Poor Unfortunate Sea

Chapter 17: Tear of a Mermaid

Hayden's POV

I am walking down the main hallway of the dorms when I see the person I am looking for just now coming out of her room. her red hair is in a ponytail, she has gold shell earrings in her ears, a purple lace dress top, a pair of green jeans, and red high heels on. I pretend to be crying as I run quickly down the hall timing everything perfectly because I soon run into the girl. "Heidi? What's wrong?" I look through the tears in my eyes at Arabella. "Oh, hi Arabella." I say wiping a tear away from my eye. "Something must be seriously wrong for you to be this upset." Arabella gives me a hug as I fight the urge to roll my eyes. "I just need someone to talk too, and you are the only person I could find." I say whimpering into her shoulder. Arabella rubs my back soothing me and calming me down a little bit. "I was just on my way to finalizes the paper work for the kids from the Magic Kingdom to attend Auradon Prep next year." I nod my head stepping out of her way. "I don't want to keep you, I am sure that is more important." Arabella shakes her head opening the door to her dorm room. "I think Ben will understand." I nod my head slowly before walking into the bedroom with Arabella right behind me. Once inside Arabella walks over to the desk in the fair right corner of room. "What has got you so upset?" I take a couple of deep breathes as Arabella walks over to me handing me a tea cup on a tiny plate. "What is this?" I ask looking down at the unknown liquid which gets a light laugh out of Arabella. "It is tea Heidi, it will help sooth you." I have never really tastes tea before but just the smell of it I can kind of tell that I am not going to like it. "This is very sweet Arabella, but I am not in the mood for tea." I place the plate and cup on the nightstand next to me before placing my hands in my lap. "I just found out that Harry cheated on me." I say in a low tone of voice almost like a whisper. Arabella looks at me and her face isn't as shocked or sad as I was hoping for. "Was it someone from the Isle or someone here in Auradon." I take another deep breath as I rack my brain trying to figure out how to get the tear I need. "Turns out that I was Uma." Arabella gives me a side hug pulling closer to her. "I can't say that I am surprised Heidi, I mean given what Mal has told everyone about him when she first got here, and everything that you said that happened while on the Isle." I slowly nod my head. "I guess I was a fool." Arabella tucks a loose strain of her red hair behind her ear. "You are not the fool here Heidi, Harry fooled all of us into believing that he had changed, and it just goes to show you that some kids from the isle are villains with no hope of redemption." I fight back every urge that is screaming in my body, and I can also feel my hair flame up a little bit, but I quickly regain control of my emotions putting out my hair. "You kind of sound like a mix between Ally and Audrey." joke light heartily getting the both of us to laugh. Arabella stands up and looks out her huge window and towards the isle. "Ally and I share similar beliefs that people should get to know someone before casting judgement on them, but on the other hand I do slightly agree that some kids from the isle are beyond saving, and will be nothing more than their parents." I can see why Ben put her as an ambassador for Auradon, Arabella looks at both sides of a choice before choosing what she thinks would be best for Ben, Best of Auradon, and most of all the best of the people of Auradon. "It must be hard, to always assume that someone has a good heart, I mean look what happened to your mom." I say and I hear Arabella let out a quite sigh. "My mom was tricked my Ursula into believing that magic could help her with my dad, and in the end my mom almost lost everything." I look at Arabella and see her eyes welling up with tears as she thinks about the story of her mom and dad. I stand up grabbing a vial out of my purse and walk over to her. "It's not like it was a life or death situation." I say placing my hand on Arabella's shoulder. "But if you really think about it Heidi, my mom could have lost her life, and then she never would have met my dad." Arabella turns around hugging me tightly as I wrap my arms around her. "It is okay Arabella, everything turned out like it always does, the heroes defected the villains." I place the vile under her eye just in time to catch a few tears falling. I pull away from the hug turning Arabella towards the isle as I place the cap on the vial putting it back into my purse. "Ursula and Uma are trapped on that island, and I know firsthand that they are getting what they deserve." Arabella nods her head looking at me with a smile. "Thank you for not judging me for my views on the isle." I smile back her my mouth starting to hurt with all this fake smiling I am doing. "I understand, but you know that not everyone on the isle is truly evil." I wipe away what is left of her tears before letting out a deep breath. "I should get going, I need to get back to Henry." I walk over to the door and step out into the hallway only for me to bump into the last person I am expected to run into. "You haven't seen Pearl anywhere have you Heidi?" My dark eyes lock into the man in front of me. "No Herkie, but I do have to say that we really need to talk."