Hi! I know that I should be updating my other story but I have been so busy lately (exams etc, I also have to take an exam to be able to start medicine school, but I didn't pass and now I have to take it again, wich means I have to study the whole summer) and I just haven't found the time yet to complete the next chapters. But this new movie Descendants really caught my attention and I couldn't resist on writing something about it.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything you may recognize, although I secretly wish I did. ;)

I hope you like it.

Chapter 1

MAL POV

After Ben confessed his love for me in front of the whole school, I didn't really know what to do with myself. No-one had ever told me they loved me. I had absolutely no idea what love felt like. But when he had said it, I felt a strange feeling in my stomach. It made me feel special, even if it wasn't true from the heart, because I made him love me with a spell. But none of this mattered now, the important thing was that my plan had worked. Mother would be proud of me, I think. Ben had asked me to go to the coronation with him, which meant that I would be sitting up front, next to the fairy godmother and, more important, her magic wand. Thank you Audrey for that, because if she wouldn't go with Chad, Ben would've waited longer to ask me.

I was making my way to my locker to check which class I had next, I know, I'm way too bad to be on time in class, but it was all part of the cover, if everyone believed that we were actually trying to be good, they wouldn't suspect anything. As I closed my locker I saw Ben approaching me. Here we go.

'Mal!' he waved at me. I awkwardly waved back. I started to turn around but I heard him call my name again.

'Mal, wait! I want to ask you something!' he stepped in front of me and took my hands in his. 'Dear Mal, would you do me the honor of going on a date with me?'

'Err, yes?'

'Great!' He exclaimed. 'I will pick you up at five' he kissed my hands and walked away.

My head was spinning with thoughts, I had no idea what to do, what to wear or how to look. Because, yeah, I have never been on a date. But Evie has, I went looking for Evie. I went to our dorm, but she wasn't there. I looked in the garden, but she wasn't there either. I looked all over the campus but I couldn't find her. I was walking back to our dorm because I really needed to get ready now, when I saw her. She was talking to Doug.

'Evie! I've been looking for you everywhere! Ben just asked me out on a…' I couldn't get the word on my lips '… a date.' I said. She almost started to laugh.

'We can handle this.' She told me and stood up. She grabbed my arm and guided my to our dorm, talking about how pale I looked and what she was going to do to help me. First she picked my clothes and then she did my make-up.

'Easy on the blush' I told her.

'Please, my mom learned my how to apply blush before I could talk. Always use upward strokes.' She laughed. After that, she applied some lipstick on my lips. It felt like something sisters would do for each other, helping to get ready for a date.

'I never had a sister' I told her.

'Well now you do. Look.'

She guided me too the mirror. I looked at myself and for the first time in my life, I felt beautiful.

'Wow, I look...'

Evie rested her head on my shoulder. 'I know, say it'

'I look … not hideous.'

'Not even close.' She whispered in my ear.

I didn't even know that it was possible. As I was admiring myself in the mirror, we both heard a knock on the door. I grabbed myself together and opened it. I needed to play the game a little bit, because Ben had to stay in love with me. I saw him standing with two helmets in his hands.

'Wow. For the first time in my life I understand the difference between pretty and beautiful.' He said. I smiled at him.

'I hope you like bikes.' I laughed and stepped out the door, just before walking away I made a face at Evie, I was hoping that I'd survive this date. Ben guided me too his bike and we rode a whole end through the enchanted forest. First I didn't know how to hold myself tight so that I wouldn't fall off, but eventually, I put my arms around his chest. And frankly, it gave me a pleasant feeling to be so close to him. After a while he started to slow down and stopped the bike.

'Let's take a walk.' He said. I took of my helmet and he took my hand. We walked for a bit until we reached a large bridge, I wondered where he was taking me.

'So, tell me something about you no-one else knows.' He suddenly said.

'Err, my middle name is Bertha.' I answered. Why I didn't know, but I felt comfortable telling him something secret.

