Not Just Her Other Daughter
This is the epilouge. I promise within 3 days of this being posted The Seashell and Her Jewel will be posted.
Epilogue
Isla's POV
Cotillion didn't end until the really early hours of the morning. The only one who wasn't dead on their feet was Evie. I mean seriously, Ben was either carrying or dragging Mal along and Jay was carrying me. Jay wasn't too happy I'd risked my safety to battle Uma. Instead of listening to him rant I'd pulled his head down to mine and kissed him just to show him I was fine.
"Come on guys!" Evie called from ahead of us. She was dancing down the halls with Carlos walking behind her.
"Where are you even going, Evie?" Mal groaned from Ben's side.
"Our room of course! The boys are staying the night!" Evie chirped spinning through the halls. If that's what she's planned fine by me. I don't think Jay's going to let me go anytime soon. Jay put me down when Evie was unlocking the door. As soon as I entered our room, I made a beeline for my bed and basically collapsed into it.
"Isla no sleep 'till you get out of that dress!" Evie chided me causing me to groan. I rolled out of bed and grabbed a pair of random pajamas. I pretty much stumbled into the bathroom where Mal and Evie were. Evie shut the door while I sat on the edge of the tub and Mal plopped down onto the floor.
"How are you so perky, E?" I groan out, trying to work out how these pants go on.
"Well first of all it's called coffee and second of all that's your shirt, Isle's." Evie said pointing at the garment which apparently is my shirt. It took a solid fifteen minutes for Mal and I to change, mostly because we almost fell asleep a few times. In the end we did manage to change and Evie dragged us both back to the room and the boys had to catch us when we basically fell over.
"Okay, Sleeping Beauty let's get you to bed." Jay said as he picked me up.
"Wrong person silly. I'm not Aurora or Audrey." I giggle into his chest. "How can you get us confused? We've been dating for 3 years." I ask him pouting.
"I know baby. I won't ever get you confused again." Jay says pulling the blankets down and places me down on the bed before crawling in next to me.
"I love you." I say snuggling into his warm chest.
"I love you too babe." Jay says wrapping an arm around my waist. "You know, I don't care who you are. I love every part of you. The wild Isle girl and the Auradon girl who's just as free." Jay whispered into my hair.
"And I don't care if you steal or if your a star Tourney and R.O.A.R. player. Your still my Jay." I say back to him.
"Oi lovebirds!" Mal snaps from her bed. "We get it, you love each other. Now go to bed." Mal complained loudly causing Ben to chuckle at his girlfriend.
"Okay Mallie. We're sleeping." Jay said mockingly. As sleep started pulling me in, I have a thought. Tomorrow I think I need to have a talk with Maggie and this time the only one running away will be her.
''Well? What do you want?" Maggie asked with her hands on her hips. Normally swim practice was at five but since cotillion didn't end until early in the morning swim practice was postponed until nine but then again Maggie and I were here at eight. It was a little harder than I thought to sneak out of the dorm without waking anyone but this was the final score to settle.
"To race." I told her shrugging my sweats and jumper off revealing the team uniform. "You and me. Right here, right now. One final swim off to prove we belong on this team."
"And why should I agree to that?" Maggie asked crossing her arms across her chest. "We all saw what you did last night. You know, it seems you have issues with all your family, huh? Guess they didn't like you too much." Maggie said smirking. Fine. If this is how she wants to play, fine.
"Don't act like I'm the only one with family problems. Gods aren't that discreet. Hercules the great, more like Hercules the fake. Everyone knows it's Hercules, God of strength and power and Megara, Goddess of disloyalty and lies. Well, as close a Goddess as a mortal can get. What was it I heard? That playing mortal got too hard so he became a god again and left poor Meg all alone with a demigod for a child? But you know I also heard that he hasn't seen you for what eight years now?" I ask and Maggie at first shrinks into herself but then she looks angry. "If you want to play with fire Maggie go for it, but remember I can play too."
"Fine." Maggie snaps and shrugs off her own jumper and sweats. "One match. No magic, no demigod powers and no cheating. To the wall and back." Maggie says.
"If you win, your secrets safe. If I win, I leave the team after next match." I lay out the terms and watch as her eyes widen in disbelief.
"You want to quit? Why?" Maggie asks losing her bitch exterior.
"Because this isn't for me. It isn't me. So one more match and I'm gone."
"Then what's the point of me competing if it's a win-win for me?" Maggie asked, her bitch mode on full ten.
"Because I know people like you. You need to prove yourself. You want to show off your strength but your too scared to because the only teams that have your kind of sports are male. So you joined the swim team because at least then you thought you could be the best. But then I came along and you were only second best. If I leave without racing you one more time you'll never be the best." I say and Maggie's eyes flicker with emotion for a second before they harden.
