Benny was riding his bike as fast as he could toward Ethan's house. He was laughing maniacally at the thought of finally having the evidence he needed to bring Tad down. Benny was pretty technical, but he admittedly couldn't quite match Ethan when it came to all things electronic. He needed Ethan to somehow edit out the parts of the recording where he got a little frisky with Tad, otherwise Rory would be too busy focusing on the fact that Benny basically slept with his boyfriend to realize that Benny was trying to help him.

Benny dropped his bike onto Ethan's lawn and frantically began knocking on his front door.

"Benny! What the heck!?" a frazzled Ethan answered the door.

"Dude...dude, dude, dude!" Benny exclaimed nonsensically as he shoved past Ethan and started to walk up the stairs toward Ethan's bedroom.

Ethan rolled his eyes, closed the front door, and followed Benny up the stairs. When Ethan got into the room, Benny was connecting his phone to Ethan's Bluetooth speaker.

"Uh, you might wanna close the door. Um, sensitive material, I guess is one way of putting it," explained Benny vaguely.

Ethan silently obliged, now quite curious as to what Benny was about to play. Benny wasn't looking forward to Ethan's famous world-class judgment, but he was doing what he needed to do to finally take Tad down, and that was worth all the embarrassment and shame in the world.

Benny sighed. He already felt his face reddening from mortification. He reluctantly played the sound recording. About six minutes into the recording, Ethan ran over to Benny's phone and pressed the pause button.

"What the hell is wrong with you!?" was all Ethan could think to exclaim.

"What the hell's wrong with me!? Tad's the cheater!"

"Yeah, but he didn't force you to let him touch your dick! You could've stopped him!"

"Ethan, that's not why I'm playing this anyway! Just keep listening."

Benny pressed the play button again. Ethan prepared himself for more disturbing content. At the end of the recording, Benny had a big grin on his face.

"Huh? Huh? Right? See? See what I did there?" Benny asked excitedly.

"Yeah. Let me get this straight. So, you let Rory's boyfriend jerk you off to the point where you were about to...you know, ew, just to get him to admit that he started dating Rory for the wrong reasons?"

"Well, when you put it like that, it sounds like I did a bad thing, but I didn't know going in that it'd go that far."

"Pff. Good luck explaining that to Rory."

Ethan sat down in front of his computer. Benny began to feel genuinely bad about the way things had gone down with Tad. He never wanted to hurt Rory. He actually was trying to do the opposite.

"Well, anyway, dude. I came over here so you could edit out the sexy parts, but now I'm realizing I need to come clean anyway. Rory's my friend, so if he doesn't understand in the beginning, I hope he can at least come around eventually and forgive me, because I really was just trying to help."

"Don't feel bad, man. I know you had good intentions. Rory's a pretty understanding guy. Maybe he won't react the way you think."

"Yeah, I hope so. Thanks, E. Mind if I tell him here? I may need you for moral support."

Benny made a sad chuckle.

"Sure, bud."

Benny sent a text to Rory asking him to come over Ethan's house. Literally thirty seconds later, Ethan and Benny were both screaming from seeing Rory outside Ethan's bedroom window, smiling widely. Benny walked over to open the window.

"Boy's night! Woop, woop!" Rory shouted after climbing through the window.

Benny wasn't looking forward to souring Rory's oh-so-Rory good mood. Ethan closed the window.

"Rory, have a seat," Benny beckoned.

Rory took a seat beside him on Ethan's bed.

"This reminds me of the time my dad and me had 'the talk'."

"Well, there are some similar elements to come, admittedly," Benny admitted.

"Huh?"

Benny sighed.

"Ethan, play the recording."

Ethan sheepishly hit the button. Benny glanced at Rory's face throughout the recording, trying to gauge his reaction. He watched as Rory's face got progressively sadder-looking as he listened, until tears started to slowly drop from his eyes. Ethan immediately stopped playing the recording, which was pretty much at the end anyhow.

"Why would you do that, Benny?" he asked while looking at Benny with glistening, tear-filled eyes.

"No, no, no! Oh, God no. This is exactly what I didn't want to happen," explained Benny.

Benny was fumbling. He didn't know what to do, so he let impulses take over. He planted his lips onto Rory's luscious pink lips, which managed to changeover Rory's current emotional state from sadness to confusion.

"Finally," Ethan rolled his eyes and mumbled.

"Uh, Benny?" Rory started.

"Yes, Rory?"

Benny hadn't planned his next move.

"Are you a sex addict?" asked Rory.

"What!? No! God dammit, Rory! I'm in love with you, okay!? Jesus!"

The biggest smile started to spread across Rory's face.

"Were you trying to break Tad and me up?"

"No, I promise it was nothing like that. As you heard in the recording, Tad only started dating you for gross reasons. I guess I didn't completely realize that one of the reasons I wanted to expose him so bad was because...I wanted you for myself. I went over there to gather more information and things just got out of hand. I'm so sorry, Rory."

"I know, Benny. You're always looking out for me...and...I love you too. I mean, I thought it was just as a friend, but I think you would be an awesome boyfriend."

"Oh, thank God." Benny fell back onto the bed.

Ethan began clapping.

"I was wondering when you two would take it to the next level. God, it was excruciating watching Benny implode because of your relationship with Tad. He wouldn't shut up about it. Couldn't have been more obvious that he was madly in love with you."

"Dude! You knew!? You should've tried to help me control my emotions, then maybe I wouldn't have made such stupid decisions!"

"If my obsession with Sarah taught me anything, it's that love is never rational. You just have to let it take its course. Besides, truthfully, it was kind of fun watching you squirm."

"You bastard," Benny said dramatically.

Ethan shrugged, "you deserved it."

"Be that as it may!" said Benny.

"Uh, usually people follow that up with something," Ethan said.

"I couldn't think of anything," responded Benny.

"So what are you guys gonna do about Tad?" asked Ethan.

"I think that user jerk will get the idea when he sees Benny and me making out in the cafeteria tomorrow," Rory explained.

"Yes!" Benny exclaimed before clearing his throat and lowering his voice. "You know what would really make him jealous? If we do all the things, and I mean literally every single thing, that you did with him."

"But how would he even know we're doing them?" Rory was confused.

"...Okay, yeah, couldn't think of an explanation; I just really, really wanna have sex with you...please tell me you're gonna have sex with me like you had sex with Tad."

"Sure. You are my boyfriend now, after all."

Benny was silent for a moment, before murmuring "thank you, Jesus."

"Gross," said Ethan.

The End