See The Light 💜✨

xiv.

The next few weeks were eventful. If it weren't for the fact that Mal had started plotting how to seduce Prince Ben, I had to help her with it.

Why did it bother me? Because I met the guy and he was actually pretty cool.

I mean, any friend of Alex was cool in my eyes I guess. Also, the guy was on my tourney team so I couldn't really have a prejudice against him or anything.

Today, we had tourney practice and I was tasked by Mal to ask him questions about Fairy Godmother's wand..and about how he liked Mal. If he did, at least.

We were practicing how to block oncoming players from the goals and it was admittedly stressful considering it was colder than normal outside and none of the guys on the team liked me anyway, they always tried to make things harder on me. And, for some odd reason, I loved to relay it back on them. Normally, bragging wasn't my thing but it was Jay's and I had to stay in character, you know?

We had split into two teams, putting color coded ribbons on our belt loops. I was on the gold team with Ben and some other guys I didn't know.

Two of these guys, Lucius and Regulus, were close to Ben and apparently knew Alex..funny since he didn't mention them. Lucius was the son of Lumiere so that was expected that he was close with Ben since Ben's parents were in the same story, I didn't know Regulus's parents but they must've been a big deal since everyone seemed to know him. They were familiar in a way but I couldn't really put my finger down on it.

The other team had blue ribbons and consisted of Chad and his gruesomely mean looking friends. I mean, the guys were gorgeous but they knew how to throw a cold glance that was enough to give you frostbite.

"You guys ready?" Ben, who just so happened to be the captain, asked around while nodding to a few people.

We all seemed to be ready but it always takes a few seconds for chaos to strike,"Mind if I join in today?"

I felt myself heave as I heard the all too familiar voice behind me,"Laddie! What a surprise!"

Yeah, a terrible one..

"What brings you here?" Ben was way too happy to see him here but maybe he was just acting.

"Oh, I had nothing else to do today," I turned to see him, noticing he was wearing the sweater he had snatched off the floor when I went to Alex and his's dorm,"Thought it would be nice since I used to play."

I blinked a few times, not believing it for a second. Laddie? Playing tourney?

"I don't know, Laddie," Ben says, making Laddie's face fall and my lips curl into a smile,"You haven't played in a year, you sure you're up to it?"

"C'mon, Ben," Chad swings an arm around Laddie's shoulder, making Laddie almost recoil back in horror,"the blue team is one man down and I think it would only be fair."

I wondered why Chad was acting so welcoming to Laddie because it was so obviously aware that the two couldn't have cared less about each other but then I saw the way Chad scanned over me like a cracked mirror (his most least favorite thing since it would make him ugly..as if he wasn't already) after he saw Laddie stare at me. He knew something was up between us and I hated it.

"Uh," Ben looked nervously between the both of them before sighing,"Alright, fine, but you'll have to try out next semester if you want to play with us full time, Lads."

"Yeah, yeah, looking forward to it," He brushed the comment off and gave me a glance, it was unlike the other guys's glances because instead of this one being cold, it was red hot. He was ready to strike at a moments notice and I felt a touch of fear, as of the flames from his eyes had physically come to life and licked at me.