Disclaimer: I do not own Descendants or Isle of the Lost nor do own any of the character.
thought '...'
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I did not read the book isle of the lost so if people want to send some characteristic or summaries or anything about the book they think I should know I would appreciate it.
Jay's point of view
After the fiasco that happened in the cafeteria we had more than enough energy to run the whole two point three miles. As we were running I kept noticing that something was wrong with Mal. So casually I'd bump into her trying to get her to focus without letting the others know something was wrong. Mal would glare at me, but than she'd get that far away look in her eyes.
Suddenly a smirk appeared on my face. "Hey Mal I''ll race ya." She gives me a side glare
"And why would I want to do that." She snaps still keeping her pace. Although we were doing fine, I could tell that Carlos and Evie were struggling to keep up.
"It's alright I'd understand if you were scared." And just like that Mal turned to me so fast I thought she would get whiplash.
"Scared…me" she scoffs "I'm not afraid of anything" she proclaims titling her head up. 'If only that was true' I thought, rolling my eyes.
"Yah than what's the problem we gonna race or what?" I asked, picking up the pace a little.
"Oh your so on" she says going into a run. "And when you lose you better not cry" I had slowed down my pace to let her get ahead of me, a smirk on her face as she thought she was in the lead.
Smirking I began to close the distance between us, pulling up beside her. "I'm not gonna be the one crying" I say as I take the lead, looking behind me to see that Mal was smirking. Her eyes and mind, here in the present where it should be.
After about a half hour run, I could see the museum at least I thought it was the museum. 'Not like there is any museum's on the island.' I thought, running up the stairs, Mal close behind. As I got to the top of the stairs, I shouted, "I win," before doing a back flip.
"Fuck you" Mal says, trying to catch her breath.
"Aww Mal don't be a sore loser," I say smiling only to receive a death glare. I couldn't help, but chuckle. Shifting my gaze behind us, with Evie and Carlos struggling to climb the stairs. They were completely winded. "Nothing like a good night run." I say, as Carlos collapses on the first step while Evie leans against a pillar trying not to gulp down air.
I couldn't help as I looked down at our fastest runner. "Come on Carlos I thought you were the fastest runner of the isle." Carlos was a speedster to be sure, but he was only great at short distance. Carlos was like a rocket it shoots out very fast and goes pretty far, but eventually it just stops.
"Shut up" breath "Jay" he says, glaring up at me. I turn my attention to Evie, but she puts her finger up.
"Don't" gasp "even" large inhale "start." She says giving her best glare. Which did send a little shiver down my spine.
After a moment of everyone catching their breath, we began to explore the museum. 'Well we found the museum and that wasn't so hard,' I thought, looking over the large building 'lets just hope the wand is just as easy to find.'
"Check your mirror," Mal told Evie, who was now breathing normally.
"Why? Is my mascara smudged?" Evie asked worriedly, checking her face with the mirror.
"Yeah," Mal told rolling her eyes as she slowly climbed down the stairs checking to see if the coast was clear, "And hey, while you're at it why don't you try to find us the wand." She adds, giving Evie a look.
"Sorry," Evie says, talking to the mirror before saying "This way," as she takes the lead.
She quickly turns toward one of the back entrances and hastily walked, no one questioning Evie we all began to follow. We found ourselves at a large door. 'Why does it have window though' I questioned 'can't anyone just break them and get in.' I thought as we all peered through the windows trying to see what's inside.
Taking a look at the door, I knew it was locked, but it didn't seem reinforced so a kick would be enough to take it down. 'But why?' I thought 'A museum usually has valuable items….' I looked in the room and noticed that there was a security guard as in one. The security guard wasn't that big, hell I had fought bigger on the island. He didn't seem like that much of a problem, 'but nothing as valuable as Fairy Godmother's wand should be this easy.' I looked past the guard to see that he was sitting in front of a series of screens, each screen flickering between different artifacts.
