Author's Note: I don't own anything other than my original characters
"Hey, Lef?" The blonde looked over at her girlfriend. "Can I ask you a question?"
"Absolutely." Lefi replied.
"It's about your mom." the shorter girl stiffened.
"Absolutely not." she responded. Evie frowned.
"But-"
"No, Evie. We don't talk about my mother." The taller girl flinched at Lefi's tone. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you. I just... I don't like to talk about her." Evie nodded slowly.
"I know. I'm sorry." she said. Lefi looked over at her girlfriend, biting her lip before grabbing her hand.
"I want to be able to talk about her with you. I hope that I can one day." she whispered, squeezing Evie's hand.
A couple of weeks later, Evie and Lefi were assigned to work on a project with Mal, Lonnie, Carlos, Jay, and Doug for their business class. Currently, they were all meeting in Jay and Carlos' room. Evie was reading over the grading rubric in her head, nodding as she finished. "We have six weeks to work on this project. I think the first thing we do should be to assign everyone sections so we all know what we're supposed to be working on." Evie said. Everyone nodded. "I think I should be in charge."
"Hold on. Who made you the leader of this group?" Lefi asked, uncapping her pen and looking up at her girlfriend. Evie turned to the blonde.
"Lef, I have my own business. I know how to run one." she pointed out. Lefi rolled her eyes.
"The rest of us could be in charge of this project, too." she replied.
"You mean, you could be in charge of this project?" Evie asked. Lefi nodded. "Lef, come on. Be serious."
"What is that supposed to mean?" Lefi asked, raising an eyebrow. Evie sighed, briefly glancing at everyone else before looking back at her girlfriend.
"Lef…"
"You don't think I'm smart enough to be in charge of this project, do you?" the blonde asked, narrowing her eyes.
"I did not say that." Evie replied quickly. Lefi rolled her eyes.
"You didn't have to, Evie. Get over yourself." she said. The taller girl sighed. "I'm just as smart as you and you know it."
"Sweetie, you'd never attended a real school before last year. There's no way you could be as smart as me." Evie said, closing her eyes as she realized what she'd said. Staring at her girlfriend, Lefi capped her pen and closed her book and notebook before putting them in her bag and standing up.
"You're not as smart as you think you are." she hissed. Evie raised an eyebrow. "You're actually pretty stupid sometimes. Then again, what do I know? I've never attended a real school before." With that, the blonde left the room, slamming the door as she did.
…
"Just go apologize to her." Mal said, rolling her eyes as she saw Evie staring at a picture of Lefi two days later.
"I have nothing to apologize for." Evie lied, knowing she had plenty to apologize for. Mal looked over.
"You both have things to apologize for and if the fact that you've been staring at that picture for twenty minutes is any indication, you want to make up with her." the purple-haired girl said. Evie glared at her best friend. "What do you think Lef is doing?"
"I don't care." Evie mumbled, setting the picture frame down and looking at the door.
…
Meanwhile across the hall, Lefi was staring at a picture of herself and Evie while Lonnie and Jane watched. "Are you sure you don't want to go across the hall and talk to her?" Jane asked.
"Talk to her about what? She's being stubborn." Lefi said. Lonnie raised an eyebrow.
"She's not the only one." she mumbled, looking back at Jane who nodded in agreement. Rolling her eyes, the blonde looked over at her friends. "Lefi, you're clearly miserable. Go apologize."
"For what? She's in the wrong." Lefi said.
"Actually, you both are but that's beside the point." Jane replied. Lefi rolled her eyes, setting the picture frame down and looking at the door.
…
A week and a half later, Evie and Lefi still weren't talking to one another. Currently, Lefi and Mal were hanging out in Lefi and Jane's room. "How long has it been since we've hung out alone?" the blonde asked as Mal sat down on her bed.
"Too long." Mal replied. Lefi nodded in agreement as she grabbed the remote and sat down next to her sister. Looking over at the picture of herself and Evie, she sighed.
"What's Evie doing tonight?" she asked, hating the fact that she had no idea what her girlfriend was up to. Mal grabbed a piece of popcorn from the bowl in her lap.
"She's studying for a chemistry with Doug." she replied. Lefi nodded slowly. "Have you guys really not spoken in a week and a half?"
"I can't just forget the things she said to me, Mal." Lefi whispered.
"Do you think she's having the same problem? You were pretty harsh with her, too, Lef." the purple-haired girl replied gently.
