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Mystical Creature Care 101 seemed a lot more fun to Jay now that Allie was around to help him. She was very kind and patient with him, teaching him everything from what direction to brush Demon's fur, who Allie had taken to calling "Dee", to what snacks he could and couldn't feed it. She had also offered to bathe Dee, more due to the fact that its snow white fur was turning yellow than for the sake of helping him, but Jay appreciated the gesture anyway. With her help, he knew he'd pass Miss Nakoma's end of the month animal evaluation that was a week away, meaning he'd for sure be able to play in the next tourney game.
In return for her hard work, Jay taught Allie everything he knew about chemistry and Alchemy and everything in between and she seemed to be picking up on it rather quickly.
"The three prime elements of the Alchemical symbols were sulphur, salt, and Mercury." She stated confidently, eyeing Jay expectantly for the answer. Jay sighed disappointedly, meeting her eyes glumly before replying.
"I'm sorry Allie but that's… correct!" He said, her face lighting up in relief. She reached over and smacked him in the arm after her moment of victory.
"You jerk! You had me worried there!" She snapped, Jay laughing in response.
"Oh come on! Lighten up a little." He replied and she made a face at him.
This is how most of their study sessions went since they began, the duo spending ¾ of the time studying, but never forgetting-mostly thanks to Jay- to have a little fun.
Soon enough, the time for Auradon's first-semester report cards to be passed out came around, and Allie and Jay agreed to meet at their usual picnic table to share their results. Thanks to one another, Jay had gotten his grade up enough to play in a tourney tournament and Allie was no longer on the verge of being kicked out of Auradon Prep. Now it was time to see how much they'd progressed on paper.
Allie felt a light tap on her right shoulder and immediately looked to her left, meeting Jay's mischievous gaze.
"Darn." He muttered disappointedly. "I've lost my touch."
"Or you're the only person immature enough in this school to still try to pull that trick." Allie replied with a smug smile. Jay rolled his eyes and sat down beside her, pulling out a folded piece of paper from his pocket.
"You know you should really invest in a binder. Or at least a folder." Allie pointed out, pulling out her own crisp report card from the folder on her lap. Jay only shrugged and began to unfold his report card face down.
"One… two… three!" They flipped their report cards over and immediately began to look at one another's. Their eyes immediately lit up when they saw their grades, both of them passing their respective "weak" class with a B.
"Yes!" Jay high-fived Allie and then pulled her into a bear hug. Allie couldn't help but sigh softly into his chest, feeling relieved and comfortable.
They pulled away moments later, the two of them becoming quiet.
"Congrats." Jay mumbled sweetly, smiling genuinely at her.
"Congratulations to you, too." She replied, returning the smile.
Their moment of happiness was cut short as Lonnie came into their field of vision, strutting over to the table with Jane and the girl that Allie despised to the core, Audrey.
She and Allie had pretended to make up for the sake of appearances and the cheerleading team, but they both very much and very obviously still hated one another. It was her fault that Allie had snapped the way she had over a year ago, it was her fault that she'd had most of her friends turn against her and almost had to leave the school for "reckless behavior".
Allie could never forgive her, and of course Audrey could never forgive her for damaging her nose to the point that she'd had to get a rhinoplasty from the good fairies.
Jay noticed Allie's barely-concealed disgust as the three girls approached and raised his eyebrows in question, but was stopped from asking her about it as the three girls approached them.
"You know, I just remembered I have to go meet my friend Eli. I'll see you later, Jay." Allie muttered hastily and bolted up from the table, grabbing her bag just as the girls reached them.
"Allie, what are you doing here with him?" Audrey asked, her eyes shooting daggers at her.
"I was actually just leaving." Allie replied, looking over at Jay. "See you." She mumbled before turning her attention back to the girls. "Good seeing you Lonnie, Jane. Audrey." Allie stated, spitting the last word out like if it was a curse before walking away from her peers.
In actuality, Allie hadn't been lying, really. She did have to see Eli. Have being the relative word.
She found the white-haired boy soon enough, sitting cross-legged under a shady maple tree, juggling three milk cartons while Cassandra looked on. One would expect there to be more onlookers, but after over three years of watching Eli Hightopp juggle just about anything from cell phones to eggs to nails, everyone had just kind of grown accustomed to seeing Eli perform and accepted as a daily part of life. Eli had only really picked up juggling to help him with his nervous hands he'd inherited from his father the Mad Hatter and would regularly begin juggling anything he could get his hands on when he was anxious.
"Hey, Allie. You want a milk? They're chocolate." He offered, passing one over as she took a seat down on the plush grass, Allie easily catching it.
"Where have you been these past two weeks Allie? Your magic carpet caught in a layover or something?" He joked, though there was real concern in his lime-green eyes.
"Shouldn't you be inside? You'll burn to a crisp if you stay out here any longer." Allie teased in return, poking fun at the taller boy's extremely pale skin he'd inherited from his mother, none other than the White Queen. He made a face at her and readjusted himself to be more in the shade and then looked back at Allie.
"Seriously though where have you been? And why did you look so upset when you were walking over here?" He asked and Allie only sighed in response, knowing she was caught.
"Well, we already got our report cards so I guess it doesn't matter now. These past few weeks I've studying these past few weeks with Jay, the new tourney co-captain and Lonnie Shang's boyfriend." She admitted, looking down at her hands. "And I'm mad because I bumped into Audrey on my way over here."
"Wait you're getting tutoring sessions from Jay Thuban?" Elijah questioned, his face contorted in confusion. Allie looked at her friends curiously, noticing that Cassandra had a very similar expression on her face, as well.
"Yeah… what's wrong with that?" She asked slowly, feeling out of the loop.
"Nothing… it's just, wow. I didn't take you for the forgiving, empathetic type is all." Eli explained, only serving to further confuse her.
"Wait, am I missing something?" She asked, looking between her two closest friends. "Is there something you guys didn't tell me? Cass?" She continued, staring pointedly into her friend's violet eyes.
"Well uh you see, we know how you can get after you receive bad news and you'd already been through so much last month and we didn't want to further upset you or risk you getting into another fight, so um I may or may not have given you an abridged version of the events that occurred while you were away." She admitted, looking away sheepishly.
"What did you not tell me Cass?" Allie pressed, her eyebrows furrowing threateningly.
"I-I didn't think it was all that important. I mean the chances of you ever interacting with him seemed so slim… I didn't think it'd matter."
"Cass. Tell me. Now." Allie all but ordered in her most commanding tone.
"Well you remember when I told you that four students had transferred over here from the Isle of the Lost? Well, Jay is one of them. And he's- he's…." Cassandra faltered, her words seemingly stuck in her throat.
"Enough of this already Cass. She deserves to know." Eli interjected, his eyes locking on Allie for a moment before he spoke up again. "He's the child of Jafar."
So now Allie knows the truth about Jay, how do you all think will she react to this news?
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