Watch and Learn

Chapter 12

The scene opens on a shot of the school where a group of girls could be seen giggling on a picnic table. Ben and Audrey walk past, the latter looking concerned at the gathering. Mal slips through the door to her locker.

"It would probably be less suspicious if you had just walked through the door like everyone else," Jay pointed out.

"Shut it, Jay," Mal rolled her eyes.

"I'm just saying!"

"Look, it's Mal!"

"Hi Mal!"

"Love my hair, Mal!"

Mal smiled back at them and waved, and then opened her locker.

"I mean, a good hairstylist would have done the same thing," Audrey sniffed, "and they wouldn't have had to use magic."

"True but Mal only cost fifty bucks," Grace told her. "A good hairstylist is at most $150 and takes two hours."

"So?"

"We don't all have $150 to blow on a haircut, Audrey," Emma rolled her eyes.

Jay walked up to Mal, as Carlos, Evie and Doug walked out of the school."Are you feeling kind of weird about this? I mean, it's not so bad here, you know?"

Aladdin looked over at the long haired boy who was sitting next to his son. It surprised him that Jay would be the first one to begin to welcome Auradon but then again, he was a street rat. Street rats tended to welcome comfort.

If Aladdin's own experiences were anything to go off of, that is.

"Are you insane?" Mal asked, looking at Jay as if he'd grown two more heads. "Long live evil! You're mean, you're awful, you're bad news! Snap out of it!"

To emphasize her point, Mal snapped her fingers in Jay's face.

"I could have done without the snapping in my face," Jay told her.

"I needed to make my point," Mal said with a shrug.

"Thanks Mal. I needed that," Jay said with a smile. Mal patted Jay on the shoulder and he walked off to flirt with the girls on the quad.

Many of the girls sighed at the sight of Jay walking toward their past selves.

"Do you think they actually paid for those?" Audrey asked Ben, referring to the hairstyles of the other girls.

Jay leaned on the railing. "Oh, hello. The name's Jay. You all going to the tourney game tonight?"

"I think the whole school was going," Bobby Hood said with a chuckle, wrapping an arm around his little brother's shoulders.

"Get off, Bobby!" Roland groaned, pushing the arm off but smiling all the same.

"Yeah," the girls nodded.

"Keep a look out for number eight, all right? Scoring the winning goal."

"Okay!"

"Did you Jay?" Dizzy asked, looking at Jay eagerly. While she wasn't as close to the boys as she was Mal or Evie, she still liked all of them.

"You'll have to watch to find out, Dizzy," Mal told her, saving Jay from answering. No one wanted to disappoint the young girl.

"She did it to Jane's hair too, and Fairy Godmother's not happy about it," Audrey said to Ben, as if finishing a rant.

"If Fairy Godmother was bothered by it, wouldn't she, say, talk to me before I ended up doing the hair of almost every girl in school?" Mal asked, staring at Audrey. "It's hair, Audrey."