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"Evie. Eeeeevie," Mal spoke softly, pushing Evie's shoulders gently. She thought about just letting her sleep, but she know she wouldn't want to miss class. She was seated on the edge of her bed, shaking her slightly. Mal had thought hard last night, and did something she never did.

Sorted through her feelings.

Now she just really needed to talk to Carlos.

Mal peered around the room, looking at all the decorations that she once complained about, but realized she would actually miss it once this year passed. It didn't matter though, thats wasn't for a long time.

Mal's was pulled out of her thoughts when Evie awoke with a groan, her head feeling heavy. She cracked her eyes open to be met with dizziness and let them shut again.

"Here," Mal said, pulling Evie slowly into a sitting position, handing her some pills and a glass of water. Evie barely opened her eyes as she popped the pills onto the back of her tongue, downing the glass of water. Mal's eyes were trained on the way her throat moved when she swallowed, but she blamed it on the tiredness.

"Oh my god," Evie suddenly exclaimed, realization hitting her that her bras was exposed, no tshirt covering it. She pulled the blanket up to cover herself, her face heating up.

"Eves, its fine I've seen a bra before," Mal mused. That was true, she had of course seen a bra before, but she wasn't quite sure she'd ever gotten this feeling from looking at a bra on someone.

Evie took on a new distraught look.

"What happened last night, I only remember a bit of us waking back here and then it's all black," she said, rubbing her temples and looking away from the bright light streaming through the curtains.

Mal hesitated a bit. "You really don't remember anything?" she asked, and Evie instantly caught on.

"No? Why? Oh god what did I do," Evie groaned, getting embarrassed before she even knew what she did.

Mal bit her lip, convincing herself not to say anything. She had an urge to, but that was the last thing Evie needed at this moment. Mal pushed a smile onto her face, "Relax E, you didn't say anything. You were just being goofy," Mal said, smiling as she lied through her teeth. It seemed to relax her though.

Evie pushed up and flinched at her headache but kept walking towards the closet.

"You coming to breakfast right?" Evie asked, distracted by picking out her outfit.

"Um actually I'm gonna go to Carlos room for a bit and then grab something quick before class," Mal said, trying to sound casual.

Evie stepped out of the closet with her clothes, looking over at Mal with a kind of disappointed look. "Oh, how come?" She asked curiously.

"I just need to talk to talk to him about some stuff."

"What kind of stuff?"

Mal grit her teeth for a moment. God she can be pushy.

"Just gotta talk about some quizzes and stuff," Mal said, a little forcefully.

"Okay," Evie said, sounding a little off put. Mal sighed at herself, walking by Evie and heading out the door quickly.

Mal let the door click shut quietly behind her, sighing as she started to walk down the hall towards Carlos's room.

She really didn't mean to snap at her, she's just never real had these feelings and she definitely wasn't ready to admit them to Evie and back on the Isle it was just hook ups with no feelings and she's lost her touch at excused and she -

"Hey Mal!"

She almost jumped at the sudden noise, pulling her out of her thoughts, and whirled around to find Jay standing behind her. "Hi Jay," Mal sighed, relaxing a little.

"Where are you off to?"

"Yeah."

Jay then frowns at her, confused.

Okay, maybe she's not really listening but she's trying to remember everything she needed to say to Carlos before the thoughts, or her courage, fleeted. "Sorry, what?" she tried again, tucking her words into the back of her mind.

"I asked where you're heading?" Jay said again, laughing a bit as he continued to walk in the direction Mal was heading.

Mal followed, falling into step with him as she walked. "To Carlos's room," she said, her eyes following the different students down the hallways and through the classrooms.

"Oh? What for? You know classes start soon right?" he asked curiously, nodding his head back towards his backpack.

"I just, uh, have some stuff I need to talk to him about," Mal decided to say.

"Oh okay, well I'll see you later in class, right?" he said, smiling.

Maybe Jay wasn't so bad.

