Chapter 17 - A Date...

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Mal's POV

I was sitting in our dorm and she was doing my makeup and hair. She'd quickly (very very quickly) made me a purple dress to wear because I had none of my own. I threw a leather jacket over the top to make it look more me.

This is Mal's outfit and makeup

Then Evie applied copious amounts of blush

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Then Evie applied copious amounts of blush. "Okay. Easy on the blush. I don't want to scare him away. Not that I could." I laughed. "Please. My mom taught me how to apply blush before I could talk. Always use upward strokes." Evie told me.

"My mom was never really big on makeup tips. I never had a sister." I told her. "Well, now you do," Evie said. "We're going to need all the family we can get If we don't pull this off. My mother's not a barrel of laughs when she doesn't get her way. Just ask Snow White."

"Are you afraid of her?" I asked, curious. "Sometimes," Evie admitted. "Are you afraid of your mom?" I sighed. "I just really want her to be proud of me. She gets so angry with me when I disappoint her. And sh... yeah, she's my mom, so I know she loves me... In her own way."

"Moving on. Come see." Evie pulled me over to the floor-length mirror. My eyes widened. "Oh. I look..." "Say it." Evie urged. "Not... hideous." Evie laughed. "Not even close."

Then there was a knock at the door. Evie opened it to reveal Ben holding two helmets. He stared at me. "For the first time, I understand the difference between pretty and beautiful. I hope you like bikes." Then I left with him. 

What he meant by 'bikes' was a moped that he rode and I clung onto him at the back. I had never ridden a moped before. Then we hiked along a bush trail and a long wooden bridge. 

"Tell me something about yourself that you've never told anyone," Ben asked. I mean, I tell the other VKs everything, so that wasn't fair. So I just told him my most embarrassing fact. "Um... My middle name is Bertha."

Ben laughed. "Bertha?" I scowled. "Yeah. Bertha. Just my mom doing what she does best. Being really, really evil. Maleficent Bertha Faery."

"Mine's Florian." Ben confided. I giggled disbelievingly. "Florian?" "Yeah." I laughed again. "How princely. Oh, that's almost worse." Ben chuckled. "I mean, you know, It's better than Bertha. But it's still not..."

Then suddenly I felt something around my eyes and everything went dark. I struggled, but Ben told me not to worry. "I'm only blindfolding you so I can surprise you." He told me. I stopped trying to kick him and let him guide me along.

"Watch your foot. You good?" I nodded. "Now... Open." He removed the blindfold and I gasped. We had arrived at a small lake surrounded by mossy rocks. There was a ruined stone gazebo, where Ben had set up an extravagant picnic.

There were all sorts of pastries and fruit I had never tried before. That's most things because the food wasn't great on the Isle. I took a round pastry and bit into it. It was filled with sweet red goop. I took another bite and sighed with pleasure. Ben lay down on one arm and stretched out. Then he looked at me.

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