By the way, Ben's not expelled from Bolton. Just thought I'd mention that.

The court room went silent.

Suddenly a voice sounded from the courtroom doors, a few metres away. A familiar voice.

"Is this true?" The voice asked. "You-you do?"

I glanced round, letting go of the Gamemaster's shirt collar.

It was Ben.

He was dressed in his black shirt and jeans. Same as last night. His shoulder height, thick black hair tucked behind his ears as usual.

He's always appeared handsome and cute to me, maybe because of how his shirt bulged his muscles in his shoulders, neck, arms and waist, there wasn't an ounce of fat on him.

But today I saw him in a different way. We stood a few metres apart. Looking at each other. I looked into his dark eyes, and answered him. "Yes. I do Ben."

Ben took a few steps toward me with a look I've never seen on his face before. He was crying, silently at the words I'd spoken to him. I started to cry too.

I took a few steps forward as well. We both started running toward each other never leaving each other's eyes.

We met in the middle of the court room and embraced.

Ben then pushed me slightly away, so he could see my face.

He looked me in the eye, and whispered "I'm sorry Tor for never telling you straight up. I didn't know how you'd feel. But, it's true Tory. I do love you and I never said anything because I felt you were out of my league. You're too good for me. You're strikingly beautiful and deserve more than I'd ever be able to give you. You're meant for great things, and I'm just a boy who will probably take over his dad's job; cruising my boat back and forth between islands. I'm sorry for what I did. But I truly did it for you. And I was acting like a jerk because you were paying more attention to Jason than to me, and Jason likes you. I love you. And no matter how much I try, I will never stop loving you."

Ben words made me cry even more. I looked into his eyes and he stared back. Then I did what I thought I never would.

I wrapped my arms around his muscular neck and shoulders, and kissed him.

Ben than wrapped his arms round my back and pulled me closer. He kissed back. It was amazing.

The rest of the courtroom and all my troubles faded away.

To me all that existed was Ben.

It was like the fourth of July where our lips met. Our own fireworks. Ben then lifted me up so I was sitting on his front. He slid his tongue playfully across my lips as a sign to open up. I did.

Ben's tongue snaked it's way into my mouth and dominated over mine. My legs wrapped around his strong waist. His hands clutched both of my butt cheeks to keep me on his front. I didn't mind. In fact, I loved it.

We kept at it for another minute and then we both stopped and looked into each other's eyes again. I blushed and Ben grinned.

We stared again as I started grinning too.

Ben whispered into my ear. "I truly do love you Tory, and by the way, that was amazing."

I whispered into his, "Ben, I'm sorry for not realising sooner. I love you too, and I'm sorry for everything I've done to you that wasn't right. Truthfully, I didn't know how to make it up to you, but I think the kiss was okay?"

I grinned at him.

"Totally, he replied."

He started grinning again too. He then put me down, and then we both realised.

We turned round to face the court room. We had a hundred pair of eyes staring at us.

Ben and I looked at each other, and our faces turned as red as beetroots.

Oh shit. What do we do?

Then we walked to the front of the court room, holding hands and Ben sat down on the single chair placed at the side on the witness chair.

I sat on his right knee, Ben's arms around my waist steadying me. We grinned at each other again then turned and faced Red Beard.

We spoke in unison, "So, can we continue?"

Everyone was staring at us, and then turned their eyes to Ben.

I looked at him, then realised why. I turned to face him.

"Ben, why are you here?"

"I've been in the outside hall, waiting for you to finish. I snuck away from my parents and lawyer. I wanted to talk to you."

He looked at me with a mixed look of surprise and sadness.

"But when I heard what you said, I walked inside where I saw you. Being a badass ninja." He winked.

The jury was sweating uncontrollably.

"How about we convene tomorrow? The witnesses need to sort some, umm, personal stuff out."

"Fine with us!" Ben and I answered in unison, grinning.

Everyone started whispering and exiting, and in seconds the court room only contained Ben, myself, Hi, Shelton, and Kit.

Hi and Shelton stared at us grinning like bonkers. Kit just shuffled a bit, looking at his shoes, then shrugged,

"You kids can go back in the boat, I'll see you around ten this evening. You can miss school today."

Then Kit left too.

This is gonna be so awkward.

I was still sitting on Ben's knee and Ben was just looking around the room.

As soon as Kit left, Hi pounced.

"So then, guys, what's going on? This was an interesting court session."

Hi was grinning uncontrollably.

"That was one serious lip lock there Tory. And Ben, I suppose you enjoyed the session too?"

Ben and I looked at each other and then gave Hi sheepish grins.

"Well, I, err, yeah…" Ben mumbled.

I looked at Shelton and Hiram. "Look guys, Ben and I are now, well, more than friends, and, err, is this a problem?"

Hi looked at me again.

"Nope. I knew there was some chemistry between you two, but I didn't know if it was gonna evolve to something more." Ben and I blushed again.

Surprisingly, Ben took spoke first.

"Look guys, we'll talk at the bunker, okay? Come on guys. Let's go home!"