The Seashell and Her Jewel
This is the series of one shots about Isla, Jay and their friends. It won't really be in any order but some of them are connected. Jsla ( as a few of you amazing people have taken to calling them) have a deeper relationship than what you've seen and I hope to show you just how deep it runs.
So anyway this one is based on their first date. Or what Isla thinks it was and what Jay thinks it was. Starts off between the first and second movie. The first date is when Jay is 14 and Isla is 13. The second one is when Isla is 14 and Jay 15.
Chapter One
Ben's POV
I was in my girlfriend's dorm with her and the rest of her friends. We were all laying in various places around the room pretending to study. Mal and I were laying on the floor by her bed, Carlos and Evie were sitting together in the bay window and Jay and Isla had given up on studying altogether and instead were laying on Isla's bed talking softly stealing the odd kiss every now and then.
I still don't understand their realationship sometimes. Looking at Carlos and Evie I know that their perfect together, I can say the same about Mal and I, but Jay and Isla are just so different to each other.
"I don't get it." I finally spoke causing everyone to look at me. "You two are just so different to each other. How did you get together?" I ask looking directly at the two.
"Oh God. We all know these stories." Mal said with a smile.
"Stories?" I turn to my girlfriend with a confused look. "What do you mean?"
"They can't decide on what their first date was." Carlos said with a chuckle.
"No. I know what the first date was. Jay just won't agree." Isla said, sharing a smile with him. "You can tell him your story first." Isla told Jay as they both sat up.
"Okay. So, this is a story of adventure, daring rescues, villainous pirates and two lovers." Jay began dramatically with Isla hitting him in the shoulder.
"Get on with it." She says fondly.
"Okay, okay..."
Jay's POV
I was waiting for Isla at the hangout. Everyone else had bailed today. Mal and her Mom were busy scheming, Evie was practicing her makeup at the order of the 'Queen' and Carlos was doing chores.
"Hey." A 13 year old Isla called as she entered the hideout.
"Hey."I replied. God how is it she looks so pretty. No Jay, stop. Your not allowed to like her.
"What do you want to do today?" Isla asked sitting on the couch next to me. Keep it together man.
"I was thinking we loot the docks." I say with a shrug.
"Uh-huh and piss Uma off. No thanks." Isla says with a flinch.
"Come on. I promise to get you out of there real quick, if anything goes down." I encourage the pretty teen. Shit Jay, can't even control it anymore can you?
"Fine. But if we get caught or Uma finds out we're messing with her 'crew', I'll kill you." Isla gives in with a sigh.
"Nothing's going to go wrong." I say getting off the couch. "I'm the Prince of Thieves." I say putting a hand out to help Isla off the couch.
"If your the Prince of Thieves, I'm the Queen of Hearts." Isla drawls with a smirk.
"Just don't take my head off then your highness." I snark at her. I grab Isla's hand and pull her out of the hideout.
Time Skip
I wasn't a fan of the docks. Too many pirates. Isla was the only one who traveled between the docks and the main area of the Isle, only because her mother had her shop and their home there.
"So where to now, Prince of Thieves?" Isla whispered to me. Right now we were hiding behind a bunch of barrels.
"Now we find something to steal. Got any insider information?" I ask her ad her eyes light up with mischief.
"Easy. Harry and CJ hang around the shop about now. Harry always has a bag of coins on him and CJ has so much jewelry on she never knows when it's missing. Everyone else has nothing of value." Isla says pointing towards the Chip Shop.
"Well, let's get some lunch, shall we?" I stand and hold my hand out again. Isla doesn't take it instead looks at me funny.
"Are you crazy? Uma will kill you if she sees you here! You'll get us both killed!" Isla whisper yells.
"I said we won't get caught and we won't." I say grabbing her hand and dragging her in the shops direction.
"Stay in the shadows. Don't get caught." Isla says giving me one last look before entering the shop. I nod and enter after her sticking in the shadows, which is easy thanks to the Isles naturally dark lighting.
"Well, well, well. What are you doing here?" Harry asks as Isla takes a seat at the bar.
"Can't a girl come home for lunch?" Isla asks innocently turning in her seat to address him.
"Not you girly. You don't come here." Harry says moving closer to her. A little too close if you ask me.
"Oh Harry leave her alone." CJ says sitting in the seat between them. "Islsey! It's been too long!" CJ yelled wrapping an arm around Isla's neck
"Hiya CJ." Isla replies coolly. While CJ was being her natural loud self and distracting Harry, I moved in closer and being the most discrete I could, I pulled a small bag of coins out of Harry's back pocket. I was pulling a necklace of CJ's neck when it happened.
"Hey!" I turned around to see Uma coming out of the kitchen with a tray in one hand and a murderous glare on her face. At hearing her yell her 'crew' all turned and spotted me.
"Jay." Harry glares at me.
"Isla." Uma growls when she spots her sister. Isla smiles sweetly but her eyes flicker in fear slightly.
