So I would just like to say that all rights to the OC in this chapter named 'Amy' belong to PinkSakura271 x


It was the day after Ben had snapped at her and Mal was beyond worried. Ben had never called her last night to even see if she was okay let alone apologise for what had happened. She had continued to watch him through out the day yesterday, after he had returned from Castle Beast and noticed he was the same with everybody. It wasn't just her. She had seen him snap at Lonnie, Doug and even Fairy Godmother today. She knew she needed to figure out what was wrong with Ben which is why she was in her dorm with Evie, Jay, Carlos and her twin sister Amy before breakfast this morning.

"Have any of you noticed a change in Ben recently?" Mal asked the group of her siblings.

Immediately they all nodded. "Yeah, he's not as cheerful as he usually is." Evie said. "He acutally ignored me today. It's like he's a completely different person." She told the group.

Jay then spoke up. "He's got more aggressive during Tourney practice as well." The rest of his sentence was finished off by Carlos.

"If I didn't know better I'd say he was a VK." Carlos said.

Amy then leant forward. "Plus he's been looking really tired and drained lately. I think he actually fell asleep in our English lesson yesterday." She had noticed the change in her sister's boyfriend a few days ago but wasn't sure whether to mention it to Mal or not. Eventually she had mentioned it but as she assumed Mal would have, her sister had already noticed the change.

Mal couldn't help but nod to them all. It just confirmed the purplette's thoughts, that something was seriously wrong with her boyfriend. "Maybe you should talk to Ben about it, Mal. He'll listen to you." Evie suggested and a sad smile crossed Mal's face as she remembered what had happened yesterday when she had tried to do exactly that.

"I tried yesterday." Mal admitted. "It didn't go well. He had already had a go at Audrey and when I tried to talk to him he snapped at me for askign if her was okay. Then he walked away from me without another word." She left out the part where he accidently knocked her to the floor and didn't bother to help her up knowing how protective Amy could get. Ben had enough problems to deal with and she didn't want her overprotective twin sister to add to it.

The teens all shared a worried look. If Ben wasn't listening to Mal then they really wasn't sure what to try. They may not have been together long but Ben always listened to Mal, even when the teens had first arrived. "There must be something we can do." Evie said, the others immediately sgreeing with her. Ben was the first person to ever trust them and give them a chance, they had to help him now. They couldn't just leave him to suffer like this. Not after he had given them a life away from their parents, a life they had all secretly wanted.

Mal couldn't help but sigh. "The only thing I can do is try talking to him again. Maybe if I talk to him in the morning he won't be as moody." Mal suggested.

"Want me to come with you?" Amy asked her sister.

Shaking her head Mal responded. "No Cherry Blossom. I think this is something I need to do myself." She said, sighing again Mal stood and headed out of the room to find her boyfriend.

It didn't take long for Mal to find him sat outside in the courtyard. As she approached him she noticed he looked even worse then he had yesterday. The circles around his eyes had gotten darker and his skin had gotten paler. As Mal approached him she heard the warning bell for the first lesson ring through the grounds of Auradon Prep. She watched as Ben stood from his seat before he collapsed to the ground. The purple haired teen immediately ran to her boyfriend, dropping to the floor next to him. "Ben!?" She called out to him shaking him slightly. "Ben!" She shouted.

When she didn't get a response she quickly pulled out her phone and speed dialed the one person who would help her with no questions asked and wouldn't already be in her lesson. "Hey, Cherry Blossom." Mal said as Any answered the phone, her voice thick with emotion. "I need you to get Fairy Godmother and meet me in the courtyard... Yeah, I'm fine but Ben's not... Please hurry." She said before hanging up. She just hoped that her twin sister would be fast. She needed to know what was wrong with Ben and the fact that he wasn't responding to her was worrying her tremendously.


Author's Note: I know this chapter is short. The next one will be longer however. I hope you like this chapter. Please review and let me know what you think x