Carnival Day

[Auradon Prep. 7:25 am]

Evie's POV

The second to the last day of school is here. I let Mal sleep in a little bit. Yesterday tired her out for some reason. Oh yeah, I forgot to say, I got at ninety eight percent on my exam. I'm so proud of myself. But anyway, since Ben has allowed me and Mal to participate in the dance, I need to figure out what to wear. I never made myself a dress for the dance, so I'll have to resort to one I've worn in the past. Which is alright. I've got some nice ones. I could wear the dress that's black but with some different shades of blue. Yeah, that'll work. Now I'll have to find something for Mal.

"Hi, Evie."

I exclaimed and jumped as I felt something touch my back. I turned around and saw it was only Mal.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you." she said.

"No worries, Mal." I said.

I kissed her and straightened her hair a little.

"Good morning." I said.

"Good morning. What are you doing?"

"Oh, just looking for something to wear for tonight's dance. I found something for me. Now I got to find something for you." I said.

"I thought about that. And I found something." Mal said.

She walked into the closet and held up a black dress covered in purple roses print.

"How about I wear this tonight?"

I studied the dress. It does look nice on Mal, but something felt like it was missing.

"No tiaras." Mal said, knowing what I was thinking.

I smiled.

"That's not what I was thinking. Well, tiaras was on my mind, but I feel your dress is missing an accessory." I said.

I looked through some drawers and found some bracelets. One with small spikes.

"This will do." I said as I held it up.

"Indeed." Mal said.

I hung the dresses back and guided Mal out of the closet.

"Now that we're ready for tonight, let's start the day out with some breakfast. Would you like to walk with me to the cafeteria?" I asked.

"I would." Mal replied.

"Excellent! Let's get ready." I said.

We both took turns using the shower and getting dressed. Afterwards, we applied our makeup together, brushed our hair and were ready for the day.

"How do I look?" I asked.

"Beautiful." Mal replied.

"So do you." I said.

We kissed and left our dorm room. We made the walk to the cafeteria. As we arrived, there were a lot of people there. Not every student but a lot of them. We went to get our breakfast. After we picked out what we wanted we began to head out.

"Mal, Evie!"

We turned around and saw Lonnie.

"Hey, Lonnie." I said.

"Come sit with us." she said.

"Us?" Mal asked.

"Yeah! Come!" Lonnie said as she waved us over.

I looked at Mal, who shrugged, and we both followed Lonnie to a table. At the table was Jane and Audrey.

"Oh, Audrey is here. Mal, please be nice. Or at least fake it." I thought.

I immediately sat next to Audrey leaving Mal to sit next to Jane. Good. I think we're okay now. Lonnie sat next to me.

"So...how's everyone's morning so far? Mal asked.

"Oh it's going great! How about yours? Done anything interesting lately?" Audrey asked.

I can see where this is headed. Audrey is provoking Mal. And Mal does not like being provoked.

"Do you always assume things?" Mal asked.

"Only with you." Audrey replied.

"Wow, I should be honored. This coming from a complete-"

"Okay! Lonnie, how's your morning so far?" I interrupted.

"It's going great. Jay and I are going to the dance tonight." she said.

"And Carlos and I are going together as well." said Jane.

"Really? Well I'm certainly happy for you two. Jay and Carlos are great guys." I said.

"I was going to ask if you and Evie were going to the dance. But that's right. You aren't allowed to. So sad." Audrey said to Mal.

"You know what, Audrey? You are so wrong!" Mal said.

"I doubt that. I'm hardly ever wrong." said Audrey.

"Well, I don't mean to ruin your perfect record, sorta, but Ben has allowed me and Evie to participate in tonight's dance." Mal said.

Audrey almost fell out of her seat after hearing that.

"What?!" she exclaimed.

"Oh yeah!" said Mal.

"I can't believe this! After what you did to Chad, you only get two days of detention, a little counseling, and now Ben is allowing you two to participate in the carnival?! What is his problem? He's being too nice. That's what it is."

"Or I think he likes me." Mal said.

Audrey groaned and got up from her seat.

"You haven't won, Mal. This isn't over. So don't even think about it." she said.

"Feels over to me." Mal said.

While Audrey glared at Mal, Mal smiled and waved at her. Audrey then walked away. Lonnie, Jane and myself were left speechless. I killed the silence by clearing my throat.

"Well, that ended better than I thought." I said.

"Agreed." said Jane.

"Oh, I almost forgot, how's your morning, Jane?" I asked.

"Good." replied Jane.

We talked some more and ate our breakfast together. Then we headed back to our dorms and got ready for the school day. The school day went well. We were given our year books and we all signed each others, took selfies and had a good time throughout the day. I found out Mal scored an eighty on her mathematics test. Which is good. She probably would've scored lower if I didn't have her study more. It does good. After lunch, Mal and I went to our final classes before school ended for the day.

[Tourney Field. 2:00 pm]

Mal's POV

Finally, the time for the carnival has arrived. Seemed like forever, didn't it? Ben told me and Evie to meet him at the tourney field at two. So here we are.

