Heyyy everyone! I'm back with another chapter of this story (If you can't tell, this is my favorite story I've written lol). The main focus of this chapter is actually going to be an idea given to me by Pinksakura271, so thank you :)

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Chapter 7: Explanations

Mal's POV:

I still can't believe that my brother and sister would actually do this to me. To all of us really. Especially Evie, my best friend. Back on the island, I would've expected this from her, but I didn't think she'd do it here in Auradon. Ugh, I need answers. And fast.

I took out my cell phone and dialed my boyfriend's number. After three rings, he answered.

"Hey Mal," Ben greeted.

"Hey. Can I ask you a huge favor?" I asked. If I didn't cut to the chase, I may have backed out, since it's going to be hard to see them again, knowing they have purely evil hearts.

"Of course. What do you need Mal?"

"I need to talk to Evie and Jay. Is there any way they can come to Auradon so they can give me a proper explanation for all of this?" I asked nervously.

"I know how much this means to you, but there's no way I'm allowed to let them off the island. Mainly Evie, since she's more powerful than most of us can handle. I'm so sorry Mal. The best I can do is organize a video chat with them, but I don't even know if they want to speak to any of us anyway," he responded sadly. He knows how much they meant to me.

"Can we please try? I need to know why they did this."

"Of course. I'll let you know as soon as I know," he said before hanging up.

Evie's POV:

Knock, knock, I heard on my front door. While we're back on the Isle, Jay and I decided to stay at my house. "Jay! Get the door!" I yelled. Some may call me bossy, but I'm in the middle of painting my nails, and I don't want to mess them up.

I heard the door open and Jay talking to someone. I recognized the voice to be King Ben's. I immediately ran down the stairs to get him off of my property.

"Benjamin Florian! Get off of my property before I have your head chopped off!" I yelled at him, obviously not pleased with the King of the country I was banished from.

"Cool it, Red Queen," he spoke surprisingly calmly.

"I happen to be very close with her daughter, and I won't hesitate to make you her next victim!" Jay now had to hold my wrist tightly, afraid of what I'd do to him. Yes, Jay is evil, but there's many guards with Ben, and he doesn't want me hurt by any of them.

Ben now stepped back a little, obviously shocked and afraid. "Okay, before any more threats come at me, I'm just going to get straight to the point. Mal wants to talk to you both. She wants answers.

"Not happening. Neither one of us want anything to do with that traitor," Jay told the King of Auradon. Ben turned to me, expecting a response.

"No way. I'm not talking to her ever again. She's not worth my time." Jay nodded in agreement.

"You guys a-were her best friends. Her siblings. Don't you think you should at least tell her why you're acting this way?"

"Key word in that sentence is 'were', as in we used to be, but we aren't anymore, so therefore, we don't owe her an explanation," Jay countered.

"What if I told you that valid explanation just might earn you two your freedom?" he tried bribing us.

"That depends: what do you mean by 'valid'?" I asked.

"Valid, meaning an honest and believable answer that you're not just making up to get off the island. All we want is an explanation so we can help you."

"Maybe we don't need help! We happen to enjoy who we are!" I snapped.

"Watch it Evelyn," Jay whispered in my ear, "I don't want you hurt." As he spoke, he was stroking my hand with his thumb. I nodded.

"Fine, we'll talk to her. But for no more than ten minutes," Jay told the King, earning a glare from me.

"What? Jay, no, I never agreed to th-" I was cut off by his lips on mine. He knows that his kisses always shut me up. I didn't even realize Ben and the guards had left until I head my front door slam. We continued to deepen the kiss until Hallie interrupted us.

"Ugh, get a room, would ya?" There was barely any dating on the Isle, but whatever. No one bothered to tell us to stop because they knew better. Hallie is the only one who ever comments about it, well besides Mal and Carlos when they were still evil, but she only means it as a joke. Or an insult.

I pulled away. "Really H?" I asked, half teasing/half joking.

"Yup," she responded. "Well, I have to go out, so I'll see you two later. Or not. I couldn't care less." She walked out the door.

"Come on," I motioned for Jay to follow me to my room. On the mattress I called a bed was a laptop. I knew what it was for right away. I groaned.

Jay put his hand on my shoulder. "Relax Eves. We aren't talking for long anyway." I nodded, knowing he was right. I know he doesn't want to talk to Mal either, but he knows it gets bad when I lose my temper.

We walked over to my bed and sat next to each other. Jay opened the laptop and we waited for the video chat to load. It took a while since we are on the island and not Auradon.

Just when I was getting impatient, the screen blinked to life; we saw our former best friend with the white-haired tech prodigy. I looked to Jay, knowing how close he used to be with Cruella's son.

"Now I know how you feel," Jay mumbled and I nodded.

I turned my attention back to the screen. "What do you want?" I asked in a rude and somewhat impatient tone, clearly not wanting anything to do with them.

"Nice to see you too," Mal responded sarcastically. You could feel the tension between us, over the ocean, through the barrier, and through the screens in front of us.

"Carlos," Jay practically spat at the younger boy.

"Jay," Carlos spat back.

We were all silent for a while. Mal was watching me move closer to Jay, who wrapped his arm around my shoulders, sensing my discomfort of Mal and Carlos in front of us. "Relax baby. It's okay," he whispered in my ear.

"Awww that's so sweet. A traitor thief comforting a complete witch," Carlos was obviously fed up with the fact that we're evil.

Mal's POV:

Okay, if they aren't going to talk, I'm just gonna flat-out ask them what I want to know. "Why did you do this to us?" I could see the looks of shock on their faces, telling me that they were not expecting that question to come out so fast.

"Because it's how we want to live," Evie answered as if it was the easiest question in the world.

"But why? What does evil give you that goodness doesn't?"

"It's our lifestyle. We were born bad and raised bad. We're going to be bad if we want to be," Jay joined the conversation.

"Just because you're born and raised a certain way, that doesn't mean you can't change. We aren't our parents," I reminded them.

"So what? If we wanna do something, it's our choice. Not yours," Evie snapped. I was growing more and more annoyed.

"Evelyn! You know that you know better than this!" I didn't mean to yell, but I can't control myself anymore.

Her facial expression remained cold as ice. Her icy blue eyes- wait, no. Evie has brown eyes. "E, aren't your eyes brown..?" I asked her.

"Yes."

"Then why are they blue now?"

"It's called contacts, Maleficent." I'm so done with her attitude.

"Don't you dare call me that! I'm not evil and you're not my friend!" I hung up the video chat.

Jay's POV:

I don't even care that Mal hung up, and I don't think Evie does either. Not my fault if she wants to be a brat.

"You okay Eves?" I asked. She nodded.

"I'm fine. Her opinion and friendship mean nothing to me. We're getting off this island. Fast. We need to get back to our parents ASAP." I saw a mischievous glint in her eye, and I knew she was planning something so rotten that no one is Auradon will ever forgive us for. Not that it matters anyway.

"What are you up to?"

"I think it's time we pay someone a visit."

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