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As I sat outside the principal's office, I could my heart pound in my ears. It was barely lunch and I got into a fight with Patrick Pan.
Despite the fact that I was barely six years old, I knew when someone said something bad. And when Patrick Pan called my dad some not-so-nice words and told me that my entire family was full of freaks and shoved me into the mud, I kind of snapped and unleashed my tentacles on him.
That's when Principal John Darling (Patrick's uncle) came onto the playground and saw that I had his dear nephew up by his feet and was about to dunk him into the same mud puddle that he had shoved me into.
So I was forced to put him down and my parents were called. Apparently so were Patrick's.
I could hear Principal Darling talking with his sister, brother-in-law and nephew as my parents came down the hallway. I could barely look at them. I was covered in mud, I had my tentacles out still, my eyes were puffy from crying and my head was filling with ways my parents would punish me. Maybe swabbing the deck for the next month? How about the brig? Keelhauling?
The both kneeled down at my level; their faces were blurry through my eyes due to my broken glasses (Pan was really mean).
"My sweet little cuttlefish…"Mom wiped away my tears. "What happened?"
"That's what we'd like to know." Our heads turned to see Principal Darling. "Mr. and Mrs. Jones, please come in. You too, Octavia." Despite the fact that he was much older now, John Darling still had some fear of my father. And when we walked into the office, it was apparent that Mrs. Pan and even Patrick had some too. "Please have a seat." Dad and mom sat down into the two chairs while I sat between them on one of mom's arched tentacles. "Now, Mr. and Mrs. Jones. The reason that you have been called in is because your daughter was caught fighting with Patrick. She hoisted him up by the feet and was about to dunk him into mud until intervened." He shot me a look. "As you know, at Neverland Academy we have a zero tolerance policy for fighting. This means that Octavia will be expelled."
"What? Be he started it!" I stood up and pointed to Patrick. "He called my family names and said we were freaks!"
"What names did he call you?"
"Uh…" I reluctantly told him. Mrs. Pan blushed and covered her mouth, my dad's eyebrows raised in amusement and my mom seemed a bit taken aback. These were the words that could make a sailor blush and a pirate grin.
"Oh my, my son would never use that kind of language." Mrs. Pan interjected.
"Ask Tasha! She was with me when it happened." Natasha Bell was the daughter of Tinkerbell and the person I considered my best friend. She would stick up for me, I know it.
Shortly after, Tasha came into the office. "Ms. Bell, can you tell us what happened between Mr. Pan and Ms. Jones?"
Tasha looked at me out of the corner of her eye. There was something off. "Octavia just went up to Patrick and hoisted him up with her tentacles. She said that she would 'get revenge' on his family for what they did to hers." My jaw dropped.
"Did Mr. Pan instigate the fight in anyway?"
"No, it was all Octavia."
"Thank you Mr. Bell." I could only watch as Tasha left the office. "It appears as though Octavia was in fact the instigator in this. This means that you are expelled from Neverland Academy, Ms. Jones."
"This is absolute rubbish!" My father stood up in protest.
"The only thing that is rubbish is the language that you teach your daughter!" Patrick's mom countered. "It's amazing that she hasn't become like you two yet."
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Mom stood with my dad now.
"She means a monster." Peter Pan said bluntly. "The girl is half pirate and half sea witch."
"At least we know when our child is lying. Your boy is a downright villain!" Dad was getting mad.
"Mom, dad…" I managed to get their attention. "Let's just go. They are not worth it."
Dad smiled. "I like the way you think." He picked me up and we walked out the door.
While packing up the Jolly Roger to leave Neverland, Tasha Bell came by.
"Can we talk?" She asked meekly.
"You lied to them! You got me expelled!" I was mad.
"I know you're mad, but…"
"But what?"
"Given your dad's history with the Darling family…" So that's what this was about. She didn't want to get on the wrong side of the Darling family. It was obvious that she had a crush on Patrick Pan and she would do anything for him, even lie and get her best friend disqualified. "You and I can still be friends, though."
