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Welcome back everyone. I hope you enjoy this section of the story, and I hope you enjoyed a very light-hearted Hevie chapter. Feel free to review like always and happy reading!

Synopsis of the next few chapters

Harry and Evie's relationship starts to kick up, and it's not long before something big happens. But before that, Ben proposes a plan that involves the VKs and Pirates working together. Can Evie and Ben manage to get everyone on the same side, or will Ben's plan fall through?


The end of the week was finally here.

It had been almost a full week since Harry started his new life here in Auradon. Out of all three of the new pirates, Gil seemed to transition into Auradon life the easiest. He was a villain kid, but he was often like Jay. He was often neutral when compared to the others; his big acts of villainy being petty stealing from food stalls and giving the food to Uma, only to eat and scarf it down later. One often wondered why Gil ran with the pirates when they were on the extreme end of the villain scale, especially since he was often the brunt of their jokes and abuse. The pirates offered him something he lacked during all those years he drifted away from them: friendship and companionship. Although he was picked for his muscle and brute strength that he inherited from his father, his true motive was for companionship.

While Gil transitioned easily like a caterpillar to a butterfly here in Auradon, Harry and Uma had a much harder time in their transitions, particularly Harry. While Uma was smart and intelligent enough to fake her way through, Harry couldn't easily fake his way through Auradon. That's probably why people still took a step to the side when he walked by. While some aspects of his new home were pleasant, such as the delicious and edible food; the comfortable, plush bed; and the warm, refreshing showers, other aspects of it were downright horrible.

The classes at Auradon Prep were the bane of his entire existence, especially his mathematics and remedial goodness 101 classes. Numbers had always been a problem for him, evident by his problem of telling time correctly. When the time came for numbers to be used, Uma was the one to handle them. He managed to work hard in his mathematics class and understood some concepts, but he never managed to have that major breakthrough yet. Evie tried to be of some help to him, whispering the right answers behind him when he was called upon, but in general, he avoided any chance of being called on out of fear of embarrassment.

The one class he hated with a living passion was his remedial goodness 101 class. He didn't know what it was about that class that he hated: the fact that all the correct answers were boring and dull or if it was the way Fairy Godmother went to dramatic extremes to present the questions and answers. The obvious sound that was made in that room was a snort or a snigger with an eye roll to match it. Uma was their top student thanks to her knowledge of "right" from "wrong." The entire class was boring in general: Gil was often flipping through the book finding something else to do, Uma often picked at her nails and played with the ends of her turquoise braids, and Harry often fell asleep.

In fact, he was sleeping right now in the remedial goodness class. His head was supported by his right hand, and his mouth hung open a little, producing a faint snoring sound. He made no attempts to disguise how he felt about this class and its entire reason for existing. Fairy Godmother's voice was droning on and on in the background.

"Next question" she said, her soft and motherly-like voice floating around the room. "If you find a wallet on the sidewalk filled with money, what should you do? Do you turn it in to lost and found; do you keep it for yourself and purchase something nice; or do you keep it on the ground and walk past it?"

Of course, she did not hold back from her acting skills when presenting the choices. She turned her attention to Harry in order to get him to answer the question, but she was met with closed eyes and a soft snoring sound.

"Harry!" Fairy Godmother said, her voice raised to get him to wake up from his afternoon nap.

He woke up with a shock on his face at his afternoon nap being rudely interrupted because of a class. Gil and Uma were staring at him, a smirk playing on Uma's lips.

Fairy Godmother used her pointer stick to draw attention to the board with the question written on it. Harry studied the question, but he was drawing a massive blank. He eventually chose the wrong answer...again, leaving Fairy Godmother slightly dejected.

"No, Harry" she sighed. "You don't keep it for yourself. You need to turn it in so the owner has a chance of reclaiming it."

He rolled his eyes at the answer. Why was the correct answer always the less fun option? It seemed like everyone in Auradon followed the rules to a tee and didn't have any sort of fun. So what exactly did they do here in Auradon? Harry knew Evie had her fashion business, but that wasn't going to peak his interest at all.

The bell finally rung, symbolizing the start of the weekend. Harry grabbed his things and swaggered out of the classroom behind Uma and Gil. Once again, he was the only one to not get a single answer correct. Even Gil managed to get some answers correct, which only made Harry feel worse about himself. He had no reason to considering he would fare better than some of the others on the Isle, but the benchmark in this class was Gil and Uma, and he was falling below it.

He was whistling a tune his father taught him when he turned the corner into the main area of the library, almost smacking into someone with blue hair, effectively stopping his whistling. This was the first time they met since their cooking project on account of Evie trying to keep to herself. Through multiple text conversations, Harry found out about her fight with Mal and how she felt about it, but they never went into full depth about it. Evie had another class here in the library, but this was the first time she actively sought out the pirate on her own. Harry tried to speak face to face with her, but she managed to slip by him on previous attempts.

