Descendants: Summer Road Trip

Cry With You

Mal's POV:
"What will it take to heal him?," I asked, trying hard not to cry.
"Well, this vial here, has the antidote, but in exchange, you will find out nothing about your father," she said. I sighed.
"Unless, you let Ben die, and we give you everything you've ever wanted to know about him," she said.
"Mal, don't. It's okay. I know how much that means to you. Don't do it for me. It's okay," Ben strained to say.
I looked at him with tears in my eyes. "I'm sorry, Ben," I said.

I ran up the stairs, grabbed the vile, and jumped from 10 stairs off the floor, landing hard, which hurt really bad, but I didn't care at the moment.
I ran straight to Ben. "Ben! Open up," I said, getting him to open his mouth.
I helped him get it open, and I poured the vile in his mouth. He swallowed it, but he was slowly drifting off.
"No, no, no, no, no, Ben! Ben! Ben, no, please, please, stay with me, stay with me, I love you so much," I said, squeezing his hand tightly and gently patting the side of his face to get him to wake up more. Tears were running down my face.
Then he coughed. I let out a big sigh of relief. "Ben?," I said his name softly.
"Mal...," he said, his eyes starting to blink open. I started to smile a little, relieved that I heard his voice.
"I love you too, so much," he said, starting to be able to sit up. I smiled and pulled him closer to me, giving him a heartfelt kiss, and he kissed back with the same amount of emotion.
Our moment was cut short when CJ cleared her throat. Then I saw Lonnie, Jay, Evie, Carlos, Doug, Jane, Audrey, and Chad in the doorway.
"Hey!," Carlos exclaimed, stepping forward with the others to where CJ and Anthony could see them.
"You can't do that to our friends!," Jane exclaimed.
"Well, I think we just did, and how did you guys get out of there anyway?," CJ asked.
"That's for us to know, and for you to never find out," Jay said.
"And what did you mean when you said that you could give Mal everything she wants to know about her father?," Carlos asked.
"Well, Carlos, we have a DNA sample from him, a lock of his hair, which, could trace to tons of other things about him. He was looking forward to meeting Mal, but since she chose Ben, we'll never know what would have happened," CJ said.
"That's what we were tracking this whole time? A lock of hair of his, that's connected to Mal's?! Are you serious right now?!," Chad whisper-yelled.
"Apparently," Carlos said. "And why did you sound like a guy when you had the mask on?," he continued. "A voice changer, duh," CJ said.
CJ grabbed Anthony. "Well, too bad for you, Mal! And the rest of you! Anyway, we've got better things to do! See ya!," she said, and with that, her and Anthony went up through the ceiling on a rope, leaving the rest of us behind.
"How did they even?!," Doug exclaimed, wanting to know how they did that.
We all chuckled at him, but at the same time, were wondering the same thing.
"Mal, I'm so sorry about our fight. I do trust you. I just don't trust Anthony. I don't know him well enough to trust him. And now, this just happened, so now I really don't trust him. You know I love you so much," Ben said, and I could tell that he really meant it.
"Ben, it's my fault, I'm the one who ran away. I wish I had never done that. I wish I had stayed and we had talked things out. I love you too, so much," I said.
He kissed my hand. We both smiled, then I looked down. A few tears were still running down my face. "What's wrong?," Ben asked softly.
"I pulled this whole road trip thing, and originally the whole point of it was to find my father, and it led us to this. We were so close but still found nothing. Well, we found something, but I didn't get it, because if I did, I would've lost you, and I would never live with myself. You're the best thing that's ever happened to me. I could never live without you. So, even though I wanted to know more about my dad, I will never regret my decision. But I still wish I could've known more about my dad, also," I said through the tears. I looked away so that they wouldn't see how emotional I was. I looked back and noticed that Ben and the others were crying too.
"Why are you guys crying? You're not going through this like I am," I said, confused. "Mal, we love you. We're all your best friends. If you're crying or going through something, we're going to be crying with you and feeling the same thing for you," Ben said, squeezing my hand. I smiled at him and all of our friends who smiled in return.