When I finally teleported back into my room my heart was in turmoil. I had just decided to make friends with the quartet, only to find them sneaking around the museum, searching for who knows what. I don't even know why I let Jay go, letting evil slip past me wasn't a normal occurrence.
"It's because he interests you dummy." My mind was taunting me with the truth that I didn't want to believe, which made me never want to go to sleep. Only fearing that my dreams would either make me regret letting Jay go, or thank it graciously.
I quickly change back into my night clothes before flopping in my bed. Although I quickly noticed that I wasn't going to get any sleep at...one in the morning. So, I did something that I hadn't done since I was 12, so about in 4 years. I opened my door, locking it behind me before walking down to Ben's room. Even though the halls seemed scary at night, I knew the directions to Ben's room better than the back of my hand, only because I've sneaked there so many times before.
Knocking on his door, I hear a groggy voice inside before I open it. Ben is sitting up in his bed, his brown hair now messy and green eyes fogged with sleep.
"Hey Gem," he greets with a yawn, "did you enjoy your outing?"
"In a way, sorry to wake you though." Even though I apologise I still don't leave.
"Let me guess, sleepover?" Okay, I lied before, when I said 4 years it was actually about 4 weeks. Long enough though. But I'm still 16, just a very shameless one.
"Please." I climb into his bed, clutching the blankets closer to me. I feel two arms guide themselves around me, pulling me closer. You would think that this action would be awkward, or mean something romantically, but it's normal for us. We are practically siblings, anything else would give me the creeps...
"You're shaking, did something bad happen?"
"I'm fine, just want to sleep." Although my mind is pretty worried about facing the descendants now, I don't alert Ben, not for him to go beat up himself. However, since I now know they aren't here to only try normal life, but trying to do something...I don't know what...I'm going to be keeping an eye on them. With that last thought I fall asleep, snuggling into Ben to calm my nerves.
The next morning I wake up to Ben's shaking, seeing him sitting on the edge of the bed staring at me, trying to get me awake. I sit up, knowing that I'm a mess but not caring. The blanket was still on me though, mostly because of the coldness that his room contained.
"Hey, did you already take a shower?" I ask, wanting to get ready because due to missing dinner last night, my belly was having an intense argument of hunger right about now.
"Yea, I was just looking for clothes when I thought it was time to wake you up. You okay?" He looked somewhat concerned, probably because of how I acted last night.
"Yea, I'm fine. Just need to freshen up. Give me ten minutes."
"I'll give you nine then I'm leaving."
"So mean..." with a pout I walk to the bathroom, washing up quickly and zapping on my attire for the day. Today I had on royal blue jeans with a light blue halter top and light blue genie flats to match. Obviously, the lamp earrings and bracelets are there also as I do my hair in a different style than before. My hair makes itself into a ponytail and falls over my right shoulder, with a bang that covered my right eye.
I walk out of the bathroom with one minute to spare, Ben staring at me with an annoyed expression which spoke, 'thank goodness you're done'. We then trot down to breakfast, my belly grumbling three quarters of the way, Ben's laughter filling up the last quarter.
After breakfast we finally arrive at school. Ben's suddenly taken by his girlfriend while I go to my duties as student body princess. I reach in the office to find the work that I left yesterday still there.
"I told those guys to take care of it, this is such a pain. Reminder, don't trust the sons of Lumiere and Peter Pan with work, the reason how they even got here eludes me. However, I digress." I tell myself, picking up the list which was about 40 pages long and had every single student's name, capability, and parents. It even included the four new students as well. One of the jobs that I forgot to do yesterday was get Fairy Godmother and the Coach to sign off early dismissal for the coronation. However Coach wasn't in yet and the Headmistress was in Remedial Goodness class right now, and frankly, I don't think I want to see the quartet at the moment.
"Even though I said that, I somehow find myself in front of the door to Fairy Godmother's class." I think, signing to myself before I hear another pair of footsteps dashing towards me. "Whoa, slow down there Jane."
"Sorry Gem, I just really want to get my dismissal form signed." Jane replies as her brown bob cut hair bounces up and down before she comes to a stop, the periwinkle dress stopping its dance with the wind. Although the dress was more like a miniature gown when you really look at it.
"You know you don't have to do that, I've got it covered."
"That's okay, I'll do it my-self" She squeaks in the middle when she seeing the daughter and sons of the most evil villains sitting in class like it's nothing. Even though she runs past them and straight to her mom I walk slowly, staring at them and giving Jay an evil glare in particular. When I reach up to the Headmistress I hear Carlos whisper Jay a question.
"What did you do man?"
"I don't know..." Jay replies, looking away from Carlos and staring at me before I turn away and towards Fairy Godmother when she seems to be done with her daughters request and introducing her.
"Headmistress, I need you to sign off the dismissal for coronation."
"No problem darling, just rest it on my desk and I will get it back to you by tomorrow." She replies smiling at me as I start to head out the classroom.
"Thanks." I walk out the room and towards the lockers so that I could get my gym bag for combat class, I would get Coach to sign the papers later. Actually, when I first came to school here, I really wanted to be on the turney team. I mean, I'm not a royal or aristocrat's daughter, and there was no way that I was going to join cheerleading. No offense, but extremely short skirts and hanging out with peppy princesses aren't really my thing. So, I went for the next best thing, combat class, which was taught by Mulan. It's been a pretty good class so far except for one tiny problem.
"Look! It's the freak!" Aziz shouts as I enter the room, causing all the boys to look at me. Aziz, the son of Aladdin and Jasmine. You would think that all the kids here would be nice but no. Since I was the only girl here I was sometimes teased for wanting to be strong. Although, I did show them a little lesson with my powers, but it backfired with Miss Fairy Godmother finding out and them now branding me as a freak.
"Oh, which sewage did you crawl out of this morning rat?" I spit back, going up to the front of the class to put on my gear. In these types of classes, the students wore whatever they were comfortable in. My hair is actually currently in a bun, although since it was wavy a few strands fell loose. I have on a dark blue tank top with black gym shorts and paint splattered tennis shoes. Wearing light clothes is probably the best bet in this class seeing as the gear weighs a ton when it's all equipped.
"Morning class." Mulan walks in with a smile on her face, sporting a red tank top and grey slacks with red sneakers.
"Morning..." Everyone replies, some with enthusiasm, others like they just woke up.
"Today is the last week before exams. Now this year, the exam is going to be a bit different. I am going to assign each person an opponent which they must fight next week. Remember, this is not about winning, but about technique and style, if you just win your fight but use none of the materials you were taught, you get an F. Is that understood?" Everyone groans in annoyance, except for me.
"Hey, what about the fre- I mean Gem? No offense, but she's a girl in a class full of guys." Aziz questions, causing everyone to look at me. When I actually understood what he asked I face palm. I mean, this woman was in an army with guys only.
"I'm sure she's going to be just fine. But since you're so worried, I'm going to make you two opponents. Oh, and another thing," It happened too quickly for me to see, but one minute Aziz is standing, and the next he is on the ground with Mulan standing over him, " a girl can do anything a guy can. Don't forget it."
With that she told everyone to start fighting with the enchanted training dummies so that we could be ready for the test. Having Aziz as my opponent might be the worst and best thing that ever happened to me. The good part is that I'm going to kick his butt, but the bad part is that he's going to run off and spread the news, and just make me even more of an outcast. No one in this school, besides Ben, is my friend. I would say Audrey but I think she only hangs out with me because of Ben. Most off the student body, except for my lovely associates in the student council, don't want to be close to a genie.
Especially one that bends the rules of her own lamp.