Mal's POV I woke up and I was immediately met with Ben and Bella's beautiful green eyes (Icheckedandhiseyesaregreen). I laughed. Ben had his arms wrapped around her tiny body and they were both staring at me. "Good morning my loves" I said and kissed both of their heads. "What time are we leaving at?" I asked. "10 ish" he replied and kissed me. "I love you so much" I said and smiled. "I love y—" I cut Ben off. "I wasn't talking to you" I told him and took Bella. I turned around so I wouldn't have to face Ben. Bella was looking at me. "Well that hurt" Ben said. I giggled. He pressed his body against me and wrapped his arms around me. We both looked at our daughter and smiled. I broke the silence. "I never thought I'd become a mother. I never wanted to. But its the best thing that's happened to me.... Well besides meeting you" I told him. "You're becoming a great mother and I love that" he replied and kissed my cheek. I took Bella off the bed because she wanted to play with her toys. We set up a toy area in our room so they can play without us really watching them. I turned around to look at Ben. "I want to tell you something but I don't want to offend you" he said. "Say it. I won't take it as a bad comment" I replied. "Well... When we first got together I never actually thought you were fit to be a mother. I–er–um– I mean mentally...." He said. "Benny I'm not mad at you for saying that" I reassured him. "I know, sorry. I'm just afraid you are. What I meant is that I never thought you were fit to be a mother mentally because of everything that's happened to you. I remember you telling me how you didn't want to be like your mother. And you're not even close" he said. I smiled and kissed him softly. "Thank you" I replied. "I'm gonna get dressed" I added. We both got out of bed. I put on a white lace knee length dress with pink flowers. In the back it was see through so you saw my bra, but it doesn't matter.
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I put on my favorite pair of white heels. "Wow you look overdressed for the isle" Ben said and we laughed. "I know.... Being Queen changed my fashion completely. This is like one of my regular outfits" I replied. "I love it" he said and pulled me closer. "Especially the back" he added and smirked. I kissed him passionately. We grabbed the kids and changed them then we went to eat. We ate then Ben and I went back to the isle. "So our rehearsals start tomorrow.... We finished recording in the studio.... now we have to find someone to replace Gil and get everyone that lives on the isle to cooperate with us and not break or ruin the scenes..... That's a lot of work" I sighed. "We'll do it. I already sent out a message to everyone saying to meet on the field at your old school" he told me. I nodded. I rested my head on his shoulder. A few minutes later we arrived. Everyone gave us dirty looks. I started laughing at a poster. "They actually care to put these up?" I asked. "I told them to take them down" Ben said aggravated and ripped it off. "Ben its fine. Its not going to harm me" I told him and grabbed his arm. Everyone we passed gave us dirty looks. They always do. We finally got to the slop shop. "Listen up" I raised my voice. Everyone turned to me. "Who wants to replace Gil in the movie we're shooting? We need to know now because rehearsals start tomorrow morning" I explained. "But I thought I was doing it" Lucas said. I got behind Ben's arm and clutched onto it. "Why are you talking to us? Do I need to remind you what the consequences will be?" Ben asked him. "Sorry, Queen Mal" he said and bowed. "Sorry doesn't cut it. After everything you've dome to me you think its ok to keep doing it?! I thought you knew better" I cried. My phone started ringing. I wiped my tears away. "Hello?— but she can't come here. I'm not ready for her to come — have you tried everything? — did you try the teddy bear? — k fine bring her over, but once she calms down I'm sending her back—" I hung up. "What happened?" Ben asked. "Apparently Bella isn't calming down and she's screaming and crying" I explained. "If I were you I'd block your ears right now" I told everyone. Everyone blocked their ears and they all looked confused. Bella appeared and she was screaming and bawling her eyes out. "Holy jesus" I said to myself. I picked her up. Noah moved out of his seat so I can sit. I sat with her and calmed her down. She rested her head on my chest. "Shhhhhh, shhhhhh" I stroked