As I looked inside I could see different types of items. The Mad Hatter's hat, King Triton's triton, the Beast's enchanted rose, Cinderella's glass slipper. As I glanced at the last item, but breath caught. It was a Genie lamp. I could feel my fingers twitching want nothing more than to steal that lamp. I clenched my teeth as I curled my twitching finger into a fist. 'Stupid lamp, Stupid Genie, Stupid magic.' I growled, looking at the item that caused me so much trouble. 'Dad makes his own mistakes and I end up paying for them.' One of my fingers gently traced a pattern on one of my leather bracelets. Even though the scar was covered I knew the pattern by heart, my father's words ringing in my head. 'If you aren't going to steal for me than why even have hands.' I growled to myself 'the genies gone, the lamps useless, so what's the point.' That didn't stop dear old dad from teaching me how to steal, how to get my hands on anything that could possibly make him powerful. 'Magic and money Jay, if you don't have either than your nothing.' I couldn't help, but frown as I thought that I had neither of these things. 'That will change if we get the wand though.' I thought, focus at the task at hand.
The security guard turned in his chair towards the door. Not even thinking I grabbed Carlos' shoulder pushing him down as the girls ducked down on their own Mal, pushing Evie down. We all waited for a while before we peeked in. The guard was facing away again, going back to stare at the screen.
Thinking to how we would get in, I was distracted when Carlos gently nudged me in the ribs. Turning to look at the younger boy I watched as he titled his head to the center of the room. I blinked my eyes wondering how I could miss the sign that read, "Maleficent's Spinning Wheel." 'Probably because it doesn't look valuable at all' I thought looking at the old wooden thing. It was dark and cracked, nothing special about it, nothing worth stealing. Just old and wood 'I can't believe that Maleficent the greatest villain of all time, got famous off of that.'
"That's," I say, laughing "Your mother's spinning wheel?"
Carlos joined me, laughing at rickety old thing. "Yeah, kinda dorky."
"It's magic," Mal said, defensively her lips pursed. "It doesn't have to look scary."
She shook her head as if saying you wouldn't understand. I couldn't help but roll my eyes. 'She thinks she is so high and mighty with magic.' I thought watching as she pulled out her mother's spell book out of her leather jacket. Opening it up and flipping through some pages she quickly finds the right spell. "Magic spindle, do not linger. Make my victim prick a finger." She says, dramatically and I could almost picture her doing some grand hand gestures.
I watched, as the guard seemed to zone out for a moment leaning back in his chair head titled towards the sky, but other than nothing. He was just sitting there staring off into space.
"Impressive," I say sarcastically, hoping to bring Mal down a peg. Sometimes she can get to high and mighty for her own good, add magic into the mix and I knew it wouldn't end well.
"I got chills," Carlos added, holding himself as he shakes a bit. I couldn't help, but laugh. It was always great to see Carlos standing up to people.
"Okay, you know what?" Mal says turning towards us with a glare, clearly not enjoying our teasing. She turned her gaze back to the guard who still hadn't moved. She took a deep breath and as everyone was looking at the guard no one noticed that Mal's eyes were glowing a bit green. I was worried for Mal. When we were on the island we never had to worry about magic and our parents couldn't teach us, but now she could use magic however whenever she wanted. I kept my eyes on Mal as she read her next spell, "Prick the finger, prick it deep, send my enemy off to sleep."
This time the guard stood from his seat still in a trance. He made his way over to the spinning wheel for a moment he just stood there, but slowly his lifted his finger to the spindle. He pricked his finger on the spindle, and then with little green ZAP from the tip, his eyes closed and half asleep already he curled up on the podium right next to the spinning wheel. We waited for a moment more just to make sure the guard was truly asleep his snores confirmed it. Mal grinned at her work before turning towards me with an eat your heart out grin. Her eyes still a dim green before disappearing completely.
"Not so dorky now, huh?" she say to us her smirk still present. She grabbed the door confidently, but was meet with resistance. She kept pulling only to realize that the door was locked. I couldn't help, but let a grin of my own come out.
"Stand. Back," I say giving a smirk as I backed away from the door. 'Who needs magic' I thought, looking straight at the door 'when you can just use your body.' Running I leaped for the door ready to kick it open. Had I not been so focused on my target maybe I would have caught Mal's face as she turned towards her spell book.
"Make it easy, make it quick, open up without a kick," Mal recited from the book just as I leapt at the door. I expected to meet with something solid, but I watched as the doors opened before my kick even made contact. 'MAGIC' I thought with a growl as I felt myself land hard on ground. I could hear the snickering behind me. Evie and Mal laughed as they walked by me, Mal nudging my side with her foot her smile still in place. I could feel a snarl coming on as she teased. "You coming?" She says, almost skipping in joy down the hallway.
