A/N: It's coming! Anyone waiting for the mushy, adorable, makes you stomach hurt, kiss? Read on, you probably won't get it, but I tried my best, romance isn't my thing.
Carlos wasted exactly three seconds after the door closed, then he yanked his pants and shirt off and got changed. The Isle didn't really teach modesty, but he'd always been the modest one who found a private place to change. Jay felt his jaw hit the ground, before he grabbed his clothed from Evie and went into the bathroom. As much as he wanted to stay there and enjoy the show Carlos had decided to give him, he didn't trust himself to stay away from the freckled tease.
As the bathroom door snapped shut Carlos sat on his bed laughing. Sure he'd just used every ounce of balls he'd been born with, but he had managed to rattle Jay. That alone was a feat worthy of a trophy. Still laughing he stood back up to pull on his shirt. He was so happy he could kiss Evie, she was an amazing designer. His outfit consisted of jeans that were tight, but stretchy enough he'd still be able to dance and a button down shirt that made him look lithe and athletic rather than scrawny. The best part he had a feeling Mal had helped with. Emblazoned on the back was a cobra, in it's fangs it was holding a dalmatian puppy. At a quick glance it looked as if the puppy was in trouble, but if you looked carefully you could see the cobra was only holding the animal, not hurting it. He looked in the mirror before quickly changing back into his PJs, he didn't want to risk spilling or otherwise ruining his new outfit.
The bathroom door squeaked open and Jay poked his head out to make sure Carlos was dressed before he walked out, having tried on his own outfit and changed back, just like Carlos.
"Hi Jay!" Carlos said through a grin.
"Hi yourself" Jay shot back.
Carlos broke down laughing again, he knew Jay wasn't mad per say, but he probably wasn't too happy, it was rare someone got the better of him. A split second later Carlos found himself flat on the bed with Jay straddling his hips, arms pinned above his head. Carlos stopped laughing.
"Not so funny now is it?"
"No, now it's twice as funny" Carlos smirked.
Jay stared down at him, "who are you and what have you done with Carlos". He was only half joking.
Carlos pouted at him, letting his bottom lip jut out like a toddler. Jay wondered briefly what would happen if he leaned down and captured said lip in his teeth. In the end he decided on a better way to get even. He sat back on his legs, still straddling Carlos, but let his hands go. Carlos had just opened his mouth to respond when he was overcome with laughter. Jay was tickling him merciless, as he started gasping for breath Jay let up and smirked at him before laying on the bed next to him.
"and you wonder who I am, big bad thief resorts to tickling as his first line of attack" Carlos muttered. Jay didn't answer him, but instead pulled him into a hug.
"So is this how we're spending our day?" Carlos asked after a while. Jay grinned "I'm good if you are".
"I wanted to play some, I almost have the next level beat. I also really don't want to move." Carlos admitted. Jay let him go and sat up, "come on", he said while tugging Carlos hand. They walked over to the couch and when Carlos went to walk past Jay to sit, Jay wrapped his arms around his middle and pulled him down to the couch. They both landed gracelessly. "Didn't we spend enough time like this last night?" Carlos asked. "Hey if you'd rather sit alone go ahead" Jay said while letting the lithe boy go.
Carlos blushed, "I didn't mean that, I just thought you might want to do something other than be a chair for me."
"Nah, I'm good watching you play that game; the dragon reminds me of Mal's mom."
With that they settled in, Carlos playing his game while jay watched. Both nearly jumped out of their skin when the alarm to get ready for the dance went off.
"Well my prince, shall we get ready?" Jay wanted to smack himself as soon as the line left his mouth, that was the most corny thing he'd ever said.
"I'll met you there princess, I know you'll get ready faster than me" Carlos shot back, before grabbing his clothes and heading into the bathroom. Jay instantly cheered up, this was still Carlos, sure they were technically dating tonight. But in the end this was the same guy he'd known for years. He quickly changed and yelled to Carlos he was heading to the ballroom. As he walked down to the ballroom to wait, it felt like dragons were playing tag in his stomach. He couldn't say for sure what love felt like, but that was the only somewhat logical explanation for what Carlos made him feel.
In the bathroom Carlos pulled out a small pen, he could thank Evie for it, she'd stashed it for him about a week ago so he'd have it for the dance. With practiced ease he drew the pen around his eyes, carefully outlining them in black. He'd worn eyeliner quite a lot a couple years ago, he liked the look, then after a string of black eyes from his mother he'd stopped drawing attention to his eyes. Really he'd stopped drawing attention to himself period, but the past is past. He had one more thing to add, when he was twelve his cousin Diego had pierced his eyebrow for him. For months he left fishing line in it hoping someone in Auradon would throw out a piercing, apparently that didn't happen often. He'd played with the hole until he could put a paper clip through it. He still messed with it often enough to keep it open, but he never had a real piece of jewelry for it before, until yesterday.
"Mary!" Carlos yelled down the hall, walking quickly to catch the girl with fire red hair.
"Oh, hi, Carlos right?" Mary asked, he nodded. "Whatcha need?" she asked.
"Uhm, I have a kinda odd question, do you know if anyone has a spare barbel piercing, like for an eyebrow?"
Mary's eyes flitted to his eyebrows, he'd expected that. "I have one, is it for you?" she didn't see anything that said eyebrow piercing, but it was hard to tell with the freckles.
"Yeah, my cousin pierced it, years ago. I know I can get a bar in it, I just don't have one."
"Well in that case, come along!" Mary lead him to her dorm, she had a room mostly to herself, having been set to bunk with Tinkerbells' daughter Annabell. Anna, as she was called only took up a desk in the corner of the room. After a moment of rummaging she pulled out a small box and dumped it on the bed. "Take your pick" Mary said with a smile.
"Really?" Carlos asked in awe.
"Sure, these are the extras." she reached up to push her hair aside, having inherited her mothers mane like locks, "these three are my favorite" she indicated the three bars in her left eyebrow.
"Damn, I didn't know you had three."
"Mhmm, and both ears, 10 piercings, on each ear!" Mary laughed while moving her hair to show him. "Mom isn't a traditional princess and neither am I"
Carlos looked through the pile in front of him, finally he saw the perfect one. It was black metal and looked like a dog bone. "Is this one okay?" he asked picking it out of the pile.
"I had a feeling you'd like that one, go ahead!" Mary was happy to help someone out. Anna often brought back lost things, just like her mother. Anna would give her all the body jewelry so she had quite the collection.
Now he quickly rubbed the bar and his skin with a little alcohol pad he'd brought back form the Isle before ramming the rod in. He winced as the alcohol burned, but it went in with no trouble. He twisted on the other end of the bone and stepped back to admire the new addition. He yanked on his clothes and ran his fingers through his hair. With a final glace at the mirror he went out the door to find Jay.
He found Jay, who had been dragged into the ballroom by Mal. Both were hovering near the punch bowl, Carlos felt himself smirk at the expressions his friends had, both looked gobsmacked.
"Holy hell you clean up well." Mal said, Jay didn't look like words were his friend at the moment. "When'd you get your eyebrow done?" she asked
"Two years ago, almost three. Never had jewelry for it before"
"You look amazing." Jay said, finally fining his voice. "it's been a while since you had eyeliner, I still like it" jay admitted
"Wait, still?" Carlos looked at Jay who was now doing his best impression of a poisoned apple. Mal laughed, "I'm ratting you out Jay this has gotten r-i-d-i-c-u-l-o-u-s , he's had a thing for you for ages C."
"Humm, well at least I'm not alone there then. Whaddya think Jay, shall we dance?" Carlos knew Mal was hoping for a better reaction.
"Uhm, yeah lets." he said threading his fingers with Carlos' "Just a warning Mal, forgive, forget is Carlos's thing, not mine."
Ben came up to Mal just in time to hear his warning, "Sibling argument?" he asked smiling at the purple haired girl.
"More like my big mouth diggin my own grave." Mal said, she felt a bit bad, that was a new feeling. Regret was like love on the Isle, non-existent.
"It can't be that bad." Ben tried to soothe her while steering her towards the dance floor.
"Where does 'telling your friend, your best friend has had a crush on him for ages' fall on the badness scale" Mal asked.
"Somewhere between Cruella and Jafar I'd bet" Ben said, attempting a joke. Mal immediately snorted, trying to hide a laugh. "Really babe, it's not the end of the world, they probably needed some help. Just be prepared for Jay to rat out every secret he knows about you."
Mal sighed, Jay only had one secret of hers, and she was currently dancing with him. "Well, it's not how I wanted to tell you, but if it ruins Jay's game, I'm all for it. When I was little I wanted to find a prince of my own and have my own happily ever after, but I didn't think it was ever remotely possible. I mean I'm Maleficent's daughter for crying out loud."
Ben looked at his girlfriend, she was not princess material, like Cinderella, or even Snow White. However, Merida, Mulan and Elsa all came to mind as suitable comparisons. "You're right, you are Maleficent's daughter. You're also the girlfriend of a prince, which means you're well in-line to becoming a princess" he smiled at her shocked expression. "And I thought you looked surprised when Carlos walked in." He teased.
"Oh shut up" Mal said, smiling at her boyfriend who deciding now was as good a time as any to kiss her.
"Have you really liked me for ages?" Carlos asked. The dance was about half over. Carlos had enjoyed being a show off to some of the faster songs. Jay was always willing to participate in his antics, even on the Isle they often did flips together across the rooftops. But the DJ had decided to slow it down for the couples in the room, so now they were in an empty corner of dance floor competently wrapped up in each other.
"Errr, I guess ages, yeah" Jay said "I just never thought you'd feel the same, I mean on the Isle this-" he paused to squeeze Carlos tighter, "is pretty well forbidden".
"Pretty well? I think you'd get killed for thinking the word 'love' over there" Carlos said, not even realizing what he'd just inadvertently admitted.
Jay smiled at Carlos, before he leaned down and gave him a gentle kiss on the lips. As he pulled back he figured Carlos would be running from the dance any moment. What he didn't expect was was Carlos literally jump on him. Jay stumbled back against the wall as Carlos wrapped his legs around Jay's waist and kissed him again. After a moment they broke apart to stare into each others eyes.
"So are you don't flirting with every girl in Auradon?" Carlos asked.
"Depends, is this going to be a regular thing?" Jay asked with a grin.
"Unless you have a crowbar to keep me off of you, yes, yes it is" Carlos said before kissing Jay again, grateful they were in a dark corner of the ballroom, they thought no one was paying attention to them.
Mal looked over just in time to see Carlos jump on Jay. "Oh my evil" she muttered.
"Whats wrong babe" Ben asked.
"Nothing wrong, can I borrow your cell, I need a picture of this!" Mal sounded like a kid on Christmas.
"Uhm yeah" Ben said taking out the phone and handing it to her, "But whats so-" he trailed off as he turned to look where she had the camera pointed. She snapped the picture as a the lights flashed lighting up the entire room, looking at the tiny screen she grinned.
"They don't do things slowly do they?" Ben asked.
"They've been slower than anyone else I know, it's taken them years to reach a first kiss. But from here, yeah I have a feeling things will move quickly." Mal told her boyfriend who silently took his phone back, before following Carlos and Jay's example and kissing his date.