A Crack in the Mask

Alpha and Beta Dynamics

Hey Descendants,

Happy Wednesday! Officially less than a week until Christmas. Anyone else in the middle of another Holiday or getting ready for it?

Hopefully all school torture is coming to an end soon.

Anyway, after Ben's conversation with David, he's made up his mind to share the letter with the leaders of the pack.

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"That's the entire letter?" Mal tilts her head to the side as she looks between David and Ben in confusion, her voice chock-full of skepticism.

"Well, no." David shrugs as he looks up from his spot on the floor. "That was just the parts we both thought you should know outside of individual sessions."

Jay drums his fingers on the wall behind him before he sighs heavily, "So if we want to hear the whole letter we have to come to talk to you alone?"

"Yeah, pretty much, brah." David taps a finger against it, "There's some pretty heavy stuff in here. Ben had to make an appointment after reading it."

"While I was reading it actually," Ben rocks slightly back and forth on his heels as he tugs on his belt with his thumbs, "I, in no way want to hide this from you. I just," He sighs as his feet plant, "I needed help working through some of the things she talked about, so I wanted to be able to warn the rest of you. It's a pretty personal letter, and was far more exposing of herself than she's been with the rest of you."

Mal's eyes sweep over Ben thoughtfully, before they turn to David suspiciously. Then her eyes land on him expectantly. Familiarly.

Jay gives her a one-shoulder shrug. He believed them. Ben had never given him a reason to suspect he would be malicious towards them. And he believed David when he said he wanted to be on his team. Coaches wouldn't hold back important information. Why would they? They wanted the team to win. So, he would trust that David wanted him to win too.

She nods before turning back to Ben. "We can deal with that, as long as we get to read the rest of it. We can wait." She crosses her arms.

"Nice." David nods as he places the letter on the chair behind him before leaning his weight against his hands. "Glad that's settled." He grins.

Jay sighs as he pushes off the wall, "That had to be from when she vanished for a week. Evie said she busted out of the hideout like the ol' bat outta hell hall after seeing the fireside chat. She was hiding with fucking Senior."

Mal rolls her eyes. "Why didn't we check there first?"

"Because at the time we were more concerned with where T was." Jay points out with a frown. That was why he didn't check, because he was busy hunting down T in the Yu territory.

"We should've tied those fucking idiots to something when they weren't with one of us," Mal huffs as she crosses her arms and leans against the table. "That would've saved us so much fucking trouble. Stupid assholes, spazzing the fuck out at the same damn time." The 'how dare they' was silent, but still clear in her tone.