Hi Guys and Welcome to my new fanfiction. This one is a sequel to Once a Prince, but follows a different-ish story line. Basically, it follows Ben, Carlos and the group as they go from the last year in Auradon Prep to the final year of University. I hope to upload a new chapter every week, since I have the whole thing on my laptop, and each chapter should be about 3,000-4,000 words.

This one is done a little different, so the story jumps from key date to key date, instead of following day after day, and some parts of the chapter will be internal monologues from the characters, that relate to the story. For example, the first bit in this story.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it, and feel free to leave a review :)

Ben's POV-Monday September 12th
It has been six months since the incident and three months since our fight with Mal. The new school year was beginning, and it was exciting times for all of us. It was our final year at Auradon Prep, before we were allowed to choose what to do with our lives. In all fairness, most of the students had decided that they wanted to study at the University of Auradon, but at the moment, it was too early for me to decide.

After being disowned from my family, my life was finally my own. I wasn't expected to grow up and take the throne, I could finally do what made me happy, and in all fairness, Carlos made me happy. We were beginning this final year together, as he managed to skip one year entirely, and I couldn't be happier. Well, let's just say that was before the school year actually began.

It was 6:30 in the morning, and I woke up to hear a rather annoying buzzing. I tried to track the sound, and turn it off without opening my eyes, but I was met with failure. I looked for my phone, only to find that I had hid it under my pillow. I know myself too well, and if I put it on the bedside table, I would have snoozed it. At least this way I would wake up on time, as I would have to look for it.

I shook Carlos awake, who was laid next to me, and who had somehow ignored the annoying sound. "Carlos, baby, it's time to get up" I said, shaking him as I did so. He just groaned, and moaned as he was waking up, and shielded his eyes from the sun.

"Ben, its 6:30 in the morning, why are we up so early" he groaned before sitting up in the bed.

"Cause it's the first day of school, and we don't want to be late" I replied, getting up from the bed, and heading to the shower.

He responded quite quickly, "But we live on campus, how are we gonna be late?" he questioned further, and I could see that he didn't want to get up.

"Well, if we both want to shower, and get breakfast then we need to get up early." And I did not expect the response I got.

"Well, if we showered together, wouldn't that save time?" he said, with a wink at the end. I chuckled, before getting into the shower. After about 2 minutes of showering, I felt him join me in the shower, and I felt it was appropriate to respond to his question.

"If we showered together, it would take twice as long" I said, pulling him closer to me, and into a deep kiss, grinding our members together. I could hear him moaning my name, but I quickly stopped.

"Why did you stop?" he asked, in a rather annoyed tone.

"Because, if I carried on, we would be late" I replied, winking back at him. We finished up in the shower, and got changed into our clothes for the day.

We made our way to the cafeteria to see that it was completely empty of students. During the school holidays, most of the kids when back to stay with their parents, but with our…predicament, that was kind of difficult. We would usually go out for breakfast, but since it was the start of school, Fairy Godmother told us that they would be serving it at the school. After today, all the students would move back into their dorms, and everything would return to normal.

Luckily, she wasn't wrong, and they had provided us with some food. Whilst Carlos and I loaded up, we saw Evie walk into the room. Similarly to us, she was living on campus. We all grabbed some food, and started to eat breakfast. Fairy Godmother was hosting an assembly at 9:00 but she wanted to see us at 8:30, so we had some time to kill. Although to be fair, the three of us didn't really have much to talk about. We had spent the whole summer together, and knew pretty much everything about each other. We just sat there in silence, eating breakfast. Fun…

8:30am:

We went to the Fairy Godmother's office, and knocked on the door. She welcomed us, and we sat down at the desk, each wondering what she wanted. "Good Morning" she began, and we all responded in chorus "Good Morning."

"As you three know, it's the first day of school today, so I wanted to check up on you. I haven't seen you for most of the holiday and…" I just sat there and rolled my eyes. As much as I loved the Fairy Godmother, I felt like this was unnecessary. She had been conferring with the King and Queen all holiday, to make sure that we 'villain kids' didn't cause too much trouble, now we were off the isle.

Then, she finally spoke up about the interesting topic. "Ben, I was hoping I could discuss your power with you". She began, and I knew where this was going. "Many of the students are fearful that we may have a repeat of what happened…earlier this year."

Before she could go any further, I stopped her. "Don't worry miss, I've learnt to control my power. I won't use it, I promise." I could see the worry in her face disappear.

"These are your timetables. I have tried to place the three of you with at least one of your friends for each lesson. Measures have been taken to try and stop Chad and Audrey from interfering with your last year, but there is only so much as a school we can do." She then turned her attention to Carlos.

"Carlos, per the request of your teachers, you've been advanced to the same year as Evie and Ben, so the three of you will be graduating together at the end of this year." He was ecstatic, due to this. He had told me that he was worried about us graduating without him, so this definitely settled his nerves.

