Cold Hearted

Daughter Of The Elements

Elena POV

Once my mom let us know she'd gotten Audrey away from where we'll be, I held onto Harry's arm rather tightly with all made our way out of the woods back to Auradon Prep. I still feel a little off... but a lot better than I did before. I just held onto Harry, right now I just had to.

I'm just so tired, I feel like the energy has been sucked out of me and not to mention how drained my brain feels. Harry has just been so wonderful, more wonderful than he is normally as well. I'm still thinking about what he said, it was really smart after all and.... made a lot of sense to me. I'm always so quick to forgive others and yet I don't even remember to forgive myself sometimes! Let alone the whole thing about blaming myself, it really made me think about a lot that was for sure.

My mom led the way and led us through the forest, constantly turning back to check on me as I was still alright. I just..... I really hope I'm not actually in trouble, it was a complete accident after all! I truly tried to hold it in, I really did! Her words just hurt me so much I couldn't hold it in! Goodness, I really hope I'm not gonna get... suspended or something like that! That would be the absolute worst... goodness my anxiety is through the roof!

Slowly we walked out of the threshold of the forest, the sky was the nice pleasant blue it once was again and there wasn't a breeze in the air, just as it was before I had my breakdown. I timidly shrunk behind Harry as I immediately saw everyone who had come back into the courtyard and they had to be staring at me, I just knew it! I didn't have to actually look at them to know it too... so I shrunk back and hid behind Harry, looking at my feet as we walked and refusing to look up. My mom hung back a bit from walking in front of us so she could walk at my other side, she nudged me a bit,

"Elle, hold your head up high for me"

My mom whispered to me, so I had to suck it up for sure. I sighed and slowly began looking up, I peeked around at first and was surprised when... no one was really looking at me. Instead I was being rushed by five familiar faces,

"Elena! Are you okay?"

Mal shouted as she hurried over to me, Evie was right behind her shouting out,

"Goodness you had us all spooked! We were so worried about you!"

They... They were worried about me? I tilted my head a bit as I glanced up at Harry who was simply staring down at me with a soft smile already before looking back to everyone else, Ben was with Mal of course and Evie, Jay, and Carlos were all together right behind Ben and Mal,

"I-I'm okay... thanks for asking"

I meekly spoke, but instead, I was very quickly brought into a.... a hug. Harry took his arm away from me for a moment just so Mal and Evie could run into me with open arms. I was nearly toppled over and everything! But they both hugged me so tight... I couldn't help but smile! I hugged them back and couldn't help but tear up a bit,

"We heard about what Audrey said, we're so sorry you had to hear all that mess!"

Evie said as she squeezed me a bit. Mal then pulled away from me with a slightly... wicked smile to her,

"But you did handle it with some style that was for sure-"

Evie suddenly roughly elbowed Mal in the side, causing her to choke on her words a bit,

"Ow"

Mal whined out as she went to go rub her side. Evie gave her a look of distaste and narrowed her eyes a bit,

"Your Maleficent is showing Mal, Elena obviously didn't like what happened so neither do we. What Mal really means to say is that we have your back Elena, Audrey was so in the wrong"