Chapter 11 =Proposal=
Ben's POV
Today's the day.
I'm proposing to Carlos, and this time, I'm not gonna fuck up, because I'll be next to him all day long.
"Morning love." I said in a happy tone as Carlos stretched, "Morning. Why're you up early? It's Saturday." He said in his sleepy voice as he yawned.
"I've an entire day planned for us," I said with a wide grin, a smile grew on his face afterwards. "Alright let me shower first." He said, climbing off the bed and walking towards the shower.
"Alright so what's on the agenda today?" Carlos asked as we stood outside of the school, inhaling the morning air.
"Well, I've things planned for the whole day, and at the end, we're attending a ball at the castle." I replied with a wide excited grin. "Oh? A ball? I didn't know there was gonna be a ball later?" My fucking perfect pup asked curiously, his eyes hinting curiosity.
"You won't have to worry about a thing pup, because today will be the best day ever!" I exclaimed joyfully, my happiness meter is off the roof today. "Um… Okay? I guess. Let's go then." Carlos said happily and I took him to the first place we're gonna visit today.
"The Arendelle Mountains have been opened so I thought we should go skiing today." I stated as we drove towards the location using my motorbike, Carlos nodded with a smile, "I've never went skiing before." He said, tightening his grip around my waist. Part of me wanted his hand to go lower, but there's always another time for that.
Right now, I have to focus on making sure today's the greatest day for Carlos. And the greatest date.
"Prince Ben, what an honor to have you here!" One of the receptionists asked, then led us over to one of the rooms of the skiing resort. "Go ahead and pick out whatever jacket you'd like." She continued, smiling brightly.
"You go ahead first, love." I said with a small smile, giving Carlos a forehead kiss as he nodded with a slight blush.
Once we were fully equipped, the same receptionist led us towards a small training area. "You can train here if you're not too familiar with skiing. The Beginner's and Intermediate's skiing area is past the blue gate while the professional's skiing area is past the red gate. Hope you have fun skiing here!" She continued before leaving us to our devices.
"Alright love, shall we start?" I asked, smiling at Carlos, who frowned slightly. "I don't know a single thing about skiing." He sighed afterwards. A huge grin formed on my face, "Well then I'll be your teacher." I said, taking his hand and leading him towards one of the empty areas.
"You knew I couldn't ski, didn't you?" He asked curiously with a glare, I shrugged with a big grin.
-2 hours later…-
"Well that was fun, but it's time we proceed to the next thing on today's to-do list." I said with a big grin. Once Carlos was done disposing his used equipments, I grabbed his wrist and made a dash towards my motorbike. "Whoa, slow down!" Carlos exclaimed mid-way. I shook my head and jumped onto my motorbike and sped off to the next place.
"Crystalline Beach?" Carlos asked curiously once the beach came into our sight, "Yep." I said, we're 3 minutes away from what I wanted to show him.
"Wow…" He gasped with a big smile, his eyes filled with pure awe. The angle of the sun, along with the magical aqua life of this beach made the entire sea look like it's made of thousands of gems, sparkling beautifully as the sun reflects its light on it.
"This was so worth breaking the speed limit." I said with a small smile, snuggling Carlos. After about 10 minutes, the sight disappeared and was replaced by the usual beautiful ocean view, Carlos chuckled afterwards.
"Where do you find these places?" He asked with a smile, laying his head on my shoulder.
"Well, our next activity is surfing." I said with a small grin, I also happen to know how to surf. Carlos quickly shook his head, "Sorry babe but… I'm petrified of surfing. You can ask me to hold a surfboard, but if you want me to ride it, I'd run." He apologized with a small frown, I frowned as well.
"I'll definitely watch you though." He said with a smile, giving me a quick peck. I nodded. 'Well, it's better than having him run away…' I thought to myself.
I stripped off my shirt, throwing it over to Carlos' way, making sure to flex afterwards. "Like what you're seeing?" I asked with a smirk. He rolled his eyes, "Yeah well, I get to see it every day and night." He replied, folding my shirt and jacket.
Once I finished doing the warm-ups and had a surfboard in my hand, I took off.
Carlos' POV
"Whoo! You go Ben!" I cheered as loud as I possibly could with a big smile as I watched him take on the waves as if they were nothing. He and about 3 other surfers were there, surfing together like professionals. Meanwhile there's the ol' non-athletic me standing here with his clothes in my hand. I don't really mind though, I always figured I'd be the 'wife' figure in a relationship.
Once they were back on the sand, Ben threw his surfboard to the side and made a mad dash towards me with a big happy grin.
"B-" Before I could finish, he smashed his lips onto mine as we both topple onto the sand, his wet body collided with my clothed one, soaking my clothes. Thankfully he managed to use his elbows to support his own weight, otherwise our face would be in pain right now.
"You're crazy." I chuckled once he pulled away, not even caring there were peoples watching. I mean everyone already knows we're together.
"For you, love." He said with a small smile, putting something in my hand. I found out it was actually a heart-shaped gem-seashell, except it was cracked into two. "One for me, another for you." He said with a small smile, I nodded.
