Ben looked at Eli angry and frustrated at the situation that Leo had placed him in. It wasn't fair for his father to do this to him after everything he had been through. He had already, suffered, sacrificed, and even bled for everyone when he was a kid. Unlike Ricky he never enjoyed his teen years because he had been thrust into a life, that he was not ready for. But, he had to admit despite the outcome, and the mistakes everyone had made it out unscathed save for himself. Now after ten years of putting the hell that was once his life behind him Leo was drawing him back into this place this hell that he was supposed to call home.

"How could he do this to me?" Ben said with anger and hurt. "After everything I have been through, he does this to me again, Eli." What the fuck did I do to deserve this didn't he think I suffered enough, and he does this! TO ME!" "He must have truly hated me, for some reason." Ben said leaning against the fireplace and breathing heavily against the mantle. "Ben, no offense my friend, but what's done is done, and your dad is dead. I'm pretty sure you can't make him change his will now. I mean I'm not exactly dressed to dig up a dead man and force him to rise from the dead and rewrite his will. But, I'm down if that is what you want to do" he said jokingly.

"Ben, just come to terms with this, analyze the situation, and then we'll come up with a solution to this problem like we have in the past. Think of this as just another deadline, we have to meet." Tess said with a smile as she placed a consoling hand on his back. "Tess this is not a normal problem, and this is not a situation that I was prepared to have or accept. My father knew fully well, what I asked him to do, and he knew what I wanted of him. Then like he always does he disregards what I wanted for myself and tries to force me to follow his golden foot steps, like a good little dog." Ben said turning and removing her hand from his back. He didn't want or need consoling from anyone. Unlike others Ben never liked that, he never liked to need someone, not anymore and he knew Tess all to well once upon a time she wanted to be the one he needed, but then like now Ben didn't want it.

Ben had been through a lot and he had sacrificed for everyone Amy, Ricky, Adrian, Dylan, Henry, and Alice. He was done with his sacrificing, and he would never do it again. What Leo now asked of him was wrong and he had no right to alter his will the way he did casting Ben into the fire that he spent years freezing. Ben left Glenn Valley and never wanted to return save for the two times in the year when he would keep a promise to the only two people in the world he felt he still owed anything too. But now Leo had turned his tribute to Mercy, and his mother into something he would loathe and he would never forgive Leo for this.

THREE HOURS EARLIER...

Ben, Camille, Chloe, Adrian, Betty, Bunny, Cindy, Amy, Henry, Alice, and John all sat in the office of "ENRIQUEZ & LEE FAMILY LAW SERVICES", with Rueben behind his desk. He decided the best way to be part of Adrian' life was to be apart of the one thing both shared an interest in the Law so when she graduated from Law school he retired as the District Attorney and opened a small private practice with Leo as his first client and took Adrian on as his partner. She handled mostly the family, adoption, and divorce cases, he handled the business, and criminal cases. The two had done well together in the two and half years they were in business. It was a comfort too Adrian when she had to file for divorce from Omar after being married for four years.

They had no kids and that made it easy, too Adrian if they had any he would have probably questioned the paternity since he questioned her when he found his brother kissing her and she said that he had forced himself on her. Dante however lied and claimed she came onto him. Adrian had actually told Dante she and Omar were having problems since she was the primary bread winner and when Leo stopped paying for the condo they discovered the money he earned was not enough to pay the bills. Mostly he argued with her about selling the engagement ring and bracelet Ben had given her saying they should not be that important since she and Ben were no longer together. When she thought Dante was being a good brother in law and tried to console her he kissed her and refused to break off. When Omar came in and saw. Dante immediately went on the defense and Omar believed his brother, and so did the rest of the family. So they parted ways, and honestly she realized that she and Omar had started to part ways long before that incident.

Now she was back to living with her family, and they were actually happy together. Ricky and Amy were together with another child a little boy named Martin, and Grace and Jack were pregnant with twins. Henry and Alice were also married with one boy named Ben. All of them were somewhat happy, they all had their problems, but the main person who had difficulty was Ricky who felt guilty that Leo and Ben never repaired their relationship. Everyone thought that everything with Ben was okay but it wasn't. Ben put up a front making believe to everyone save for Leo who also pretended, and Chloe that everything was okay. When Ben graduated he simply left the very night with an early acceptance to summer program in Vancouver for Journalism. There he actually paid his own tuition and refused to accept money from Leo to help with school or bills. He worked two jobs, as waiter, and a Librarian and kept a 3.85 GPA to maintain a scholarship, and financial aid where he studied Journalism and business. Most would think it impossible, but Ben having been emancipated himself from Leo to marry Adrian worked in his favor.

From there Ben moved into a three bedroom flat with Eli and Marcus Reed, two brother's who each along with Ben had distinct personalities. Eli was an accounting major who loved to party sometimes while Marcus was majoring in Advertising and marketing who was a fitness nut. Ben also spent time as a tutor having excelled in Math, it was in this he met Tess who took a liking to Ben immediately. She paid Ben ten dollars an hour for three hours, three days a week, to help her get a B in Advanced AP CALCULUS a course Ben breezed through. She really liked the fact he made the work easier to understand and she got an A instead. She wanted Ben to see her as more than a friend, but Ben told her relationships, and love were two things he would never be good at, and decided to just be a friend. But Eli, Marcus, and Tess all agreed Ben was a good friend, but he refused to really let them into his world.

