No one's P.O.V.

Later that night, Mal and her friends were in the kitchen, making cookies with walnuts, sugar, and... a love potion from her mother's spellbook. After the visit they got from Ben and Elena about the coronation, they decided that the best thing they can do is get themselves to be their dates. Using the Love Potion, Ben will fall in love with Mal and Elena will be head over heels for Jay. Like she obviously isn't already.

"All right," said Mal, stirring a bowl, "It say that we still need one tear, and I never cry."

Carlos took out an onion and said, "Let's just chop us some onions."

"No," Mal whined, "It says that we need one tear of human sadness. And this love potion gets the best reviews, so we have to follow it exactly."

"A tear's a tear," said Jay.

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

Everyone was rather caught off-guard from Evie's knowledge. They did not expect her to say that at all.

"Listen to you," Mal said to Evie, impressed.

Evie beamed at the praise. Who would have that that doing all of Chad's homework would pay off at this moment?

"Yeah, I knew that," Jay said.

"Did not," Carlos countered, teasingly.

"Yeah, I did," Jay defended.

Out of the blue, the kitchen door opened to reveal Elena in white baggy pants and an oversized baby blue shirt, "Hey, Mal."

Startled, Mal hurried and put a towel over the spellbook as she talked, "Listen, I just ran into Lonnie on my way here. She told me that just about every other girl besides me and Audrey want you to do their hair."

To try and stay on the subject, Mal tried to be inconspicuous and asked her, "You don't want yours done?"

"Nah," the blonde girl shrugged, "I'm fine with mine."

"I'm not," came in Evie, catching everyone off-guard. Elena the most, "I'm sorry, but you need serious styling help. Ever since I saw your long hair, I've been wanting to style it here and there. So maybe we can get up early tomorrow, I can layer it, give it some curls-"

"Yeah, I'm not getting up early for us to play Spa Day," Elena cut off, making everyone, but Evie, snicker, "Besides, last I checked, I made my hair wavy when I met you guys."

"Inaccurately enough to be a doll, which is why you need serious styling help," she countered, making Elena look at her braid in question, "So how about we layer and style your hair tomorrow morning and see where it goes from there?"

Elena still didn't like the sound of that. She was never the girliest kind of princess: not one for makeovers, dress up, and no talk about boys. If anything, she was more of a 'Let loose' kind of princess. However, Evie has been a very cool girl to her, and at least she's not nagging on her about it enough to for her to say no.

Besides, she's already been getting enough crud from Audrey and Chad, so in a way, it was the least she could do.

"Okay, fine," Elena answered, making Evie clap her hand in excitement. She smiled slightly before looking into Mal's bowl, "Midnight snack? Same here. What are you guys making anyway?"

"Nothing special," Mal answered, "Just cookies."

Elena actually liked the sound of that, and she was hungry. And she likes cookie dough. In fact, she dipped her finger into the mix and tasted it.

"No, wait!"

She was startled with all of them shouting like that. They were all just stunned in the same position, like it was the end of the world or something.

"I washed my hands, I promise," Elena said with her hands up.

"Feel anything?" asked Evie.

"Yeah, like maybe it might be missing something?" asked Mal.

Elena furrowed her eyebrows at the two. They almost looked anxious about something with her. In fact, they've been acting a little weird since they even came to the school. She was so engrossed in their behavior, that she didn't even notice Jay go to her and pull off his million dollar smile.

"Hey, there," he said flirtatiously.

She turned her head over to Jay to see his smile. Honestly, she was liking him doing that pose. It was actually kind of hot.

Shaking her head at the thought, she looked back at Mal, "Try putting in some chips."

As she walked over to the fridge, she heard them all sigh in relief.

"And those are?" Mal asked.

"Uh, chocolate chips," Elena told her in a 'Duh' sort of tone, "Coming from a choco-holic , it's one of the best things you can put in a cookie," she put a bowl of chocolate chips on the table, "So what, your moms never made you guys chocolate chip cookies?" Mal and Evie looked to her in confusion, "You know, when you feel sad. They're just fresh out of the oven, all soft and warm with a cold glass of milk and has that big smile on her face that just cheers you right up?"

Elena started to have a smile on her face from that very memory. Queen Elsa would always excuse the royal chefs so she could make the cookies on her own to give her daughter a real touch of her mothers love. It always made Elena feel like her mom really loved her if she wanted to do things on her own for her own child. She looked to her friends to see that none of them were replying. They all just looked at her like she was from another planet. If that was the case, she figured out what that meant.

"They never did that?" she asked.

"It's just different where we're from,"

"Well, yeah," said Elena, "But, I mean... hey, even villains can love their kids, right?"

Mal did not stop stirring the bowl, but was stirring a little more slowly. Evie just stared into space. Elena looked over to the boys to see Jay looking rather uncomfortable and Carlos looking at the floor, almost in doubt. Elena was upset to know exactly what that meant; they weren't so sure themselves. They weren't sure what love from a parent felt like. Just the thought of that nearly broke her heart.

"I'm so sorry," she whispered, a tear rolling down her face. She took Mal's hand in comfort about it. Mal looked at her and noticed the tear. Before it could run off Elena's face, she wiped it off her face and flung it into the bowl.

Yeah, well, big bummer, but we have to get these into the oven, so thank you so much for coming by. Really, really have a good night," said Mal, trying to push Elena out the door.

"Now wait a minute," said Elena, ducking out of Mals arm, "Can I at least get my snack? Jay, pass me an apple?" he tossed her a Gala apple, and caught it with one hand, "Thanks. Night, guys."

"See you tomorrow," said Mal before turning back, "Okay. Boyys, cookie sheet. Evie, oven."

As they were attending to that, Jay was actually thinking about Elena. In all honesty, he was always feeling different around Elena. She was different from all the other princesses; she's funny, she's witty, she's creative, she's more like an Isle of the Lost girl than an Auradon princess. She was a total package. Because of all that, he was thinking if he can really do this to her.