A/N THIS WAS An ONE SHOT SUGGESTED BY LIANA, PROMPTS ARE WELCOME

PART ONE OF THREE

Around a week after Ben's coronation, Millions and Millions of people in his kingdom had seen the video footage from it. Nearly all the kingdom thanked and accepted the VK's, however, there were a few who still don't agree with the King. One morning, an invitation was brought to Castle Beast from the House of Beauty. Princess Aurora, Prince Phillip, and Audrey had invited the King and his friends as well as the VK's to stay at the Castle for a few days while the Prince and Ben attended to a few things. Lumiere had rushed the invite over to King Ben in his office.

To His Highness, HRH's close friends and fellow VK's,

We at the House of Beauty are inviting you for a three-day visit. We would like to personally thank you after the events of the Coronation with a Three-day spa visit with a spectacular Ball. We understand that these past few weeks have been stressful. Please don't feel pressured to come.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

House of Beauty

The occupants were right about these last few weeks, Ben had been dealing with vast amounts of paperwork and council meetings. The VK's had been stressed out of their minds for their final Remedial Goodness exam and the other Auradonians had been extremely busy with their language Exams. Ben decided that this 3-day spa visit at the House of Beauty was exactly what everyone needed. Ben thanked Lumiere and placed all his paperwork back into their correct folders before running out of the door to inform his parents.

After getting the all clear from his parents and them telling Ben that they would inform Fairy Godmother, Ben took the royal limo to Auradon Prep to invite everyone else. He knew that everyone was on lunch now so he decided that now would be the best time to ask everyone. Ben was right, everyone was sat at their group lunch table. Ben went to go and grab a slice of pizza before he was flagged down by Jay and Carlos. Ben sat down next to Mal, who kissed his cheek in return, "So guys, how would you all like to have the next three days off school?" Ben asked, knowing that he would get a positive response. Jay, Carlos, Evie, Lonnie, and Doug yelled "Hell Yes!" while Jane was nodding her head shyly in response, Mal couldn't stop the huge grin from escaping from her face "What for Baby?" Mal asked as she took a bite out of her strawberry. "Well, I received an invite this morning from the House of Beauty asking if we would like to attend one of their three-day spa days with a Ball. I've gone to a few before and let me tell you that they are amazing!" Ben replied. Everyone was nodding their head in agreement, Even Mal, who wasn't exactly on the best terms with Prince Phillip. Mal and Audrey had been getting on quite well since the coronation and found that they had a lot in common despite coming from two different worlds.

"Great, Fairy Godmother has approved that we can have the rest of the day off to pack before we leave tonight. I have to go now, Pat is waiting but Meet Me by the Beast statue around 9 pm and then we can rock and roll" Ben finished. He put his pizza crust in the bin and kissed Mal on her cheek before getting back to Pat. Everyone turned back to the table and started staring at each other in shock, their eyes all telling the same story ' I have less than 8 hours to pack and I have nothing to wear' once they all shared that look, they bolted out of the canteen and back to their dorms to pack.

Once Mal and Evie were in their dorm, Clothes went flying. Evie was trying to recycle old dresses to make them look better and more presentable. While she was doing that, Mal unpacked the whole bathroom, she took all the makeup and medicine out of the cupboards as well as a few shampoos and soaps. She couldn't be too careful. Everything went flying into the one large suitcase that they shared. Evie now had the task of unplugging and untangling her hair straighteners, her curling tongs and Her and Mal's phone chargers. Mal had the other task of untangling several pairs of Earphones that were all the same color, as you can imagine, it was a pain. They both finished untangling everything and began to pack other necessities.

Carlos and Jay's packing was a little different. Carlos went over to his side of the room and pulled out all his drawers from the wardrobe and poured the contents into the large suitcase, as did Jay. No folding of the clothes, no planning of what they would wear, they just took everything. Then Jay raided the bathroom while Carlos raided his sweet stash to get some snacks for the trip.

Lonnie and Jane did a little better on their packing, although they did the same technique as the boys, everything was folded neatly and everything had a place. They packed some Curling tongs, perfume, and make-up as well as laptops and phone chargers.

Doug and Ben had a different idea. They only took two sets of clothes. On day one they planned to wear whichever clothes they chose to travel in, one clean set of clothes for the second day and tuxedos for the third day for the ball. They also packed some cologne and breath mints ready for the ball.

Once 9 pm struck the clocks, everyone was standing by the Beast statue while waiting for Pat the Driver to load their luggage. Once Pat had finished, everyone crammed into the Limo, they started talking about random topics while stuffing their faces with sweets and chocolates. The ride to the House of Beauty was around an eight-hour journey. The Eight of them planned to sleep through the car journey and that's exactly what they did. Mal rested her head on Ben's shoulder and he rested his head on her head. Evie laid her head on Mal's thighs as Carlos did on Evie's. Lonnie rested her head on the Limo door, Jay put his head on Lonnie's shoulder, Jane put her head on Jay's arm and Doug put his head on the other Limo Door.

After a bumpy ride and several hours of awkward sleeping angles. They finally awoke to the sunrise peeping through the windows. Several groans of discomfort came from the occupants of the Limo. Pat, rolled down the black separation window and called out to Ben. "Your Highness, we will be arriving at the House of Beauty in Five minutes. First I believe you have a breakfast meeting with the House of Beauty." Ben thanked Pat as he rolled back up the window.

