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Evie POV:
"Goodnight Evie." Doug kissed Evie on the cheek and blushed redder than she did. He had walked her all the way back to her room after leaving the after party clean up and was in a hurry to go back to his room. It was curfew in 10 minutes and everyone knew that Fairy Godmother despised anyone out past their curfew. It was an automatic way to get expelled in her eyes. Not that that deterred the villain's kids in any way.
Once Evie had shut the door she looked around the room for any sign of Mal's return. Her coronation dress wasn't anywhere and it appeared as if none of her stuff had moved an inch. Evie started to worry even more. She hadn't seen Mal since she left the feast and they were due in Jay and Carlos's room now! Ben was in a mopey mood and didn't even dance with his mother. In fact, he never left his parents side the rest of the evening.
Where in the world could that girl possibly be at this hour!
Evie decided to wait until she was done with her beauty sleep ritual and if she was no back by then then she would magic mirror her before she headed to the boys room.
They are just going to have to wait.
Evie slowly took off all her makeup, washed hair face, put lotion on, changed into her pajamas, and brushed her hair 300 times before putting it in a braid and deciding that she was now ready for bed. She moved so slow that her hair brush got stuck in her hair more often then it normally did. Every passing minute her heart sunk as her best friend never came. An hour after curfew and Mal still was not back yet.
Enough is enough!
She huffed out a frustrated groin and went to fetch her mirror from her nightstand.
"Magic mirror in my hand, show me where Mal is," she asked of the mirror. Its glass swirled and looked as if it was going to form before it swirled again and never stopped.
"Well, that was a bust." Evie was even more worried now. Mal never blocked her from view before. What was up with her that she wanted to be completely alone?
I'm just going to have to see what Jay says.
Evie peeked out her door as a flash of pink ran disappeared behind another door.
Guess I'm just going to have to be careful.
After wandering around the halls to avoid Fairy Godmother and the other rule breakers, she finally made it to the boy's dorm and pounded on the door. Fumbling and a crash could be heard from inside the door before it burst open to revel a sweaty Carlos.
"Evie! What are you doing here?" he said very confused.
"Carlos! Mal and I are spending the night, remember?"
"Huh?"
"Ugh, just let me in," she pushed through the door as Carlos finally remembered that Mal and her were supposed to spend the night.
The crash heard earlier had come from the table. Evie turned back to Carlos and pointed at the table that Carlos had managed to knock over.
Probably playing his silly game again.
"Oh, right. Sorry I was playing this cool game. I'm on level 100 Ev! Can you believe it? The last level!" Evie smirked at that knowing all too well the hazards of his game play.
"Great for you. Where's Jay?" Honestly, I could care less about your stupid game right now. Our friend is missing! She could be dead or worse.
"Oh," his face fell when his friend wasn't very excited for him. It had taken him weeks to beat that last level! "Last I saw was him talking to Audrey but he should be back soon."
Evie had picked up on her friend's sadness at her missing enthusiasm for him. Deciding that there was nothing for her to do now except wait for Jay, she chose to humor him.
"I'm sorry Carlos, I'm just stressed. That's really good you beat that level, I'm happy for you."
"Evie, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, it can wait."
"No, you're worried, you've got frown lines on your forehead."
"What!" Her hands shot up to her forehead as she ran to the mirror to look, seeing none she turned to a very red Carlos. He was trying so hard not to burst out laughing at her, but it didn't work.
"I'm sorry!" He ducked as she threw a pillow at his face. "You just seemed so serious and it was the perfect moment."
I'll give him that. A small smile tugged at her lips.
"Alright fine, I'm just worried about Mal."
"Mal? You're joking right?"
"No I'm s-" before she could finish the door was opened and in walked Jay, oblivious to the girl in his room.
Jay's POV :
"JAY!" he jumped a foot into the air.
