Fern

Walking down Auradon Prep hallways is always horrifying to me. There are so many people. I can barely handle my own family!

I'm Fern, middle daughter of Rapunzel and Flynn Rider. My father's real name is hard to pronounce, don't ask.

My older brother, Fritz is insane. He's always causing mischief somewhere; it makes me wonder if we had accidentally taken home a VK rather than our actual child. One time he snuck out of the castle to go swimming in the ocean surrounding our land. He'd gotten in so much trouble that night with mom and dad, I was almost frightened of them.

My little sister Piper is a very friendly, bubbly, cheerful and happy person. She makes friends wherever she goes, and that makes me jealous. She just does it so easily; with a compliment to the person's clothes, their hair, their makeup, or even with just a simple 'hello'.

But I, Fern, am very socially awkward. I have no friends, and I've never spoken to my roommate... I think Callie is my roommate. I think.

The only times I have really ever spoken to anyone was to my brother and sister, and in class occaisionally.

Fritz finds it worrying, and he begs me to make friends; but it's just normal for me. I enjoy being silent and alone. Most of the time.

I get good grades, I eat healthy, I get enough exercise; I can do all those things alone. I just prefer not to be alone, but Fritz doesn't need to know that.

A new person sits beside me today. I look at them and take in their features. Sitting down beside me is a shorter girl with long dirty blonde hair. She has beach waves, and to be honest, it looks nice on her.

The girl is dressed in a tight crop top that rests just above her belly button, tight light blue jeans, and a purple, pink and maroon plaid flannel is covering her skin, keeping her look classy. She has a pair of black-and-white converse on, completing the look. She looks amazing.

I look down at my plain outfit; an oversized black sweatshirt from dad and neon yellow jeggings. I suddenly feel self conscious, although I am aware that the new girl is wearing less clothing than I am.

The girl turns and whispers to me, "can I get the assignment?"

I blankly nod, digging through my bookbag, pulling out the question sheets the teacher had given us last night.

The girl thanks me, and gets to work, but not before turning to me and saying, "I'm Willa."

I hesitate, not knowing whether I should respond, and finally muster out my name to be polite.

Willa smiles at me. "Nice to meet you Fern. I hope we can be good friends."

I'm internally laughing. No you don't, Willa.

Willa pays attention to what is happening in class, but I can't seem to focus on the teacher's voice. Instead, I start listening around to other conversations.

"Think the new kid is a VK?"

"I hope not, VKs are bad news."

"They aren't so bad."

VK is a term that everyone at Auradon Prep uses; it stands for Villain Kid.

"What's a VK?" I hear Willa whispering to me.

"VK stands for Villain Kid." I mutter under my breath. I look around, knowing Mal, Holly and Jay have this class right now. I gesture to them, all of them sitting in the back row of the classroom, almost all by themselves, disregarding Lonnie, Jane and Doug sitting beside them.

"Over there are some VKs, Mal, daughter of Maleficent, Holly, daughter of Captain Hook, and Jay, son of Jafar." I point them out to Willa.

Willa seems to flinch at the name Captain Hook. "Holly is Hook's daughter?"

I nod.

I hear Willa grit her teeth. "Her father is the reason I never got to visit Neverland."

I look up in surprise. "You know the story?"

Willa nods, not looking at me. "I met Peter Pan and his daughter, Petrie Pan."

"Peter Pan has a daughter?"

Again, Willa nods.

"Did they come here with you?" I ask out of curiousity.

Willa shakes her head. "Nope. Look, I don't want to talk about it anymore."

I eye her. "Okay..."