"Hiya Uma." Isla smirks. "You know Jay, I think it's time to go." Isla says jumping up from her seat. She grabs my hand and drags me out of the shop.
"Get them!" Uma yells and her crew chases us out the door yelling, brandishing swords and throwing things. The chase us all the way to the border line and then they stop, but they're still yelling curses and throwing random objects.
Isla and I run all the way back to the hideout neither of us stopping or looking back. When we make it to the entrance I pick up a rock and throw it at the sign causing the entrance to open. We both run up the stairs laughing loudly.
"I told you we'd get caught." Isla says moving to the couch.
"Technically it was bad timing." I say going over to the lever to close the gate.
"Uma saw you trying to take CJ's necklace. She caught you." Isla says spinning around. I was about to make a retort when I saw something. A cut on her cheek. It was quite a long cut but it didn't look too deep but it was still bleeding a bit.
"Isla." I say moving over to her and gently touching her cheek. Isla flinches and moves back slightly. I don't like the look in her eyes so I move towards her and cup her cheek gently.
"Jay, what are you doing?" Isla asks softly looking up at me with her big, blue eyes.
"Your bleeding." I say and her hand goes to her cheek but rests on mine. "Come on." I say grabbing her other hand and pulling her into Evie's part of the room. I sit her down at Eve's vanity and move to get a cloth.
"Jay I'm fine." Isla says when I start cleaning her cheek. She attempts to push my hand away but I'm not having that.
"Isla sit still. It'll get infected if I don't clean it." I grab both her hands in one of mine and use my other to clean her cheek. When I clean all the blood off the area's bright red and there's a medium size scratch there. "See, that wasn't so bad." I say and Isla looks in the mirror, gently touching the scratch.
"I wonder if Evie has anything to cover it." Isla says going through Evie's makeup supply. When she pulls a bottle of the gunk up I grab her hand and put the bottle down.
"You don't need any of that. You look pretty without it." I say and feel my cheeks burn slightly. At least mine aren't as red as Isla's.
"Thank you, Jay." Isla says placing a kiss on my cheek. Before I can do anything we hear,
"You two been causing mischief again?" Mal calls as she, Carlos and Evie enter the hideout with smirks on their faces. "Heard two teens were caught stealing form Uma's crew. Was it you two?" Mal asks her smirk growing when Isla and I jump away from each other slightly.
"Yeah." Isla says finally. "Jay got busted stealing from CJ."
"I didn't get busted. Besides we got away, didn't we?"
"Barely." Isla says sitting on the couch with Evie. "Let me tell you what happened." Isla began telling the story and I sat on the chair across from her. For now I'll listen and maybe one day I'll be able to tell Isla just how pretty she really is to me.
Ben's POV
"I still can't believe you think that was our first date!" Isla complains from where she's laying against Jay's side.
"It was! I thought it was romantic." Jay defends.
"Yeah me saying your ass from getting from getting hooked, is so romantic." Isla fondly rolls her eyes. "Half the stuff you said was in there wasn't."
"Yes there was! The whole story was about the adventure of two lovers and how the beautiful girl saved the Prince of Thieves from getting hooked by the villainous pirates!" Jay pouted at Isla.
"Alright you two." Mal interjects. "We don't need to have this argument again. Isla tell your version." Mal says while Carlos and Evie laugh at the three of them.
"Ben let me tell you the real story." Isla says. "This is the story of how a boy finally got the courage to kiss the girl."
Isla's POV
Jay and I were wandering around the Isle. Jay as usual, was stealing whatever caught his interest and I was distracting the stall owners so he didn't get caught. Right now we were at the only decent jewerly stand on the Isle. This was the place that Evie and her mother used to buy all their jewelry until Dizzy started to make Evie stuff.
"Just go up to him and distract him. John won't notice me at all with you there." Jay... flirted? Ever since we got caught stealing from Uma and Jay cleaned my cheek, Jay's been acting different towards me. He's been flirting and being all touchy-feeley when we're alone. Don't get me wrong even before that I had feelings for Jay and that whole adventure just made them stronger.
"It's not John today! It's his son Jack. He's a slimeball." I groaned looking over at the stall to see it defiantly was the slime-ball Jack, or as he insist's Prince Jack. While I will admit Evie is a princess because even her mothers called the Evil Queen, Jack is not even close to prince material. "That guy is a goddamn stalker. It took you months to get him to back off the girls and I."
"I promise I'll be there the whole time. If he gets too creepy I promise you can get out of there." Jay says taking my small hand in his larger one.
"Okay." I breath out. Jay's eyes light up in mischief. "You better get what you want fast. I don't want to be talking to him for too long."
I let go of Jay's hand, fluff up my hair and strut over to the stall. "Hiya Jack." I purr leaning against the stall.
"H-Hiya Isla." Jack stutters slightly. Smirking I pick up a random necklace.
