Night has arrived, the darkness takes over .

Ben sat in his room, on the bed , twiddling his thumb nervously.

Soon , the sound of a car was heard. Immediately, Ben raced to the window and looked out. As promised, Kevin had come in his car. Ben quietly changed into jetray and whizzed out of his room window.

He landed neatly beside the car. Kevin called out, " So, Tennyson, ready to hack the omnitrix, again?"

"Maybe this is a bad idea, remember the last time we tried to hack it, right ? It mutated you.", said Ben unsurely.

"Oh come ON! I'll make sure it does nothing this time".

The garage in Kevin's house is where they planned to hack it.

Huddled close to the hacking device, Kevin fiddled with the omnitrix as Ben looked around .

After long hours, no result was obtained. Ben had agreed to do this because he wanted more aliens to be unlocked (he'd rather get killed than ask Asmuth to unlock the aliens for pure entertainment). Kevin was interested in the insides of the weapon.

Ben observed a drop of sweat trickle down Kevin's temple to his jaw. Thinking that it would interfere in Kevin's work ,Ben put out a finger and wiped it off. It looked more like as if he was tracing a vertical line on Kevin's face ,romantically.

Kevin looked up in startled surprise, and Ben understood why they both were suddenly blushing."Oh…umm…sorry.. I didn't mean it like that..." ,stammered Ben. Kevin nodded understandingly, though still dazed, and went back to work.

Then it was Kevin's turn to embarrass themselves.

To adjust the omntrix , Kevin curled his fingers around Ben's left palm. Ben's fingers twitched once, twice, thrice. Streaks of red dashed against Ben's face.

Kevin suddenly felt his own fingers tingling, and quickly let go, "Sorry.I…",

unable to stop the sudden heat on the back of his neck.

A few minutes later , "If I just turned this..",mumbled Kevin to himself.

"Uh-oh." ,he gasped .

"What? What is it ?",asked Ben nervously.

"MOVE BACK ,BEN!"

"HOW CAN I ? IT'S STUCK TO MY WRIST, FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD!"

A sudden flash of blinding green light spread across the room, throwing Ben and Kevin in the opposite directions.

"UHH..nnnhhhuuhhh….",moaned Kevin ,as he sat up ,rubbing the back of his head. ''Ouch. I shouldn't have turned that knob", mumbled Kevin.

The blinding flash was the omnitrix's way of saying 'don't mess with me '.

He looked around ,coming to his senses. "Ben ?...Ben?".

He saw Ben lay far off, immobile. It sent a shudder down Kevin's spine.

"Ben!"

He ran up to the still form of Ben, who was apparently knocked out.

Kneeling down beside him, Kevin placed his palm on Ben's chest to check his heart. The heart was ok.

He knelt lower and put his ear near Ben's nostrils, to check if he was breathing.

Breathing was good too. "Phew! He's not dead."

Suddenly ,Kevin realized that his ear was still near Ben's nostrils ,and Kevin faced him. He could see Ben's pink lips so close that he felt tempted…to touch it.

He wrestled with his conscience ."I didn't know that his lips looked so good! I guess it wouldn't hurt to touch it…..but, what if he wakes up? He 'ill hate me for doing something so gross…..Nah.. I think he's out cold."

So, Kevin put out one finger and slowly traced the seams of the fragile and gentle lips, amazed at the way it tickled his finger tip.

Ben's eyelids fluttered as he started coming around. Kevin quickly pulled himself away from his face and waited for Ben to get up.

"Ouch….my head….what happened ?", massaging his head , Ben sat up, to see Kevin sitting in front of him.

"Uh…sorry... I messed up. I think it's not gonna work."

"ahh,well,….,we tried ,right? Lets get going.", sighed Ben, getting up on his feet .

Once home , after dropping Ben at his own house, Kevin was having a dreamless sleep. But it didn't stay that way .A dream crept into Kevin's head. He dreamt that he was sitting on a black and green bed, and Ben was with him. But the surprising part was that neither of them wore clothes .

They were sprawled naked ,arms around each other ,lips locked.

It felt so good to have that slender body against him,….so,very,very,good….

"BWAK!"

Kevin shot awake.

What the! What am I dreaming? Oh my god! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! ARGH!

Then ,he pondered over it, and felt a sudden surge of craving sweep over him.

He wearily fell back on his bed, as he finally understood-

Oh no! I'm in love…with BEN!

Poor Kevin. He was tormented by erotic dreams of himself and Ben ,night after night. The day after each night ,when ever he meets Ben , he kind of keeps away from him, because his dreams replay the moment he looks into those toxic green eyes. Kevin interpreted the dream as a nightmare because he was a boy and so was Ben, and boys don't make out with each other .If Ben found out….he would hate him! Be disgusted of him….!

So, Kevin decided that to stop this dream, he would have to STOP sleeping all together!

So , every time he drifted into sleep , he jolted purposely awake.

The result was that , Kevin was becoming lighted headed in the day.

"Are you sure you can drive, Kevin ?",asked a concerned Gwen, from the back seat and her look was shared by Ben as well ,who sat in the front.

"'Course, Im sure I can drive….what kindafa question is that...",said a wheezy Kevin.

"WAIT!",yelled Gwen. Her eyes glowed pink and then she said ,"Im picking up a lot of manna from the nearest beach. Alien manna."

"Must be another attack of some aliens"

"Hit it , Kevin!"

"Kevin?...KEVIN! WAKE UP!"

Kevin had stopped the car, and fallen asleep on the steering wheel!

TO BE CONTINUED….