Chapter 2 Morning

Ben woke up the next morning to the sun shining in his eyes through the blinds. He groaned softly as he stirred in bed. A wonderful smell of refreshing strawberries was entering his nostrils.

"Love the smell of strawberries in the morning" he thought but after a few seconds he realized what he smelled. He quickly sat up and looked to his right to find his cousin sleeping peacefully.

"She kinda looks cute when she's asleep…" thought Ben but shook his head to try and get rid of these thoughts but they kept coming back. He got off the bed and went into the bathroom to rinse his face with cold water. He splashed the water on face and rinsed it.

"Come on Ben get a grip she's your cousin you shouldn't have these thoughts about her"

The noise has seemed to wake up Gwen so she walked into the bathroom and was surprised to see what Ben was doing

"Ben why are you rinsing your face with water?" she asked weirdly

"I have a lot of dirt in my eyes and I'm trying to get it out" lied Ben

"Right. You'd better hurry up though. Grandpa should be here soon to pick us up for breakfast"

"Okay" said Ben and turned off the faucet and whipped his face with a towel. He put the towel back in place and turned to face her.

"Thanks for letting me sleep in the bed by the way" he said

"You're welcome" said Gwen. There was an awkward silence in which Ben found himself starring at her. Eventually Gwen spoke up and said

"What?"

Ben's mind heard these words but didn't process them

"Hello? Earth to Ben?"

Finally Ben's trance had been broken

"Huh?" he replied

"You were staring at me"

"Oh sorry. I guess I didn't fully wake up so I just found myself staring"

"Whatever. Just don't do it again"

"Right" said Ben

"Can you let me use the bathroom now?"

"Yeah" said Ben and walked out as Gwen stared weirdly at him for being so nice

"What's going on with him? Normally he's not this nice to me. He usually doesn't behave like this in the morning…"

Gwen just shrugged it off and figured he was cutting her some slack. Although it was a little awkward… still it was nice that he wasn't being mean to her… she then remembered the events of last night. It kinda felt nice to share a bed with him…

Gwen grabbed her head with her hands

"Ugh… come on Gwen… this is Ben we're talking about… your cousin… he's a dweeb… this is wrong" she thought as she left the bathroom. Just as it opened she found Ben standing in front of the door with his tooth brush and toothpaste. Their faces were inches away from each other and they could feel each other's breathe on their face; their heartbeat was so fast they could almost hear it and their lips were millimeters away from each other. Their cheeks have turned a shade of red. They both looked away as Ben walked into the bathroom to take care of himself while Gwen quickly changed her clothes before Ben came out. Moments later he came out to find Gwen in her everyday clothes and was putting her shoes on. Ben took his own clothes and went to the bath room to change. After he came out Grandpa Max came to take them to eat breakfast.

"Hey kids how'd you sleep?"

"Fine" they both said

"Did you share the bed?"

The two cousins blushed and looked at him nervously. Max laughed and said

"Never mind I won't ask if it will embarrass you" they both looked relived at this. The three went downstairs to eat some breakfast, which after Gwen went to the spa, Ben went to the pool and max went to his room to sleep a little more. An hour later Ben met Gwen back in the room

"Hey" he said as he entered the room

"Hi" said Gwen

"How was the spa?" he asked

"It was fine. How was the pool?"

"It was okay" said Ben as they both sat down on the bed to watch some TV… they both knew the clock was ticking and soon they would have to share the bed again and it would be much more awkward than last time…

To be continued…

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