her hair. She looked at me and stopped crying. Ben handed me a Kleenex and I cleaned her nose, since it was running and she didn't know how to clean it by herself yet. She hugged her teddy bear and giggled. "Silly girl" I told her and kissed her forehead. "Shi—" Jesse started saying but I cut him off. "No one swear! She repeats almost everything and I don't want her to swear" I said. "Man, she's loud. I think she busted my ear drum" he continued saying. I laughed. Bella laughed as well because she saw me laughing. That made everyone laugh. "Isn't that your teddy bear that your mom ripped the head off of?" Jesse asked. I nodded. "I cried so hard that day. But Evie fixed it once I got it back in Auradon. Thank god for her. And now I gave it to Bella. And she loves her" I replied. "She ripped the head off?" Ben asked and went in to touch the bear. I nodded "Don't touch it" I warned him. "Why?" He asked. "She's going to flip out" I replied. "No she won't" he said and bent down. "Yes she will. Trust me, I know our daughter" I said. "I know our daughter too. She's tough, why would she start crying over a teddy bear being touched?" He asked. "Fine, do what you want. But when she starts crying, you're the one calming her" I told him. "You really love this bear don't ya?" He asked Bella and he fixed the bow on the bears head. Bella started crying. "I told you. Now here, you take her" I told him and put her down. It grew into a full blown fit. "Hey! Bella is this how we act?" I raised my voice. She stopped crying and looked at me. She nodded her head no. "What do you say to daddy?" I asked. "Sowwy daddy" she said and looked at him, hugging her bear tightly. "Its ok princess" he replied and hugged her. Someone walked in. "How you doin' Shrimpy?" I asked and smirked. "Shrimpy" Bella repeated. I laughed. "Wow she actually does repeat" Jesse said and we all laughed. "Mmm great. Your kid is also doing it" she said annoyed. I picked Bella up and she sat on me. She layed her head on my chest and hugged her bear. I rubbed her back and kissed her head. CJ sat down and so did Ben. "So, does anyone want to take Gil's part?" Ben asked. "We need someone right away" I added. "I'll do it" Jesse said. "Great idea! I will print out a schedule for you. We have dress fittings, interviews, award shows, rehearsals, shooting, we need to get you in the studio to record some songs. You have a lot to do and so much to start learning. There's a sword fighting scene and you need to learn how to properly..... Point is, you have to come with us back to Auradon. Well LA.... But be ready, because its a long road ahead for your career" I told him. "You both make it look so easy and it sounds really stressful" he said nervously. "Its actually not that hard.... But Mal is stressing right now. Like a lot" Ben replied. "How can you tell?" I asked him. "Babe, I've known you for 7 years. I know when you're stressing" he replied. "You guys know 'What's My Name' right?" I asked. "Uma's song?" Someone asked. I nodded in reply. "Yeah we all know it" Noah replied. "Great! You guys are her crew. Meet at Dragon Hall in Yen Sid's class.... I'll explain at the meeting later. By the way do you guys still take care of Harry's ship? We're gonna need it" I asked changing topic. "Yup, its docked" Jesse replied. "What time is it?" I asked Ben. "10:30" he replied. "Bella do you want your snack?" I asked her. She nodded. "Do you want blueberries?" I asked her. "Ya" she replied. I turned her around and made blueberries appear. I made a fruit platter appear on the table for the others. "Before you guys start going crazy.... the red balls, also called cherries, have a pit in them. The weird shaped fruit is a strawberry and don't eat the green thing on it. And the pink thing has seeds in it, its called watermelon. Now the rest you can eat just like that" I explained. I took a blueberry from Bella's bowl. She looked at me with a blank expression. "Geez, she's just like you" Ben said. "Is there a problem with that?" I asked. "No. I love it" he replied and moved closer to me. I made some chocolate covered strawberries appear and Ben fed them to me. "You have chocolates all over your lips" he said close to my face. "Care to help me?" I whispered. He kissed me softly multiple times to take the chocolate off. I giggled. "You guys make me sick" CJ said. We turned our head to look at them. We laughed. "I'm glad we make you feel that way" I replied. "But seriously, get a