Training Wheels ♥︎ Book 1

Chapter 12

Trying to erase most of the grin on his face caused by what just happened, Ben knocked on the door. Finn soon answered, lightly smiling at Ben as he came in.

"Hey, just letting you know," Finn whispered, leaning in towards Ben. "Rey still wants to talk to you. About stuff you apparently said to her on you guys's phone call, that's what she told me. Good luck." Finn patted Ben on the back as they both went back in. Ben mouthed his thanks to Finn. Ben found himself facing Rey on the couch as Finn turned the corner into the bathroom.

She was slumped over on the couch, her feet splayed out in front of her, and she was folding her arms. She noticed Ben standing in front of her and straightened herself out. "Hi, Benny."

Ben sighed. "Why are we going back to what I said?" He asked. He knew that Rey was going to talk to him about his father.

Rey mock-shrugged. "I just don't know why you hate him so much. And your mother."

Ben couldn't believe that she'd just said that. He walked up to the couch and sat on the opposite end. Facing Rey, he started to shake his head. "Rey, neither of my parents spent any time with me as a kid and then Han Solo left me when I still needed him. I was a teenage boy, isn't that the age when they need their fathers the most?"

"Ben, they were having issues in their marriage that neither of them seemed to care enough to resolve, so they separated. And then your mum kept you instead of having you go with Uncle Han because she loves you."

Ben looked down, shaking his head. "Something so typical of you to say, Rey. You're an optimist, I'm a realist. My father left me, and now doesn't want anything to do with me. Neither of them even called me on my 1st day of college-"

Rey raised her voice. "Your father called you several times during the holiday but you were so caught up in yourself, you never picked up the darned phone! And then your mum told me you broke the steering wheel off her car the day before school. She was probably pissed for a little while. But like I said before, she is family, and all family forgive each other." Rey calmed down, sighing and looking away from Ben.

"Rey. Will you please stop saying that?" Ben leaned back, running his fingers through his hair. He looked at the TV screen. "What are you and Finn watching?" He smiled lightly, trying to change the subject, but Rey caught on.

"Ben. Don't change the subject, we are not done talking about this." Rey spoke firmly.

Ben rolled his eyes, something he didn't do often. "What other questions do you have...?" He sighed again.

Rey opened her mouth like she was going to say something, but then closed it and looked deep in thought. "Just try to get along with your mother, ok?"

"Ok." Ben said simply. He decided he would do that by not talking to her.

"And another thing, about Brendol? Did you guys..." She grinned wickedly, Ben knew where she was going and started to frown. "...do anything?" She began to giggle.

"Oh my god," Ben stood up, heading for his backpack in the dining area. "You're like an actual 5-year-old." He walked past the bathroom, shouting, "You can come out now, Finn!"

Ben went into the kitchen and grabbed his backpack. As he started to take out his schoolwork laptop, he heard the door to the bathroom click open and footsteps start to make their way to the kitchen. He pulled up his (completed, thank God) literary essay on the computer and copy-and-pasted it into his English teacher's assessment Dropbox. Very lucky, too, in 15 minutes it would've been late, and Ben knew that professors didn't accept high school-level shit like turning in an essay late. Right after he did that, he turned around to see Finn standing at the doorway, leaning on his left side, picking at his nails.

Ben spun around in his chair, facing Finn. Finn looked up. "How long were you standing there?" Ben asked.

Finn shrugged, striding over to the dining table where Ben was and sitting in the chair opposite to Ben's. "I just got here now, I saw you typing and I guess I was going to leave but then you turned around." Finn started to drum his fingers on the table. "So Ben, is there anything going on with you and Brendol?" He asked quickly, smirking  a bit at Ben when he noticed the disarmed look on Ben's face.

"Rey just asked me the same damn question." Ben said, and then Rey yelled both their names from the bedroom. "One minute, Rey, don't resume the movie!!" Ben yelled. He turned back to Finn.

Finn looked confused. "Why don't you want to talk about it there?"

"I don't know. I guess we can." Ben wondered if he was ready to admit his feelings for Hux to Finn and Rey. His heart said yes, but his mind said no. He and Finn walked back into the bedroom and sat on opposite sides of Rey. Rey smiled at both of them before replaying the movie.

"No, wait, Rey, don't turn it on yet." Finn said. He breathed in and out once. "I wanna tell you guys something."

"Sure," Rey paused the movie, turning to face Finn. She started laughing. "This is about you and Poe isn't it?" She asked excitedly.

Finn half smiled. "Yeah," He looked over at Ben, then back at Rey. "This is for Ben, especially, since he doesn't remember jack about what happened last night.

"So, when Ben was... unconscious, Brendol carried him upstairs, and Poe took you back to this dorm, Rey. And then he put you on your bed, and he asked me a couple questions about Ben. He was actually the one who convinced me to forgive you, Ben. But anyway, you'd think this would be a moment I'd always remember, but I forgot the rest of the details, haha. I guess it was like, post traumatic stress or something like that. So we made out on this couch-"

"Oh my god." Ben glanced at the couch and Rey and Finn began to laugh.

"-and then he asked me to be his boyfriend." Finn finished, smiling.

"Holy shit, Finn, that's great." Ben patted Finn on the back. Rey was hugging him.

Ben felt so happy for Finn and Poe. He thought of Hux and hoped that he and Hux would be the next relationship to be established. 'But enough about romantic love.' He thought. Ben was just happy that things were back to normal with his friends again. And in less than 24 hours, too, that was a new record in how fast Ben could fix a problem.

Author's Note: That was a weird chapter. I'm so excited for the next few coming up though. I hope to finish this in the next 3 weeks, but I'm going to miss writing it so much. I'm probably gonna make another work called The Big Book of Kylux, I am such trash for this ship it ain't even funny. -staygoldstiles