It's Chemistry

Chapter One

Summary: Doug turned his head to look at Evie and smiled before realizing how small of a space there was between them since she had her arms around his neck and was leaning over his shoulder, causing his cheeks to warm up.

Disclaimer: I don't own Descendants.

When the paper first came into his line of vision, Doug was confused, until he realized who exactly was holding the paper. Evie. While she might be the daughter of the woman who his father and uncles hated, Doug could not help but like Evie. She was smart, and beautiful, and actually seemed to like talking to him and being around him. Honestly, when he had admitted that he was, for all intense and purposes, stalking her, Doug had thought that Evie would have wanted nothing to do with him, but he had been wrong.

Doug turned his head to look at Evie and smiled, before realizing how small of a space there was between them since she had her arms around his neck and was leaning over his shoulder, causing his cheeks to warm up. She made a comment about her grade, but Doug didn't really hear her. If either of them leaned in, they would be kissing, and the thought of kissing Evie Royall was something that Doug had dreamed about doing since he had first seen her.

Leaning forward, Doug lightly pressed his lips to hers, testing the waters to see how she would react. When she didn't pull away, Doug pulled her onto his lap and deepened the kiss. It felt right, kissing her. And the feeling that welled up inside of him when Evie started to kiss him back was indescribable. Here he was, the son of Dopey, kissing Evie, the daughter of the Evil Queen, and she was kissing him back. Pulling away from the kiss when air became necessary, Doug leaned his forehead against Evie's.

"You're amazing Evie Royall." Doug whispered, scared that if he said too much, that he would ruin the previously perfect moment.

"You're not so bad yourself Doug Dworsky." Evie replied as she gave him another kiss.

"Evie... now that I'm not just popping out from having stalked you, would you officially be my date to Ben's coronation? Despite what people think about our families, I would be honored to have you as my date." Doug asked as he peered into her eyes.

"I would love to Doug." Evie responded before turning back to her Chemistry test without moving off of Doug's lap. "I bet I could get an 'A' on the next one without the help of the mirror." She said as she glanced at him.

"I know that you can. Maybe later tonight we could meet up and study together?" Doug suggested hopefully.

"Would it be a date?" Evie asked.

"Only if you want it to be. I might not be a Prince, but I am definitely more of a gentleman than someone we know." Doug said as he nodded in Chad's direction.

"And to what are you implying that you will be a gentleman about?" Evie asked with a small smile.

"If m'lady would like it to be a date, I shall come to your dorm and pick you up, and then after we are done studying, I shall walk you back to your dorm." Doug said as he lightly pulled Evie even closer to him on his lap.

"I would love for it to be a date." Evie replied. "Shall we do some homework now? Or do we just want to wait until tonight?" She asked.

"We can get some of it done now. That way we won't have as much to do tonight, and if we finish everything, we would have more time to do other things." He suggested as he placed a kiss on her cheek.

"Sounds good to me." She replied as she turned towards the table and pulled Doug's textbook closer.

After the new couple had been working in a comfortable silence for a few minutes, they were interrupted by Mal hurrying over.

"There you are. I've been looking for you literally everywhere." Mal said to Evie.

"What's wrong?" Evie asked as she looked up at her best friend.

"Ben just asked me out..." Mal said before looking around and lowering her voice, "on a date." She finished.

"We can get through this." Evie said with a smile before turning back to Doug. "See you later?" She asked.

"Of course. I'll be by your dorm around 5." Doug replied before Evie got up and gave him a small kiss before linking her arm with Mal.

"Okay, I'll see you at 5." Evie said with a wink before she and Mal headed towards their dorm.

For the next hour or so, Doug sat at the table and did some more of his homework while Evie was in her room helping Mal get ready for her date. And while they were both doing other things, their minds were on their study date later that night. Doug had had a crush on Evie since he had laid eyes on her when she and her friends had first arrived, and despite her façade of looking for a Prince, she had liked him from the get-go as well and he being Dopey's son made his forgetfulness adorable to her.

After Ben had picked Mal up and the two had left, Evie had sat down at the table in the middle of hers and Mal's room and started doing some more of her homework. She was so engrossed in what she was doing that she had completely lost track of time, and before she knew it, there was a knock on her door. Looking at the clock, Evie's eyes widened. It was already 5 and Doug was there to pick her up, and she hadn't even started to get ready. Sure it was just a study date, but it was technically hers and Doug's first date and she had wanted to look good for it.

After she composed herself, she walked over to the door, and took a calming breath before she opened the door. She had a huge smile on her face but when she saw who was standing on the other side of the door, her smile fell. It wasn't Doug, it was Chad.

"What are you doing here Chad?" Evie asked.

"I wanted to apologize. I shouldn't have told the teacher about your mirror." Chad said as he leaned against the door frame and smiled at her.

"You need to leave Chad." Evie said, realizing that she felt nothing towards him like she had originally thought she had.

"Is that really what you want?" Chad asked as he pulled her towards him.

"Yes Chad, it is. I have someone coming over tonight, and he should be here any minute. You were using me to get out of doing your homework, but I'm not going to fall for your gleaming smile anymore. I know that you don't really care about me, and I don't want anything to do with you." Evie said as she pushed him away from her.

"Evie? Chad? What's going on?" Doug asked as he walked up to the two and looked between them.

"We're just talking Doug." Chad said with a smile.

"No... Chad was just leaving after a pathetic attempt at apologizing." Evie corrected.

"Are you ready to go Evie?" Doug asked turning from the young prince to his... Evie.

"Not yet, but you can come in while I get ready. I should just be a couple of minutes." Evie said as she pushed Chad farther out of her doorway before pulling Doug inside and closing the door in Chad's face.

"Are you okay Evie?" Doug asked as he took in Evie's shaken look.

"I want to be, but I'm not." Evie said as Doug pulled her into a hug.

"Hey, I'm here now. You don't have anything to worry about." Doug said as he placed a kiss on her forehead.

"Can we study here? I don't want to go out there if there's a chance that he'll still be out in the hall." Evie asked in a small voice.

"Of course. All I care about is getting to spend time with you." Doug said as he pulled back to look into her eyes before pressing his lips to hers.

"I actually finished all of my homework already." Evie said when they pulled away after a couple minutes.

"It's okay, so did I. That gives us quite a bit of time to do other things, if you're still up for doing something else." Doug said with a hopeful smile.

"That sounds amazing." Evie agreed as she walked the few steps to her bed and sat down on the edge, followed by Doug.

"What are you comfortable with doing?" Doug asked in a low voice. He wasn't about to pressure her to do something that she wasn't comfortable doing.

"We don't really date on the island... so I don't know what couples usually do when they are alone like this." Evie said in a small voice before pulling her knees up to her chest and moved against her pillows.

"We don't have to worry about what other couples would usually do. We aren't other couples. We can do whatever you want to do." Doug said as he moved to sit next to her and put his arm around her shoulders so that she could lean against his side.

"Can we just do this? This is nice." Evie asked as she laid her head on Doug's shoulder and wrapped her arms around his torso before closing her eyes.

"Whatever you want." Doug repeated before kissing the top of Evie's head and closing his eyes as well.