The pain inside

Authors note: hi everyone! I am sorry at how bad I have been when it comes to writing and have decided to only do one shots and maybe two shots for now and if I decide to take something further it will be a max of 5 chapters and anything else will be a sequel.

Summary: what if all the stress becomes too much for mal but she doesn't leave. Instead she falls apart on the inside and she falls into a downward spiral. Will the others notice before its too late. Bal with a strong platonic malvie. Set in desendants 2.

WARNING: strong mental illness, eating disorder and self harm theme. If you don't like this or it triggers you do not read further! Some things might be different from the way you have experienced it but I am writing from my experience only.

The pain inside

Mal burst into her room so frustrated by the amount of pressure on her. No one understands how she feels. She can't do this and she's not good enough for Ben. She is continuously followed by cameras and people with a billion questions. She has tried talking to Ben about it but he was too busy sorting out details for the royal catillion ( the cause of her problems ) and she tried to talk to evie but she was too busy sewing dresses for people to talk to mal.

Mal walked into her bathroom and pulled her razor box out from under a loose piece of flooring. She had been cutting for quite a while now telling herself it didn't matter and it was just her way of reliving emotional pain. She carefully placed the blade on her skin and pushed down, breaking the barrier between her flesh and the air. As the blood trickled down her wrist she remembered the conversation between her and evie when she asked for long sleeves on her dress. No one had seen any of her cuts and she wanted to keep it that way. Evie was a bit suspicious but when mal told her the catillion was on a boat and there would probably be a sea chill evie went along with it. However evie didn't fail to notice that mal was a lot thinner recently and had been skipping meals.

Mal finally finished cutting and was starting to put her things away and clean up when she heard footsteps coming towards the bathroom. At that moment she realised she hadn't locked the door and that evie was probably back from her last class. However she didn't get a chance to react before evie pushed open the door and looked to see mal's bleeding arms. " Oh my gosh mal!" Evie whispered horrified at what she saw. Mal broke down into tears. "I'm s-so s-s-sorry evie"

Evie quickly hushed mal giving her a cautious hug so she didn't hurt her repeatedly telling mal it's would be okay until mal's sobbing turned into quiet sniffs and hiccups.

" mal I am going to have to clean your cuts now is that okay?"

Mal nodded giving another small sniff. Evie cleaned mal's cuts, reassuring her when mal winced in pain, and wrapped them up with gause and tape from the first aid kit by the sink.

Next she walked mal into their room and sat them both down on mal's bed.

" I just want to know what's making you feel like this mal. Your not eating, You are isolating yourself and you have been hurting yourself. Is it about your mother, is something happening here at school, is it Ben?

Mal then sat and poured out her problems to evie, telling her how she was struggling and that she wasn't good enough and didn't deserve to be in auradon. Evie just sat listening, her heart breaking as she realised just how much hidden pain her friend was in. Finally mal finished and evie told her they were going to fix it together and got mal to change into her pyjamas and go to sleep as it was now late in the evening and finally she sat down on her own bed listening to mal's breathing as she slept.

Evie didn't really know what was going to happen now other than that it was going to be hard but she was going to help her best friend no matter what happened.

-authors note: please review to tell me what you thought of it and tell me if you want a part two to see ben's reaction and how they mal, evie and ben deal with it together. Thank you for reading my story. Please send in other ideas for desendants one shots and two shots and I will see if I can write them for you. Lauren