We made our way to the assembly hall, and met up with a few familiar faces. Lonnie and Jane had saved a few seats for us in the front row, and we saw Doug stood at the front, with the rest of the band. The Fairy Godmother began her usual speech, welcoming us back from our holidays and what not. Well, it was usual for me, but it was the first time Evie and Carlos had heard it. The band would play the usual songs, the Auradon national anthem, as well as the schools anthem, and then we were all dismissed for our first lesson.

Luckily, I had a free period, whilst Doug and Carlos had robotics 101, and Evie and Lonnie had maths. Jane had one of her optional subject. Suffice to say, it would be difficult two hours. I had no schoolwork to do, as it was the first lesson of the day, and I had no one to talk to. I decided to go outside, and spent the time reading some of the books assigned for my optional subjects.

We had the choice of a few optional subjects to study. As always, Carlos tried to get as many as he could, whilst I was a bit more relax. I had decided to take up Geography, as well as Literature, so I thought it would be best to read some of the books we were going to study this year. One of them was a book called 'Of Mice and Men', and I had no clue what it was about.

However, for the whole of the period, I couldn't concentrate. My thoughts were drawn to the forest, bordering the school, and I just wanted to run. It had been a while since I was able to use my wolf form. Well, to be honest the last time I had used it was when I faced Mal. Since then, I tried to keep it under wraps, as people feared it, like Fairy Godmother pointed out. I looked around to see that no one was about.

'What's the harm?' I thought to myself as I packed up my bag, and made my way to the forest. 'As long as no one sees me, then I'll be fine' I continued to justify my actions, as I made my way towards the forest. When entering the forest, I placed my bag down my a tree, surveyed the area once more, making sure that no one was about, and there wasn't. Luckily, I was wearing one of Evie's outfits, so I knew I didn't need to worry about taking my clothes off when I did so.

I quickly transformed into my wolf form, and boy after so long, it felt so good. I got that surge of power and freedom back, and I instantly knew why I loved doing this. I made my way deeper into the forest, running like it was the first time in this form, and I was absolutely loving it. I found a small river, and decided to take a small drink out of it. That's when I heard a voice coming out of nowhere.

"I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to do that" he said, chuckling to himself. I pulled back from the water, wondering where this voice is coming from. But the voice continued. "Dirty water contains diseases and what not" he said, before entering a clearing.

It was a blonde hair boy, with a similar build to me, and I knew exactly who it was. I changed back into my human form, before pulling him into a hug.

"Xander, I haven't seen you in ages" I said, and he returned the hug.

"Yeah, it's been too long." He replied, and I pulled out of the hug, and we started to make our way back out of the forest, towards my bag. "That's pretty impressive" he said, obviously referencing my power.

"Yeah, but I don't get a lot of chance to use it nowadays." I said, with a tone of disappointment in my voice. But I was quick to change the subject. "So, how was your holiday? I'm sure Rapunzel has happy to see you"

"Yeah, it was nice thanks, how was the King and…" he began, but quickly saw the expression on my face change, "Oh god, I'm so sorry Ben, I completely forgot" he said in an apologetic manner. I should be used to this by now, but it was still difficult for me to approach the subject.

"Yeah, it was fine thanks. I spent all of it with Carlos and Evie, so it's nice to have some different company" I said to him, trying to smile through my pain, which he noticed. We started to compare time tables, and found that we shared most of our classes. We then spent most of the period telling each other stories.

We got kind of personal when I started to tell him about my time of the Isle. I was very reserved about it, as I knew I had committed some pretty bad crimes whilst I was over there, so I just told people what they wanted to hear. Before long, the bell had gone, signalling the end of the first lesson.

Carlos POV

My first lesson of the day was Robotics 101, and boy was it enjoyable. It was one of the optional subject I'd chosen, along with History, Geography, Computer Science and Engineering. In order to get the best opportunities in the future I needed to stand out, and I decided the best way to do that was to nail as many subjects as I could. Anyway, since it was the first lesson back, it was mostly introductions and teaching us the basics of robotics. We were told that our final project would be to make a fully functional robot in our pairs.

I was partnered with Doug so all was perfect. I text Ben to tell him the good news and to ask him how he was getting on. He had told me that he had a free period by himself, so I wanted to make sure he was all ok. The teacher got us set on a task, and the two hours went by pretty quickly, but I still hadn't heard anything from Ben. The bell went signalling the end of the first lesson, and everyone made our way outside to enjoy our break.

I walked outside to see Ben sat with a blonde haired boy. I'm not gonna lie, he was pretty attractive, and that didn't help my jealousy, when I saw him and Ben laughing with each other. I walked over to them, and Ben was quick to introduce me to him. "Carlos, this is Xander, Rapunzel's son" he said, and I just nodded towards him.

"So, how was your free" I asked, trying to sound sincere but I really just wanted an answer for why he didn't text back.

"I texted to see how you were getting on, but you didn't reply, so I got worried." 'Perfect, that makes me sound caring, rather than mad' I thought to myself. As soon as I said I had text, he panicked, and pulled his phone out of his bag to check.