"I was nowhere near as rude as she was and you can't deny that." Lefi pointed out. Mal sighed. "She essentially called me stupid. We have almost the exact same educational background." Mal leaned her head against her sister's.
"What do you want to do? Do you want to break up with her?" she asked. Lefi bit her lip.
"I don't know." she admitted. Mal looked over quickly.
"For the record, I don't think you should. She makes you happy."
"I don't want to be with someone who thinks they're better than me." Lefi whispered. Mal chuckled.
"There is nobody that Evie admires more than you. She looks up to you so much." she said. Lefi looked over, surprised. "She's never told you that?"
"No." the blonde whispered, smiling softly as she looked back at the picture of her girlfriend. Seeing the look on her sister's face, Mal knew that she was done talking about Evie and decided to change the subject.
"I haven't heard you talk about Mom in a while. When you're in our room, you don't really look at her aquarium tank." she pointed out. Lefi shrugged.
"I have no feelings towards Mom; I'm indifferent when it comes to her." she explained. Thinking for a moment, Lefi realized something; over the years, she'd harbored some resentment for her sister. Throughout their lives, it seemed like everyone chose Mal over her; their mother chose to claim Mal over Lefi, Ben chose her to go to Auradon, and Evie… Ever since the two became friends, Lefi had always felt like the taller girl preferred her sister over herself. As she began to understand her feelings, she immediately knew that she didn't want them to grow any more than they already had. "I don't want to hate you."
"What?" Mal asked, turning her head to look at her twin.
"I think I've always been jealous of you and a little resentful. Mom chose you, Ben chose you, Evie-"
"Evie never chose me over you, Lef. You've always been number one in her heart." Mal pointed out. Lefi nodded.
"I know that now, but at the time, I thought she did. Somehow, I managed to bury these feelings until now, but I don't want them to grow into something that I can't control. I love you too much to do that." Lefi explained. Mal smiled, hugging her sister.
"I love you, too." she whispered. Pulling away, the blonde closed her eyes.
"I'm being stupid about Evie, aren't I?" she asked. Mal chuckled.
"You both are." she replied, smiling at her sister. Lefi sighed. "Go make up with her."
"Okay." Lefi said.
…
Meanwhile, Evie and Doug were studying in the library. As she wrote looked at her periodic table, the blue-haired girl watched Doug out of the corner of her eye. Taking a deep breath, she turned to the boy. "It's been awhile since we've studied together." she commented.
"We studied together yesterday." Doug pointed out.
"That was with a group. I meant just the two of us." Evie explained, setting down her pencil. Looking over at her, Doug smiled. "I'm really sorry for the way things happened at the ball last year. I never should have left you like that." Doug chuckled.
"Everything happens for a reason, Evie. You belong with Lefi. I've never seen you as happy as you are when you're around her." he said. Evie looked down. "Is everything okay?"
"We're still not talking to each other." she admitted softly. Doug grabbed her hand.
"I'm sorry, Evie." he said. The girl nodded. "She loves you, everyone can see that."
"I know she does, I just…" Shaking her head, Evie shrugged. "We'll figure it out. How are things with you?"
"Good. I've actually… I started dating Lonnie recently." Doug said. Evie grinned.
"That's amazing! I'm so happy for you." Doug smiled as Evie hugged him. Just then, her phone went off, signaling a text from Jay. Looking at the screen, she smiled fondly as she saw the photo that she had set as her background, which was a picture of Lefi kissing her cheek. Taking a deep breath, she made a decision and turned to her friend.
"Can we finish studying tomorrow? I want to go talk to Lef." she said. Doug nodded with a smile, accepting Evie's hug before watching the girl pack up her things and all but run out of the library. The entire walk back to the dorms, Evie had to stop herself from running. After a week and a half of fighting, she was ready to make up with her girlfriend; she could only hope that it wasn't too late.
When she returned to the dorms, she raced to her hallway. Just as Evie raised her hand to knock on the door to Lefi and Jane's room, the door swung open and her girlfriend appeared in the doorway. "Hi." she whispered. Lefi smiled shyly.
"Hey. I was just coming to find you." she replied softly. Evie raised a curious eyebrow. "We need to talk."
"Yeah, we do. Do you want to go across the hall?" Evie asked. Lefi nodded, following the taller girl into her dorm room. "I've missed you."
"Yeah, I picked up on that from the looks you were giving me during our project group meetings." Lefi replied. Evie turned her head to find a playful smile on her girlfriend's face. "Don't act like you didn't see my glares."
