Walls

When the girl arrived in Auradon, everyone shied away from her. At first it was because she was the child of Maleficent herself (as King Adam said: "There are no villains worse than Maleficent!"), and then because, as it turned out, she had a shield that wouldn't let her there is no one to her, except those three children of villains with whom she came to the United States of Auradon. On the day when the sons of Cruella de Vil and Jafar, as well as the daughters of the Evil Queen and Maleficent arrived at school, the daughter of Sleeping Beauty wanted to shake Bertha's hand and she was thrown away from Mal. Everyone was terribly scared, but almost everything was fine with Audrey, she just hurt herself badly and that's it. *** Maleficent's daughter was falling more and more in love with Ben every day. His voice, his eyes, his smile. Mal loved his laugh, the dimples on his cheeks, the disheveled blond hair. The fairy's daughter was afraid of her thoughts. She knew that they were both drawn to each other like a magnet and had no idea what to do about it. "He could get hurt because of that damned shield," she kept telling herself when she saw Prince Auradon. "He may die because of the shield", she repeated when the guy smiled at her. "Damn it, I like him!", she moaned mentally, noticing that she blushed in his presence and various, sometimes not very decent thoughts crept into her head. *** "Mal, wait!" Ben called out to the islander as she walked across the clearing to the castle, "why are you avoiding me?" Crown Prince Auradon asked seriously, catching up with the girl.  "Because you're going to get hurt by the shield. Did you see what happened to Audrey?" She answered bitterly. Her companion nodded.  "She's fine." Ben tried to approach, but Maleficent's daughter jumped aside.  "Stay away!" putting her hands forward, as if trying to defend herself, she asked.  "We'll get through this together," the prince said firmly. The girl nodded uncertainly and suppressed a nervous laugh, moving a little to the side. How is he going to cope with something for which there is no cure? He nevertheless came closer and gently hugged her, as if she were a fragile doll, and Mal froze. For a second it seemed like it was a dream or some kind of glitch and now the guy would be thrown away from her. But no, Ben was still hugging Maleficent's daughter. She frowned, trying to figure out why the shield didn't work on him, and then froze with a sudden guess. Her mother told her, of course, with disdain, that if she met her soul mate, the shield would fall. Really?.. "Is something wrong?" Belle's son asked warily, looking at his beloved. She nodded automatically, unable to believe it. The quiet words came out of his mouth by themselves:  "You are my soul mate..." Ben stroked her cheek with his thumb, and then bent down and kissed her on the lips. The green-eyed woman responded to the kiss, deepening it, and then smiled… She could not believe that she had found her soul mate, because not everyone lived with those who were destined for them, and not everyone met them, to be honest. But the guy's careful touches proved to her that it was all true. She had to pinch herself to make sure it wasn't a dream.  "Is something bothering you?" Benjamin asked. The girl shook her head negatively, smiling weakly. She still couldn't believe that Ben was her soul mate. Actually, it was... weird. She found her soulmate in the Crown Prince of Auradon. But if Ben hadn't insisted on his own in a conversation with his parents, they might never have met… The prince carefully looked at his beloved, trying to guess what she was thinking. Maleficent's daughter noticed his gaze and slightly raised her eyebrows, silently asking "What?".  "I love you," Ben whispered, looking into the girl's eyes.  "I love you too," Mal replied, standing on tiptoe and kissing Belle's son and the Beast on the lips.