Welcome back to AM!
I know I haven't updated in a long time, but I've been busy with school. And lately, I've fallen in love with KoGan, so expect a new fic for them. :D
And maybe a little crossover, like the final chap of W&BR. AUAHUAHUAHAUH
Anyways, I hope you'll enjoy this chapter. :d
Chapter 4 -Bad news... literally-
Carlos' POV
I woke up in the morning feeling all refreshed, more than usual, specially knowing that we had retrieved the second gem. I looked around and saw that Ben wasn't around, which was unusual.
I got ready, and after a long time I got to shower in my own bathroom, since Ben wasn't around to talk me to take a bath in his. I got ready for my class, and for an odd reason peoples just wouldn't stop taking secret glances at me and giggling. This made me feel extremely comfortable.
What's odder than my boyfriend not being there, was the fact that none of my friends were here either. I figured they were at the AMC showing Fairy Godmother the magic and stuff, so I sat down and ate breakfast on my own.
For some reason, I felt himself being watched. This eery feeling hasn't been felt for a while now... The last time I felt this was before I almost got killed by Jonathan. I shook it off, but as soon as I shook it off, I saw a flash, like a picture light flash, I even heard the click and all!
I looked around and so nobody suspicious enough to do that.
So I quickly finished my breakfast and bolted for my class, unfortunately for me though none of my classes involved any of my friends, so I didn't see any of them at all, not even Doug. He didn't attend Robotics 101, which caused us to fail that class. I enjoyed another lunch session alone, this time I wasn't being watched nor did I see a flash.
I heard a 'ding' go off in my phone. I unlocked my phone and checked the message.
King Ben: Hey pup, sorry for not being there for breakfast and lunch, but can you come over to my castle tonight, somewhere around 7PM? Thanks, love ya! xoxo
I let out a sigh.
I quickly finished lunch and went straight for my next class.
After my class, I had about 2 hours to relax. I decided to check the news for anything new, and to my surprise, there were new news on all of the apps I installed. I literally had like 7 different e-news apps on my phone. I took a look at it, and that was a huge mistake.
The news were the meanest thing I've read in my life. Apparently someone had taken picture of me sitting all alone, the headline saying 'Son of Cruella, sitting alone in the cafeteria. Did Ben and Him broke up? That would be perfect.' I basically cried.
I looked at the rest of the apps and they were all the same. I scrolled up to see even more bad news about me, and basically I curled up at the bench and just cried. I felt someone sit down next to me and asked, "What's wrong C?"
I looked up expecting it to be one of my friends, but instead if was Xander.
Xander is my Tourney Teammate, and my Robotics 101 and Proper Male Etiquette classmate. Xander is actually pretty charming, he's the 3rd child of Rapunzel, the 2nd eldest of all three, Anxelin being the oldest.
He draped his hands over my shoulders, I relaxed at bit. At least someone else cares about me, none of my friends are around to even care. I showed him the news and he gasped, apparently he hasn't seen it at all. I cried even more as he comforted me. He helped me walk Dude and talked to me, effectively comforting me.
I thanked him as I entered my room, I let him in charge of Dude since nobody would take care of him when I'm over at Ben's castle.
I looked up at down, and saw myself dressing as plain as possible. I just worse a red shirt and black jeans, I fixed my hair and got ready to go to the castle.
When I was at the castle, nobody was there. I knocked, hopefully my knock powerful enough to make noise on the hard door. I checked my phone to see if there's more news, and apparently there's a new one.
'Carlos dating the son of Rapunzel? What happened to BenLos? Is it FINALLY over?' The word finally was capitalized. I just sat down and cried, I heard the door open and one of Ben's butlers came out to greet me, but instead of greeting me, he saw me crying there in a fetus position.
I quickly shook off the sadness and told him I was fine. I was actually sad, and furious. Furious that none of my friends were there all damn day long, sad that none of them even cared to send a text or something.
He nodded and helped me in, the castle was actually dark. I didn't notice this when looking for outside, as soon as the door closed, all sources of light just disappeared.