"What! What's going on?" He looked at the direction of the voice thinking it to be an attack of some kind and found to his surprise Evie in her blue pajamas and red fuzzy slippers that had hearts on them instead of bunnies. Her long blue hair was braided back and hanging over her left shoulder. She had no makeup on and was as pale as Snow White. He relaxed after seeing no immediate threat.
"Where the hell is Mal?"
What kind of question was that?
"How should I know? She's probably off sucking face with Ben somewhere." He stormed angrily to his bed and threw his tie on it.
Honestly, I'm not her keeper.
"No she isn't. What did you do?" Carlos looked between his fuming friends. He was staying out of this fight. He had a level to beat.
"And how do you know that she isn't?" he asked as he unbuttoned his dress shirt. Jay was getting annoyed. This was not what he had in mind when he said the girls could stay in his room tonight.
"Because Ben hasn't seen her since she ran off into the forest which is why I am asking you." At his dumbfounded look she added, "you followed her into the forest and didn't come back with her and she hasn't been back to the room so where is she?" her voice slowly raising to a yell with each word she said.
Wow, wait, what? She's still in the forest?
He took a look at his clock on the wall and couldn't believe his eyes.
It's been hours since I left her!
"Crap" he sat on his bed and threw his head onto the mattress.
"Crap is right, what the hell happened out there!"
"I have no idea. It's different here, but she still doesn't tell me everything."
"Well, we have to go find her." Evie made for the door while Carlos paused his game. He had been listening to the whole fight the entire time. He was worried about his best friend based on Jay's reaction.
(Carlos POV) That was odd. He normally never cares when she is out past curfew alone.
"No"
"Excuse me?" Both Carlos and Evie stopped and starred at the Arabian.
"Let her be, this is Mal we are talking about. She's the most badass person on the planet. She's fine. She probably just needed space to herself."
"What if she's hurt!"
You have no idea how much that girl can get through hurt.
"It's Mal, she's not hurt and you know it. You and I both know that she is fine." Carlos, realizing that Jay had won the argument and that they were not going to go find Mal, resumed play of his game.
"Fine! If she isn't back by noon then let's go look for her" She huffed and sat herself down on Carlos's bed.
"And why should we do that?"
"Because I'm worried." Carlos and Jay both knew there was more to the story.
"And"
"And I sorta told Doug." At that Carlos dropped his game controllers and lost the round, but at that moment he did not care. Both boys gaped at the girl in their room.
"You did WHAT?" Carlos stood open mouthed after finally contributing to the conversation.
"He was with me when Ben came up and I couldn't lie to him." She blushed and cast her eyes to the floor ashamed.
"Mal is going to kill you" came Carlos's squeak.
"Why not? We are rotten! Villain's kids! Lying is second nature to us! We are bad!" Jay screamed.
"Well, I don't want to be bad anymore. Doug is the one guys and I intend on having the ideal relationship with my prince."
"Uhm, Evie" Carlos mumbled, "Doug isn't a prince."
"Not legally no, but he is a prince to me besides, I really am worried. I asked my mirror to find her and it couldn't."
"She blocked you?" Jay asked after sitting up.
"I think so. She's the only one that knows how."
Jay sat in silence pondering this new development.
Mal blocked Evie? Why? What did I miss? I was sure she was just upset about her mom. Damn, when did she become so hard to read?
"Fine, we can all go look for her at noon but on one condition" Jay surprised them both, "No Ben."
"Why not? He deserves to know his girlfriend is missing" Evie declared.
"Because Mal will kill us" Carlos clarified.
"You know it's true" Jay mumbled.
"Fine, but if we don't find her by the day after tomorrow by noon, I'm going to Ben. Deal?"
"Deal" They all said together and fist bumped. That was their way of sealing a promise that they would keep even if their life depended on breaking it.
Mal POV
"Evie! Turn off the lights!" Mal screamed into the air. She rolled over onto her side and hit her face in the water of the lake.
What in the world was that?
