Chapter 2

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Bridget Hearts felt heavily guilty for her fiasco with the cupcakes earlier at the Merlin academy's courtyard, she couldn't even stop to think about it and feel super guilty for shaming Uliana in front the audience at the courtyard.

Even if Ella tried to tell her that she wasn't at fault, Bridget refused to believe it she indeed had fault who she wanted to fix with whenever she could do so she can get on Uliana's good side which was a little not a little, but a lot too late for the princess of Wonderland.

The night came, everyone were back in the campus straight at their dormitories to take some rest after this long yet chaotic day but one girl couldn't take her rest even to close her beautiful, dark brown eyes.

Bridget was sitting on the edge of her bed with her attire for slumbering - a pale pink pajamas and a hair tied in a ponytail with two loosened strands on her temples. She was biting her lower lip from guilt even the comfort of her cozy dormitory didn't give her peace.

She wanted to make friends, to make people happy not to end up like this. Bridget won't lie that she didn't want to just bury herself in a rabbit hole and never return.

"I feel so so guilty...I need to do something..."

Her soft voice spoke to herself while slowly raising from the bed and pacing around her pinky hearted room and looking through her book shelf for an cooking book - it was ironic that Bridget wanted to bake new cupcakes for Uliana but her heart and mind really wanted and desired to fix the things between her and the victim of her cupcakes.

With her back turned towards the window and her head being in the clouds, Bridget didn't notice a specific pirate sitting on the tallest tree breaking the curfew and watching the young woman through his binoculars with intrigued look on his face under the rain who fell softly and made the atmosphere more calm yet with a man lurking in the shadows and watching his target.

James had left the lagoon with the determination of following the plan step by step without any issues perhaps to change his mind but he won't deny that miss sugar is having her attractiveness in her own manner.

His dark eyes couldn't take themselves over the pacing worried princess who wanted to fix the things so badly yet not spotting the pirate who looked at her from afar.

A smirk formed onto his features he even bit his lower lip and felt how his heart start to pound a bit more quicker. Indeed it felt weird which made James to quickly brush off those emotions hell those thoughts and focus on his role, his determination and to put miss sugar in place.

Waiting for the right time and when the lights got off for everyone's dormitories, James took the opportunity and quickly jumped off the branch of the tree on who he was sitting and watching the target of his with quite a interest who wasn't included in his act who he will pull after two minutes.

James's boots made a quiet noise on the wet ground, some mud got onto the heel of his boots but he could care less about them. When he reached Bridget's window for her dormitory James start to climb the wall and finally got closer to the window.

For his luck the window wasn't locked as how the other royalties did with their windows and of course the smug grin came across his features.

Without wasting another time, Hook slowly pushed the window open making a small yet soft creak and quickly hopping in the dormitory of the sweet princess who was still busy to look for solution for her problems with Uliana.

Bridget's neck felt a cold wave to wash over her soft skin which made her to shiver and mumble to herself that she had forgotten to close the window. A sigh escaped from her soft pink lips and turned around only a eek to escape from her lips when she saw James Hook in her own dormitory, sitting on her bed and playing with her cards.

"H-how did you..." "Your window wasn't locked, sweetheart." James interrupted the startled Bridget with smug, flirty tone and winked at her which made Bridget to feel some shiver down her spine and her cheeks to form a soft crimson red who she quickly brushed.

A huff escaped from her lips, her bare feet walked towards the window and closed it while her eyes were on her sudden visitor with a pout on her features. He was breaking the rules more than any other villain did in this academy and now breaking the curfew it didn't surprise Bridget, not even a bit.

"What a nice room you have, sweetheart. It's more better than the shitty dormitory I have with Mal." James commented with a whistle escaping from his lips and getting up from Bridget's king sized mattress leaving a small dirt from his red coat on her white sheets.

Bridget followed James with her eyes, arms crossed around her chest in protective manner. She really didn't know what to expect from mr. troublemaker and his sudden visit well breaking in her room.

"Thank you for the...compliment. But why are you here?" Bridget started with a polite manner, awkwardly clearing of her throat and approaching James with slow steps while her soft brown eyes were on him, as for James he turned around with smirk on his features his boots making another noise until he was right in front Bridget.

For a moment there was silence only the eye contact took the main role indeed even the height difference - Bridget was way too short than James which gave him a plus too for the whole act in general.

"I can't stay away from you." James suddenly said, letting the fake words to slip out of his mouth with smug and handsome voice who made every woman weak in the knees including Bridget.

Her breath hitched in her throat, eyes widened a bit but gained back her composure and raised her eyebrow in suspicion manner which earned James's snicker and a hook under her soft chin to make sure her eyes remain on him.

"Hey hey sugar cube don't give me the suspicious glance. I know I'm well villain but can't a villain want to have a friendship with someone so sweet?"

His act was in the game and Bridget got fooled for it. A small gasp had escaped from her lips when his hook got gently under her chin and making sure her gaze is kept on him only.

Her heart skipped a few beats, he wanted to be friends with her? It brought her some sense of joy yet she couldn't erase up the suspicion in his intentions - Ella had always told her to be very careful with a villain like him since both of them knew his reputation very, very well.

"..you want only friendship?" Bridget asked softly, obviously lowering her guard and walls which brought a triumphal smirk on Hook who felt a bit victorious for making Bridget to lower her walls.

A nod came from James who stared down at Bridget with smug expression, his hook gently tracing her jawline to make the act more realistic beside that for some reason he wanted to feel her soft, warm skin on the metal of his cold hook.

"Indeed. How about we meet up tomorrow before the boring classes of yours? I want to show you something."

Bridget was caught off guard - her to skip classes? That's hard to believe but she really wanted to see where this will lead and prayed that Ella wouldn't find out about it.

"...Okay then." Bridget said, agreeing to James's offer which brought a few sparks of triumph in his cold dark eyes and patted Bridget on her head which made her to blink twice and look up at him again.

"See? It wasn't hard was it? Gotta leave now, you need your beauty sleep after all, sugar cube."

James said with a wink and pulled away from Bridget, his footsteps filled the whole dormitory when he reached the window again and gave one last glance at the stunned Bridget in the centre and gave her a wink before he hopped out from the window.

Bridget was a blushing mess right now - James Hook wanted to be her friend? It was hard to believe and his flirty demeanor really didn't help the situation. Her heart start to beat more quicker, her breath to hitch and quickly laid on her bed staring up the ceiling and then burying her head in the pillow.

The plan start to work and Bridget didn't suspect a thing.

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