The gem-seashells and creatures here are practically worthless, they look good, but they rot just like any other organic things, so selling them is just pointless.
"I'll get this fortified later." I said with a small smile, putting the seashells into my jacket pocket. Fortifying them means applying a time-stopping spell onto said item, it doesn't work on everything, but hopefully it'll work on this.
Ben's POV
"Sorry about your clothes though." I said with a small apologetic smile. Carlos shrugged, "We I could just take it off and let it dry while we spend some more time here, unless you wanna move on to the next thing you've planned?" Carlos suggested with a curious look. I shook my head with a smile, "We've time to spend here." I stated.
We took off our clothes, except Carlos. He had to teleport home to get a pair of trunks, 'There's no way I'm wearing only my briefs.' He told me.
After we hung our clothes on a tree –so that nobody steals them, we began our walk around the beach. It was nice walking under the sun, holding hand and sharing kisses in-between, not caring about crap for once.
"We're graduating in 6 months pup." I said with a small sigh, I honestly don't want to graduate. I don't know what would happen after this whole thing. If you say it's too soon for me to propose, you gotta remember Snow White was 14 when the whole thing happened to her. Jasmine was 15 and Mulan was 16, meanwhile both Carlos and I are 17.
What I'm scared of after graduation isn't having to part ways with my friends –albeit that's bad, it's that there's a huge chance Carlos might leave me. He might have things to do for his own, or he might decide we need a break…
The possibilities are endless.
"What're you planning on doing after graduating, Ben?" Carlos asked as we continued our walk. "I don't know honestly, my dad wants me to take the throne when I'm ready, and frankly, I'd like to continue my education in engineering for a few more years. Maybe then I'll take the throne." I answered unconfidently with a shrug.
"As for me… Well…" He trailed off, I waited for his answer anxiously, my fear growing more and more every second. "I guess all I wanna do is stick by your side." He answered and I was completely thrown off guard by it.
I had to fight the smile from growing on my face, even though I'm really happy he wants that, I don't want to look like a selfish fucker. "Seriously? You're not planning anything else?" I asked with a tilted head.
All he responded with was a shrug. "I mean, we could attend AuraU together, I'll major in Engineering and you could take programming or something, we could share a dorm! Just the two of us." I suggested with a big grin, that sounds way better than having him do nothing.
He chuckled, "I guess that would be nice." He answered and a huge grin formed on my face, again.
Once we were done with the beach, we took off to our next stop. Everything else afterwards was just a blur, but I did remember where we went.
After the beach, we went to a theme park. Carlos commented on how it would make an 'average person' dizzy with all this transition, from cold, to hot, to normal. I made sure Carlos was having the time of his life, even when he insisted that we should go to the next stop.
By the time we got to our fourth stop, it was 1 PM already and we hadn't even had lunch. We had a little bit of food in the theme park, but that wasn't enough.
I made sure to treat Carlos to a fancy restaurant, while also teasing him non-stop. After that, we went to get a little bit of treat from a nearby stall, nothing huge though, just a bunch of sweet stuff. So far, the quest of making Carlos smile non-stop was a huge success.
"Alright babe, you ready?" I remember telling Carlos as he shut his eyes while I drove towards the next spot. He nodded with a small smile, "Open your eyes." I told him with a smirk.
"The cinema?" He asked curiously as he got off my motorbike, I nodded with a grin.
We weren't just gonna watch any random movie, in fact, I picked out the scariest one there is. It's a good reason to have him in my arms while we watch the movie.
Our last stop before the ball was actually a cliff near the enchanted lake, in fact, it was just behind it. I think I'm the only one who knows about this cliff, it's very well hidden by a bunch of trees and bushes. I took my soon-to-be husband there cuz' watching the sunset from said cliff was just… Out of this world.
It was like watching an aurora, except it's 7 colors instead of the usual 3 colors. The aurora is only visible from the cliff though, kingdoms near it won't be able to see it for some reason.
"You ready for the ball tonight, pup?" I asked with a small smile as I rummaged through my closet, looking for the perfect suit to match Carlos'. He nodded with a shy smile, "As long as it's with you, then I'm ready." He replied shyly.
I had to fight back the grin that threatened to appear, don't wanna ruin things since I've come so far. I know that he'll start questioning once he sees my grin, one question leads to the other plus my uncontrollably honest mouth, bam the surprise gets ruined.
-1 hour later…-
"Do we really have to do this?" Carlos whined as we walk up the stairs. "Sorry love, but since I'm practically the next king and you're my boyfriend, we'll have to do this every single ball." I apologized with a small smile. He tightened his grip around my arm as his white and blue hair swayed in the air.
"You know, we could just escape this ball right now and go do our own stuff." I suggested as we continued walking up the stairs, nearing the entrance. He shook his head with a sigh, "I'd love that, but, you said so yourself, you're the next king so you can't really just ditch things now." He said with a small frown.
I smiled, god I wish he knew how perfect he was. I remind him every damn day, but he just refuses to listen.
'Nobody's perfect…' 'There's always someone better than me…'
Yes, that's true, but in my eyes he's just perfect. Like a flawless diamond.