3rd Person POV
Then suddenly, the lights went back on. Everyone was there, apparently Ben had planned a surprise party for Carlos. He planned on proposing to Carlos. Apparently, the butler that helped Carlos come in was literally making a huge X sign, signaling Carlos was sad and they needed to stop this.
It was true.
Carlos was not at all fazed, or happy about the surprised. Instead, he had this 'Wow, this is what all of you did today?' face. Ben walked over and asked, "What's wrong pup?" Carlos just said with anger in his voice, "You don't get to call me that. Do you have any idea what I went through today?!" he yelled.
He heard Evie, Audrey, Jane and Ben's parent gasp, but he didn't care. Ben asked, "What's wrong?" he tried to lift Carlos' face up, but Carlos just swatted his hand away. Ben was actually startled by this action, this was a first. Clearly Carlos was furious, up to the point where a little kiss and some teasing wouldn't be enough to cheer him up.
Carlos yelled, "I went through hell today, and none of you were there. I took a walk around the forest with Dude, and almost died in quicksand, and I would have if Xander didn't accompany me. I completely failed Robotics 101, because Doug wasn't there for our little group project. And worst of all, this!" he said as he held up his phone and showed Ben all the bad news.
Ben would've threw the phone against the wall if Carlos wasn't already crying, he wanted to comfort Carlos, but before he could, Carlos had already ran out the open giant window, thankfully it was full moon so he didn't receive any damage or anything.
Ben's plan was ruined.
Beast and Belle walked over and asked, "What happened?" the rest of the gang doing the same. Maybe everyone avoiding Carlos was a bad idea after all. Ben gave Mal Carlos' phone and she read the headlines out one by one.
Each and every article made everyone's blood boil.
Carlos ran back to the school, crying. Apparently, everyone had avoided him for one whole god-damned day just for a stupid surprise. He sat on top of one of the trees near the road into Auradon Prep, crying his eyes out.
Xander apparently had fun with Dude, so he took the mutt out for a midnight walk. At first he was freaked out when he heard crying, then he looked for the source and saw Carlos crying on top of a tree.
Xander asked, "Carlos! What are you doing up there?!"
Carlos leaned forward to see who it was, and apparently he leaned too far. He slid from the tree branch and fell down, Xander caught him in a bridal style.
Carlos chuckled and said "Usually Ben would carry me like this, feels different being carried by someone else." Xander's eyes twinkled under the moonlight, and for some reason he looked... more handsome? Carlos shook that off. He already has Ben, or at least he thinks he still wants Ben.
Xander reassured him, "Yeah well, I'm not trying to steal you." as he set him down. They sat down at a nearby bench, and Xander asked "What were you doing up there crying? And what were you crying about?" Carlos perked his head up. Xander was caring, Ben would usually just romanticize the hell out of Carlos, but Xander just kept asking questions showing he cared about Carlos.
Carlos answered, "Apparently my friends have been avoiding me to set up a stupid surprise party..." Xander nodded. He draped his arm around Carlos, and said "I'm sure they have an explanation for this..." Carlos nodded. Dude jumped onto Carlos' lap, and petting the dog calmed Carlos down more.
They had small talks while waiting for the guys to come back.
By the time they had came back, it was 8:45PM. Xander quickly ran towards Mal and asked for an explanation, she wasn't gonna answer until she saw Carlos sleeping on the bench they were on. She knew Xander took good care of the white-blue haired boy, so she explained what was going to happen. Xander said "Oh... So that's why ALL of you avoided Carlos? Don't you think at least one or two of you would accompany him? I saw him eat his breakfast and lunch alone with a sad and lonely expression, then saw him crying on a bench."
All 8 of them felt guilty, they didn't really think of that. Carlos woke up at the sudden noise, and saw his friends. Xander was talking to Mal, while Ben walked over. Carlos wanted to just stand up and run, and that would've happened if it was the old Carlos. Now he demanded an explanation from his boyfriend. Of course, Ben couldn't tell Carlos, instead he had to lie. He said it was their 6 months dating anniversary, and Carlos fell for it.
Part of Ben ached because he just lied to his boyfriend, the other part happy because Carlos was smiling again.
A few days later...
Carlos and Ben had basically distanced themselves. There weren't anymore bad news, but their relationships were definitely not a sweet one. The rest noticed this change, now Xander joined their gang.