"Oh, I'm so sorry Carlos. I didn't hear it go off." He said in a soft voice. I almost forgave him, until he finished his sentence. "I spent the whole period with Xander, just catching up. It turns out we are in most of the same classes, isn't that great" Ben finished, with a large amount of joy on his face.

I tried not to show it, but my blood boiled with jealously. "Yeah, that's…great" I said, whilst gritting my teeth. Evie and Lonnie were quick to join us, and everyone spent the whole of break talking about Xander, while I just sat there and brewed.

I think Evie noticed at one point, and she whispered to me "Don't worry about Ben and Xander. They are just good friends" causing me to sigh a little, but then she added. "And if anything does happen. I'm here for you" clenching her hand into a fist as she did. We shared a light chuckle, but it was nearing the end of break, and I needed to get some stuff from my locker.

I said bye to everyone, and Ben quickly chirped up "Do you want me to walk you to your locker", but I kinda shot him down.

No, I definitely shot him down. "No its fine. I'll be alright" I snapped, causing everyone to exchange a few glances. As I walked off, I could hear everyone muttering about what had just happened, but I tried to not let it affect me. As I was taking my Chemistry books out of my locker, I got the feeling someone was watching me. Last time this happened, it was when Chad and Audrey ambushed me, so I was prepared to strike.

I closed my locker, and swung my book, only to stop 2cm from Ben's face. As I did so, he screamed "Woah, I'm innocent!" causing everyone to look over at what was happening. That's when I decided to let all my anger lose.

"Ben, what the hell are you doing? The last time someone did that was when I got pinned to a locker! You can't just sneak up on people like that!" At this point, he knew that someone was up. I'd never really yelled at him before, so this was our first proper argument I suppose.

"Whoa, I'm sorry ok! But why were you acting all salty at break? You didn't really speak to anyone, especially me. And then when I offer to walk with you, you just snap at me" he snapped back, and I just went red, blushing. It was enough for me to shout back.

"Oh, so now you want to know. It's not like you had half an hour to ask or anything." And before he could respond, I just walked away, heading for Chemistry.

I got to Chemistry to see that no one else was there. As usual I was early. I got my book out, and just started to make notes, trying to keep myself as occupied as possible, as I felt like I was going to cry. After about 5 minutes, Mr Deley walked in, and just chuckled to himself when he saw I was there. "You're always early" he said to me, as he was setting up.

"What's that saying, everyone is fond of? The early bird gets the worms is it" I chuckled back to him, and he just responded with "touché". That's when I realised who was in my class. After a few people walked in, I saw Xander enter the room. 'Oh this is just great' I thought sarcastically to myself. He spotted me, waved and decided that he wanted to sit next to me.

"Hey, Carlos is anyone sat here?" he asked, quite genuinely I might add. I realised that he didn't have a problem with me, but boy did I have one with him. To be perfectly honest, he hasn't actually done anything wrong, but I was jealous beyond belief, and that was enough reason for me.

"No, you can sit there" I said, forcing a smile and before he could talk, the lesson began.

After about an hour, Mr Deley decided it was time for us to do something practical. We got all the lab equipment out, and I was paired with Xander. I quickly realised that I had done the experiment with Mr Deley before, when we was teaching me the advanced Chemistry outside of lesson, so I decided to drop that into conversation. For some reason, I felt like Xander was competition, and that I needed to show him that I was better.

"You go ahead, I've done this before in my advanced classes" I said to him, before standing back letting him take charge. Then I decided to bring up Ben. I was curious about the pair of them, well more about how close they were. "So, how do you know Ben" I asked him, trying to sound as friendly as possible, and it worked.

"We used to be really close friends before he was sent to the Isle. Well, I considered him one of my best friends. We shared most of our classes together, and we always hung out after school," and even though I had asked him, that was not the response I wanted. I had effectively made myself jealous, but I had to try and respond to his statement, sounding as sincere as possible, "Oh, that's nice" I said fake smiling at him.

The rest of the day practically continued the same. I had sat alone at lunch, because one, I couldn't be bothered to listen to Ben and Xander talk anymore and two, I needed to get some books out of the library. I had a free last, so I needed something to do. When I got back to the dorm room after school, Ben wasn't there. I spent the whole night doing my homework before showering and getting into bed.

As soon as the curfew bell went, I heard the door open, signalling that Ben had returned. I didn't say anything, and just pretended to be asleep. He got showered and joined me in the bed. He kissed me on the forehead, before saying "Goodnight my sweet prince." After he did that, I relaxed a bit. Even after the day we had, and with us arguing, he will still willing to say goodnight, and pull me into his arms. I knew that as long as I was with Ben, then I would be safe and happy. For the moment, at least.

So that was the First Chapter! I hope you guys enjoyed it, but let's be perfectly honest, it was one of those necessary chapters for 'context'.

I plan to upload these every Thursday, but how long that lasts, I dont know. The file is 14 chapter's long, so hopefully I can keep it up. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed, and see you next week! :)