Chapter 17 Mal Hits her Breaking Point
Avoiding her room was going to be Hadley's best decision, she did not want to get in the middle of Evie and her cotillion monster. Finding Carlos in his room Hadley took a seat by his grand window and pulled her laptop out of her bag and got started on her essay. Out of the corner of her eye she saw her friend looking a little down as he pets Dude. "You know you're getting better at fencing everyday" "really I feel like I haven't been improving. I don't know why I'm still on the team" "no you have and coach put you on the team for a reason you clearly have enough skill to get on the team and hey there is nowhere else to go but up at this point". Carlos smiled at his white-haired friend. The two went into silence concentrating on their work. Carlos pulled out his laptop and started to think out loud "how to get out of the friend zone" "who's the lucky girl" "I uh no one" Hadley gave him a look and Carlos rolled his eyes "fine its Jane" "aww" "no stop don't do that" "here's a mind blowing thought how about you just ask her" "don't be crazy" all I could do is smile and shake my head.
Out of nowhere a frazzled Mal burst in the room and locked the door. She then began pacing back and forth before her eyes went electric green. Carlos closed his laptop "woah easy girl" "you okay M?" "what you think this is so easy you don't have people taking a photo of you every single time you open your mouth to say boo! I mean not that I could even say boo, but you know what I mean" "sorry" "mal you need to take a deep breath you can't keep getting yourself worked up like this." "don't you guys ever miss just screaming at people and making them run away from you" "you're thinking of my mother and I was usually on the other end of it so no. oh hey did you bring it?" bring what? Before Mal could even reveal what, it was. The door clicked open and slowly opened up to reveal Chad sneaking into the room. He slowly closed the door and got up thinking he was alone. Hadley rolled her eyes. What a moron. Thinking he was alone he stood up and threw a key up in the air before catching it with a cocky look on his face that quickly moved to shock seeing the three of us in the room.
"..hi just came to use your 3D printer" "how did you get a key to my room?" "oh I uh printed it off the last time I was in here" the three of us exchanged looks "you guys were sleeping" Chad has hit a new low "I just I look your printer is just so much better than mine and you installed these hacks and everything runs so much smoother than mine" "out! now" shocked but smug Chad inched his way to the door "fine. Fine" "Chad!" "what hm?" "leave the key" Chad slammed the key down then slammed the door. Man, that kid has some nerve.
Carlos looked at a zoned out Mal "Mal?" "hm?" "the potion?" oh lord this won't end well. "Mm yeah um" Mal took small red gummy out of her tin and held it up to Carlos "so this thing will make me say what I really feel about Jane?" "well yeah this is a truth gummy so take it or leave it" "perfect" "hold on though are you sure that you want to be taking this? Because this is going to make you say the truth all the time no matter what and the only reason that I'm asking because if I know if I took this right now I would get myself sent back to the Isle which that doesn't sound super appealing but you know" sis are you okay? "Yeah I'll just take my chances I guess" "okay" Mal dropped her hand for one second but that's all it took for Dude to jump off of the bed and snatch it out of her hand.
We all looked shocked as Dude jumped on the bed and shook before sitting down "man that thing was nasty and you you just need to man up and while you are at it scratch my butt" Mal couldn't take her eyes off of Dude "you heard him scratch his butt" and with that she turned and walked out of the door "you're just gonna leave us" "oh come you scratch yours all the time" and with that last comment I was following Mal out the door.
The two of us walked in silence back to our dorm. I was determined to finish this paper and Mal had to get ready for her date with Ben. Thank god all of the fittings were done by the time we got back to our room and all that was in our dorm was just a hard-working Evie at her sewing machine. "girl you need a break" "I will take a break after cotillion" "seriously you should go do something with Doug, you deserve a little R&R" "no what I need is to finish this hem" "no what you need to do is eat" "thanks mom" "don't give me attitude E you know I'm right" with a huff Evie got up "yeah I know". With Mal and Evie both away with their men I attempted to do homework. By attempted I just started out at the window daydreaming.
My daydreaming thoughts came to end with an endless amount of knocking at my door. I instantly smiled seeing PJ standing on the other side of the door. "Hey babe!" "hi beautiful" our lips instantly connected and instead of pulling away PJ deepened the kiss. I was surprised but melted into the kiss. It seemed that with every time spent together, we were getting closer and closer and more passionate towards each other. PJ ended the kiss and held me in a hug. "you never cease to make my day better" "rough day?" "rough practice. Chad is pissing me off, and to say my skills were off is understatement" "hey these things happen you just gotta shake it off" "easier said than done" "I know I'm just saying it's gonna get better you need to have a positive attitude about" "so I'm not allowed to be pissed?" "no you are" "you don't get it just forget I said anything" "I will understand if you just talk to me" "just forget it" "no don't do that" "I'll see you later, Hadley" "PJ don't do this" "I'm not doing anything" "you are walking away without even letting me talk" "no I'm just done with you not letting me talk to about these things. You are so quick to push it under the rug" "I'm just trying to help" "well you're not" "well sorry for being a shitty girlfriend" "don't put words in my mouth" "you are making me feel that way" "I'm done fighting" "don't walk away and leave it like this" he walked out without even looking back. What hell I didn't do anything wrong. Tears immediately ran down my face. Relationships were a new thing for me, and this fight was our first fight and don't know how to fix this or how things got heated so fast.
My thoughts were cut short with a hysterical Mal running in the room. "Mal" "no" "talk to me" "I can't" All Mal could do was cry and change into one of her old Mal outfits and started punching holes in a small box. This can't be good. "I don't belong here" "Mal don't be ridiculous" Mal went over to the cage that held our mom and put her in the box "let's blow this popsicle stand" "Mal. Where are going?" "I'm going back to the isle" "let's think about this for second" "no I just can't do it anymore. I'm a fake I'm not a lady of the court I can't do it" "Mal" "I need to go" "then I will go with you" "what" "you're not doing this alone" "I can't ask you to do that" "were sisters. We make sacrifices for each other. I'm here for you. I need to get away too" Mal nodded and the twins hopped on Mal's purple scooter and drove quickly to the barrier. With a halt Mal took out their mother's spell book "noble stead proud and fair you shall take us anywhere" it was terrifying, but we were able to make it into the Isle. In no time we made it to the loft in all its spray-painted glory.
"first things first you need to do something with that hair" "yeah yeah" "Evie always gave Dizzy high praise you should see if she can make you you know Mal again" "you coming with?" "I better go find Uma" Mal made a face "I know you hate her but she's my friend" "good luck" "likewise" "tell Shrimpy I said hi" I rolled my eyes that was probably the worst thing Mal could call her and Uma tried to push that out of her head for years. Here goes nothing hopefully my friends don't hate me that much.