"Oh, I did. I chose to ignore them." Evie replied. Lefi chuckled. "I'm so sorry that I implied that I think you're stupid. That couldn't be further from the truth. You are so, so incredibly smart, Lef, I've always known that." The blonde nodded.
"I'm sorry that I called you out in front of everyone. That wasn't right." Lefi admitted. Evie smiled. "I'm also sorry that it took me almost two weeks to get over myself and apologize."
"So am I." Evie whispered. Lefi smiled as Evie grabbed her hand. "I want you to be in charge of our project."
"Eves, we're already two weeks into the project and you've been doing fine running things." Lefi pointed out. Evie chuckled.
"I think you'll do a better job." she explained. Lefi thought for a moment.
"It's a business class, right? Why can't we both run things?" Evie grinned. "We should ask everyone else's opinions first."
"I think that sounds like a great idea." Evie said. Lefi smiled. "An even better one would be going across the hall and telling Mal to sleep in your room tonight."
"I like that idea." the blonde said, earning a laugh from Evie.
…
The next day, Jay, Carlos, and Lonnie were surprised when Evie and Lefi arrived to their meeting together while Mal and Doug smiled knowingly. "So… Everything worked out last night?" Mal asked, smirking. Rolling her eyes, Evie sat down across from her roommate.
"As a matter of fact, it did. We actually have an idea that we'd like to present to you all." she said, smiling at her girlfriend before turning back to the group. "We would like to propose the idea of Lefi and I running our mock business together. However, we also realized-"
"You realized." Lefi interrupted. Evie sighed.
"I realized that I never gave anyone else the opportunity to speak up if they wanted to run our mock business." she explained.
"We're just glad that you two aren't fighting anymore. We're cool with you guys running the project together." Jay said, smiling up at his friends. Lefi smiled at her girlfriend, squeezing her hand.
"Okay, then. Let's get started." she said.
…
That night, Evie and Lefi were watching a movie in Evie and Mal's room when something caught Evie's eye. Usually, she could ignore the aquarium tank that housed Maleficent, but this particular time, she was unable to. "Lef?"
"Yeah?" Lefi asked, turning her head toward her girlfriend.
"I've never asked you how you feel about being in this room with your mom. Are you okay with it?" Looking over at the tank, Lefi sighed.
"I can't say that it doesn't bother me at times, I can see her glaring at me sometimes when I'm in here, but… she can't call me worthless and weak when she's two inches tall so I guess I'm okay with it." she admitted. Evie thought for a moment before standing up and grabbing a towel. "What are you doing?"
"Tonight, she's not going to make you feel bad about yourself." Evie whispered. Lefi smiled as she watched her girlfriend cover the tank with the towel. "I'm glad you feel comfortable enough to talk to me about her."
"So am I." Evie kissed her girlfriend softly.
"Evie!" Startled by the sound of her mother's voice, Evie sat up quickly. Hearing her mother's footsteps, she jumped up and pulled her girlfriend out of bed.
"What's going on?" Lefi mumbled.
"Get in there and keep quiet." Evie hissed, shutting the door and jumping back into bed just as her mother walked into her room. "Hi, Mom."
"Evie, get out of bed! Now that you're friends with that purple-haired daughter of Maleficent's, it's okay for us to go into town again. I want to take full advantage of that." the woman said. The girl nodded.
"Okay, Mom. Just let me get ready." she replied. Accepting this answer, the Evil Queen stepped out of the room, closing the door. Letting out a sigh, Evie opened her closet door. "I'm so sorry, Lef, I know it's early."
"It's fine, I just... I'm not sure how to sneak out of here without your mom seeing me. I've never left while she's awake." the blonde said. Evie bit her lip.
"Stay until we leave. I would wait about five minutes after we're gone." she whispered. Lefi nodded. "It'll be okay."
"Am I supposed to hide in here until you leave?" Lefi asked. Evie smiled sheepishly. "You want me to hide in here, don't you?"
"Do you want her to catch us?" Evie asked Lefi shook her head. "Then I don't see any other option."
"I guess you're right." Lefi agreed, sitting down.
"It'll only be for a few minutes." The blonde scoffed.
"Eves, I've known you for ten years. I know how long it takes you to get ready and it is definitely longer than a few minutes." Lefi mumbled, earning a chuckle from her girlfriend. Smiling apologetically, Evie selected her outfit for the day before closing the door.