'FUCK MAGIC' I thought angrily as I felt my lower back sting. I looked at the security guard and than at the doors. On the island the group needed muscle, they needed a thief, but here in Auradon, they had magic. 'Why does they even need me, when they have magic' I thought, looking down at the ground.
I felt someone tug on my arm. I looked up to see Carlos trying to help me up. "Come on, Jay," He says, struggling to pull up my dead weight.
I wanted to snarl at him. 'I'm not that useless that I can't pick myself up.' I thought as I pushed him off of me, stumbling to my feet "I'm good." I said irritated, ignoring the slight pain in my lower body.
"Just trying to help," Carlos mumbles as I walked past him. I knew I shouldn't be mad at Carlos, but so far everyone has been useful except me. 'Mal with her spell book, Evie with her mirror, Carlos with his technology I'm suppose to be the thief and yet I haven't done anything to help.' I thought, sourly following the girls.
Mal pressed her finger to her lips in a "shh" motion as she snuck around the guard, signaling for the others to be just as quiet. Evie and I made it around the guard just fine but as soon as Carlos tried to pass him the guard shifted in his sleep. Carlos let out a gasp and froze, waiting for the guard to sink back to sleep.
"Carlos!" Mal says in a harsh whisper, as she noticed the boy straggling behind, clearly confident in her spell to keep the man asleep.
"Coming!" Carlos replied, carefully tip-toeing around the guard. The minute he cleared the guard he took off in a sprint clearly not wanting to get left behind.
Evie ran ahead going through several corridors, leading us in what I hope was the right way. "So close," Evie says as she turned again. "Upstairs," She says already starting up them.
Apparently we weren't going fast enough because Mal stopped to usher us up the stairs, "Go, go, go," before she followed after us. We made it to the second floor landing, and Evie trying to quietly run, leading us through numerous barely lit hallways. She suddenly stops for a moment, peeking into one of the room. We followed not sure what could have caught Evie's attention so suddenly. Her arms are by her side and her mouth is opened slightly in shock.
It wasn't until I read the plaque on the wall that I understood. The Hall of Villains. We all walked in, staring in aww for a moment. In the hall were four extremely life-like wax figures of our parents. It was them in their younger days, back when they were causing mayhem and mischief. We carefully walked forward towards the statues, my eyes never leaving the statue of my father.
"Mommy?" Evie quietly whispered, looking up at her mother's statue. Eyes wide in amazement.
"Killer," I hear myself say, thinking back to the horrible stories the isle said about my father when he was younger. No one wanted to disappoint Jafar. The torture was always different in the stories but words like sadist, and killer were always present in those stories.
"I'll never forget mother's day again," I hear Carlos say, but the way Carlos was staring at the statue it wasn't out of love, wonder, or appreciation like how the girls were staring at their mothers, it was out of fear. I'm not even sure if he knew that he was shaking. He was staring straight into his mother's eyes like prey caught in a predators gaze. I let my eyes wander to Cruella's statue. Her statue's hand was extended as if she was reaching out to grab something. 'More like someone' I thought, glaring at the women. My father may have been cruel and sadistic, but he was like that with everyone. Cruella though seemed to be especially cruel to Carlos. I could tell that everyone was getting a bit to emotional being in here.
"Well, wand's not here," I say, trying to grab everyone's attention. Shaking my head to try and not look back at my father's statue, placing a faking smirk on my face, "Let's bounce." I waited for a moment, but other than a slight head turn I got nothing. "Let's go." I say with a bit more force as I exited the room. I could hear footsteps behind me, but I didn't look back wanting to up more room between that damn room and us.
"Wait, where's Mal?" I heard Carlos say behind me. I stopped walking looking behind me to see only Carlos and Evie.
"I'll get her," I say with a sigh, really not wanting to go back there.
"No I got it, you guys try to find the wand," Evie says already running back from where we came. 'But you have the mirror' I thought, as she disappears down the hallway.
I sigh again, feeling really tense "Come on," I say to Carlos "The faster we find the wand the faster we can leave." Turning back around I begin to walk not waiting for Carlos reply.
"Shouldn't we wait for them?" Carlos asks, hurrying to stay by my side.
"They'll be fine, they have magic to help them" I say a scowl on my face, as I turn down a random hallway.
I can feel Carlos watching me "What?" I snapped, stopping to stare down at the younger boy.
