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It starts on a Sunday morning. The birds are chirping. The sky is clear, not a cloud in sight. The flowers around the campus are thriving, blooming towards the sun. The alarm is ringing-
Wait.
”Fuck!” Audrey shoots up in her bed, snatching her phone and checking the time. It’s 9:45. She has exactly thirty minutes before breakfast ends and the first period starts.
Audrey falls off her bed in a clumsy heap. The Princess is stunned for a second before she rapidly untangles herself and rushes into the shower.
One quick shower later and she’s hopping out of the shower, checking the time as she brushes her teeth.
Fuck. It's 9:57- only eighteen minutes left if Audrey plans on skipping breakfast. It’s whatever, she’ll just text her girlfriend to ask her to sneak some leftovers after class.
She exits the bathroom and rushes to her closet, quickly scanning through her clothes to see which one she’ll wear today. Usually, she would have brought the out the night before, but there Chad has gotten caught up with a situation, and that had thrown her entire sleep schedule off.
Audrey throws all caution to the wind and grabs a random outfit from her expansive closet, praying that it’s clean, and quickly slips herself into the dress.
Audrey takes a little bit more time with her shoes, choosing a pair of platform heels with little bows on the sides. There was no time to admire the cute additions. She shoved them onto her feet, grabbing her hairbrush and the pendant Evie had gifted her for their 6 month anniversary.
She checks her outfit in the mirror. Verifying that she looks at least somewhat presentable. The shoes and the dress look a little off, but she doubts anybody would notice. If they did, Audrey trusts her status enough to keep them from saying anything.
Audrey forgoes a matching purse and reaches for the door handle. She’s about to open it when the door flies open by itself. Her heart stops for a second, stunned before she recognizes her girlfriend, Evie standing on the other side.
“Morning, Princess,” Evie greets. She moves past Audrey, kissing her cheek in greeting before flopping onto her bed.
Audrey touches her cheek gently, her heart now stopped for an entirely different reason. She’s still standing by the door, her body registers that she should be halfway to the cafeteria by now, but she can’t find it in herself to just leave after Evie came to say hello.
Evie raised her head from the mattress. “You know, this is usually the part where you say ‘good morning’ and kiss me back.”
Audrey snaps out of her daze, moving to give Evie a kiss- this time on her lips- and mumbles a ‘good morning’ back.
Evie looks around the room and Audrey just now notes the mess she was about to leave her room in. She can hear her mother tutting her lips in disapproval.
”Wow,” Evie says. “Where were you rushing to this fine morning?”
Audreys confused, now really taking in the fact that her girlfriend in lying on her bed, judging the rooms appearance when she should be in class.
“Are you skipping class?” she asks.
Evie furrows her eyebrows and Audreys heart skips a beat at how cute the gesture is. “…No? Also that was only one time.”
“One time that landed you three days detention, plus cleaning the bathroom.”
“It’s whatever,” Evie shrugs. “I just caught the headmistress on a bad day.”
Audrey rolls her eyes and latches onto on the bedposts. “Uh huh.”
“Don’t change the subject,” Evie pouts. “You still haven’t answer my question.”
This stumps Audrey right back into confusion. “I was heading to class…?”
Now it’s Evie’s turn to be confused. “Why though?”
Audrey furrows her eyebrows. “Because that's what you do during the normal school week,” she says. Slowly she feels as if she's missing something.
The look of confusion is gone and is now replaced with amusement. Evie giggles, as if she's laughing at some inside joke. “Love, have you checked the date?”
No. Audrey thinks drily, she has not checked her phone because she lost track of the damned thing in her rush to get out the door.
“Evie...what’s today?”
Audrey hates the way Evie looks like she's been given a pot of gold, clearly enjoying being in whatever loop Audrey has found herself on the outside of.
“It's Sunday. Why, love?”
Audrey's sure she looks stunned, if not a little dumb. She slaps her forehead and groans. Evie's cute laughs ring through her ears in the background.
