"You remember?! What do you mean you remember Carlos?" Ben continued to hold his lover who wasn't willing to let go, he felt glued to him.
"I remember everything you told us about from your dreams. I remember it all. Some of it is still fuzzy but I remember it. I remember you and us, baby." Carlos smiled sadly kissing him sweetly, his love frantic and buzzy like his love was electric. Ben felt confused more than before, how could he remember something that was only a dream? He knew that parts of his dreams were real, but he hadn't considered the whole things real, that wouldn't make sense. Two years passed in his dreams, but that time never happened in real life, he would remember, wouldn't he?
"I told you guys about the stuff from my dreams Carlos… I want to believe you but you're going to have to give me more to work with." Ben didn't want to push Carlos away by not believing him, but this was too much to believe without proof. Seeming to understand he calmed down, still holding onto Ben happily.
"What about when you introduced me to Dude? You accidentally called me a good boy after I told you we don't really get many belly rubs on the isle." Carlos chuckled at the memory and the slight blush creeping onto Ben's face.
"I guess even then it was kind of obvious that I liked you huh?" He smiled charmingly playing with Carlos' black and white locks of hair. He just nodded slightly relaxing into Ben's touch.
"I remember a lot of the stuff that has to do with us you know… I remember the second time we did this was in your royal office because I kept teasing you all day. Remember how the gardener nearly caught us?" Carlos snorted and laughed with Ben at the memory. To Ben, these had only been dreams before but he was recalling them as if they were simply memories. It felt different and good, his heart swelled, that meant this was his Carlos, the Carlos that remembered everything from the dreams and still loved him.
"I love you Pup." Ben kissed him once more this time like sealing a promise to never let him go.
"I love you, my prince." Carlos kissed him back with a small smirk knowing inside that this was what Ben had been waiting for. Suddenly his memories of Harry and Jay felt painful, the fact that deep down the whole time he loved Ben. That's why those relationships never worked out. He was already spoken for he just didn't know it. That's when it hit him. Jay! Carlos finally pried himself off of Ben and dove to the end of the bed for his neglected phone. It was full of missed calls and text messages from Jay. He was absolutely pissed. Carlos groaned and started replying to all of his messages as quickly as he could apologizing for everything and explaining that he was just busy doing his homework with Ben and left his phone on silent by mistake. Sure it was a lie, but he wasn't going to tell his ex that he just made love to someone for all Jay knew he met a couple of days ago. Thinking about it now, if it weren't for his memories coming back his decision to sleep with Ben would have been considered insanely hasty but honestly, Carlos dismissed it without a care. It wasn't like it was anyone else's business and they used protection, Good guy Ben always uses protection he thought to himself teasing Ben without him even knowing.
There wasn't any reply from Jay, but he wasn't exactly surprised either. With how angry and upset Jay seemed to be that Carlos was spending even more time with Ben it was natural to end up with the cold shoulder. Carlos sighed heavily and turned back to Ben who was lounging at the proper end of the bed with a look of concern.
"What's wrong Carlos?" He asked in that warm fresh chocolate chip cookie way that just makes his heart melt.
"Jay. He left me a bunch of angry messages because I wasn't responding to him… I just responded and told him we were busy going over homework, but I don't think Jay is going to be very happy about any of this." Carlos gave Ben a less than amused face when he chuckled at his homework excuse.
"I don't know if English homework has anything to do with what we just did Pup. Unless you want me to recite poetry in the process next time." The two roared with laughter, Carlos nudging Ben to cut it out even though he was laughing about it too.
"Let's get some sleep. You wore me out." Carlos teased pulling the bedding over both of them. They ignored the mess of homework at the other end of the bed and on the floor and curled up into each other falling asleep.
The next morning Carlos and Ben woke up a little early and cleaned up their homework mess before hopping in the shower together. Despite the urges brought by a frisky morning shower the two mostly behaved themselves focusing on getting ready for school Carlos was very worried about Jay but he didn't want to admit it. He should have responded by now, he thought to himself while putting on his fresh change of clothes he bought.
Once groomed and collected the two got in Ben's car and drove to school. Once there the first thing they saw was Mal, Evie, Lonnie, and some of the other Auradon Kids like Audrey and Chad were standing around looking at something together. Once Ben and Carlos parked Evie came sprinting even in her heels towards the two.
"Guys! Jay's gone!" Evie cried out. Ben and Carlos exchanged a look of shock and confusion as the girl slowed down offering them a note.
"What do you mean Jay is gone?" Carlos sputtered looking even more concerned and confused trying to frantically read the note.
"Jay went back to the isle." Evie finally stated catching her breath a bit. Ben wrapped a comforting arm around Carlos who looked ready to crumble.
"This is all my fault. We have to go get him and bring him back. I have to apologize." Carlos demanded and Ben had a moment of Déjà vu. He had done something similar in his dreams to bring Mal back. Ben didn't think this was a good idea, but he wasn't going to argue he knew Carlos was right. This was his fault too for distracting him.