Watch and Learn

Chapter 7

Remedial Goodness 101 Classroom

"Someone hands you a crying baby. Do you A: curse it?" Fairy Godmother pointed to the board with her pointer and made a dramatic sweep with it. "B: lock it in a tower?" She continued to illustrate the choices with her pointer.

"So, anyone want to tell me why it looks like the Remedial Goodness 101 classroom is in the study lounge?" Eugene asked, looking at the students in the background with a frown. The last thing those four needed was to feel like they were a goldfish in a bowl.

The four kids looked on with clear boredom and disinterest.

"C: give it a bottle?"

"The obvious choice," someone called out but no one could tell who it was.

Evie shook her head and mouthed 'no'.

"Or D: carve out its heart?" Fairy Godmother made a carving motion with her hand.

"Way to be dramatic, mom," Jane muttered.

Evie quickly raised her hand with a bright smile on her face.

"Evie," Fairy Godmother called.

"What was the second one?" Evie asked. Mal looked over at Evie as if she was joking and went back to sketching a picture of the magic wand.

"E, I don't get why you pretend to be dumb," Mal sighed. "Besides, the only boys in that classroom were Jay and Carlos. If you're trying to impress them, your standards have seriously dropped."

"Hey!"

"So you want to date Evie?" Mal asked, raising an eyebrow at Carlos. That lasted for a minute before the daughter of Maleficent burst out laughing. "Sorry Carlos. I couldn't resist."

"You're evil, you know that!"

"Thank you!"

"Oh, okay. Anyone else?"

Mal continued to look down at her paper, something Fairy Godmother seemed to notice as she called on her.

"Mal?"

"C: give it a bottle." Mal answered, looking up at Fairy Godmother.

"Correct. Again." Fairy Godmother smiled.

Ben couldn't help but beam at the thought of his girlfriend being the one to constantly get the questions right. Not that he had any doubt that Mal was good, but it was nice to have some visual proof in case guys like Chad confronted her and her friends again.

"You are on fire, girl!" Carlos shouted.

"Looks like she's not entirely bad, mother," Aurora whispered to her mom.

"Hmph, a leopard doesn't change their spots!" Queen Leah whispered back and Aurora had to hold back an eye roll. Maybe it would be a good idea if Audrey skipped her two week vacation to her grandparents house?

"Just pick the one that doesn't sound like any fun," Mal told them, implying it should have been obvious to the others.

"Oh."

"Seriously? Carving out a baby's heart would be fun for you?"

"No, because I would never do anything with a baby," Mal shot back. "Be a copy of my mother? I don't think so."

"That makes so much sense," Evie smiled.

"Oh..." Mal rolled her eyes and went back to her drawing.