De Fragee Prutia

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 "I see we've moved from tangerines to apples, now."

Ben laughed as Nami jumped, gripping onto her locker for dear life. She wasn't expecting him back for another few days.

"Oh, well you know it's only cause they ran out yesterday." Nami leaned against the locker cooly, as if nothing happened.

"Mmm, okay." Ben wrapped her up in a hug. "How is my Fragee Prutia?"

"I'm good. Did something happen? You weren't supposed to be back till Thursday?"

As Ben's royal advisor, Nami knew all his schedules. He was on a tour, visiting kingdom to kingdom in Auradon as new king, making sure everything was well in the nation. She had blocked out two weeks for him. Ben's job as king wasn't easy to balance with school and Nami tried to take on any jobs she could but the tour was one he had to do himself.

"How many problems did you think the kingdoms were going to have? How have you been holding down the fort here?"

"This Cotillion is going to be the best one yet. It's on a boat! Well, not yet. We hold idea meetings next week. I'm getting the boat though; Mal's going to back me up on that."

"Hey, Nami..."

Her phone alarm interrupted Ben. It was a notification from the palace with a schedule. And on the schedule was being a mediator in the conflict with Cinderellasburg and Charmington over ownership rights to a new mine on the border in five minutes.

"Oop, got to go Benny-boo." Nami moved to leave when Ben grabbed her hand.

"Ben, meeting." Nami shook the cell phone.

"I'm making the executive decision to add someone to our personal team. This is a lot for two of us. Think about it and give me some names."

"Okay. I'll see you after my meeting."

Nami kissed Ben on the cheek and left.

Nami and Ben stood over Mal and the other VKs at their lunch table.

"Benny-boo, NaNa, do you want to maybe sit down?"

"So Mal, we were thinking since you and I basically do everything together, joining us as royal advisor."

Mal laughed before realizing the two were serious. "Oh no no, do we remember how that went last time."

"Last time you spelled my boyfriend... you're not replacing me just joining. I'm taking a new title as Council Master and you would be taking on king's royal advisor. We'll split our jobs, you handle Auradon Prep and the Isle I'll handle everything else in Auradon. Come on, it's free trips with me and Ben."

"Okay. But I'm not taking sides in arguments between the two of you."

"Understood."

"Great, now sit down all that standing is making me anxious."

Nami and Ben sat with the VKs. Ben started talking Mal through her new duties while Nami stole fries off of Jay and Carlos' trays.

"So, we've thought about it and bringing over VKs isn't enough. As king, I should rule all the people of Auradon and that goes for the Isle too. We wanted to try and improve life for those on the Isle, especially kids waiting to come."

The VKs looked at the royals.

"I think that's a great idea, you two." Jay said.