Mal was as usual swarmed by reporters, people told her she'd get use to it and it's just a normal thing about dating the king. But after six months she still hasn't gotten used to it and it didn't feel normal. She began to daydream of her and her friends in Auradon but they're back to their evil ways, there causing mayhem and feeding the AKs apples that make them evil. A part of Mal wishes this was happening in real life. She snapped out of her daydream when a reporter asked her about her mother being a lizard, she didn't answer, she was to overwhelmed. Ben noticed Mal from a distance and went over to help his girlfriend. Ben stood next to Mal and tried to shoo the reporters off, but they just started asking him questions. Fairy Godmother walked in front of the royal couple and escorted the reporters away.

"Don't pay any attention to them" Ben said with kingly charm

"Well, that's a lot easier said than done, right?" Mal chuckled happy the reporters were gone

"You know, maybe we should do something. We should go somewhere. Get away" Ben suggested, then he put his hand over his mouth, and looked surprised.

"I have a council meeting, I'm so late" He said.

Mal was about to tell him it's fine but she stopped when she felt some one grab her wrist. She turned around and saw her blue haired best friend Evie.

"If we don't do a fitting for your gown right this minute, you'll be dancing in your bathrobe, okay?" She said before saying hello to Ben and dragging Mal away to her dorm.

Mal stood in her and Evie's room watching television while Evie was fitting her gown for cotillion. Evie tightened the gown much to Mal's discomfort.

"Okay E, I can't breath in this thing" She said.

"Well you can breath after cotillion" Evie said to focused on her work to look up.

"Well, I sincerely doubt that. I have at least 20 more events directly behind it, and I can't even remember what a single one of them is" Mal sighed exhausted. Evie took a step back to admire her work, Mal looked beautiful. Mal decided to ask her friend the burning question that was lingering in her mind. She took a deep breath and asked

"Do you ever think about what we'd be doing if we were back on the Isle right now?"

Evie giggled. Then she noticed Mal was on television.

"Ah. Look who's on TV" she said as she pulled Mal in front of the it.

The news was doing a piece on Mal, it talked about all the royals she'd met, all the events she's been to and how everyone didn't think Mal and Ben would last, which hurt Mal. It then mentioned the royal cotillion, that reminded Mal of a speech she needed to quickly learn. She sat on her bed and took out her spell book from her dressing table. She flicked through the pages until she found the fast reading spell.

"Read it fast at lightning speed. Remember everything I need" She said quietly to herself.

She then picked up a book to see if it worked, it did. She flipped through the book fully understanding what was written in it. Evie noticed her and was disappointed.

"I know Mal's secret to fitting in, and Ben wouldn't like it one bit. Haven't you guys had enough secrets between the two of you already?" She asked.

"Evie, you remember what I was like before I started using my spell book. I mean, I was a complete disaster" Mal responded

"Well, personally, as your best friend, I strongly believe that this spell book belongs in the museum, along with my mirror" Evie said as she took the spell book away from Mal. She pouted and gave Evie puppy dog eyes so she'd give it back. It didn't work.

"Hugh get's to keep his arm" Mal argued. Evie just looked at her formally purple haired friend surprised at the argument she just said.

"That's because he needs it, without it he'd have one arm. Plus, he took all the weapons out of it" Evie said.

Mal decided to ask the burning question again to get a better answer.

"You don't ever miss running wild and just breaking all the rules?"

"Lying, stealing and fighting?" Evie asked as a joke.

"Yeah" Mal smiled hoping Evie thought the same.

"No" Evie chuckled.

Evie's answer made Mal sulk. Evie lifted her off the bed and walked her towards the window, Mal knew a speech was coming.

"M, why would we? Look at where we are. We're in Auradon! And we're Auradon girls now. this is the land of opportunity. We can be whatever we want to be here. So, please, let's just leave the past in the past, okay?" Evie said with wonder and care in her voice. Mal wasn't listening, she couldn't stop thinking about the Isle.

The next morning, the five VKs walked outside on campus in their new cheery moods, except for Mal. All the girl Jay passed said hello to him, he was giving them all flirty hellos back.

"Why do you torture them? Just pick someone to take to Cotillion already" Carlos said, wondering why he was always so flirty.

"I'm going solo. That way, I can dance with all of them" Jay said with a cocky smile.

"Oh yeah, Jay the lady's man, the biggest flirt from the Isle" Hugh joked. All the VKs but Mal laughed.

"Um, Jay... if you were gonna ask someone, what's the best way to go?" Carlos asked nervously. Jay put his hand on Carlos shoulder and looked at him with a smirk.

"Listen, all you got to do... is look like me" Jay said before laughing at his own joke.

"Hugh, you got any better advice?" Carlos asked his pirate friend.

"If I'm being honest, I don't really know why me and Melody work so well. Have you tried saving her from a shark?" Hugh casually joked. Carlos just groaned.

Then the girl he was so worried about walked up to him. Carlos' nervousness showed blatantly on his face.

