S…What if 19
Boxes and Boxes.
"MAL!" Evie yelled, throwing a small pillow at Mal. "Mal wake up that's your phone going off."
"What the spoiled milk." Mal cursed. She pulled the phone off the night stand. "CRAP, what could she want at …oh hell it's 6:30 in the morning." Mal looked at the clock display on her phone. "Hello Fairy Godmother." Mal's sleepy voice croaked out.
"Mal dear I am so sorry to wake you but I need to see you in my office right away."
That caught Mal's attention and she woke right up. "Am I in trouble?"
"I just need to see you right away. OH and come alone please." She knew that Mal would try and bring Evie with her.
"OK, I'll be there in a few minutes, I have to get dressed." Mal hung up and looked at Evie.
"What?" Evie asked sitting up to get ready to head out.
"Nope, go back to bed. She only wants me." Mal said pointing to herself.
"What did you do?" Evie asked, looking at Mal.
"Nothing, that's just it. I haven't done anything that I know of. I…I'll let you know." She said pulling jeans on. After finishing dressing Mal walked out and over to Fairy Godmother's office. She was let into the building by Jane. "Jane what's going on?" Mal asked the now, not so quiet younger Fairy.
"I have no idea, I just know they started arriving at 5 this morning."
"They?" Mal was shocked, and really worried now. IF people were in there, she was in some major trouble.
"Boxes and boxes." Jane said, showing Mal into her mother's inner office. Half the office was filled with cardboard boxes. 8 huge ones to be exact.
"Come in and close the door Jane."
"Me?"
"Yes. You are the only one else on campus that know these are here." Fairy Godmother referred to the boxes. Mal looked at the huge pile of cardboard boxes.
"May I ask what is going on?" A mystified Mal asked.
"Mal…without my knowing it, just after the coronation, King Adam sent men to your mother's home on the isle. They cleaned it out. Adam felt you had a right to what belonged to you before your mother's home was looted. He also felt we needed to have anything that your mother left behind, just in case."
"WHAT! Right after they saw that on the TV. Was he asking for trouble?" Mal was more than shocked, no wonder Ben thought he could send a few guys over to take pictures for Carlos.
"From what they said, no one did anything, most people ran and hid."
"But these things could be cursed, or worse…"
"That's why we are here." Just then the three ladies popped into the room. Mal turned to see none other than Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. Mal took a deep breath, 'Yeap I am in trouble.' Mal thought to herself. "It's a pleasure to meet you." The three fairies said.
"I…you're not.."
"Mad at you?" The one in blue said.
"Of course not dear." The one in green agreed.
"We have been looking forward to meeting you. We plan to help Fairy Godmother with your magic lessons." The one in red added. Mal dropped into the closest chair. "I believe we have overwhelmed the poor child."
"I never got a chance to tell her you three wanted to meet her and help me with the lessons for herself and Evie oh and Jane too."
Mal just shook her head, in shock. She just kept looking around the room, from the boxes, to the fairies and then to poor Jane who looked as overwhelmed as Mal felt.
"ME?" Jane asked. "Magic lessons for me?"
"Yes, dear, you will be joining Mal and Evie on Wednesday nights for magic class. You made the wand work, you have it in you dear one."
"WOW." Jane and Mal said together.
"But that's not why we are here. We are here about the boxes. Let's get to it." The one in Red said. Mal had no idea which Fairy was which.
"We need to do this carefully. First, we need to enchant the room, to block any curses and so on." The one in green said. "Repeat with me. "This room is sacred, no curse or enchantment may unfold." The entire room said it including Jane. The room glowed a bright orange, and then faded. "Ok first box."
The first box was from Mal's room. After she opened it, she was able to tell them where it was from. "These are my shoes. The things in here are from my room. My clothes I left behind mainly. And my bedding." Mal looked through the box. Jane labeled the box. They moved on to the next one. More of Mal's things. This time school books and her drawings. "Dragon Hall books and my art work." Mal said as Jane labeled. The third box contained more of Mal's room. This time curtains and jewelry. Also a few books Mal had on her book shelf in her room, ones she had never bothered to read…fairy tales. Jane labeled the box and they moved to the next. Mal looked at the clock and saw it was 10 am. "I need to text Ben and tell him I am busy, we were supposed to study for our Chem 2 test this afternoon. And I should tell Evie I am not in trouble."
