It had been about two months since Evie rebelled against Auradon. Only two weeks until the great reviewed Halloween Ball. Anticipation grew everyday. The short fall season of Tourney had already begun a few weeks before. Leaves were turning red and falling off their branches. Autumn breezes swept the campus, causing many kids to stay inside. Things had begun to go back to normal. Or for most people thought.

Sweat was running down Carlos' forehead. It had been a long practice. Even though the wind cooled him down, his body was aching. He was wearing a yellow pull over jersey over his blue t-shirt. He ran backwards, waiting for Jay to pass him the ball. With a swift move, Jay had launched the ball from his wooden stick. Carlos could see it slightly moving above his head, but with a quick jump, Carlos retrieved the ball.

He quickly threw it right under the goalie's legs. The force made the net sway back as it caught the ball. It was music to his ears to hear the final whistle of the day. The sun was in the middle of the west sky. Carlos trotted over to Coach Jenkins and the others.

"Great practice guys," he showed his teeth quickly as he looked down at his clipboard. "I know today was hard but for good reason. We were testing to see who can play Ben's position for the spring season." The guys looked around at each other in shocked but then turned their attention back to Jenkins. "Me and assistant coach will evaluate who is right for it and we'll tell you who made it tomorrow."

Everyone's shoulders slumped. They were anxious to know who was the one that would play such an important role in the tourney team. With on e last whistle blow the team headed for the locker room. After everyone had showered and dressed, Carlos opened his locker. Inside was his white jacket, boots, and a taped up picture of Evie on the inside of the door.

"That's new," Jay looked at the photo as he opened his own locker.

"I thought I might as well have something good to look at while we get ready," Carlos shrugged,"A motivator you know." He put on one of his boots.

"You can just look at me," Jay did a model pose,"I'm very inspirational."

"I would look at you," Carlos shot back,"But you're always slobbering over the picture of Lonnie in your locker." Carlos opened Jay's locker to see a mirror and picture of Lonnie and Jay wearing his two jerseys. Lonnie must have taken the picture, because she was the closest in the frame.

Jay's cheeks got a slight shade of pink,"How did you know that was in there?"

"Didn't,"Carlos flipped on his jacket,"Just had a hunch." Jay rolled his eyes as he pulled the locker door to block the picture from Carlos' view.

"Where you in a hurry to get to?" Jay asked as he put his beanie on and began to pin it to his hair.

"Evie's taking me somewhere tonight for only a couple hours," Carlos stared at the picture of her as he put his gym shoes in his locker. "She's can hardly get away from this Halloween Ball. Have you asked Lonnie yet?"

"No," Jay raised an eyebrow,"We're dating? Isn't that an automatic date to the dance?"

"I don't know really," Carlos shrugged, still looking at the picture,"I saw some couples with like poster, flowers, and stuff."

"Lonnie's not really into the fuss," Jay said simply,"At least I don't think so?"

"Well Evie is. Maybe I'll just get her a couple of roses today or tomorrow."

"Better act fast before she works herself to death," Jay laughed as he slammed his locker.

"Right," Carlos shut his locker.

Mal sat on a grassy hilltop, coloring her sketch. She leaned against a single tree, alone on the hill. The suns glow kept her warm in the fall air. A sunset was practically painting itself before her. She scribbled carefully on the drawing page. A sudden gust of wind blew her dark purple hair out of her face. Her green eyes looked up once more at the sun, then finished her work.

It felt good to be sitting in the middle of nowhere, alone. It reminded her of the days on the Isle. Things seemed to less stressful. With the press trying to sneak pictures and interviews again. Ben had put a stop to it to protect Evie, but some things don't change. There is a little less presser to fit in at Auradon, but the barrier was still there. it seemed that Evie was opening Mal's eyes when she went back to her roots.

Evie had made a point when she said that the only reason Mal was excepted, was because she was the future queen. It was true, there was more people around Mal then any of them. Mal knew that it'll all change when Evie becomes a full time student again at Auradon. Evie was busy with the Halloween Ball coming so soon. Dress order slips were all around Mal and Evie's dorm room.

The theme this years is to dress as your parents. Mal wasn't fond of the idea, but it won the popular vote. She was proud of where she came from, but she didn't want any confrontation if she looked exactly like her mother. It was a touchy subject really. Many students had given Evie their mother's old dresses that need to be redone. Evie had told her that it takes more time restoring a dress then making a new one.

Mal was rather excited for the event. At least this time there shouldn't be a dragon or a octopus crashing the party. Ben was busy in the office working on all the decorations and plans. Mal had never seen the castle's ballroom. Since the coronation party was outside and the cotillion was on a boat. Ben had told her this would be a more low key ballroom party. Usually it was one of the big ones of the year, but there was already enough excitement from the other parties from the previous months.

As the sun was escaping Mal's view, Mal flipped her sketch book back to it's purple cover. She stood up on the green grass. Her eyes looked back on the single tree. She had carved a small tally at the bottom every time she visited. There was only a few tallies but Mal knew there would be more to make in the future. She snapped her fingers to ignite green flames.

Mal was back in her empty dorm room. She took a picture of her master piece and uploaded it to Auragram, the main app everyone posted pictures on. Mal looked over on Evie's side of the room. There was a rack stuffed with dresses. Each one was very detailed. Mal put down her bag and walked over to them. She reached out and pulled a baby blue dress. There was a big pink ribbon on the front and it a magic swirls in blue beads. This must be Jane's dress.

