"𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐝𝐢𝐩, 𝐝𝐢𝐩, 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐭? 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤, 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤."

     "let's give auradon a taste of evil." mal says, the cauldron simmering as evie scoops and apple up and drops it back in. "wicked ways beneath the skin, let all who taste it now join in." she laughs wickedly.

     "we got all the ways to be w-i-c-k-e-d! we got all the ways to be w-i-c-k-e-d, come on!" carlos throws a bucket of spelled apples down the locker hall, all of the students at their lockers dive in and grab one, biting it and turning them evil. "crashing the party, guess they lost my invitation." mal hands jane an apple, and she bites it. she grabs mal's spray paint and dents the locker with it. "friendly reminder, got my own kind of persuasion. looks like this place could use a bit of misbehavior, happily ever after with a little flavor." carlos grabs mal. "bad to the bone, with even worse intentions. we're gonna steal the show and leave them all defenseless."  jay kicks a spelled apple at the marching band. "a fairytale life can be oh, so overrated, so raise your voices and let's get it activated." evie hands a spelled apple to eloise, who bites it and grins, then eloise tosses one to fairy godmother whose teaching, and she bites it. "long live having some fun, we take what we want, there's so many ways to be wicked. with us, evil lives on the right side of wrong, there's so many ways to be wicked. apple, apple, dip, dip, wanna try it? tick tick. take a bite, come on, be bold. change the way the story's told!" evie and mal stand in the kitchen of the cafeteria, placing candied evil apples on all of the student's trays. "this time the dark is finally getting your attention. we're wicked by the book and class is back in session. you like it, steal it. gotta beat 'em to the treasure." carlos juggles some apples, giving them to belle and beast. "a rite of passage, bad just doesn't get much better! long live having some fun, we take what we want, there's so many ways to be wicked." mal raises a 'long live evil' flag. "mother always knows best. show her, pass every test. hear her voice in my head! evil is the only real way to win!" everyone in auradon prep dances in sync with an apple in their hand. "we got all the ways to be! hey, hey, hey! w-i-c-k-e-d! let's gooo! we got all the ways to be! hey, hey, hey, hey! w-i-c-k-e-d! yeah, yeah! long live having some fun, we take what we want, there's so many ways to be wicked- with us evil lives on the right side of wrong, there's so many ways to be wicked. hey, hey, hey, hey, we got all the ways to be w-i-c-k-e-d, we got all the ways to be w-i-c-k-e-d, we got all the ways to be w-i-c-k-e-d, we got all the ways to be! so many ways to be wicked."  mal kisses an evil apple, throwing it to ben then-

     "mal, mal, mal." a press reporter says, cameras clicking repeatedly in the fake blonde's face. she snaps back into reality, seeing the mob of reporters around her.

     "only three days to the royal cotillion! ever think a girl like you would be lady of the court?" ben walks up, biting an apple.

     "how does it feel to be the most envied girl in auradon?"

     "do you like being blonde?"

     "we will let you know if and when that particular situation changes." ben cuts in, wrapping an arm around mal's waist.

     "did you ever think you'd be with a villain kid?"

     ben chuckles, stepping forward. "we're done here." all of the reporters complaints overlap.

     "okay, shush, shush, shush, shush. this is still a school, so if you're here, you're either skipping or trespassing." the reporters all try to shout questions again, but fairy godmother shushes them again, pushing them off the premises and away from mal and ben. mal and ben have a small conversation before getting cut off by evie.

     "if we don't do a fitting for your gown right now, you'll be dancing in your bathrobe, okay? hi! let's go, let's go." mal and ben say rushed goodbyes, mal getting dragged to the dorms.

     mal is now in her dress, and yelps as evie zips it up. "okay, evie, i cannot breathe."

     "well, you can breathe after cotillion."

    "i sincerely doubt that. i have at least 20 more events directly behind it. and i can't even remember what a single one of them is." evie just ignores her comment, muttering an 'impeccable' at the dress. mal looks over to her old jacket from the isle. "evie? do you ever think about what we'd be doing if we were back on the isle right now?"

     "that's funny." evie laughs. the tv begins to play music, and evie looks over. "ah! look who's on tv!" it was showing ben and mal dining with jasmine and aladdin. mal gasps and grabs her spell book while evie is distracted checking her client list. evie hears her flipping through the pages and looks over.

     "read it fast, at lightning speed. remember everything i need." mal reads off, then opens the lady's manner book and reads it quickly.

     "i know mal's secrets of fitting in, and ben wouldn't like it one bit." evie states, walking up to mal. "haven't you guys had enough secrets between the two of you already?"

     "evie, you remember what i was like before i started using my spell book. i mean, i was a complete disaster. and you can't talk about my relationship because you still haven't asked eloise out after a year crushing on her."

     "well, personally, as your best friend, i'm going to ignore what you just said and say that i strongly believe that this spell book," evie grabs the spell book with a 'ah!' from mal. "it belongs in the museum along with my mirror. also i'm working on asking her out." mal pouts. "don't give me the face. put the pout away. mmm-hmm, you know i'm right."

     "you don't ever miss running wild and just breaking all the rules?"

     "like stealing and lying and fighting?"

     "yeah."

     "no!"

     "what?"

     "why would we?! em, come here. look at where we are. we're in auradon! and we're auradon girls now. see, this is the land of opportunity, we can be whatever we want to be here. so, please. let's just leave the past in the past, okay?" evie whispers the last part. "besides, i mean, look at these shoes! look at them!" evie laughs.

     later in the day, all of the vk's are walking, and are stopped by jane, eloise, mia and lonnie. jane walks up and carlos stops her.

     "hey, jane? i was wondering... if you liked the... carrot cake last night?" carlos chickens out on asking jane to cotillion.

     "i had the pumpkin pie." she smiles.

     "oh- uh- cool." carlos gets dragged away by mal and jay, and evie comes up to the four girls.

     "i have a fitting at 3:00. who wants it?"

     "me! sorry." eloise says sheepishly to the other girls, who smile at their friend.

     "perfect." evie smiles. "i'll take you guys later, okay?" she says to jane, mia and lonnie. evie walks away with eloise and lonnie, and jane and mia go up to mal.

𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞:
ahhh first chapter of d2! the next chapter is gonna be so good for all of the eloise and evie people surviving on crumbs😉

𝐗𝐎𝐗𝐎, 𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡.