Mal arrived at Fairy Godmothers house and knocked on the door. "Mal dear, come in. What brings you…oh the press." She could see the look on Mal's face.

"I need a way for the press, or whoever it is that's following me, to not be able to record me. I can't keep saying this spell I found in my mother's book to block out others, and only have certain people hear me. This whole thing is getting too much. I…I let out too much. Hell I am surprised Ms. Fauna hasn't yelled at me, or worse Freddie or Adam and Belle about the whole Dr. Facillier slip."
"Actually Fauna said she spoke to Leah this morning, and well the leaked so called conversation never mentioned Fauna. So we are curious how…now we know and have proof who the leak is, we just need to catch her. But how."
"Will she be at Chad's birthday?"
"I am not sure, most of the royalty should be. 18 is a huge deal in Auradon. Why?"
"I am trying to think of some way we can catch her either listening to me or her spy hearing me, to spread a rumor." As she said rumor she made quote marks in the air.
"What will we do with the information? What do you have in mind."
" Actually it was Ben. He said if she is evil enough, the isle. I…I have no idea what will happen, but I just need her to stop. And I have no idea yet what I plan to use as gossip to get her attention, but I have time to work on it."
"Please run it by myself and his parents first before you do it, don't let them be caught off guard."
"I will most likely need all of your help. I just have to figure out what it is."
It was then Fairy Godmother noticed Mal was wearing The Rose on her left hand. As no one outside the royal family and Fairy Godmother knew the significance of the rose colored stone, no one would comprehend the change of its location from her right to left hand. "Mal." She said picking up her left hand.

"I…It was really about covering Ben's back side, when it came to that lovely little contract he almost signed. I don't think we are actually officially engaged."
"But that's it. That can be the gossip you need to catch Leah. Oh dear, don't you see if she thinks your engaged, she will raise a huge fuss."
"Of course. And it won't look bad on Ben, but she will think I have spelled or tricked him. I hate to ruin Chad's party though."
"Let me think." Fairy Godmother paced her office for a few minutes, then picked up her phone. "May I speak to Queen Cinderella please, it's Fairy Godmother. I'll hold." She looked at Mal and smiled. "Cinderella dear, how are you? Wonderful as well. How are the plans for Chads party coming? Excellent, can I help? No well you let me know. Anyway I was wondering what the plans were for the event? I see. Ok….excellent. Thank you. I will be there with Jane. Thank you." She hung up a huge smile on her face. "I have a solution. Cinderella is a huge party planner, even more than Queen Belle. I had a feeling she would be having a party the night before for early guests such as yourself. My guess is even if Leah isn't there someone will be that will be willing to share a little gossip with her, especially if its to brag they knew it first. We just need to find a way for the information to accidently slip out that you and Ben are engaged."
"MMM…Oh I see where this is going. She will blow a gasket thinking she is running out of time to get Audrey back at Ben's side. The question is how and who will blab?"
"Jane."
"Jane? I couldn't do that to her."
"Oh not on purpose. What we'll do is have her a part of a conversation, that she can slip to Audrey. Audrey won't be allowed at the party, but she is allowed her phone back on weekends. We will have Jane call her to fill her in on the details of the pre-party. We will have her talk to Audrey as if everyone knows you and Ben are engaged. I am sure that will get back to Leah, who will be fit to be tied by the time she arrives for the party Friday night."
"But that's a lot to ask Jane."
"Well….Jane won't really know she's doing it, not really. She'll just say be in a group with you and say Evie. Have Evie ask you if you have any ideas for the design of your wedding dress. I mean, some day you will marry Ben, so you aren't lying, not really. Then when Jane walks away simply whisper, A call you must make to a friend who can't be here. Tell her the merry news a new queen is your peer. Then she'll call Audrey who will pump her for gossip, and she'll just state you and Ben are engaged and the ball will roll from there."
"Ok, but I had better warn the others, including Evie. And I really feel spelling Jane against her will is rather cruel. I learned that lesson on Ben."
"Don't worry about Jane. It's a good test for her magic to see if she realizes she's been spelled. Yes, tell Ben, Belle, Adam and Evie."
"Jane won't be the type to blab it around the party, especially if she thinks it's common knowledge."
"Exactly. And it isn't totally a lie?"
"Not exactly. I mean he did ask me, but it really was because of the whole Queen Leah thing so I don't really think of it as a real engagement."
"I see your point. Ok, so you have a few calls to make. And you should really talk to Ben about this." She held up Mal's hand. "You need to know where he stands."
"I think I'll go see Adam and Belle in person." She ignored the ring conversation.
"Good Idea. Hand me your phone please." Mal did as requested, and Fairy Godmother waved her wand over the phone. "As long as you have your phone on you, you are in a silence bubble. No one can record you or hear you unless you want them too. It's almost how the magic spell is going to work when the new kids come over. We haven't thought about what to use yet to allow, you, Jordan, Evie and Jane, oh and myself, access to our magic on school grounds, but we are working on it. This is a small trial so to speak. I am waiting for word from The Enchantress to see what she came up with."
"Well, Ben doesn't let me go anywhere without it, I guess it has tracking on it so he can find me if there is an issue."
"Good."
"Ok, off to Beast Castle." Mal waved and popped out of Fairy Godmother's office, and ended up in her room at the palace. Not wanting to alert the staff, she texted Belle to grab Adam and meet her in her room.

"Mal to what do we owe this visit?' Adam asked, after his wife hugged the girl. He did the same.

"Fairy Godmother has confirmation Leah is the one receiving the information they are listening to me for, we just don't know how she is getting the information. I have been given a spell that will keep me from being over heard. So she won't get the information that way. We know she could only hear my side of the conversation so it's not a phone tap. But well….we decided to give her something to cause her to slip up so we know it's her." Mal held up her left hand with the rose on it.

"Your engagement?"
"Yes. I know Ben only asked now because of the contract he almost signed, and I accepted it knowing that. We all know that we aren't getting married after graduation from Auradon Prep. But maybe if we sort of let her think we are."
"You sound like you have a plan." Belle asked.

"Fairy Godmother does, yes. Because of the visit we will be attending the pre-party Cinderella is throwing as planned. Evie will be there, along with Fairy Godmother and Jane. The plan is for Jane to walk up on Evie and I talking about my wedding dress. We won't be lying really, just omitting a wedding date."
"What if Jane asks that?"
"We tell her it isn't public knowledge yet. Knowing Jane she won't really ask anything, just listen. Then after a few minutes I put a small spell in Janes head to go call Audrey. She'll tell Audrey who will call Grammie. Grammie will be arriving for Chad's party the next day. My guess she will hunt us out long before the party and cause a scene then."
"So then it won't ruin Chad's party?' Adam asked.

"I hope not. I was hesitant to follow through the plan, but the timing should work out. If she starts something early enough in the day, we will be fine, but if she holds onto it until later I will have no choice but to spell her to forget what she learned. I will not allow her to ruin Chad's party. This has nothing to do with Chad or his family, I won't allow her to ruin it."
"That's very grown up of you Mal."
"Not really grown up, it's more of a lesson learned years ago about ruined parties over the years." She though back to Evie's 6th birthday. "Long story for another time."