Left Behind

On Our Own Now

Author's Note: I have had this idea for a while now and decided to finally give it a try. This is a prequel type of story to Why Did You Leave Us Too? About Carlos and Mal before in Auradon before running away to BHU to find Ava. I will still be updating that one as well alongside this one just like I do with The Truth and Parenting Is Hard as well as Evie's Tough Journey and The Real Mal. Anyway sorry if this chapter is short I just wanted to get this story started first, but I promise the other chapters will be longer. I hope you guys enjoy this new story and please let me know what you think.

Carlos sighed as he sat next to his newborn sister in her car seat. He couldn't believe what a horrible day he just had. He just lost his parents because they just left and now the one person he could always count on for help his big sister Ava just left him and their newborn sister too.

And now they were having to completely unroot their entire lives and go live in Auradon with their older cousin who wasn't very responsible at all as he liked to party and he didn't know anything about kids. The young twelve year old just sighed as he looked over at his older cousin that was blasting his heavy metal music in the car and making the newborn cry.

"Jay stop playing that music!" The young twelve year old screamed out to his older cousin who didn't hear him over the noise. "What!" Jay screamed out loudly making the newborn cry louder. "I said stop playing that music!" Carlos screamed out in frustration as it was making his newborn sister cry.

Carlos sighed in relief when Jay finally got what he was saying as he turned the music off. "Sorry! I guess I just forgot that you have a newborn sister now. It's honestly crazy that you're not the baby anymore. So how old is she now anyway?" Jay told his younger cousin hoping to make small talk with him as Carlos had just been staring at his newborn sister as if he would lose her if he didn't as Carlos had lost everyone else already.

Carlos just sighed as he looked at his cousin. "She's almost a month old now," Carlos told Jay who just smiled and nodded. "Yeah that's right. I remember that now. So what's it like being an older brother," Jay asked his cousin trying to waste time in the car, but Carlos didn't feel like talking as he just pet his dog Dude.

"Okay you don't want to talk. I get it. This is hard for you. I get it. Anyway welcome to your new home!" Jay told his twelve year old cousin as he pulled up to the dorms at Auradon Prep and helped get out all of his and Mal's stuff.

When they reached the dorm they were immediately greeted by Jay's friends and girlfriend who barely even looked at the twelve year old or the newborn. "Yo Jay come on we're going out you coming!" One of Jay's friends told him and Jay didn't even hesitate as he looked at Carlos. "Hey you'll be fine here right! I gotta go! I'll see you later!" Jay told his little cousin not even letting him respond before taking off with his crew to go cause trouble.

Once Jay left Carlos just sighed as he looked down at his newborn sister. "Well Mally it looks like we're on our own now, but don't worry I'm going to take care of us! Now let's go explore," Carlos told his newborn sister Mal as he grabbed the baby carrier and placed his sister in it as he opened the door and made his way out into the hall, so he could get to know his new home that he was forced to live now.