"Wait, so you introduced them, and nothing happened?"

"Yeah! I was surprised too, but they're like best friends now."

Mal shakes her head. "I can't believe Brit is okay with that guy. I know for a fact that Frollo told her some awful stuff about Quasi, Esmeralda, and Phoebus. She basically heard how horrid they were every day, since those were her version of bedtime stories as a kid."

"Why does she act the way she does?" I ask. "Gil, Carlos, now you are all talking like she's got some big story, and I'm kind of guessing at it, but what happened?"

Mal winces. "Ah. See, that's more her business to tell you."

"That's what Gil said too!" I say. "But I don't think Brit will tell me."

"She'll tell you if you ask her." Mal says. "Once she trusts a person, she'll tell you. Of course, she trusts pretty much anyone who isn't her dad."

Someone knocks on the door and Mal sighs. "Come in!"

Evie opens it up. "Nasty attitude today, M?"

"No, E. Just talking with Ellie."

"About Brit?" Evie asks. 

"Yeah, how'd you know?" I ask. 

"Um, because she just came here like three days ago and suddenly she's good friends with Quentin, and nobody can figure out why." Evie tells me. "But one thing I will say, Brit is happier than I've ever seen her."

"So's Quentin." I say. 

Evie beams. "I know. Those two are all anyone's talking about right now. Even Chad's at a loss for words, nobody can figure out why those two like each other so much!"

"Um, maybe because they're both sweet?" I suggest.

"Yes, I realize that, but still! Both of them were raised on the fact that the other is a monster." Evie says.

Mal rolls her eyes. "Yeah, and me and you were raised to hate Auradon, E. How'd that work out?"

Evie sticks her tongue out and I laugh. Someone knocks on the door again and Mal picks a pillow up. "Come in!" She yells, holding the pillow. The second the door opens, she flings it at the person and it hits them in the face. 

Ben looks down. "Bad timing?" He asks while I crack up. 

Mal smiles. "That depends. What did you need?"

Ben scratches the back of his neck. "So... Gil came to me today. Again."

Mal scowls. "About Harry and Uma?"

"Yeah." Ben says.

"Gil really doesn't get that we can't bring them, does he?" I ask.

Everyone shakes their heads. Mal looks over at Ben. "Was that all?"

"No. Ellie, you saw the pictures Ned posted right?" Ben asks me.

"Um, yeah. Wait, I thought there was only one!"

He grimaces and hands me his phone. He's right, there's multiple pictures of me on the Isle, one with me laughing behind Mal on the motorcycle, and another where I'm tied up and Harry Hook is talking to me. There's also one where Hans is holding me forward over the water. I shudder and hand Ben's phone back.

"Where is he getting all these?" I groan.

Ben shrugs. "That's why I came here. I confronted him about this and said it was illegal, and he told me that he was just doing it to show everyone the truth. Not sure what the 'truth' is here, but when I asked where he got them, he just said he had a 'source'."

"That's what he told me, too!" I say. "Ugh! Ben, isn't there something you can do about this?"

He runs a hand through his hair. "I can try. But Ned's not talking, and I have no idea who the source would be."

Mal makes a noise. "This is so stupid." She gets up and starts to slip past Ben when he grabs her.

"Where are you going?"

"I'm finding this kid and I'm gonna bring him back here." She says, pulling away. I spring up. 

"I'll come!"

Evie smiles and Ben looks a bit hesitant but lets us pass. Mal runs down the hall and I follow until I suddenly hear a loud yelp. I stop. 

"Mal!" She stops and turns around to look at me. "Did you hear that?" I ask.

She comes back to me. "No. What?"

"Someone----" The person yells out again.

"Dizzy!" Mal says. She rushes off again, going outside right outside the entrance. I follow to find Chad and Dizzy yelling at each other. I groan and go next to Dizzy.

I put a hand on Dizzy's shoulder. "What's going on?"

Chad rolls his eyes. "I wanted to get my hair done for my date with Audrey, and she said no! After she found out my parents!"

"I did not!" Dizzy protests. "I don't care that you're a Charming, I refused because you tried to cut in front of everybody else! I have the right to refuse!"

"No you don't! Not to me!" Chad says, grinning.

Dizzy puts her hands on her hips. "Is that so? Well then, Mr. Charming, where is your contract saying so? What rule do you have over me?"

"I'm a Charming, pipsqueak." Chad says. "What I say goes."

"You idiot, Ben's King, not you!" I say. "You don't get to order anyone around."

"But I'm next in line!"

"So?" Dizzy says. "Even if you are, Evie told me that only the King had power over the Isle, and I'm an Isle kid. I wasn't born here!"

"So?" Chad asks.

"How do we get this through his thick skull?" Mal asks. "Chad, you can't order Dizzy around. Not at her own business. She can choose who she works on."

