Chapter 7: Doug and Evie
Meeting Grimhilde

Evie grabbed her blue eye-liner. Looking intently in the bathroom mirror, she noticed her lower lip quivering slightly. She was worried beyond belief. Doug was to be arriving at her dorm anytime now, and they were about to introduce him to her Mother, via Skype. She reached into her thick, midnight blue locks and twirled her hair back and forth. Suddenly hearing a knock on her door, she quickly hid all of her makeup tools, and straightened her flouncy blue dress and black leather jacket. She ran over to the door, and opened it. Doug stood there, wearing his classic green jacket and glasses.

His eyes widened when he saw her. "Wow, you look amazing." He gasped.

She smiled. "You don't look so bad yourself," she replied.

The laptop screen was open and on the Skype homepage, sitting on the chair in front of Evie's bed. Grabbing his hand, she led him down to the bed, as she called her Mother. Both of them took a deep breath. No matter what Grimhilde would say, they would still be together forever.

An image of Grimhilde came upon the screen. Doug stood to the side for a moment.

"Oh, Evie!" she shouted with delight when she saw her. Jafar, Grimhilde, and Cruella harbored no bad feelings towards the children, since they were glad to finally be rid of Maleficent who was being kept in a local zoo.

"Hi mom!" she waved.

"What's up?" the Evil Queen asked.

"Well Mom, I wanted to introduce you to my new boyfriend," Evie stated as Doug sat beside Evie on the screen. "This is Doug."

Grimhilde looked over Doug. "Oh," she sighed. "How many rooms are in his castle?" she asked.

"Well Mom, he doesn't have a castle," Evie told her.

"Oh," Grimhilde's face fell. "Well, I suppose a mansion will be fine too."

"No Mom," Evie chuckled, "he doesn't have a mansion either. He doesn't exactly even have a status." Evie winced expecting a large outburst from her Mother.

To her surprise, Grimhilde just asked, "Well who are his parents?"

"Dopey and Snow White," Evie said, closing her eyes.

Grimhilde was silent. Then she screamed, "How dare you? You had to go and get with him!" She gestured to Doug. "No! I won't allow it! What about Prince Charming's son? He has a royal status!"

Evie looked back at her mother. "No Mother, how dare you! I can date who I please. Chad Charming is a huge jerk, and I don't deserve him. Doug treats me well. He cares about me for who I am, and not how I look, which is more than I can say for you!"

"Miss Grimhilde," Doug began to say.

Evie silenced Doug with a heavy kiss. She leaned into him and slid his glasses onto the top of his head. Breaking away from the kiss, Evie glared at her Mother.

"I love him Mother!"

"And I love her," Doug added.

They expected another angry outburst, but instead Grimhilde's eyes filled with tears. "All I ever wanted for you was happiness. I thought a prince would make you happy. Not my enemy's son."

Evie looked upset. "You feel betrayed," she sighed.

"Well yes, I" Grimhilde began.

"What you did wasn't right. So you weren't the fairest of all. You were the runner-up. Wasn't that enough?"

"Well I," Grimhilde began but Evie cut her off again.

"Goodbye Mother. I just needed to get this off my shoulders." Evie closed the laptop screen and looked down. Looking up at Doug, she saw that his glasses were still pressed up against his forehead.

He smiled. "You never kissed me like that before." Evie's tears ran down her fair skin, causing her makeup to drip down onto her jacket.

"I love you." She whispered to him.

Leaning in to kiss him again, he surprised her by leaning in too. They touched lips the same way they had before, but this time it was much more wanted than forced. Her mascara-smudged tears dripped into Doug's face.

"Your makeup is running," he pointed out, breaking away from her.

Evie laughed and shouted loudly enough for all of Auradon to hear, "I don't care!" She burst forward and hugged him, sobbing into his shoulders. He patted her back and smiled.

Sorry if that hadn't been the romance you were hoping for, but I had to include Doug meeting Grimhilde. Next chapter will be Jay and Audrey.

P. S.

The reason I'm updating quickly is because I want to get this finished before school starts again on Tuesday.

Bye!