Chapter 4 of Fangirls book two rewrite!!!!!:D:D

 

Chapter 4

That Saturday, the fangirls went shopping for their homecoming dresses. Breanna went and asked her crush, Henry Garrison, to homecoming and he had said yes, sounding excited, which gave Breanna a great thrill. Then a boy named Peter asked Kaylee out and she had said yes to that. He was into art, like she was. And then Bridgett had been asked by a boy named Spencer who was from the social dance class, so Bridgett was pretty excited about that. Gabrielle decided to wait until she was fifteen to ask her crush (she knew she couldn’t wait for him to ask her because there was no guarantee that he would,) to go with her. Anyway, after they got their dresses and after that, they went to Starbucks to get some strawberry Frappuccino’s and some cake pops. As they sat down at their table, Lexi began to giggle. “Okay,” she said as she grabbed her straw and opened the wrapper. “I’m rekindling my old fangirl and doing King Ben for the straw wrapper!”

Now, you’re probably wondering what Lexi’s talking about. When you get a straw wrapper, you can do something fun, where you think of someone you have a crush on and then you pull it into something that resembles a breast cancer ribbon. Then, you take one end and pull it through the hole and if it ends in a knot, the person you thought of is “knot” thinking of you. But if doesn’t end in a knot, the person is thinking of you. So, Lexi did the thing and, it ended in knot. Lexi feigned being mad and heaved a dramatic sigh. “You’re married, fine!” she joked. Then, her phone started ringing and she knew instantly who it was because she set Ben’s ring tone on her phone to “Did I Mention” and Lexi jumped back. “Aah! He heard me! Okay. . .” she gasped as she picked up the phone and answered it. 

“Hello?” Lexi said, still sounding a little bit startled.

“Hi, why do you sound so rattled?” Ben wondered. Lexi shook it off.

“Uh, no reason. What’s up?” she asked. She could hear Ben chuckle from the other end.

“Well, we were wondering if you guys could come to Auradon? We have some news that we have to share in person,” Ben explained. Lexi raised her eyebrows and looked around at the other fangirls.

“Um, yeah, just let us ask our parents first,” Lexi told him.

“See, you’re responsible. I like that,” Ben praised. Lexi blushed.

“Thanks! We’ll see you in few minutes.” Lexi looked around at the girls again. “Do you guys think that was what I think that was?” Breanna nodded.

“Oh, definitely,” she agreed as the others nodded.

“Yay!” Gabrielle squealed.

After they got the okay from their parents and texted Thaddeus to meet them in Auradon, they went to their usual meeting place. “So, what is it?” asked Bridgett curiously and sounding very excited to find out what the news was. Mal and Ben shared a smile so romantic that the fangirls actually swooned which made Thaddeus chuckle. He was doing alright considering Adam just asked the girl of his dreams to homecoming.

“I’m pregnant.” Mal told them with a smile. The fangirls screamed and squealed and so did Evie. She came and gave Mal a big hug as she started crying and Jay came up and fist bumped Ben and Thaddeus told them that he was very happy for them.

“It is about time!” Lexi exclaimed, sounding just a bit exasperated. Ben laughed.

“What do you mean by that?” Ben chuckled. Lexi shrugged.

“Well, you have been married for five years and-

Breanna cut her off and put her arm around Lexi’s shoulders.

“Stop talking.” Breanna advised. Lexi nodded.

“Good idea,” she agreed. The fangirls and Evie, of course, had just started asking Mal how she was feeling, when the ground started shaking beneath them. Ben pulled Mal close to him because he was feeling protective of her now more than usual and the fangirls and Thaddeus started moving closer together. Once the rumbling had subsided, Ben turned to Mal.

“Are you okay?” he inquired. Mal nodded.

“Yes. Another earthquake! That makes ten this month!” she said confusedly. The fangirls and Thaddeus all gasped in unison and exchanged scared looks. Ben looked very worried then.

“Oh, no, that’s not good. Why are you gasping like that?” Ben sighed, sounding concerned. Kaylee winced.

“You don’t think that this has anything to do with the Catacombs of Doom, do you?” she wondered, sounding scared. Mal and Ben sighed.

“Well, yes, but we’re confused because the last time this happened, it was because of the barrier and there’s no barrier anymore, so we just don’t know. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that you know what Catacombs of Doom are because that wasn’t in the documentaries.” Mal sighed. Thaddeus pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose because they were falling down.

“They wrote books too, you know. In Return to the Isle of the Lost, the second one, there were a lot of earthquakes and we find out that the barrier was the cause and the Catacombs of Doom played a part.” Thaddeus explained thoroughly. Lexi looked at him in amazement.

“You read the books too? The second one was my favorite!” Lexi smiled. Thaddeus smiled back at her.

“I don’t know, the third one was pretty great,” Thaddeus said back. Lexi and Thaddeus shared a chuckle and everyone around them looked at each other with knowing smiles. Breanna laughed.

“Guys!” she giggled and pointed back to Mal and Ben. Lexi nodded and looked at her feet.

“Right,” she said, sounding a bit embarrassed. Ben turned to the fangirls as he took Mal’s hand.

“Would we be able to borrow one of your copies of that book?” he asked kindly. Lexi nodded.

“Done. It would be an honor to loan you that book.” Lexi said honestly, making Ben laugh as she so often did. Bridgett made a face.

“Hey, how come you get to do it?” she pouted jokingly. Lexi matched Bridgett’s expression.

 “You let them borrow the movies,” she argued, not at all being able to keep a straight face.

 

 Bridgett scrunched her nose and everyone started laughing then but Mal hesitated. Because she also remembered who helped with that cause. Mad Maddy. She couldn’t help it and she didn’t want to admit it, but she was still rattled by that nightmare. She knew that it was only a dream, though, no matter how real it felt. Only seeing is how there was no barrier, some perpetrator was causing all of the drama.

“Maybe, Ben and I should study that book and once we’re done, we’ll let you know.” Mal suggested and they agreed just as a massive bolt of lightning shot down from the sky and narrowly missed Mal and Ben. Thaddeus screamed as he ducked and covered, his hands against his ears and went into a massive anxiety attack. He still had some post-traumatic stress disorder from when he got struck by lightning when he was only twelve. Lexi hurried over to Thaddeus before anyone else could and put a hand on his shoulder.

“Are you okay?” Lexi asked him, sounding so concerned, that Thaddeus looked up for just a moment to only slightly returned to his refuge inside his legs. He nodded, but he really did NOT look okay. Lexi moved her arm to be around his shoulders and told him that everything was okay and that they could move when he felt like it. Once again, everyone exchanged knowing looks.

When they were all back inside Mal and Ben’s castle with some hot chocolate, they began discussing. “Okay,” Ben said as he put his mug on the coffee table. “So, I think that Mal and I should study the book and see if we notice anything that will be helpful and then maybe one day every week you guys should come here and we can discuss things, sort of like a council meeting. We’ll also discuss this with the council also and see if they notice things too, but that’s just kind of me thinking. How does that sound?” Heads nodded all around the room and Lexi felt her heart beat faster as they were about to save Auradon from evil’s clutches, yet again.