Chapter Two: At least out loud (I won't say I'm in love)

No chance no way I won't say it, no no
(You swoon you sigh why deny it oh oh)
It's too cliche I won't say I'm in love
I thought my heart had learned its lesson
It feels so good when you start out
My head is screaming "Get a grip girl
Unless you're dying to cry your heart out

-I Won't Say (I'm In Love), Susan Egan (Hercules, 1997)

Evie was utterly confused.

Over the past two months after the coronation, everything seemed sweet and dandy, she had a boyfriend and now a new friend in the form of Audrey. But recently, a week later she's been feeling out of love for Doug.

Don't get her wrong, he's the sweetest boy next to Carlos that Evie has ever met but she didn't get that rush of True Love that Mal or Ben talks about. She didn't feel that with Doug, the question is who did she feel it for? But her focus, for now, would be on Doug, who was sitting in front of her waiting to break his heart. She didn't want to lose the friendship she had with him but it also felt wrong of her to string him along.

Just rip the band-aid off and it'll hurt less once it's over. She told herself. So, Evie took the plunge and told him.

Doug didn't seem mad or disappointed, he was respectful of the decision. "Friends?"

She nodded, smiling at the fact that she hadn't lost the first Auradon friend she made here. "Yeah," It was done but now what to do about her love life?

Maybe if the universe had a sense of humor they would pair her up with a prince, as she told Doug that. He chuckled at the joke but became serious as to the seriousness of True Love. "Evie, do you know anyone that makes you feel, like Mal or Ben's True Love?"

In all honesty Doug," She told him. "I don't know but I promise you'll be the first one to know."

"Someone's going to have to help you out if it's a person from Auradon. Just promise me that I can coordinate your wedding and officiate it."

"Deal" She grinned at the half-dwarf.

But she would come to find out that True Love came at the most random time without even a warning.

It was like a strike of lightning that spread from her toes to the tips of her fingers, it made her feel alive. That must have been what True Love felt like but she couldn't believe it, that's why she was pacing her room as Doug tried to calm her down from the verge of ripping her hair off. Thoughts kept running through her mind as her heart kept hammering loudly.

"Evie, did you find something wrong? Was it Chad?" He was trying to help and she was grateful but all she could do was shake her head as an answer.

"I think," She took a deep breath before spilling her eternal chaos that was unraveling from inside. Her mind kept screaming: Oh my gods, I'm in love with Audrey! You are head over heels in love with that girl!

"I think I'm starting to fall in love with Audrey."

Saying it out loud made it all too real as she figured out why her heart always did funny things whenever Audrey hung out with her. Or when they texted and even when they hung out at the wishing well, hearing Audrey hum the tune 'Once Upon a Dream' as she did homework. The more she got to know the princess more, the more Evie wanted to rest her head on her shoulder or hear her voice as she talked passionately about cheer squad. And now here she was realizing her crush on a princess, the it-princess of Auradon Prep.

Doug opened and closed his mouth like a gaping fish for a few moments. Gods, this was worse than the day she found out who her dad was... No, no, not going to open that can of worms, she thought to herself. She was already hopelessly falling for a princess who just recently became a friend. The last thing Evie wanted was to get a headache from her godly heritage that could possibly make all of Auradon fear her even more than Mal.

"Evie, so you've fallen for Audrey? Well, at least the color scheme for the wedding won't be that hard to put together." He said making Evie toss a scarf at him. Doug held up his hands in an I-surrender pose. "Sorry, sorry just trying to lighten the mood. But hey, it's okay. Most people are somewhat tolerable with sexuality in Auradon. There are some who wish traditions would be held up more but we young folks are changing it more and more, so this-falling for a princess is fine. I know princess Melody is marrying a noble mermaid from Atlantis next summer."

Evie twisted her hands together. "It's not about that, I'm comfortable as it is with my sexuality Doug. It's Audrey that I'm hesitant about."

