As always, Perdita was doing everything she had to late into the night. It was how she lived and she liked it. It was coming up to 11 and she had just dropped off the library books off at her room. Now, she was going to get something else.

Not paying attention, she bumped into someone. She stumbled backwards and looked up only to be met with Kai. He chuckled and sent her a small smile.

"Do you just like creeping around during the night?" He asked with a smile. She looked down to the floor, her cheeks flushing bright red, completely embarrassed.

"No." She muttered in response. He instantly took note of her red cheeks and for a moment thought she might have gone for a run again. However, she was definitely not wearing the right attire and wasn't even sweating like she was last time.

"I thought you went on runs every night?" He said seemingly out of the blue for Perdita. She was taken aback by the question and shrugged.

"No… well yeah...I just.. Uh… I was doing other stuff…" She muttered in response. She quickly shoved her list of things to do into her back pocket of her jeans due to the front pockets being fake ones. Something she hadn't realised until she already bought them.

"Like what?" He asked tilting his head, looking down at her. She sighed and shrugged. He raised an eyebrow and he moved his arm around her and took the list out of her back pocket.

"Hey! Give it back!" She all but shouted as he held it out of her reach due to his height.

"What is there something you don't want me to see?" He asked a grin on his face. She rolled her eyes and continued to reach for the list. "If you so desperately want this back, we can strike a deal." He added keeping his gaze fixed on her face. She was still jumping, trying to grab the note but she just couldn't reach it.

"No." She muttered as she almost reached it but he pulled it away. He stood on his tiptoes so it was definitely out of reach.

"You don't even know the terms." He responded. She sighed and stepped back, giving up. "I'll give it back to you if we go on runs together like you said you did. We both saw how exhausted you were earlier. It will get your stamina up." He smiled actually trying to persuade her.

"You can look. I don't care." She muttered and looked down at the floor. There was nothing bad on it, she just felt weird him seeing her list.

"Okay." He said and he looked at the list. He chuckled and looked down at her. "I will give this back but my offer still stands." He said, passing the list to her. Even to this day, Perdita doesn't know what compelled her to blurt her answer out but she did and she never regretted.

"Yeah… okay." She said with a grin forming across her face. She shoved the list into her pocket again and couldn't help smiling. Kai was taken aback by her sudden acceptance but he was kind of happy about it which was strange. He didn't think he'd be as happy about it as he was.

"Cool, I'll meet you outside your room at let's say 9pm tomorrow?" He suggested grinning. She nodded in response and only when she was walking away did she realise what she just did. As soon as she was out of his sight, she hit herself on the forehead, muttering 'idiot' under her breath.


Ben and Perdita were strolling down the corridors of Auradon Prep. The pair liked to talk earlier in the morning when there weren't many people around. It was a thing they had done for years. They just talked about their weeks or something like that. Perdita, despite telling Ben a lot, had not made him aware of her crush on Kai.

"I did something really dumb last night," Perdita muttered, glancing towards the soon to be King. He furrowed his eyebrows and she sighed. "I decided it would be a good idea to agree to go on runs with Kai every night." She confessed. Ben was slightly taken aback by that fact. He was unaware that they even talked or that Perdita ran.

"You run?" He asked looking to her. She chuckled and shook her head.

"As if… No. I just made this lie up for why I was so sweaty when…" Perdita trailed off realising what she was about to reveal. "Nevermind." She muttered. Ben found it weird but decided not to question it, knowing that was just what she was like.

"Do you think the Isle kids are fitting in well?" Ben asked, looking to Perdita. She shrugged and looked down to the floor.

"I haven't really talked to all of them. Mal is just being Mal, I guess. Jay seems to be fitting in well, same with Carlos but I haven't talked to him much either. From what I've seen of Evie, she seems to be fitting in well. She's in some of my classes. Chad is 'charming her' which honestly disgusts me." Perdita explained finding it easy to talk to Ben. She didn't know why she found it so easy to talk to Ben but she did. It was nice. He chuckled and looked back forward as the pair continued walking.

"Yeah, we better keep an eye on Chad. Well, I need to keep an eye on you, Chad and Maddie. You two just pelting bottles at his head." Ben said with a small smile on his face. She rolled her eyes.

"He deserved that, honestly. Kai didn't. Maddie just wanted to embarrass me but I don't blame her. I'd want to embarrass me too." She muttered in response. Ben sighed and looked to her.

"You really need to think better of yourself. The people here are idiots. You shouldn't listen to them. They are all idiots for not seeing past your mother's mistakes." He responded. She shrugged and looked down at the carpet.

"Mhm." She let out in response.

"Anyway, I gotta go. My dad wanted to talk to me about something. I'll see you later." Ben gave her a little wave as he rushed off down the corridor. Perdita sighed and turned towards her dorm room, going to get ready for class since she didn't have anything better to do.