"So?" I whispered putting my pen down.
"So what?" Harry whispered back
"How was your first day of classes?"
We were sat in our last class of the day and Harry sat next to me while we took notes.
"It was boring. Too proper. You know people actually sit through the entire class?"
I laughed quietly.
"Yes I did." I nodded
"How does anyone do that?"
"Takes a lot of practice."
"Ms. L/n? Would you and Mr hook like to share your conversation with the class?" Our teacher asked with her hands gently folded in front of her.
"No, sorry. Just checking up on Harry after his first day."
"While I admire your concern for your friends and your continued kindness, I would much appreciate it if you could stop whispering and pay attention."
"Yes ma'am. Sorry."
She smiled and went back to the board.
"You're gonna let her talk to you like that?" Harry whispered. I just nodded and looked at the front of the class.
Harry scoffed and turned to face the front of the room as well. Class was over not long after that and I packed up.

"I don't get it! How do you guys do this?! It's so hard." Harry complained to Jay and Carlos as they tossed around a ball. I watched the three from behind the wall and just listened
"It gets easier. Trust me. I struggled in the beginning about staying in my seat but just compensate for things outside of class. That's why I joined lacrosse. I couldn't sit still so I joined a sport." Jay pointed out
"And I hated reading so after I found out Jane liked me I had her help me study. She really changed my study habits and even taught me some things!" Carlos offered a different point to the whole conversation.
"You really like that duckling don't you?" Harry asked knowing how much Carlos fawned over the girl.
"I do." Carlos smiled
"That must be nice. I wish I could come to magic castle land and fall in love with a girl."
"What about y/n?" Jay asked furrowing his brows. My heart dropped when I heard my name.
"What about her?" Harry asked
"Well you still like her don't you? I mean before we left you liked her."
"I'm not sure. I definitely loved her before she left. But she's so different now. I have to get to know her before I decide."
"Different how?" Carlos wondered
"Well she's strong. She's independent. She is really kind. She listens to adults. She uses like five different colored pens to take notes. She even told me one of them was called vivid cerulean blue. It's just blue."
Both of the other boys laughed and nodded.
"Yeah it's a big thing here. Especially among the girls."
"She just seems so different. Before she was quiet and she kept her personality a secret. I can't tell if the person I knew was her, or just what I imagined her to be. I guess she never really told me who she was. I feel like I'm meeting her for the first time."
"Well that's good isn't it?" Carlos implied
"What do you mean?"
"If it's like the first time you're meeting her, then you don't have any pressure. You're just... figuring her out. I'm sure she feels the same."
"I just hope she doesnt think im that different. I hope she still wants me the way she did back then."
I had enough just listening to them. I straightened out my dress, opened my notes and walked forward, hoping me running into them would look real enough.
I walked until I felt myself collide with someone.
"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry." I looked up and it was Harry. "Harry! Hey! How was your day?!"
"It was alright. How about you?"
"Uh... good. I didn't get to study like i wanted to but its alright. I got it all up here."
Jay and Carlos gave him a look to ask me something.
"Uh... well i can help you study right now if you want to."
"Really?"
"Yeah! Um... we can... go to my dorm."
"How about i show you something."
The boys both nodded at him.
"Sure."
I pulled him along till we got to a spot across the field.
"Here! In here!" I pulled him past some bushes and into a natural dome made by some vines and old trees.
"Wow. This is beautiful."
"I know right?! I found it my first week here. It's where I went to calm down."
"Want to study here?"
"Sure." I set my stuff down and pulled out my book.

"Okay how about... what size heel do you wear for a gala?"
"Two to three inches."
"Why... why do you need to know this?"
"It's important." I shrugged
"For what? All the fancy balls you go to? To not make a huge fashion mistake." Harry mocked which kind of hurt my feelings.
"It's so you know how to present yourself. Believe it or not, clothes can determine a lot about a person. Knowing how to style yourself can show how much you understand yourself and your peers. Understanding what to wear to places means your aware, means you are capable of making decisions. It gives people impressions and actually increases peoples want to speak and listen to you. In less words, it gives you respect."
"Oh..." Harry didn't know how to respond "I didn't know that."
"I know. You were too busy judging."
"I'm sorry."
"It's alright. But maybe instead of getting mad at us judging people from the isle and then doing the exact same thing, try being a little open."
"Us?" Harry scoffed
"Yeah."
"Y/n you're not one of them. You're from the isle. You're a lost kid. You're not a princess. You never will be. You can pretend to be this perfect girl and give your all to memorize all these stupid little facts and ace all your tests, but that doesn't make you one of them. You're one of us. Born and raised on the isle. You're wild. You're care free. You're not prissy! You're a mess! You're a fraud here!"
Every word he said cut deeper into my skin. After everything, he feels the need to insult me like that.
"After everything... everything I've done for you. You've been here for one day and you've already screwed everything up! You're a horrid person Harry. You're so cruel." I stood from the ground and grabbed all my things.

"Y/n! You alright?" I heard mal ask as she parted from Ben.
"I never should have vouched for him to be here! He's not fit to be here! Never have and never will! It was a mistake!" Mark followed behind me to my dorm. I flopped on my bed and started to cry into a pillow.
Mal was quiet, setting herself down on my bed.
"Want to talk about it? What happened?"
"Harry just... he's just so... UGH! I hate him! I meet him again after a year and he suddenly thinks he knows everything about me! He thinks he can assume everything about me and then insult me when he's wrong! He's... he's a stupid PIRATE!" I used the term like it was a slur.
"Wow... I don't think I've ever seen you mad at him."
"Well he deserves it!"
"Yikes. He must have really messed up then."
"You don't even know."

