Skylar came breezing into the living room all smiles and bouncing excitement. “Does everyone know what this weekend is?

“No and might I mention that we also don’t care,” A’Cadia replied.

Skylar deflated at her words and her lips stuck out in a pout. “That’s just mean.”

“And your point is, what, exactly?” A’Cadia asked her with raised eyebrows.

“I’m ignoring you now. I’m not going to let you ruin this weekend.”

“And here I was trying so hard.”

Skylar didn’t reply, instead she went on with her little announcement. “This weekend it’s time for our annual DISNEY WEEKEND!” she announced gushingly as her voice rose to a near shout of excitement at the end.

“Disney weekend? What’s a Disney weekend?” Ziva asked her.

Mellissa jumped up and rushed over to stand beside Skylar. “It’s only the most awesome weekend of the year! We dress up as Disney characters and burst into random song! ALL WEEKEND!”

“Oh joy. I think I’ll go stay with my mother this weekend.”

Mellissa cocked her head to one side and stared at A’Cadia. “I thought you and your mom didn’t like, you know, get along. Doesn’t she drive you crazier than Craig when the time line changed?”

“Yes, she does. I think she’d drive me less insane than you people dressed as cartoon characters and singing all those crap songs.”

Skylar stomped a foot. “They are not poop! Everyone is participating and there will be no arguing. I’ve already made the costumes.”

“I said crap not poop.”

Ziva chuckled and then looked at Skylar. “You would go and make the costumes before you actually got any of us to agree to this stupid idea.”

“It is an annual event. She does this every year. You had better get used to it,” Craig told them with a slight shrug.

“Wait, you go along with this garbage?” Ziva stared at him incredulously.

“Yeah it’s either go along with it or listen to Skylar whimper and cry all weekend. Your choice.”

Both Ziva and A’Cadia winced. Neither wanted a weeping Skylar on their hands. She had perfected the guilt trip crying fit. She’d probably sit in a corner with her arms wrapped around her knees rocking back and forth and sniffling pathetically, no one wanted to hear that for an entire weekend, better to just go along with it.

Annabelle stood, smiling brightly. “Well I just think it’s a wonderful idea y’all.”

“Of course you would,” Mellissa grumbled beneath her breath.

Skylar patted Mellissa on the shoulder. “I’m going to give you your character assignments and your costumes so you’ll be set for us to start first thing in the morning!”

Mellissa stood beside Skylar with her fingers crossed and her eyes squeezed shut muttering beneath her breath. “Please not the little mermaid again. Please not the little mermaid again.”

“Mellissa, you are going to be Merida.”

“Yes! Ooooh, I’m gonna go try on my costume right now!” She rushed from the room clutching her costume tightly.

“Angela, you’re Rapunzel, Here you go.”

Angela squealed in delight as she examined the long blond wig that went with the costume. “Thanks Skylar! Oh look at the wig it’s gorgeous! You made it all like when they get to the village when her hair is braided with the flowers!” Skylar smiled at her before looking down at her list to see who was next.

“Craig, you’re gonna be Kristoff.”

Ziva scowled. “Who in the hell is Kristoff?”

“He’s from the movie Frozen. Go Google it, I don’t have time to give you a movie summary right now!” Skylar told her.

Before Skylar could go on, Mellissa came running back into the room, stopped in the center and grinned. “There’s a bow and arrows! Isn’t this awesome?” She yanked an arrow out of the quiver and nocked it to the bow. “WHOOOOO!” She spun in circles aiming at anything and everything.

“Mellissa, stop it before you shoot someone!”

She stopped spinning, wobbled briefly and then focused. “But I was having fun! Besides it’s only a Nerf bow.” She aimed without looking and shot Craig to prove her point.

“OW! What the heck did you do to these darts? You were gone for like five minutes tops!”

“I may have sharpened them just a smidge,” she replied.

“Sharpened them? How do you sharpen foam?” he asked her as he studied the dart she’d shot him with.

“Pfft, like I’m gonna tell you my secrets.”

“Okay Mellissa that’s enough. I need to give everyone else their costumes.”

Mellissa gave Craig the evil eye and pretended to shoot him again before she went and sat down in the center of the floor. She seemed satisfied with the fact that Craig had flinched when she’d pretended to shoot him.

Skylar took a deep breath and let it out. “Annabelle you’re going to be Charlotte from Princess and the frog.”

“Oh I adore that movie! And Lottie is the perfect southern lady! Thank you very much Skylar.”

Mellissa rolled her eyes and silently mocked Annabelle behind her back. She then shot Skylar a look. “Does that mean Stevie is Prince Naveen?”

“Hmm, I don’t know I suppose he could be.” Skylar tapped a finger on her chin as she studied Stevie.

“I know the perfect character for him! He can be Olaf!”

Stevie seemed to draw a blank. He looked from Mellissa to Skylar and back. “Who is Olaf? Is he a prince too?”

Mellissa grinned. “No, he’s a snowman. And he likes warm hugs. Do you like warm hugs, Stevie? I’ll give you one!” She lunged at him but he dodged out of the way before she could latch on to him.

