*Ben's POV*


I moved in bed as I stretched in my sleep and I let my brow burrow in confusion as I didn't feel Mal lying in bed next to me. I quickly opened my eyes when I looked over to the right hand side of the bed I froze when I saw that I was right - I was currently lying in bed alone!

"Mal?" I called out; hoping that she was just in the bathroom. "MAL!" I shouted out louder; and I started to panic at the fact that she wasn't answering me.

So with this thought in mind I quickly kicked the covers back and jumped out of bed; and I pulled a face of confusion at the fact that I was fully clothed in my dark blue with little gold crowns sleep clothes. I could have sworn that when I fell asleep I was naked!

"Mal!" I repeated as I quickly ran into my en-suite to see that she wasn't there. "Mal!" I continued as I walked up to my bedroom door and I quickly unlocked it and walked through it. "Mal!" I shouted louder as I started to run down the corridor, but every time I ran past a room I kept stopping to check to see if Mal was in the room. I started to feel a burning in the pit of my stomach at the fact that Mal was nowhere to be seen. Where on Auradon was she? Had something happened to her? Please Lucifer say nothing has happened to her! "Mal!" I cried out as tears started to form in my eyes.

"Ben!" I heard a voice say, and when I turned around I saw both of my parents walking towards me in their night clothes, both looking very confused at the fact that I was running along the corridors in the middle of the night.

"Ben what are you doing?" my father asked as they both stood in front of me.

"I need to find Mal" I urged; why did they not seem concerned at the fact that Mal was nowhere to be seen! Surely they knew that this was a concern that she had quickly just disappeared as if into thin air.

"Mal?" my mother repeated. "Oh Ben" she sighed sadly. "Come on" she added as she wrapped her right arm around my shoulders. "Let's get you back to bed" she finished in a bid to reassure me. Go back to bed? No! I needed to find Mal! I wanted Mal!

"No!" I urged as I stepped out of her arm. "I need Mal" I insisted.

"Ben honey" my mother stated as she wrapped her right arm back around me. "Mal broke up with you" she added sympathetically.

"What?" I questioned in confusion. Mal didn't break up with me! She loved me! She wanted to be with me! Why was my mother stating such lies? I thought she liked Mal, she seemed to get on with her so well. She even told me that she liked her. "No!" I exclaimed.

"Yes" my father answered.

"When?" I fired back at them. This couldn't be true! I didn't want it to be true! I couldn't lose Mal, she was my world. My everything, losing her was never ever going to be an option.

"Last week" my mother answered in concern at my current actions. "Remember?" she enquired.

"No!" I exclaimed. "That's not true!" I stated as I stepped out of her arm once more and began to step away from them. This wasn't true! Mal loved me! She would never break up with me! I had to find her, I was going to! And then my parents would see that everything was ok; however before I could do anything else everything went fuzzy and as I stumbled back darkness descended on top of me.