I do not own Virals.

Ben's POV

Stupid stupid stupid!

I thought to myself, pacing angrily in my bedroom. You just had to do it huh? You were way too happy to be spending time with Tory and let your guard down. Nice going. She'll probably not even want to be friends anymore.

It was like a waging war in my head. One side was shouting at me that the whole thing was a bad idea and that I was to blame. The other side, the side that is in love with Tory, is saying that it was totally worth it. Which it was.

Tory probably liked it though. She was kissing you back.

Then I got an idea. Turning to my laptop, I fired up iFollow and saw that Hi and Shelton were online. I sent messages to them, claiming that it was important, and soon we were face-to-face.

"Where is Tor?" Shelton asked.

"That's actually what I wanted to talk to you guys about." I say, taking in a deep breath. The guys understood me. They could help. "Okay, so after we got back from Morris I asked Tory if I could stay for dinner. After dinner, we got on the couch and started watching Deadliest Catch when I reached over and put my arm around her."

"Is that why you're all upset? She saw you were trying to make a move and yelled at you?" Hi asked.

"No. Around eight I left, claiming it was my curfew, but really I was taking Tory out on Sewee. We stopped in the middle of the harbor and just started playing Gin rummy. Sweet Lord she's good at that game."

"Okay…and…?" Shelton asked, waiting for me to continue.

"Well, she had to go back since she had a curfew, so when we were on the dock she tripped and I grabbed her. Next thing I knew we were kissing."
Hi and Shelton's mouths dropped. Then Hi snapped his jaw back into place.

"I told you to not let yourself get out of control!" He said.

"I know, but she just looked so pretty in the moonlight…" I said dreamily, remembering how her hair shined and her face glowed softly.

"What happened after that?" Shelton asked, then came up with the answer. "She ran away, didn't she?"

"Yeah. I saw her running past a few moments ago. She's heading to the bunker." Hi said, and I let out a breath.

"Can somebody go talk to her or something?" I ask, and Hi offers to go down to the bunker and try to cheer her up. It was kind of strange how the boys immediately stopped joking around when I started talking about my status with Tory.

Hi's screen clicked out and the image before me cut into halves, myself in one half and Shelton in the other. Behind him I saw a ton of wires and plugs, proving that he was in his room.

"Any ideas about the whole threatening thing?" Shelton asked.

"Nope."