Doug frowned. "Well, what is it? Come on Evie, I'm your friend remember, let me help."

"Okay." She said. She stopped pacing and faced him. "I'm scared that she won't reciprocate my feelings, that she won't feel the same way I do. That's what I'm scared off."

"Hey, it's okay to feel scared, maybe Audrey likes you back. Who knows?" Doug said. "But if you think it might be too much just take things slow, see how your friendship is with Audrey."

Evie nodded. Yeah, everything would be just fine, no need to overreact.

What was she even worried about to begin with?

It was those types of dreams again, Evie hated these dreams since she was little but they've gotten much vivid and like-like since she got to Auradon. Evie blamed her dad.

You seem troubled daughter. His voice rumbled like rocks falling down, or jewels. Evie could never tell.

Father, She acknowledges the god in the black suite. Always with the dark-haired man in all black standing in a field of poppies, all in full bloom. It looked like of sea of red blood with the man standing out like a sore thumb. He spoke to her in an ancient tongue that she assumed was English when the dreams began but she now knew that was not English, it was Greek.

Her mother told her that she got both her beauty and genetics from both sides of her parents. Evie thinks that her temper must be from her dad, raging like the hellfire that was used in the Underworld. Her friends never thought bout Evie's temper, never seen it so much, to begin with, which was good in her case. They didn't even know about her biological father, that he was a god-the god of the Underworld no less. It would no doubt cause statewide panic on both the Isle and Auradon, making Evie the biggest outcast to ever live if the truth of her father's identity ever came to light.

So here she was, in her dreams visited by her father. Some people get a car or something from their father. Evie?

She got a dream visitation.

You are angry with me. He did not sound mad, more like he had a hunch and was just telling it as it is. Which Evie was glad but at the same time hated him for making her feel this way, to live as some burden of his. She was the second demigod to have lived, a new hero and the first demigod of Hades to be exact.

I do not see you as a burden sapphire, never once since the day you were born. He spoke softly like the rivers that he mentioned to her. The ones that ran through his kingdom with the jewels and the dead. He promised her one day she would get to see it, those were empty promises unless she died that is. Where would she have gone if she had died on the Isle? The Asphodel meadow no doubt. She wouldn't have made it to the Elysium field or the Isle of The Blessed that's for sure.

Evie, he said her name. She turned to face him. Never once have I broke that promise, it is just the timing is not yet well. Nobody in this mortal kingdom knows of your existence, your tie to me yet. Zeus wants to privately inform the royal heroes soon before Hermes breaks the news to every land of Auradon. Especially your step-sister.

So soon?

Soon, sapphire. Very soon, but until then keep doing well and do contact your sister, she'll be very happy to meet you, Evelyn.

Yes, father.

Something shifted in his look, one minute he was wearing a black three piece suite with a long black coat and a cane. The next he was wearing what looked like a black tunic, with a golden crown like wreath on his head. His hair was still slicked back, the cane was now a long scepter that looked like a U-shaped pitchfork. It held up for a few minutes before he was dressed back in his three piece suite. He gave her a sad smile.

It's time for me to go Evelyn. Goodbye, my little sapphire. The lord of the Underworld leaned over and kissed his daughter on the forehead like he always did before he left her dreams.

He left, disappearing in front of her eyes leaving her in the field of red poppies. He always left her in the field of poppies in every dream making Evie's heart yearn to be with her father more and more. But also, leaving her with the feeling of emptiness and loneliness at the fact that she wouldn't get to see him.

NOTES: I Won't Say I'm In Love from Hercules! This song has been in my head since I was having trouble finding the direction and writing, let alone finishing this chapter. But it's done! If you guys want to help me out send me some Disney songs for more chapters! The more, the better! Yes, I'm using my headcanon that Evie's dad is Hades,

Don't own the songs used for the fic obviously! Enjoy more of flirting disasters called Evie and Audrey, because that's exactly how I'm writing them and I hope you guys enjoy it!