Sydney's POV

"You know, you're practically stalking her, right?" I said, when Doug noticed Evie.

"Technically... yes." he said, before leaving me to head towards her.

I stared from a far as Doug slowly made his was to Evie. Under the bleachers, she stood with Chad Charming. I knew he was leading her on, he would only drop her when she was not longer needed. I would know. I was once that new, lost girl who thought that Chad Charming was a dashing prince. Now, I knew he was just a slimy piece of crap, not worthy of the title prince. That's when I had met Ben, he was nice, and though he hung out with Chad and Audrey sometimes, he was a much better person.

"I could really use a tough guy like you." I turned to my right at the familiar voice. A few seats down sat coach and he was talking to Jay. "The team's a bunch of princes, if you know what I mean."

"You're telling me. It's all, 'after you old chum,' and 'oh, pardon me, did I bump into you?' Where I come from it's 'prepare to die sucker!'" Replied Jay. "As my father says, 'the only way to win is to make sure everyone else loses!'"

"Jay!" Interrupted Coach.

"You rip..."

"Jay, Jay, Jay!" I covered my mouth with my hand to muffle my laugh. "Let me explain a team to you. Uh, it's like a family."

"You do not want to be at my house at dinner time." Jay's answer caused my laugh to fade and my smile to fall.

"Okay, okay, um... you know how a body has a lot of different parts? The legs, elbows, ears. But they all need each other. Well, that's what a team is. Different players who work together to win. Make any sense?"

"Can I be the fist?" Asked Jay, all joking aside. The coach only laughed in response and held up a jersey. He handed it to Jay and walked off the bleachers.

"Do you always watch people?" Asked Jay, turning to me with a smirk. "Or is it just me."

"Oh please? What makes you think you're so special."

"I don't know, what makes you think I'm so special?" He says.

"So you made the team?" I asked, changing the subject.

"Yeah I guess."He answered, trying to sound nonchalant, but I noticed the gleam in his eyes.

"Well, I'm not really into sport, speaking that our team sucks. But maybe we'll finally have a chance at winning with you on the team, I may just have to come see it for myself."

"I'll maybe just have to see you there."

"Hey, Evie, wait up!" I called to Evie when I saw her walking sown the hall. She turned, but l the skeptic look on her face told me how worried she was about facing me head on.

"What?" She asked, crossing her arms.

"Look, I know you and I don't have the best connections, but I just wanted to warn you about Chad."

"Excuse me?"

"Look, I know he seems nice and dreamy but he's..."

"No, I mean, who do you think you are. Is this some kind of joke." I was a little taken a back by her reaction.

"What, no, I didn't..."

"Didn't what?"

"I was just trying to warn you..."

"Oh please, I know exactly what you're trying to do."

"Look I don't know what you're problem is with me..."

"My problem with you? It's obvious that the problem is something you hold against me. That's obviously why you're trying to embarass me."

"What? No..."

"Stay away from me." She finally tunred and storde off, leaving me speechless.

I stared out the window to by room. The day had turned from a lovely spring filled day to a mysterious star filled night.

"What's bugging you Syd? You've been staring out that window since you got back." asked Talia.

"It's nothing." Said trying to sound sincere. Talia only stared me down, pulling the answer right from my lips. "It's just, I don't think Evie likes me."

"Evie? You mean the girl from the isle." Talia laughed. "Leave it to you to try and befriend the people whom everyone else is terrified of. You know not everyone is going to like you."

"I know, I know. It's just, I think she doesn't like me because she thinks that I don't like her."

"I'm sorry, what. Now I'm confused."

"I think she thinks I don't like her because she's the evil queen's daughter."

"Oh, and because you're Snow White's daughter she thinks that you hold some grudge over her?"

"Exactly."

"Syd, maybe you just need to tell her flat out."

"I tried. Well sort of, I tried warning her about Chad." Talia cringed at the mention of his name. "She thought I was only trying to embarass her."

"How?"

"I don't know. But to sum up her words she hates me." Talia walked the small distance between us and sat down next to me.

"We can't save them all Syd. Some are just gonna have to learn the hard way about Chad Charming." I sighed. Quite simply it happened freshman year. I was the new girl, and Chad Charming was the most charming of them all. But looking back at it now, I realized my mistake. I pretty much became his servant, and for a while I remained blissfully ignorant to the matter. That was of course until the annual auradon prep royal ball came. I had expected Chad to take me. Instead, he laughed in my face when I asked him in front of the whole class, and instead took Lonnie, daughter of Mulan. I wanted to hold it against her, but a few days later, he dumped her as well and I realized he was the real villain in the matter. Evie didn't deserve that.

I looked Talia in the eyes and sighed once more.

"I'm gonna go for a walk, okay?" I said, and Talia nodded with sympathetic eyes.

