Jude POV
"I can really use some tough kids like you two. The team is a bunch of princes, if you know what I mean." Coach told Jay and I as we all sat on the bleachers.
"You're telling me. It's all 'after you old chum. Oh pardon me, did I bump into you?' Bet it'd be a nice change of pace having a girl to challenge them a little more." I said.
"Yeah. Where we come from it's 'prepare to die, sucker. As my father says, "the only way to win" is to make sure everyone else loses!-" Jay started.
"Bro, chill."
"You rip..."
"Jay! Jay, Jay, Jay! Let me explain a team. Uh, It's like a family." Coach tries to say.
"You do not want to be at my house at dinner time."
"And definitely not mine."
"Okay, okay, um... You know how a body has a lot of different parts? The legs, elbows, ears. But they all need each other. Well, that's what a team is... different players who work together to win. Make any sense?"
"Can Jude and I be the fists?" Jay asked before Coach gave us both our jerseys.
"Yo-ho-ho!" Jay cheered as we walked into my dorm wearing our jerseys. I saw Evie working at her desk on some homework while using her mirror.
"Did your plan work with Jane? Are you going over to see the wand?" I asked Mal.
"Do you think that I would be going through every single spell in this book if I hadn't completely struck out?" She snapped.
"Oh, someone's in a bad mood." Carlos mumbled as he typed on a laptop with, a dog?, by his side.
"My mom's counting on me! I can't let her down!" Mal said before flicking him on the back of the head.
"We can do this... If we stick together." Jay said, causing all of us to look at him.
"And we won't go back until we do. Because we're rotten..." Mal started.
"To the core." We all finished.
"Oh, yeah. I found out that fairy godmother blesses both Ben and Ian with the wand at coronation and we all get to go. I have nothing to wear, of course." Evie tells us before we all hear a knock on the door.
"What?"
"Hold that thought." I said went to open the door, only to see Ben and Ian on the other side.
"Hey, Jude. I didn't see you guys today. I was just wondering If you had any questions or anything... That... you needed..."
"Not that I know of." I told him.
"Okay. All right. Well, uh, If you need anything, just, uh..." he said before I stopped him.
"Oh, wait! Um, is it true that we all get to go to your coronation?" I asked.
"Yeah, the whole school goes."
"Wow. That is beyond exciting. Do you think that It's a possibility that the five of us could stand in the front row next to the Fairy Godmother, just so we could soak up all that goodness?" I asked, trying not to give anything away.
"I wish you could. Up front it's just me, my folks, Ian, his girlfriend, and my girlfriend." He explained.
"And your girlfriends?"
"Yeah. I'm sorry."
"Okay. Thanks, bye."
"Oh, but, no, there's plenty of..." He tried to explain before I closed the door in his face.
"You know, I think it's time that Bennyboo and little Ian got themselves some new girlfriends. And I need a love spell for that." Mal said as Carlos tossed her her spell book.
Third Person POV
Jude looked out the window at the scenery outside, thinking about how she's currently involved in something that she wants no part in, even though she knows she has no choice. She thinks about the few days they've spent in Auradon, knowing that they have been the best days of her life. She looks over at her friends, and she can see that they don't want to be involved in the plan either.
In their short time in Auradon, Mal has discovered her love of art, and was also learning how to use her magic. Jay had discovered his love of tourney and was getting better with his stealing habit. Evie has been able to design more clothes, something she's loved doing since they were kids. Carlos had overcome his biggest childhood fear, inflicted on him by his mother. Jude has discovered how much she enjoys athletic activities, and loved the fact that she was breaking down some walls as the only girl on the tourney team, despite the protests of a certain prince.
She was also having some strange emotions when it came to being around Ben. He listened to every word she had to say that one morning after he caught her dancing in the courtyard, and she listened to him. She didn't know exactly how to describe the way that she was feeling about the future king, bit she knew that once they helped their parents take over, there was no way that it would ever last. She was a villain princess while he was a prince of pure goodness. As the teens discussed their plan for the love spell, Judith was just zones out, thinking about Ben. They had decided to make it less suspicious by baking the love spell into a cookie, and decided to do it at night, when everyone would be asleep in their dorms
Later that night, the kids were all in the kitchen, getting ready to make the love cookies for Ben and Ian. They were all doing different things as the cookie dough was prepared. Evie was adding some ingredients into the bowl, Mal was reading from her spellbook, the boys were sitting on a table as Carlos pet Dude, who was sitting in a bowl, and Jay and Jude were both close to falling asleep on each other's shoulders.
"All right. It says that we still need one tear, and I never cry." Mal said as she looks at her book.
"Let's just chop up some onions." Carlos said as he held one up.
"No. I looked at it earlier and it says that we need one tear of human sadness." Jude said, yawning.
"She's right. And this love potion gets the best so we have to follow it exactly." Mal said as she mixed the batter.
"A tear's a tear." Jay said with a bored tone.
"That's not true, Jay. They both have antibodies and enzymes, but an emotional tear has more protein-based hormones than a reflex tear." Evie says as she grabs a bag of flour, handing it to Mal.
"Listen to you." Mal said, impressed.
"Yeah, I knew that."
"Did not." Carlos and Jude both said, hitting their brother's arm.
"Yeah, I did."
"Boys." Jude mumbled as I rolled my eyes. Suddenly, the kitchen door opened and in came Lonnie, Mulan's daughter, looking as if she was looking for someone.
"There you are, Mal! I was looking for you. You know, all the girls want you to do their hair!"
"Midnight snack, huh? What you guys making?" She asked as she peered into the bowl.
"Nothing special. Just cookies. Oh, no, no!" Mal said before Lonnie dipped her finger in the batter.
"What? I'm not gonna double dip."
"Feel anything?" Jude asked.
"Yeah, like maybe it might be missing something?" Mal asked, concerned that she might fall under the spell, even without the tear.
"Hey, there." Jay says, trying to flirt with her, leaning against a pole.
"Can you please gouge my eyes out? I don't want to look at this." Jude whispered to Mal.
"It could use some chips." Lonnie said before going to the fridge.
"Chips?" Jay asked, confused.
"And those are..." Mal asked.
"Chocolate chips. Just the most important food group. Wait, didn't your moms ever make you guys, like, chocolate chip cookies? Like, when you're feeling sad, and they're fresh from the oven, with a big old glass of milk, and she just makes you laugh and puts everything into perspective and... why are you all looking at me like that?" She explains before noticing how upset they all looked.
"It's just different where we're from." Mal told her.
"Yeah. A loving set of parents wasn't something you really came by on the Isle." Jude explained. "I definitely didn't have one of those. It was pretty much just my siblings and I from the days we were all born. My parents basically abandoned all four of us to take care of each other as soon as they were able to."
"Yeah, I know. I just, you know, I thought... Even villains love their kids. Oh... How awful." She said as a tear went down her face.
"Yeah, well, big bummer, but we have to get these into the oven, so thank you so much for coming by. Really, really have a good night. I'll see you tomorrow. Evil dreams." Mal said as she flicked the tear into the dough and she, not so subtly, pushes Lonnie out the door.
"Good night."
"See you tomorrow. Okay, boys, cookie sheet. Evie, oven." Jude tells them.
"Yes, ma'am."