“Oh my God,” she groans. “I can't believe I- stop laughing at my suffering and help me find my phone.”
“Okay, okay,” Evie relents. “Where should I look?”
“Check my bed, since you've already made yourself at home there.” Audrey moves over the small heap of clothes that lay at the foot of her closet. “I’ll check here.”
They both search for a few minutes, moving to different locations when their search comes up empty. But while the dorms at Auradon are larger than your average school dorm, they’re not enormous and the couple finds themselves running out of places to look.
“Okay, this isn't working, how about I call your phone instead?” Evie asks.
Audrey nods her head. She’s not too worried about the missing phone. If their search turns up empty, she can always get a new one. But there's a polaroid of her first date with her girlfriend in the case and she would prefer if it if she could get that back. First dates don't happen everyday.
She moves towards where Evie stands with her phone, in the middle of the room and take one of her hands. Usually, Evie stands a few inches above her, but with these heels on, they stand at about the same height, so she's able to place a quick kiss on Evie’s cheek.
She’s rewarded with a smile and a kiss back.
It takes a little longer for Evie to open the phone app because Audrey’s currently occupying one of her hand, but Audrey would rather eat her own hair than let go.
Evie makes it to her lists and presses Audreys contact.
They stand still for a second, silent in order to hear the ringtone when it comes on. For a moment Audrey panics, wondering if she left her phone on silent mode again. (It wouldn’t be the first time.)
Audrey heard it first. The muted melodic chime of her phone coming from somewhere in the room. She walks around the room slowly, stretching her neck out to track the phone purely by sound until she narrows it down to around her vanity. The phone has stopped ringing, but she’s so sure she heard it here.
”It’s here,” she says as she starts ripping the drawers open, searching the items placed in each one.
“Find it yet?” Evie asks.
”Umm…- Yes!” Audrey holds up the phone, victorious. She takes a look at her dorm and groans. “Fuck, now I have a huge to clean up.”
Evie raises her eyes in surprise. “Oh, I didn’t know you cursed now.”
”What? I-“ Audrey slaps a hand over her mouth, eyes wide in realization. “Oh my god.”
Evie glides over to her and removes her hand, chuckling. “Love, it’s okay to curse. No ones going to crucify you for it.”
Audrey covers her face with her hands, not wanting her girlfriend to see her red cheeks. “I’ve said ‘fuck’ at least three times today,” her eyes widen again. “I just said it again!”
Evie’s full on laughing now, gripping one of the bedposts to keep herself from falling over. Audrey can’t help but smile, loving the sight of her girlfriend smiling and laughing.
“Don’t laugh, I’m having a crisis,” she pouts. Her statement only serves to make Evie laugh harder.
“I’m sorry it’s just-,” Evie straightens up. “Only my girlfriend would have a almost stroke over saying a curse word.”
“No I wouldn’t,” Audrey says, as if she didn’t just want to bury herself into the ground.
“My poor princess,” Evie teases, placing a kiss on Audreys forehead. “Anyways since it’s Sunday, wanna head down to theater and watch a cheesy rom com?”
And Audrey knows that Evie is trying to distract her with the promise of an impromptu date. But she’s always been a weak, weak woman it came to Evie. Especially when the promise of a cheesy movie with even cheesier, overpriced popcorn was thrown into the mix.
”I know what you’re trying to do,” she says.
Evie raises an innocent eyebrow. “Is it working?”
Audrey giggles and holds out her hand. “If you take me to the movie before we’re late you’ll fine out.”
Evie takes Audreys hand without even looking, already heading towards the door with smile on her face, and laces their fingers together. “Whatever you say, love.”
They don’t let go until the get to the theater. (Except when Audrey had to use the bathroom and put her foot down because-
”no, Evie, you can’t follow me into the stall.”
“I wasn’t!”
“It’s the fact I don’t believe you that scares me.”)
It’s still an awesome date.