Red Balloons & Bed Head Red Balloons & Bed Head

Author: Gekido-chan

Rated: M (Due to yaoi content and language)

Disclaimer: I do not own Ben 10 or any other affiliated characters. Or my clothes… nuff said.

Warning: The characters will be OOC in some parts so bear this in mind. Also characters have no alien powers. Sorry!

Chapter 1: The Boy with Green Eyes

The first day of sophomore year, and already Kevin Levin had managed to break his locker, trip and fall on his face twice, and if his bad luck continued he would be late for his next class. Sure, he was a second year, but still he was new to the high school and furthermore he was nervous as heck since he'd only just been transferred to his new foster home. Things were not going smoothly and needless to say, things were only going to go downhill.

"Come on! Where is room 309?" Kevin muttered to himself, running so fast that the strands of jet-black hair clung to his forehead and neck.

He kept running and turning corners, frantically searching the halls for chemistry class until… BAM!!

"Ow! What was that?" Kevin said rubbing his head.

"Owie… Oh my gosh… Sorry!" Kevin opened his eyes to see that a young man about his age was staring straight at him and apologizing.

"Ugh… It's okay. I should've been watching where I was going." Kevin took the opportunity to examine the teen he'd just bulldozed.

The youth was definitely a guy, but his body was so slim and well shaped that he almost appeared too beautiful to be a boy. Kevin noticed how the boy's straight brown hair was sticking to his face, and he assumed that the boy had been running as well. He was very attractive.

"Wait! I gotta get to class!" Kevin suddenly remembered the urgency of his running.

"Class! That's right! Sorry, I gotta go!" The youth remarked rising from the floor swiftly and lunging forward as if he were about to run, but then halting, having thought of something.

"Hey, er… Do you know where room 309 is?" Kevin stood and then laughed.

"What's so funny?"

"That's my next class too. Chemistry, right?"

"Actually my name is Ben. Ben Tennyson, not chemistry." He smirked and held out his right hand.

"All right Ben. I'm Kevin Levin. Nice to meet you." The two shook hands before speaking again.

"Well I've already checked down this hall…" Ben pointed in the direction he'd just come from.

"And it's not down there." Kevin pointed behind himself.

"Well that means…"Ben paused and then looked around.

"THERE!" They both said in unison pointing to the door labeled 309, which sat conveniently right across the hall from where they stood. Running, the two boys made it into the door just as the late bell rang.

Throughout the entire class period, Kevin could not stay focused, instead his mind wandered off onto tangents about how horribly his day had gone already and what returning to the foster home after school would be like. Then his mind drifted to the boy whom he'd knocked over in the hallway. He wondered what the boy was like. I mean sure he was polite, well mannered, and beautiful, but you can't always judge people on a two-minute meeting. Of course, that didn't stop Kevin from thinking how god damned cute this boy Ben looked while he was apologizing.

"Kevin Levin!" The teacher called from behind the desk.

"Er… yes?" the boy responded.

"We're waiting on you to tell us something interesting about yourself." Apparently they'd been waiting a little while, for the whole class was glaring at him with bored and unenthused expressions.

"Well, I um… I broke my locker this morning so I'm gonna need a new one."

The whole class seemed to enjoy that, because they chuckled and giggled like three year olds.

"Er… Uh yes well, next is Gregory McIntosh." Kevin sighed and listened tiredly to the rest of the kids rambling about how their favorite color was pink, or how they liked to play football. Then one voice caught his attention completely, as if he had just woken from a strange dream.

"Well, My name is Ben Tennyson, and I write…"

"Write? Like what?" The teacher urged a specific answer from the youth.

"Everything… Poetry, songs, stories, articles, anything that interests me."

Then those godly green irises floated like specters around the room until they landed upon Kevin's eyes. The two locked gazes for a second before Ben smiled nervously and turned around in his seat.

After chemistry was lunch. Kevin was the last to leave the room, having waited for Ben who was second to last. The two walked to the cafeteria while talking about how dumb it was that they had to do a kiddy introduction. Once they got to the cafeteria, the noise presented a sharp contrast to the near dead silence of the day's earlier classes.

