"Ben! Chad! Come back here!" Carlos yelled, chasing the young princes as they ran down the street. "It's not safe to be close to the road!"
"You can't get us!" Chad yelled, then laughed.
"Chad Charming!" Carlos yelled again. He was both frustrated and anxious at the two boys. "Benjamin Addams!"
"Nah nah, nah nah nah! You can't get us!" Ben yelled.
"Guys, come back here at once!" Carlos yelled. "Look, I'll give you candy."
Both boys stopped in their tracks as soon as they heard candy. They turned to the older boy, who finally caught up to the two of them. "How much candy you got?" Chad asked.
"I don't know, uh, I guess whatever you guys want." He said. Jane's going to kill me, but I'll have to put the candy on her candy tab. "Just hold my hand."
Both young princes took a hand the older boy offered and walked to the store together.
Carlos had no idea how much trouble he would have been in, had he known ahead of time that it meant when Chad and Ben both get into a candy store.
As soon as the three of them entered the store, Ben was running out of Carlos' hands and down to where all the jellybean jars were held on a shelf. He took one jar, opened it, and began chowing down the candies.
"No, Ben, we have to pay for those first!" Carlos told him, dragging Chad while running to Ben. "Ben, put those beans back."
"Carlos, once Ben start eating candy you never stop him." Chad told the bigger boy.
"Why that?"
"I don't know. I just know." Chad said innocently.
"I love candy!" Ben yelled, shoving some in his mouth. "Chad, want some?"
"No, I like March mellows."
"Marshmallows?" Carlos rephrased.
"Yeah, I say that. March mellows." Chad told him back. "I like the biggest ones."
"I...uh..." Carlos began, but Ben up and left running to another area. "Ben! Don't break anything!" Carlos yelled, worried for his safety.
Carlos ran to Ben and found him attempting to open a large chocolate bar case, only to fail that the sign read 'PUSH' and not 'PULL' like he was doing. Carlos picked up Ben and held him in one arm. "Come on, let's go back."
"What about candy?"
"I'm buying the jellybeans." Carlos told him. He turned, hoping Chad had followed him. Nope. Chad wasn't there. "Chad?"
Chad found his marshmallows, the small ones, and opened them. He ate a few before spotting a red vines dangling from something and smiled. "Vine!" He shouted and dropped the bag. Chad climbed the counter and tugged on the red vines, dragging the thing that held it (and a few other things) to the ground. Chad took a bite out of it and saw another shelf that had his favorite candies; Krunchy Kats (Kit Kats) . Chad dropped the red vines and picked up the Krunchy Kats and opened the wrapper to eat the first one. Five more later, his mouth filled with the candies, he saw the machine that held the chocolate milk. Chad spat out the current candy in his mouth, laid under the machine and pulled the tab to drink the chocolate milk.
"Chad!?" Carlos called out. "Where are you?"
"Carlos, put me down!" Ben whined. "I big boy."
"Promise to stay near me?" Carlos asked.
"Yes." Ben said. Carlos put him on the ground. "By the way, I saw Chad at the drink machine."
"Why didn't you say anything?" The older boy questioned.
"You never asked me." Ben smiled innocently.
Carlos walked over to the front of the store and saw the clerk staring at the younger blond hair child, still drinking from the machine. "Chad," Carlos said and picked up the child. "Why didn't you follow me to get Ben?"
"You never asked me." He smiled innocently, his face dripping with chocolate milk.
"Fine," Carlos sighed.
"Hey kid," The clerk, who was now behind the counter, spoke up. "That other kid is in the ice cream tub."
"Ben!" Carlos yelled, putting Chad down and ran to the back of the store to get the little one.
Ben licked the fifth or sixth lick of the chocolate ice cream before sticking his tongue inside it and licking it again. "Yum!"
"Ben. We have to pay for that stuff!" Carlos told him, picking up the prince. "You promised to stay near me."
"No, I just say 'yes' silly." Ben giggled.
"Ugh...why didn't you follow me then?" The teenager, now frustrated, asked.
"You never asked me." Ben smiled innocently. "Where Chad?"
Chad was in the section that held the chocolate syrup and chocolate fudge candies. Chad gulped down three pieces of milk chocolate fudge, two pieces of white chocolate fudge and was biting into a peanut butter fudge brownie when he gulped down a bottle of chocolate syrup he opened. "I 'ike chocolate!" He laughed.
"Chad! Hide!" Ben sobbed. Carlos had picked up Ben and refused to put him down. Ben didn't want his best friend to be in the same problem. "Chad! Hide!"
Chad ran from where he sat, making a circle to avoid Carlos, and hid behind a large silver door that was opened. He could hear Carlos from the other side. "Charles Charming, get out of here this instant!" Chad didn't like the sound of that. He also didn't like this cold feeling he had on his skin. He looked and saw bumps on his arms. His breathe was easy to see when he breathed out. "Huh?"
Chad looked around and saw himself in a freezer that had ice creams. "Yay! Ice scream!" He shouted and opened a door to take one. "Yummy!"
Carlos checked all over the store in a five minute time span with no luck. The only place left was the freezer that was for employees only. It was opened when they arrived at the store and was now closed. Carlos opened the door and saw Chad using his hand to scoop the ice cream. "Ugh, Chad!"
"I 'ike ice scream." Chad smiled.
"Why didn't you follow me when I asked you too?"
"You never asked me." Chad smiled innocently.
"And I thought Jay and I were crazy candy creatures," Carlos said as he carried both boys under his arms as he left the store. Dude pulled on the red wagon that held all the candies and ice cream the boys touched.