What shocked Tess was Ben's social life Ben usually worked, went to class, studied, showered, and slept. But on the occasional times he had time all saw Ben was fairly good at picking up women for one night stands. Ben had changed while living in Canada and put on both muscle and weight in order to deal with the cold of the area. This made his Italian and Irish looks arise in full form which made him quite desirable to the women of the area. The fact that his last name was Boykewich was also a much needed boost, but Ben made sure to always choose specific days, and to use at least three means of defense against both disease, and impregnation.

When he graduated at the age of 21 he took an internship for a paper in London, and began to help with putting the paper into an online e-zine. But he didn't stop there and was awarded a job as a field reporter for the youth group to catch the attention of ages 12 to 28 when he was 23. With this Ben was given his own column every week. But Ben was not happy with just one story every week, he saw that the youth of the world all had stories to tell, and he wanted the rest of the world to read them. He wanted to give a voice to the voiceless the kids who were not accepted, those who were looked over and forgotten. The ones who didn't have the body of Taylor Lautner or the looks of Taylor Swift. He wanted the fat kids, the thin geeks, the nerds to all have a say in what they wanted and the stories should not be separated in different magazines they should all be as one, he wanted to bridge the gap among the different kids, ethnic groups, the grunges, the punks, the rappers, the cheerleaders, the band geeks, the jocks, the forgotten ones like himself.

So Ben using his own money started a small online printed magazine called THE IN CROWD & THE OTHER CROWD" or TIC TOC. Ben chose that name and with Marcus's help came up the slogan "Because Time is Winding down on everyone so why waste time not knowing." With that Ben went throughout London writing down the stories, experiences of kids in private schools, public schools, and boarding schools. He investigated all their interests likes and dislikes, and the reason's why they liked or disliked other topics. Ben never thought his magazine would get much praise, but only a year and sixteen issues later his own paper asked him if he would like to publish TIC TOC full time with their publishing firm and them as a backer, but he would remain the soul proprietor as EDITOR in CHIEF. Ben quickly took their offer after having a friend look at the deal through and iron out all the details, he was a Boykewich and they did know how to run a business.

TIC TOC became so successful that Ben was given the funding to open an office in both Canada, and America to get the full global outlook of the community of youth. But Ben's greatest accomplishment came at 26 when he did an article about the starving children of the South African countries. All of his friends and his business partners were worried for his safety when he went their to bring about the attention of the world to kids who were truly forgotten. Ben told of how many were forced into child labor, prostitution, and being soldiers. He told of their hardships and of how difficult it was for some of them to live past the age of twelve because of the dangers they faced just to go to sleep at night. This saddened all of his readers in his six month story run. With this the kids of the world started their own movement to help by using his magazine to start the online organization KID. KIDS IN DISTRESS. This organization helped kids with only Ben giving them a few pages in the magazine, and online server help to start organizations and drives to help aid other children around the world.

With Ben's desire to do good came dangers, Ben while in South Africa contracted KROHN's Disease and nearly died and had to have part of his stomach removed for eating bacteria infected food. Ben also had several death threats that were sent to him, which forced many to take action on his behalf to ensure his protection. This worried his father whom Ben had barely spoken too or visited since Christmas of his Freshmen year in college, and even then he only visited for a few hours to drop off gifts and apologize. In his time gone Adrian, Amy, Grace, Ricky, Henry, Alice, Jack, and even Clementine all made attempts to contact or visit Ben, but he would either give them an excuse or not accept their calls and messages. This made him miss Adrian and Amy's double wedding as well as the birth of his name sake. However no one could blame him for not wanting to be near them anymore they all had to admit they set fire to the bridges they built with Ben some time ago, and Ben had no interest in rebuilding them.

But, Ben's friendship with Marcus, Eli, and Tess grew. When Ben returned to America he asked each one to join him in his company to continue his success. This pleased all three, and made the paper a fairly normal earning of 22.5 million dollars a year for the past three years, with a staff of 190 people mostly of young college kids looking for extra money, experience, college credit, or the opportunity to have their voices and stories told. Ben's greatest reporter was Tyler Anderson who was a young man who was the victim of a school shooting. Tyler was actually friends with the shooter. Tyler held no ill toward his shooter Anthony Collins who took a semi automatic hand gun to school to get back at bullies who humiliated him everyday because his mom had to work as a stripper to make money. Anthony had shot eight people and killed three, when Tyler found him they wrestled for the gun and it went off twice one bullet shot Tyler in the lung, and the other hit Anthony in the heart killing him.

