Ben POV

"What?" Evie asked. "How can you even hear from down there?"

Mal rolled her eyes. "I heard nothing. I can see the pictures they're holding!"

"Well, that makes more sense!" Jay complained.

"Well, we have to help all of them!" Carlos yelled.

"Shut up Carlos." Mal said as she started whispering to herself "I can do this. I can do this."

"Have you never done magic before?" I asked as Mal glared at me.

"I have, just not this type." Mal said, then continued to focus. "Make no mistake, but teleport them here, post haste. Bring Audrey, Jane, Lonnie, Chad, and Doug here!"

In a flash of green, all five of my friends appeared.

"What's going on?" Audrey asked.

"I was peacefully working in the mines, and what happens? I get teleported to Ben's house!" Doug complained.

"Mom's gonna kill me!" Jane exclaimed.

"I don't want Shan Yu to hurt my parents!" Lonnie said, almost in tears.

"Why are they here!" Chad yelled, pointing to Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos.

"Because it's to hard to hear, make them quiet before I tear!" Mal yelled as everyone's mouths continued to move, but no sound came out.

"You actually made them shut up?" I asked. "Thank you! Whenever I try, they just continue to yell!"

"Welcome." Mal said, then called everyone to attention. "Listen up! I'm taking everyone to a place that should still be here! Now everyone grab hands because it will make my life so much easier!"

"Why?" Chad mouthed.

"Dude, just do it!" Doug mouthed back.

"I'm not touching a VKs hand!"

"Since this is gonna take forever," Lonnie mouthed. "I'm going to take a chance and grab Chad's hand. Anyone else wanna join me?"

"I'll help." Audrey mouthed as she gripped Chad's hand. Lonnie followed her lead and soon, everyone was holding hands. I was holding Mal and Jane's. Doug was the only other person brave enough to hold a VKs hand.

"Because these people don't want to get caught, take us to where we first met!" Mal chanted as my bedroom dissolved and a crumbled building appeared.

"Wow." Jay said. "I've never seen this place look so bad."

"I know. It's sorta weird." Carlos agreed, walking over to a statue covered in ivy.

"This is still here?" Evie asked as she let go of Doug's hand and walked over to the statue.

Mal looked at us. "Well, are you guys going to go explore, or what?" She asked as everyone went to go look at their separate things. I stayed.

"Almost....... Darn it!" Mal yelled as she tried to get the ivy off of the statue.

"Need any help?" I asked.

Mal looked at me. "Why aren't you exploring?"

"Because I don't want to wander out alone. Besides, I owe you one."

Mal sighed. "Good point. Can you cut the vines?"

"I can try." I said, taking out my trusty knife and cutting the vines off of the statue. When it was done, the statue resembled a man. I felt like I knew him from somewhere, but I couldn't place it.

"You know," Mal said. "the son of the owner said that his father wanted his statue to morph from Beast to Man, to remind everyone that everything is possible."

"Does it still do that? It looks to old." I asked, inspecting the statue.

"Wanna find out?" Mal asked. She grabbed my hand and pulled me forward. "Clap."

"What?"

"I tried that when I was younger and I met Evie, Jay, and Carlos here. You try."

"Why me?"

"Because your parents were pretty powerful. It may respond to you. Please try!"

"Fine!" I said as I clapped. Sure enough, the statue did morph from Beast to Man. "What just happened?"

"Um, Ben, that statue, it's of your father." Mal said.

"It is? He founded this place?"

Mal nodded her head.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Then I noticed the necklace on Mal's neck. "Where did you get that?"

"Don't be mad, but I got it from Mrs. Potts, Lumiere, and Cogsworth." Mal admitted. "Look, I'll take it off if you want me to."

"No, it's okay. Obviously, they wanted you to have it for a reason." I said.

"I'm sorry."

I sighed. "It's okay. Not like I knew my parents."

"Hey, I would trade what you have for what I have in a heartbeat."

"Why? You live in a big, fancy castle, with people who wait on you hand and foot."

"Yeah, but my mom doesn't love me at all. My only family is Evie, Jay, and Carlos. At least Mrs. Potts, Lumiere, Cogsworth, and Chip care about you." Mal said, taking a pause. "When I think about my family, I think of this song I heard one time."

"Why?" I was surprised to hear this. I always thought royalty had it easy, no worries in the world. But now......

"Just because of one of the rapping parts. And what's small turn to a friendship, a friendship turn to a bond, and that bond will never be broken, the love will never get lost. How can we not talk about family when family's all we got? Everything I went through you were standing there by my side, and now you gon' be with me for the last ride."

"You know, I think of another song. Let it go, let it roll off your shoulders. Don't you know, the hardest part is over? Let it in, let your clarity define you, in the end, we will only remember how it feels. Our lives are made in these small hours. These little wonders, these twist and turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain."

"Oh." Mal was silent. I couldn't blame her. In a way, we were both messed up.

"You know, if you don't want to be my friend, I completely understand. Most people don't want to get mixed in with my troubles."

"No!" Mal said, then calmed herself down. "No, it's okay. We're both messed up souls. I can handle this, unless you don't want to get messed up with my emotional baggage."

"I can handle it."

"Friends I guess?"

"Friends. Now go explore so I can put up the protection spell in peace." Mal said, pointing to the door.

I laughed. "Okay, be careful."

"When am I not?" Mal said as I walked away, my heart racing. The things that girl does to me. Stupid hormones!

A/N: okay, so those songs were my class song, See You Again

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