Ben comes out at that moment. He sees us all yelling and runs over. Chad sees him and runs over, clapping Ben's shoulder. "Ben! Tell them!"

"Tell them what?" Ben asks in surprise. "I thought you guys were going to find Ned."

"We got busy." I say. "Chad here has a problem with Dizzy for some reason."

"She wouldn't do my hair!"

"I couldn't do it anyway, some of your hair is fake and my products don't mix well with fake hair!" Dizzy says. I cover my mouth but still snort. 

Ben presses his lips together to hold a smile back. "Um, wait, what?"

"She won't do my hair!" Chad repeats. 

"That doesn't say anything." Ben says. "What exactly happened?"

"Well--" Dizzy starts, but Chad cuts her off. 

"So I go into the store, and there's this huge crowd of people watching her, so I asked where the line ended, and some girl said that it ended right next to the cash register, so I walked up there and asked Dizzy here to do my hair for my date with Audrey, and she said no!"

"That's not what happened!" Dizzy protests, pushing Chad away from Ben. "Charming here waltzed into my store like he owned the place and shoved everybody out of the way. Then, when he was at the front of the line, he rang my bell until I walked away from my current client to yell at him, and he ordered me to do his hair for him!"

"That---" Chad starts, but Dizzy keeps going.

"And that's not all! When I refused and told him to wait his turn, he tried to steal money from the cash register while my back was turned!" Dizzy yells. "Then I shoved him out of my store and he cornered me here when I got back."

"Chad..." Ben sighs. "This is getting out of hand. Why do you keep telling all the villains what to do?"

"Because I can!" He says it like it's the most obvious thing in the world. 

"NO, YOU CAN'T!" Mal, Dizzy and I yell.

Ben nods. "Chad, you can't just order people around. They're not your people! They're mine, and do you see me ordering people to do things?"

"No." Chad says. "But that's just because you're you and I'm..." He spreads his arms. "Me."

"What's so big about that?" I ask innocently.

"Me, Ice Queen! Me! Chad Charming, the boy every girl fawns over."

Dizzy, Mal, and I all raise our hands. "Not it!"

Ben smiles. "Chad, as an order, I order you to stop telling people what to do! Especially the villains I bring here! Brit is not a slave!"

"Wait, what?" I ask in surprise. 

"After you guys left, she asked me if Chad was my brother. When I said no, she asked where he got the power to bring her dad over here."

"Why would you bring her dad here?" I ask Chad.

"Because it was the only way to get her to listen to me." He says. "Duh."

"Hold on. Let me get this straight. You've been threatening Brit and making her do stuff for you?" I ask angrily. 

He thinks about it. "Yeah."

I punch his nose. 

"Hey!" Ben yells, but I'm already backing up.

"Sorry, Ben, had to do it just once." I say.

He nods and helps a moaning Chad up. "Don't you ever use anyone like that again." I tell Chad. He just glares at me. 

"So, are we done?" Dizzy asks.

"We're done." Ben says. "I'll get something for his nose, but you guys can leave now."

"Thanks." Dizzy says. "Oh, and by the way, you're never allowed in my store again!"

"Wasn't planning on it." Chad says. "You're not even that good at hair, you're just the cheapest."

"'Scuse me?" Dizzy says.

"Dizzy happens to be the best hair person in Auradon!" Mal says.

"Yeah!" I say. "She did mine!"

"My point exactly."

"Oh, shut up, Chad." Ben says, pulling him away. I turn to Dizzy and high-five her. Mal smiles. 

I glance at her. "'Hair person'?"

"Oh, shut up."

Dizzy laughs. Then she stops. "Hey, I didn't know someone new was coming today." She points. I turn to see a limo driving up towards us.

"Neither did I." Mal says in confusion.

"Wait, how would you not know?" I ask. "You're Ben's girlfriend, he tells you everything!"

"I know. And that's why I'm thinking this may not be scheduled." Mal says. We wait for the limo to get here and I roll my sleeves up. I see three people in the back seat, but I can't tell...

The driver stops and gets out. I yelp.

"You!"

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TA-DA! Guess who? Heh. 

So, following my statement in my last update.... I SAW GOD'S NOT DEAD 3 YESTERDAY AND IT WAS A-MAZING!!! LOVED IT!!! (I won't spoil, only that I seriously wanted to cry but I didn't.)

AH!

Ok, so for the people that maybe know about the teacher walkout happening in Oklahoma, if you live in Oklahoma, have you guys seen the protesters with signs everywhere?? Cars won't stop honking because most of the signs say "honk if you agree with us" or something like that. There was the one that cracked me up--- "This wouldn't happen at Hogwarts!" 

HA!😂😂😂😂

K bye.