room" she added. "What if we don't want to?" I asked. "We should get going... We have to go to the studio with Jesse later" I said. I gasped. "Do you wanna go to grandma's house?" I asked Bella. She nodded no. "You don't want to see grandma?" I asked. "Yaa!" She replied and giggled. "I give up. That's literally her answer to anything I say. First she says no then she says yes, like hun what do you want?!" I explained. We all laughed. "Whatever, we're going later" I said and got up. I wasn't going to let her walk alone so I grabbed her hand. Ben grabbed her other hand. "Sweetie I'm putting your bear in my purse. You will get it after" I told her and took her bear. She looked at me with her sad eyes. "Honey I'll give it to you after" I told her and kissed her head. "You guys are coming right?" I asked them. They nodded and we all went to the school. We got there. "Jesse take her. Don't lose her or the teddy bear. Because if you do I swear I will rip yourhead off. " I told him. "Ok ok. I won't" he replied and took her. "Mommy will be back. Stay here" I told her and kissed her cheek. I stood up on a picnic table with Ben so everyone can see us. "Thank you for meeting us here. We—" I stopped him. "Gosh you are horrible speaking to villains. No wonder we all hated you" I said. "Let's skip to the chit chat. I know you hate me, like a lot.... And I hate most of you. You don't have to be nice to me, I don't expect you to but I'm asking you for a favor. We're shooting a really big movie and we want you all to be in it. In the background I mean. We just don't want you to mess any of the sets up" I explained. "What's in it for us? Why should we listen to you?" Someone yelled. Everyone agreed with him. "Ben and I thought about it and we know most of you are trying to become a better person and be good, so if you do this for us.... We will basically rebuild the whole isle. We'll give you better food, better education." I told them. "And once we see that you're all good at heart, we'll start letting you off the isle. I know you all hate me so incredibly much, but I truly do want to take you off. And some of you don't understand that we need to protect our people, so once you show us you're truly good, you're free to go" Ben added. "Do we have a deal?" I asked. Everyone cheered. "By the way rehearsals start tomorrow and we need backup dancers and just random people in the scenes. If you want to do it, go see Yen Sid and he'll write your name down and explain everything" I added and Ben got off the table. He stuck his hand out and I took it and got down. I grabbed Bella. "She's so cute" Jesse told us. I laughed. "Bye-bye" she told Jesse and waved. "Sweetheart he's coming with us" Ben told her. "Bring her to my mom's, I'll meet you there" I told him. "Where are you going?" He asked. "I have to go see Yen Sid and double check he's okay with this" I replied and kissed him. "Be safe" he told me. I nodded and went my way. A few people asked me questions on the way so I answered. I finally got to the school and I already found people signing up. "Mal!" Yen Sid said and came to hug me. "I'm so happy you're letting me do this!" He added. "I just came to check up on you and make sure you still want to do it. But you do so that's great!" I said excitedly. "We already have the first choreography to the first dance already done, since that's only me, Evie, Carlos and Jay. So we're gonna need backup dancers to be ready by tomorrow morning" I explained. "And tell them to meet in the gym. We will be there to explain how the day will go" I told him. "I will" he replied. "I have to go, but I'll see you tomorrow" I told him. "Ok, bye" he replied and went back to his desk. I was walking back to my mom's house but someone covered my mouth and brought me into this alley. By doing that I lost my shoe. Whoever it was lead me into another alley, then to another one. No one would be able to find us unless they know this place. "What do you want? And who are you?" I asked and took his hand off of my face. "And can you get me my shoe?!" I added. "You know what I want" he replied. "No I don't" I replied. "Can you unmask yourself please" I asked. "Only if you undress yourself" he replied. "I'm not doing that" I replied. "You will... Or else" someone else said and held a knife to my neck. Why does this always happen to me?! This is what everyone wants from me and I'm sick of it. "Fine b—" I started saying but I saw a bear on the floor in the