Chapter 4
First day of Classes Outfit: red shirt with Dalmatian print scarf, black ripped pants and white boots.
"I can't believe we almost had it." Mal said drawing the wand in her notebook.
"I can't believe we were almost caught." Jay muttered, he'd always been a master of stealing and couldn't believe his skills almost failed.
"I can't believe they haven't figured out it was us."
"Camilla!" Evie whisper-shouted, though no one else was in the classroom to hear her.
"Oh come on, this is Auradon. No one steals here and on our first day the museum has a 'malfunction' in its security system? We're lucky they haven't thrown us into the ocean and made us swim back to the Isle!" she told the others from across the table.
"Good morning!" Fairy Godmother welcomed as she walked into the classroom, past the desks and approached the blackboard, "Now today I've prepared some scenarios, let's get started shall we?" she said with a bright smile. Ugh, Camilla thought, it was too early to smile, too early for even an evil smirk, in her opinion. And too bright, she added as a side thought, why was Auradon so much brighter? It gave her a headache.
"You find a starving child stealing your food do you, A: turn them into a llama? B: steal their voice? C: command off with their head? or D: share what you have?"
Camilla smirked at the Fairy Godmother's combination of villainous acts. She passed most of the class daydreaming about the hilarity of Yzma, Ursula and the Queen of Hearts teaming up. The three women would never get anything done, they'd spend the whole time arguing over who's ideas were better. Camilla knew this because once they'd all actually had a screaming match in the marketplace back on the Isle. Camilla had been very young –Carlos wasn't even born yet – when she hid behind her mother's thick coat as Cruella watched what she called an entertaining display.
"If someone hands you a crying baby, do you, A: curse it? B: lock it in a tower? C: give it a bottle? Or D: carve out it's heart?"
Camilla rolled her eyes for what felt like the millionth time, luckily Fairy Godmother couldn't see from where she was sitting behind her brother. Evie raised her hand eagerly and Fairy Godmother called on her.
"Evie."
"What was the second one?"
"Oh, okay." Fairy Godmother said not wanting to flat out call Evie's answer wrong, though even Camilla could tell it was. When no one raised their hand Fairy Godmother called on Mal.
"Mal?"
"C: give it a bottle."
"Correct, again." Fairy Godmother said smiling and Camilla swore she saw the light twinkle off her perfect teeth.
"You are on fire girl." Carlos commented.
"Just pick the one that doesn't sound like any fun." Mal shrugged going back to her drawing.
"Oh, that makes so much sense." Evie said. Then Camilla heard a small shriek and turned to see a girl entering the classroom. She looked scared out of her wits as she approached Fairy Godmother. Camilla took a good look at the girl, she wore a light blue dress with a huge matching bow on her head. Her dark hair was cut to her chin. She quickly walked past them with wide eyes that never dared to look up.
"Hello dear one." Fairy Godmother greeted her.
"Hi. You need to sign off on early dismissal for the coronation." She said handing Fairy Godmother a clipboard.
"Everyone here remembers my daughter, Jane?"
"Mom, no!" Jane whispered horrified that they now knew her name.
"It's okay. Jane this is everyone."
"Hi." Jane said still obviously terrified, even more so when none of them said hi back, "That's okay, don't mind me, as you were." She squealed again as she walked by them.
"Let's continue." Fairy Godmother said calling attention to the 'lesson' again.
"You find a vial of poison, do you, A: put it in the king's wine? B: paint it on an apple? Or C: turn it over to the proper authorities?"
This time Jay, Carlos and Evie all raised their hands wanting to answer the question. To better his chances Jay pulled Carlos's hand out of the air.
"Jay." Fairy Godmother called him.
"C: you turn it over to the proper authorities."
"I was gonna say that!" Carlos protested.
"But I said it first!"
The ensuing fight made Camilla stand from her seat to avoid getting hit with flailing limbs. Fairy Godmother tapped on her podium to re-gain their attention, "Boys! I am going to encourage you to use that energy on the tourney field."
"Oh, no, that's okay. Whatever that is, we'll pass." Carlos said as Jay got off of him.
- - ROTTEN TO THE CORE - -
While Jay and Carlos had gone down to the Tourney field like Fairy Godmother had suggested Camilla went with Evie to the library. They figured it be empty since all the boys were at Tourney and all the girls were at cheerleading. They expected to have some peace and quiet while they researched Fairy Godmother's magic wand, they needed to come up with a new plan and fast! However, their quiet moment was cut short when Doug showed up and sat down next to Evie.
