𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐍 | 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬

AURADON PRINCES

{11} 𖣔 Ali 𖣔

"But Ben, my parents are going to flip if they see her with me today." I sighed, running a hand through my hair.

It was Family Day, which meant more drama and gossiping on a croquet field than in the girl's locker rooms. Which meant... a whole lot.

"But you kissed... which is more than me and Mal have done." Ben shrugged, adjusting his tie in the mirror.

It's true.

We did kiss, but she'd made an excuse about homework straight after and we had come back quicker than Cinderella fled the ball.

"Are we not going to talk about the fact that both of us were under pretty intense love spells?" I groaned, holding my head in my hands as I sat on the end of my bed.

Ben chuckled, "Okay, so they spelled us. But we already have discussed this. We know it's because of Audrey and let's be honest, you and Jazzy never would've worked out without her spelling you."

I gritted my teeth, "That's because I'm supposed to hate her, remember?! But now I'm not sure! Ben I get it, you already liked Mal before she spelled you and it washed away in the enchanted lake. But when I picked up that necklace off the ground I felt like a completely different person."

When Jazzy dropped her necklace, I picked it up and I felt a unnerving course of energy flow through my body.

And that's when her spell broke.

But then we talked and we kissed and everything was so out of control and incredibly- weird?

"Because you like her! I love Mal, but maybe you just sort of like Jazzy. Like a crush?" The Auradon Prince suggested, turning around to face me when he was satisfied with his tie.

"Maybe..." I mumbled, turning to the small mirror on my bed stand and fixing my hair.

He was right, I think I did have a major crush on Jazzy, and it wasn't going to go away no matter how much I tried to ignore her or keep her at arms length.

"She's so- god, she's everything, Ben. She's a thrill, but she's not evil. She's beautiful but she's not fake. She's badass but she doesn't do drugs or skip school. She's perfect but not plastic- she's just... I don't know." I rambled, my head still spinning after being on love-high for hours.

Ben looked like a love-crazed teenage girl as he stared at me with his eyes sparkling and his whole posture leans forward to hear more.

"But she did steal my wallet so maybe that's a bad sign..." I frowned, looking to the Prince for advice.

"She gave it back." Ben answered my stare, raising his eyebrow.

I nodded slowly, "Okay whatever, so maybe she is perfect... what am I going to do about Family Day? What are we going to do about this whole ordeal in general?!"

If my parents saw us together, all hell would break lose. And if the girls knew that we weren't under a love spell anymore, they'd ignore us or maybe even worse- curse us and then get sent back to the Isle.

So we were just stuck.

"I don't know. But the feelings are somewhat real. I'm gonna introduce Mal as my girlfriend to my parents and I'm gonna forget about the whole love spell thing. I don't care if my parents don't like her, because I do." Ben had a light in his eyes as he spoke, almost as if he were still under the love spell.

"Inspirational." I chuckled, "Do we tell anyone about this- about the spell?"

Ben immediately began shaking his head profusely, "No. No-one can know, not even Gigi."

"Not even Gigi? But Ben, she's been our best friend since kindergarten... and not to mention she's your- Royal Advisor."

Not telling Gigi about small, insignificant moments of our day was unheard of, let alone something like this.

"No. They're still adjusting, and you know as much as I do that something like this could send them back." Ben said, and I understood exactly what he was saying.

If anyone, from the Gianna to King Adam Beast, found out, the VKs would be back on the Isle.

For good.

And I didn't want that for Jazzy, they'd suffered enough on the Isle of The Lost.

"Okay, we don't tell anyone. And we just- brave it for our parents... I'm the eldest child and heir to the throne, I've been training my whole life while Aziz parties her days away, it's not like they can disown me." I sighed, throwing my blazer on.

"Yeah, well neither can mine because I'm an only child so we will just keep- going along with this and- chill." Ben said, much to my surprise.

A scoff fled my lips, "Chill? Ben, we're Auradon princes, 'chill' isn't in our vocabulary. We'll be our normal, Prince-ly selves, okay?"

Ben nodded as we left the room, both our heads held high. Just outside in a courtyard filled with Auradon Prep students and their families were our parents and our girlfriends.

But ultimately, with their backgrounds, they didn't mesh well together at all.

This was not going to go well.

{A/n}

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