She bolted upright confused on her surroundings.
How am I still at the Enchanted Lake?
The sunlight burned into her eyes and her hands flew up to rub the oncoming headache away.
Wait, sunlight? What time is it?
She turned to look up at the sun's position in the sky.
10 am! How did I sleep so long? I remember coming here upset and then Jay and…
Her hands flew to her bare arm.
No mark.
Mal raised her arm to inspect. There wasn't even a scratch or a pink line. It was as if it never happened.
But it did happen. I felt it. I can still feel he knife in my dress. But that means… How?
Mal had always been a quick healer. What would take her best friends' weeks to heal into a pink scar would only take her days. However, it never took a few hours to heal completely before. At least, not on the Isle it didn't.
She flexed her arm and noted that there wasn't even a twinge of pain. Deciding to test it further, she rolled over and attempted to do a push up. That is, until she slipped on her dress and fell into the mud.
Great, Evie is so going to kill me now.
Deciding that she needed a wardrobe change, she unzipped the dress and stepped out of it. She took one of the fringe layers at the bottom of the dress and fashioned it into a tube top that held her breasts in place. She then ripped more pieces of the dress in order to make some sort of shorts. However, she was still stuck in her heels.
She is definitely going to kill me now, but only if I don't kill her first for making me wear these damn things on my feet. They keep sinking into the ground!
Throwing what was left of the dress aside, she took one last long look at the knife before deciding it was worthless and threw it back into the lake.
She turned away from the lake and decided to try out that push up now. Sports were not her thing like they were for Jay. While she enjoyed working out as much as an athlete, her thing was fighting. The people on the Isle didn't just fear her because of her mother or her possible magic capabilities, but also for her skills as a fighter. She was gifted but she also was not stupid. Her reputation had been made on one fight. She didn't need to go around and fight everyone just for the fun of it. She preferred people to underestimate her.
Well, these pushups are a cake walk. Let's see, maybe handstands.
Again, nothing she could do was causing any pain to her freshly healed arm.
Hmm, that's odd. I'll have to ask Fairy Godmother about that later.
She decided to walk around and stretch her sore muscles instead. Sleeping on cement was not as fun as it sounded.
Wait, I can't ask her. She'll want to know where I got the cut from. Damn, I'll just figure it out on my own then. Maybe a run will clear my mind. It'll definitely be interesting without any shoes on.
She took off running away from the school leaping over fallen trees and jumping from tree to tree if rocks were in her way. She kept this up until she had made a circle around the school and was back in the clearing by the Enchanted Lake.
SNAP
She froze and tensed up her muscled. To any on lookers, it would be obvious that she was ready to attack. Her face was masked into the hardened Mal from the Isle.
"She was up here last time I saw her" Jay's voice carried on the wind.
What is he doing? He knows how to be quieter than that! Oh, right.
It dawned on her that he was being louder on purpose in order to prepare her so that she did not pounce on her friends.
He must not be alone.
"Why would she be up here still though?" Doug asked.
Evie, I am going to kill you.
"Well, this is her and Ben's special spot. It's where they had their first date," her sing song voice rang up the hill.
"But it is also where he broke the love spell and pretending to still be in to her," Carlos said. Mal's heart sank. She knew it was too good to be true.
"He loves her Carlos! He was NOT pretending to be in love with her. He actually is." Evie mused.
Thanks Ev.
"Ya, besides he loved her even while him and Audrey were still together," Doug added. Mal's eyebrows shot up in surprise. That was not something Mal knew.
"Which is why she's MINE now," Jay growled out. "Aren't we supposed to be looking for Mal anyway."
"Oh right, MAL!" Evie screamed out. She was followed by the rest of the search party screaming Mal's name.
"Seriously guys, you are going to wake up the whole forest and I know Snow White would be livid with you for that." Mal stepped out from behind a tree to greet them. Their yells were getting increasingly annoying.