distance. Ben's POV Alittlebitearlier... I was walking to Maleficent's house with Bella and Jesse. Then all of a sudden someone pulls me and Jesse back and takes Bella. "NO! BELLA!" I yelled. I tried getting out of the person's grip but he was too strong. By the time he let us go we lost sight of her. "No no no no no. We have to find her. I can't lose her" I said. We ran to Maleficent's house. I knocked on the door. "Oh hi B—" "We lost Bella. We need help" I cut her off. "What?! Bella, like my granddaughter?" She asked. "Yes someone took her!" I explained. "Where's Mal?" She asked. "She went to speak to Yen Sid" I replied. Someone ran up to us. "Your Majesty, I found the Queen's shoe" he said and bowed. "Why would she leave her shoe? She loves these shoes" I asked. "Where did you find it?" I added. "At an alley" he replied. I called Adam. "Send me 10 guards — no I need them now! Send them by magic! — someone took Bella and Mal! — yes hurry!" I hung up. A few seconds later some guards appeared. "Find princess Bella. We are not leaving this island until we get her. I'm going to find Mal, but look out for her too. Top priority is getting the princess. Now go!" I told them and they scattered off. "Bring us to the alley" Mal's POV "That's Bella's bear. Where is she?! What did you do to her?!" I yelled. "I'll tell you only once I get what I want" he replied. The other guy left the alley. I pulled him to me and kissed him. This is the only way to get Bella back. I still have no idea who he is. While I was kissing him I brought his hands down to my butt and I squeezed his hands. He unzipped my dress (the ziper was in the back) but I kept it on. He unclipped my bra and took it out, there was no straps so it was easy. Since my dress is white and lace you see right through it. "I didn't think this dress could get any see through" he said. "Before you start, who are you?" I asked. He took his mask off. "Liam? Are you serious?!" I asked. "Let's go princess, or else you don't get your daughter back" he said. I pushed him into the wall and kissed him. I really hate doing this. He took his shirt off. I kissed his lips and started going down. Down his neck, then down his chest, then down his abs all the way up to the starting of his jeans. "You can go further" he said. I got back up. "No thank you" I replied. He sat on the chair that was next to us and he made me sit on top of him facing him. He started sliding the top half of my dress down slowly. His hands were going up and down my thighs to my butt. He started kissing my neck and pushing my dress lower. It was coming to a point where it'll be past my boobs. "Your time is up. My turn" the other guy said coming into the alley. I got off of Liam and put my dress back on. "Dammit. Are you serious? Did you not see how close I was?" He asked frustrated. "Screw her right and you get what you want" Liam added and walked away. The other guy was going to push me into the wall but he didn't. Instead he just walked towards me and I backed up. He was going in for my neck but he whispered something instead, without touching me. "I want to help you, just wait until he's gone" he whispered. I looked to my left and I still saw Liam in the distance. "Just kiss me" I whispered. "He's still there" I added. "I can't kiss you" he replied. "Why? Just do it" I said. "I'm not allowed kissing you or touching you ok?" He said. "Please... Just do it. If you want to help me we have to make him leave. Just kiss me" I said. He kissed me softly. "He's going to leave faster if you make moaning sounds... Just do it" he whispered. "I can't just do it like that. Kiss my soft spot" I whispered back. "Are you sure?" He asked. I nodded. He started kissing my soft spot and I moaned. I looked over and Liam wasn't there anymore. He stopped. "Here" he said and handed me my bra. I put it on. It seems a little weird that he's helping me. I have no idea who he is and why he's helping me. "Who are you? And why are you helping me?" I asked. "We need to get you to Bella" he ignored my question. I followed him bare foot and I picked up the bear. "Can you please take the mask off? Its creeping me out" I asked. "Once you see who I am you'll get mad" he said and turned around to look at me. "I promise I w— do you hear that?" I started saying but I heard crying. "Its Bella!" I said excitedly and grabbed his hand and started running. He pulled me in back of this wall and covered my mouth. He shielded me. Someone walked