I was sketching in my book. I haven't sketched in a while so it felt good doing it again. I was drawing when I heard a knock on my door and I opened it to find a sorrowful Carlos.

"Hey, Ally." He greeted me as he walked in, and I closed the door, and I quickly sat down on my bed with him.

"What's wrong?" I ask him, and he sighs.

"Mal's gone back to the isle." He says and my mouth gaped open as I felt my heart sink to my stomach.

"Why?" I ask him as he shrugs and shakes his head.

"We aren't quite sure why, but Evie, Jay, Ben and I are gonna find out." He said and I had an idea.

"It's too dangerous, Ally. You're not coming." Carlos says and I narrowed my eyes at him. I didn't say anything but nodded in understanding, as he has his reasons as the Isle is dangerous. Because he doesn't want anything to happen to me.

"Don't get stuck there. I can't lose you." I said to him as I felt a couple of tears on my cheeks.

"I won't. I love you too." He says as he brings me in for a sweet kiss. I wrap my arms around his neck as his free hand grips my waist as he deepens the kiss.

"I don't know when but I will be back." He softly tells me as our foreheads are touching a little, and he kisses my nose before pulling away and we stand up.

I hugged him tightly as he wrapped his arms around me tightly, as I felt more tears on my cheeks.

"Stay safe, Car." I told him as it was more of an order.

"Always do." He says as we let go, and he leaves my grasp before opening the door.

"Bye, Ally." He said and I gave him a small smile, trying to stay strong.

"Bye Carlos." I say and he reluctantly shuts the door like he didn't want to do it, and I felt tears fall down my cheeks.

"Please return home, all of you guys." I whispered out of my window.

Later

I still haven't left my bedroom, as I don't know what to do, so I did what every princess does, and started singing, as I have nothing else to do, and also because I'm trying not to think about what's happening on the island.

I've always been the kind of girl
That hid my face
So afraid to tell the world
What I've got to say

But I have this dream right inside of me
I'm gonna let it show, it's time
To let you know, to let you know

This is real, this is me
I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, now
Gonna let the light shine on me

Now I've found who I am
There's no way to hold it in
No more hiding who I want to be
This is me

After I was done doing what all princesses do when they have nothing else to do in their lives. I fell asleep with Creme right next to me, and I fell asleep into a dreamless slumber.

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After Mal got to the island she walked into a hair salon, and there she noticed a young girl with light skin, with brown hair tied into two messy buns. She had on purple cat-eye glasses along with multi-colored painted nails, and wore yellow and black fingerless gloves.

There was also another girl with whte and black hair with piercing blue eyes and freckles, and Mal recognized the two girls as Cecilia or Ceci and Dizzy. Ceci wore her white and black hair into two french braids, white and black painted nails, and red and black fingerless gloves.

Dizzy wore a black paint splattered medium sleeve dress, with ruffles around her collar and the end of her sleeves and a painted-splattered deep-blue frock with puffy shoulder pads.

Ceci is literally a splitting image of her older brother, Carlos. Literally, with a white tattered shirt with holes, black ripped jeans with spots on it to image of dalmatian spots, with a red leather jacket, and one red and black heeled boots.

Dizzy was wearing headphones as she was sweeping hair off the floor, and Ceci was scrubbing paint in the sink from an experiment that her and Dizzy did earlier that day, in between people coming into the salon.

Mal stood at the door as Dizzy looks at Mal and smiles as she pulls her headphones off, as she says. "Mal! Is Evie back too?"

Mal laughs as she says, "As if-" Both Dizzy and Ceci's smiles dropped instantly.

"I, um, forgot that you guys don't open till midnight. Place looks good. So what is your deal? Has your grandmother given you two any customers yet?" Mal asks the two girls and they shake their heads no.

"Nope, just a witch here and there. Mostly a lot of scrubbing and scouring and sweeping. Lots and lots of sweeping." Ceci says to Mal and she nods her head at the two.

"Sounds like the old Cindy treatment, eh?" Mal says and Ceci snickers at Mal's joke about Cinderella.

"Yeah, she's gone from a Wicked Stepmother to Wicked Grandmother." Dizzy says and both Mal and Ceci can't argue with her on that one.

"That's not really much of a switch. Hey, Dizzy and Ceci, you two used to do Evie, right?" Mal asks the two girls.

"Yeah. We thought of the little braids." Ceci says as Dizzy smiles at the memory.

"Do you two have any ideas for me?" Mal asks the two of them and Ceci lets out a scoff as Dizzy grimaced looking at her nails.

"The washed out blonde with purple hair? The best of no worlds. You can't see where your face ends and your hair begins?" Ceci says as she looks at Mal's nails, and makes a face. "Bored to death pink?" The two girls lead Mal into a chair.

"How far can we go?" Dizzy asks Mal.

"The works? I mean, whatever makes me feel like me but you know...way worse." Mal tells the two girls and they both have smiles growing on their faces.

"Yay!" The two girls cheered, as Ceci picked up some multi-colored scissors as she turned to Mal and she smiled at her.

Ceci washed the purple dye out of Mal's hair as she tried to look but she put her head back into the tub. Then once she was done with that, she cutted Mal's hair and then let the hair dye, in big multi-colored hair rollers. Dizzy sat down and started putting polish on Mal's nails as she blew it as she smiled up at Mal again.

Once the two girls were done, Mal sat in the multi-colored chair with her leg crossed as she turned the chair around and Mal got up and looked at the shattered mirror as she bent down and said. "Hey! There I am."

"Voila!" Both Ceci and Dizzy say as Mal says, "Voila!" Mal reached into her pocket and gave the two girls some money.

"For us?" Ceci says.

"Yeah. You two earned it." Mal says as Ceci took the money and smiled which is when a certain girlsome came into the shop.

"Fork it over, you brat." 

It was Uriah, the dark colored skinny sixteen year old, with dark brown curly hair. She wore a turquoise ripped tank top, a gray leather jacket, black ripped jeans, with zippers and turquoise boots. She also wore a brown pirate hat with seashells and whatnot on it.

"Now the rest of it, won't ask again." Uriah says as Ceci hands her the rest of the money with a sad look on her face.

"Still running errands for your sister, or do you get to actually get to keep what you steal?" Mal asks the fifteen year old, as she snatched the money from Ceci.

"Well, well, well. What a nice surprise." Uriah says to Mal.

"Hi, Uriah." Mal says to her.

"Just wait until Uma finds out you're back. She's never gonna give you back your old precious territory." Uriah says with a smirk growing on her face.

"Oh, well, that's okay. Because I'll be taking it back." Mal says shrugging.

"I could hurt you, and feed you to the fish." Uriah says to Mal.

"Not without her permission, I bet." Mal says to the girl.

Uriah grinned as she walked out the store before making a mess as she pushed everything that was on the counter and onto the ground as Dizzy and Ceci groaned. "Great. More sweeping."

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see ya in the next chapter.