A/N: I've gotten my first follows and favorite; thank you very much. It really does encourage me to continue. Maybe this will be the chapter that gets me a review :)
A bit of Mal/Evie going on here; it won't be throughout the book, but for now it's here.

Carlos woke up to sun streaming through the window, wait window? His room didn't have a window. His eyes popped open to see a shock of black hair, the night before came back to him instantly. He bit back a groan. Jay was still holding him, but he was also holding Jay. He thought about trying to escape, but with a sigh decided fuck it. Jay didn't see to mind holding him last night so hopefully everything would be okay. He closed his eyes to rest some more, and actually succeeded in falling back to sleep, something he almost never indulged in.

Jay woke up an hour later, before he was fully awake he noticed Carlos was still wrapped in his arms, a sleepy smiled crept across his face, before he slowly untangled himself to slide off the bed. As soon as he moved Carlos woke up. "Morning Sleeping Beauty" Jay grinned.

"That's Evie not me." Carlos said with a stretch. He tumbled out of the bed. "Last day on the Isle. Damn I never thought I'd be able to say that."

Jay smirked and grabbed his clothes to get dressed, leaving Carlos to stretch and haul himself off the floor. He surfaced a couple minutes later to see Carlos sitting on the bed hugging a ball of clothes to his chest. Jay was surprised how scared and lost Carlos looked, he'd seemed so happy a minute ago.

"Whats wrong buddy?" Jay asked flopping next to him

"Nothing, I'm being stupid." Carlos said while standing to get get dressed

"Oh probably, that's our motto around here, but if you want to talk I'm more than just brute strength."

"Yeah, you're also a personal heater" Carlos grinned cheekily.

The Quartet of Mini Evil went to the wharf at noon. None of their parents saw them off. Mal's mothers' parting words had been to remember the plan, Evie got told to apply blush and Jay's father told him to find a real diamond. They all wanted to talk about just how useless their parents were, however they were still evil, it just wasn't done.

The four of the clambered on a boat and held on to the rail, the huge barge lurched across the sea. Carlos started looking a little green around the gills. Jay tossed his arm across his shoulders, just like he always did. "Not a fan of boats C?"

"Apparently not." He replied while Mal swung her leg over the rail, to hang over the edge, clearly she had no fear of boats. Carlos took a deep breath thinking hard about his next move. He'd promised himself that morning he was never going back to the Isle, but that meant he had to face other uncomfortable issues as well. Like that he may never see Mal, Evie and Jay again. The boat was taking his already upset stomach and shaking it up. As the boat gave another lurch he decided consequences could be damned. He slid his arm around Jay, under his jacket so Mal and and Evie couldn't see anything. He promptly turned as red as an apple, he risked a glace up at Jay through his eyelashes. The older teen had a smirk firmly on his face, he gave Carlos a squeeze, trying silently to tell him it was okay.

As they got off the boat Carlos stayed glued to Jays side, to both their surprises though Mal was holding Evie's hand, it looked like the day would be full of new things. They were greeted at the top of the pier by a driver and a limo. The teens smirked as they climbed in, Evie and Mal didn't let got of each other, but Jay and Carlos were forced to.

"So I guess we're all doing new things on the mainland?" Jay smirked at his friends.

"Oh like you are Carlos weren't quite snug on the boat."

"Yeah but me and Carlos are always touchy, you Miss Ice Princess never touch anyone, unless it's to steal something."

"Yeah, well I figure stealing things will be frowned upon, I needed some practice with hearts"

Evie looked hurt before her face turned into a blank mask, "Island kids are good for testing that, we don't have hearts."

"The adults don't, the more I think about it, the more I think the kids might" Jay said as they pulled up to a huge building. Everyone ignored him, no one wanted to think about the fact that maybe they weren't so evil after all.

Waiting in the court yard was a small contingent, including the King and Queen, Ben and his girlfriend Audrey, and the Headmistress. Nothing more was said as they climbed out of the car. Mal was her usual sarcastic self, Evie was quiet, Jay immediately started flirting with Audrey and Carlos was was busy trying to wipe chocolate from their limo ride off his face. They walked through the school, being shown around. As the reached the dorms the four couldn't contain themselves. Ben told them their rooms were next door to each other and they, as they thought, Mal and Evie would share as would Jay and Carlos.

