Evie and Bree were talking about dress designs as Mal began to stir from her sleep. The purplette remained quiet, listening to the two princess' discuss what type of dress would suit Bree better. Mal couldn't help but smile at hearing this. Evie had been here only a week or so and was already making a dress for the princess, for Ben's coronation it sounded like but Mal stopped paying attention. Trying not to alert the two other teens tot he fact she was awake Mal turned her head and found she was in the dorm room she shared with Bree, judging by the darkness outside it was night time and possibly past curfew as well.
"What the?" Mal said quietly hoping to not alert the others to the fact she was awake. But her voice immediately gained the two other teens attention.
Smiling Bree stood and walked over to the confused half fairy. "Looks like Sleeping Beauty's finally awake." She joked causing the blunette behind her to start laughing.
"Don't call me that!" Mal snapped but Bree simply shrugged and laughed it off, causing Mal to smile as well. "How'd I get in here? Last I remember I was falling asleep in the car on the way back from Auroria." Mal explained. Bree immediately became a little concerned hearing that. Mal shouldn't have fallen into such a deep sleep from a bit of light work (If Leah was there) and talking with Aurora.
The brunette couldn't help but show her concern for the purplette. "When the driver pulled up outside Auradon Prep he couldn't wake you. He didn't feel right carrying you into school so he called me and Ben to help. Ben carried you in here before leaving." Bree explained to the half fairy. "Why were you so tired?" She asked, worried something had happened. She knew Leah didn't like the VK's being here, if something happened her and Ben needed to know. Neither of them would have Mal, Evie, Jay or Carlos treated like slaves.
"Nothing. I just get tired from travelling." Mal said, causing Bree and Evie to raise their eyebrows. They both knew that was an excuse and a crap one at that but neither called her out on it. They both knew now wasn't the time. Mal would slip up about the truth eventually anyway.
Bree looked between Mal and Evie before an idea came to her head. "Mal, you hungry?" The brunette asked, getting a nod from the purplette. "Fancy going into the kitchen and making some cookies for a midnight snack?" She asked the teens. The brunette didn't miss the shocked look that came across both Mal and Evie's faces btu before she could say anything else she heard Evie's voice.
"We can just go and get something?" She asked. "And we won't get omto trouble for it?" Evie wasn't sure about doing this but Bree hadn't lied to them yet and they had been in Auradon a little over a week now.
The brunette princess turned to face Evie and smiled at her. "Of course you can just go and get something. It's why they leave the kitchen unlocked on a night." She explained as Mal sat up in her bed. "Come on, I'll show you." Bree couldn't believe just how bad things had been for the kids on the Isle. Then again being raised by villains isn't exactly ideal either, but hopefully being here would change all that for them.
Once Mal and Evie had stood Bree led them out of the dorm room and down towards the kitchen. She could see the two of them growing anxious and had sent a text to Ben mentioning she was going to bake cookies with Mal and Evie. Her brother would never turn down cookies or the chance to spend time with Mal (even though he wouldn't admit it to anyone or himself).
As the trio reached the kitchen Mal and Evie hesitated slightly. Bree simply walked through the door first to show them nothing would happen. The princess breathed a sigh of relief as the two followed her. Wordlessly the three teens gathered everything they would need to make their cookies. Evie and Mal had made cookies on the Isle before but never with such fresh ingredients, the two girls hoped it would help them taste better. The only thing Bree didn't get out was chocolate chips. The princess didn't know if they liked them or not so decided to leave them for now.
The three girls worked in silence after that and they quickly fell into a rhythm. Evie added the dry ingredients, Bree added the other indredients and Mal mixed everything together. If anyone came in they would think the girls had been cooking together for ages, they simply fell into the perfect sync. It was only when they had mixed the indredients together that Bree broke the silence. "Do you guys want to add chips?" She asked.
Evie and Mal immediately shared a confused look. "What are chips?" Mal asked the brunette.
"Chocolate chips." Bree stated as she turned and got a bowl of them out of the fridge. As the princess sprinkled a hand full of chocolate chips into the bowl she finally saw their expressions and her own smile fell. "You guys didn't make chocolate chip cookies with your moms when you were little." She questioned. Forcing herself not to let her own emotions show as Evie and Mal's faces fell. Bree could swear she saw a few tears in their eyes.
Mal sighed before answering for herself and Evie. "Things aren't like that on the Isle." She stated but Bree could hear the underlying message in her words, 'our parents don't love us like that', and it broke her heart a little. She couldn't even begin to imagine how they feel.
