"Oh no!" Evie gasped. "Ben, you better be a fast runner!"

"Why?" Ben asked.

"Gil once pretended to be a dog to scare Carlos when he was eight," Mal explained. "Carlos ran all the way to the other end of the Isle before anyone caught up with him."

"That's on me," Ben said, sighing. "I didn't notice Dude."

"Or hear the screaming?" Lonnie asked.

"Took you long enough," Emir muttered. He liked Carlos, though he often felt like the younger boy didn't have the right body type for Tourney. Being so small, he'd get squashed for sure.

"Dude wasn't going to do anything, were you boy?" Carlos said, flushing a little at his past phobia. Dude barked in response and licked Carlos' hand, causing Rodger and Anita to smile softly at the sight.

Anita sighed and shook her head. She couldn't imagine how her old friend could have turned into such a creature that she would willingly cause a young boy to become afraid of dogs.

"No, Mary Poppins. Who did you think?" Mal asked, turning to her boyfriend.

"It was a lot of information," Ben told her, chuckling at the slight smirk on her face.

"Yellerer?" Belle asked slowly.

"Remember what I told you earlier, your majesty?" Mal asked. "We on the Isle love to make up words."

"But it's Dude!" Georgie Banks called out with a smile. "The most he can do is attack you with kisses!"

"Do Sykes' dobermans count?" Carlos asked.

"Those things are still alive?!" Jenny asked in shock. Mal looked over at her.

"My mother took a sword to the stomach and yet, clearly, she's still alive. Why does this surprise you?"

"Why do we have a campus mutt in the first place?" Evan asked.

"I don't think we have one anymore," Rachel said with a giggle. "Dude's Carlos'. Everyone knows that."

Four pairs of eyes looked over at Ben and Ben flushed as he read the expression on all four of the VK's faces. It clearly read: No shit, Sherlock.

"Makes me feel bad for some of the kids you know don't belong on the Isle," Evie sighed.

"We'll get Dizzy out of there," Mal promised, knowing who Evie was talking about.

"Dizzy?" Ben asked, having overheard. Of course, he was sitting right next to Mal so he would have no choice but to overhear.

"Drizella's daughter," Mal told him, catching Cinderella's attention.

"She's the sweetest thing, Ben," Evie told him. "Imagine me but younger with frizzy red hair, thick glasses and enough energy to power whatever you could think of ten times over."

"Red hair sounds more like Anastasia," Cinderella said, flushing slightly as Mal looked over at her. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to eavesdrop."

"It's fine," Evie said with a smile which faded slightly as she thought about Dizzy once more. "Drizella can't have biological kids, but Anastasia can. She acted as her sister's surrogate at Lady Tremaine's orders."

Cinderella gasped at the thought of not getting to raise the child you brought into this world and felt a pang of sadness for her step sister. She was never close to Anastasia but when they were first growing up, she was the only one who offered any condolences upon the death of her father.

"Way to make it awkward," Julia muttered, biting back a chuckle. It wouldn't be good to seen laughing at the future king.

"Oh yes, just leave a child of a villain out alone in a forest," Mal sighed. "Especially the child of Cruella with a dog. Any passerby could have done anything to Carlos."

"Mal, it was fine," Carlos told her. "Sides, I'm a fast runner remember?"

"It takes one tree root to trip you up," Mal told him, arms crossed. She hated looking weak in front of the people of Auradon but Carlos was like the baby brother she never had. With everything that happened with Cruella, Mal knew that it was up to her and Evie and Jay to protect him. Well, and Ben too, she figured. As long as she was dating Ben, all of her friends would fall under his protection.

She hoped.

"Aww," Anita sighed. How she wished she could have had children of her own.

"He's going to have a ball with our Dalmatians," Rodger whispered, smiling at the sight.

"Let's not get our hopes up," Anita told him. "Belle might say no."

"But I thought she was trouble?" Poppy asked, smirking at the prince. She had to admit, the kind tone to his voice was jarring considering how Chad had been treating the VKs.

Doug flushed at the statement—he did have strong feelings for Evie. How could he not? She was beautiful and smart, a rare combination in Auradon. Well maybe that was too mean but if Audrey was any example, you could see Doug's point.

"Have a crush?" Snow White leaned over and whispered in his ear. Doug whipped his head around and stared at her in shock.

"Don't worry," Snow told him. "It's not obvious—and I won't tell your family. But you should follow your heart, Doug. She seems like a good girl."

"But she was raised by the Evil Queen," Doug told her. "How do I know Evie won't be the same?"

"You'll never know unless you go for it," Snow told him. "As for the Evil Queen part? I was raised by her too, if you need someone as an example."

Doug flushed once more, realizing how deep he had put his foot.

"Really?" Mal sighed. "Stop putting yourself down for boys, E. Especially boys like Chad."

That doesn't sound too bad, Cinderella thought, looking at her son. It sounded like Chad was trying to build Evie up, not knock her down. But from what she had seen, she knew the other shoe was going to drop.

"I am so sorry," Evie said, turning over to Cinderella.

"It's perfectly alright, dear," Cinderella told her. "The first dress was a little ratty but the one Fairy Godmother gave me was beautiful."