by and didn't even notice us. "Stay here" he told me and gave me his sword. "Hey guys I lost my sword, I need a new one" I heard him say. "Did you find her yet?" Someone asked him. "No I haven't" he replied. "Can someone shut this baby up?!" I heard someone yell. "I'm going back to look for her" he said and came back to me. "What do they want with me?" I whispered. "The kingdom. They want you, after they get you they're sending someone to tell Ben and then he's going to come and give the kingdom over to get you both back" he explained. "Can someone shut her up before I kill her!!" I heard someone yell. Bella wasn't stopping. "Boys, stop her now!!!" He yelled again. "STOP!!" I yelled and showed myself. They all had black masks on. I have no clue who they are. "Let her go" I told them. The guy I was with came out next to me. "I knew you wouldn't turn your back against her. I knew you had her the whole time" he told him. "Do you not know what kind of trouble I'd get in if I did what you asked me to?! I'm already in trouble just standing next to her!" He yelled. Someone swung their sword at me and it turned into a sword fight. I got most of the guys and then they stopped coning towards me. "Anyone wanna be next?" I asked. Someone from behind took me and shoved me into the wall with their sword across my chest. "Hey boo" I told Liam and smiled. He was confused. I kissed him softly. He dropped his sword. I kissed him 2 more times then after the second I kneed him where the sun don't shine. He fell to the floor and groaned. I picked his sword up so now I had two. "Get out of my way" I said and held up both swords. They let me through. The mystery guy gave me the bear. I ran to Bella and dropped my swords. I put a magic bubble around us to protect us. She was in chains. In freaking chains. Who puts a three year old in chains??!!! "Mommy" Bella cried. "Sweetie I'm trying to get you out" I replied. I finally got the chains off and her wrists were all red. "Awe honey" I said and hugged her tightly. She cried into my chest. "Mommy's here. I'm not letting you go" I told her and caressed her head. She's traumatized. "How dare you guys?! You just traumatized a three year old, and you put her in chains!!! What is wrong with you all?!" I yelled. "Why don't you explai, Lucas" someone said and took Lucas's mask off. He was the one that helped me. "Me?! I never wanted to do this in the first place! You know I hope Ben comes and saves them, because if he doesn't then I am" he yelled. "Why do you keep doing this to me? One minute you're raping me, then the next you're saving me?!" I asked. "I'm sorry! I never wanted any of this to happen. I found out this morning when you arrived! " he replied. "I don't even know if I can trust you anymore. But I do know that after what happened yesterday, I stopped loving you. For good" I said with tears in my eyes. I took my phone out and called Ben. Ben's POV The guards couldn't find Bella so we met up with them and looked everywhere together. "Jesse do you know where they can be?" I asked. "Of course! But there's like 20 places. Its going to take us all day and night" he replied. "Well we have to find them" I said. My phone rang. "Its Mal!" I said and answered. "Baby where are you?" I asked and I put it on speaker so we all can hear. "I—kno—hel—wi—lla" it was cutting up. "Baby you're cutting up" I said. Then it went clear. "Shut it off!" Someone yelled. "No! I can do what I want" Mal yelled back. "Why are you doing this to her?! She doesn't deserve this! I'm going to find Ben and I'm telling him everything" I heard someone say. "If you leave, you're out of the group" someone said. "Fine. I don't care. I want Mal to be safe" the other guy replied. Then Mal hung up. "That's Lucas. Why is he all of a sudden acting nice?" Jesse said. "And that was Liam who was yelling at her" he added. "Liam? What? He's supposed to be in Arendelle" I said. " I thought he was too. But boys get ready for battle. Their troop is hard core" he replied. We started looking for Mal in an alley. "Here's her other shoe! We mist be getting closer" I said and picked it up. Lucas ran to us. "You apparently know where Mal is?" I asked him. "I do. Common" he said and started walking. "How do I know if I can trust you?" I asked. He turned back around. "I saved Mal from Liam. He was about to... suck, ya know where, and I stopped him. I didn't even touch or kiss her like you told me. I swear I didn't touch her. But the