"Hello, Ben." Evie greeted.

"Hello, Evie. Mal. How are you today?" Ben asked.

"We're good. How are you?"

"I'm good. Ready for today?" he asked.

"Yeah. We're ready." Evie replied.

Ben walked us over to a tent. In the entrance, there was a rectangular table with two chairs. In the tent itself was a prize wheel with various things you could win. Like makeup kits, laptops, candy, and gift cards to different shops in Auradon city.

"This will be your station. You two are in charge of the fundraising prizes. The carnival is set to begin at three. Evie, at six, you will be needed to help Lonnie and Jane get things ready for the dance which will be at seven." said Ben.

"Okay." Evie said.

"Mal, I haven't decided what you can do at that time. But I'll let you know if I need you." Ben said.

"Or if I'll need you." Evie said, trying to make it not sound so bad.

I quietly scoffed and faked a smile. Ben walked away and Evie started checking out the stuff in the tent.

"Wow, look at all this stuff!" she said.

She then looked at a red and silver handbag.

"Ooh, I like that!" she said.

Thinking about an old memory, I started to laugh a little and decided to have a little fun of my own.

"What's so funny?" Evie asked.

"Remember the time when you tried to make cupcakes and you made one of them explode on Audrey? Wasn't that funny?"

Evie gasped.

"Certainly not! It took forever for that one post of me to be forgotten." Evie said.

"How about when we were still on the Isle, we set an oatmeal stand on fire and two people got burned? Wasn't that fun?" I asked.

"That was you who did it. You got mad at the goblin because it didn't make the oatmeal how you preferred it." said Evie.

Oh, right. Well, I went on to tease Evie a little more.

"How about when we went to that one bar? After you had a bottle, you ended up getting sick and threw up on the jukebox. Then sparks started flying out of the jukebox and a fire started. And everyone was screaming. Remember that?"

I couldn't help but laugh a lot after talking about that. That was something Evie was not proud of, but it helped her gain popularity on the Isle. Evie decided to say nothing more and walked outside instead. After an hour passed, I was completely bored out of my mind.

"So, we're just basically working for Ben now, aren't we?" I asked.

I wouldn't mind working, if it was for Evie. But it wasn't. I turned to leave, but Evie grabbed me by my jacket to stop me.

"Mal, I know you're not really happy with this. But be grateful Ben let us be together rather than having us be in opposite sides of the tourney field." she said.

I sighed. Still not happy, but agreed.

"You're right, Evie. I guess I do have that to be grateful for." I said.

Evie kissed me on the right cheek.

"Even though we're working, we'll still have fun." she said.

"How?" I asked.

Evie didn't know. She was just trying to keep me happy and all of a sudden, she had lost her train of thought.

"I'll think of something." she said.

She then kissed me on the lips. As time went by, people came over to our tent to try to win a prize. You know how it is. Some win, some don't. However, unbeknownst to Evie, every once in a while, I took a piece of candy. There was so much of it, she wouldn't notice any missing. It was then about four fifteen, and two girls approached Evie and the three started to have a conversation. I got up and walked around the tent. As Evie was talking to the girls, I felt someone walking up behind me. I quickly turned around and saw Carlos.

"Carlos." I said.

"Hey, Mal. What's up?" he asked.

"Oh, nothing, just standing here. Looking at all the neat little prizes." I replied.

"Cool. Hey, can I talk to you? In private?" Carlos asked.

I looked at Evie. She seemed to be in a long conversation that didn't seem like it was going to end anytime soon.

"Sure." I said.

"Okay, follow me." Carlos said.

I followed Carlos to the back of the bleachers where no one was around. Our tent wasn't that far from it. But far enough from everything that was going on.

"What's up?" I asked.

"Sorry I haven't got back to you sooner about your dream. Like all of us, I was busy."

"That's okay. What have you got?" I asked.

"I found a good place to start looking for houses. However it won't be exactly like your dream. Homes near the forest are at least three hundred thousand. Do you have a planned budget?"

"No. I'm still working on that." I said.

Carlos handed me a small piece of paper with a website written on it.

"Go to this website. It shows all the homes for sale in Canada." he said.

"Thanks, Carlos." I said.

"You're welcome. See ya."

"See ya."

Carlos ran off and I returned back to the tent. The girls Evie was talking to were gone, and Evie was sitting at the table.

"Where did you go?" Evie asked.

"I, uh, had to use the restroom." I lied.

"Oh, alright. Next time, tell me, okay? Cause today, I'm in charge of you." Evie said.

"And I like that." I said as I went up close to Evie and started to give her many kisses.

Evie put her hands on my shoulders and gently pushed me back.

"Easy, girl." she said.

I smiled and sat in the chair next to her. Then, guess who showed up? Chad. We stared at each other for a few seconds before Evie broke the silence.

"Hello, Chad? How's your day?" Evie asked.

"Really, Evie? You have to ask him that?" I asked.

"I'm just being nice." Evie said.

"Why?" I asked.

"Because it's the polite thing to do. But that's right. You don't know how to be polite." said Chad.