"Well, well, well. What a nice surprise" he said, giving Evie his signature charming smile.

Evie only looked back at him with a smile of her own. It definitely became easier to tolerate him since their make up.

"I was in the neighborhood, so I thought I'd stop by and see you" she said, flipping her hair back with her gloved hand.

It was a complete bold-faced lie. She had actively sought him out after his final class to surprise him with a face to face conversation.

"So, how did remedial goodness go?"

Harry just looked at her with a look that screamed "don't ask." She could only laugh at his expression, completely understanding his feelings toward the class. However, she only "struggled" in that class because of her "dumb girl" charade to get a prince. She knew the answers like she knew every shade of lipstick she had in her bathroom cabinet in her dorm.

"That bad, huh?"

"I don't know how ye Bor-e-don kids have any fun 'round here. Seems like all ye do is be nice tae everyone and follow rules. Also, that Fairy lady needs tae cool it with her acting."

Evie just shrugged her shoulders. He did have a point.

"That's how she is. You'll get used to it eventually. But if you want a secret to passing that class, just pick the answer that doesn't sound like any fun. That's what Mal told..." her voice trailed off at the thought of Mal.

An awkward silence now fell over them. This was the first time that Evie uttered her name since her talk with Jay and Carlos, and it only made her feel sad and hurt. She tried to distract herself with her other friends,, but it didn't always work.

"How are things with ye and Malsie?" Harry asked, unsure of how to judge her reaction.

Evie looked down at her heels while they walked out of the library. She didn't know how to put it into words or how to describe it. Ben did stop by on the second day of Mal's self-exile from their dorm for an update. Besides that encounter, she never really "saw" Ben or Mal after that. She did have a meeting with Ben coming up that she had to attend, so at least she would see him, but she didn't know if the future Queen would be present.

"The last thing I heard was that she was still mad at me, and that was the day of our project. She hasn't been around the group or anything, and she avoided looking or talking to us in class."

Harry looked at her with sympathy on his face. Those following days, he felt slightly guilty at indirectly causing this rift between the two former best friends.

"Ye know I didn't mean for ye and Mal tae end like this."

"No, I know that, but I felt like she drove me to say it, you know? You can only suppress your emotions for so long. Besides, I'm waiting for her to make the first move."

"Ahhh, smart lass" Harry said, tapping his finger to his temple. "Hard tae think ye never let this smartness show up on the Isle for all those years."

"What can I say? I am my mother's daughter after all. Anyways, let's try and avoid that subject. Let's go back to how we Auradonian kids don't have any fun."

"What?! It's true anyway..."

Evie let out a small giggle. It was true that almost all the Auradonian kids followed the rules, but they did know how to have fun from time to time.

"We know how to have fun, we just have to make it, just like we did on the Isle. There is a small gathering next Saturday if you want to come. Jane's throwing a "back to school" type of party. You can meet some of the others if you want."

Harry meditated on this suggestion. He was never one to attend parties or "small gatherings" and if he did, it was only for the pirate crew to crash and trash it as a revenge plot or as a way to cause mischief. One party he crashed was an Anthony Tremaine one, and it was considered the "party crash of the Isle." He also had no desire in meeting some of the other Auradon kids. They always looked sideways at him and often clutched their belongings a little tighter to their bodies when he passed by, as if he would swipe them from under their noses.

"What else ye got, princess?"

Evie slightly blushed at the nickname as they made their way under the large Oak tree. She always liked being called princess by him, and he was always called "my captain", a term that made him melt into her hand like chocolate ice cream on a warm, summer day.

"Well..." she began, thinking of other ideas. "There's always clubs you can join. Carlos and Doug are in the engineering club. I used to be in the future fashionistas of Auradon before I quit for my business. I can get you a list if you want."

Harry quickly shook his head. He also was one not to join clubs, preferring to go solo on his adventures. He only joined Uma's crew because she threatened to keep his hook from him. Plus, he had no desire to join a club that had any ex-boyfriends in it.

"Ok, so clubs are out. Well, there are always sports and athletics we have here."

Harry's eyes lit up slightly. Sports and athletics on the Isle weren't much. Physical education was often just jogging around the basement of Dragon Hall; at Serpent Prep, it was sword training and rope climbing. Harry's curiosity was coming out, and Evie took this as a chance to run with it. Perhaps this would help him adjust better. It did with Jay.

"What 'sports' do ye have here in Bor-e-don?"

"Right now, it's Tourney, but next semester there's something called the Royal Order of Auradon Regiment or R.O.A.R., which is like fencing mixed with parkour. You'd be really good at it after a few sessions. You might even be able to dethrone some of the princes on the team."

"What's this 'Tourney' ye speak of?"

Evie opened the door to the main building, and Harry held it open for her to enter. They made their way up the flight of stairs and turned the corner to head to Evie's dorm room.

