After the doll incident Mal had stayed for another hour before finally transporting herself back home. She magically unlocked her door after appearing in her kitchen, knowing it wouldn't be long before Ella got here. It was hard to believe she had only met Ella four years ago. It had like she had always been in the purplette's life and while she wasn't as close with the twenty year old blonde as she was with her friends back in Auradon, the blonde had been there for her when she had no one. For that she was incredibly thankful.
Gathering the ingredients she needed Mal washed her hands before setting to work making the chocolate cupcake mix first. She had offered to bake some sweet treats for the kids party tomorrow, but had to wait for Belle to go to Holly's house or her daughter would have eaten everything she baked. She couldn't help but think back to the first time she had made these, when she had attempted to remove the love spell from Ben only to find out it had already been removed and Ben had known about it.
Mal never used to cry, but since having Belle her emotions sometimes got the better of her. Like now for example. As soon as she started thinking about Ben tears gathered in her eyes. The purplette managed to blink her tears away before any actually fell. She hated crying and Ella was a lot like Evie she could tell when Mal had been upset and/or crying.
Turning the kitchen radio on she immediately recognized the song playing. Her hips started swaying of their own accord as the familiar chords of Demi Lovato's Heart By Heart filtered through the speakers. Placing the cupcake mix in the tray and slipping them into the over, Mal turned up the stereo and headed into the family room not hearing her phone chime as she received a text message.
Feeling nostalgic she took the photo album and baby book from the bookshelf in the family room. Once she had the two books she sat on the couch, her legs curled up beneath her. Since the photo album was on the top she decided to look through that first. A sad smile spread across her face as she gazed at the first photo. It took up the full page and was a photo of her, Ben, Evie, Jay, Carlos, Jane, Audrey, Lonnie and Freddie. She could remember this being taken after the Jewel-bilee by Fairy Godmother. Everyone except her and Ben were looking at the camera. Her and Ben were looking at each other and she could see the love ther shared reflected in their eyes.
Turning the page she was face to face with a picture she had put in her bedroom. The first ever picture taken of her and Evie, at Ben's coronation after party. Ben had taken it after learning thay had never had their photo's taken on the Isle and Mal could see how happy she looked. If only she knew then that everything would be blown to pieces a year and a half later. Although her eyes soon moved away from the face of her best friend and to the person in the background. It was him. She shivered at the sight of him again, she really needed to remember to cut him out of this photo so she didn't have to see his face anymore.
Mal was startled from her thoughts by a loud knocking at her front door. A little confused Mal closed the photo album, placing it on the table before getting up. She quickly put the baby book on the book shelf, not wanting it to get damaged, and headed towards the front door. Usually Ella just walked in so the purplette didn't understand why she would suddenly start knocking now.
Using her magic to sense for any danger on the other side of the door, and not finding any, she opened the door. Assuming it to be Ella in the other side o the door Mal turned as she opened it. "Honestly Ella, you know you can just walk in." She told the person.
"Mal!?" A shocked voice exclaimed and Mal turned as fast as she possibly could at the familiar voice she had heard, a shocked and confused expression taking over her face as she looked at the unexpected visitor.
Author's Note: So I know this isn't very long, I think it's the shortest chapter I've ever written, and you probably hate me for the cliffhanger but it was the best place I could find to leave it. So who do you think is at the door? And should I include Bree in this story? Hope you like this chapter. Please review and let me know what you think x