only way to get rid of Liam is by kissing and I didn't want to kiss her because, well, I'm scared of you so I didn't. But she was insisting I do because she wants him gone. So I did to help her but I swear we both didn't mea—" he rambled. "Just show us where she is. Is Bella with her?" I cut him off. He nodded. He led us down a few alleys. "Well well well, Mr.King to the rescue" Liam said. Mal's POV I'm glad Ben is here but I know what Liam wants. "Let them go Liam" Ben said. "Daddy's here to save us" I whispered to Bella and wiped her tears away and smiled. "I see you brought your guards. Are you afraid you wouldn't get them back by yourself?" Liam asked him. "Ben don't listen to him, he's just trying to aggravate you" I told him. "What do I have to do to get them back?" He asked. "I believe you run a kingdom? No?" He asked. Ben rolled his eyes. "Anything other than that?" He asked. "Yes there is. Let my daughter and Ben go and you can keep me" I said. "Mal I'm not letting you do that" Ben told me. "I like that idea" Liam said and smirked at me. "No. Let them go and you can keep me" Ben said. "But I love that idea even more" Liam said. "Do we have a deal?" Ben asked. "No Ben don't. Please don't. I'd rather them invade again then them taking you" I said. "Your Majesty, we can't let you do that" one of the guards said. I made the papers appear. "Sign it and hand over the kingdom. Please Ben" I told him. He saw the fake stamp and looked up at me. I nodded. "Before I sign let them go" Ben said. Liam stayed silent. "Fine. Boys, don't touch them" he said. I can basically get out of the magic bubble but once I do I knew they were going to ambush me that's why I didn't go. I walked with Bella slowly. "Go Mal. Go back home" Ben told me. I grabbed his arm. "I'm not leaving without you" I told him. "Mal go" he raised his voice. "I'm not going without you" I told him. "Take her back to the castle. Now" he told the guards. "Ben!" I yelled. "I'm not taking the car" I said. "Just go. Please" he said. I put my hand in the back of his neck and I kissed him passionately. "Nice acting" I whispered to him closely. "Make a run for it once you sign" I added. He nodded. I walked away with the guards and Jesse. Once we got where they couldn't see us anymore I stopped them. "I'm staying in case Ben needs me. I'm sending you back" I said and gave Bella to Jesse. "He told you to leave" Jesse said. "I don't care what he said I'm not leaving him alone" I replied. "Your Majesty we have to take you with us. By the way I have your shoes" one of the guards said. "I'm sending you back. And thank you" I said and put my heels back on. "Your Majesty w—" I cut him off by sending them back to Auradon. I hid behind the wall. "So are you going to sign them or not?" Liam asked. I knew Ben was hesitating because he was scared they would find out right away they're fake. I peaked my head out of the wall and he saw me. I saw with his expression that he got mad that I was here. He signed the papers and walked away. Once he was in the zone where they can't see him he ran to me. "I told you t—" I cut him off by grabbing his hand and running. * "finally!!" Liam yelled. Lucas looked over his shoulder. "If I tell you something, am I back in the group?" He asked. "Only if its good" Liam replied. "You have to promise I'm back in though. Trust me its good" he told him. Liam nodded. "Those papers are fake. That's not the real stamp and there's a typo. I'm pretty sure there's no typos in papers like these. They tricked you" he said. "WHAT?!" Liam yelled. "GET HIM NOW!" he added. They all split up and looked for Ben* Ben and I were running as fast as we can. It was a little hard running in heels though. We got to the main part of the island where everyone usually is. There were tons of people walking in the narrow road. We ran through them, still holding hands. Once people saw us running they cleared a path for us. We can see the limo from here, but the path is really far. Everyone was watching us. Someone stopped us. "CJ we have to go. Let us through!" I told her. "Mmm, royals. Always in a rush" she teased. "CJ we have to pass. Let us go" Ben raised his voice. "They're there! GET THEM" we heard someone yell. They were far but no one was in their way and they were running fast. "Yikes. Good luck" CJ said and moved out of the way. "Wait can I borrow your boots? Pleaseee! I can't run anymore in heels. I promise I'll give them to you tomorrow" I asked