"Are you….jealous?" Carlos asks, blinking his eyes in confusion.
"What?" I asked, bewildered. "Jealous…of what?"
Carlos shrank a little in his self. "Well now that we are off the island they can use magic and you….well you…."
"Don't have any," I snapped, pushing past the boy to keep walking. 'Where is this stupid wand?'
"Your dad thinks you do? He said when you were younger your eyes turned red, that you absorbed his power." Carlos explains doing his best to keep up with my long strides.
"What's your point?" I growl.
I watched Carlos cringe "Your mad that on the first day off the island Mal and Evie have been able to use magic and you" He was fidgeting with his sleeve. "You haven't."
I sighed pinching the bridge of my nose. "That's not why I'm mad."
"Than why?" Carlos shouts. Had I not been as mad as I was, I probably would have been impressed that Carlos was actually yelling.
"What's going on?" We both turned our head to see Evie standing in front of us.
"Nothing" I say looking behind Evie. "Evie where's Mal?"
"What do you mean she-" Evie looked over her shoulder to find no one there "right behind me." She turns to look back at us "Well she was." She looked at us and then back towards the hallway. "I'll be right back," she says taking some steps back. "But stop yelling at each other." That being said she backtracked the way she came from.
Hoping that the Carlos would just drop the conversations I began to keep walking turning left this time, making sure to map the way to the exit in my head. "Hey we aren't done." Carlos shouted, running behind me.
'Just drop it Carlos' I thought, wondering why he couldn't just drop it. 'It doesn't matter what I'm feeling. All that matters is that we get that wand and get the hell out of here.' I thought, ignoring the ranting boys as I kept walking.
A sign caught my eye and not thinking I ran towards the entrance. "Jay, wait up?" I heard Carlos say. The sign read "Fairy Magic." Not wasting time I rushed into the room, not even pausing when the room seemed to glow an eerie blue glow.
I slowed down when I got in the room. Carlos bumping in behind me "What the hell Jay?" he says walking around me rubbing his nose. He stops when his eyes glued to the center of the room. The room was circular room with other fairy objects surrounding it, but in the middle was a circular ring the blue light in the middle. Walking over to the edge of the railing we could see Fairy Godmother's wand a floor below us. There was a ray of blue light surrounding the wand coming from the ceiling. The wand itself was white and sparkly, but to me looked like a decorated piece of wood, but it was suspended in mid-air. It looked so pretty and just waiting to be stolen.
I could feel myself go into a grin, only to look at Carlos sporting the same expression. "We found it," I say, raising my hand towards Carlos for a high five. He slams his hand into mine.
"Yay we did." Carlos says.
"That's more like it" We both turned to see that Evie had return with Mal in tow. "Its always better when you to are getting along."
I didn't bother making a comment just rolling my eyes at Evie. I looked behind her to look at Mal. Although she seemed focused, there was something off about her. "There it is," Evie says, taking a deep breath after all the running she did. Now everyone was smiling, which hid whatever Mal was trying to hide.
Mal came next to us looking at the wand below. She turned to look at us and says "Come on we got a wand to steal." I nod my head at her giving a loud "Whoop", rushing towards the door to get to the floor below, the gang following close behind.
I walked away from the others trying to get a good look at the blue light that was covering the wand. 'Its to open' I thought as I heard the others come to rest against the railing that would protect the wand from the public. The room was small the only light coming from this beam of light, the wand safely inside of it. 'To easy' I thought, gripping the rail. The other's were looking at the wand with wonder, but something wasn't right. Even on the island where electricity was minimum and magic none people protected their valuables with their lives. 'So why leave something so powerful in the open unprotected?' I thought, ducking underneath the railing making sure to stay out of the light.
"Jay, don't!" Mal cried, a hand out to stop me.
"Relax Mal I'm not that stupid." I say walking around the light, one hand about a inch or so from the blue light trying to figure out if there was something there. Whatever the blue light was it was either electronic or magic, when I got to close I could feel static forming close to my hand, but at the same time it was warm and a constant feeling. "Mal I think this is a force field."
"How do you know?" she asks.
"Call it a thief's intuition." I say, my hand still raised. The blue light was getting warmed underneath my hand, as if it knew that I was here about to take the wand.
Mal scanned her book for a while. "There is nothing in here about breaking a force field." She snaps still skimming the pages.
