Crossing the Water

Chapter 6

[The scene opens on an exterior shot of Auradon Prep before it cut to a shot of the inside, where Audrey was sitting in her room, writing in a book as she sat on her bed and obviously upset.

"Got enough pink stuff there?" Uma scoffed. "Gods, I think even the walls are pink!"

"Your distain for the color pink is noted, but I don't think it's the right time for that," Elle told her cousin.

"Besides, pink is just a lighter red," Harriet smirked. "Sure, pink's not my color but then neither is teal."

"Nothing wrong with teal," Harry said quickly, causing Jay and Mal to smirk slightly.

"Never said there was Harry," Harriet chuckled.

As the camera panned over the room, showing the photos of Audrey and Ben together including one where they were small children, Leah's voice could be heard though Leah herself could not be seen.

Belle couldn't help but smile slightly at the picture of three year old Ben with three year old Audrey. It was hard to believe her little boy was now engaged to be married!

"A lifetime of plans, gone. Your mother could hold onto a prince in her sleep."

"Of course I could. Phillip and I were betrothed. We lucked out in that we found each other when I believed myself to be a simple peasant girl living in the woods with her three aunts," Aurora shook her head.

"Not to mention the fact that Aurora and I were True Love," Phillip Sr. spoke up. "You can't compare Audrey to us, Leah. To do that is putting unfair expectations onto her that she shouldn't have to deal with."

Audrey continued to sob as she drew a self-portrait of herself wearing a crown; the book she was drawing in appearing to be a diary of some kind.

"Oh the poor dear," Fauna said softly before fluttering close to Flora. "Flora, did we give Audrey any artistic gifts at her christening?"

"I don't believe so, no," Flora shook her head. "I remember I borrowed a bit from Aurora's christening and gave Audrey the gift of Beauty. You gave Audrey the gift of the love of the outdoors and Merryweather gave her...what was the gift you gave her dear?"

"Strategy," Merryweather stated. "Because you two don't believe in practical gifts and she would be Queen of Auroria at some point. She would need to be able to protect her kingdom."

"You have to admit though, that is a beautiful drawing she's working on," Fauna whispered.

As she set the pencil down, Audrey looked off to the side as the background music grew louder.]

Audrey:

I'm so tired of pretending.

Where's my happy ending?

"Yeah as much as I hate saying it...what's Chad to you? Chopped liver?" Kitty asked, frowning slightly. You don't get to use my brother and then mope that Ben proposed to his girlfriend Audrey, she thought.

Aurora sighed. You don't have to pretend Audrey. Gods, what did your grandmother do to you?

[She slammed her diary shut and whirled around.]

"Were...were you using hashtags in your diary?" Hadie asked, tilting his head as if trying to look closer at the diary. "Were...were you expecting others to see it later and wanted the proper tags?"

"What did I say about angering the girl wielding Maleficent's scepter?" Mal asked her brother.

"...not to?"