Our Happily Ever After

Chapter 16: Right Under Their Nose

Ben's PoV:
      In all honesty, at this moment I had no idea what to say, do, or how to react. Much like at prom, if I remember correctly, which I think I do. Doug was standing in front of me finally still. His mouth was hanging wide open. I finally looked around as I came back to reality, I saw that my door was still wide open. Slowly I moved around Doug and went to shut my door. Other people probably didn't need to hear him and what he was yelling about.
After my door was closed I turned to him and saw that he was already facing me. "Well?" He asked me once more. I started scratching the back of my head. "What do you remember from the past few days man?" I asked him, testing the waters a bit.
"Ummmm I remember my mom and dad helping me move into my dorm along with my uncles helping their kids, ya know the other two that are my age, Hannah and Sami. I remember meeting Evie, and the others. And so forth up till now. Why?" Okay so he definitely didn't know anything.
"Okay. Yeah hold on real quick. This definitely seems like a Mal conversation." I walked over to my bed where my phone was and started to text her. "You mean Maleficent's daughter? Why her? What does she have to do with what I asked you or my issue?" I just held up a finger to tell him to wait a minute... He didn't seem to like that, but I was King or would be in his mind.
Ben: hey honey what's your location? I got a situation in my dorm...
Mal: @ the Doctor with E thought it was high time she have another ultrasound...doctor didn't seem too shocked that a "VK" was knocked up 🙄
Ben: well when you're done I've got a 911 going on...
Mal: well crap just what we need, another problem...what's going on?
Ben: Doug is losing his shit. He just asked me if Evie was carrying his kid...
Mal: yeah I'd call that a 911 I'll be right there...

Not even two minutes later there was a knock at my door. That's my girl! I went to open it, dodging around Doug who was pacing again. I open the door and kissed her cheek as she entered. I then closed the door behind her once more. Doug stopped and started at us as we held hands and looked at him.
"Mal right?" He gestured to my wife, not that he knew that or anything. She nodded. "Doug I know what you're wondering about Evie. And I have a lot to tell you. But I'm going to start with the most simple thing, yes she is carrying your baby. And you are her fiancé." He sat down on the floor right where he stood. Mal walked over and sat in front of him.

Mal's PoV:
It hurt me to see all of my friends so confused and upset. We should be celebrating. Around this time I should be back from my honeymoon and preparing for my coronation, and probably carrying an heir to the throne. But, my friends and family came first. Not like they'd really crown me Queen right now...
I explained EVERYTHING to Doug, just as I had done for Ben earlier that day. I told him about the past four years, about him and Evie, their little cottage, her beating him for valedictorian, prom, the baby, their engagement, how he was really 19, etc... "so I bought a house, got engaged, and got a girl pregnant at 19?" Ben and I nodded in response. "Yeah man, but it's cool. You know how things progress a little faster around here.." Doug nodded at Ben.
"And only you two, plus me now...remember anything? Where is this Tiffany person? Does anyone else remember ANYTHING?" I had never heard any amount of rage in Doug's voice until he mentioned her name. "I honestly have no idea where she put herself when everything happened. And yes only we know as far as I can tell." I answered him. With so much energy, Doug jumped to his feet with his fists clenched.
     "Well if this is all true and I'm like 90% sure that it is, then we need to fix this because in eight months I'm gonna be a dad!" I rose to my feet with him and I felt Ben walk up behind me.
     "Okay, but we can't do anything to rash. We don't want to alarm anyone or mess anything up.." I used my calm reasonable voice, my Queen voice as I called it. "Why don't we start by going to the cottage that you guys bought to see if everything is still there?" The boys nodded in agreement.
      Without another word or a second thought I used my magic to take us there. Doug looked around his new surroundings with wide eyes. There were pictures of him and Evie and all us together everywhere. "So this is our home?" Ben and I nodded to him. "Well then why don't we just bring her here?" He made a valid point.
     "Doug, I see what you mean and what you're saying but, I don't know if that would bring her memory back or just overwhelm her more. And we don't need to cause her stress because of the baby." He just nodded sadly.
      From there we three decided to just go with the flow and normal. We decided to go along with things as others remembered so we didn't mess anything up. But we also agreed to meet often in order to figure out how to take down Tiffany and get everyone their memories.

Evie's PoV:
Being pregnant was so nice...I don't know why women always complained. Currently I was laying on my bed in Mal and I's dorm just staring at the sonogram from my doctors appointment. It was such an awesome feeling knowing that I was carrying a person. But, I guess it would be nice to know who the dad was.
The whole thing was very weird considering the fact that I had never been with anyone on the Isle...or here in Auradon. And, I think I would know if I was taken advantage of. I guess my baby didn't neeeed a dad necessarily, plenty of women were doing the whole single mom thing, I mean mine did. So did Mal's and Carlos's.
      However, I think I made a valid point in believing that I should at least know who the other parent was. And I'm sure they might be a decent person who deserved to possibly be in the child's life...if they so pleased. But, what if they weren't around right now or I couldn't remember, because they didn't want anything to do with the baby? All the questions in my head caused a headache and I was really exhausted.
      I looked over at my nightstand where I saw my clock that read 10:00 pm. It was curfew and Mal wasn't back...she was a big girl though. I texted my sister that I was going to bed. And with that I turned off my lamp and set the sonogram picture down. I'm pretty sure I was asleep before my head hit the pillow.

Tiffany's PoV:
      Ahhhhhhh what a beautiful first few weeks. Sure Mal has gotten Ben and Doug, but I really don't think anyone was going to listen to them! I mean yes, Ben is pretty and a soon to be King, but he's quite the dipshit. And Doug...well he's definitely smart, but he's the son of Dopey and I'm sure people would say he was just becoming more like his dad.
       Oh and then there was Ms. Rock in Arendelle , I really enjoyed flying around there and watching all that unfold. Prince Aiden had really thought she was crazy! It was fantastic! After another long but glorious day of watching my plan unfold I finally arrived back at my new hideout... the oldest dorm in Auradon Prep.
      It was up in the only tower type structure and they didn't place students there anymore because everyone complained about the stairs. But I enjoyed it.
     I was literally hiding right under Mal's nose and she had no clue! I expected Ben not to know anything or realize it, but Mal? Well let's just say I thought she was a little smarter than that...JUST KIDDING! I knew she was an idiot too. Maybe that's why she and Ben were so good together.
     I did what little I had to do to prepare for bed and climbed into the super comfy canopy bed that was left in the room, along with all of the other furniture. Covering myself with the green comforter that I had used magic to make appear, I fell into a peaceful sleep full of wickedly perfect dreams about what was to come...