Second in Line - Descendants (♡Mal)

Chapter 07

●°●Emma●°●

Emma hadn't planning on getting up before the sun had appeared on the horizon, but she just couldn't keep still after all the events from yesterday. All the planning and preparations, the arrival of the new students and showing them around. Her brain kept going over everything that had happened on repeat, mostly trying to figure out if she had made any mayor mistakes that would end up in some kind of disaster. Every time she thought she had gone over everything and could go back to resting her eyes, her brain jolted another memory to analyse, did she show them everything they needed? Had she talked loud enough? Had she been kind enough? Too kind? What about the limousine? Did she lock the limousine?
     Within seconds she shot up, I didn't lock the car! Quickly she shoved her feet into the slippers beside her bed, only to realize she hadn't even been the one driven in the limousine yesterday, Richard had picked them up. With a relieved sigh she let herself fall back into bed. Realizing sleep was not going to come to her again any time soon she decided to just get up. 
     Emma's day went by in a combination of pretending to pay attention and cups of coffee. Lots and lots of coffee. Caffeine may not have been the smartest move seeing she already was jittery without, but what's life without a good cup of coffee, right?  
     All day long had been one hornets' nest after the other, starting with the head of security telling her about a possible break in at the Museum last night, to the two classes that had been scheduled during what was supposed to be her lunch break but had turned into an hour of switching between the many etiquette's of the Kingdom of Agrabah, the correct protocol to deal with an outbreak of Dragonpox and discreetly shoving blueberries down her throat without choking or seeming uninterested. 
     But then. Finally. Finally! The Gods had looked down upon her and gifted Emma one whole free period! Yeah, that's right, she had nothing she had to get done or learn for an entire hour. Of course the smart thing to do was to use that time to open a book on the History of Auradon or actually work on her Math homework.... then again, Emma had never said that she was smart.
     So instead Emma was making her way to the Tourney field where Aggie was co-coaching the new recruits. Every one who wanted to join the team had to go through a few practice games before they could get their own name on one of those shirts. Aggie, being a girl and all, was technically not aloud to join the team seeing Tourney has always only been for the guys. But after showcasing her more than capability she has proven to be a great asset to the team in the form of Junior Couch. 
     The school grounds were verily busy with students making their ways from one class to another, talking to their friends, eating lunch or actually making something of their free time with open textbooks and pencils in hands. Emma payed little to no attention to them walking past, until her eyes fell on one of the open lockers. Normally they wouldn't stand out to the young princess at all, just rows of Auradon blue propped against the wall, only this one started to look a little bit different. It had been decorated with Maleficent's silhouette surrounded by green flames and purple smoke, the text LONG LIVE EVIL ! written through the fairy's outlining. Even though Emma couldn't see her face behind the opened locker door, it was clearly Mal, wearing a different variant of the same color scheme she wore the day before. Feeling confident, Emma leaned against the lockers beside hers. Mal hadn't noticed her until she closed the door, the look of surprise on her face making a little smirk form on Emma's lips.
     "Hey!" Immediately Emma wondered if she had been too enthusiastic, but Mal did not seem bothered by the girl's presence yet, actually returning Emma's smile with a slightly amused one. 
     "Hey."
     "How was your first day?" 
     The girl clicked her tongue, "super." There was some sarcasm in there, which Emma figured could be expected from someone from the Isle. 
     Emma's eyes went back to the painting on Mal's locker, now closed  the Princess noticed the flames and smoke also reached the lockers on either side of them. Even though it was against the school's rules, it actually looked pretty cool. "You should really think about taking this talent off the locker and into art class." Mal didn't say anything, just looked at Emma with a small smirk on her face. "I could, sign you up." Emma still got no responds, she just kept looking at her, making a slightly uncomfortable feeling creep up Emma's neck. "What do you think?" 
     While Emma talked, Jane, the daughter of Fairy Godmother, passed them by, letting out what sounded like a frightened squeal as she quickened her pace to get passed Mal. Who on her turn followed the blue wearing girl with her gaze. Once Jane had left their line of sight, going back into the school building, Mal turned herself back to Emma. "Way to take all the fun out of it." 
     Emma couldn't help the small chuckle that left her lips as her words sunk in. 
     With that, Mal send Emma one last smile before turning around and walking away. Emma's eyes followed her movement as she walked the same way Jane had gone. That girl really is... something else.