New Beginnings

[waystobewicked]

It wasn't that Auradon hadn't worked out. It was that staying in a school with your ex, and his friends that were his friends before you, and with everyone blaming you for ruining the supposedly proposal that was coming was just not the ideal situation. Not for Mal. Not for any of them.

Thankfully Belle hadn't been willing to return them to the Isle, and Ben had begged them to stay, but in the end Belle had contacted another school. One that might be more suiting to them. So the four had packed up their things, been sent magically to another realm and found themselves standing on platform 9 and 3/4, waiting on a train.

Aboard the train the boys had quickly found the candy trolley and eaten themselves into nearly a sugar coma. Mal had waited and watched as they unloaded with the other students. They were older than most, and coming in a few weeks after the year had started. There was talk of sorting and that was a flurry of a talking hat, and a bearded wizard who treated them with bright smiles and offers of lemon drops.

Being told they would be in different houses was interesting, helpful and scary. They would learn more that way, but they would also need to find a place, somewhere to meet. Which was why Mal had grabbed Evie's hand and set out about the castle.

"Well, this is different." Gone was the bright sun, the brilliance of Auradon traded for the Scotland storms. Mal rather liked it, if she were to be honest. More her.

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[rottentothe]

Evie was pretty sure that she felt every emotion she was capable of having since returning to Auradon from the Isle and now... here. She had been so surprised when Mal broke up with Ben and almost upset at first, honestly thinking that they would be hurried off back to the Isle. A place she had sworn Ben to never do to her if she helped him bring Mal back to school. She had never wanted to return there, not after finally accepting and becoming a person she liked being. When Belle told him they didn't have to go back there and they could be sent to another school? She was elated!

And it meant the four of them could stick together like the band of thieves they were. Which was even better if you asked her. She was a bundle of nerves as they got closer to the school and when she was sorted into a different house than Mal, Carlos or Jay? Well that was just not fair! Especially since she wouldn't be sharing a room with Mal anymore! She misses Doug of course. He was simply adorable and probably the first guy (other than Carlos and Jay) to see her as someone else under the masks.

When Mal grabbed her hand and set off to explore their new home, Evie laughed and walked with her, giving the girls hand a squeeze. "Much different. I think this will suit us much better," she said. Hoping that it would. At least the kids wouldn't be judging them based on what their parents did. That was something!

"I will miss sharing a room with you."