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Chapter 4 [The game and A confession]

No one's POV

Carlos groaned in annoyance as the white haired boy wake up a few seconds earlier than his alarms. Heck, he only had 2 hours of sleep thinking and being nervous about today's game. Carlos went over to the bathroom to take a shower and get ready.

Carlos puts on his usual red, white and black clothes before heading over to the lockers room. He took the cookies Mal ordered him to give to Ben before their games. Carlos reached the lockers room and got to his locker. He was deep inside his locker, basically had his whole head in it looking for something when he felt two hands grab his waist and a someone yelled into his ears "BOO!".

Carlos was shocked and he hit his head on the locker's ceiling. He pulled his head out and turned around, ready to smack the person who shocked him with his tourney stick. The stick was only a few centimeters away from the person's head when Carlos instantly stopped after finding out it was Ben.

"Don't hit me I'm innocent!" Ben exclaimed laughing. Carlos nudged him a little with his tourney stick before continue his search for his thing. He said while his head once again in his locker, "You know you're gonna kill me soon if you keep doing that" jokingly. He didn't notice Ben staring at his butt, thinking 'I need to claim that ass' before being snapped out of his trance seeing a bulge in Carlos' pants.

"What's that in your pocket?" Ben asked. Carlos pulled the bag of cookies (2 cookies only) and showed it to the prince. Then he said "This is my lucky cookie. I'll need all the luck I could get for this game". The white haired boy pulled out a cookie and ate it happily. Ben thought to himself, while also having a war with himself 'BEN NO YOU'RE BETTER THAN THIS DO NOT SNATCH THE COOKIE FROM CARLOS' HAND'.

Carlos saw Ben twitching and staring at the white chocolate chipped cookie, assuming the prince loves cookies, Carlos teasingly pulls out the white chocolate chipped cookie and almost put it in his mouth before looking at Ben and asking, "Want one?". Ben nodded, now drooling. The prince loved cookies as much as he loved blue and gold.

Carlos gave Ben the cookie and Ben just consumed it in 1 go. Carlos noticed Ben's eye sparkle in delight, then turn a slightly darker shade, completely forgetting the fact that the cookie had the love potion effect on it.

Carlos went to change his clothes, not noticing Ben staring at him lustfully. Ben thought to himself, 'my love for Carlos, I'll confess to everyone after the games'. Carlos stopped and asked, "What?"

Ben answered, "Nothing, it's nothing" diverting his eyes away from the white haired boy and pretending to look for his things, 'maybe that last one wasn't a thought...'. Then he asked Carlos, "What were you looking for in your locker?". Jay entered later, then changed into his clothes. The coach asked the team to gather early for a pep talk.

After the pep talk, Chad showed up when Carlos was alone. Chad was holding the only thing Cruella ever gave to his son, an emerald pendant, a lucky emerald pendant. Nobody really noticed Carlos wearing it everywhere he went. No one also noticed Jay and Ben hiding behind a locker, watching and listening to what was happening between Charming and Cruella's son.

Carlos asked, "Where did you get that?". Chad answered, "No matter" as he drops it to the ground and crushes it, effectively destroying it. Chad then said "That's what's gonna happen to you later on the fields." Afterwards, he laughed and walked away. Carlos walked up to the dusts of his pendant, crying. He said to himself, "The only birthday gift I ever got, the only way my mother ever showed love for me... it's all dusts now.." then felt even more tears rush down his cheeks.

Ben wanted to walk out and comfort Carlos, but Jay stopped him. Jay whispered to him, "Let him be, he will use that fury on the fields later". Ben and Jay later walked away, feeling guilty that he couldn't comfort Carlos. Then he remembered what he was gonna do that would make Carlos happy, at least what he thought would make Carlos happy.

Carlos said to himself while picking up the empty pendant, "Chad will pay for this!" when he clenched his fist, saying it full of rage and revenge.

Everyone had ran to the fields, getting ready. Carlos was furious but at the same time nervous. Everyone stood still and sang the Auradon national song, then Auradon Prep's song. Afterwards, the game started. All Carlos had in mind was to have revenge, and he did. Every time he saw a chance to tackle Chad, he did, filled with fury. His anger strengthened his tackle, enough to push the son of Charming and steal the ball.

After about 30 minutes of playing, the Auradon Knights finally scored a goal. Even Carlos yelled in happiness, with Chad in the distance fuming. Carlos' happiness only lasted for a few minutes, before he saw Ben climb on top of the disc launcher. He yelled "Ben, what are you doing?", but Ben didn't answer. Instead, he grabbed the mic, and yelled "Give me a C!"

He watched as his life crumbled to pieces right in front of him.