"Yeah," Mal replied, truly smiling for the first time that day.

Once she finally reached Carlos door and she twisted he doorknob without knocking, bursting in and finding that Carlos was alone at the table on his laptop.

"Is Barry every around?" She asked as she kicked the door shut behind her.

"Do you ever knock?" Carlos asked, looking up from his laptops with a frown. She simply smiled and pulled out a chair next to him.

"So, I need to talk to you about something," she said, looking down and picking dirt out from under her nails. Carlos was quiet for a moment before he shut his laptop.

"I'm all ears," he said, turning to face his best friend again.

"Yeah I know puppy boy," she laughed, biting her bottom lip as he waited. She sighed and looked up into his eyes. "So, what are you suppose to do when you, uh, like someone?" she asked, fiddling with her bracelet that wrapped around her small wrist.

"Um, you make friends with them?" Carkos said, an amused, yet confused smile on his face.

Mal set her hands down, looking him in the eye with a blank, annoyed stare.

"Oh," he finally realized, "well who do you like?"

"No one," she said a little too quickly, and Carlos just rolled his eyes and stared at her.

"Okay, I don't know, I might, uh, like Evie?" she said quietly. Even though she wasn't looking at him, she could practically feel Carlos smile next to her.

"Yeah I knew it. And you're asking what you're suppose to do with these feelings?" he prides with a gentle smile that always managed to make Mal feel better.

"I guess," she said, trailing off. Carlos put his hand on her leg, and she didn't realize she had been bobbing it up and down.

"Well you could tell her."

Mal flicked her head up to look at him, before letting out a kind of forced laugh. "Carlos, she is the straightest person I think I've ever met," Mal argued, leaning back in the chair until it was balancing on two legs.

Carlos reached to pull her back down, muttering that one day it was gonna break on her. "That's what I thought about Ben," he said as he set the chair back down.

"Oh yeah how's it going with king boy anyways? How'd that even happen?" Mal asked, turning in the chair to directly face Carlos.

"Well I've kind of liked him since last year and I really thought he wasn't into guys, but I decided to take a chance and ask him instead of just wondering forever what could've happened," he said, obviously pointing his words at Mal.

"Damn. Two years here turned you into a greeting card."

"Mal,"

"Carlos," Mal sighed "things like this just don't work out for me. I'm Maleficents daughter. I don't get my fairy tale ending," Mal said with a sad smile, "nothing's going to even happen with these feelings, I just need them to go away. Plus this is Auradon, girls aren't suppose to be liking girls I'm pretty sure," she sighed.

Then she snapped her head up realizing what she said. "Carlos I didn't mean it like -"

Carlos let out a gently laugh, and cut her off as he put his hand on top of hers. "I know what you meant Mal. Actually, I've seen a few girl couples around. And even if it's not "normal", since when have you cared about sticking out?"

It was silent between them for a moment before Mal looked at the clock behind Carlos.

"It's almost eight, we better get to our classes," she said, pushing her chair back and standing up, "and thank you Carlos. I really don't know what I'd do without you," she said, grabbing her bag of the floor and watching him stand up.

As they walked over to the door he slung his arm around her shoulder and spoke, "Yeah I don't know what you'd do without me either," he joked, which earned him an elbow in the side and a laugh, "but really Mal you know I'm always here. And remember, take a chance. You may be 'Maleficents daughter', but you're Maleficents daughter. When did you get afraid of a little challenge?"

"Hey E, I'm sorry I snapped at you earlier, I was just tired and cranky."

Evie looked up from her desk with a small smile, "Its fine Mal," she spoke, "I know you didn't mean it. Hey do you want to go get some ice cream?" she said, and Mal had to go over what she just said in her head because she kind of got lost in warm brown eyes.

"Sure, I'd like that. But where are we suppose to get it from?"

Evie clicked on her phone to make it light up, looking at the time.

