You and Harry were childhood friends. Since you were seven, actually. Back then, he didn't understand what was going on in your house. You're the child of Scar, and Auradon knows that he doesn't exactly make the best family member. He was a kid, after all, how could he? Actually, for a while, he thought your house was haunted. That must be why your dad is always mad, right?

But that changed today. The both of you are around twelve now. But today, it wasn't your dad who brought you over. It was Shenzi, the now humanized hyena who acts more like your parent than either your dirtbag of a dad or your missing mother.

And he noticed a bandage over your eye that wasn't there yesterday.

Shenzi grabbed Harry's dad and started talking quietly so that Harry didn't hear. But he could see them, and he saw how you awkwardly looked away from the conversation. After a minute or two, his dad sighed, nodded, and let you go over to Harry.

"Hi," you said, trying to act normal.

It's too late, now, though. And you know it.

He knows.

"...Hey..." he said, looking over at his dad to try and see what they were talking about now.