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The four VKs sat in silence in the large classroom for Goodness Class with Fairy Godmother. Fairy Godmother didn't look particularly friendly today and she just stood there looking at each of them in turn. "It's like she was reading our thoughts" Mal would later say. When FGs eyes landed on someone they immediately felt guilty and nervous and had no idea why. Except Carlos, Fairy Godmother had told him he'd get detention if there were any more issues in class, and there certainly had been this morning. He gulped and fidgeted with the dog tail and hoped that she hadn't gotten a note about the incident. He didn't know what detention meant in Auradon, he would rather not find out, but he knew you most definitely didn't want it on the isle.
"Ok class. Most students usually have a free period sometime in the day to catch up on work, but you all have a full schedule, so today I'm going to let you use the time to catch up on any work. I'm sure you all have a lot since you missed the first week of classes due to the testing. "
Mal and Evie pulled out their math homework and began to work on understanding it. Jay had been given some work sheets in Reading Comp to complete, and Carlos pulled out the book that Ms. Daisy had assigned, at least now he could tell her he started it. When the bell rang the others gathered up their stuff, Carlos took his time. "I've got a project to work on. I'll see you all at dinner."
"What sort of project?" Mal asked skeptically.
Carlos smiled, "Not that kind. It's an essay for history." She raised her eyebrows in surprise but said no more. Jane was already waiting for him at the door and the two headed off to the library.
"How are your knees?" Jane asked glancing down at them.
The boy shrugged, "they're ok now, but they were pretty sore for a couple hours. I'm glad the red went away.
"Jane? Is that sort of thing normal here?"
Jane looked down, "not really. I mean obviously it's allowed but generally doesn't happen. Which is probably why it is still allowed.I mean, imagine what kind of uproar there would be if that happened to Chad Charming."
"Great, lucky me" Carlos replied sarcastically as they found the books they needed and took a seat at one of the tables.
After a while of researching information on Cinderellaberg Carlos and Jane were fried. "Lets take a break." Jane suggested. Carlos didn't argue with that
"So what do kids do around here when they're not doing homework?" Carlos asked.
Jane frowned as she thought about it, "some do sports like Tourney or Cheerleading or Kung Fu. There are lots of clubs. And usually on the weekend there is always some big event going on."
Carlos didn't think that was too bad, "so what do you and your friends do?"
Jane's expression became sad and Carlos wished he hadn't asked, but he wasn't sure why it made her sad, "I don't really have any friends." Carlos looked surprised and confused, how could someone as nice and pretty as Jane not have friends. "Come here I want to show you something." She said, eager to change the topic, they grabbed their things and Jane led Carlos through a maze of twists and turns, upstairs and down, and finally got to a room that lead to a staircase, they climbed up several flights of stairs to a small tower room, there wasn't much in there except some pillows and blankets and books. "This is my secret place, I come here when I'm sad, so you can't tell anyone about it, promise?" The boy nodded solemnly.
Carlos gaped at the view out of the window, it was the second tallest tower in the castle-school, and he could see the entire campus from here, the field house, Tourney field, stables, and the palace in the distance. "It's amazing!" Jane smiled. "What's in that other tower?" Carlos wanted to know.
Jane laughed, "That's for detention."
"You're kidding."
The girl giggled, "Nope. I hear that's part of the punishment, you have to climb all the way up there. Its like 10 floors. Archimedes is the detention supervisor."
"What? The owl?" Carlos asked incredulously. Jane nodded again trying not to laugh.
"Detention starts at like 8pm and doesn't let out till at least 11, sometimes later, you have to sit there and listen to him lecture half the night and he stomps on your head if you fall asleep. So most of the time when you have detention you're so tired you fall asleep in class the next day and get more detention." Jane giggled and Carlos looked at her with disbelief "Well that's what I've heard anyway."
"Never had detention?" Jane shook her head in reply.
"With my mom being the fairy godmother, there is … more pressure to not get in trouble. And I try to avoid it anyway."
Carlos was surprised but then nodded, her explanation made sense. "Trouble just follows me around." He said miserably.
Jane didn't respond, she had already noticed that no matter what the boy did someone always seemed angry with him. "Carlos?" she hesitated a bit, "what's it like on the isle?" The boy froze at the question and the memories flooding back "you don't have to answer if you don't want to. I was just curious. I'm sorry" Jane added.
Carlos turned around and sat down on the floor, "No, it's ok, but what do you want to know?"
Jane chewed her lip, she knew better than to ask about Cruella. "What did you guys do when you're not in school?"
The boy sat quiet for a moment thinking over the question and how best to answer it, "When I could get away from my mother we, the four of us, would run all over the town, usually trying to steal things or food. Get in fights with other kids over food or turf. We were the kids of the worst villains so we didn't get messed with too much, but still we had to hold our own if it came down to it." Carlos smiled remember something, "I had a tree house. Mother hated heights so she never went up there, and I could work on science projects up there."
"I always wanted a tree house." Jane said, for lack of anything else to say.
The boy nodded, "yeah I could hide there for a little while, but Mother knew I'd have to come down eventually. Sometimes it was just better to come down sooner and get it over with, you know." He shuddered involuntarily and rubbed a few scars on his arms with a faraway look in his eyes.
"Yeah." Jane said in a low voice, although she didn't really know. "Oh hey, it's almost time for dinner, we should head back."
Carlos blinked a few times and nodded, "Yeah dinner. I wonder what they're serving tonight."
"I hope they have pumpkin pie." Jane said. Carlos made a vomit face.