"Ah, its almost four thirty, come on," she said, jumping up from her chair and grabbing her wallet as she pulled Mal along with her.

"Woah woah, where are we going?" Mal asked quickly as she was being yanked out the door. Evie giggled and turned to her, her light brown eyes sparkling.

"The ice cream truck comes on the west side of campus everyday at four thirty, you didn't know that?"

Mal plopped down next to Evie, letting her feet dangle over the edge of the lake. Evie knocked her feet against Mal's and smiled, taking a long lick of her ice cream cone. Not like Mal was watching.

"You know, I've heard some things about The Mal throughout my life, but none of them seem to be true," Evie said, an almost teasing tone in her voice.

Mal frowned and bit into her popsicle, making Evie cringe.

"What's that suppose to mean?"

"Well, I know you said you didn't know me back on the Isle but I certainly knew who you were. Even here, some people say you're intimidating but I don't see it," she said cooley as she dipped her toes down to touch the water beneath them.

"I am too," Mal said indignantly, scowling.

Evie's beautiful giggled reached Mal's ears as she scooted closer to Mal.

"That's adorable. You're adorable, not intimidating," Evie said with a cute pout on her face.

Mal swallowed hard and looked down at her ice cream.

"I don't think someone like you can call anyone adorable," she mumbled.

"What do you mean someone like me?" Evie asked, almost sounding offended.

"I mean, you know, someone as attractive as you," Mal said, looking away from Evie's gaze and into the water below them.

"Hm. Adorable and flirty," Evie said smoothly, making Mal's head pop up, Evie giggling.

Mal suddenly took a deep breath, a certain white haired boys words ringing in her head like an alarm that she couldn't shut off.

"Evie, um, I kind of want to tell you something," Mal stuttered out. She rolled her eyes at herself, 'Smooth', she thought.

"Oh hold that thought," Evie said, smiling apologetically before pulling he phone out that was ringing. Mal sighed,

"Hello? Oh yeah, yeah I'll be there as soon as possible."

Fuck my life.

Got a dick appointment?"

"Mal!" Evie yelled, swatting Mal with her hand and making her bust out into laughter.

"Actually," Evie said, giving her a pointed look as she stood up, Mal following her after, "I have to go help Ben with his upcoming meetings of the other leaders," she said, holding out her hand to help Mal up.

"What do you have to help him with?" Mal asked, forcing herself to let of of Evie's hand after her feet were planted on the ground.

"His clothes," Evie replied with a soft laugh.

"Pause! I have to use the bathroom," Jay whined.

He'd been begging Carlos to pause the movie for the past fifteen minuets and Carlos was enjoying torturing him.

"Oh Carlos," Evie laughed as she grabbed her remote from him and paused it, Jay running up from the couch the bathroom adjacent to his room.

Evie turned to Barry, continuing a quiet conversation then had been having earlier when Carlos turned to Mal.

"So are you gonna ask her out?"

"Carlos shh," Mal shushed, pulling him closer to her, "I was going to earlier but she had to leave before I could say anything," Mal sighed, recounting the memory.

"Then do it tonight!"

"Maybe," Mal said, pushing him onto the couch and he giggled.

Neither really noticed Evie peering over at them as she bit her lip and turned back to Barry.

The movie went on, and it was the end of the night when Carlos was planning another movie night for their group, Evie was perched on the side of the couch, her legs crossed. Mal and Barry were talking about the movie that has just ended when Jay spoke up.

"Okay so we're all on for the twelfth?" He asked, speaking up and looking around at everyone.

"Oh -"

"Well-"

Barry and Evie started talking at the same time, and then laughed together. He gestured for her to talk first and she smiled.

"Barry and I actually planned a date for that evening."

Carlos sucked in a breath, subconsciously grabbing Mal's hand.

The noise seemed to drown away and Mal leaned back into the couch.

She mumbled just loud enough for Carlos to hear.

"I told you. People like me don't get my happy ending with people like her."