Chapter 12

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Evie was humming the song "Rotten to the Core" as she brushed her hair in front of the mirror. After she was finished, she moved on to applying her lipstick.

Suddenly, Mal kicks the door open, startling Evie and causing her to slide the lipstick against her cheek.

"I am going to kill you," said Mal with rage.

"Why?" asked Evie. "I haven't done anything bad to you, like, ever."

Mal yanks Evie's hair and drags her towards the wall. She shows the daughter of Evil Queen a bracelet with blue beads.

"Oh, you found it," said Evie. "I've been wondering where I left it."

"Guess where I found it. The Tunnel of Love," said Mal, still angry.

Evie's eyes widened, as if she was shocked to hear about this.

"You told Carlos to take me to the amusement park," said Mal.

"I have... no idea what you're talking about," said Evie innocently.

Mal's eyes started to glow green as she got even angrier.

"Okay. Okay. I did," Evie admitted.

"Why did you do that?" asked Mal.

"Did you tell him you love him?" asked Evie.

"I'm the one asking questions, Princess Blueberry!" yelled Mal.

"Did you tell him that you love him?" repeated Evie.

"Fine, I did," said Mal with a sigh. "So what?"

Evie gasped with a smile.

"Why the happy face? I just told you I'm gonna kill you," said Mal.

"Your confession. That's the reason I set up this little date," said Evie.

"Wait, you knew I would tell him that?" asked Mal, surprised.

"I told him not to tell you that the waterfall was only 30 feet tall, so yeah, I knew," said Evie. "When you're about die, you wanna get some things off your chest. And it appears you just did."

Mal lets go of Evie and steps back with a gaping mouth.

"E, why would you do that to me?" asked Mal.

"You have to give Carlos true love's kiss to cure him, right?" said Evie. "I knew you were falling in love with him. I just thought that you need to admit it to him and yourself for the kiss to work."

"Evie, do you have any idea what I'm going through right now?" asked Mal.

"Uh... not really," said Evie.

"Evie, I just told Carlos that I love him," reminded Mal, sounding like she was panicking. "Do you have any idea how big that is?"

"It means you can cure him," said Evie.

"That's not the point!" yelled Mal. "E, I love Carlos. But I lo-lo-l-l-like Ben, too."

Evie gasped again. Her mouth opened so wide, she covered it with both her hands.

"Would you focus?!" Mal yelled again. "After the whole trident incident, I've been trying to be perfect for Ben because I want to spend the rest of my life with him. I promised him that I would solve this Carlos-being-in-love-with-me problem. Well, tonight, I was fooled into confessing my feelings, my true feelings for someone I once considered a brother. Do you not see why I am freaking out?"

"Oh," replied Evie, realizing how serious the situation was. "I'm-I'm sorry, M."

"Oh, you should be sorry," said Mal. "I know you're just trying to help, E, but what you just did today, it's not helping, it's ruining my life."

Mal walks towards the door, slams it shut, and then falls back on her bed, putting a pillow over face.

"So, what are you gonna do now?" asked Evie. "You kiss Carlos, he stops loving."

Mal removes the pillow from her face and says, "He won't stop loving me. He's just gonna stop being obsessively in love with me."

"So, lose-lose either way?" asked

"Yup," said Mal sarcastically, making a popping noise on the "p".

"Is this really a bad thing, though?" asked Evie. "I mean, you love him and he loves you."

"E, Ben and I are still together, we're just not together right now," said Mal, trying to make sure Evie understood what she meant by the first and second "together".

Evie sits down on her friend's bed and holds her hand in an attempt to comfort.

"I supposed saying sorry again isn't gonna help either of us," said Evie.

"Darn right," replied Ma.

"But what I will say is that you can find a way to get past this," said Evie.

Mal sits up and looks at her friend. "E, these feelings I have for Carlos, they're not just new feelings. I've been thinking about this all night and I get this feeling that it's been there all this time."

"You think you loved Carlos before Ben?" asked Evie.

"My heart is telling me yes," said Mal. "And that's what scares me. Can I still be with Ben even after what I had just found out about myself tonight?"

Evie puts her arm around her friend, further trying to comfort her. Mal rests her head on Evie's shoulder as she started to cry.

"So, what are you gonna do about Carlos?" asked Evie.

"I... I don't know," Mal said as one tear comes down from her eye.

While Evie tries to comfort her best friend, someone outside the door has been eavesdropping. It was Carlos. If anyone could see him right now, they would say that he looks troubled.

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