Chapter 5: New Life
It was Hadley's worst nightmare. Not only was her dorm pink and princess themed, she had to share it with Mal and Evie. She already knew how that was going to work out. Mal and Evie would be all buddy-buddy leaving Hadley out. Hadley let out a noise of frustration. "I need some air". Her mind was racing everywhere as she quickly walked down the hallway not knowing where she was going. Suddenly she collided with another and fell to the ground.
"Let me help you up" the boy said. Hadley slammed her hands to the ground "DON'T touch me!" Hadley didn't move, she continued lay in the spot where she fell. "What you're just gonna lie there all day" "I don't see how my life could get any worse". The boy chuckled and sat on the ground next to the white-haired girl "rough day?" "you have no idea" "oh come on you're talking to me your day is getting better!" the boy replied with a cheeky grin. Hadley's face turned to disgust and lifted her head to meet his amused gazed "seriously?" "I'm only joking. My names PJ, well Peter Junior but I like PJ" "Hadley" she didn't want to tell him her mother's name out of fear of judgement. "Well Hadley how about we stand up before you get trampled by the marching band" "good call" they connected hands as PJ pulled her to her feet. For Peter Pan's son he towered over her and Hadley didn't know how to feel about him. His dad is the sworn enemy of her friend's dad, if Harry knew she was talking to him he would be so angry. "Welcome to Auradon you will love it here". Hadley couldn't understand why he was being so nice I was VK after all he should hate me. "is it always this sunny and cheerful?" "sometimes it rains but yeah sunny almost all year round, isn't the Isle like that?" "umm no it's uh overcast all year. There's never a day it's not gloomy". PJ's smiled faltered, he thought life of the Isle was similar to life here in Auradon but more villainous and evil. Hadley could tell she made him uncomfortable "listen it was nice meeting you, but I better get back to my dorm" "I can show you where it is" PJ replied eagerly as he stepped toward the girl. "I need to figure it out my own". On that noted Hadley pivoted and walked away from the red-haired boy. Took her waaaaaaaay longer to find her dorm than she anticipated. How do any of these kids know where to go this place is huge.
As soon as Hadley got to her dorm, she was immediately dragged to Carlos and Jay's room by her sister and Evie. Shocked that they were even including her in this, she reluctantly followed. Carlos was playing some video game and Jay was taking inventory of the items he stole. Habits die hard. Hadley sat by the window ignoring the 4 friends talking and joking. Hadley would give anything to be sitting on Uma's boat with her friends or eating dinner in Ursula's Fish and Chips.
Mal couldn't take the nonsense anymore "Guys! Do I have to remind you what we are all here for" Jay replied while trying to play Carlos's game "blah blah blah fairy godmother blah blah blah magic wand blah blah blah" Evie let out a laugh at Jay's antics. Hadley could see her sister getting more annoyed with her word coming out of Jay's mouth "THIS is our one chance to prove ourselves to our parents". Hadley had to admit her sister has a point. She never thought she would ever say that. "To prove that we are evil and viscous and ruthless and cruel. Yeah?". Everyone stopped what they were doing and came together to figure out a plan of attack. "Evie mirror me". Evie dug the small mirror out of her red satchel "mirror mirror on the..in my hand show where fairy godmother's wand stand" After zooming in and out of the mirror's pictures, the group figured out that it was held in the Museum of Cultural History and was in walking distance.
The VKs made it there in record time only to find the doors are locked with a security guard inside. In the center of the room stood her mother's spinning wheel. "That's your mother's spinning wheel" Jay snorted. "yeah kind of dorky" Carlos finished. "It's magic it doesn't have to look scary" Hadley countered. Mal proceeded to whip out their mother's spell book to spell the security guard to prick his finger on the spinning wheel and fall asleep long enough for the group to get in, get the wand and get out. "Not so dorky now huh" Mal said proudly. It worked flawlessly but the VKs still had to figure out how to unlock the door. "Stand back" Jay being the showoff that he is backed up and took a running start to kick the door down. Mal acted fast and spelled the door open leaving Jay to land on his back as he tried to kick the door in.
The group ran with excitement down the halls and lead themselves to the one room they were not expecting: The Hall of Villains. Each of their parents and other villain's statues stood in the room reminding them why they were there. Each kid beside Mal rushed away not wanting anything to do with the room. As much as Hadley wanted to be back on the Isle with her friends, she didn't miss being around her mother. Once the wand was finally located by Evie, the 5 kids stood in awe at the wand that floated in midair. It was as beautiful as the stories that were told about it. Hadley broke the silence "We need to be smart about this". Jay edged closer to the wand. "Jay don't!" Mal yelled in desperation. Jay only smiled bigger as he went under the security ropes and reached for the wand. He was catapulted to wall from the barrier that surrounded the wand and the alarm system went off with an ear-piercing screech. Are you kidding me? The VKs ran out of the building and back to the dorms as fast as they could. Way to go Jay now we have to go to school tomorrow.