“I am not dressing up as a snowman the entire weekend.”

“Fine, I guess you can be Prince Naveen then.”

“Wait! Then can I be Tiana?” Mellissa asked her.

“No, you look nothing like Tiana! You’re Merida.”

Mellissa grumbled and shot Craig with the bow again. She did so very casually. No one expected it so Craig was quite taken by surprise when the Nerf dart hit him square in the chest.

Ow! What was that for?”

“I needed to shoot something.”

“Great now I’m a target.”

“Always were, Crazy Man, always were.”

Skylar stomped a foot. “Enough arguing! Mellissa if you can’t respect your props I’ll take your bow away.”

“Fine, fine I’ll respect the props from now on. Stevie should be Prince Naveen’s little brother, ya know? I mean Lottie all dances with him at the end of the movie and Stevie’s scrawny enough to pass as a six year old.”

“Mellissa behave or no Disney weekend for you!” Skylar scolded.

Mellissa stuck her tongue out at Skylar and shot her in the butt with her bow when Skylar turned her back.

“Mellissa that hurt!” Skylar rubbed her bruised rear end and turned back to face the others. “A’Cadia you’re going to be Elsa.”

“Elsa? Who in the hell is Elsa?”

“I got this Skylar! Elsa is the queen from Frozen. She has ice powers and she can freeze stuff. You’re perfect for her ’cause you’re all dead and frozen inside and you don’t like to be nice to anyone.”

“Wow, thanks kid. Great to know I’m loved and respected.”

“More like feared,” Mellissa told her with a giant smirk.

“You want fear? How about I dice you into tiny pieces and feed you to your dogs?” A’Cadia released her claws and Mellissa scowled at her.

“Nixon says they’ll chew you into Kibbles n’ Bits if you try it.”

“Then maybe Nixon would like a poodle cut?” Nixon whimpered and hid behind Mellissa when A’Cadia made that threat.

“Death, sweetie you’re going to be Dr. Facilier.”

“Cool. He’s awesome,” Death said with a little grin as he accepted his costume from Skylar.

“Ooooh Death will be epic as him! You have the awesome hair to pull it off!” Mellissa told him. Death laughed and gave her thumbs up.

Skylar batted her eyelashes at Death before glancing back down at her list. When she looked up again, she frowned at A’Cadia who was lost beneath the voluminous length of the train from her Elsa dress. “A’Cadia aren’t you going to go try your costume on? Not that it should be a problem, I have everyone’s measurements perfect.”

A’Cadia battered her way out from beneath her dress and stomped out of the room, grumbling breath her breath as she went. “You’re creepy Skylar, you really are.”

“I heard that A’Cadia!” Skylar answered in a sing song voice.

Mellissa giggled as Annabelle flounced back into the room in her giant pink Lottie dress all smiles. She had to turn almost sideways to get through the door.

“Skylar this dress is absolutely fabulous! I just LOVE it to pieces and bits darlin’!”

“I’m so glad you like it Annabelle!” Skylar beamed at her as she made an attempt to sit down in the giant hoop skirt. Stevie came in tugging at the pants he was wearing.

“Skylar these pants are a little tight are you sure you got the measurements right? They’re riding up in the butt.” He turned a circle while tugging at the back end of the pants.

Mellissa whipped out her cell phone and started rapid snapping pictures of Stevie’s butt while sighing dramatically.

“They’re fine Stevie. Okay let’s see who is left. Stone you’re Wreck it Ralph.” She handed him his costume.

“Wreck it who?” he asked in confusion.

“Again, I am not explaining things go Google it!”

Mellissa rolled her eyes. “You guys have seen these movies! We made you guys watch them like a million times!”

Ziva snorted at Mellissa. “Yeah and we usually either zone out or sleep through them.”

Mellissa shot Ziva with her bow in retaliation.

Skylar scowled at her. “Mellissa! Respect the props!”

“Oh hey ya know what Skylar? Stevie should be Fixit Felix! ’Cause he’s always fixing stuff and he does it rather miraculously! I mean he fixes stuff no one thinks can be fixed, so it’s kinda like Felix’s magic hammer!”

Skylar tapped a finger on her chin. “You have a point but Felix doesn’t sing anything. Sorry Mellissa Stevie stays Prince Naveen.”

“Aww but I wanted to be Vanellope!”

Skylar scowled at her. “You are Merida! I’m not changing your character!”

A’Cadia was grumbling her way back down the hallway when the doorbell rang. She stopped, looked toward the living room and waited. No one emerged. “Figures,” she muttered. She stomped over and yanked the door open, only to find Lenny standing on the doorstep. “What in the hell are you doing here?”

He held up his phone, which was pulled up to his calendar app. “Duh, its Disney weekend! I never miss Disney weekend!”

A’Cadia grunted and went to shut the door in his face. He shoved his way through the door past her. “Hey! You don’t even belong here!” She darted down the hall after him, the train of her dress flying out behind her as she ran.

