The Fairy and the Prince
Only after a few weeks with her new hairstyle she was finally able to sit with the cool table, with the other princesses. Jane was so ecstatic about this that she didn't dare speak. She couldn't. She had to stay to the shadows and maybe they wouldn't kick her out if they couldn't notice her. Audrey has been sitting with her usual crowd, which was getting smaller and smaller each and every day. Soon she will take over this new cool table but for now Jane was happy to see Lonnie sitting at the head of it. She really was born to be a leader. It helped that both her parents were generals and she was close friends with the Empress of China as well as her children. She was more powerful than people took her for and ten times more comical than Audrey. Now people were seeing how amazing she really was, and that made Jane very happy.
"So about you and Chad?" asks one of the Princesses at the table.
"Like I said, nothing ever happened between us," says Jane.
"I don't think so," laughs another of the princesses. Jay leans over the railing and all the girls got up from Jane's table and flock towards him, distracting them from Jane's issue. Jane gets up and walks over with them, just following the pack. She wanted to stick with the group but she didn't want to talk with Jay. If Chad was so mad about getting a simple spell done by one of them, what would he think of her flirting with a villain kid? What? No! You don't care what he thinks! She tries reminding herself. She tries to push herself to the front of the group but by the time she actually got close to Jay, he was already gone not paying her any attention at all. She watches as he walks away, a little sad at her chance to show that Chad had no power over her.
"Jane?" asks Lonnie as she places a hand on Jane's shoulder.
"I'm seriously fine," says Jane with a smile.
"You've been looking at yourself in the mirror again. I remember before Mal magiced your hair-"says Lonnie
"It's okay! I'm fine with how I look!" lies Jane as she tries to cover up her insecurities. Sure, for the first few days of this new hairstyle she had confidence, enough to get to the cool table. But after she got use to her new hairstyle, she noticed how her other features looked more grotesque and disgusting with this new hairstyle. She might be able to try convincing her mother again, but she knew how that would end. She was trying to find a way that didn't involve plastic surgery to shrink her nose down. She runs to her locker to look for that one magic spell book she took from her mother. She has been looking up old spells from old magic books, hoping to find something to make her beautiful. So far, she has only found spells for changing clothes, well a lot of spells for changing clothes. She found spells for changing shoes, switching bodies, aging yourself, aging others, and a potion to change your hair color. There was one spell to disguise yourself into someone completely different that looked a little promising, but it had a time limit and there was a chance it could change Jane's hair back to the way it was. It was too risky. This newest book seems promising though. Jane started reading from the first page, making sure to read the title and description of the potion before moving on to the next one. Even if it had the title of Love Potion, which was pretty self-explanatory.
"Hey Jane," says a familiar voice as she closes her locker door and shoving the book into her backpack. She glares up at Chad as he leans at his usual spot on the lockers.
"What do you want Chad?" asks Jane as she turns to leave for class.
"Hear me out Jane," says Chad as he tries to catch up with her.
"What? You think looking into this magic stuff is terrible?" asks Jane as she whips around and charges at Chad. She was never the same wallflower with Chad as she was with the rest of the world. She was the most confident around him.
"Jane please! Just let me-" says Chad.
"Well guess what!" says Jane over him. Not wanting to hear any more from him, "I was going to have to be your Fairy God Mother… or Fairy God… Sister? Either way I was going to have to learn magic either way. Because you'll always will get your happily ever after. Why can't I help myself along the way? Why can't I be my own Fairy God Mother?"
"Look! I'm glad your finally finding your destiny and what not but I just wanted to apologize to you," says Chad. "I don't have a right to judge your lifestyle and if doing magic is what you want to do then go for it. But we have been childhood friends. Heck, we even took baths together! Closer than I have ever get with Ben or Audrey. I think I need you in my life as a friend and you know I hate when we fight."
"Well guess what! I like it!" snaps Jane, thinking about what she said a little too late. "Well, I like voicing my opinion. You get what I mean! And I think our friendship has expired."
"Jane," says Chad, giving her his ever charming smile. The one that made her knees weak and her belly do flips. "Don't be like this."
"You know how when we were kids and you were always telling me that friendships expire, friendships expire. That every time I messed up or I didn't follow you that it would be the end of our friendship? Well this time you messed up, which means that our friendship has expired. This is a two way street you know."
"Then allow me to make it up to you."
"Why should I?"
"Remember how you always pleaded the fifth friendship law. What was it? Every threat of expiration of friendship must be followed up with a redemption task. Never an IOW, but a special act of friendship that proves that the expiration of the friendship is a mistake. I'm willing to prove to you that this friendship is important."
"Did we really word it like that?" asks Jane with a look of interest in her eyes. She always thought that this friendship was one-sided. That she gave and gave and gave. But if he can prove he was ready to risk just as much, then maybe she would consider the friendship.
"I think it was something like 'let me fix it!' but it was pretty close," laughs Chad. He hardy chuckle that made Jane smile a little in happiness because it was the sound of happiness for her. Chad's laugh has always made her smile and she couldn't help herself.
"Fine," says Jane, pretending as if it was a charitable act on her part. "I'll let you fix this friendship. But I'm warning you, it will have to be spectacular. My friendship stock just went up."
She gave a sly smile as a mischievous glint sparkled in her eye. She was glad that Chad understood she was joking, well half joking. The previous fight was big which means that he would have to do something equally as big to make up for it.
"Are you going to the game?" asks Chad.
"I have to go," says Jane with a roll of her eyes. "I'm the knight for the fighting knights! I'm the most important mascot! You know how hard I've worked to be the knight?"
"Good, I can't wait to see you there," smiles Chad.
"Are you going to do the fifth friendship law then? Are you going to score the winning goal and saying my name?" jokes Jane, laughing at her own joke.
"You'll just have to see!" says Chad with a smile as he walks backwards to his class. Jane soon start to grow more and more in love as he watched his dimpled face go farther and farther in the distance. She knew that if they could get to the 'friend zone' again, she can prove that she was completely and totally over Chad. Anyone who could be that close to him, both emotionally and physically, had to have no feeling for him. If she got through this, if she could truly put her feelings behind her then she would be able to finally get over him. But how was she going to get through this?
I hope you liked this chapter! I really wanted to play with the idea that Chad needs Jane. After this will be the big kiss scene! It will be when Jane truly forgets about Chad, but right now she has lingering feelings for him (obviously) and she is in deep dodo because of it. Especially with the chapter coming up. I'll try to make it as emotional as possible. We'll see if anyone cries rubs hands menacingly~! Oh! And the poll is still open if anyone wants to vote still!
LTree16! Two reviews O.o OMG XD Thank you so much for the constant support! My favorite scene is the one where they kiss (Chad and Audrey) and how Jane deals with it. And yes, she will try and make him jealous later :3 But I always liked Jay with either an OC of mine or Audrey. Yes I do have an OC for this XD but I don't think she will show up here :( Hopefully I will have enough courage to write about her. I've also wanted to play with the idea of a Chad POV later, but I don't know if I'll write it or not. -_- I have so many projects I want to do. ;^;
HiddenYori! Long time no see O.o I flipped when I saw your review! I hope this was enough self-confidence for Jane, but she still is a little mouse in the background so I don't want to change her character too much. Thank you for the previous comment by the way :P