A Year Of Ben And Mal

Artistic Abilities

From: Stardust1621

Summary: Auradon Prep hosts an art show and Mal displays some of her drawings/paintings, which leads Ben to ask how she got her artistic skills.

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"Mal, I would love to show some of your work in the Art show this weekend" Mal's art teacher Mrs. Dexter expressed, she had been begging Mal to put her art up for show for weeks. Ever since Mal caved and signed up for Art Class after weeks of Ben had been bugging her to show her art, she had been loving the class. And once her Mrs. Dexter saw her work, she was begging for her to be in her class, claiming she had not seen such talent in such a young artist in years. Since she had been encouraging Mal to go out of her comfort zone, and try new forms of art. And she had excelled in each, but she never let Mrs. Dexter display them in the classroom or in the hall and especially not any of the open houses and shows that Auradon Prep had every few weeks. But she was determined to convince Mal to let her put up some of her work at the Art shot they were hosting this weekend, and she didn't care which pieces she could manage to get into that show because all of them were so amazing in her eyes.

Mal put so much passion into each of her pieces, they told their own story. Now she could understand why she didn't want to put some of her pieces in, they were pieces that were done in her free time, or during their free style art time. They told a darker story, things from the Isle, things that were far past nightmare level in Auradon. Then the others that she understood why she didn't want to share, were of Ben and herself, and occasionally some of the other VKs.

"No, I don't want to show them. Just like every other show." Mal expressed trying not to let to much annoyance slip into her tone.

"Please Mal" Mrs. Dexter begged "Just a few pieces. You can pick them, and few you want. I just want them in the show so bad."

"But Mrs. Dexter, I don't like showing my art. I fill it with passion I don't normally show, I don't want that just displayed for others to look at. It is personal to me" Mal stressed

"Please, you are our most talented artist we have here. Fairy Godmother would love to have your work shown, everytime she comes by to see everyone's work, she asks me why your work is never displayed. I have explained to her why you don't want it shown, but she still wants it displayed, and as do I, but we can't force you to display it. It doesn't even have to go into the competition that there is every year, just let us display a few pieces" She begged

"No, I am sorry but it is all to personal for me to have for all to see. My final answer as usual is no." Mal stated, and turned on her heel walking out of the art room and to her dorm since Art was her last hour and the bell had already rung.

Around half an hour after she had gotten to her room a knock sounded from the door

"Come in" Mal shouted from her bed sitting up from where she had been sketching in her sketch book

"Hey Mal" Ben said walking in

"Hey Benny" Mal said with a small smirk, closing her sketch book

"I was wondering if you wanted to take a walk through the woods with me" Ben mention "Since I had all of those annoying meeting s that we haven't gotten to talk much the past couple of days."

"Sure" Mal said hopping up from her bed and walked over to her chair sliding on some shoes, as she did Ben grabbed one of her sketch books and slid it into his bag.

And then they made their way out to the woods by the school, and were just walking hand in hand talking about everything and nothing. At one point though they came across a small clearing in the the woods, where a couple of trees had fallen and made some seats.