Disclaimer: I do not own Ultimate Spider or any of it's characters. I only own Melania and Comanche.
July 11th 2016
It's been about three weeks since Ben was found by Melania in the rain. Even though Ben decided he was only gonna stay with her until after his hypothermia was gone, but he felt like he shouldn't leave her. After all, she took him and took care of him; he figured staying with her was the least he could do for her.
Since Ben has decided to stay with her, Melania had went out and bought him some clothes and other things to make him feel more welcomed. She enjoys having a roommate and some company, considering she's been on her own for quite some time. She also enjoys Ben's company, even though he's stubborn, has an attitude and is a bad boy, Melania likes having him around.
Melania feels bad that she doesn't have a spare room for Ben to sleep in, but he said that he's fine sleeping on the couch. Melania has an old storage room next to one of the bathrooms that she doesn't use and she promised him that she was gonna fix it up for him so he could sleep there instead of on the couch.
Comanche has also taken a liking to Ben. Every other night, Comanche sleeps with Ben on the couch. He also loves to play with Ben and lay on top of him when they're both being lazy. Ben's also grown kinda fond of Comanche. He drools and he slobbers all over him, but Comanche's got a face that you just can't stay mad at.
The salty smell of popcorn had filled the air in the apartment as Ben sat down on the couch in the living room with two medium pizza boxes and two glasses sat on the coffee table.
Ben's attire has changed since he's been with living with Melania. It consisted of a black t-shirt, a red hoodie, pale blue jeans ripped at the knees and red and white sneakers.
"Popcorn's done" Melania said as she walked into room with a large bowl of popcorn and a 2-liter bottle of diet coke.
"Extra buttery?" Ben asked.
"Extra buttery" Melania answered as she placed the bowel on the couch and poured the soda into the glasses.
"So, what are we watching?" Ben asked, "It better not be something lame like that 'Last Airbender' movie we watched last week"
"It was not lame" Melania defended, "I found it to be very interesting because of the fighting style they use in the movie"
"Whatever" Ben said with a roll of his eyes, "what kind of pizza did you order?"
"The kind you eat" Melania joked as she placed the soda bottle on the table.
"Really funny" Ben deadpanned.
"I thought so" Melania said with a giggle, "Olives for me and peppers and onions for you. As for the movie, we are going to watch 'Scary Movie 5'" Melania said as grabbed the DVD from the shelf that stood on the other side of the fireplace, "Have you ever seen it?"
"Not really" Ben shrugged, "seen bits and pieces, but that's all"
"Well, you gotta see it, it's really funny" Melania then inserted the disc into the DVD slot on the side of her 56' inch flat screen TV that hung above the fireplace.
Melania then sat back down the couch next to Ben with popcorn bowel between them as she hit 'play' on the remote just as Comanche jumped onto the couch and laid his head on Melania's lap.
After about half way through the movie, laughing at the funny parts and cringing at the awkward parts, Ben was thinking that maybe he should try to get to know Melania more.
"So… you live here all by yourself, right?" Ben asked turning to her.
"Just me and Comanche" Melania answered as she patted his back while he laid on her lap.
"Well, what about your parents?"
"My mother is a Navy Solider and she's out of the country for most of the year, but I still get letters from her and call her every now and then" Melania answered.
"How about your dad?"
The smile from Melania's face fell and she looked down, "My father…my father died in a hit and run accident when I was six" she then clutched the necklace around her neck, "This necklace is all I have left of him" it was a white shark's tooth necklace with three brown beads on both sides of the tooth.
"I'm sorry" Ben said honestly.
"Thanks, it's okay" she said nodding her, "So…" she turned to face him, "Why don't we talk about you? What's your life like?"
Ben looked away from her, "Well, there's not much to tell. I don't really remember much of old life. From what I can remember, I was alone and on my own up until I got my powers. Then, when I was younger, I was taken in by…by this guy, he was a doctor" Ben's fists clenched at the thought of Ock and Melania noticed it, "He took me in and he's the one who gave me my powers, so I felt like I owed him, you know" he looked back at her and she nodded slightly.
He sighed before continuing, "Anyway, I used to think that he actually cared about me, you know? But it turned out that he was just using me as a tool for his dirty work and to hurt the ones that I cared about"
"I'm really sorry to hear that, Ben" Melania said after hearing Ben's story, "if it makes you feel any better, I know how it feels to be used by someone you trusted" she then once again held her upper arm tightly and Ben noticed it. He could tell that she was hiding something, but decided not to push it.
"Does that have anything to do with why you were out in the freezing rain that night?" Melania asked.
"Kinda, yea" Ben answered vaguely.
"Well, you know what?" Melania asked as Ben looked at her, "I can tell you this right now, you don't have to worry about be used or being alone anymore" she placed a hand over his, "because now you've got me" then Comanche lifted his head up and barked once at them, "and Comanche, too" Melania said with a giggle while Ben smiled.
Melania smiled back at him, while blushing slightly knowing that she had her hand over his.
She then moved her hand from his and they continued to watch the movie, the smiles never leaving their faces.
Ben then looked at her while she was watching the movie, "This girl ain't half bad" he smiled to himself as he turned his attention back to the movie.
I know, not much happening here, but now we got a little background info on Melania. Thanks for reading and Follow, Favorite or review, bye :)