Everyone in the Limo spent the next five minutes making themselves look more presentable to enter the House of Beauty. Pat pulled up to the round driveway in front of Aurora's Castle. Everyone slowly exited the Limo and the last couple to exit the Limo were Mal and King Ben. Aurora, Phillip, and Audrey greeted everyone while the paparazzi took pictures of the couples. "Welcome to the House of Beauty, We, here at the Castle hope that you have a wonderful stay. Your Highness, I believe that we have some last-minute paperwork to catch up on, it should only take a day or so." Aurora greeted everyone in front of the paparazzi. Pat unloaded everyone's luggage and handed it to the servants at the Castle. Audrey escorted her guests to the East wing of the castle to their rooms. Carlos and Doug shared a room while Jay, as requested by himself, shared a room with Ben. Lonnie and Jane shared one room and Evie and Mal shared another.

Now everyone was headed down to breakfast with Prince Phillip, Audrey, Queen Leah and Aurora. Once the eight teens saw the breakfast buffet that was laid out, their eyes couldn't go wide enough. On the table, there were exotic fruits cut into stars, waffles with syrup, croissants, sausages, bacon, eggs and scrambled eggs with three huge jugs full with freshly squeezed orange juice. Queen Leah sat at one of the head seats at the table while Prince Phillip sat on the other head seat. Next to the left side of Prince Phillip sat Mal then Evie then Aurora then Jane then Lonnie. On the left side of Queen Leah was Ben, Jay, Audrey, Carlos, and Doug then back to Prince Phillip. The servants handed everyone a silver plate and everyone at the table began to pile their plates high. Everything was going great; the conversation was flowing nicely and everyone seemed to have a smile on their faces only something felt off. Mal was the first and only one to notice that something wasn't right and her thoughts were confirmed when Prince Phillip nudged Mal's shoulder and while no one was looking, he slid a small beige piece of paper underneath Mal's plate. Mal watched as he did this and she was utterly confused. Slowly she rose her hand above the table and took the small piece of paper from under her plate and moved it under the table. Carefully she unfolded the paper to reveal a note which read Ben will never want to marry someone as useless as you! Mal was shocked, to say the least, why would someone who invited you into their home, threaten you? Mal struck her gaze up to Prince Phillip, who was giving her a mischievous smile, he simply mouthed the words WATCH YOUR BACK. Mal felt tears prick her eyes but refused to let them fall, she wasn't going to show him that he had won already. After everyone had finished their huge breakfast, Aurora handed out schedules of the next 3 day's events and when certain spa treatments would be available. Mal rose from the table as everyone was exiting the dining room, Mal threw away the note, hoping that the note would be the only disturbance on this retreat.

Mal met up with Ben outside of his room, the two lovers shared a kiss of passion but had to separate due to a small thing called oxygen. "I'm sorry I can't see you much today, I have to finish this paperwork with Queen Leah and Aurora but by tomorrow we should have a whole two days to ourselves." Ben apologized. Mal painted a fake smile on her face while Prince Phillip's words ran through her head. "It's okay Ben, I'll be grateful for whatever time we have over these next three days. The kingdom and its people come first, I understand that" Mal replied, his threats still running through her head. "Thank you, Baby" Ben kissed her forehead and headed into his room to grabs folders full of papers.

Mal waved Ben off as he walked down the corridor, she then walked back to her room, where she was greeted by Evie digging through their suitcase. "Hey E, what are you doing?" Mal asked. "Well Mal, I am looking for my swimsuit, us girls thought we could go down to the heated indoor pool. I laid a swimsuit out on your bed for you in-case you wanted to join us" Evie gestured to Mal's bed. Things couldn't get any worse, right? Mal picked up the swimsuit from her bed and made her way into the bathroom to change. The swimsuit was a two piece, the swimsuit was made from a stretchy purple material with a small green tint to it. Mal grabbed a couple of towels for herself and Evie before exiting the bathroom. Evie stood still from shock, she was quite pleased to see how well the swimsuit had turned out. "Ready?" Mal asked. Evie gave her a quick nod and they both exited their room and headed to the indoor pool to meet the girls.

Two servants pulled the heavy double doors open to reveal a large indoor heated pool with a pink tint to the water. Lonnie, Jane, and Audrey were already in the water and when they saw that Evie and Mal had arrived, they flagged the girls down and made hand motions for the girls to come and join them in the water. The water was warmer than Mal expected, although Mal couldn't swim properly yet, she still knew some strokes and could swim for a very short period. All the girls sat in the pool by the water jets and talked about different topics ranging from School to Boys to recent Dates to very personal topics. While talking, all the girls were munching on chocolate covered strawberries and other chocolate covered fruits.

After hours of talking, eating and swimming, the girls finally left the pool looking like prunes. Mal and Evie headed back to their room at the castle. They both decided to change into something that covered their body more and then take a tour of the castle with Audrey before lunch. Evie changed into a knee-length blue dress with short lace sleeves with White heels. Mal changed into an off the shoulder, low purple party skater cocktail dress with black heels.

Once they changed, Mal and Evie headed down to the front of the Castle to meet Audrey ready for a tour. "Okay, Now, we are all here, let's begin" Audrey started the tour. They passed a few offices, expensive bathrooms, sparkling kitchens, lounge rooms, game rooms, huge libraries but none could compare to Belle's. Once Audrey had shown off most of the Castle, it was time for lunch. Everyone met back up for lunch and they all sat in their same positions as before. Everything was going great unless you count all the death stares that Phillip was giving Mal. Once again Phillip slipped a note underneath Mal's plate. As the same as before, Mal took the paper under the table and read it everyone that you have ever met pities you, who would actually like you? Mal was getting fed up of these snide comments. She excused herself from the table and threw the paper in the bin. She walked up the grand staircase and headed back to her room. Once she arrived she laid her head down on her pillow. Deciding that she wanted to take a quick nap and hope that this was all a dream, she cried herself to sleep. Prince Phillip's words were getting to her and she had no one to turn to.

PART ONE OF THREE