The halls were dark as most of the students were in their rooms, but a few still lingered the halls. Some for late night snacks, others throwing in some extra studying in the quiet of the halls. I just kept walking, no real destination in mind. The dark red carpet looked black only a few feet ahead of me. But at the end of the hall I noticed light coming out of the kitchen door. I slowly walked there, something felt weird about the reasons behind that light being on. It was just my instinct that told me something was off. I tip toed to the door. It was slightly cracked letting little light come out, but it was just enough to catch my attention. I peered inside, there stood Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay. Mal was stirring something whilst Evie stood beside her, helping by adding ingrediants. Jay and Carlos simply stood to the side, watching.

"All right. It says that we still need one tear, and I never cry." Said Mal.

"Let's just chop up some onions." Said Carlos.

"No." replied Mal, throwing her arms up. "It says we need one tear of human sadness, and this love potion gets the best reviews, so we have to follow it exactly."

Love potion? I wondered.

"A tear's a tear." Said Jay.

"That's not true Jay. They both antibodies and enzymes, but and emotional tear has more protein-based horomones than a reflex tear." Replied Evie.

"Listen to you." Laughed Mal.

"Yeah, I knew that." Jay tried to play off, and it took evrything in me not to laugh.

"Did not." Said Carlos, hitting Jay's arm playfully.

"Yeah I did." Tried Jay.

"Oh, hey Sydney, what are you doing?" I whipped around to find Lonnie walking towards me.

"Hey, Lonnie. I was just taking a walk and..." I searched my brain for a good answer. "My foot got cramped so I stopped to stretch a little." I said, grabbing my foot from behind and pulling it towards me just to make my point.

"Okay." Said Lonnie, looking ever so confused. "Do you mind if I get past your stretching?" She asked.

"Oh, no, of course." I said hopping out of her way to let her into the Kitchen.

"There You are, Mal! I was looking for you." I heard Lonnie say. "you know all the girls want you to do their hair!"

"Oh, really?" laughed Mal.

"Midnight snack, huh? What are you guys making?" asked Lonnie.

"Nothing special, just cookies." said Mal, right as Lonnie reached over to swipe a lick of the batter.

"Oh, no, no!" Screamed Evie and Mal at the same time.

'Wait, wait, wait!" Screamed Carlos at the same time as Mal and Evie. But Lonnie plopped the little dollop of cookie dough in her mouth before they could stop her. Dude whipered.

"What? I'm not gonna double dip." I stared, waiting to see what would happen next. Did the love potion work.

"Feel anything?" Asked Evie.

"Yeah, like maybe it might be missing something?" asked Mal. Then Jay walked up to Lonnie, a smirk on his face.

"Hey, there." He said in a flirtatious tone, and I tried to ignore the slight pain in my chest. Lonnie only gave hime a look, and pretty much flat out rejected him. I slapped a hand over my mouth, to try and muffle my laughter, but it made a kind of loud sound. Jay turned his head towards the door. I backed away, until my back hit the wall behind me.

"It could use some chips." I faintly heard Lonnie say. Oh crap, had Jay heard me? I wondered. But after a few seconds when no one came to open the door I realized I was in the clear.

"Chips?" I heard Jay ask as I slowly walked towards the door again. Mal sighed.

"And those are..." Mal implored.

"Chocolate chips." Replied Lonnie. Just the most important food group. Wait, didn't your guys moms ever make you guys, like, chocolate chip cookies?" She said, sprinkling a few choclate chips into the batter. They all just looked at Lonnie, seeming more confused than anything else.

"No." Quietly passed through Mal's lips.

"Like when you're feeling sad, and they're fresh from the oven, with a big old glass of milk, and she just makes you laugh and puts everything into perspective and..." Lonnie's voice faded away at the sad look on everyones faces. "Why are you all looking at me like that?"

"It's just different where we're from." Answered Mal.

"Yeah, I know, I just, you know, thought... even villains love their kids." Lonie tried to lighten the mood, but it only made thngs worse. The look on Mal's face was heart breaking. "Oh... how awful." said Lonnie, grabbing Mal's hand. I tear escaped my eye and began falliing down my cheak before I swiftly wipped it away, but another swiftly followed it.

"Yeah, well, big bummer," I hear Mal call. "But we have to get these into the oven. so thank you so much for coming by. Really really have a good night." She said.

"Good night." I heard Lonnie call back.

Jay came out, pushing Lonnie out the door. I hid behind it so he wouldn't see me, but the tears kept falling. I swiftly tried to wipe them away. Jay turned around to walk back into the kitchen before his eyes caught on me.

"Sydney?" I shot my head up.

"Oh hey, Jay, how are you doing, I was just taking a walk when I smelled cookies. But I'm pretty tired so I'm just gonna go back now." I pushed past Jay, wipping away another tear. I didn't look back as i practically rand to my room.