So I decided that I would jump aboard the Jaylos fanfiction train and I came up with this. Its the first chapter in a fake dating au. I dont know if I will continue, or when I will update. But I would love messages/opinions on things I could put in future chapters (like little prompts or headcanons). I also changed Carlos' age from 14 to 15, and Jay is still 16.
Jay had just thrown on his Tourney uniform when Carlos came barging into their room, Dude in hand, and slammed the door. Jay gave him a look of confusion and Carlos was quick to speak after setting Dude down. " We have a problem," He stated, exasperated.
Jay quirked his eyebrow at Carlos' disheveled state and chuckled lightly. " We? And what is our problem exactly?"
Carlos ran his hand through his hair and laughed nervously. " Well..I was taking Dude for a walk and Jane approached me. Which was weird, but y'know I thought maybe she needed homework help or something. So after making short conversation, she sorta just came out and told me she liked me." Carlos looked up at him with a panicked expression and Jay stared back.
" And how is that a problem?" Jay questioned, confused, albeit amused. Only Carlos would panic over the fact that a girl liked him.
" Well I don't like her back!" Carlos shouted, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. " And you should've seen her face, Jay. I couldn't just tell her I didn't like her."
" Sure you can. I do it all the time," Jay smirked as he sat down on his bed, enjoying watching Carlos pace around the room frantically.
Carlos glared at Jay and huffed loudly. " Yeah okay, well I can't. And I screwed up. And you're probably going to kill me," Carlos voice dropped down to a whisper, causing Jay to get extremely paranoid.
" What'd you do?" Jay asked slowly, wondering if he wanted to know the answer.
Carlos laughed nervously again and avoided eye contact with Jay. " Well..you see, I may have, uh, told her that …" He stopped before rambling out quickly, " you and I are a thing."
Jay scrambled up from his bed and came close to lunging at Carlos while shouting, " What!" A thing? What the hell did that mean!
Carlos backed away quickly from Jay and ran to the other side of the room, hoping to avoid getting pummeled to death. " I know! I'm sorry, I ju-"
" Stop talking." Jay cut Carlos off quickly, needing to voice his confusion. " So Jane now thinks that you and I…" He pointed between them two while speaking, " are what, hooking up?"
Carlos gulped before mumbling, " Uh..no. Dating."
Jays stomach dropped and he immediately yelled. " Holy shit, Carlos! Why did you have to choose me? You could've picked Evie! Why couldn't you just tell Jane you didn't like her!" Jay tried his best to stay calm and not attack Carlos. He probably feels like enough shit already without him ranting at him. Jay wasn't even really mad that he lied to Jane about a fake relationship. He was just nervous, and confused. He had been questioning his feelings for Carlos for a while but he had been trying his best to not act on them. Now what was he supposed to do?
" I know, I panicked! Alright? It was stupid, and it was the first thing that came to my head, but you should've seen her face, holy shit, she scrambled away from me so quickly," Carlos rambled out of nervousness, hoping Jay wasn't going to kill him.
But he knew he was so dead. Jay was going to kill him. Then bring him back to life and kill him again. And then most likely repeat it once he heard Carlos' request.
" Okay so, what? We pretend to date for a week?" Jay was panicking. He wanted to date Carlos, at least some part of him wanted to. But he couldn't. He didn't want to, if it was fake, anyways. And besides, how was he supposed to flirt with girls and steal their things if he was 'dating' Carlos? That would just give him a worse reputation (Not that he cared, or anything).
" Hah, uh, actually I was thinking more like a month.." Carlos responded quickly, not liking the way Jay had began to pace and mess with his hair. Now they were both panicking the hell out.
Jay looked wide-eyed at Carlos and threw his hands up in the air. " Shit! Okay, but what happens after we 'break up'? Won't Jane just come crawling back to you?"
Carlos shrugged his shoulders, " I don't know. But we have to go through with it! If we don't I'll look really stupid..and we just have too okay? I'm sorry I said your name. I'm sorry I dragged you into this, but please, just fake it, for a month?"
Jay sighed, not able to resist Carlos' current puppy dog face, " Alright. Fine. But I'm the one who breaks up with you. I gotta maintain my status," Jay smirked and Carlos rolled his eyes.
" What status?" He snorted," We're the kids of the worst villains, remember? They don't like us. We have no cool status."
" You know what I mean," Jay mumbled and Carlos just snorted again. Jay left shortly after that, wanting to clear his head. Plus, he had tourney practice.
The rest of the day was weird. Jay felt like everyone was staring at him and he did his best to avoid Carlos. They hadn't discussed how they would act in public, and he wasn't really ready to act in public with him, anyways. He distracted himself by flirting with a couple of girls and snatching himself some necklaces and a watch or two.
He was heading back to their room when his name was shouted angrily down the hallway. Jay froze and turned around to see Mal and Evie stomping quickly down the hallway towards him. He contemplated on bolting into his room and locking the door, but he decided to face whatever Mal and Evie were on about.
" Why didn't you tell us!" They had finally reached him and Mal punched him hard on the shoulder. Before he could respond Evie spoke.
" Jay, you could've told us you and Carlos were dating." Jay looked around the hallway and sighed loudly while pulling them into Carlos and his room.
" You know?" He asked dumbfounded, and was responded with hard glares.