"Give me an A!" Ben continued. Then finishing the cheer, "Give me an R, L, O, S! What does that spell?" and the spectator all yelled in unison, "Carlos!". Everyone was initially confused, except for the ones who knew this was happening. Audrey wanted to congratulate Carlos, but before that could happen, Carlos dashed back into the school. Ben jumped off the disc launcher and went after him, with Mal, Evie and Lonnie right behind.

Carlos ran into his room, closed then locked the door. He quickly changed into his normal clothes, dumping his tourney gear on the floor next to his bed. Afterwards, he curled up into a ball and sobbed away.

He heard someone knock the door, but didn't answer. Ben's voice was heard from behind the door, "Carlos, I'm sorry for what I just did. It's just these feelings, they're st-" Ben stopped when he saw Jay. The rest caught up eventually, then Lonnie commented "I thought that was kinda sweet". Mal asked Ben smiling, "Ben why don't you take Lonnie back to her dorm and go take a break in yours".

Ben then asked, "Sure, but can you tell Carlos I'm sorry and I'll do whatever it takes". Mal nodded. When Ben was out of sight, Jay knocked and asked, "Carlos bud, can you open the door?". They heard the door unlocked, when they went inside, Carlos was curled up in his bed with his sheet covering him. Mal thought 'how the heck did he unlock the door so fast?'.

Jay sat down on Carlos' bed and before he could start talking, he heard light snoring. Jay smiled and signaled the girls to leave and that he was okay. Mal and Evie left shortly afterwards.

Ben's POV after the incident

Three weeks...

"Carlos has been avoiding me for THREE STRAIGHT WEEKS!" he exclaimed, not noticing his mother entering the room. Belle then states jokingly, "I would too if you did to me what you did to Carlos at the games". Ben then says in a serious tone, "But I love Carlos..." Then Belle said "Sweetie, if you love him, find a way to tell him, alone or at least not in front of the school. The way you put him on the spot, I'm not surprised if Carlos is still angry at you". Ben exclaimed "But it's been three weeks!".

I sat down next to Evie at one of the benches outside the school. Evie wanted to bolt eventually, but I grabbed her hand before she could do that. Carlos isn't the only one who avoided me, the rest of the villain kids also avoided me. Except for Jay, he was forced to talk to me mainly because he was in my tourney team, and so was Carlos, but every time, every time I try to talk to Carlos, either something gets in my way or he just disappears.

"Evie please I just want to talk to you!" I exclaimed. Evie finally gave up trying to free herself and sat down to talk to the prince. I asked her "Why have all of you avoided me? Did I do something wrong to all of you?"

Evie shook her head and said "No, Carlos had told us all to avoid you Ben, he needed time to recover and didn't want to see you, or apparently any of us to see you, don't really know why, but what you did do to Carlos was bad. Villainous bad". I felt very guilty, then asked "I thought it would make him happy?".

Evie answers, "See, that's where you're wrong. Like Audrey, you only thought, you didn't know if it would make him happy. You've only know Carlos for like, two weeks now? How would you know what makes him happy and what doesn't? I'd say you should take Carlos out on a date to find out what he likes and stuff." as if knowing Carlos' sexuality.

I asked, "But how? I can barely talk to you guys!" with a tone hinting a little bit of anger and annoyance. Evie then says with a smirk, "I think I have a plan", and I said jokingly "And I thought Mal was the one with the plans".

~That night (still Ben's POV)~

The plan started at around 6pm, where Carlos is in his usual place, the library. We had told the librarian to forbid anyone else except for me and Carlos to be in the library. Carlos thought out loud, a bit too loud, "I wonder where everyone is?" with a tone of suspicion in his voice. When he realized what was happening, he bolted out the door.

I cursed at myself, right outside with Jay, Mal and Evie behind him. Mal asked, "Whoah, when did you learn that?" everyone laughed, calming me down a little bit. But then I yelled, "Why is it so hard to talk to him?!". Evie said, "Calm down Ben, we'll just find another plan. Carlos might not look like it, but he's really smart. He usually finds out about my plans, but not Mal. So now you know it's a mistake to come to me for plans about Carlos".

Mal then speaks out, "I think I have a plan that might just work, but then we would need to spell Carlos". I shook my head in disagreement, "No, I don't want him to be even more hurt than he already is" I said to them.

Jay decided to be honest and say, "Guys, Carlos actually has true feelings for Ben". I questioned him, "What do you mean true feelings?", but he just answered "Nevermind". Then I heard Evie exclaim "Ooooh!" in an excited voice.

