Author's Note: I couldn't help but get this chapter done as fast as possible. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! If you have any thoughts, concerns or tips I'd love to hear them!

Chapter Two

Ben closed his eyes and let himself fall back on the green grass. He felt a little better now that he was alone with Kevin. He felt the soft breeze blowing over him and could hear his dark haired, muscle bound friend breathing.

Ben opened his eyes suddenly. Did he just find comfort in the sound of Kevin breath-... wait did he really just think about Kevin's body!?

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Kevin slowly sat on the grass near Ben. He raised his hand and rested it on his forehead and let out a deep sigh. She was gone. She was actually gone. He looked up at the sky, while slowly placing his hand back down beside himself, and sighed again. He felt relieved to be free from her. Why did he care so much about her leaving? Now that she was gone all he had was freedom.

Strands of his black hair fell over his face as he turned his head down to look at the brunet beside him. Ben was staring straight up at the sky a look of terror on his face. Kevin smirked at his young friend.

"What's your issue now, Tennyson?"

Ben jerked at the sound of Kevin's voice. Kevin liked his reaction, the poor little Tennyson boy all scared and jumpy. It was quite cute. Wait. What!? That can't be right. What was he thinking!? Must have been because he looked like a terrified child. Yeah that had to be it!

"Err... K. K.. Kevin! I just remembered I've got some things.. I've got to do!"

Ben quickly got up. He stared still terrified at Kevin. Brushed some grass off of his back and stood beside him for a couple of seconds staring at him. "I'll er... Catch you around!" he nearly shouted at Kevin before he bolted off towards his house.

"Shit... What did I do? Did I freak him out?" Kevin barked while punching the ground hard.

He sighed gruffly before picking himself up and heading home.

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Ben ran straight into his bedroom, waving briskly at his parents before he shut the door firmly behind himself and leant against it, letting his body slide a little and let out a sigh.

"What the hell is wrong with me?!" he shouted at himself while taking his head in his hands and sliding all the way down the door til he was resting on the floor. "What the fuck just happened!"

He lolled his head to the side and looked out across his bedroom floor. His eyes taking in everything and nothing at all, as he gently placed his hands on his stomach. He felt a little queasy, maybe he felt sick from how fast he just ran away from Kevin, he didn't do anything and yet he just fled from him. Kevin wasn't at fault, he was! All Kevin did was try to be nice, in his own... devilish way.

Why was he thinking these things? Things about Kevin and his roguish charm, things that he thought so much to be so wrong were just... so right.

"I have to get him OFF my mind!"

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Four slow days passed and Kevin found himself unable to think of anything other then Ben. He stayed up so late every night working on his car trying to get him out of his mind and woke every morning uneasy and restless like he hadn't slept at all. Playing the events that lead to this silent treatment over and over in his brain. What he did, what he thought, what Ben said, but mostly how Ben looked. That look of pure terror on his face, had Kevin done something to scare him? Was it him who did that to Ben?

He rolled over in his bed his eyes closed, his brow puckered, trying pointlessly to fall asleep. "I can't fucking take this! Fuck... Tennyson... I've... gotta see him!"

He threw his blankets off of himself and jumped out of bed grabbing his clothes from a drawer and threw them on quickly as he headed out to his car. It was 3am and he just couldn't stand not seeing Ben for another minute. That boy. Tennyson. Kevin didn't care anymore why he needed to see him he just had to.

He thrust open the drivers side door to his green Camaro and leaptinside, a storm was brewing in the sky and the longer he took the less his actions made sense. And as if by instinct he drove to Ben.

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The room was dark apart from the light that shone from the television screen. Ben had planted himself down in front of it playing some video game his parents had given to him for graduating school, the hero, his character, wailed on a dark, mysterious enemy with a mallet, whilst the enemy almost pointlessly threw large boulders at him. He found the game stupid, but the action of beating on something, now that was slightly relieving.

He'd been playing the same game since he woke up early that morning, and the night before he played it til he fell asleep, the same as the days before. He placed his hand in the cardboard fast food container beside him and raised a chip covered in chilli sauce to his mouth. They were the only things he had eaten in the past 4 days; he didn't feel like eating much else. He quickly chewed and swallowed the chip in his mouth and quickly grabbed another from the box too replace the one he had just ate.

The sound of a car breaking outside his house soothed him, it sounded like Kevin's car. Ben leaned back against the end of his bed, his hands resting on the floor beside him. His thoughts racing back to the day Gwen left and the last time he saw Kevin. Oh how he missed Kevin.

"Ben!" He heard Kevin yell as he climbed up into his room. "I needa... Err... I need to know why you been avoiding me!"

"Err... I..." Ben was glad to see him, although his question, he didn't know the answer to it himself.

"Look, Tennyson. I'm... sorry if I did somethin' that scared yo-"

"You didn't do anything!" Ben blurted at the dark haired teen in front of him.

Kevin jumped back a little, the look on his face becoming more serious and questioning. "But.. If I didn't do somethin'... why did you take off like that? Was it somethin' Gwen did?"

"Gwen didn't- Why do you care?!"

"Why wouldn' I care?!" Kevin's voice grew louder with every word.

"You've never cared about things like this before what's so different now?!" Ben closed his eyes hard as he shouted every word, his fists clenched at his side, as rain started to fall heavily outside. The sound of the rain droplets beating down on the roof masked the pounding of his heart.

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"Ben I... I care a lot about you! If you havn' noticed I'm here because I care!" Kevin barked at the brunet before him. He felt himself full of rage, and without thinking he climbed out of the window he entered through.

Rain belted down on him as he left the shelter of Ben's bedroom, his shoes splashing in the muddy puddles on the front lawn. He headed straight for his car. He quickly fumbled with the lock on the door before realising he was to infuriated to even open his car door, let alone drive home.

His hair glued to his skin from the water, which poured down on top of him as turned around and rested his back against his car door and let himself slide down into the gutter. He couldn't even remember the direction of his house so it was pointless to try to walk home and returning to Ben's house was unthinkable after what had just happened between himself and Ben. He lowered his head and rested it on his knees, as a few tears of anger flowed from his eyes and became one with the rain which covered him. It was going to a long and lonely night, for the both of them.

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End of Chapter Two.

I wonder how the boys are going to handle that little spat. Stay tuned in for more heart wrenching moments as the boys realise their love.

Thank you,

Val.