Here is the new chapter of Life Will Get Better. I hope you all enjoy this. I really enjoyed writing this chapter, mainly the ending, you'll all see why. As usual I own nothing except the mentioned characters, Chuck and Everett. The OC Amy is Pinksakura271s. Everything else is Disneys.

Chapter 6

Mal took one last deep breath before knocking on the large double doors. Instead of the usual cheerful Lumiere answering the door, the doors opened to reveal a rather impaciant and angry looking pinkette.

Mal smiled at the sight of her sister but couldn't even say a word before Amy crossed her arms and sighed. "Finally Leader Girl." Amy waved her hand to have Mal follow her. "Everyone is in the living room chatting, I'm sorry I seem angry, Sis, it's not at you. There are some brainless guards at Benny-Beast's office who won't let me in. Me? I am the last person they should be suspicious of." Amy ranted. She let out a small huff in frustration.

Mal chuckled at this. "I'm glad you kept your magical cool. Just take Jay with you. They can never say no to one of his orders."

The girls arrive to the living room and Mal makes her presence known. "Carlos, when's the wedding?" She asked.

Carlos quickly rose from his chair. "Will you two stop asking me that?" He looked at from one twin to the other with the identical smirks on their faces.

"Sorry Red Tech, it's too much fun." Amy laughed.

Jane grabbed Carlos's hand. "Don't waste your breath, sweetie, they'll never stop." Jay laughed as well.

"Don't you have to make rounds of the castle or something?" Carlos garbled.

Amy cut them off though. "I'll say Soldier, some of your guys won't let me in to see Benny-Beast. Do they not know who I am?"

Jay smiled and rose from the couch. "Sorry Cherry Blossom, yes, they know who you and the rest of the gang are. The wife is with him right now, trying to get him to come out. That's why they probably don't want anyone else in there." He went over to the pink haired woman and hugged her, lifting her off of her feet, making her giggle.

Mal looked around the room and spots Evie strutting over to her with a smirk on her face. "Glad you got here, M. Before you ask, Doug whould have been here, he really wanted to come, but he is burried in grading papers. It's astonishing how those kids can keep him on his toes."

"No problem, I completely understand that, maybe you should talk to Jane about Doug getting some time off." Mal suggested. Evie blushed.

Everyone talked a bit more before Lumiere announced dinner. Everyone took their seats at the table. Lonnie walked in with Ben. The kings eyes were dark, he looked awful. "You, my friend, need to eat and stop working for a good two hours." Lonnie said. Ben sighed and sat down, but he brightened up a bit when he saw Mal. Mal was talking with Belle and Beast about Everett, but her eyes darted over to Ben. For a moment they made eye contact, it didn't last long.

The group talked about any topic that came to mind. Old memories, their jobs, their lives. It was a surprisingly good dinner, Mal and Ben didn't talk to each other directly, but their glances towards one another spoke more any anyone in the room.

Afterwards, everyone was on getting ready to leave Beast's Castle, except for Jane and Carlos, they had left early. Mal summond up the courage to walk up to Ben.

"Hi," Mal greeted.

"Hi," Ben said. This conversation screamed awkward.

"It's been a long time since I've got to really see you and talk to you, aside from a quick greeting at a royal event." Mal told him.

"Yeah, I've missed seeing you." Ben replied. Ben felt every emotion he has felt about Mal over the past ten years build up and want to escape.

"I-I've missed you too, I had a nice time this evening, I hope to see you soon." Mal sort of rambled. She felt kind of stupid for hesitating she was known for no hesitation.

"Yeah, see you soon." Ben agreed. The two shared a small hug before parting ways. Off across the room, Amy, Evie, and Lonnie stood together, watching Ben and Mal. They all shared a big smile. It wasn't much, but it was a start.

The girls went to Mal's house after the dinner, Mal got some drinks out as the others sat in the living room, silently looking around the room.

"Here we go." Mal said, handing all the women a juice box. "Sorry, I really don't have anything better."

"It's okay, Leader Girl, better than those disgusting alcoholic drinks." Amy replied, taking a sip of the juice.

"Amy's right M, but next time you go grocery shopping I'm coming with you." Evie said. All of them laughed knowing Evie wasn't joking.

"You have to keep in mind E, that I have a small child with me half the time." Mal reminded.

The four had talked awhile about this and that from the eight years they didn't see Mal much. "What was your life like during your marriage Mal?" Evie asked. Mal sighed, she knew this would eventually come up, but she didn't expect it this early. Mal got up and went over to the high shelf to grab a thick photo album.

"I actually kept good record on everything in photos." Mal said. Mal sat back down and the others crowded around her.

There were many photos that filled the book. Ones of Chuck and Mal's wedding. Ones of Everett when he was a baby and as he was growing up. The girls stared at the photos, commenting on most of them. Evie complained about the outfits Mal had on.

"Awww, they loved Everett too." Lonnie pointed to the photo of one of the butlers giving Everett a horse back ride. As they flipped through the pages Amys sweet smile became a forced one. She slightly glared at all the photos that contained Chuck, tempted to use her fire magic to burn them.

After awhile of looking at pictures of a toddler Everett, Mal suddenly shut the book, although there was quite a bit more pages.

"Why'd you stop there?" Lonnie asked.

Mal took a deep breath. "I don't like looking at those photos much."

"What's wrong with them? They can't be that bad." Lonnie said.

"No, they're not bad, it's just after what had happened, that's when Chuck and I, well that's when our marriage started to crumble." Mal explained. "I really miss him." Mal wiped away some tears from her eyes.

"What? Charles?" Amy questioned, now more angry at seeing her twin tear up.

"No," Mal replied with a small laugh. She opened the book to where they had left off. In big letters read the name Aaron Henry. Pictures covered the pages of a baby boy who was presumably Aaron.

"I didn't see you all after Everett was born, so none of you ever met Aaron. He was the sweetest little boy, I named him after you, Amy. We used to call him Shadow, because he would always follow us around, especially Everett." Mal told them. Mal flipped through the pages.

"He got sick and died two years ago, he was two years old. It was hard on all of us, we shied away from people for awhile after his death, Chuck and I started fighting more, and it's ended us up where we are right now." Mal let a few more tears fall from her eyes.

Amy hugged her sister tightly. "Oh Leader Girl, that's aweful. I'm honored that you named Aaron after me though." Evie gently took the photo album from Mals hads, placing it on the coffee table, she held her best friends hands as comfort. Lonnie sat on the floor putting her hands on the grieving mothers knees, tears threating to leave her own eyes.

"Don't shut us out again, Mal. Chuck is a bigger royal pain than I thought, especially after that." Evie told her. Amy nodded her head in agreement, resting it on Mal's right shoulder.

Lonnie's brown eys look up into Mal's emerald green ones, a determind look covering her face. "Mal, because of fate you lost Aaron. I swear to you, that we will not let you lose Everett. This custody battle, you will win!" As the four sit together they discuss hopfully happier days to come.