"Hi" He said

"Hey" Jane greeted back.

Carlos tried to man himself up and ask Jane to cotillion.

"I was wondering, if you" He paused, he was to worried to ask. He started talking so he tried to come up with something to say.

"The carrot cake last night?" He added.

"I had the pumkin pie" Jane said casually.

"Oh cool, yeah, that's great, yeah" Carlos rambled on

"We need to save him" Hugh whispered to Jay. Jay walked behind Carlos grabbed his shoulders and guided him away from Jane

"Smooth" He whispered.

The three boys walked away, just when Lonnie and Melody walked up to Evie and Mal. Jay noticed Hugh's girlfriend and wondered why he's not turning around to talk to her.

"Hugh why are you walking away from Melody?" he asked.

"Because, two days ago she was telling me about her family and her hobbies from when she was younger. Then she asked me about my family and my childhood and the arm, I can't answer those questions I'll scare her away" Hugh explained he sounded as worried as Carlos.

"Hugh it'll be fine, we all have bad pasts" Carlos told him

"Yeah. But I'm the only one with a brother" Hugh said then he clenched his metallic fist in anger when he thought about his family.

On the Isle of the lost, Hugh's older brother, Harry Hook was walking to Ursula's fish and chip shop, his local hangout. He was knocking things out of people's hands and shooting them intimidating looks. Before he swung open the doors to the chip shop, he noticed a woman fishing, he hung the strings the fish were attached to on his hook and walked into the shop. He took of his scabbard and put it in the sword rack. As he walked to the table all his crew members were sitting he shoved the fish he stole into one of the waitress', she took it so she could but it in the gruel. Harry pushed a member of the crew out of his way and walked across the table to the other side to sit with his friend Gil, the brawny son of Gaston. Then the captain of the crew came out of the kitchen holding a tray of food. Uma the Daughter of Ursula tossed the tray onto the table. All the hungry pirates instantly grabbed any food they could. Uma picked up a piece of food and threw it at the television. It was showing Mal and she hated it. She realized that no one else threw something at the television.

"Hello" she said, referring to what she just did.

All the pirates did as there captain ordered and threw food at the television. Harry walked up close to the screen when a picture of Mal's four friends from the Isle popped up, Evie, Jay, Carlos and Hugh. Harry restrained himself from slashing the screen with his hook when he looked at his little brother.

"I would love to wipe the smiles off their faces. Know what I mean?" He said as he returned to the table.

"Gil! You want to quit choking down yolks and get with the program?" Uma asked her blonde friend who was the only one who didn't throw something.

Gil quickly swallowed the piece of boiled egg in his mouth "Yeah, what they said" he said with pieces of egg still in his mouth.

"That little traitor, who left us in the dirt" Uma said loudly to her crew to rile them up.

"Who turned her back on evil" Harry said backing up Uma's statement on Mal, but he was really talking about Hugh.

"Who said you weren't big or bad enough to be in her gang" Gil added trying to talk ill of Mal. Everyone just stared at the blonde, he felt confused.

"Back when we were kids. Come on, you guys remember. She called her Shrimpy, and the name just kind of... stuck" He said getting more scared as Uma continued to look him dead in the eyes intermittingly.

"Harry, I know you agree with me, you want to get rid of your brother just like I do Mal" Uma said will sliding her finger across her throat.

"I kinda miss Hugh" Gil said, he didn't realize he said that out loud at first, he only realized it when Harry pressed his hook against his neck.

"Don't say his name" he said. Gil just nodded. Uma was still thinking about Mal.

"That snooty little witch, who grabbed everything she wanted and left me nothing"

"No, she left you that sandbox, and then she said that you could have the shrimp—" Gil said before Uma cut him off by slamming her hands on the table.

"I need you to stop talking" she said to Gil.

"Look, we have her turf now. They can stay in Bore-adon" Harry told his captain.

"Harry, that's her turf now! And I want it, too. We should not be getting her leftovers. Son of Hook, son of Gaston, and me, most of all, daughter of Ursula! What's my name?" Uma said holding her two friends.

"What's my name?" She asked the hook wearing pirate. Harry got down on one knee and took of his hat.

"Uma" he said softly. Then Uma looked at her muscular blonde.

"What's my name?"

"Uma" He said,

"What's my name, what's my name?" The young sea witch sung. All the pirates shouted their captains' names. They danced aggressively around the shop singing praise of Uma. They stopped when Ursula, screamed at them to be quiet.

"It's fine. It's fine. 'Cause when I get my chance to rain down the evil on Auradon, I will take it! They're gonna forget that girl and remember the name—" Uma said proudly before Gil interrupted.

"Shrimpy" He screamed, when he realized he was the only one who said that, he got very nervous. Uma looked at Harry and gestured to Gil. Harry smiled at him, then kicked him out of the chip shop. When Gil tried to walk back in Harry threatened him with his hook. Gil could take on Harry in a fist fight, he was even stronger than his father. But he didn't like fighting his friends so he sat outside the shop and waited to be let back in.