They tried to bring the two together, but every time they would just argue. They've never seen them this bad before...
Saturday, 25th of August, 11AM
Ben barged into Carlos room while he was crying. Ben yelled, "Carlos! What in the hell is this?!" he said as he held up his phone showing the newest article of Carlos and Xander. Basically, it showed pictures of him and Xander hanging out, almost as if dating.
Carlos, with tears streaming down his eyes, yelled "You need to explain yourself too! What in the fuck is this?!" he held up his phone and showed a picture of Ben and Audrey making out. The picture looked new.
Ben's eye widened, but then he yelled "You need to explain this first though!" Jay literally watched them from his bed. Ever since that night, their relationship had distanced. They would no longer cuddle, Carlos moved back into his room. Ben had to admit, he missed feeling the presence of the puppy lover.
Carlos then yelled, "Well maybe our relationship should just end here! If we can't have trust, this won't work out at all!" Jay gasped, Ben gasped. Carlos knew it was true. It was all too good to be real.
All that affection Ben showed him. It was all too, too good to be true. Ben replied, "Carlos, please no. Please, I-I don't want it to end this way!" now he was crying as well. Carlos just sat there, the tears now falling down his face.
Both of the articles were from IcyNews and AurYouNeedToKnow (Aur short for Auradon and a play on the word All, did it work? :P) two of the most trusted e-news and newspaper publishing companies in all of Auradon.
Carlos just sat still. He knew this relationship would end like this. Carlos always imagined a Happily Ever After for himself, but part of him knew that it would never come true. He knew that his feelings would get played, but he never knew it would go this far. The rest of the gang ran over, panting, specially Xander. Ben knew Xander was just a good friend of Carlos, so he didn't really mind, but for some reason, he just went ahead and overreacted.
Ben continued to plead, "Carlos p-please, d-don't end it l-like this..." tears streaming down his face like a river. Carlos just buried his head in Jay's chest and sobbed.
Carlos crying, with Jay comforting him. Jay whispered, "Ben, I think you should go." Ben glanced at the crying Carlos, he knew he had just ruined everything. If only he had just walked in casually, calmly, instead of swinging the fucking door open, then it wouldn't turn into this.
Ben left, along with Lonnie, Jane, Audrey and Doug.
Xander stayed behind with Evie, Mal and Jay to comfort Carlos.
It was all over. Ben failed to propose to Carlos, now their relationship was over. Ben still loved Carlos, but he wasn't sure if the white-blue haired puppy prince would ever forgive him. But what's strange is, he doesn't remember kissing Audrey at all during their planning for the party. He took his phone out and examined the picture very thoroughly.
Then it hit him, this wasn't a new picture. This was way back when the villain kids even came to Auradon, way back when Ben let his feelings trick him into falling for Audrey.
Ben had to investigate this, he couldn't let his relationship end just like that. He's not going to let it end just like that, and he needed help.
Meanwhile...
Carlos cried, he just cried non-stop. He couldn't believe he let himself be tricked for 6 god-damned month straight. His friends, and Xander were there. They just comforted him till' the end of Auradon.
Xander made an oath to Carlos, that he would do anything he can to heal their relationship. Even though Carlos ended it, he still wanted to be with Ben, even though he feels as if Ben had just ruined his life.
Carlos agreed to let Xander investigate this, but for the next few days, or longer, he didn't want to see Ben or any of the Auradon kids for that matter. Xander and his VK friends were the only ones allowed to visit him, or even talk to him.
Carlos continued to cry when his friends left. He was back to his old self, alone, sad, broken hearted.
That's all for this chapter, whew!
So much suspension, Ben and Carlos breaking up, because of two e-news apps completely ruining their relationship. What do you think happened to IcyNews and AurYouNeedToKnow? (Now that I think about it, AurYouNeedToKnow's acronym is AYNTK which kinda sounds like Antique :3) Will Carlos and Ben go back together? Or will Carlos suffer an eternal life of sadness, disappointment and broken hearted, while Ben suffers the same, except on a larger scale.
Thanks so much for reading this, hope to see you in the next chapter :D