" The whole damn school knows!" Mal shouted and Jay tried not to gawk. " We had to find out through Doug. How the hell does Doug know you and Carlos are dating before we do?" Seriously, how did Doug know?
" Yeah, seriously Jay-"
" Oh my god, shut up, will you?" Jay held out his hand in frustration, " Carlos screwed up. Jane told him she liked him and he didn't have the heart to tell her he didn't like her back so he lied and said we are dating. We're not dating, alright? We are fake dating. There's a difference." The two girls look at each other while trying to hold in their giddy smiles.
" What?" Jay lowered his eyes at the two girls and Evie let out a laugh.
" This is gonna end really good or really bad," Evie looked at Mal and they both laughed again.
" Yeah, no shit." Jay was annoyed by their constant laughing and felt out of the loop completely," This isn't funny."
" You don't see it." Evie laughed again and looked at Mal, " He doesn't see it." Jay continued to stare at them with confusion written on his face. He had no idea what they were on about.
" You're gonna fall for him," Mal smirked as she crossed her arms over her chest.
Jays heart sped up, because yeah no shit Mal, he was already in the process of falling ( into deep deep shit). " Whatever, out. And don't tell anybody, or I will kill you." He pointed to the door and they both rolled their eyes, but walked out the door anyways.
" Yeah sure, see you at dinner." They laughed once more and Jay slammed the door.
Carlos wasn't fairing much better. Why did he say Jays name? Why couldn't he have just said Evie or just straight out told Jane he was gay? No, he had to go and say him and Jay were dating. Real smooth.
Him and Jay were friends. They were close friends, and yeah he might like it when Jay ruffles his hair or when he puts his arm around his shoulder for a second too long, but that doesn't mean they should date. Villains don't do dating. They don't even really do feelings. But since the coronation they were no longer villains since they 'chose' good. But after 15 years of "you're a villain, you can't have feelings for anyone,and you especially can't date" being drilled into your head, it's hard to stop thinking that way.
So they weren't dating or fake dating. They don't do dating. They do arrangements. This was their fake arrangement. No feelings. Acting, totally just acting.
"This is just an arrangement. Our fake arrangement," He told Jay as they walked down the empty hallway, on their way to dinner.
" Right. No feelings, just acting." Jay agreed, though his voice wavered. No feelings, just acting. He replayed it again and again in his head, trying hard to convince himself that this was just a fake arrangement. Absolutely no feelings. None at all.
They walked awkwardly next to each, occasionally brushing shoulders. When they got near the cafeteria they fumbled for each other's hands and tried to not look awkward as they laced their fingers together.
" Here we go," Carlos mumbled nervously. He was expecting everyone to look up at them and go silent, but he knew that was just an over-dramatic scene played out in his head, but he was still nervous.
" Shut up," Jay spat back, nervous as well. They walked into the cafeteria hand in hand. A few turned to look at them, but they immediately went back to eating.
Jay let out a breath he didn't know he was holding and looked over at Carlos and smiled, " Huh. Not so bad."
Carlos ignored his comment and instead muttered, " Jay, your hand is really freaking sweaty," Carlos tried to speak softly as they walked over to the food line.
" Oh, I'm sorry that my hand is overly sweaty due to the fact that I'm just causally freaking out. I'm so sorry that bothers you in some way," Jay replied back sarcastically, taking quick glances at Carlos.
" Uh, Jay. We've held hands before. This isn't a big deal? Why are you making it a big deal? Let's just get food. I really want some food." Carlos turned his attention away from Jay to the glorious amounts of food in front of him.
" The last time we held hands was when we were about to go tumbling off the side of a mountain, so I don't think that really counts." Jay pauses as he undoes his hand from Carlos' to get a plate, " And I'm not freaking out over holding your hand. I'm freaking out because I have a reputation to maintain and how am I supposed to flirt with girls while I'm dating you?" Nice lie, Jay.
Carlos sighed as he filled his plate. " Flirt with boys. Look, I don't care. Just don't go around kissing people to steal, and your reputation will be just fine. People already think you're a douche anyways, so I mean, you can't really make that worse."
Jay gawked at Carlos as he walked away to the table that Mal and Evie were sat at. Before Jay was able to move out of the line Carlos turned around and spoke very loudly, " Babe, come on!" Jay quickly grabbed his plate and hustled over to their table, nearly tripping on the way there.
" Shut up, will you?" Jay mumbled as he dropped his plate on the table. Carlos smirked and kissed Jay's cheek, then taking the opportunity to steal a chocolate covered strawberry off Jays plate.
Jay tried to keep his face from turning red as he stuffed his face with food, hoping he wouldn't have to speak as long as he was eating.
" Aww, look at you two," Evie cooed, " It's only day one and Carlos is already making his moves."
" Well we have to be convincing," Jay forced out a smile as Carlos stole another strawberry from his plate.
" Well, I'm just sooo happy you two are dating!" Mal mocked as she propped her head up on her hand, looking between the two boys who were seated very close together.
Carlos looked at Mal and noticed the scowl on Jays face. He lowered his head down and whispered in Jays ear, causing him to shiver. " Remember, this is just acting. A fake arrangement. Don't let Mal bother you." Carlos looked up at Jay, locking eyes, and Carlos nodded to reassure him.
" Right," Jay responded shakily," Just acting."