"It's like lacrosse. You play it with sticks, only the difference is there's a zone where people shoot things at you called the kill zone. It's quite the popular sport here in Auradon. Jay was named captain of the team after Ben quit. He had a natural ability to it, and he does have fun at it."

"No thank ye. If Jay's gonna be ma' captain, I want no part of it."

Evie knew the history between him and Jay, but Jay had changed quite a bit from the Jay Harry knew. Jay didn't feel the euphoric rush that stealing gave him, but preferred the euphoric rush that Tourney and competition gave him. Winning was the whipped cream and cherry of the ice cream sundae.

"Oh come on. He's not that bad anymore. If you want, I can talk to him about it. I heard the coach needs some more rough people on the team, especially since the Imperial Academy is made up of trained warriors and we have princes."

"There are other schools here in Bor-e-don?"

"Mhm. There's quite a bit actually. But, Auradon Prep is the most exclusive one to join. All the royals have attended this school."

"That'll explain why ye have so many snowflake princes here. Seems like they're afraid tae live a little."

Evie let out another giggle, causing Harry to smile as well. They finally reached her dorm, and she unlocked the door and let them in. She placed her things down on her desk before turning her attention to Harry, who made himself comfortable on her bed. She slipped off her heels and sat down on her bed facing Harry.

"Tourney try-outs are tomorrow if you're interested. If you go, I could maybe find the time to come and watch you, and maybe attend a game or two" she said, before slipping her hand into Harry's and linking their fingers together. Even as friends, these displays of affections were always natural to them, but they both knew it would mean "more."

Harry's eyes lit up, and he knew he would be incredibly stupid to turn this down. If it meant seeing her more often, he had to jump at the chance.

"If it means that much tae ye, I guess I could somehow end up there taemorrow."

Evie gave him a dazzling smile, which caused him to return it. Having Harry in a good mood always managed to put her in a good mood as well.

"You'll enjoy it. You might even be quite the natural at it like Jay is. Plus, if Carlos could learn to play it and be good at it, so can you."

Harry looked at her with slight disbelief on his face. For all the years of little information he knew about Carlos, he was never one to be the athletic type. He always preferred his inventions and school, never sports. But, if Carlos was able to learn, he could as well. Plus, he did have a slight advantage given that he already had a good build and was quite the parkour artist as well.

"Don't give me that look. It's entirely true. Ben helped him be really good AND he even managed to get Carlos to like a dog."

"Now I know yer lyin'."

"It's true though. Carlos takes care of him now."

Harry just shook his head, an amused expression gracing his features. He looked over at the clock on her wall, seeing that he had fifteen minutes before he was scheduled to meet Gil outside for a "bro-adventure." It usually included searching for food to fulfill Gil's insatiable appetite. Other times, it was them exploring other areas of Auradon. Their last adventure led them to the courtyard that family day was hosted at.

"Well, as fun as this was, I need tae be off. Only got fifteen until four."

"Uh...Harry, you only have ten minutes until it's four."

He looked at her skeptically, pulling his pocket watch out of his pocket and gave it a good look. The princess was right; he did only have ten minutes to go.

"Listen Harry. I'm not trying to make you feel stupid or anything, but are you struggling in classes?"

Harry looked at her with a frown on his face. He didn't want to admit it, but he was having trouble in his classes.

"I won't make fun of you" she said, rubbing her thumb on his gloved hand.

"I guess. It's just them damn numbers confusin' me. History of Auradon and that goodness class suck the damn life out of me. I don't know how ye put up with it."

Evie looked at him with sympathy on her face, before the light bulb went off above her head. It was a brilliant idea, and one that Harry would not turn down if he was smart.

"Well, how about you stop by my dorm next week on Monday and Wednesday, and I'll help tutor you in those classes. We have an exam on Tuesday, so we can study for it on Monday."

"Ye'd really do that for me?" Harry asked.

"Of course I would. This is Auradon, and we always help each other out. That's what friends are for" she said before realizing what she did say. Dammit...

"I'll see ye taemorrow then princess" he said, kissing her hand and getting off the bed, making his way over to the door. She followed him over to the door to see him out.

"It'll be ok. Ye and Malsie will work it out."

She looked up at him through her eyelashes. Harry wasn't often sympathetic or encouraging, but when it came out, it made her soft. He could be two different people. Of course, whenever he was around her, he was always less intimidating and cruel.

"If I make the team taemorrow, how about ye and I celebrate it?"

"I'd like that, so make sure you plan something good, because you will be on the team, and I'm a girl who likes to be impressed."

Harry gave her a smile before bowing and leaving the dorm. Evie poked her head out and stared at his retreating figure, before turning back inside and shutting the door with a click.


A/N

I hope you all had a very fun Halloween as I certainly did. I went as Carlos (guilty) and saw so many Mals and Evies, but no Umas or Jays surprisingly. If you wish to see my interpretation of Carlos, you can check out/follow (if you desire) my twitter, which will be listed in my profile. Also, feel free to check out some of my other favorite series and fanfictions as well.