A/N: Hey, you guys! Long time, I know. Busy, busy, busy, I can't get a moment free but I hope you haven't forgotten about me :)) Okay, so this is kind of a filler chapter but I wanted to write it and you deserve something, so here it is. Hope you enjoy it, sweeties!
Chapter 20.
The next day there was an unpleasant event at the school which made each and every student in Auradon groan out loud: the yearly vaccination. Once a year the students had to get a shot to keep them healthy and in top shape for the rest of the year and even though it was all supposedly beneficial it didn't make it any less unpleasant. Especially if you hated needles… like Jay.
"No way! Nuh-uh! I'm not doing it. You can't make me." Jay stated, shaking his head firmly with his arms crossed in front of his chest as him and the gang waited in line in the hallway to get their shot. Mal and Evie shared an amused look and the bluenette glanced up at her boyfriend. He was adorable when he pouted like that. Standing on her toes she leaned to her right and closer to his ear, her smile turning wicked.
"What, are you… afraid?" She drawled out, finishing her sentence in a whisper, which, nevertheless, all of them heard. Carlos snickered and Ben hid his smile in Mal's hair who was not even trying to fight her own grin as Jay turned to Evie with a completely scandalized look on his face.
"Pfft… Me? Afraid?" Jay snorted with a roll of his eyes, turning away from the bluenette who giggled, planting a small kiss on his jawline to soothe his ego. "Please…" He ended sarcastically, but a smirk was already making its way up on his lips at Evie's gesture, though he was still trying to act offended.
The next person whose turn it was to go in was Ben. He was in and out in less than two minutes. When he walked out of the office he gave Mal a peck on the lips and shot Jay an encouraging smile.
"It's not that bad." He said, turning his gaze to Mal, who was next in line and she winked at him before entering the office.
"Really?" Carlos asked a bit worried. He wasn't very fond of needles himself, though he was nowhere near as bad as Jay (not that he would ever tell anyone that, 'cause Jay would probably throw his dead body in the river).
"Yeah, see?" Ben reassured him, showing the boy his forearm where there was a miniscule, almost inexistent red dot. You had to look very hard to actually see it. "No big deal." He told him with a smile just as the door opened and Mal walked out.
"Well, that was fun." She said and then turned to Jay, twisting her face in a mock of terror. "They tried to drill my arm with a bormachine!" The purple girl cried flinging herself at Jay and grabbing his shirt with both hands as he tried to get away from her. "They almost killed me with that needle!" She screamed, sliding down Jay's chest and onto the floor where she began grossly sobbing. By that time Evie was violently shaking with laughter, Ben joined her mirthfully and Carlos was almost about to pee himself. The only one who didn't find it funny was Jay.
"Ha-ha. Hilarious, Mal." He gritted out crossly as the girl laughed out loud and got up from the floor wrapping her arms around Ben's waist.
"Come on, I'm just teasing." Mal smirked and then nudged Carlos gently towards the door. "Go on, kid, your turn. It's gonna be fine." She said the last part under her breath so that only the boy would hear it and he smiled thankfully before entering.
Jay's palms began to sweat. He was next in line. After Carlos came out he would have to go in and he was not looking forward to that at all.
"You know what? I think I have tourney practice." He looked pensative for a moment, while internally he was more than ready to bolt out of there. "I forgot. I'd better go before I'm late and they kick me off the team." Jay said with a grin, but before he was able to make more than two steps backwards Evie grabbed him by the elbow and tugged him back in spot next to her.
"All lessons are out today, remember?" She told him, shooting him an overly sweet smile which made him think damn. There was a downside to Evie's smarts as well. Then again, he didn't mind her holding onto him like she was at the present moment, so things weren't all bad. Then the door of the office opened and Carlos stepped out and Jay's thoughts took a 180 degree turn. Things were bad; they were very, very bad! He was going to be sick…
"Ahh, you know, I don't really think I need this. I mean, I'm healthy, just look at me!" Jay motioned to his body in an attempt to distract himself and stop fidgeting and Evie laughed, pulling him by the arm.
"Come on! I'll go in with you. I'm next anyway." The bluenette said while trying fruitlessly to pull him along with her but it was like his feet were glued to the floor. And he was a lot stronger than her which made her task even harder. For a moment she considered asking Ben for help, but the thought was quickly dismissed. Better try a little guilt trip. She knew Jay would do anything for her, especially when it came to her being hurt or scared. She needed to play the protector card.