She didn't know the relationship status between Jane and Evie, but it must've been better if Evie was willing to make a dress for her. But then again, Evie wants everyone to look good. Jane didn't hang out with the group anymore. Especially since Jane and Carlos broke up. She would give Mal the occasional wave, but Mal wasn't dating her ex. She did now what that was like.

Audrey seemed to still be mad at Mal for "stealing" Ben away from her. Although Audrey never really cared for Mal in the first place. She was with Chad now. They two were self absorbed so it seems like a good match. Mal's phone dinged on her bed. The daughter of Maleficent flipped over to see the screen. She smiled to see 200 people had already liked her drawing. It had been a new record for that many people to like it in two minutes.

Mal scrolled through her feed to see many people posting about the Halloween Ball. There were many with the usual proposal, with guys making girls posters begging them to go together. Ben hadn't asked yet, but Mal didn't need that. She knew he loved her. She scrolled down to see Lonnie's newest post. She and Jay were sitting in the tourney field stand with their backs to the camera. Lonnie was wearing Jay's white away jersey, while Jay was wearing his blue home jersey. The caption only had a single yellow heart.

Mal curved her lips at the sight. She took the picture for them just yesterday. They were really a cute couple. Jay wasn't really the one to pose around for pictures, but Lonnie forced him. They reminded her of Ben and Mal's first months relationship. This made her smile even more until a meow made her look up. Her green eyes met vibrant green ones, sitting on her bed.

"Scales!" Mal picked up the cat meowing from her bed,"How are you mister?" She stroked the black fur coat that laid on Scales' back. The cat rubbed his head against her arm for a slight response. Mal looked up again to see a yellow note on her bedside table. With Scales in her arms, she walked over to read the blue sparkly ink.

Gone out with Carlos. Be back at 8:30! -Evie :)

Mal smiled at the note with no surprise. Aside from working on the dresses twenty-two hours of the day, Evie had always spent at least two hours with Carlos. Usually Mal was irritated when she would leave unexpectedly with Doug, but Carlos was better to Mal. Maybe it was because Mal had known and trusted him a lot better then Doug, but he and Evie just seemed right together.

Evie and Carlos sat on the roof of the DeVil boy's tree house, looking at the stars as they became brighter. Evie rested her head on Carlos' outstretched arm. Even though the barrier was glowing in the night, the two still enjoyed watching the sky. He hugged her tighter as she shivered slightly. It was a cool, cloudy night, and Evie was already wearing Carlos' old jacket, while Carlos was warm in his newer. Evie suddenly sat up in a quick motion.

"You okay?" Carlos asked as he sat up. Evie's hair was covering her face from his view. The boy tucked the blue hair behind her ear. Her brown eyes were fixed on the ground.

"You remember our first kiss?" Evie mumbled as she put the hair in front of her face again.

"Of course I do," Carlos looked back up to the sky,"In the throne room."

"No," Evie said softly as she hugged her knees,"That's not our first kiss."

"Unless you count the kisses on the cheek," Carlos looked back at her,"I don't remember us kissing before that."

"Because I made you forget it," Evie said quickly, cutting Carlos off.

"You made me forget it?" Carlos' eyebrows were raised.

"It was when I first escaped to the Isle," Evie shuffled around as she pulled out her hand held mirror. Carlos silently gasped. He didn't know if Evie still had her mirror, or if it got destroyed after Carlos had punched the real one. "Show the thing I most regret. The kiss I made him forget."

Evie turned the mirror's front towards Carlos. He watched the glass smoke.

"Why can't you come back?"

"I just can't."

"Why Not!?" Carlos said sternly.

Evie grabbed Carlos' face and pulled it close to could feel the heat of her breath. "Because this," She said softly before she kissed the freckled boy's lips. Carlos' eyes were open in shock, but closed when he kissed back. Something felt right about it, but it also felt wrong. Carlos pulled away. Evie also backed away in shame. "Oh no. What have I done."

Evie then flipped open the notebook she stole from Mal's bed. She pressed the dome opener button. "Tick Tock around the clock," Evie waved her hand around,"Let the last sixty seconds be lost." She pointed to Carlos. Red fire shot from Evie's hand and circled around Carlos' head.

"I'm sorry," Evie put her face into her hands.

"You took away my memory?" Carlos asked in shock.

"Yes," Evie said in a raspy voice.

"How many times have you done this?"

"Just the one," Evie let a few tears come down her cheeks.

"How can I trust that you won't do it again, or have before?" Carlos snapped.

"You're just going to have to trust me now," Evie continued to cry,"I was in a bad place."

"But you could've told me!" Carlos snapped again,"Instead you kept it to yourself for two months?"

"I feel really bad about it," Evie sobbed,"I didn't know what to do. It was a build up of emotion, or an accident."

"Kissing me was an accident?" Carlos met her teary eyes.

"No I-"

"Then what was it?" Evie didn't respond. She only stared at him. His anger had built up too far. Carlos jumped off the roof onto the tree house deck. He pressed the barrier opener and Evie only shook her head.

"Carlos don't leave," Evie looked down at him. Carlos only shook his head. They stared at each other for a few moments. Both with hurt expressions on their faces. Evie finally gave in a snapped her fingers. Carlos threw up the barrier opener before he went up in red flames. Evie sat on top of the tree house as she pressed the button to close the barrier after Carlos went through.

Evie laid back down her head and looked up at the grey clouds that consumed the sky. She closed her eyes for a few minutes, but then opened them up again as rain drops began to hit her face. It was the usual Isle weather. There was nothing like sitting in the rain that made her feel at home. She clutched the red heart necklace in her palm as she closed her eyes once more.