Crossing Worlds - Wyatt Lykensen

Cotillion

Mallory POV

When the three of us came out the other end of the tunnel everyone was in the limo waiting for us. Wyatt carried me inside and gently placed in a seat. He climbed in next to me and Mal got in shutting the door behind her.

" Woah, what happened?!" Wynter asked noticing the blood on my side.

" One of the pirates cut me just before we left." I say holding pressure to the wound. Carlos quickly opened a compartment under the seats and pulled out a first aid kit. Him and Evie then came to my side.

I carefully lifted my shirt so Evie and Carlos could take care of it. I look over to see Mal and Ben sitting awkwardly next to each other. " I'm really sorry that things didn't go the way you wanted them to." Ben said breaking the silence.

" I mean...as long as you're safe that..." Mal said trying to speak through the exhaustion.

" I mean, a least I got to see the Isle. They're my people, too. Uma helped me see that." We all turned to Ben shocked and confused.

" Ben, Uma captured you." Mal said.

" She's an angry girl with bad plan." Ben shrugs. " That's not so different from you when you came to Auradon, Mal."

Mal lightly gasped and turned her head looking out the window. It went in a dense awkward silence. No one knew what to say. " Awkward." Dude sang.

Carlos turned to him, " Dude, I know you can talk, but it doesn't always mean you should." He then turn back helping Evie bandage my side.

When we went through the border the limo rocked a bit. The movement made a stinging pain go through my side. I griped Wyatt's hand tightly as I winced in pain, he gave my hand a tight squeeze back. I leaned on his shoulder and looked out the window distracting myself from the pain.

Evie and Carlos carefully placed a bandage over the cut and moved back to their seats. " Thanks guys." I say gratefully. They both nod since it was still awkwardly quiet after Ben and Mal's conversation.

When we made it back to Auradon, Jay parked in the garage and we walked onto the school grounds. Wyatt helped me out a bit since the cut was still sore. " I'll get these back to the gym." Lonnie said, Jay thanked her and she ran off to go return the swords.

" Ben! There you are!" Jane exclaimed running up to him. " Cotillion's tonight. Come here. Look." Ben looked at something on her tablet.

" Hey, are you feeling alright?" Wyatt whispered in my ear.

" Yeah, well...as good as I can be with a cut on my side." I say. I look to Ben to still see him whispering with Jane. He then leaned over to Mal and whispered something.

Jane obviously saw this was bad time, " Um, you know what? I can come back. Uh, but like, really, really soon"

" No, no, no. Now's fine. Um..." Ben said, he whispered something to Mal and then walked off with Jane.

Evie grabbed Mal's arm and then started to walk away, " We need to talk." Evie said.

" Yeah." Mal agreed.

" No." Carlos said making then stop in their tracks.

" No?" Evie questioned.

" You guys are always going off in a huddle, whispering your girl-talk stuff or whatever" Carlos then looked at Jay and I. " And Jay, Mallory, and I are tired of it."

" I'm not." Jay said raising his hand. I quickly kicked him in the shin making him shut up. I never really enjoy being apart of 'girl-talk' but I understood what Carlos was saying.