"Whatcha reading?" he asked as Camilla and Evie instantly pulled fashion magazines out from under their books and plopped them over the pages so Doug couldn't see.
"Just girl stuff." Evie said smiling as she gestured to the models in the magazine.
"I didn't expect the Evil Queen's daughter to be interested in fashion. I assumed it'd be more of a De Vil thing." He said looking up at Camilla.
"I've never been as good at it as Evie." Camilla said with complete honesty, Cruella might brag that she had the more naturally beautiful daughter but the Evil Queen could brag that her daughter had more talent.
"Besides." Camilla shrugged, "My mother is into real fur and the Isle doesn't have any cats or dogs, it's more snakes and spiders. . . and the occasional ticking crocodile." She added making Evie giggle. Camilla had actually seen the crocodile once, she'd been walking along the wharf when she'd heard the ticking. When she looked into the water she'd seen it, it had to be at least twenty feet long, as it swam through the murky grey water filled with sludge. Camilla had been petrified, and she was on land! She made sure to never tell crocodile jokes around Hook or his kids ever again after that.
- - ROTTEN TO THE CORE - -
After the library Camilla and Evie went to meet Mal at her locker. It wasn't long until Audrey, Chad and Ben came around the corner and started whispering about them.
"Those kids are trouble."
"Come on, Chad. Give them a chance."
"No offense, Bennybear, you're just too trusting." Audrey said taking Ben's hands – man these Auradon kids were terrible at whispering, Camilla thought as she and Evie said goodbye to Mal and headed for their classes. Evie had chemistry while Camilla had history of woodsmen and pirates with Jay.
They lasted about ten minutes before the teacher's droning became background noise to their games of hangman and tic-tac-toe. Eventually the teacher noticed they weren't paying attention and asked Jay a question about the lesson. Jay replied saying that in Agrabah there were no pirates or woodsmen so what should he care? The teacher gave him a sour look before turning to one of the Auradon students who answered the question flawlessly.
Feeling the need to stick up for her fellow VK Camilla wrote on a blank piece of notebook paper and slid it over to Jay. How about we make this a little more interesting? Jay smirked and wrote his response and slid it to Camilla. What did you have in mind? She smirked and looked him in the eye mouthing 'Wait for it.' And she began flipping through her book plotting and scheming. In no time she had pieced together a class disrupting scene that would make Mr. what's-his-face wiggle like a worm. Casually, she put her hand high in the air and several heads turned to stare at her, some with disgust and some with fear. The teacher seemed shocked himself before he pulled it together and composed himself.
"M - Miss De Vil?"
Camilla stood still holding her textbook and smiled ear to ear, "Thank you." She said with so much fake sweetness she could practically taste the sugar on her tongue. "I was just wondering why our textbook doesn't mention Captain Hook?" there were several gasps in the room followed by silence, it had gotten so quiet Camilla even heard a pencil roll and fall off a desk. Jay was holding back chuckles beside her at everyone's reactions. "Or has he not done anything worthy of remembering? I could always let him know next time I see him –"
"No, no, Miss De Vil, that's quite alright." The teacher said stuttering while he tried to piece together sentences that wouldn't offend the daughter of the infamous dog-napper. " W-we don't include Mr. Hook in our studies because he's a modern day pirate, in history class we study, well, history."
Camilla dropped the book onto her desk making a loud BANG that made several students jump, and even the teacher dropped his chalk. The others watched her carefully waiting to see her next move, the sickly-sweet smile still on her face. The mask was hard to keep since Camilla wanted to laugh at the teacher's excuse: they didn't teach about Captain Hook because he was too young? These people couldn't lie either, she noted.
"Thank you for the clarification." She said sitting down again. It took everyone a good two minutes before they unfroze and the teacher returned to his lesson. Jay started chucking beside her, "Mr. Hook." He laughed under his breath. Camilla could have done worse of course, but she couldn't risk drawing too much attention, not until they got the wand anyway. So for now she'd have to make do with B-level villainy. Either way it was better than nothing, and still quiet entertaining as well. Audrey, who'd been sitting in front of her looked over her shoulder at Camilla, her only response was a sinister lift of her eyebrow as the girl turned forward again. The teacher didn't call on her or Jay for the rest of the class.
Leaving class however was a different story. Audrey passed by Camilla humming a tune that made her stop dead in her tracks. Jay noticed and put his arm around her pulling her along. "Hey, not here okay? Come on."