Just as Bree was about to say she was sorry Ben came through the kitchen door, snapping the three girls out of their thoughts. "Sorry I took so long." Ben apologised. "I ran into Audrey and had a bit of trouble getting rid of her." All three girls rolled their eyes at hearing this. Could the girl not take a hint!?
"Damn, you would think 'we're over' would have made her realise she wasn't wanted." Mal said, her eyes going wide as she realised what she said and three shocked pair of eyes turned to face her. She could easily see Ben and Bree were trying to work out how she knew while Evie was giving her an 'I can't believe you just said that now you're going to get punished' look.
Ben was the first to recover from his shock. "How did you know I dumped Audrey, Mal?" He asked and Mal ducked her head, focusing on mixing the chocolate chips into the cookie dough. "Mal?" Ben called out to her. Smiling as she finally raised her head and looked at him but ben immediately noticed she didn't meet his gaze. She may have lifted her head but her eyes were still focused on the mixing bowl, Evie also suddenly found the table very interesting. Confused and concerned the twins shared a look before turning back to the two girls.
The half fairy remained still and quiet. She had learned quickly living with Maleficent that trying to defend yourself made things worse. Evie however didn't want her sister to get punished and answered on Mal's behalf. "We're sorry, please don't punish Mal. We were heading back to our dorms and we heard you both arguing with Audrey and then she slapped Bree and we were going to step in but Audrey left so we took a different way back to the dorms so we didn't disturb you." Evie rambled and both twins were impressed she said all of that in one breath.
Sharing another look both Ben and Bree chose to ignore the 'please don't punish Mal' comment for now. They would talk to each other and Mal about that later. "Calm down, Evie. We're not mad." Bree said in a soothing voice. Both Evie and Mal looked at her like they didn't fully believe her which is when Ben stepped in.
"Honestly we're not. We were just curious as to how you knew that's all." Ben said. While he said it to both of them his eyes never left Mal's face. Upon hearing how honest and genuine he sounded Mal finally lifted her gaze fo her green eyes locked with his teal ones for the first time since Mal had first arrived. Mal looked for any sign of anger or deception like her mother always has in her eyes but she didn't find any. All she found was understanding and something she could work out but she was sure it was nothing bad. Ben could see the sadness and relief in Mal's eyes, trying to lighten the mood Ben asked, "So when will these cookies be ready?"
All three girls laughed at this. Ben sounded like a little kid as he asked them that. "Is that all you came for?" Bree asked her twin brother. The teens only response was to nod his head in a childlike manner while grinning like a loon, cracking the girls up once more. The four teens talked and laughed about various interests they had while they palced the cookie dough in circles on the tray and put them in the cooker. Once their late night snack was ready they ate as many cookies as they could without feeling sick, Mal eating more then the other three since she hadn't eaten since breakfast, and they realised they still had plenty left over.
"What'll happen to the rest?" Mal asked, unsure of how people treated left over food. Usually on the isle you got enough to take the hunger away but not fill you, so having food left over like this was knew to the purplette and blunette.
Ben turned and gathered some plates from the side. "We'll just split them and take them to our dorms for tomorrow." The prince stated. Him and Bree already getting to work on plating up the leftover cookies.
A few minutes later the twins had finished. "So these our mine and yours, Mal." Bree told the purple haired teen. "I didn't see the point of taking two plates, I hope that's okay." When Mal nodded her agreement Bree handed her the plate and continued. "These ones are yours, Evie, Ben." She said handing both of them a plate each, "And these are you Jay and Carlos. So who wants to take them."
The two VK's shared a look before looking back towards Ben and Bree. "I will. I need to see them forst thing anyway and knowing how tired Mal is she won't get up till late." She explained as Mal yawned next to her. It worried both twins that she was this tired but they supposed she would tell them when she was rested and ready.
Evie took the two other plates off Bree and the four teens returned to their own dorms. Evie promised to pop by tomorrow to finish the dress design with Bree and with that the four teens changed and settled into their beds. But while Evie and Mal were asleep instantly, Bree and Ben laid awake thinking about everything they had heard in the kitchen and Bree still needed to tell Ben the little things Mal had mentioned when they had talked.
Bree: Ben, we need to talk tomorrow x
She sent to her brother, receiving an instant reply.
Ben: I know. Come to my dorm when you wake up. Night sis x
Bree: Okay. Night. Sweet dreams x
And with that the two twins fell into a troubled sleep, their thoughts and worried about the VK's plaguing their dreams.
Author's Note: I hope you like this chapter. Please review and let me know what you think x