"You're really gonna make me go in there alone?" Trying her best to make him feel bad, Evie let her face fall and made it look like she was genuinely hurt but trying to dismiss it. She had no doubt in her mind this would work like a charm, she just knew him too well. Of course, she was right.
Jay's eyes widened in an instant. How did he not think of that? I mean, it was one thing for him to be scared but he couldn't let Evie suffer if he could help it. He never even considered that maybe he wasn't the only one afra—, uhm, uneasy, around needles. If she needed him, he'd suck it up and act like a man. Lifting his right hand to caress her cheek lightly, he slipped his other one into hers.
"Alright, come on." Jay said and Evie smiled at him lovingly as they walked hand in hand through the door which closed with a small thump behind them. The nurse inside was looking over a white sheet of paper and as they entered her head snapped up at the sound of movement.
"You must be Jayden, right?" She smiled at him kindly as the boy tried not to fidget in his spot and offered her a half smile. Then her eyes shifted to the girl next to him. "And, uh…" She lowered her gaze to the list in her hands again. "…Evelyn?" The woman looked up questioningly and Evie nodded with a smile which the nurse readily returned.
"Okay then." She said, putting the list down on top of her desk and slipping on her white rubber gloves. "Why don't you sit here," She motioned to the white-sheeted bed beside her. "And I'll be right back." The nurse said before disappearing into the back room. Seeing that he wasn't going to move on his own accord, Evie gave Jay a little nugde forward and guided him until he was sitting down on the bed and she was standing up beside him.
The nurse, Madison, as her nametag read, came back a second later with a prepared injection filled with some sort of clear liquid in her hand and a small cotton ball in the other.
"This won't hurt at all." She said softly but as she took a step forward Jay almost jumped out of his skin, his eyes warily skimming over the syringe between her gloved fingers.
"Yeah, it won't." Jay agreed with a raise of his eyebrows. "'Cause I'm not doing it." He stated with an incredulous expression on his face and made an attempt to hop off the bed, only, his girlfriend was blocking him.
"Jay, you're such a baby!" Evie laughed good-heartedly, incredibly amused by the fact that big bad Jay was afraid of something as small and insignificant as a needle. Man, she'd never let him live this down! Then again, Mal was doing a pretty good job at that, the bluenette thought with a smirk.
"I don't need it, Eve! Seriously, I think—" Jay tried to wiggle out of it but was then suddenly and very abruptly cut off when Evie let out a frustrated sigh and crashed her lips against his. His right hand automatically came up to the side of her face and then proceeded to twist itself into her hair as Evie braced herself on his thighs, leaning onto him for support. Jay groaned as her tongue grazed his bottom lip and readily opened his mouth to give her access which she took full advantage of.
Then, almost too soon in Jay's opinion, and just as abruptly as it had begun, the kiss ended, as Evie pulled away and grinned at a completely breathless Jay who was sitting there dazed and now a little confused. Because then his girlfriend sent a look over to the nurse and nodded at her, as the woman returned an amused smile filled with gratitude.
"All done." Madison turned to Jay who just blinked at her before furrowing his eyebrows.
"What do you mean? You didn't do anything…" He asked, unable to grasp the situation, as the two women shared a look and started to laugh.
"I did, sweetie." The nurse replied, waving the now empty syringe in front of Jay's face whose mouth dropped. "You just didn't notice." She shrugged as she fought a grin. Ah, young love.
Jay's gaze then turned to Evie, who was just standing there, the sheer image of innocence, and squinted his eyes at her smiling face. The bluenette leaned in and brushed her nose along his jawline, before whispering in his ear.
"Come on, Jay. Don't be mad." She grinned, planting a soft kiss right on top of his pulse point, before pulling away and stretching out her own arm towards Madison who had a new needle in her hand and did Evie's shot fast and clean.
"There. You're both free to go now." The woman smiled kindly as she went to check their names off the list and Jay hopped off the bed before looping his arm over Evie's shoulders and guiding her out of the office.
"You're gonna be the death of me someday, you know?" He murmured in her ear before biting it lightly, making her squeal just as they walked out the door.
"Well, that must've gone well." Mal stated, seeing her friends come out of the office in a good mood and shared a smile with Evie before tilting her head up at Ben. "What do you say to lunch? I'm starving." She asked, before glancing at her friends for confirmation and they all nodded before the whole group headed to the cafeteria.