Chapter 1 Take Me

Ben gasped; a pained-sound escaping his slightly parted lips as Kevin slammed him back against the wall behind him roughly, grabbing him by the collar of his shirt and pinning him there so that he dangled above the ground by the few inches that the dark-haired, older boy had on him.

"Stop ignoring me and change so that we can fight, Tennyson!" Kevin practically growled, his eyes dark with his anger.

A breathless-laugh escaped Ben despite his predicament, and Kevin's hand tightened on his shirt in reaction.

"I could never ignore you, Kevin, but I can't fight you anymore. This has to stop. If that means that I die here, then so be it."

Kevin's eyes widened in shock at his words, his grip loosening in response, then tightening again.

"Why would you say something like that? You're willing to let me kill you just so you don't have to fight me?"

"Yes," Ben answered, his green eyes completely clear, calm and honest as they looked back at him.

"Why?"

"Because nothing that you could do to me could hurt me as much as the pain that I feel when I hurt you…"

"Why would you care about causing me pain? You never have in the past."

Kevin gasped when Ben's eyes softened and he lifted a shaking hand to place it on Kevin's left cheek gently.

"I've always care, Kevin… I care very much, but you haven't given me a lot of options to choose from. I can't let you hurt others, but I can't hurt you either because it hurts me to. Why do you think I always run away from you before things can get to violent? I love you, Kevin…"

Kevin blinked, frozen in shock at his explanation, wondering if he actually meant what Kevin thought he did by that.

Ben leaned as close to him as he could get in his pinned-position, thinking that this might be his only chance before the other boy stirred out of his daze and killed him, his green eyes fluttering closed as he pressed his lips to Kevin's tenderly, sighing in relief when he was lowered to his feet slowly, stepping closer to him and slipping his arms around his slim-waist, still kissing him eagerly as their chests touched now.

Eventually, Kevin's tense-muscles softened under his attention, but it took a while, almost as though he didn't really believe that this was actually happening.

Ben shuddered, panting heavily as Kevin's hands moved to the hem of his white- and black-striped t-shirt, pulling it off over his head quickly, dropping it to the ground before placing his hands flat against his bare-chest, causing Ben to moan at his touch.

Then he gasped when Kevin ended the kiss to reach for his belt, intending to remove it to get access to Ben's lower-half.

"W-Wait, Kevin," Ben stammered, relieved when he stopped to look at him with a slight-frown.

"Are you backing out on me?"

"No, no, I want to, I really do, but… This place is fine for just kissing, but, well, it's not exactly the most… Um, romantic place for you to deflower me…" he explained, his face flaming red with self-consciousness as he looked at the ground.

To Ben's relief, Kevin didn't say anything cruel about his confession, merely bending to scoop him up into his arms bridal-style, draping his t-shirt over his bare-chest so that he wouldn't get cold as he started to walk.

"We'll go to my place…"