𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄 - carlos de vil ✔︎

23.

WE WALKED through the halls of Ben's castle calling out his name only about a hundred-plus times.

"Ben!" Mal yelled.

"This way!" Dude laughed leading the way to him.

M sighed. "Ben could be asleep anywhere."

"Or turned to stone." Celia added and Evie covered her mouth.

"Okay." E exhaled, looking down at her.

"Ben!" Mal kept yelling.

"I got a scent. Very pungent cologne. Easy to track, follow me, people." Dude explained how this could help us.

"That's great, Dude." Jay nodded from beside me.

"FYI, I give great cuddles, too." We continued walking down the hall.

"Really? I never had a pet growing up. Well, except for the elk head in dad's man cave, but that wasn't-" Gil rambled as Uma traced the claw marks in the wall.

"Hold up." Uma halted up, pointing to the picture frame in half, half of it on the ground. "What's this?"

Carlos stepped forward, examining it carefully. "Uhh.. Any chance this was already there?"

Mal sighed heavily again as Dude finally got a scent. "And..follow me."

We did as he said, Mal still yelling and shouting 'Ben' which was starting to get super annoying. We threw a set of doors open, and walked inside. We roamed around, searching the room.

"I wonder what fried octopus tastes like?" M asked herself biting a nail.

"Okay, why don't we not do this?" Evie said placing her hands on her hips.

"We're celebrating our differences." Uma said sarcastically.

"I believe we're being challenged." Harry said, extending a hand out, but Uma ignored him.

"Let's split up and look for Audrey." Uma suggested.

"That makes absolutely no sense. Unless you give me my ember, she's going to spell you." Mal disagreed, holding out a hand for the rock.

Suddenly the armour stand had moved. "Ladies!" I yelled.

"We have a situation here." Harry continued for me, finishing my sentence and signalled to the armour.

"Do you like a prince, Mal? How 'bout a knight in shining armour? Or knights?" Audrey asked us and we all took a step back.

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We had finally finished fighting the hollow suits of armour and cheered together in victory. Mal and Uma were about to high-five before they paused remembering who they were looking at.

They both then retreated their hands and I saw the boys all chest bump then realized what they had just done and we all went onto our separate sides. Evie looked sad. "No.."

Carlos wrapped me in a hug, kissing me passionately with his hands resting on my hips. I smiled when we pulled away, looking over at Evie.

"Guys, come on. This was so great. We were a team. We worked together. Come on." E tapped both girls' arms. "You know what we should try?"

"Let me guess. Mirror, mirror on the wall, what game would Evie call? Oh, right." I voluntarily guessed and we both said it at the same time. "An icebreaker."

All four of us sighed, groaning while E explained what it was to the others.

"You say something you really like about the other person, okay? I'll start." She examined the three and I snickered. "Harry. Great accent. Now you go."