Evie then states her new plan, "What is we disguise Ben as you, Mal? Then 'you' can take him to the place Ben took you to before". Mal then says "The enchanted lake?". Evie nodded her head. I said, "That does sound like a good plan, but is there a spell for that?" asking Mal. Mal says, "there is, but it's a long one and it'll wear off if you manage to get to the lake within 2 hours".

I agreed to her plan, then state "It would take approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes or so to reach the lake, but I think we'll make it just before the effect runs out". Jay said, "It's perfect! You could grab Carlos' hand and he won't be able to run away! Even if you let go, he wouldn't dare to run because he's afraid of getting lost. One time, we-" he was interrupted by Mal nudging him by the shoulder. He says "Nevermind".

~Next morning~

I managed to wake up early enough and wore what Mal asked me, purple and green clothes. I managed to slip past all the students, mainly because 95% of them were still asleep.

I met up with Mal, Jay and Evie at the tourney field, with the both the moon and the rays of the sun visible in the sky, as if battling for dominance over the open sky.

Mal chanted her spell,

Magic, magic on my calling,

Disguise the person, who is the king.

Turn him into someone like me,

And make him no longer a he.

Puffs of green smoke appeared around me, then poof, I became a clone of Mal. Well at least I sounded and looked like Mal, now I need to act like Mal. We decided to do the spell early, so me and Carlos could spend the rest of the day bonding. Or at least that's what I thought was going to happen.

Everything went exactly like we planned, I pulled off my Mal disguise.

Carlos' POV

When Mal invited me to chill off at a place Ben took her to, I initially refused. Mal acted a little bit weird, she was, how do I put this, 'girlier' than before, maybe it was just Auradon getting to her.

Me and Mal started our journey to her so called 'lake'. When we were about halfway there, she asked me to close my eyes, which was weird, but I went with it anyway, not wanting to make her angry. She would cast endless spells on me if I made her angry. When I closed my eyes, she took my hand. Her hand was warm, at first I thought it was as warm as Ben's, but I shook it off later.

As we walked over this wobbly thing, I could have sworn I heard a twig snapped behind us. I made a big mistake, I opened my eyes and turned around to see if anyone was following us. Nobody was there, but as soon as I turned around, I froze in fear. I realize we were really, really high up, on a wobbly bridge that looks like it could snap at any time. I bolted towards the other side, then tripped.

I heard Mal laugh at me when she caught up, I yelled at her in anger, "I THOUGHT YOU KNEW I WAS AFRAID OF HEIGHTS!". When she finally stopped laughing, "Don't be so mad! We're here!" she exclaimed pointing at a beautiful lake with ruins. My anger instantly disappeared and was replaced by awe, we walked down to the ruins and laid out the picnic blanket and basket.

I turned around a few seconds to see the beautiful lake, then I saw some green smoke from behind. Instantly knowing that was Mal's spell smoke, I turned around surprised to see Ben. I blushed madly and was going to bolt, but realized I can't or else I would be lost. So I was forced to talk to Ben.

"Why have you been avoiding me?" he asked. I answered, "I was too embarrassed" Then he stripped. I blushed even more, Ben right in front of me, shirtless. Ben said "We will talk some more after I finish swimming, enjoy the food" smiling, with a smile that could cause an Ice guardian to just melt.

He jumped into the lake while I was enjoying my chocolate bar that he brought with him, I thought to myself, 'I'll get Mal back later for doing this' then smiling. For a few seconds, it was silent. Then suddenly, Ben re-emerged, with fury and confusion written all over his face, not literally. He yelled in anger, "YOU SPELLED ME!" before running over and picked up all his clothes except for his jacket. He continued to yell, "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU SPELLED ME!".

I got up, walked to him and I tried to say "Ben, I'll explain-" before he cut me off yelling "GET AWAY FROM ME!" then running away, back to the school presumably. I yelled, "Ben wait! Don't leave me here!" to no avail, he didn't turn around. When I finally caught up after packing, not wanting to risk losing anything anymore, he was already past the bridge. I saw a familiar shadowy figure on the other side Ben ran past.

The shadowy figure cut off the supports of the bridge, effectively destroying it, before disappearing. The clouds began to gather above, signaling it was about to rain. I took shelter under a tree, and cursed myself over and over again, "I shouldn't have given that cookie to Ben!" before I felt fresh tears flow down my face. Looking at the basket next to me, I ate the leftover chocolate to try and calm myself down.

As if the sky felt my sadness, it started to rain. The tree sheltered me from the rain, but not the lightning noises. I covered my ears in fear, and lulled myself to sleep.

#worstcliffhangerever

A lot happened in this chapter. Like a lot. I'm sorry if this was worse than the last few chapters, as this was rushed. ^^"

Thanks for reading another chapter of my fantasy.