"Yes!" Mal cheered, the entire group looked at her, usually emotions weren't her thing. "What? I'm allowed to want my minions close to me." She tried to recover.

"Yeah, the fact that you're scared just as shitless as the rest of us has nothing to do with it". Carlos muttered under his breath. Which caused Ben and Jay to laugh at the white haired boy.

I'll leave you guys to settle in, if you need any help Doug will be happy to help you, he and his cousins share a dorm, through that door there." Ben said while pointing across the hall. "Classes start in two days on Monday."

As Ben left Mal dragged Evie into their room. Jay lead the way into the room he'd be sharing with Jay. Both boys stared, it was huge.

"It. It's big" Carlos stuttered out. His arms unconsciously hugging himself.

"It's too big, you're the genus how can be make this feel smaller?" Jay didn't want to admit it, but he wouldn't be anymore comfortable than Carlos in this giant room. There was too much space, too many people could hide. They both knew they were safe, but at the same time they were trained otherwise.

Carlos looked around and pointed while he spoke, Jay quickly moved what he said to where he said. In the end three quarters of the room was empty. The beds were pushed against each other right by the door. Two over-sized dressers made a 'wall' of sorts on the other side. A small path was along the end of the bed, which then had the couch and huge TV set up. Their desks were next to each other on the other side of the door making a small U shaped space around the door. There was a small path between the couch and desks that lead to their bathroom door

With a sigh Jay relaxed on the couch, "Uhm dude, we should check on the girls, their room might be like ours, I dunno if they could move that TV thing by themselves." Carlos said, Jay immediately stood up, and both boys made their way next door. They walked into the girls room without knocking, no one knocked on the Isle. Inside Jay stopped dead in his tracks making Carlos crash into him.

"What dude, are they okay?" Carlos asked trying to see around Jay. The older turned to leave, which let Carlos get a clear view of the scene beyond the doorway. The girls had arranged their room similar to the boys, however it looked like while Jay had crashed on the couch Evie had been the first to sit. Mal was currently straddling her hips, both girls absorbed in each other and attached at the lips. "We'll come back later" Carlos said, while giving Jay a tug out of the room. "Oh come on; I was enjoying that!" Jay complained.

"I'm gay and I was enjoying that. That isn't the point though, they deserve privacy for whatever that was." Carlos said. "Wanna go explore the grounds?"

"Well, those two won't be out anytime soon, so we may as well. This is home, at least for a while."

Carlos jerked at the reminder that Jay still considered this temporary. He wished he could make the thief want to stay, but he knew it was a huge decision, and one he couldn't force.

They'd made it through most of the grounds close to the school, they were walking through the Tourney field towards the forest when a small brown blur came running across the field. It let out a single bark, when Carlos was gone, he went into the woods at a dead run. Jay thought about following him, but instead decided to face down the barking terror, that was actually rather cute. Five minutes later he'd made friends. Then he heard someone whistle and the dog took off back across the field to the bleachers. Jay stood and started off towards the woods. Carlos probably had himself up a tree, or worse. All the Isle kids were mildly afraid of dogs, after all everyone fears the unknown. Carlos though was down right pathological about them. Walking into the woods he called for Carlos, getting a faint response he started walking down the path. Calling out every so often and following Carlos voice to choose the right path.

While he walked he thought about the small white haired boy. He'd been surprised to wake up still holding Carlos, he was sure in the night the smaller boy would have moved away. Then on the boat ride over Carlos had put his arm around him. Sure he held Carlos all the time, but he put his arm around everyone, Carlos however touched no one. The oddest thing had been the blush, like Carlos expected there to be something wrong with him holding onto Jay. Walking into a slight clearing he saw Carlos' scruffy sneakers at eye level. He laughed and gently tugged on his shoe. Carlos yelped "I'm already stuck, don't add insult to it!" Carlos whined. Jay laughed harder, "how did you get stuck?"

"I used that branch on the ground to boost myself up, it broke under me but I pulled myself up, now I'm fucking stuck." Carlos felt like an ass, for the eight hundredth time that day. He liked Jay, actually at this point he was pretty sure he was in love, but that wasn't a good reason to keep feeling like a total fool in front of him.

"Jump down" Jay suggested.

"I'll get hurt, too many old injuries that'll screw up" Carlos said glaring at the ground.