'Really?' he asked.

'Yep, that's my mom doing what she does best. Being really really evil. Mal Bertha.' I laughed.

He laughed too. 'Mine's Florian.' I couldn't help but notice how much I actually liked the sound of his laugh.

'Florian huh? How princely.'

'Yeah but it's better than Bertha' he teased.

'Hey!' I laughed.

We were almost over the bridge now. When we were at the end, he stopped me.

'Close your eyes.' He asked me.

'Why?' I was feeling something strange, a feeling I hadn't experienced much.

'Trust me, okay? Close your eyes.' He whispered in my ear.

I took a breath. 'Okay' I said and closed my eyes. He took both my hands and started to walk with my.

'Just walk straight forward, now a little bit too the left, watch your step now, there's a tree lying on the ground. And were here.' He stopped and turned me around.

'Are you ready?' he asked. I nodded.

'Open them.'

Slowly I opened my eyes and I saw something magical. He had set up a picnic on a patio in the middle off a lake with clear water. It was beautiful. I smiled at him, no-one had ever done something like this for me. For the first time since long, I experienced a feeling I hadn't felt since I was a kid. Happiness

'Come on.' He said and he took my hand and lead me towards our picnic. We both sat down and he started talking about his life in the palace and his friends when I started eating something awfully delicious.

'Is this your first time?' Ben asked out of the blue. First time what? Did he mean the first time I went on a date?

'We don't really date much on the island. It's more about getting activity, if you know what I mean?'

He laughed. 'Err, I meant is this your first time eating a jelly doughnut?' What?! I felt so stupid.

'Is it bad?' I asked cautiously.

'You got a…' he raised his hand and wiped the jelly of my lips. I couldn't help but notice how soft his fingers felt on my lips. It gave me a strange feeling in my stomach, like tickles, but then from the inside. I had never felt anything like this before, but I hoped that it wouldn't be the last time, because I had to admit I liked it.

'Now do this.' He showed me to move my tongue over my lips. Strange enough, I thought about how his lips would feel on mine. No Mal, don't think this, focus. Falling for Ben is not part of the plan. I did as he had showed me.

'Gone?' I asked him. He started to laugh.

'You can't take me anywhere I guess.' I joked.

'You know, I've done all the talking. Your turn.' He said. 'I really don't know that much about you.' He leaned in. 'Tell me something.'

I sighed. 'Well, I'm sixteen, I'm an only child and I've only ever lived in one place.' I told him.

Ben smiled. 'Me too, we have so much in common already!'

I laughed. 'No, trust me, we do not.' You are good from the heart, I'm an evil person who spelled you to make you fall in love with me so that I could sit next to you at the coronation and steal the magic wand of the fairy godmother so that the villains can take over the world and get their revenge. Trust me, we do not have that much in common.

We looked at each other. I needed to change the subject. 'And now you're going to be king?' Way to go Mal, talk about the coronation, why don't you tell him you're whole plan? What is happening to me?

'Yeah…' he looked down.

'What?' I asked.

He hesitated. 'A crown doesn't make you a king.' He answered.

Pssh, yeah right. 'It kinda does.' I told him. We both laughed.

'Alright' he said. 'Your mother is mistress of the evil' here we go 'And I've got the poster parents for goodness. But we're not automatically like them. We get to choose who we're gonna be.' I wish that that was true, but sadly it was practically decided who we were going to be. We were determined by the neighborhood we grew up in. I been taught to be evil, like he had been taught to be good. There was no way around it.

Ben continued. 'And right now, I can look into your eyes, and I can tell you're not evil.' Pssh, yeah right Bennyboo, if you hadn't noticed, I'm Maleficent's daughter, I'm rotten to the core. I stared into his eyes, taking in what he had said, when he turned his head.

'Let's go for a swim.' He said. A swim? I didn't think so Bennyboo.

'What? Err, right now?'