her. "Mal we have to go" Ben said. "CJ please" I begged. She sighed and took her boots off. I gave her my heels. "Thank you so much! I'll give them back tomorrow" I told her and out them on. "Mal! They're catching up! Let's go!" He yelled. "MAL!" Liam yelled. I grabbed Ben's hand and we continued running. "START THE CAR!!!" we both yelled the driver. He looked up at us and saw us running. "START THE CAR!" we repeated. He got in the car and started it. "THEY ARE NOT LEAVING THIS ISLAND. STOP THEM!" I heard Liam yell. I stopped. "Please block the path once we run by you!" I yelled. "Why should we do that?" Someone asked. "Because I'm trying to get back home to my daughter who he traumatized!! By yelling at her and putting her in chains! And she's three years old! And he raped me! NOW BLOCK THE PATH" I yelled and continued running. "By mom" I yelled before getting in the car. She waved. Ben and I got in the car. "DRIVE!" We both yelled. He drove fast and we were off the isle in no time. Ben hugged me tightly. "Ok starting now I'm not gonna let you out of my sight. I said that yesterday but its starting now. I'm sorry I wasn't there. I'm supposed to be there for you, and lately I haven't been. I'm sorry" he apologized. "Its fine. As long as you're here with me now, its ok." I replied. "I promise you that is the last time that happens. I know I said that yesterday but today I mean it. I should've never left you alone" he told me. "And I'm never leaving you alone on the isle. I stayed for a reason Ben. Without me you probably would've gotten stopped by so many peopl—" he cut me off. "I'm not mad" he said. "Well you sure looked like it once you saw me" I replied. "I know I know. I just didn't want you to get hurt" he told me. "Its my hood. No one ever hurts me there. They know better" I said. I kissed him passionately. It was silent. "I know you don't want to talk about it right now but... You can't keep these things to yourself Mal. If you don't talk about what happened and keep it in you for so long, who knows what you'll become. Mal I've seen people who try to keep it in and they got put in a mental hospital. I don't want you to become like that. Can we talk? Please" he asked. "I–I'm not going to become like that" I said and looked out the window. "Mal I'm not letting you get away with this this time. You have to talk to m—" I cut him off. "I don't want to talk to you! That's the problem! I don't want to talk to you!" I snapped back. It was silent. "I–I didn't mean it like that. What I meant is that—" he cut me off. "Its fine. You don't want to talk to me. I'll just stay out of your way" he said. "Ben, I—" he cut me off again. He knocked on the front window. "Stop the car" he said. He opened the door. "Where are you going?" I asked. "I need to process that my wife doesn't want to talk to me. I'm walking home" he said and shut the door. He banged on the hood of the car as a signal for the driver to go. I didn't mean it that way! What I meant was that I didn't want to talk to him about what happened. He just won't understand! I took CJ's boots off because they were uncomfortable. I finally got home. I grabbed the boots and went inside. "Heyyy what's wrong?" Evie asked. "Where's Ben?" She added. "He's walking home. Because of me" I said and tried not to cry. "From the isle?!" Jay asked. "No. We were coming home and he wanted me to talk to him or someone about what happened and I snapped at him and said that I don't want to talk to him. But I didn't mean it like that. I meant it as I didn't want to talk to him about what happened. And he took it the wrong way and got out of the car and now he's walking home" I cried. "Who's with Bella?" I asked changing topic. "Your mom" Audrey replied. "Don't leave her alone until I get back. She's traumatized by what happened. I can't believe they did that" I said. "What did they do?" Carlos asked. "First they kidnap her. Then they scream at her and they out her in chains! Who puts a three year old in chains??!!!" I replied. "I'm going to change and then Jesse I'll bring you to the studio" I said. "M you've had quite a day. Why don't I bring him?" Evie asked. "Its fine. I think its best I go and I don't see Ben before he completely loses it on me and makes everything worse. And besides... The studio has really comfortable couches that I will sleep on" I said and laughed. I went to change into white jeggings and a white t shirt with my black chocker. I straightened my hair.