"I didn't say hit the ground, I'll catch your skinny ass." Jay smiled

Carlos took a deep breath, "you better not miss" he said as he scooted off his perch. True to his word Jay caught him bridal style. In true Jay fashion though he refused to set the smaller boy back on the ground.

"Put me down!" Carlos said while squirming.

"I will, as soon as I get back to the cute little puppy." Jay said. Almost instantly he felt bad as Carlos' eyes opened wide and he started to tremble slightly. "Hey man, I'm kidding. I sat and pet the dog, it's harmless, but you don't need to meet him now, when you're ready, I could help you if you want."

"You pet him?" Carlos asked

"Yeah, harmless. Sort of reminded me of Lucifer only a bit bigger."

At this point they were almost back to the field, Jay still hadn't put Carlos down. "Why are you still carrying me?"

"Because I can" he smirked and shifted the boy so he had a firmer grip. Jay carried him all the way back to their room before dropping him unceremoniously on the bed.

Mal and Evie were sitting on their couch waiting for them. "Where the hell were you two!" Mal demanded. "Not playing tonsil hockey" Jay grinned at the girl.

"Give it time, if you're not playing why are your beds pushed together." Evie asked

Silence answered her, Carlos softly said "Jay did it, I said put a night stand between them"

"The kid is a walking freezer, I wanted air conditioning so I put the beds together." Jay said, it was half true. Really he'd enjoyed holding Carlos the night before and hoped the beds being close gave him a chance to do that again.

Mal stared at Jay incredulously, she knew the older teen had a soft spot for the white haired youth. On the Isle it worried her, none of them could afford to be soft. Now though, they could do anything they wanted. So why didn't Jay just admit he really wanted to spend as much time as he could hugging Carlos? Mal shook her head, she never would understand how the thieves head worked, sometimes she thought it was as broken as the magic on their Isle.

"Okay, so you two are just as weird here as you were at home. What'd you want earlier?" Evie asked

"And you're still a harlot" Carlos muttered. Him and Evie were pretty good friends, but even in the Isle Evie was the promiscuous one.

"C was worried that your room would be like ours and wanted to help move furniture." Jay said over Carlos' comment.

"It was, Mal is stronger than she looks."

"Yeah, TV stand was a bitch though."

"Oh shit, we have TV now!" with that Carlos launched of the couch to figure out how the TV worked. Evie laughed as a familiar show came on "look Carlos, it's that show that flickered the day you broke the dome!"

"Well fuck me." Carlos said shocked, despite all the evidence that he'd indeed broken the dome, this was the first thing that had no other explanation at all; they had seen these shows with their own eyes, on the Isle.

From there talk ended as they got lost in the show, as it ended a chime went off and the tv automatically shut off.

"Mother fucker! They don't fuck around with their curfew shit do they?" Mal asked.

"Apparently not, but we probably should sleep, we have to be social and shit tomorrow."

"Bet I swipe more loot than you" Mal challenged, grinning at jay

"You're on dragon girl!" Jay said, laughing as Mal pulled a face over his nickname for her.

Half an hour later both youths were showered and in their own beds, after a few minutes Jay wondered aloud, "C, you still cold here, or was than an Isle thing?"

Carlos sighed and held his hand out towards Jay, "You tell me".

Jay silently caught Carlos' hand, as usual it was freezing. "So you gonna come sleep in my bed or do I have to come over there? Jay asked.

"W- What?" Carlos stammered, he could not have just heard that correctly.

"Same as last night, it's what friends do." Jay said.

"We don't have friends, we have minions." Carlos reminded him

"That was on the Isle. Here we have friends, and friends cuddle".

"Yeah so do boyfriends" Carlos muttered, but slid over onto Jays bed.

"To-may-to, to-ma-to" Jay said laughing while he wrapped his arms around Carlos.

It took Carlos a second to realize Jay had basically just told him he didn't care what Carlos labeled their relationship. With a small sigh he looped his arm around Jay and burrowed into his chest. If the older teen didn't mind he may as well enjoy this while it lasted.

Jay smiled at Carlos, he didn't know how to date. Hell he'd never considered he might be gay until earlier that day, but he knew he liked holding Carlos and that was good enough for him. Then again maybe he wasn't gay, after all he didn't like any other guys, just Carlos.