'Yeah, right now.'

'I think I'm just gonna stay behind…' I needed to find an excuse 'and try a strawberry. I've literally never tried a strawberry before!' I took one and stuffed in my mouth. 'Mmmmh..' Oh dear, they were delicious. I took another one and again another one.

'Don't eat them all.' He laughed. Ben unbuttoned his shirt and went for a swim. He climbed up the rocks and I turned around and stood up. I stepped a bit forward and leaned against one of the three pillars on the patio. He was wearing royal blue shorts with golden flecks on. Wait? The looked a lot like…

'Are those little crowns on your shorts?' I shouted at him.

'Maybe?' he answered. We both laughed.

He made a Tarzan-like roar and jumped in the water. I laughed at how childish yet manly at the same time it was. I decided to try another strawberry and when I turned around I sat down. I looked over the water but Ben was nowhere in sight. Oh no.

'Ben?' I yelled. 'Ben?' I tried again. 'Ben?!' I shouted one last time. This wasn't good. I hopped off into the water, attempting to save him. But as I went deeper, my feet didn't touch the ground anymore and I remembered that I couldn't swim. I started splashing and plunging, trying to keep my head above the water. Just before I started to freak out completely, I felt two arms around me, lifting me out of the water. It was Ben. I felt relieved that he was alright, but why did he scare me so much? He lifted me out of the water on to the patio.

'You scared me!' I almost yelled.

'You can't swim?' He asked.

'No' I answered. Wasn't the almost drowning part not clear enough?

'You live on an island?!' he said, sounding different than before, a bit angry or indignant, I think.

'Yeah with a barrier around it remember!' Don't you remember? Your parents were the ones who put us there!

'And you still tried to save me.' he noticed.

'Ugh. Yeah. And do you thank me? No! ' I was on fire now. 'All I get, is soaking wet!' I gestured at my clothes.

'And this fancy rock.' He showed me a shining rock. 'It's yours, make a wish and throw it back in the lake. I took the rock from him and threw it back with all the force I had, without making a wish. Pssh, who did he think I was? Not some pretty pink princess who wanted all her dreams to come true. Ugh. I stood up and wiped my wet hair around my face. Just as I was about to sit down, Ben draped his hoodie over my shoulders and took a towel for himself. I sat down and looked the other way, I needed some time to calm down now. Ben sat next to me and suddenly I felt him touching my hair. I looked at his hand and then in his eyes, he had a strange expression on his face. I couldn't place it. Suddenly he looked down and started to speak.

'Mal..' he started. Oh no, this didn't sound good. Was there something wrong with the spell? Did it wore off? Did I do something wrong? 'I told you that I loved you.' He looked back in my eyes, still holding my wet hair. 'What about you? Do you love me?' he let go off my hair and stared into my eyes.

I looked away so that he wouldn't see the tear that was starting to form in my eye. I should have known that he was going to ask something like this. What was I supposed to answer? I had no idea what love was or what it even felt like. It wasn't like I had experienced a lot of love in my life, let alone that I had ever been in love. Yes, I loved being evil, but now I wasn't even sure of that anymore. Ben had made me rethink my life, even my whole existence. I didn't know what to do anymore, was I really supposed to be bad? Or could I be good too? Part of me said that I could be good too, that I didn't have to be bad, just because my mother was "Mistress of the Evil". I was actually starting to like it here in Auradon. And I knew my friends were starting to like it here too. But then again, there was no way we could ever let out parents down. They were counting on us, my mother was counting on me. This was the one chance I had to prove my mother that I was like her, that I am the child she always wanted, that I am truly rotten to the core.

'I don't know what love feels like.' I answered him. Ben reached out to my face and gently touched my chin. He turned my face back around so that I was facing him.

'Maybe I can teach you.'

'Maybe you can.' I answered quietly. Ben let go of my chin and started to put his clothes back on.

'I think it's time we go back.' he said.

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