"And you're mine — I love you I love you I was so scared —" 

"I bet you were-- I never want to scare you like that again--"

"I love you! But —" kiss, "maybe we should," kiss, "be doing this in Auradon City," kiss, "and not in the middle of the desert —" 

"Agrabah's right there!" Kiss. "You know, you're not supposed to get naked and things before you get married, because you might get carried away and have sex, but two guys can't have sex. So we can just kiss naked as much as we want."

"We can!" 

"Or we could get married!"

"Mm. I love you." 

"I love you!"

He stands up. Eventually. It takes a lot of kissing to do so.

And the walk back to the city isn't long. 

(He gets Ben water before he does anything else, on their trip back.) 

Chen is taking care of him! Because he's so good! And Ben loves him!

Ben is so precious and so important and he loves him so much and they should definitely cuddle on the trip home. 

The driver might see, but guess who cares? Not Ben!

Chen cares more than zero but he doesn't care nearly enough to stop himself. 

And then they can get back to their hotel room and kiss.

"I love you," he says, "I love you, I love you--"

"I love you — I love you, I love you, Ben you're okay —"

"I am! You must have been so scared."

"I was — you were burned really badly, I —" and he doesn't finish the sentence and kisses Ben instead. 

"But I'm fine now. Because you love me."

"You are." Kiss. "And I do." 

"We should get married! --Not right now, we're fifteen, but."

"Someday," he says softly. "...that's a really nice someday." 

"You say it's nice now but wait until the entertainment news people are constantly bugging you about your clothes choices."

"Oh, they do that anyway, there's a reason Lonnie wears the most touristy Auradonian version of Chinese formalwear you can possibly find." 

"So it's perfect! Asher will have so many questions for you to see if you'd make a good-- queen? King consort?"

"Shoot, I have to tell Asher."