girls in this whole school are here on a count of string pulling. Except for a couple, the whole Disney dorm is there because of their boyfriends."

"Exactly! Because you're all just a bunch of street rats!"

Aladdin and Jasmine stood up in indignation, not because they were angry at being called street rats, but because street rat was a horrible term that brought up bad memories for Aladdin. I stood up as well.

"I don't have a boyfriend and I'm not originally from royalty." Almost every girl in the room gasped. "And, no, I'm not a stowaway. My mother married a king. I don't even want to be here. I will say this though. The Disney dorm is the best place in the whole school and I'll tell you why. Because they all had the kindness to like me the minute I showed up and didn't even know me yet."

All the girls from the Disney dorm (and there was a lot of them) stood up and linked arms with me. There, I'd started a revolution, and that day I was destined to fit in with the Disney girls.

"Wait a minute! What's your name?" asked Kayla.

"Vanessa Clemens. My mother is Trisha Clemens." I replied with pride.

"Oh my God! That street rat is our stepsister!" squealed Kirsty.

They ran out of the room yelling that they were going to go down socially until nobody knew their names. When they were way out of earshot, everyone in the room cheered.

"Oh, thank God! They are so annoying, I just want to choke them every time that I see them!" exclaimed Jasmine, putting a hand on my shoulder.

There was a chorus of yeah's and some more cheering. Then a bell tinkled in the kitchen and a girl with long orange hair in a flowing pink dress poked her head out.

"Are they gone?" asked the girl tentatively.

"It's okay for you guys to come out and eat now. Who wants some beignets?" asked Tiana.

"I'll help you make them!" said Cinderella.

Out from the kitchen came a couple of girls. They took a seat on the chairs that were empty and had bowls of jambalaya in front of them. Tiana and Cinderella disappeared into the kitchen. I went up to a girl with white hair in blue tribal wear and asked her what was going on.

"Oh, the only people who are judgmental about the royalty thing are the K Terrors, so these girls make dinner and only get to eat when they leave. Their names are Giselle, Mulan, Charlotte, and Melody. Melody is Ariel's sister, and I'm Kida."

We all ate and had a general good time until Tiana and Cinderella came out with two trays weighed down with beignets each. They set each tray down on a table, and then went back into the kitchen for more.

"We have these for dessert every day, but they never get old!" said Merida, doing a highland dance while eating a beignet.

By the time that the bell tolled seven, time for everyone to go to their dorms, we were all dancing and laughing and mingling. When the bell had rung though, the other students ran like crazy to get to the various staircases and doorways. I didn't get why they were in such a hurry, it was just a bell. It wasn't like we were going to die if we were five minutes late. Soon I was the only one left standing in the lobby. I looked down one hallway in awe as I saw swirling blue mist heading in my direction. What was it? As it was just about to touch me, a yellow rope fell over my head and caught at my waist, tightening, and then I was pulled up above a balcony and into my dorm room.

"What were you thinking?! You can't stay downstairs past seven! You might have got caught in the Mist!" exclaimed Rapunzel. It was then that I noticed that the rope was really her hair.

"What does it do? Is it just for a haunting effect?" I wondered.

"We're not really sure exactly what it does. We only had that spare bed for you acause a girl named Collette got caught in it. We ne'er saw 'er again." Merida said ominously.

"Was she a princess?" I asked.

"No, she was just a rich one. She was dating an heir, so he tapped into his pocket money for her. But we've never seen her since. Good came from it though. YOU'RE HERE NOW!" Rapunzel yelled so loud I jumped back seventy feet.

I heard several girls scream, because, you know, they're princesses. Their nerves are never right. The door opened and a girl with black hair in a ponytail with the same bangs as Ariel came in. She was wearing a white cotton nightgown.

"Hey Melody. Your bed's all ready!" said Rapunzel. She went over to the couch and grabbed the bottom. As she pulled on it, it became evident that it was a futon.

"Why does she sleep here? Doesn't she have a room too?" I asked.

"Because the Disney dorm was completely full when she came. We wanted to do some good in the world so we let her sleep here. We've been doing it ever since," explained Rapunzel.

Melody settled down under the blankets and Merida climbed up onto the very top bunk. Rapunzel left the room and came back wearing a huge bonnet that all of her hair was tied up into. She climbed into the middle bunk. I went under the bottom bunk and grabbed my suitcase. I pulled out my blue silk nightgown and changed into it in the bathroom. I came back out and saw that Merida had the bow I saw earlier in the day in her hands and an arrow notched and ready. She released the string and an arrow zipped straight to the bull's-eye on the target.

"There, I can sleep in peace now." I looked up at her funny. "What? It looked so tempting; I had to do it afore Rapunzel told me to put my bow awee."

"All right, you can put your bow 'awee' now." Rapunzel said with a laugh.

Merida turned and hung it up on a hook next to her. I climbed in the bottom bunk and reflected on the day, as Mom had made me do at home. I felt like family here. I liked it. I rolled over and closed my eyes. And thus ended my first day in the Disney dorm.