The rest of the day I spent hugging my pillow and crying. I felt stupid for letting him get to me but it did hurt. I have never felt insulted or hurt by him so it was a new type of pain. He was always the one who made me feel better, so when he was the one who hurt me, who would I go to then? I had the VKs but they didn't really understand.
I wiped my eyes and fixed my makeup. I got up from bed and decided to get some fresh air. I had my share of cries since I got here and I knew the only way I'd feel better was to get out. I stepped down the stairs and to the garden in the back of the school.
"What are you doing out so late?" A voice asks, the body it belonged to leaned against a tree.
"God." I cursed as I turned around.
"Please duckling. Don't run." He stopped me.
"I don't want to talk to you right now."
"Please let me explain."
I shook my head but didn't move. I hated my feet for not running.
"How could you ever justify insulting me?"
"I can't. But I can tell you it wasn't because I'm a dick... well I am but not intentionally. I was scared and upset. I thought you were getting too far from who I knew you as. It scared me that I didn't know you anymore. It made me feel insecure because I felt like I missed so much of you. I just wanted to hold on to what I was there for and that's just not you. I know that now. I'm gonna be there for the you you are now."
"Harry. Why are you so scared of not being there for me? I mean, I went an entire year without you."
"You think I wasn't absolutely terrified for you every day you were here and I wasn't. I could barely sleep. Every time I came up with a new problem you could have here I panicked."
"I can take care of myself now."
"I know. You're incredibly strong now, but I still want to be there for you. I still want to be your knight in shining armor."
"No." I denied. He grew sad "Please just stay my pirate in grease stained leather." I rubbed the collar of his jacket and looked up at him
"I can do that, duckling." He looked into my eyes and I thought there was a small pull of something.
He wasn't going to kiss me was he? I mean I wouldn't say no, it just never occurred to me. I remember when Jay asked if he still liked me but I had forgotten about it. It had only been a day.
"May I?" He asked while tilting my chin up.
"If you want."
"Are you sure?"
I nodded and he leaned in. He pulled my waist in and pressed his lips to mine.
It was different than I imagined. I always thought I'd be nervous, that I would be thinking about everything I was doing, that I'd be scared of messing up. But in reality, I felt more comfortable than ever. I felt warm and like I could do nothing wrong. He made me shake but almost in a happy way. If felt so tense all day that my body was finally relaxing. I was also really cold. When we parted, Harry noticed my trembling.
"You're shaking. Are you cold?"
"A little."
Harry took off his long sleeve coat and placed it around my shoulders. I looked at him bewildered and laughed
"I can be a gentleman if i please." He pointed to me.
"I've never took you for a have my jacket kind of guy."
"Well then what did you take me for?"
"I don't know... I guess I never really wondered. I guess I didn't really know you. All I knew is you were honest... brutally honest... you were sly and witty. You were a little slow when it came to knowledge but you were the most brilliant person when it came to street life. But I don't know what your favorite color is or how you feel about your dad truly. Where your mom is or why she's not here. I don't know what you like to do in your free time or who your best friend is. If you've had a partner or not, even you're even straight at that."
"You think I'm gay?" He asked looking at me
"Well i mean you like me. But I also feel like you had something for Gil. Am I wrong?"
"I don't know if it was a thing particularly but we weren't just friends."
"So you are!"
"I would call it unlabeled."
"Okay. See? I didn't know that."
"Well to be fair I don't know much about you either."
"What do you want to know?"
"Favorite color?" He started half heartedly.
I laughed and told him what it was along with what I liked to do when I had spare minutes.
"What's your dream?" I asked him.
"My dream? What do you mean?"
"What do you want to achieve in life? Who do you want to be, what do you want to be remembered for? That kind of thing."
"I want to be my father. I want to a famous pirate."
"Do you really? Or he that what you think you want to be? Have you ever thought about life outside the isle?"
"I... guess I've never thought about it. Well what do you want to do?"
"I just want to be free. I haven't thought of a particular career but I know I want to make it my own. I want to have a family, kids or not is up to whoever I'm with but a family nonetheless."
"So you don't know entirely either."
"I don't think I ever will. Does anyone?"
"Our parents did."
"Are parents did what they could with what they were given. Which wasn't much. We have more. More chance, more resources, more things given to us. We can be who our parents couldn't. So who would your dad want to have been?"
"I guess a family man. Wanted to make people feel special. Wanted them to seem like treasure to him."
"What about you? Is that something you want?"
"Well I definitely want my love to feel special, most definitely. But it first comes to finding that person."
"I'm right here you pirate!" I smacked his shoulder and he pulled me into him.
"I'm just teasing you." I rested my head on his shoulder and he kissed the top of my head. "You'll always be special to me."
"Like your treasure?"
"Better than my treasure. You're irreplaceable."
"Aw Harry. Are you getting soft now?"
"What?! Never! How dare you even assume that."
"Don't lie to me."
"Maybe... I'm a little soft but only for you. I'll still kabab everyone else."
"Believe it or not that's progress." I said to myself just to remind my brain who we are thinking about.
"Auradon is gonna change me for the better. I just know it. I mean, it's already brought me you."