"Ready?" I asked as we approach the giant wooden doors. Carlos nodded as we pushed the door open together, "Announcing the arrival of Prince Benjamin and his boyfriend, Carlos." The guy who I managed to forget his name every damn time announced, immediately the music stopped and all attention turned towards us.
Carlos' face burned red, but at least it's not as red as it was the first time we attended a ball together. You could compare his face to an apple and the apple would lose!
We walked down the stairs with our hands linked, halfway through the music started playing as peoples smiled at us. I led Carlos towards the group of young leaders, I have to talk to them first every damn time, otherwise they'd think I'm a snob. The last thing I want is to have one of the future kings of the other kingdoms hate me.
"Good Evening ladies and lads." I greeted with Carlos' hand in mine. "Chocolate!" he whispered to himself, thankfully I managed to grab him before he ran. "Ready to run already? Surely we're not that boring." One of the princes said with a smirk.
"Sorry, my pup here has a serious chocolate addiction." I apologized with mock anger, only to have Carlos stick his tongue out slightly at me.
It's honestly hard to believe sometimes that this Carlos is the same one that could kill peoples if he's angered beyond boiling point, like yesterday.
"Congratulations on defeating those werewolves yesterday, Prince Ben. Surely it wasn't all that hard for you." Another one of the leaders said with a smirk, giving me a toast (The glass, not the bread) I nodded, "Couldn't have done it without my pup though. Actually, we weren't the only ones there at the time." I said with a small smile.
We continued talking to them for a few more minutes until I excused ourselves and led Carlos to a nearby corner.
"Really? You almost made a mad dash for the chocolate fountain." I scolded him while pinning him onto the wall. "Hey, I almost couldn't resist it. Almost." He replied with a small frown, I smirked at him as I lowered my mouth to his left ear, "Well then, let's see if you could resist me." I said in a low, husky voice.
"B-B-Ben, n-n-not here!" He squeaked out, pushing my chest gently. I chuckled, "Wasn't gonna." I replied, seeing his face turn into anger. Before he could speak, I grabbed his wrist and led him to the middle of the dance floor.
"This isn't over." He warned as we began dancing.
Halfway through the dance, the music changed. Everyone else stopped dancing and formed a circle around us. Well, Mal, Doug, Jay and the rest helped of course, since they knew what I wanted to do.
"W-What's happening?" Carlos asked nervously as Xander began singing, Marry Me*.
"Now it's just the two of us, let's show everyone how much of a power couple we could be." I said with a smirk, earning a small nod from him, "Sounds good." He said with a smile as we began our formal dance, though this time there were only two peoples in the dance circle.
Carlos and me.
Only after the song finished and the instrumentals continued did I get down on my knees, "Carlos, I know this might be a bit sudden," I started, seeing his eyes widen and the others look at me nervously.
Jay nodded and flashed me a thumbs up accompanied by a smirk.
"We've been dating for almost a year now, and again, I know this might be too soon, but part of this ball was for me to propose to you." I said, taking out a dark gold box from my pocket, one that I had Mal shrink so that Carlos won't see it and the box would return to normal once I touch it.
"I'm not the best at speeches, but I hope this'll do," I started with a nervous breath,
"A lot of things have happened since we first met. You and your friends being the first VKs to be here, you became my friend, the whole Enchanted Lake incident… I thought things couldn't get any crazier. Until we discovered that. It seems somehow more forces are trying to take over the world… separate us. I didn't really realize it until recently, so before things could possibly get any crazier, I'd like to ask you for something, pup." I paused for a while to take a breath, and another.
"I know, I'm not really the best boyfriend one could ask for. Always busy with politics, athletics, everything. But I have tried, and I'll continue, to shower you with as much love and attention as I possibly could." I paused once again, this time, for a different reason.
I opened the box and looked straight into Carlos' eyes with a hopeful smile, "So before shit could get worse, I'd like to ask you Carlos De Vil, could I have the honor of becoming your husband? Your life-long partner, and stick by your side until Death do us part?" I ended my horrible speech there, seeing Carlos' chest rise and fall as he stared at the ring.
"Yes. Hell yes!" He yelled in joy, happiness filled every inch of me as I fumbled to get the ring out and gently slip it into Carlos' finger, standing up, chucking the box aside and pulling him into a deep, long and passionate kiss, euphoria and the feeling of his lips on mine drowning out the sounds of peoples cheering and clapping.
-That Night…-
Once we got home, making love was just at the top of our list. I made sure the door was locked.
This time, it felt different. I felt way more love than usual, which in turn made me feel somewhat more pleasured.
"What's wrong, love?" I asked, noticing he was staring at his beautiful ring once I finished cleaning up. "I can't believe this is all real." He said with a smile filled with adoration, it almost knocked air out of my lungs.
I am ridiculously in love with him.
"Well you better believe it, you're my fiancé now." I said with a grin, climbing onto the bed and pulling the cover over us. "Now, it's time to sleep." I said, placing a kiss just below the new hickey –well, by that I mean the one I left on his neck because I left a lot, and whispering "G'night my pup." With a smile.
Carlos blushed then chuckled, "G'night, future husband." He replied.
*Marry Me by Jason Derulo, btw.
