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Evie's adjusting the back of a long blue gown that Rain is modelling for her, Rain bites her lip in pain "Okay Evie, I cannot breathe," She lifts Rain's left arm up and looks at her from under it.

"Well, you can breathe after Cotillion," she starts messing with the long skirt.

"Fun," Rain sings

"Well, I sincerely doubt that. I have at least 20 more events directly behind it, and I can't even remember what a single one of them is," Rain goes to play with her hair, but everything is neatly tucked away.

"Impeccable," Evie ignores her and Rain stops herself from rolling her eyes.

Many people laugh, but also feel bad about how Rain was being ignored.

Rain stares at herself in the mirror, the dress was gorgeous...but it wasn't her "Er...don't you think this dress is very..." Rain tries to find a way to phrase it without offending Evie "Auradon-y?"

"Auradon-y?" Evie laughs "You're going to a Cotillion, of course its Auradon-y!"

"I just don't think blue is my colour...or yellow for that matter,"

"Anything that's not red or black?" Lonnie asks

"Yeah, basically," Rain shrugs, smiling.

"Rain..." Evie takes Rain's hands in her own, looking into her eyes "You look stunning, and it's not just because of my dress," Rain smiles "You are going to look brilliant,"

"That's self-confidence," Jane mutters

"I mean, her dresses are nice..." Audrey admits and everyone looks at her, shocked by the compliment.

"Thank you..." Rain smiles, but then quickly blurts out "But do you think you could just change the flowers?" Evie raises an unimpressed eyebrow

The VK's laugh and Evie looks annoyed.

"Just some dark red, or dark pink! I'd be happy with dark pink!" they stare at each other for a while and Rain's eyes start gradually turning blue, Evie notices and sighs.

"That will always be cool," Jay mutters

"Fine! I can add some darker colours...maybe some black if you're lucky,"

"Thank you! I love you!" Rain gives her a hug and Evie smiles, turning away to fiddle with some fabrics and Rain turns back as well, looking around the room.

"Evie?" Rain asks quietly as she stares at a coat hanger in the corner with three leather jackets hung up, there were two of Mal's purple ones, but behind them was a familiar burgundy shade.

"Hmm?"

"Do you ever think about what we'd be doing if we were back on the Isle right now?"

"That's a weird question to ask," Lonnie notes and Ben looks down at his girlfriend who sinks into the sofa.

"That's funny," Evie laughs slightly

"It wasn't a joke..." Rain gets ignored again as the familiar news sound makes Evie look up

"Why's she not listening to her?" Jane asks and Evie looks down in almost shame.

"Ah! Look who's on TV," She drags Rain off the podium and onto her bed.

"As the royal couple continues their tour of the kingdom, they dined with Aladdin and Jasmine," the TV shows Rain attempting to avoid spitting out her drink as she laughs "Six months ago..."

"What are you two watching?" Mal asks, entering the room, Rain flashes her a wave as she stares at the screen

"Damn..." Rain looks at the different version of Mal on the screen. Her hair's longer and more pink-y toned and she has a straight cut fringe above her eyes.

"Now that's someone mixing Auradon and VK style," Carlos says.

"The news," Evie answers happily

"Which reporter was it that gave an article the headline 'I give it one week before she curses us?'" Mal does dramatic hand movements as she walks across her room.

"I think the same one who just asked if my mother was dead," Mal winces slightly before falling onto her bed.

"Rain must be counting the days until the Royal Cotillion, "Rain's eyes widen and she gasps as she realises something. She leans down to grab a large book out of her bag "when she will officially become a Lady of the Court," Rain also takes out her spell book, flipping along the pages until she finds the right one.

"Read it fast at lightning speed. Remember everything I need," Rain picks up the actual schoolbook and turns the pages as she speeds through it.

"Uh oh..." Jay mutters and Rain pales, Ben thought her spellbook was in the museum.

"I know Rain's secret to fitting in, and Ben wouldn't like it one bit. Haven't you guys had enough secrets between the two of you already?" Evie walks over to Rain and puts her hand on her hip. Rain sighs, she was right.

"Secrets? As in plural?" Ben looks at Rain an Evie

"It was like one secret, we don't have secrets," Rain defends "Unless Ben's keeping secrets from me that I don't know about?" she raises an eyebrow, clearly joking.

There're some laughs because of Rain and Ben's similar responses.

"You know what I meant," Evie sighs

"Yeah..." Rain looks away "It's just so I can get through lessons. I mean, you remember what I was like before I started using my spell book.I was a complete disaster!"

"Well, personally, as your best friend," Evie leans in and Mal scoffs from her bed

"I thought I was your best friend?" Carlos asks

"What about me?" Jay chimes in, staring at Rain who sighs

"Honestly, stop fighting over me," She jokes and others laugh

"I strongly believe that this spell book..." she takes it from Rain's lap and the girl groans slightly "...Belongs in the museum, along with my mirror and Mal's spell book," Rain looks up at her sadly and Evie puts her pinky finger under her friend's chin "Don't give me the face. Put the pout away. Mm-hmm. You know I'm right,"

Mal laughs on screen and off screen and others join in. It was somewhat fun seeing the King's girlfriend being treated like a child by one of her vest friends.

"You think Mal's spell book is in the museum?" Rain suddenly asks, turning to Evie, a small smirk coming to her face

"Rain!" Mal warns, whispering over to her harshly.

"Yes..." Evie looks between them and notices Mal's behaviour "Mal! You to?!"

"It was just to help Carlos with something!"

"You said that last month!"

"Okay, I was lying then, but I'm not now!" Rain laughs loudly and falls backward on Evie's bed.

"You've got your spell book as well?" Ben asks mal who nods, and Rain avoids his eye contact.

"You don't ever miss running wild and just breaking all the rules?" Mal sits up before looking towards Rain in curiosity.

"Like stealing and lying and fighting?"

"Yeah..." Rain smirks slightly thinking about it

"No!" Evie exclaims

"Kind of," Mal answers at the same time and Evie turns to her "I mean no, of course not!"

"Okay, why is this so funny?" Lonnie asks

"What?" Ran looks at them both as Mal stands and Evie pulls her up from the bed.

"Why would we?"

"R, come here. Look at where we are," Evie continues from Mal's question and makes a face the T.V. "We're in Auradon! And we're Auradon girls now," Evie and Mal give Rain warm smiles, standing either side of her.

"Since Rain revealed her love of strawberries, she has received hundreds of cartons from her admirers. Here she is enjoying a cosy bite..." The screen shows Ben feeding Rain a strawberry and the girl can't help but smile watching it. Evie squeals and her face goes back to neutral.

Jane and Lonnie 'aww' and Rain rolls her eyes as Ben looks increasingly uncomfortable.

"This is the land of opportunity. We can be whatever we want to be here," Rain looks back up at her as the reporter starts talking again.

"Princess Ruby and Rain have also been seen to be becoming closer when the Royal couple went to visit Rain's newly found parents," The screen shows Rain and Ruby laughing in the corner whilst Ben converses with their parents.

"So, please, let's just leave the past in the past, okay?"

"That...doesn't seem like the best idea," Jane says quietly "Is anyone really listening to what Rain's saying?"

"Besides, I mean, look at the shoes. Look at them," Evie picks up a pair of blue heels.

"Mm. Severe," Evie giggles and Mal wraps her arm around Rain, letting her lean her head on her shoulder as they look out to Auradon.

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