"It had good bones, my dear," Fairy Godmother said with a smile.

"Why?" Mal groaned. "Why would you show him your mirror?"

"I don't know," Evie told her.

"You lost another phone?" Kitty sighed.

"No," Chad told her. "It was in my hamper."

"Ugh! Dad, just get him a new phone," Kitty shuddered. "That current phone probably reeks."

"You're lucky you found your phone, Chad," Kit told him. "After seeing this, you'd be without a phone for a while."

"Smooth, E," Mal smirked. She hadn't realized that her friend was just as focused on the wand heist as she was—Mal thought all Evie cared about was boys.

"Chad Charming, don't you dare!" Cinderella warned.

"How many girls have you done this to?" Cinderella asked, hardly believing what she was seeing. Yes, Mal and Evie told her earlier but to see it in front of her...

"About half the girls at school," Kitty told her mother as Chad was too busy trying to avoid looking at Cinderella. "I can't tell you how many friends I've lost because I'm Chad's sister."

"Chad, you will redo all the work you've had others turn in for you," Cinderella told her son.

"What? Why? It's already done!" Chad shouted, hardly believing his mother.

"But you don't know how to do it," Kit told his son. "How can you govern a kingdom if you don't know anything because you had others do the work for you?"

"You can spend your first two weeks of your summer vacation on it, because you'll be grounded," Cinderella told him. "Only phone usage will be calling a friend if you need help on the homework."

"Good luck trying to find someone," Kitty taunted her brother, knowing all of his friends took lavish trips the first two weeks of summer vacation.

"Right to the point," Mulan chuckled.

"Aww!" Shelby, Sneezy's daughter, sighed. She was so happy for her cousin, and thought he and Evie would make the cutest couple.

No response is better than a no, Shelby thought, looking over at her younger cousin. Evie better not break Doug's heart, or she'll have the rest of the family to deal with.

"We're not that bad," Audrey scoffed.

"Aren't you the one who was complaining to me about all the girls getting their hair done by Mal because you wouldn't stand out anymore?" Ben asked.

"Bennyboo!"

"Will you cut it out with the nickname?" Ben groaned. "We are not together anymore!"

"But...you let Mal say it!" Audrey whined, close to tears.

"When Mal says it, it's teasing," Ben told her. "Besides, she doesn't say it almost every time she says my name."

"You know, Evie," Rapunzel said. "I have a few mannequins I'm no longer using—royal duties take so much time out of the day. Would you like to have them?"

"You used to sew?" Evie asked, shocked.

"Locked inside a tower, you need all the activities you can get to distract yourself," Rapunzel said with a sad smile. "Now, about the mannequins?"

"Yes, absolutely!" Evie nodded. "Thank you so much your majesty!"

"Anything I can do for my daughter's friends," Rapunzel said with a brighter smile, unknowingly causing Evie and Mal to relax. The last thing they wanted was pity because of who they were.

"What were you drawing?" Ben asked.

"Just a sketch," Mal told him.

Ben couldn't help but smile at the thought that he was her first boyfriend. There was something special about the idea of being someone's first.

"You say that now," Evie said with a coy smile.

"What about your homework?" Rachel asked.

"Oh, that was done a while ago," Evie told her. "Stress causes wrinkles so I always got my homework out of the way as soon as I got home."

Chad, meanwhile, was avoiding the stern looks his mother and father were sending his way.

"We knew who your mom was," Evie said with a smile.

"Yeah, Mulan's one of the few heroes we like over on the Isle," Mal said with a chuckle. "Breaking one of the biggest rules there is? Major respect."

"Only one who doesn't like her is Shan-Yu's daughter," Evie finished. "But that's to be expected, honestly."

Mulan flushed at the idea that dressing up like a man to join the army would have been something the villain kids would have admired.

"It wasn't so much I didn't want to and more the fact that I just met her," Mal explained. "Magic takes a lot out of you when you're not used to it and I was still worn out after Jane's make over."

"Oh dear," Fairy Godmother gasped. "Did your mother not..."

"Mom couldn't use her magic so she couldn't teach me about mine," Mal said. "She thought like all of us that we weren't getting off the Isle. No need to get my hopes up over something that wasn't going to happen."

"Lonnie!" Mulan exclaimed. "That money was for emergencies!"

"Sorry, mom," Lonnie said with a sheepish smile.

"You spent too much time around Dizzy," Mal chuckled. "Sometimes I think your brains are connected."

"I will never understand girls," Carlos muttered. Yeah, Evie may have had better hair but there wasn't anything wrong with Mal's hair. The experience of dealing with his mother's hair every day taught him that.

"You do look beautiful," Mulan said with a smile.

"You're not mad?" Lonnie asked.

"Are you happy? Did it cause you harm? Did it cause others harm?"

"Yes. No. No."

"Then of course I'm not mad," Mulan told her daughter.

"What is with your obsession with cutting hair?" Henry Turner groaned.

"Dizzy doesn't use magic for her hair," Evie said.

"Dizzy is trapped on an Isle surrounded by a magic barrier that doesn't allow magic to be used," Mal shot back. "Also, Dizzy doesn't have magic!"

"Oh, right."