You're The One: A Mevie FanFic

Chapter 5

Mal;

It was a quiet ride to the movie theater; Audrey behind the wheel, Evie beside her, me alone in the backseat and staring avidly out the window.
Sympathetic to the plight of Evie's tension with me - and purposely left out of the loop on what had gone down between us in the dorm - Audrey of course let Evie invite me along. Though it might be a chance for us to mend the rift.

I was clearly still thinking the same, sticking close to Evie as we all stood in line at the ticket window, staying all smiles for her. I could make everything right between us. I just had to.

"E, what kind of candy do you want?" I asked browsing the stands when they got inside. "My treat."

"Mal, it's fine, you don't have to buy me candy," Evie walked (or stormed) over to grab her choice of candy and take it to the cash register.

Second by second, I was losing the confidence that I could make everything right.

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On the Isle of the Lost, the phrase "caught between a rock and a hard place" was often a literal one. In Auradon, it was more like "caught between an Audrey and a hard place"

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Evie;

With Mal sitting to my right, and Audrey sitting to my left. Imagine my surprise and confusion when it was there, in the slowly darkening theater, that she realized she was rather looking forward to it just being me and Audrey. Not me and Audrey attending the fashion club, or me and Audrey collaborating on cheerleading uniforms...but me and Audrey, sitting close in the dark with a whole other world coming to life on the screen before them and the tantalizing smell of popcorn in the air.

Mal's head automatically finding its way to its treasured spot of my shoulder as the previews began threw one big wrench in my expectations. I stiffened in my seat, shocked and maybe somewhat appalled to find myself actually uncomfortable with Mal's closeness. The same closeness she shared with Ben, the closeness I longed for that now seemed simply cruel and taunting now that I had it. Cozied up to Mal at a movie should've been my dream come true, but all I could do now was constantly and anxiously glance to the left and hope that Audrey wasn't watching.

I imagined that Mal's infuriating habit of always having Ben on the brain was what possessed her to skip getting popcorn for herself in favor of sharing with her best friend, and I found myself tensely on high alert to make sure me and Mal didn't fall prey to the "reaching-into-the-bag-of-popcorn-at-the-same-time" ruse. It was a nightmare. Forty minutes in, I didn't think I'd once laid eyes on the movie, watchdogging Mal's every move the way she was. It was a strange sense of claustrophobia, having her so near, and when Mal finally stirred to mindlessly adjust her position, I leaned away just as reflexively as Mal had leaned over in the first place.

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i will be continuing this story. the next chapter is the continuation of this chapter. the previous chapter is the first one. if you haven't read the first one, please read it so you can understand. thanks for reading! Xx