"So Kevin, are you new to town? I haven't seen you around before."

"Yeah… I just arrived yesterday night, and my foster parents decided it would be better for me to start out on the first day of school, instead of waiting and having to play catch up."

"You're a foster child?" Ben questioned, a hint of sympathy in his voice.

"I don't need your pity!" Kevin hissed throwing a malicious glare at Ben.

"I didn't mean to offend you." Ben said calmly, showing neither fear nor irritation to Kevin's reaction.

"It's all right." Kevin continued, returning to his more amicable state.

"So what're your foster parents like?" Ben had never known anyone in foster care.

"I don't know. They're okay. 'course I just met 'em yesterday so…"

"You can't be for sure." Ben finished.

"Hey Ben!" A young red-haired woman sat down next to Ben.

"Oh what's up Gwen?" Ben nodded his acknowledgment of her presence, but didn't cease his staring at Kevin.

"Hm… Who's this?" Gwen asked in a rather strange, and almost rude manner.

"Huh? Oh Kevin, his is my cousin Gwen. Gwen this is my new friend Kevin." Ben said nonchalantly.

"It's er… nice to meet you Kevin." Kevin held his hand out with a smile but Gwen just replied with a rather unfamiliar waving gesture, before returning her attention to Ben.

"Um… Ben can I talk to you about something… alone? It'll only take a second." Ben nodded and reluctantly lifted himself from his seat and proceeded to follow Gwen to a corner of the cafeteria that no one had yet occupied.

From the table, Kevin could tell that the two were talking about him. Gwen kept pointing and often times staring at the young misfit. It was obvious from her disturbed face and her overdramatic gesticulation that she had no intention of seeing Kevin as friendly. Ben's movements were a little bit harder to read though. They were almost passive and uncaring. This was unusual for Kevin, because while Ben was talking with him, the teen had shown more exuberance and zeal. Now, either Gwen was truly convincing him, or Ben was not really paying attention to his cousin. Kevin hoped that it was the latter. Seconds later, Ben came back to the table with Gwen following close behind.

"Hey Kevin, since you're new to the area, Gwen and I were thinking that it would be a good idea if you came to hang out with us after school. What do you say?" Kevin was puzzled, and after he passed his gaze from Ben to Gwen, Gwen to Ben, he could tell that Ben had totally ignored Gwen's "warnings" and had just gone ahead and done what he wanted.

"Uh… sure? I guess if it's alright with my foster parents."

"Cool!" Ben smiled sincerely, but Gwen displayed her displeasure in the form of a false smile that actually made her look like she'd bitten into a ripe lemon.

Lunch passed as the trio sat eating and conversing about anything that had happened during the first day. Gwen actually said very little, and took every opportunity she had to roll her eyes and groan at Kevin's comments. Ben tuned her out though, and he found that Kevin was pretty smart once you got past the whole delinquent outcast profile. Gwen however, hadn't taken notice, she was too busy feeling demeaned by the mere presence of Kevin. After lunch, Kevin did not have t part ways with either one of the sophomores, because the next class, Trigonometry, was on all of their schedules at the same time. Ben took the opportunity to sit next to Kevin, but Gwen decided it would be wise for her to sit on the other side of Ben, out of view of Kevin.

The class went by quickly and the day waned rapidly in Kevin's mind, with the thought of actually having made real true friends on his first day of sophomore year, in a new town. Maybe his luck wasn't so bad after all?

-Chapter End-

A/N: So, I started this, my first fic, simply because I've been reading fan fiction for a long time now, but have not really successfully and actively been involved with it. Then I read a fic by the wonderful Midesko, in which Midesko also asked for the reviewers not to praise their work, but instead to create more BeVin fics. So in a way I'm just a mindless puppet. Thus I write… I really want to see more BeVin, and I especially want to hear from anyone reading. Especially if it's Midesko (really awesome!!)…

Okies Ciao!

Gekido-Chan