Chapter 2: Falling Out

"Audrey!" Lonnie said, turning away from Jay. "You're home early." Lonnie pulled out her phone and noticed it was almost two in the morning, "And up late for someone who didn't go to Cotillion."

"I'll see you later," Jay said, giving her hand a squeeze before leaving.

"Night," she replied, watching him leave for a few seconds before turning back to deal with Audrey.

"Yeah, I got back like an hour ago and decided to just wait up for you," Audrey explained. Lonnie knew that that meant Audrey wanted to tell her something that probably wasn't that important.

Audrey moved aside and let Lonnie into the room. "So why are you home so early? I thought you were supposed to be gone for a few more days," Lonnie said as she sat down on her bed to take her shoes off.

"Ugh, I know. My car broke down in Sherwood Forest so I called Chad to come and help me."

That explains why Chad was nowhere to be found at Cotillion. Lonnie was surprised because she assumed Chad would want to be the center of attention as much as possible. "Why? Chad doesn't know anything about cars." Lonnie got up and went into the bathroom to deal with her hair. It had finally dried and was pretty much a mess, but it still had all the bobby pins and clips she had put in it earlier.

"Yeah, but who else would give up going to Cotillion to help me with my car?"

"That does sound like something Chad would do."

"Yeah, so he came out to Sherwood Forest and he tried to fix my car, but of course he gave up, so he just gave me a ride back here." As Audrey finished her story, Lonnie had finished pulling out all the pins in her hair and decided to just put it in a bun and deal with it after she showered in the morning.

"So what's gonna happen with Chad? You know he's still in love with you, right?" Lonnie asked as she realized she barely had any make up left on her face but began to wash it since she had been drenched with salt water.

"I know, he made it very obvious many times on the drive back here." Even though Lonnie didn't like Chad very much, he still didn't deserve to be led on by Audrey.

"So what are you gonna do? You can't keep leading him on."

"Oh for sure, I am so over Chad. Besides, I'm into someone else now." This was news to Lonnie, but then again, Audrey had been gone for a couple weeks.

"Did you meet someone while on vacation?" Lonnie was done washing her face and came back into the bedroom to get ready for bed.

"No, but I think I'm finally gonna make a move on Jay." Lonnie froze. Audrey, like Lonnie, and practically every other girl at Auradon Prep, had had a crush on Jay ever since he first got here. Despite dating Chad, she would not shut up about him when they had danced together at the Coronation. Audrey really hadn't talked about him in a while so Lonnie had assumed she had gotten over him. "By the way," Audrey continued.

Lonnie snapped out of it and turned towards Audrey. "Hmm?"

"What were you doing with Jay just now?" Lonnie knew that Audrey didn't like it when things didn't go her way, so she decided to beat around the bush for now.

"What? Are you mad he walked me back to my dorm? He was my date to Cotillion, you know."

If Audrey was surprised, it didn't show on her face. "Only because I wasn't here, I'm sure. Everyone knows that Jay's into me."

Lonnie raised her eyes at Audrey. "You don't own Jay."

"Not yet, but I will," Audrey smiled almost mischievously.

"Um, a lot has changed while you were gone," Lonnie said. She changed out of her dress and into her pajamas. She was slowly getting angrier the more Audrey talked about Jay.

"Oh, please. What could have possibly happened while I was gone?"

"Well, for starters, Mal's hair is purple again," Audrey rolled her eyes, but Lonnie was just getting started. "Carlos finally asked Jane out, Dude can talk now, Mal ran away back to the Isle, Ben got kidnapped by pirates, I went to the Isle to rescue Ben, Ursula's daughter escaped from the Isle and cast a spell on Ben, she and Mal got into a battle and BTW Mal can turn into a dragon now, I'm now the captain of R.O.A.R., and let's see, there was one more thing…oh yeah, Jay's my boyfriend now!" Lonnie said that last bit mocking Audrey when she and Chad had started going out.

Audrey had a shocked look on her face about halfway through Lonnie's rant, and partially because of the way that Lonnie was speaking to her, but her shock turned to anger at Lonnie's last statement. "He's what?!"

"Yeah, and as my roommate and someone who is supposed to be my friend, I'd really appreciate it if you didn't flirt with or 'make a move' on my boyfriend!"

"I can't believe you did this to me!" was all Audrey had to say.