"So how are we going to get the wand than?" Carlos asks, distraught.
"Mirrior Mirro in my hand," Evie starts "How do we get the wand into Jay's hands?" They all crowded around the mirror.
"Well" I ask, starting to walk around the platform again, hand still raised feeling that static heat following my hand.
"It doesn't say anything." Evie says, "it just shows you sticking your hand in the force field but…." Evie bit her lip.
"But what?" I asked,
"Its your arm Jay, its glowing red." Mal says looking at the mirror to me. "Your using magic."
I snarled "I don't do magic."
Mal narrowed her eyes raising Evie hand that holds the mirror, showing me the image as well. "Well here you are." She snaps. In the mirror my arm was surrounded by a red glow that seemed to resemble a snake, and my arm was slowly making its way past the fore field to the wand. "Just focus," she growls.
"You can do it Jay" Carlos says with a hopeful grin.
'No I can't' I thought, turning towards the wand. "Jay mom says magic is all about focus. Just imagine it. Picture what you just saw on your hand and feel it." Mal tries to explain.
'Feel what?' I thought, clenching my fist. I took a deep breath, trying to do everything I can to focus, I don't a deep breathe trying to calm myself like I do before I do a parkour move.
"Jay look" Carlos shouts.
I look down and a small red glow started to form around my fingers. Mal shoved Carlos. "Don't break his concentration." Taking a deep breath again, I tried to focus again. Trying to plead with whatever magic I have in my to work. I took a deep breath and raised my hand to the force field.
"Wait, no! No, don't!" Mal shouted. The panic in her voice shot my eyes open. That when I saw it the red in my hand was disappearing 'Shit' I thought as my hand made contact with force field. Before I knew it I was sent flying back, my body tipping over the railing and landing on my back…painfully. It wasn't long before sirens started going off. 'I doubt Mal's spell is that good to keep a guard asleep after this.' I thought struggling to get up, my arm still twitching after the force field. I could hear the group groan in pain going to cover their ears.
"A force field and a siren?" Carlos shouted over the loud noise.
Getting up to my elbows facing the group I say, "That's just a little excessive, don't you think" still struggling to get up.
"Let's go!" Mal shouted turning towards the door. Carlos and Evie followed after her, using the rail to help me stand I ran behind them struggling a bit to keep up.
We took a different stairwell going out than when we came in, following the exit signs. We ran as fast as we could to the exit knowing that the signs would take us back to the original room. I highly doubted that the security guard was still there, sleeping with all this noise.
I took a sigh as we made it to the original room, "Come on" Evie says in a hush whisper excited to see the exit in sight. Evie and Mal were out the door as I noticed we were missing Carlos. I held the door open looking behind me. Carlos was answering the phone.
"Hello?" He answered with a certain amount of calm he should not have in a situation like this.
"Uh, um, just give me one second," Carlos told the person on the phone. Which I could only assume it was someone asking about the alarm. I watched as he looked around the desk flipping through some papers before his eyes stayed glued to a clipboard. He began to push some buttons and the alarmed stopped. 'Really should have taken Carlos on more break in, he would have been great at disarming the weak security systems back home.' I thought, as Carlos looked up to the ceiling sighing in relief when the sound stops.
"Uh, yeah, yeah, no, false alarm." Carlos glanced at the clipboard again, fingers skimming the pages. "It was a malfunction in the, uh, LM 714 chip in the breadboard circuit." I watched as he smiled and laughed his voice a bit stressed now. "Yeah, okay, say hi to the misses." Carlos then hung up the phone, happily sighing again and started to walk out the door, with suave.
"Carlos!" Mal called from outside, standing at the bottom of the stairs.
Carlos raised his arms in disbelief, "You're welcome." He says rolling his eye. As I was still holding the door, I patted Carlos on the back to show that he did a good job. Carlos nodded his head at me as he ran out the door. Quickly pulling the door closed as quietly as I could I jump the stairs two at a time to catch up with the other. Ignoring the protest in my knees.
Once we all knew that we had made it out we broke into a full-blown run. Evie and Carlos doing their best to keep up "Way to go, Jay," Mal says turning to me, running right next to me. "Now we have to go to school tomorrow."
"You said all I had to do was reach for it." I snapped back.
"Yah with magic," she answers just as fierce.
"Guys now not the time lets get back to Auradon Prep before anyone catches us." Evie says, starting to get breathless.