"You got some pretty stuff here. Got anything for me?" I ask and his hands shake as he tries to pick up some pieces.
"You look really pretty today Isla." Jack finally loses the stutter. Oh great, now he can talk.
"Thanks." I drawl my eyes shifting around trying to spot Jay, but as usual he's too stealthy to spot.
"That outfit looks gorgeous on you but it would look so much better on my floor." Jack says coming a little too close. Okay I'm done now. Jay can come back another day.
"In your dreams perv." I hiss turning away but a hand grabs my wrist and pulls me back.
"Come on honey, you know you want me." Jack says trying to pull me closer to him. I'm about to slap him when someone comes up behind me and yanks me away from Jack's grasp.
"Stay away from my girl!" Jay growls holding me against his side. "I see you touching her again and I will not hesitate to pound that ugly mug of yours in. Come on Isla." Jay still growling pulls me away.
Jay practically drags me away from the market and into the hideout. "Jay slow down please." I pleaded as he pulled me up the stairs into the hideout. Jay didn't listen and instead pulled me up the stairs faster. When we reached the main area, Jay basically pushed me onto the couch as he stormed over to the lever.
"Jay, calm down." I move over to him when he doesn't turn around. "Jay." I don't hesitate to place my hand on his arm. "Jay, come on. Sit down." I say gently taking his hand and pulling him over to the couch. "Stay here." I tell him and move into the kitchen.
I make my way around the small and scarcely stocked kitchen. I pull out Jay's mug and the rest of the ingredients to make his favorite drink. Sludgy Coffee. Normally it tasted worse than dirt but, it was better than the water on the Isle at least.
"Here." I say passing him the hot beverage. Jay looks up and his dark expression is gone. "I don't know if I got it right but I'm hoping I did." I tell him taking a seat next to him leaning my head on his shoulder and curling my feet up under me.
I watch as Jay takes a sip and all the tenseness from his body leaves him. "It's perfect." He tells me with a smile.
"So, I'm your girl, huh?" I ask with a smile, my heart pounding at what his next words could be.
"Yeah." Jay says rubbing the back of his neck nervously. "Personally that's not how I thought that would come out."
"So you meant it?" I ask looking him in the eyes.
"It wasn't how I planned it but yes." Jay says placing his coffee down and cupping my face with his hands. "It was supposed to be the most romantic thing I could plan despite the fact we live on the Isle. I was going to take you to the roof top where you could see Auradon and it was going to be perfect."
"We live on the Isle, Jay. We don't get perfect." I tell him softly. The whole time he was talking the both of us were slowly moving closer to each other.
"But that's what you deserve." Jay says still moving closer.
"Why were you so mad before?" I whisper, our lips were now only centimeters away from each others.
"Seeing him put his hands on you. Him thinking you were his... I've never felt more pissed. You're mine." Jay says crashing our lips together. His lips weren't incredibly soft but they felt like the softest thing ever. I can taste the coffee on his lips and feel the roughness on mine. Jay isn't sweet and gentle, it's rough and passionate and it's just like I imagined. After several minutes my lungs start to burn, begging for oxygen. I push on Jay's chest and the two of us separate gasping for breath.
"If guys hitting on me ends up like that, I don't I'm gonna mind." I say with a smirk. Jay growls slightly before slinging an arm around my shoulder.
"I almost forgot." Jay said reaching into his pocket. "This is for you." He said placing a necklace into my hands. It was an aqua seashell on a red thred cord.
"It's beautiful, Jay." I say clasping it around my neck. Jay smiles fondly at me and pulls me closer. I lean my head on his shoulder and I don't know how long we stay like that but I don't care. Because right now everything feels perfect.
Ben's POV
"See that was a first date!" Isla says after finishing her story. I've got to say it was a bit more romantic than what Jay.
"No, that was a date!" Jay exclaims. "By that point we might as well have already been dating for months." Jay points out.
"Were not!"
"Were too!" As Isla and Jay continue arguing, I turn to my girlfriend who's looking at her friends with an amused smile.
"Are they always like this?" I ask her and she nods. "Who do you thinks right?"
"Personally I think Jay's was more romantic. Evie thinks Isla's was best and Carlos doesn't get involved. They can never decide and it always ends the same." Mal says pointing to the two who are now making out.
"And that's our cue to leave." Evie says gracefully exiting the room with Carlos in tow. Mal and I stand to leave the two lovebirds.
As Mal and were following Evie and Carlos down the hall, I finally get it. "I think I understand it now." I say to Mal who looks at me confused.
"Understand what?" She asks.
"I get their relationship. They don't need to match perfectly but they work together." I explain my theory.
"It's more than that." Mal adds. "Their there for each other. On the Isle they only had each other and us. Their family's ignored them for most part, only realizing they were there when they were in trouble. She was the one who kept an eye on him and he made sure she was safe." Mal explains.
So maybe they were different, but that's why they work together.
After all who needs perfect?