Happy New Year everyone! I just finished writing this next chapter! I have one more chapter planned!

School starts up again next week so this might be the last you'll hear from me for a little while.

Disclaimer: I don't own the song. I don't own the characters (besides Scarlett and a new character who appears in this chapter).

Chapter 2: I'll Say it Again 'Cause I Been Where You Been

It was a few days later when Evie saw the two together near the picnic tables, her arm around his waist with his backpack on her shoulder. She barely caught their conversation, as she and Doug were doing homework together a few tables away, but she caught on the blond prince's words of "thanks babe" before winking at the girl and leaving with his friends. Scarlett was left a little starstuck and lovesick that she didn't register another boy was looking at her in what could only be described as adoration. Now that looks awfully familiar, Evie thought bitterly.

She mumbled angrily to herself while she took out another sheet of paper from her notebook. She barely registered Doug saying something about frown lines but she didn't care. She saw something that she wished she didn't see so she prepared herself for another letter to warn Scarlett. She took out a ballpoint pen, because her fountain pen was in her dorm room and she was too frustrated and stressed to make the hike toward the dorms that she settled on a ballpoint pen, and began writing. Doug rolled his eyes before returning to his homework, letting his girlfriend get her thoughts out on paper.

Dear Scarlett,

It's me, Evie, again. I see that you may have not gotten my first letter (or you've gotten it and chose to ignore my words), so I'll say it again because I've been where you've been. You're not the first to fall into Chad Charming's trap and hopefully will be the last.

Just now I observed you and Chad talking and you had his backpack. Let me guess. He's swamped with work and wanted you to "knock all his homework along with yours" in order to "get together sometime"?

I know because that's what he said to me on my first day at Auradon Prep. He even called me "babe" and winked at me before leaving me with his backpack. Later that day when I was in my dorm room sewing a new outfit, I stood up with the sudden realization that I forgot to do his homework (I was still a bit obsessed with him at that point). My friends called me insane for being so into him but I didn't care at the time, I had a mission to fall in love and marry a prince with a big castle with lots and lots of mirrors. It wasn't until I saw how he was treating my friends that I really saw his true colors. He's one of those people who have other people do their work for his benefit and they get nothing in return. As my boyfriend once described him, "a whole of charm, not a whole lot of there there."

Just to let you know, we never "got together sometime." It was all a lie. All he cares about is his charmingly good looks and getting anything he wants with a flirt and a wink. He's not very smart, nor very bright. He has a huge ego and likes to hurt other people with his words. He's a bully and I wish I could turn back time to not fall for him at first sight, but I can't. All I can do is try to forget what happened and warn others to not fall for him or else you'll get hurt.

And I know that you want to believe that you want to be deceived but please listen to me and take my advice.

He's a devil in disguise, if you will, and he preys on those naive enough to fall for his charm. He thinks he's all smooth, casually leaning on girls' lockers to ask them for something, in which they'll get nothing in return. I suggest you stay away from him if you don't want to get hurt, speaking from personal experience.

Sincerely,

Evie

Evie sighed and read her words again. Maybe she'll get the point across this time, she kept thinking, not noticing how Doug's hand gently grabbed her hand from across the table, but she did feel the familiar tingles she always feels when their hands make contact. Her boyfriend gave the hand a little squeeze, in which she finally looked up to see his soft eyes, so full of love and admiration.

She folded the letter, in half this time, and quickly stood up for her seat. "I'll be right back," she mumbled to Doug. She had just turned her back to him to make her way to Scarlett, still having Chad's backpack with a smile on her face, when the son of Dopey stopped her.

"Maybe you shouldn't interfere. You know, make her learn for herself," he suggested. Evie just shook her head, looking down.

"I just don't want her to go through the same thing I went through. I don't want her following a guy like that when there's a perfectly good guy waiting for her," she gestured towards Cameron, son of Colette and Linguini, a recent transfer from France. The poor boy was a little awkward like his father but undoubtedly loyal like his mother. Evie felt sympathy towards the redhead because it must have been a similar reaction to how Doug felt when she would follow Chad around like a lost puppy.

Doug only nodded in understanding when Evie turned again to make her way over towards Scarlett. When she approached the blonde, she simply handed her the letter and walked away, earning a confused look from the girl.

I had to start and stop that one Descendants scene where Evie and Chad are chatting under the bleachers as well as the other scenes.

Chapter 3 is next! Did you notice my little homage to Cameron Boyce? I miss him.