Mal and I gave each other another glare. Hers says 'all your fault' mine saying 'bite me.'
It was probably around midnight, when they snuck back to Auradon Prep. We made it on campus before the girls went their way and Carlos and I went out way. Mal still steamed about our…well my failure. 'Stupid magic.' I thought as we snuck into the dorms. Which was a lot easier than I thought, where was the alarms, the security guards, than again after the night we had I was done with all those things. Although it was a bit unnerving, on the island when ever it was this quiet it meant that something bad was gonna happen, like fights or murders. The only good time for silence was at twilight right when the sun is about to rise. It was actually peaceful what with most of the demons going to sleep and only a handful of people coming out in the morning, all of them just trying to survive another day in hell.
We made it to our dorms and I knew just by the look on Carlos' face that he wanted to talk about what happened in the museum. I raised my hand cutting him off before he can start. "Not tonight" I whispered going to my luggage to get something to sleep in. Luckily Carlos understood and went to find his own pajamas.
Carlos' cat was sitting on his bed meowing. Carlos now changed practically jumped on his bed snuggling his pillow. A large smile on his face, which almost matched the one he wore when he first saw this room. We both sat in our own beds for a moment; Carlos was fidgeting all over his bed, while I just stared at the ceiling.
"Will you quit moving?" I snapped, wanting nothing more than to sleep this night off.
"Sorry" he mutters, and I sighed because I knew something was wrong.
"What is it?"
"Nothing"
"Carlos" I ask, my patience running thin.
"Its to soft…" he pauses "its to fluffy. I feel like I'm being sucked in." He pauses again, shifting once more only to still his movements. "But I'll get used to it. I'll try to be quiet."
I sighed before getting out of bed, throwing all of the covers, sheets, and pillows onto the ground. "What are you doing?" Carlos asks, as I organized everything.
"We will work our way up to the beds." I say going to Carlos bed and taking the covers and sheets from underneath him. His cat was able to land on his feet, but Carlos falls ungracefully on the floor.
"Hey" he shouts, as I grab the pillows and throwing them next to the other blankets. With all the sheets and covers it made a pretty nice makeshift bed and than I add the pillows and it was better than anything we had every slept on.
Carlos didn't waste anytime getting onto the makeshift bed, his cat following after him. I tried to look around the room for anything else we could use as bedding. For a moment I thought Carlos was asleep, when suddenly I heard little tick noises. I stopped for a moment, tensing.
"What-" I placed my finger to my lips telling Carlos I needed him quite. The tick noises started again. 'Is someone trying to pick our lock?' I thought angrily, rushing towards the door. Swinging it open I see Mal and Evie. Mal was on her knees hairpins in her hands, while Evie was standing behind her carrying two pillows and blankets.
I could only raise an eyebrow at the two, Mal rising to her feet as she pursed her lips. "We couldn't sleep" Evie says, taking a step her eyes big and wide. 'Not her puppy dog stare' I thought, to tired to try and resist Evie's sad face. I looked at Mal who only crossed her arm.
"Evie couldn't sleep" she says, she looked at me, and I knew the truth. Not wanting them to get caught I opened the door wider letting the two girls walk inside. They noticed Carlos on the floor who was now sitting up wondering who was at the door.
"Bed to soft" Evie asks, sitting down next to Carlos. Carlos could only nod, looking a bit embarrassed. Evie didn't even think about it she started to add her covers and pillows to the pile. Before we knew it Evie and Carlos were lying down on the makeshift bed while Mal made a beeline for my bed.
I could only roll my eyes at her, put I took one of the sheet from the makeshift bed having to pull extra hard with two people on it. Not saying a word I threw the sheet to Mal, knowing she wasn't going to say thank you. She grabbed the sheet and took over my bed. Sighing I walked over to the makeshift bed and with Carlos in the middle, Evie on his left, I laid down on the other side of Carlos.
I could only sigh as time went on. Carlos and Evie were both asleep, Carlos' cat trying to sleep between the two. I could hear Mal shifting on the bed before she gave a huff.
"Something wrong?" I asked, feeling déjà vu. Mal said nothing, sitting up I saw that Mal was sitting against the headboard staring into her lap fidgeting with her fingers. I sighed before standing up and walking over to my bed. 'Why can't this night just end' I thought, sitting on the bed.