"Whatever. Are we doing this or what?" Maggie says getting into her place.
"On three. One, two, three!" I shout and with that we're both diving into the water. Maggie and I are throwing everything into this match. There was something different about our techniques this time. Maggie didn't have whatever godly strength propelling her in the water and she was slower than normal. I didn't have my tail cutting through the water easily, I was still faster than Maggie but there wasn't that connection with the water I normally felt.
By the second lap Maggie was sluggishly propelling herself forward and was almost out of breath. My arms were sore but I wasn't going to stop until I won. On the third lap I reached the wall ten seconds before Maggie. I dragged myself out of the pool and leaned down holding my hand out to the out of breath Maggie.
"Why are you still being nice? You won. Get the gloating over with now." Maggie says brushing my hand away and drags herself out of the pool.
''Coming to Auradon means I've learnt a few things. On the Isle, nice usually meant 'when your back's turned I'm going to kill you.' Here nice is just nice." I tell her as I pick my towel up and dry myself off.
"Nice gets you hurt. Don't think just because you won I'm going to be nice to you." Maggie says picking her stuff up and leaving the room.
I shake my head as I pick up my clothes. I was heading into the locker rooms when I heard it. Someone clapping.
"How long have you been there?" I ask them without turning around. I feel a pair of arms wrap around my waist and a chin rest on my shoulder.
"Since the first lap. I gotta say Seashell if you didn't want to swim, you should have told us." Jay says into my ear.
"I thought it was the Auradon thing to do." I explain. "You were all getting involved and I thought I had to."
"Well now you've got a whole lot of free time. You know there's this one guy on the R.O.A.R. team and he could use a cheerleader." Jay says turning me around.
"Oh yeah?" I smirk. "I thought Carlos already had Evie?" I ask him innocently.
"Why cheer for Carlos when you can cheer for me?" Jay asked leaning down so our lips where almost touching.
"Hm I don't know. I've heard you've got plenty of cheerleaders. Although there are some boys on your team who could use someone cheering." I tease Jay, giggling when his eyes darken slightly.
"Not gonna happen Seahell. Those idiots aren't worth your time." Jay growls before closing the gap between us. For the first time in days it wasn't desperate. This time it was... I don't know. It felt home.
When we finally broke away we just layed our heads together, neither of us saying anything. And we didn't need to, because right now everything felt right.
"Okay, not to be a mood killer but babe, you need to do something about that chlorine smell." Jay says after several minutes, causing me to laugh.
"Okay, okay." I say breaking out of his hold and walking to the doorway of the showers. "You know I might need some help in there. Do you think you could help me?" I ask with a teasing smirk. Jay's eyes darken in lust before he stalks over to me grabbing my hand and dragging me into the shower room.
This shower rooms about to get steamy.
"Hey." I call in greeting to Mal and Evie when I enter the dorm.
"Hey, where were you this morning?" Evie says looking up from her sewing machine.
"Settling a score." I say sitting next to Mal who's sketching in her notebook.
"Anyone get hurt?" Mal asked innocently.
"Maybe, she might be sore for a while." I say with a smirk.
"Well as long as no-one is gonna complain, I won't say anything." Evie says with smile. For a while we're just sitting there, laughing and talking without a care in the world.
"The party has arrived!" Jay called as he and Carlos walked in. Carlos plopped down next to Evie and Jay sat behind me, placing his head in the crook of my neck. "Hey gorgeous."
"Hey hot stuff." I reply turning my head to connect our lips.
"Ugh. You guys are sickening." Mal hardheartedly complained as she moved away from us.
"Your just sad Ben's not here." I retort with a smirk. Mal being the mature person she is, sticks her tongue out at me.
"Alright ladies." Jay intervenes. "You could argue or, you could enjoy the snacks we smuggled in." Jay added as he fished around his bag before pulling out an assortment of treats.
"Smuggled?" I ask with a raised brow. "Do you mean stole Jay?" I add with a smirk.
"Old habits die hard." He said with a shrug handing me a chocolate bar.
"Here's to the Rotten Five." Mal said raising her bag of chips. We all followed suit each raising a chocolate bar and bag of chips. "No matter where they are or how they act, they will always be the Rotten Five. Because we're rotten..." Mal trailed off and and we all smiled.
"To the core." We finished just like old times. For the next few hours we're all just being us. We're throwing food around, laughing and reminiscing the old days. Because no matter how many memories we make here, the Isle is still going to be home. It's where we were born, where we met, where Jay finally got the courage to ask me out and ruled we ruled. It's always going to have a place in our hearts.