"No, we can't. You betrayed my trust. You lied to protect a boy who doesn't even like you!"
"But Octavia! You're my best friend!"
I could see my dad hoist the colors. "You should have thought about that before you tricked me." I ran on the gangplank and got on the ship. As we sailed away, I could see Tasha's face become wet with tears. I said goodbye to Neverland forever.
Finding any school colors was more difficult than I thought. I had blue jeans sure, but a yellow shirt? Nope.
"Come on! There has to be one here!" I threw my clothes onto the bed as my search continued. If I could find something yellow…
"Aha!" I pulled out a long sleeved shirt that said 'Arendale Blizzards'. I could stick a blue t-shirt on top and boom. I would look awesome!
After fiddling with my clothes (and finding my shoes under my dresser for some reason), I decided to do something different with my hair. I managed to pull it back into a short ponytail with a purple elastic and grabbed my camera and put it into my messenger bag.
As I opened the door, I saw Jay standing there. "Morning." He tried to be suave.
"Good morning." I locked my door behind me. "Is there a reason why you are waiting for me outside my door?" I was a bit shorter than him so I had to crane my neck a bit.
"I thought you and I could walk to the Tourney field. Ben is a bit… preoccupied."
"Probably with Audrey." I started to walk until I remembered something. "Oh, I almost forgot!" I went back into my room and headed to my desk to grab a picture frame.
"So this is your room?" Jay was now sitting on my bed. He lay back and kicked his feet up while his hands went behind his head. "Comfortable."
I swatted his feet off of my bed and he sat up. "Yeah, keep your dirty shoes off of my bed. No come on, we have to go." He reluctantly got up and followed me out the door. "This is what I wanted to give you." I gave him the picture frame. The other night after the bonfire and after we put everything away, I grabbed a picture of all of us together in the kitchen. Ben and Carlos made silly faces, Mal raised an eyebrow and smirked, Evie blew a kiss, and Jay was doing a smoulder beside me while I just smiled. I managed to find a plain white picture frame. "Make sure the other see it and share it. Or I can make more copied once I get more developing fluid."
He smiled at the picture. "It's perfect." He seemed genuinely happy. He looked up at me and I matched his smile.
"We should get a move on." I grabbed his wrist and started to run. "We'll be late!"
They did it! The Auradon Knights were Tourney Champions! I got the winning shot when Jay, Ben and Carlos did that hat trick for the goal! "Awesome!" Evie looked over my shoulder and looked at the shot.
"Looks great. Maybe you should take my picture sometime." I shrugged and held up my camera and snapped a picture. "I didn't mean now." She laughed.
"The light was good."
"GIMME AN M." We all did an 'M'.
"GIMME AN A." We did the 'A'.
"GIMME AN L." Same thing.
"WHAT DOES THAT SPELL?"
"MAL!"
"COME ON AURADON, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
"MAL!"
"I love you Mal, did I mention that?" I was amazed. What had come over Ben? I got my camera ready for some pictures. The look on Ma's face was priceless while Audrey ran for the hills. "Gimme a beat!" He pointed to Doug and the band and the music started up.
I couldn't help but take pictures while Ben serenaded Mal. All of the cheerleaders and Tourney players joined in as backup dancers. Pretty soon he was being carried by everyone to where Mal was standing. Mal had his jersey in her hands at the point when he was standing right in front of her. I managed to grab a picture as he tried to lean in to kiss her.
He grabbed her around the shoulders. "I love you Mal, did I mention that?"
Audrey came up behind him and grabbed the microphone. "Chad is my boyfriend now. And I'm going with him to the coronation now, so have fun with your pity date." She kissed him in front of everyone and I couldn't help but dry heave.
I swathe look on Evie's face and knew something was up.
"MAL WILL YOUGO TO THE CORONATION WITH ME?" He asked loudly and surprisingly fast.
Mal grabbed the mic. "YES!"
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