"Of course. We'll take a break." Fairy Godmother said. Mal decided it was best to call them both, so Fairy Godmother knew she wasn't saying anything about the boxes. She called Ben first.
"Morning, Benny Bear." Mal teased.
"Hi. What time are we meeting to study?"
"I may have to cancel. I have a project assignment from Fairy Godmother and it's a big one."
"Oh, they've arrived then?"
"Excuse me?" Mal asked.
"Your stuff from the isle." So Adam had told Ben.
"How did you know?" Mal asked looking at Fairy Godmother who shrugged.
"Dad told me. He said it was easy to pack them, but harder getting them onto a boat and over here. They have been under armed guard on the docks of the Isle for a month. We have been trying to find a ship that was willing to carry them. Dad had to commission one to get them over here."
"Ben, that wasn't…thank him for me. I am glad to have some of my other clothes and my art."
"I look forward to seeing it."
"Sure. Thanks. I'll let you know what's up."
"Did I.."
"Bye Ben." She said hanging up before he said it. She quickly texted, 'sorry too many people here. I have Aurora's three fairies here as well as Fairy Godmother and Jane. Love you.'
'I understand. Luv you.' he texted back.
Next Mal called Evie. "Hey E."
"M, wow still there what in the rotten apples did you do?"
"Nothing…I…I am meeting with Flora, Fauna and Merryweather." She quickly thought up.
"Oh…Wow, how's that going?"
"Better than I thought, actually. They are going to be helping the three of us in magic class."
"Three?"
"Jane's joining us."
"Yes." Evie cheered. "about time."
"I'll tell her you said that. Ok, not sure when I'll be back."
"Your study date with Ben?"
"Already taken care of."
"OK. Later M."
"Later E." Mal turned to Fairy Godmother. "How am I going to explain all these extra clothes, my art and the other stuff to Evie, Jay and Carlos?"
"Well the thing is you won't be getting this stuff right away. We will need to check it for enchantments and curses. So it will come to you a few things at a time."
"That might make it a little easier. After a while once we've gotten through it all, you can explain to your friends."
"I am just hoping they won't be mad that I have everything I left behind and they don't."
"That is a good point." The green one said. Mal really had to become brave and ask which one was which, or at least hope one of them called the other by name so she could figure it out on her own.
"I am glad you are concerned about your friend's feelings Mal, Dear." The blue one said.
"Thank you." Mal agreed shyly. "There is stuff I don't want as well. Stuff that doesn't fit me, and stuff that just isn't me anymore."
"Once we go through the boxes we can make a discard and a keep pile."
"We can send anything you don't want back."
"That would be a good idea." Mal said.
They went into another box, this time it was stuff belonging to Maleficent. "Those things are from mother's room, I think, I wasn't really allowed in there."
"Did she only have the one spell book?"
"That I was given yes, but that doesn't mean anything."
"Ok, we will lock anything belonging to Maleficent in a magic blocked room. Close the box."
"What if Mal's things were in the box?" Jane asked as the fairies magically pooped the box away.
"They packed each room separately, so unless Maleficent took something of Mal's it won't be in there."
"She took stuff all the time, and unless its my art I don't need it." Mal said.
"Ok. So we go on." The green one said. "Next box looks like books, we had better touch them just in case." They went through the box of book, and found a few loose pieces of paper inside some of the books. A few hard written spells, but nothing that seemed like a curse. But Fairy Godmother kept those out, and placed them into a magic protected box. That box from the Isle was sent to the magic free room. The next box was all clothing of Maleficent, and after checking it for hidden papers and trinkets it was sent away. The last box contained Maleficent's jewelry. Mal immediately shut the box. "It's her jewelry, send it away I know that stuff is cursed, she made sure I knew that." Pop, the box was gone. Mal sat down, exhausted. She looked at the clock. 100. She was starving.
"I…never ate this morning." She admitted. And like that the 4 fairies created a lunch for them all to eat.
"I am so sorry we are pushing this on you Mal, but we want it all sorted today, while we are all here to hold the barrier. Let us finish eating then sort your things."
"I understand." She texted Ben while she ate saying she would be there a lot longer than she thought, and could they study the next day. He agreed.
It took another 3 hours to sort through Mal's items. When they were done, she had one large box to keep, and the rest was pooped back to the Isle. They left it outside the city so no one would know right away it was from Maleficent's home.