Behind The Mask

Celebration

Mal's POV

I gasped.
I shot up.
My breathing is heavy and I'm sweating.
I felt extremely dizxy, my blood rush to my head by the extreme out burst.
Was everything a dream?
I looked around.
I...where...where am I?
I started to shake...
Where...
I....
"MOTHER!" I screamed, not really knowing why.
It just...burst.
Soon tears streamed down my face.
"I....IT'S...IT'S MY FAULT! MY FAULT!"
I shook my head...
Everything was coming back.
It wasn't a dream...
"MAL!"
I looked up saw Ben running towards me.
I ran to my side and hugged me.
I hugged back tightly.
I winced.
"I'm sorry, didn't mean to hurt you."
That's when I noticed.
Bandages cover both my arms.
On my left arms, my wrist was covered, on my right, my elbow up to my shoulder was wrapped and I could feel them wrapped around my stomach from under my shirt.
I touched my head.
I felt stich mark on the right corner of my forehead.
I yelped at the touch of it.
I brushed by bangs aside and looked back at Ben.
He studied me quietly.
"You okay?"
I nodded.
"You...you scared me...scared all of us."
I nodded again.
"I thought I lost you there for a minute but....but when you started mumbling things about...her...you took a whole lot of weight off my shoulders."
I looked away.
Her...
"What..." I shuttered.
Oh god...my voice.
He smiled, and played with a strand of my new hair.
"What did I say about her?"
He thought it through.
"You kept saying that she's gone...that It was all your fault. That...that you failed her."
We both stayed slient.
I looked at the window.
It was day time...
How long have I've been unconscious?
I looked back at Ben.
I brushed a strand of his hair back and half smiled.
"Whatever I said...is now in the past. I...she will never harm us again. She...she was never a mother to me. So....she never deserved my love-" I paused.
I took Ben's face in my hands and kissed him.
It was short but tender.
"-But you....you deserve all my love."
I smiled and kissed me again.

He sat closer to me, holding me in his arms while I played with the lose folds in his grey t-shirt.
"Ben..."
"Hmm?" He hummed.
"How....how long was I unconscious for?"
He stayed slient for a while.
"Ben..."
He shifted a bit.
"For...for 3 days."
My eyes widened.
"3 days?"
I felt him nodded.
"And....what has happened in the last 3 days?"
I looked up at him.
He looked down at me, then kissed me again.
I smiled but I nudged his chest.
"Come on Ben...tell me."
He smiled and picked me up.
"Fine....I'll tell you, but over breakfast. You've been asleep for 3 days, you must be starving."
I didn't fight him for picking me up, so I just relaxed in his arms.

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"So Auradon knows the truth now?" I asked, chewing on some eggs.
Ben nodded as he placed a piece of bacon in his mouth.
I smiled.
"So...wait how we're we able to actually convince everyone thst we weren't guilty of releasing my -" I paused.
"-You know..."
"Well...that night when you faced her, Carlos was able to record the confession she made on your phone." I nodded.
Carlos can be very sneaky wh-
My phone!
I started coughing and I reached for my glass of milk.
"Carlos still has my phone doesn't he! Who knows what he did with it already, probably hacked or something!"
I started to get up from my chair but Ben stopped me.
"Woo there, it's fine. I have your phone. I made sure he hadn't hacked it or anything."
He passed me my phone and I grabbed it, turning it on to make sure.
"Hmm...everything seems fine. You can never be to sure with Cam-er Carlos."

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"I'm glad you're finally awake. You've really had us all worried M." Evie said as we walked around the garden.
I looked at the rose bushes, taking in their scent.
"Well...I'm okay now. Ben told what occured during the 3 days I was out. I'm glad that we're back home."
She smiled.
"Home....but wait. What are we going to do?"
I looked at her.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean...what about Dove, Sofia, Cameron and Booboo? They didn't just disapper. I mean you still need to finish you show, everyone else has thier other jobs...?"
I thought about it.
"Hmm...well I guess will gave to go back and forth with. But once we're done with everything over there, we can officially just...resign or I don't know. We'll just...figure it out as we go."
She smiled.
"Yeah. You're right."