"Really? What did I do? It's my fault that it's suddenly not all about you? That the guy I like likes me back? And newsflash, just because you leave doesn't mean the world stops spinning!" Lonnie had had enough. She angrily stomped towards the door and opened it.

"Where are you going?" Audrey yelled at her.

"Away from you, because I can barely look at you right now!" Lonnie yelled back before slamming the door behind her.

Jay returned to his dorm to see that Carlos was already in his bed with his laptop on his lap and Dude cuddled up next to him.

"So how was your night?" Jay asked him teasingly.

"Shouldn't I be asking you that?" Carlos eyed him above his computer. Jay didn't answer and just started changing. "Come on, man! I saw you and Lonnie. For two people who aren't dating, you sure were dancing pretty close."

Jay thought back to the couple of times that while they were slow dancing that Lonnie had rested her head on his chest and he would wrap his arms tighter around her waist. Jay smiled to himself.

"Hello? Earth to Jay!" Jay snapped out of it and focused back on Carlos. "Lonnie? Are you gonna ask her out?"

"I, uh, already did," Jay replied.

"What? Dude, that's awesome!" Carlos exclaimed putting his laptop to the side.

Dude excitedly got up and started jumping around. "What'd I do?" Dude asked.

"Oh, sorry, Dude, not you," Carlos said to him, patting his head.

There was a knock at their door. Carlos was distracted by Dude so Jay went over to answer the door. He opened the door to find Lonnie on the other side.

"Lonnie?" Jay asked, confused about why she was there. Then he noticed that she was crying. "What's wrong?"

"Audrey and I got into a fight and I don't wanna talk to her right now and I don't even know why I'm here but I didn't know where else to go –"

"Shh," Jay pulled her into the room and into his chest and let her cry for a few seconds. "Do you wanna stay here tonight?" Jay asked her as he ran his fingers through her hair, trying to calm her down.

He felt her nod against his chest and he kissed the top of her head.

"I know what'll make you feel better," Jay said as he unwrapped his arms from around Lonnie.

She looked up at him, "What?" Jay rubbed his thumbs across her cheeks to wipe away her tears.

He pulled her over to the small cupboard that was in their room. "They're not homemade, or fresh, but I promise they're just as good." He pulled out a container of chocolate chip cookies.

Lonnie smiled. "Chocolate chip cookies for when you're sad."

"Exactly," Jay said before kissing her cheek. He sat down on the ground and grabbed her hand to pull her down too.

"Um, can I have some?" Lonnie and Jay looked over to see Carlos and Dude staring at the cookies longingly.

"Sure, buddy," Jay said as both he and Lonnie took a cookie from the container.

Carlos got out of his bed and sat down on the floor with them. Dude came over and started sniffing the container.

"No, Dude, you can't have chocolate."

Dude pouted and went back to Carlos's bed. They all just laughed and went back to eating cookies and chatting.

Lonnie leaned into Jay and rested her head on his shoulder. This was exactly what she needed.

After a few more cookies, Jay noticed that Lonnie was starting to fall asleep when her head started sliding down his arm.

"Do you wanna go to sleep?" Jay asked her. It was almost three in the morning now.

"Mm-hm," Lonnie replied sleepily, lifting her head from Jay's shoulder. Jay got up off the ground and then helped Lonnie up. She was so tired, she could barely stand as she pretty much fell into Jay's chest as soon as she stood up. Jay silently laughed as he helped Lonnie walk to his bed and helped her into it.

She was practically asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow. But she was awake enough to grab Jay's arm when he tried to walk away from the bed to put some blankets on the floor for himself.

"Stay with me," she mumbled.

He stared at her for a moment, not really sure if he understood her. Jay was a very physical person and liked physical contact whenever possible, but he didn't really think that the people in Auradon much less Lonnie would be like that. So he was a little surprised that Lonnie was proposing that they sleep in the same bed together when they'd only been officially dating for a couple of hours. But despite the fact that she was practically already asleep and still had a firm grip on his arm, how could he say no?

"As you wish, princess," Jay said. She let go and he walked to the other side of the bed to get in.

Lonnie smiled lightly to herself. She didn't really like being called princess, she wasn't really one in the first place and didn't like to be compared to people like Audrey and Chad, but she didn't mind at all when Jay said it.

She felt Jay climb into bed next to her and she immediately curled up into him. She felt his arms wrap around her and his lips kiss her hair, and then she drifted off to sleep.