Listen To Your Heart

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"Ugh!" Mal entered her room to see a very frustrated Evie at her sewing machine, working on a dress. "Why can't anything go right!"

Mal looked around her room to see that it was covered in the fabric. There were dozens of dresses strewn across the floor and Evie's bed. "Uh, E, why does our room look like a boutique?"

Evie looked up from her work. "What do you mean Mal? You know I love to sew. Oh, I even made you a prom dress!" She held up a lilac ruffled ball gown with silver crystals embroidered all over the bodice.

Mal stalked over and held up the gown. "E, I think you have a problem. Ben announced the prom like 15 minutes ago. How could you have possibly made this in less than 15 minutes?"

Evie looked proud of herself. "Well I was extremely motivated." With that, she returned  to her work. Mal unplugged her machine. "Hey!"

"Evie, you only sew like crazy when you're upset about something. So tell me what's wrong." Mal looked pleading. She truly cared about her friends, no matter how evil,or not, she was.

Evie sighed and got up, and threw herself upon her bed. She grabbed her pillow and covered her face to muffle her shriek. Then she removed the pillow and faced Mal. "It's just that I'm frustrated, okay? Why hasn't Doug asked me out? It's been months!"

Mal rolled her eyes. She knew it was going to be another one of Evie's rants. She got on her bed and made herself comfortable, knowing this was gonna take a while. "You gotta give him time, E. You know he's shy. Besides he's probably gonna ask you to prom."

At the mention of prom, Evie lit up. She jumped out of her bed excitedly, giggling and running towards her drawing pad. "You're right Mal! Maybe he'll ask me to prom! I've got to make a dress for myself. I mean, prom is only a week away." Before she could even start, Mal dragged out of her chair and towards the door.

"Not so fast! We promised the guys that we'd all get together for lunch to wish Jay good luck on his game, and it's almost noon. So come on!"

Evie was trying to get out of Mal's grip, but surprisingly the purple-haired teen was stronger than she looked. "But-but my dress!" Evie was pouting and complaining all the way to the courtyard, throwing a tantrum over not getting her way. When they finally made it to the food line, she huffed, in defeat.

"Okay, fine. We'll all eat lunch and go to the tourney game, but as soon as it's over I'm finishing my dress!" Evie turned on her heel, only to run into something solid. She looked up to see that she ran into Doug. She wasn't wearing heels today and he was a bit taller than her. "Oh my gosh! Doug, I'm so sorry," she rambled blushing and looking flustered.

"No it's okay," Doug said looking down and reddening at their closeness. Mal looked on at the two with a smirk on her face. She couldn't believe how cute they were together. Cute? Man, Evie was really rubbing on off on her. "Hey I was actually looking for you! And I got you this." Doug held out a large, shiny, delicious looking, red apple. Evie's eyes widened at the sight in front of her. She loved Doug's apples. He grew them in his dad's backyard in his own little orchard, and Evie thought there was nothing sweeter.

"Aww, thank you Doug! That's so sweet of you!" She pecked his cheek and gave him a hug. This caused the boy to only become a darker shade of red.

"So.." Doug thought of a way to casually bring up prom. "You working in a new dress?"

Evie smiled. Now was her chance to bring up prom, and hopefully send the memo that she wanted Doug to ask her. "Um, yeah I was working on a prom dress, when Mal dragged me here to eat. I can't wait!" Her eyes sparkled at the prospect of making another gorgeous dress and dancing the night away with Doug at prom.

"So, um , Evie. About prom, I-"

"Hey guys! How's it going?" Doug was interrupted by Ben who clapped a hand on his shoulder. "Evie can I borrow Doug for a moment?" Without waiting for an answer he dragged Doug away from the girls, not noticing the deathly glare Evie sent his way. If looks could kill, poor Ben would be toast.

"So, did you ask her?" Ben asked, as soon as they were out of ear shot.

Doug was not happy. "You know I was, until I was rudely interrupted."

"By who?"

"BYE YOU!" Doug practically yelled in his face. Ben looked guilty that he had ruined the moment for his friend to ask out the girl of his dreams. "Timing! Can't you have better timing? "
Ben just looked at the floor. "Look, sorry man. It won't happen again. Come on. Go ask her!" With that, both boys went back to the girls, Ben patting Doug on the shoulder, while Doug looked terrified and nervous.

Meanwhile, the girls saw Ben literally drag Doug away. Evie threw daggers his way. Mal noticed the wheels turning in her head, thinking of ways to kill Ben. "Okay, so Ben has bad timing. So what?"

"Mal! You're boyfriend ruined it!" Evie was clearly upset. "Can't you see that Doug was about to ask me to prom? Gosh, why can't anything ever go right!"

"Okay,okay. Well, stop you're meltdown they're coming back." Mal elbowed Evie and both girls looked as if nothing had happened.

"So Doug, what did you want to tell me?" Evie looked hopeful. Doug opened his mouth as if he was about to say something, but quickly closed it, knowing that the moment was ruined and that they had an audience. And surely the others were on their way to lunch.

"Um, you what it's not really that important. It can wait. I'll-uh- I'll tell you later. Oh, would you look at the time! I'm starving. I'm gonna go get some lunch!" Doug practically ran away, rambling and blushing.

Evie looked on, with a heartbroken expression. Mal felt bad for her friend, and mad at her boyfriend. Evie suddenly turned to look at them, sending a deathly glare Ben's way. Ben shuddered at her evil look.

"Mal, you got a pretty cute boyfriend, there. It would be a shame if something...happened to him," Evie said menacingly. Ben could only cower behind Mal, extremely afraid of what Evie was capable of. Seeing that she had accomplished her goal of having him fear her, Evie turned on her heel, heading towards the lunch line. Mal was irritated at her boyfriend and smacked him.

"Ow! What was that for!" Ben rubbed his shoulder in pain.

"For being stupid, that's what!" Mal left him and caught up with Evie, interlocking their arms together as they walked. Ben trailed behind, pouting, and following Mal like a lost puppy. He looked at Mal and Evie with puppy dog eyes and Evie couldn't resist.

"Fine, I won't hurt you. I know you didn't mean to interrupt. But if you ever do it again, Auradon is gonna have to find themselves a new king, got it?" Evie looked at him in a frighteningly serious manner. Ben just nodded, fearful of what she would do to him. Mal just laughed and linked her other arm with Ben's, and the three teens made their way to the lunch line.

But Evie was still upset. She really wished Doug would just ask her, without being interrupted. Unless he wasn't going to ask her at all. Maybe he didn't like her like that, and didn't want to go to prom together.

But she was certain that he liked her.

Maybe.