The Daughter of Fire and Ice

Chapter 10

Preparing another batch of love potion was fairly easy. I just snuck into the kitchen really early in the morning and whipped them up. 

Sitting through classes all day was the hard part. My brain kept wandering, mostly to what would happen if we don't pull this off, and Harry. My father obviously never knew what love felt like because Harry has become my everything, and that scares me. He has become the air I breathe, the colour in my dark world, the only person that matters. Maybe love is a weakness but I wouldn't want anyone else as my weakness. 

At lunch I went to the table me, Uma, Harry and Gil always sit at. It's in the corner of the cafeteria, meaning no one comes over, not that they would anyway, four VK's? I was the first one at the table and so I sat with my head on the table. 

"Tired love?" Harry asks concerned. 

"Nah," I reply, "just bored."

"Well we're all here now," Gil says excitedly.

"Great," I say sarcastically.

"Ooh damn, Little Miss Queen of Auradon got some bite today," Uma says snarkily. 

We both look at each other and start laughing, Harry and Gil look at us then start laughing too. It felt nice to be, normal? I don't know what the feeling is since we've never been normal, but it feels like everything is finally falling back into place. 

"So, do you have them?" Uma asks once we've stopped laughing. 

"Of course ya stupid pirate," I say laughing. She just smirks at me.

"Bennyboo at 12 o'clock," Gil says happily.

"See ya guys around," I grab my bag and place it on my shoulder, before I salute and walk over to Ben.

"Oh Ellie, just the person I've been wanting to talk to," Ben says smiling at me. 

"Oh really," I ask confused.

He leads me away from the cafeteria and we walk side by side in silence. I'm just about to ask where we are going when I see the tree on the edge of the school. I drop my bag and run up to the tree. I then climb up a bit to my favourite branch. Ben comes a minute later with both our bags laughing. 

"What?" I ask.

"You're so adorable, you know?" He asks. I'm about to reply when he realises what he said and blushes, "I uhhh..." He coughs "I didn't mean it like that."

I swing down and come up to him, "it's okay, I think you're adorable when you blush like that." I smirk at him, seeing his blush get worse.

"Uh... aren't you and Harry Hook a thing at the moment?" He asks nervously.

"No silly, we're just really close, have been since we were little," I reply laughing.

"Oh, well Ellie... I've got to be honest," he looks at me, his eyes shinning like diamonds. "I'm still in love with you."

"Ben..." I say.

He places  a hand over my lips, "shhhh." He grabs my waist and pulls me in, his face centimetres from mine, "I miss us." That's all it takes for the distance between us to be filled, he presses his lips on mine.

When the kiss breaks I look at him, "I thought you were with Mal?" I ask.

"Well technically but you... you are the one I want to be with."

Little did either of us know, three figures had seen and heard the whole event.