"MAL!" Evie screamed as she lunged, "You're okay." She tackled Mal to the ground.
"Get off!" Mal pushed Evie to the side and stood up. "Why wouldn't I be okay?" She starred at her friends daring them to answer.
"Well, you were gone all night?" Carolos squeaked out.
"When has that ever been a reason for a search party?" They all cast their eyes to the forest floor. Mal turned to Evie and willed her to answer.
"Since I saw Jay follow you and then you both didn't come back." Mal's eyes narrowed. "I was worried okay!" Evie threw her hands up in desperation.
After a long pause Mal's demeanor softened and she held out her hand for Evie to take to stand.
"I'm fine guys, really. You don't have to watch out for me all the time."
"Are you sure because you have almost zero clothes covering your pale body," Jay pointed out.
Thanks Jay. Now I have to deal with an angry Evie.
"Is that my? No! You didn't Mal?"
Mal gave her best friend a half smile.
"How could you1 I worked so hard on that dress!"
"Well, now you can make a new dress. Besides, I couldn't exactly wonder around the forest in the ball gown and heels now could I?"
Speaking of which, I know I fell wrong on my ankle that last jump. Why wasn't my ankle swollen and discolored at all?
Evie responded by just glaring at her. As usual, Jay stayed out of the fight but positioned himself towards the middle just in case he needed to keep Mal back. The all knew what Mal was capable of when she was mad ad nobody wanted to be on the receiving end of it. Carlos preferred to stay on the sidelines and wait for the mood to relax as it always did.
"Uhm, I hate to interrupt but maybe you should put some clothes on now or something?" Doug stated, "I mean not that the majority of the male population wouldn't mind seeing your attributes, but that Fairy Godmother would mind and possibly King Ben as well."
Mal turned her stare from Evie to Doug and he physically gulped. Doug was uncomfortable under that gaze and found himself inching behind Evie.
Smart boy she chose, good for them.
Mal rolled her eyes and let her powerful glare drop. "And where exactly do you suppose I get a cover up. I destroyed my dress making this."
"What did you do that for?" Jay asked curious. It didn't slip his notice that there wasn't a single imperfection on her skin anywhere. Not even where he cut her last night. His eyes zeroed in on her arm.
(Jay POV) There isn't even a scratch! How? I felt it pierce through her skin!
Mal noticed his eyes drift to her arm and she took a step closer. When their eyes finally met, she tried to explain that she didn't know how either without words. Unfortunately, Doug noticed.
(Doug POV) I thought her and Ben were a thing? Why is Jay looking at her like that? He's with Audrey for Pete's sake!
"Here" Carlos took off his fur coat and threw it at Mal. She caught it without even glancing and slipped it on. It barely curved everything, but it left Carlos in a black wife beater. While that wasn't against school rules, it was frowned upon. Plus it made him look older and less like the type of man scared of a fluffy dog.
"Thanks Carlos" Mal said sweetly after throwing a smile his direction. She looked around at all her friends.
I am not alone. I can do this. I am not alone. I have a family. I have a sister and two brothers that love me. And I have Ben who loves me and makes me happy. Ben. The sweet teal eyed boy who wants to teach me how to love and to be good. Everything my mother isn't. STOP IT. Do NOT go there today or ever again.
Mal realized she ditched Ben at the party and felt the need to apologize as soon as possible. "I think I should go shower guys. I kinda smell like rocks. Let's get out of here." She motioned her friends to follow her down to the school and they all rolled their eyes at her back.
Of course she's fine! She's Mal!
"I saw that" Mal yelled at her friends.
(Doug POV) How in the world did she do that?
They all made their way back to their respective rooms except for Doug who followed back to Evie's room with Mal. Apparently it was a date day for them.
Mal decided to shower first and then go see Ben and hopefully make things up with him. She didn't want to lose him because of one night's weakness.
Boy do I have a lot of explaining to do.