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(Harry's POV)

It was the next day and the VKs and I were hanging around our lockers between periods around mid-day. I was sitting on the railing while Evie, Carlos, and Doug stood close by me, Jay and Mal having a small debacle while she was at her locker. I could see Audrey chatting up Ben furiously about gods knows what before she eventually walked away. I was bouncing my leg that rested on a lower rail in anticipation as I thought; this was it, this was the moment Mal was going to spell Ben. Why the dork Doug the half-dwarf was here I have no clue, but once I noticed Mal making her way toward Ben I held my breath and slid off the railing.

Carefully, she was convincing Ben to try one of the two cookies she had in her little bag, showing them off to him as she slowly twisted her body side to side, matching her scheming words to her body language as she tried to sway him.

"No yeah... I completely understand. Be careful of treats offered by kids of villains." Mal had said to him while looking off into the distance briefly to sell her look of disappointment as Ben tried to disagree with her, trying to tell her that's not what he meant. "I'm sure every kid in Auradon knows that."

"No no no that's not it, no I'm-" Ben had started before she cut him off again.

"No I get it, you're cautious that's good." She said as he continued to disagree with her, at the same time this was all happening we were all slowly inching closer toward the two of them. "Oh well, more for me I guess." She said and was about to take a bite before Ben snatched it away and took a bite himself with a stupid grin. What a dense idiot, falling for one of the oldest tricks in the book...

"See that? Totally trust you. Totally." He said as he chewed.

"How are they?" She asked as we got even closer.

"They're good, they're great, they're amazing." He said with the dopiest smile. "They're um- they're chewy, and and you know- is that walnuts? I love walnuts." He giggled after Mal replied with a nod, watching as Ben started to slowly lose himself. "And you know eh- the chocolate... the chocolate, the chocolate chips uh... I'm sorry um, uh they're warm and soft, and they're sweet..." he said softly as he started to gaze into Mal's eyes, clearly now under the control of her potent love spell. "Mal, have you always had those little golden flecks in your eyes?" He started as he slowly went to take another bite of the cookie before Mal promptly took it away, needing him to "love" her and not be completely and utterly obsessed with her.

"How you feeling, bro?" Jay said with a smile as Ben tried to collect his thoughts.

"I feel, I feel- I feel like, like singing your name! Malllll!!!" He started to shout, startling us as Mal quickly covered his mouth, muffling the more "singing" that came from his mouth. I smiled wickedly at how smoothly this all seemed to turn out, glancing at the others as they looked back at me with satisfied smirks. Maybe following along with this nonsense wouldn't be so bad... meddling's been pretty fun.

"Hey guys!" I heard someone chirp out, my face falling instantly as I saw Ruby making her way toward us from behind Ben and Jay. Mal quickly took her hand off of Ben's mouth and smiled at her with wide, warning eyes "What's goin' on? How's everyone's day going?" She asked and smiled brightly at all of us. I softened a little when our eyes met and grinned, wincing when Jay elbowed me for presumably losing focus.

"Pretty great! Oh, Ruby, you have got to try one of Mal's cookies, they're so good." Ben said as my head snapped towards him and Mal who looked like she was fighting a smirk. She glanced at me before taking the unbitten cookie from her bag.