The Sea Princess
Chapter Nine
Adella sighed as she collapsed onto her bed, her room-mate was out which left her to overthink in silence. She couldn't stop thinking about Carlos and that kiss since the moment she left him, Melody squealed in delight once Adella had revealed what happened.
A sudden urgent knocking at the door snatched Adella out of her thoughts and caused her to jump and almost hit her head on the wall. She clumsily stood up and stumbled her way to the door, which opened to show Carlos on the other side. The two stared at one another for a moment and gave each other a hesitant smile until Adella opened the door wider and stepped back to give Carlos room to enter.
The two awkwardly took a seat at each end of Adella's bed, "so," they both began before trailing off and chuckling slightly.
"You first," Adella smiled at him, her heart beating uncontrollably as she stared into his eyes.
"Before I came to Auradon, back on the Isle, I wasn't the same Carlos De Vil. I was the nerd in the background, the slave to his mother who manipulated him into doing everything—I had nothing, until I helped Mal, Evie and Jay, then we formed a group and then everything changed when we had to come here. To this new place with new people who was for-sure going to hate us just as much as we were supposed to hate them. That was when I met you, you were just standing there looking all innocent and beautiful and then you opened your mouth and you welcomed us, you even welcomed Uriah after all the stuff his mother did to yours.
Then I got to know you and saw that you were so much more than a gorgeous Princess, you were so kind, smart, funny and a really good person to be around. And I really want to be with you." Carlos breathed out, his eyes watching Adella, awaiting any reaction. Adella was stunned into silence as her face went a deep red, she quickly took a deep breath and attempted to gather her racing thoughts before she spoke.
"Then why can't you?" She whispered, a part of her knew the answer but another part was dumb founded from his speech to listen to the part, she needed the conformation.
"I'm a villain." He answered, her thought confirmed.
"Nobody is born evil, Carlos, we all have the ability to do good or bad and sometimes both. No-one is fully bad just as no-one is fully good. When I look at you I don't see Carlos son of Cruella De Vil I just see you, I see Carlos the boy who loves chocolate, the boy who loves Dude. The boy I love." Adella stated.
After a moment of silence where Carlos allowed her words to sink in, he glanced at her to see she was staring at him; chewing her lip in anxiousness. Unexpectedly, Carlos leaped forwards to capture her lips in his. Due to the surprise Adella yelped and jerked backwards causing them both to hit their heads on the wall and land on her bed—Carlos laying on top of her trapping Adella underneath. The two teens started to laugh hysterically until Carlos slowly lent down and gently pressed his lips against hers.
"You're perfect" Carlos mumbled against her lips causing her to laugh and pull away.
"I'm not perfect"
"Please, everyone in Auradon is perfect, with your perfect families and houses and—"
"My family is so not perfect. It is really messed up"
"What do you mean?" Carlos asked as the two sat up and got comfy with their backs against the wall.
"Well my 'Aunt' Adella is actually my mother," she began but was cut off by the sound of Carlos spluttering from beside her.
"What?"
"Yeah, she died while giving birth to me and since she's closest to Ariel out of all the other sisters, she took me in. I always believed they was parents until I saw ten and they sat me down and told me everything—it finally made sense way I never celebrated my birthday. They are brilliant parents though and I would defiantly have never become the person I am today without them. Ariel is my mother just as Erik is my father and Melody is my sister—even if it's not biological. I love them and I know they love me; it just sometimes seems as though they blame me for her death."
"Oh?! I'm sure they don't, how come everyone seems to think that they are your parents?"
"My family is a very proud one, my 'Aunt' Adella had given birth out of wedlock—we don't even know who my dad is—so we all pretend it never happened and that I am biologically Ariel's daughter. But I did get her name to honour her I suppose."
"And you just go along with it?"
"I don't really get much of a say"
The two of them spent the rest of the night talking about your childhoods and learning things from each other's family and the place in which you grew up in, until you both fell asleep. Carlos on his back with you laying on his front, your legs tangled together and your head on his chest.
/ I know this one was quite short but it was mainly a filler which gave you backstory on Adella and a little bit of fluff between her and Carlos.
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