"Oh I know how to be polite. I'm just not polite to people like you." I said.

"You better watch it, Mal."

"No, you better watch it."

"Come on, you two. Can't you both be cool for one day?" Evie asked.

"Him? Be cool?" I asked.

I then laughed real hard. That was the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. But of course, Evie didn't think so. She looked at me not happy with her arms folded.

"Mal, that's not nice." Evie said.

"Oh come on, Evie. This guy doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground." I said.

"Mal!" Evie exclaimed.

"Just try me, Mal." said Chad.

I stood up and made my right hand into a fist.

"You wanna try me?" I asked.

I think a flashback of me beating him played in his mind. Because he quickly took off.

Evie's POV

Apparently seeing Chad doesn't make Mal upset. She seems to have power over him. Which I don't know if that's a good thing or not. But deep inside, I feel it's a good thing. I don't want anyone making my girl upset. So I'll stick with my feelings. As a little more time passes by, all of the prizes had been won. Including the makeup kits, which I had been secretly hoping to have one. But oh well. However, I let Mal have what was left of the candy.

At six thirty, I was helping Lonnie and Jane finish setting things up for the dance. I sent Mal back to our dorm to get our dresses.

"I can't wait to see what your dress looks like." said Lonnie.

"Well, I didn't make a new dress for tonight." I said.

"Really? Why not?"

"I didn't have much time. Plus Mal and I weren't allowed to participate in the dance, so I didn't think one was needed."

"But Ben is allowing you both to join tonight, so what are you going to wear? Hopefully something different. Not that I don't like what you got on, it's just that..."

I smiled.

"I'm going to wear one of my best dresses that I've worn in the past. And so is Mal." I said.

"Oh, okay." said Lonnie.

We finished setting up the last of what was needed. Did a systems check on the audio and light equipment and everything looked good.

[Tourney Field. 7:00 pm]

Mal's POV

I returned back and Evie and I changed into our dresses and touched up our makeup. I didn't want to wear much, but Evie insisted I should. We arrived back at the field exactly at seven. Lonnie was in charge of the music. And she played some really nice songs. There were a lot of group dances. And Evie, Carlos, Jay and I danced many times together. About an hour and a half later, couples dancing began. Carlos danced with Jane, Jay danced with Lonnie, and I danced with Evie. Which you could've guess. Why did I say that? Anyway, as we were, Evie held me close to her, while holding my hands.

"When was the last time we did this?" Evie asked.

"I don't remember." I replied.

"Well, we should do this more often." she said.

"Agreed." I said.

Fireworks were then set off into the sky. As people clapped and cheered, Evie pulled me into a french kiss. I didn't know the meaning behind all of that. But I enjoyed the kiss.

"I love you, Mal." she said.

"I love you too, Evie." I said.

We danced for two more hours. Afterwards, people left and returned to their dorms. We bid goodnight to Jay, Carlos, Lonnie and Jane before the boys left with them. We stayed later than everyone else. It was eleven thirty before we knew it. But we didn't care. Fairy Godmother has allowed tonight to be an exception from curfew. Evie and I laid on the grass looking at the starry night sky.

"You're right, Evie. The night sky is beautiful." I said.

Evie moved herself onto me.

"What else is beautiful?" she asked.

"Isn't it obvious? You are." I replied.

"I know. I just like to hear you say it."

"I know."

Evie rested her head just below mine and ran her fingers through my hair as I continued to look at the sky.

"Evie?"

"Hmm?"

I decided to ask her something regarding my dream. And I'm hoping after I ask her this, she won't come back and say something like "where is this coming from?" or something like that.

"Have you ever wondered what's outside of Auradon?"

"Outside of Auradon?" she asked.

"Yeah. We have this whole world. Have you ever wondered what's out there?" I asked.

"Well, no. I can't say I have. Why? Have you?"

I shrugged.

"Sometimes. I've been reading different things about this world. And how things work. And I can't say I didn't like what I read."

Evie laughed.

"You say that like you're not from Earth." she said.

I laughed.

"Yeah, I guess it did sound like that, didn't it?"

Evie sat up and looked down at me.

"Well, in that case you're going to like chemistry. But it's not going to be all about chemistry next year. I was told we're going to learn a little about other kinds of science too. Like biology and zoology." Evie said.

Speaking of that, I never did say. I decided to have chemistry as one of my classes for the next term. Because Evie kept telling me I should take it. So I am. But only in exchange for Evie taking art with me. Which she happily agreed.

"Sounds interesting." I said.

"It will be." Evie said.

Evie got off of me so I could sit up. Evie then sat next to me and laid her head on my shoulders. We looked at the lights surrounding Auradon Prep.

"Our second year has ended. And our third year will begin soon. It's amazing how fast time can pass. We've come a long way." Evie said.

"It sure is. But I'm glad we still have a long way to go." I said.

"Me too." said Evie.

We kissed and stood up.

"Shall we return back to our dorm?" she asked.

"Sure." I replied.

We grabbed our bags that had our clothes in it and began our walk back to our dorm.