IX. "is this seat taken?"

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Chapter Nine:
"Is This Seat Taken?"

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"She can stop time?"

"Yeah, I guess so."

Laila and Evie walked side-by-side toward Auradon Prep. The sun had set not too long ago, but Auradon Prep most certainly wasn't in darkness. An array of blues and greens and purples lit up the stone walls from hidden lights in the ground. Blue and yellow fireworks lit up the night sky in celebration for the man of the moment: Ben.

After the events at the cathedral, when Maleficent practically invaded—but also when Ben also became king, so, you know, positives—the crowd took a few minutes to adjust to what had happened (could you blame them?), Laila included, but then everything seemed OK. People continued to celebrate, all throughout the rest of the day, and morale was high.

Evie hadn't had a chance to talk to Laila since it all went down, with both of them having duties to attend to, so she had made it her mission to speak to her when she saw Laila walking by herself (with Lonnie having left to spend some more time with her family) to Auradon Prep, where the after party would take place—which they were in no means late to, but they were trailing slightly behind the bigger crowd in front of them.

"Wow. Since when?" Laila shook her head in disbelief.

Evie shrugged.

So, apparently, Maleficent had stopped time, or frozen everyone, or something, but then the VKs—namely Mal— were able to... shrink her? And turn her into a lizard? Wait, no... what was it that Evie had said? Oh, right. Maleficent had done it to herself, apparently—she'd shrunken down to the size of the love in her heart. Yikes.

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