Charlotte Cheshire: Adopted By The King And Queen

Chapter 5

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Ben's POV

Mal came back and saw me running after Lola, who had taken my crown from our room. "How did she get that?" Mal asked as she grabbed Lola and took the crown from her. Honestly, I didn't know. "I don't know! One moment she was here, and the next she's running round with the crown on her head!" I told her.

Behind me, I heard someone walk into the entrance hall. "Belle!" Esmay's voice cheered. I turned round to find my mother being hugged by the six children. Smiling, I walked over and unhooked James, Jake and Daniel from her. "Boys, why don't you go find Adam and play with him?" I smiled at them. They nodded their heads excitedly and ran off towards the library, where they knew my dad would be. The girls moved from mum and went off with Mal towards the garden. "Why didn't you tell me that my granddaughter would be aggressive and easily angered? Mention the word parents and I get pushed past and ignored!" She told me. "Charlotte pushed you?" I asked, shocked.

"No, dear. I said that you two would be wondering where you were, but I called you her parents. She said you weren't, and then pushed past me. She didn't physical push me into the wall."

"But she got annoyed when you mentioned the word parents?"

"Yes. But she also found the door."

"She did? No, she can't find it again." That door had been locked since I was four. There's no way I'm risking my daughters life like I risked mine. Mum nodded and put a hand on my cheek, "It'll be fine. Now, Lumiere said that dinner will be ready in an hour. Why don't you try and round up the kids, and their parents." I nodded and walked out towards the garden. All the girls would be there, no doubt.

Mal's POV

Me, Evie, Jane, Lonnie and the girls were sat in the garden, smiling and laughing as we had some girl chat. "Mummy, why can James do magic, but I can't?" Carla asked Jane. I smiled at her and looked to Evie, who had her nose in her sketch book. "E, you need to stop! You'll over work yourself!" I told her. She looked up, raised an eyebrow, and went back to her sketch. "It's for Charlotte, M. We both know that she doesn't own much, so I want to make her some outfits. Now, how about this?" She told me, showing me a sketch. There were pieces of fabric pinned to the page, and the outfit in the middle looked amazing. (Don't have a sketch, so proper outfit above.) "E, this is really good! But you don't have to do that, we could just go to the show and-"

"No, no! My niece is not havi g shop bought clothes! Not when I'm already making her outfits! Got to go, bye!"

"But Evie! Ugh, why is she so excitable!?" I groaned as she left. Esmay and Lola decided to gi play, and Jane and Carla went to see fairy godmother for a while. Lonnie smiled at me, "Mal, you should know by now that Evie is always excitable!" I sighed and fell back onto the grass, looking up at the clouds. Why do I feel stressed again? I thought. Lonnie stood up and said she was going to see Dizzy and check how she's doing in Auradon. I nodded and closed my eyes as I let the breeze blow over me.

"Having a nap, are we?" I heard Ben's voice ask. I snapped my eyes open and looked up to see him smiling above me. "No. I was relaxing. How was your mum?" I asked him as he sat down and I sat up. "She was good. But she told me that Charlotte nearly opened the door I was telling you about." He replied as he put an arm round my shoulder. Door? Which door? Oh, that door. I thought as I remevered what the heck he was in about.

"You mean the one that takes you straight to the Isle? The one you went through when you were four?" I asked. He nodded and sighed, "But we both know which part of the Isle." Yeah, I do. That door leads straight to my old home. Ben had gone through it when he was four and was met with my mum shouting and trying to grab him. I don't know what I was doing that day, but I know I wasn't there at the time. "Oh, I forgot to tell you! I told Charlotte that you would be getting her when dinners ready." I told him.