Tyler explained that many kids who kill themselves or commit violent crimes like this generally start out as good kids, but others push, ridicule, and taunt them to a point of depression, and anger. Tyler came to work for Ben through a program Eli had helped to set up called G.U.N. Growing Up Nervous. Which tried to help reach out to kids who were hurt, ridiculed, and bullied. The program put them in touch with other kids who felt this way to let them know they were not alone, and their were other ways beside Suicide, Drugs, and Violence to help kids deal with their problems. Tyler enjoyed working for Ben because TIC TOC allowed him to tell Anthony's story without making him look like a psycho or a monster. Anthony and he were friends, and had grown up together, but all because he was not athletic, or cute he was outcast. Many people in his home town tried to make him look like a hero after stopping Tyler, but he felt as though he was the murderer for not being able to help his friend. Tyler even refused to go to the award ceremony the town had for him, and moved away. He said he hated the school for having put Anthony and other kids through that event, he also told Ben in confidence he sometimes wanted to join Tyler in death, and in the shooting spree. Ben let Tyler know it was alright he knew too well how he felt.

Ben knew because his life in high school was similar. No one really understood the taunts and name calling he had to endure for being with both Adrian and Amy. To them Ricky was a smooth operator for getting the rich idiot to take care of his sluts. Many believed that Ricky was the father of Adrian's baby, or that she got pregnant on purpose to get Ben's money. They also said how easy it was for him to be duped, by three women Amy, Adrian, and Dylan. They thought it was funny how Henry got car by his father for fucking his wife, and trying to fuck his girlfriend. Ricky got a job an apartment for as they claimed making Ben his BITCH. Ben had to hear all of this and it got worse when they discovered Omar was living with Adrian, but Ben didn't mind to him it was his punishment for their happiness, and he had learned no one can be happy without making someone else sad. The only one who knew of what Ben truly went through was Chloe who rumors spread that his dad hired a hooker for Ben to keep him out of trouble. Many times Ben would have to fight or pay someone to keep those rumors from spreading. This made Chloe truly hate all of Ben's friends, and understand why Ben stayed away from home. But all of that would now change.

PRESENT STORY PLACEMENT.

Well now that everyone has arrived I will begin the video recording made by Leonardo Davincci Boykewich for all those present and as for mentioned in this will, according to his wishes.

"Hello everyone, I hope you are happy despite the occasion for which you have all been called." Leo said as his voice was put on the holo projector.

If you are seeing this then that means I have departed this world, and hopefully I have been reunited with my friends, and family in the next." he said with a smile. This made Camille and Chloe cry since they would never be able to see him or that smile again. Adrian and Amy both looked to Ben who was seated between them and tried to comfort them. They thought seeing Leo for the last time like that would get some emotion from him but like the funeral, Ben remained calm and composed. It was almost eerie to them how he had changed so much from the kind and gentle boy they both loved to this hardened man they saw before them. This made them even sadder because both knew that they were somewhat if not completely responsible for this change in his demeanor.

Ricky smiled and began to sniffle and let out tears as he watched this, unlike the funeral where he broke down and cried and had to have Amy and George lead him away when he tried to say a few kind words about Leo. Ben however was the same, he spoke many kind and moving words about Leo, but his eyes were unflinching to show sadness or weakness for losing the last of his family, having his uncle die a few years earlier. Everyone went to the funeral in order to try and help Camille, Chloe, and Ben deal with the loss, but Ben proved that he was more than capable of helping his step mother and sister deal with Leo's passing. Adrian looked completely at Ben from the beginning of the procession to the end, and was stunned at Ben's composure. To be honest everyone was, especially Henry and Alice who had known how close Ben was Leo and thought that losing his father would destroy their friend. They both agreed they didn't really help him after his mom, or his daughter died, but they would definitely be there for him now. They were all ashamed of how the one time they were ready to be there to help Ben deal with hardship was when he no longer needed them.

Now like the funeral three days prior Ben was consoling his mom, and sister without showing any signs of grief at all. Many were worried that Ben's absence from home had destroyed his relationship with Leo. When Amy talked to Ricky about this, he told her it was Ben probably dealing with the fact that Leo would not leave the company to him, and he wanted to prepare himself for that. Ricky had to admit that he liked Ben, being gone because it gave him time to develop a bond with Leo. This bond helped him be promoted swiftly through the company and now he was vice president of marketing. But in the last two years of seeing how Ben had gained his own success Ricky saw that his relationship with Leo had diminished. Leo even asked him to stop letting John call him Gramps. He was very upset with Leo when he asked why.

"Ricky I love you like a son, but you aren't my son. Despite how I feel about John he isn't my grandson, and from how things are going I will never live to see my own grandchild." Leo said with a sad voice. "Leo I don't mind, and I love you like a Dad, you are way beyond my real father. And John loves you as much as he loves Shaker and George probably even more. I love Shaker and George too, but I bond to you the most, and if Ben doesn't appreciate you I will." Ricky said with sincerity. But hearing Ricky say that Ben didn't appreciate him only made Leo angry, and he simply said. "Ricky I'm not your father, and you are not my son, I am Ben's father and he is my son. Even though he and I are distant, he will always be my son and the person who I love and care for more than anyone else. So I'm asking you to just stop John from calling me Grampa". Leo then turned and walked away.