Evil Hearts - A Listen To Your Heart Book

A Fresh Start

"How much longer do we have to hike?" An exhausted Audrey complained.

"Not much longer," Ben assured, leading the group with Doug holding the map and compass.

"Not used to the outdoors, princess?" Jay smirked, walking up to her.

Audrey rolled her eyes and huffed. "Well if you must know, no. My mother may have grown up in the woods but I sure have NOT! And don't call me princess!"

Jay shrugged.  He stared walking in front of her. He turned back around to face her, walking backwards. "Whatever. Not like you didn't like it," he said winking.

Audrey blushed. Luckily she was already red faced from all the hiking. Yet Chad had to notice.

"Blushing there, princess?" He whispered in her ear, making her jump. She turned to him ready to deny when he interrupted. "No worries, I won't tel him your secret."

Audrey blushed harder and sped up. She started walking alongside Carlos, Evie, and Lonnie. She turned to Evie.

"Evie why aren't you freaked out about being stuck in the wilderness without the luxuries of Auradon?" Audrey asked.

Evie laughed. "What do you mean?"

"Well the guys I get, although no offense, but Carlos and Doug are still slightly wimpy. Lobbies a champ and raised by her mother. I thought you'd be struggling more."

"Well on the Isle we never had cell service so I'm used to being cut off from the world," Evie explained. The AKs flinched at this, knowing it was all their parent's faults. "Plus since we never had any cars or anything, were used to walking, biking, and skateboarding to get to places. So hiking is pretty easy." She smirked and walked ahead.

Audrey stopped to pout. "So I'm the only one who has a problem with staying for the whole summer in some grimy smelly cabin in the middle of nowhere, with wild animals?" She yelled.

"Well you can always walk back to Auradon," Ben chided.

Audrey screamed in frustration and stopped on the ground. She looked back where they came from and knew it was too late to go back. She looked back at her friends and saw that they were way ahead of her and were almost out of her sight.

"Wait guys!" She said, running after them. "Don't leave me here alone! I'm going to die!"
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Mal took a deep breath as she got out of the taxi. Being in the countryside was different than anything she'd ever seen. But she needed a break and art camp was just the place to take her mind off the past year. She retrieved her bags and headed towards the entrance.

She was greeted by a way too peppy girl named Dove. "Hello! Welcome to camp Inspiration. You just be Mal!"

"Yeah," Mal said with fake enthusiasm. "So what do I do first?"

Dove smiled a brilliant white smile and called over a guy who Mal assumed was a counselor. He towered above Mal and had jet black hair with very green eyes.

"This is Evan. He's going to show you around." Dove explained.

Evan looked Mal up and down and smirked. "This is going to be a fun summer."

Mal couldn't help but blush as she followed Evan. She wouldn't say fun just yet, but she knew it was going to be interesting.
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"I hate this, I hate this, I hate this!" Audrey said, smacking mosquitos. Currently they were all resting, still having 3 miles left to get to the cabin."I can't believe you people do this for fun."

"Hey no complaining, you said you wanted to come," Ben said.

Audrey rolled her eyes. "Yeah but I thought we were taking a limo there, not risking death in the forest."

"Well suck it up, buttercup," jay said, chewing on some jerky.

"Ugh!" Audrey yelled in frustration. She took her time primping herself, fixing her hair and makeup that had gotten ruined due to the humidity and sweat.

Carlos was enjoying some trail Mix when he saw a lizard behind Audrey. He poked at Chad who was next to him and pointed at the lizard. "Watch this," he laughed.

He carefully ovules up the lizard and placed it on Audrey's head, no one noticing except Chad, who was trying hard to not burst out in laughter. After placing the creature on her head, Carlos immediately went back to his place. He and Chad shared a looked and started silently snickering. Now all they had to do is wait.

Of course Evie was the first to notice.

"Ew!" Evie shrieked. "Audrey there's something on your head!"

Audrey's eyes widened in horror and she felt around on the top of her head. When's he felt the lizard she let out a blood curdling shriek. She got and ran to get away from it and tripped over a root and fell.

Carlos and Chad were full out laughing in the floor at this point, to the point of tears.

"You guys are jerks you know that right!" Audrey yelled at them.

Chad tried to talk through his laughter. "It was Carlos's idea."

"That was hilarious ," Ben said. The other guys agreed.

Lonnie and Evie were not so impressed. "I agree with Audrey," Lonnie said. "You guys are jerks." She glared in Carlos and Chad's direction, specifically focusing on Chad.

She went over to help Audrey up. But as Audie tried to stand, she yelled in pain. Ben immediately rushed to her side.

"Are you okay?" He asked her.

"No, my ankle hurts," Audrey said. Ben helped her sit on a log so he could examine her ankle. It was swollen and bruised.

"Oh my," Ben said.

"Is it bad?"Audrey asked.

"Not the worst, but I think you sprained your ankle pretty bad."

"We need to take her back home," Evie said.

"No it's better if we go to the cabin and take her back tomorrow," Doug said. "It's getting late and the cabin is closer. We'll be there in and hour while going back to Auradon takes a full day."

"Doug is right," Ben said. "We'll go to the cabin and sleep there tonight and tomorrow I'll take Audrey back to Auradon and return the following day."

"No don't worry about me," Audrey said trying to stand. She winced and tried to to hide the pain in her face. "I'm fine, no need to ruin your fun. I'll stay at the cabin, no worries."

"You still shouldn't walk on your ankle," Doug said.

"I'll let you ride on my back," Ben said. "You know piggy back style."

"Fine," Audrey said. "At least I won't be all the way in the back anymore. Now it'll be Carlos."

"Hey!"

"This is your fault so suck it up!"

"Fine."

"Let's get going," Ben said.

"Yeah it's darting to get dark and by my calculations it'll take us another hour to get to the cabin," Doug said. He started walking, arm linked with Evie's. Chad and Lonnie walked behind them, Carlos in between, because things were still pretty tense between them.

Trailing behind was Jay, worried about Audrey and not liking the feeling that Ben giving Audrey a piggy back ride was giving him.