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"Jay, I don't know about this." Lonnie said from behind the bleachers, tourney practice was about to start and she was worried about being found out.
"It'll be fine. " Jay promised, but after realizing that all the guys usually changed in the locker room he wasn't so sure how long he and Lonnie could pull this off.
"Hey, you two making out or you gonna come practice." Chad called as he ran by. Lonnie blushed and Jay thought their cover had been blown already until he realized that Chad was just teasing. Lonnie still looked skeptical but followed Jay onto the field.
* 2 hours later*
"Hey Jay, Ping, wait up." Lonnie and Jay turned to see a few of the seniors on the team approaching. Jay automatically felt apprehensive and he could sense Lonnie tensing besides him. "Good practice out there guys." One of the older boys said. "So anyway we have a little… uh tradition, for newbies to the team."
Jay and Lonnie exchanged anxious glances but didn't say anything. "Met us by the front doors at midnight…"
"But that's after curfew." Lonnie interrupted.
"Yeah… and if you want to be part of this team. Really be part of the team, you'll be there. Or else." The older boy and those behind him bore down on Jay and Lonnie menacingly before stalking off.
"Now what?" Lonnie asked nervously as she and Jay watched the team walk back to the locker room.
Jay shook his head. "I don't know." And they headed back to the dorms to shower and change.
/
"Mal PLEASE" Jay begged. The girl huffed and eyed Lonnie.
"I'm not that good, what if I screw it up?" Mal argued back. Lonnie looked back and forth between the two villains not sure if this was a good idea. "What if I can't fix it again tomorrow?"
"You won't screw it up." Jay assured her.
"Ok fine come back after room checks and I'll do it, but if you get caught…"
"You had nothing to do with it." Jay agreed. "Come on, let's go eat, its dinner time."
Lonnie just looked at him with disbelief, "How can you eat at a time like this?" She was far too nervous to consider eating.
Mal scoffed, "He can always eat."
/
Jay waited as the minutes ticked by; Carlos was out cold and breathing softly in the next bed. The boy was cuddling Dude as if the dog were a teddy bear; Dude didn't seem to mind. A chime in the distance tolled the half hour mark… 11:30, go time. Jay slid out of his bed, still fully dressed, grabbed an extra beanie for Lonnie incase Mal's spell didn't work and slipped out of the room. He met Lonnie outside her room and they went to Mal and Evie's room, Mal opened the door right when they got there and pulled the pair in.
Fifteen minutes later Jay and Lonnie were making their way down to the main doors. "Do I look ok?" Lonnie asked uncertainly.
"You look great." Jay reassured her. She stopped and looked at him "I don't want to look great."
Jay chuckled "No, I mean you look like a guy. Mal did great."
Jay and Lonnie met the other guys from the team at the doors a moment later.
"Jay, Ping, guess you're not a couple of chickens after all. Let's go."
The team seniors and Jay and 'Ping' went out of the building and ran off into the darkness.
/
"The Museum of Cultural History" Jay read, "What are we doing here?"
"Ok, here's your task, go in find Merlin's sugar bowl and bring it back. Easy Peasy"
Jay and Lonnie looked at each other apprehension. "And what happens if we don't?"
"Then your time on the Tourney team will be very short and miserable" The ominous look was all Jay needed to be convinced that this wasn't really an option.
He'd spent his whole life stealing for Jafar; he thought coming to Auradon would be different. Clearly it wasn't.
Lonnie nodded to him and they headed to the doors. "If we get caught they'll send you back." She whispered.
"Then we don't get caught" Jay retorted while picking the lock of the building.
As it turns out the sugar bowl wasn't really too difficult to find. After all, all the thing did was supply endless sugar, not like Fairy Godmothers wand, which Jay noticed was heavily guarded with a force field, alarms, lasers, and who knows what else.
Jay and Lonnie got the bowl and headed back to the rest of the team. "Now what do we do with it?" He asked. Once it was discovered missing there would be a search for it and he knew that leaving it in anyone's dorm room would be a bad idea.
"Where do sugar bowls belong?" One of the boys chuckled.
"In the kitchen?" Lonnie answered uncertain if that's what they wanted to know.
"So put it in the kitchen." The boy winked at them, "Welcome to the team."
Jay and Lonnie exchanged glances. "I hope Carlos doesn't want sugar in his coffee tomorrow." He muttered as they headed back to school.
/
"Jay, wake up." Hissed Mal at the table the next morning.
The boy yawned "Sorry" he muttered, "guess I'm not used to staying up till 4 anymore."
"Yeah well you better start waking up, we have history next."
Lonnie stopped by their table to say hi, she looked exhausted too. "Thanks for your help Mal" she whispered.
Just then there was a commotion on the other end of the cafeteria. Students were yelling, some were laughing, there were even a few colorful choice words uttered. Lonnie and the VKs stood up to see what was happening, and there at the beverage table was a sugar bowl scooping spoon after spoon of sugar out into a cup that was already overflowing with sugar. It had already started falling to the floor and the little sugar bowl just kept going until there was a significant pile on the floor that was quickly growing in size.
Mal looked between Jay and Lonnie and grinned. "That's fucking fantastic." She whispered to them.
Fairy Godmother came rushing in to assess the situation. "Oh goodness." She squeaked. "WHEN!" she yelled at the little bowl who stopped abruptly. She turned and looked over the student body in the cafeteria with a glare that managed to make every student wish they were somewhere else. "I would highly recommend that the person, or persons, responsible for this prank confess because the consequences for when you are discovered, and you will be, will be much more severe. My office is open for anyone willing to come forward. Do I make myself clear?" The silence in the room was deafening. "I said, do I make myself clear?" Her voice was low, stern, and it sent a chill down Jay's spine that rivaled the one he got from Jafar just before his father would punish him.
"Yes, Fairy Godmother." The students in the room murmured; all of them having that sense of foreboding even though most were completely innocent. Fairy Godmother scanned over the room again before walking out. A security guard with the sugar bowl followed close behind.
Lonnie's eyes twinkled mischievously, "That was so worth it."
/
Coach Jenkins looked at his team, he had gotten complaints from several teachers about some of the boys falling asleep in class today and he had suspicions that the sugar bowl incident that morning had something to do with it as well. He just didn't have proof. "Clearly my team is not getting enough rest if half of you are falling asleep in class, so I have decided to remedy that. Effective tonight and until I say otherwise, your new curfew is 9pm. That goes for everyone."
There were murmurs of dissent upon this new directive, coach ignored them and continued, "I've already let fairy godmother know so that she can adjust the room check schedule appropriately. And furthermore, that prank this morning with the sugar bowl, do not think those responsible will get away with it. So to ensure that you are all sufficiently tired for your new curfew time we're going to run some suicide sprints, and then you're going to run some more, and after that we'll finish off with more running. Let's go, hustle up boys." Coach blew his whistle. He had a good idea who was involved but with no way to prove it, he was going to make his whole team realize that they were in this together, and by that they were going to be very sore, together.
"Still worth it?" Jay asked Lonnie as he jogged next to her.
She groaned and ran off to throw up, along with Ben, Chad, and a couple other guys already doubled over.