Lenny strutted into the living room, grinning. “I’m here the fun can now begin!”

Skylar frowned at him. “Why are you here Lenny?”

“It’s Disney weekend Skylar, why wouldn’t I be here?”

A’Cadia came to a skidding halt through the doorway. “I tried to stop him but he pushed his way past me.”

Mellissa lifted her bow and made off to shoot Lenny. Skylar shot her a warning look and she lowered it, looking disappointed. Skylar smiled at Lenny. “I’m so glad you made it Lenny! How did you ever remember?”

He lifted his phone and waggled it at her. “Calendar app! I’d never forget Disney weekend!”

“Hey, hey Skylar he can be Hans!”

Lenny frowned at her. “Why do I have to be Hans?”

“Your evil,” Mellissa told him with a straight face.

He shrugged. “Fine as long as I get to sing.”

“All right, here’s your costume!” Lenny took the costume from Skylar with a smile, inspecting it as he did.

“Right then, that leaves … Ziva.” Skylar looked up at Ziva with a tiny frown.

“Oh don’t go to any trouble there Sky, I’m all too happy to be left out!” She shot a glare at Lenny. It suddenly occurred to her to wonder why Skylar had a Hans costume or any costume for that matter, in Lenny’s size.

“Well, we can either make you Belle or Snow White!”

Ziva groaned and dropped sideways onto to the couch. “Really Skylar? So I either get to be the chick that ends up married to the wild animal or the one that wrangles wild animals?

“That’s really not funny, Ziva.”

“I thought it was.”

Skylar wrinkled her nose. “Wasn’t. Fine you’re Belle. Here’s your costume.”

Ziva groaned and eyed the yellow ball gown with distaste. “Couldn’t you have made her other dress instead?”

“No, now go try it on.”

“Hey Skylar Nixon is gonna be Sven.” Mellissa jammed a pair of fake reindeer antlers on Nixon. He cavorted around the room happily, panting.

“That’s perfect Mellissa!”

“I know! It works out great since Craig is Kristoff! I’m gonna make the rest of the doggies the 101 Dalmatians!”

“Ohhh that will work out because I was going to have Storm be Cruella De Vil!”

A’Cadia laughed. “Do you think she’ll go along with that?”

“She has in the past. Last year she was Maleficent.”

Mellissa giggled. “She tripped over her dress and fell down the stairs. What about Logan? He bolted last year and hid for the weekend so he wouldn’t have to participate.”

Skylar sighed. “Yes, I remember he had Storm put him on that fake special assignment. I already made Storm promise not to let him get away with it this year. He’s going to be Flynn Rider.”

Angela yelped. “NOOOOOO! Rapunzel and Flynn end up together! I am not kissing Logan! EWWWW!”

“You don’t have to kiss him Angela,” Skylar told her calmly.

“I better not!” she replied, arms folded over her chest.

“Wait Skylar who are you going to be this year? Mellissa asked her.

Skylar whipped a costume off the rank with a giant grin. “I’m going to be Anna!”

“Um don’t Kristoff and Anna kinda end up together? Isn’t that weird because Craig is Kristoff?”

Skylar shook her head at Mellissa. “No because we aren’t doing that part of the movie! Just the songs! Remember?”

“Right. Oh, oh,oh … you get to sing with Lenny!” She clapped happily!

“Hey epic we can do love is an open door,” Lenny told Skylar.

“Oh I LOVE that song!” Skylar told him.

A’Cadia batted at her Elsa dress; the train seemed to annoy her. “Great, good, wonderful, can we go change now and get on with the rest of our day?”

“Of course! We start Disney Weekend tomorrow morning everyone! I CAN NOT WAIT!” Skylar gushed happily.

“Wait, tomorrow is Friday. We have to do this in class tomorrow?” Ziva asked while trying to de-puff the skirt of her Belle dress.

“Duh yes! We do it every year! I’m going to go put my costume away so my bow and arrows are all safe! Come on Nixon let’s put your antlers away too!” Mellissa skipped from the room. 

Skylar held the hanger of her dress as if it were the most precious thing on the planet. “All right, that’s it you’re all dismissed!”

“Great. Lucky us. Ziva help me up will you? I keep tripping over this damn thing.” A’Cadia held out a hand so Ziva could yank her up off the couch.

Skylar stuck her head back into the room. “Someone find Lenny a place to stay for the weekend!”

“What?”

“Well he can’t commute that would be mean!” Skylar disappeared from the doorway.

Ziva curled her lip at Lenny. “You’re evil and our enemy why would we want you to stay here?”

He shrugged. “I don’t care at the moment I just want to be here for Disney Weekend. Evil can wait until after the weekend.”

“You have got to be kidding?”

“Nope. Now where do I bunk? Please don’t put me back in with Golden Boy,” he told her with a deep sigh.

“Craig already has a new roommate. We’ll put you someplace far away from us, trust me. Come on A’Cadia let’s find Blue Lagoon a room.”

“And lock him in,” A’Cadia muttered as she gathered her train into a ball and headed out of the room.