Hey guys, I thought I would let you know that I have actually written a lot of this story but decided to proof read them together. Also there's a content warning for this chapter due to the intimacy level in the chapter. Much love RSD xoxoxoxo
A couple of days had passed since seeing Ben; yes I saw him at Carlos's birthday for a few hours and that was nice. What I didn't like was when Ben came to see me two days later Audrey kept interfering; there was even an awkward conversation on her birthday.
*Flashback*
"Bennyboo" Audrey said happily as she walked up to me and Ben. I decided to ignore the fact that she had chosen not to say anything to me; sometimes I didn't know where I was with Audrey. Sometimes she would be ok with me and other times she wouldn't. I suspected that this would be due to her grandmother so I tried to be delicate with the situation.
"Hi Audrey. Happy birthday" Ben answered politely as he squeezed my hand.
"Thank you" she said grinning.
"Happy birthday Audrey" I said politely.
"Thank you" she said coolly.
"Ben could we speak in private?" she said throwing a look in my direction.
"Anything you want to say to me Audrey you can say in front of Mal. You know that" he answered as he squeezed my hand again. I knew that this was hard for Ben; he didn't like how Audrey would treat me and he did put her in her place but he had to be nice about it. Unfortunately Audrey didn't always listen.
"Ok" she said awkwardly.
"Bennyboo are you sure you can't make it tonight?" she asked sadly as she pouted.
"I'm sure" Ben answered.
"I'm in a meeting" he informed her. I knew that he would have told her this already but I also knew that Audrey would push this again.
"But surely your parents could represent you" she suggested.
"They could" Ben started and Audrey's face lit up.
"But" he stated which made her face drop.
"Audrey I can't just pass my responsibilities onto my parents when I feel like it. I am the King" he advised.
"Oh I know that Bennyboo" she said.
"Audrey I need to get something straight" Ben said sternly. I felt Ben squeeze my hand again and I knew that this was due to his irritation at being called Bennyboo. I knew he hated it; I hated it. I didn't like how she still thought after all of this time that she could call MY boyfriend that.
"This is the fourth time I've had to tell you today" Ben advised.
"Stop calling me Bennyboo" he said sternly.
"But-" Audrey started.
"No buts" Ben said cutting her off.
"Audrey I think you forget that I'm not your boyfriend anymore. I've been with Mal for three years now; maybe it is time you moved on" he said politely.
"I don't want to upset you on your birthday, but I am unable to attend due to other commitments. I am very sorry" he continued. Audrey looked at Ben and she then she quickly turned to me.
"Mal" she said.
"Yes Audrey" I replied politely.
"You're not stopping him from coming are you?" she blurted out.
"Of course not!" I said quickly. I couldn't believe that she would think that!
"I don't tell Ben where to go or who to speak to. Our relationship doesn't work like that" I advised as I started to feel hurt. I didn't want anyone - even Audrey and Queen Leah to think that I was controlling Ben.
"Audrey!" Ben snapped.
"Don't speak to Mal like that" he warned her.
"That was very rude" he advised.
"Sorry" Audrey said to me.
"It's ok" I replied as I pursed my lips together.
"It's just that we are lifelong friends and I wanted you at my birthday party" she said sadly.
"Well I have already told you I can't" Ben said sadly.
"I am really sorry Audrey, if I could be there I would be" he added and I knew he was only saying this to be nice.
"Actually I need to advise you of something Audrey" Ben said after we stood in an awkward silence for a few seconds.
"Yeah?" Audrey answered uncertainly.
"After thinking about it even if I wasn't at a meeting I couldn't attend I am afraid" Ben advised.
"How?" Audrey questioned.
"I can't go to social events without my consort; I think Mal's invitation may have got lost somewhere along the line but I won't go anywhere without her" Ben said as he looked at me. Part of me liked what he had just said but a small part of me wished he hadn't. This was only going to make things worse between me and Audrey.
"Sorry I need to go" Ben said as he looked at the both of us.
"See you Princess" he said as he pressed a kiss to the top of my head.
"See you Ben" I answered back happily. Ben winked at me and turned to leave.
"I'll see you later Audrey; I hope you have a good time tonight" he said politely.
"Bye" she said sadly as she walked away from me and Ben. Ben quickly threw me a glance and then sighed as he turned and walked away to go and attend yet another meeting for his tour.
It was now Saturday; I was now planning on spending today and tomorrow with Ben but to Ben's dismay today was a study date. When I woke up I decided that I was going to prank Ben; and I knew the right prank for him.
After getting ready and sorting our dorm out; as Evie had left early to spend time with Doug, I started to get ready for my prank with Ben. I knew that it wouldn't be long before he was going to text me to tell me that he was on his way to my dorm.
I placed the pillows in the bed in a way so when Ben walked in it would look like I was on top of someone. I couldn't wait to see his face; I knew it was evil; but he had pranked me a few weeks ago pretending to break up with me so I thought it was only fair.
I quickly pulled my shorts down and pulled my bra off and pulled one of my purple bed time vests on. I heard my phone go off and I went and looked at the screen and smiled when I saw that he had text me.
"On way baby xxxxxxxxxxxx"
I grinned and jumped on my bed and pulled the blanket on me and knelt down in my bed and adjusted myself. He's going to go crackers, I thought to myself. I pulled my duvet up a bit further so it was half way up my back. I was now posed ready; I started to feel a little bit nervous. I took a couple of breaths to steady my nerves and I heard a knock on my dorm door.
I quickly looked down and started to grind down on the pillow below me and I giggled loudly knowing that Ben would hear me.
"Mal?" I heard him say and I grinned but ignored him and I giggled again. I heard silence again and I heard another knock on the door. I knew what Ben would do, he would knock again and then he would see if the door was unlocked.
"Oh stop it!" I giggled. I heard another knock and then as my door creaked open I giggled again.
"Mal" I heard Ben say and I looked over to him and I let panic fill my face.
"Ben!" I shouted and then jumped off the pillows but in the process off doing this I made sure the duvet landed in a way to make it look like someone was still there.
"Mal" Ben said looking at me as hurt started to spread across his face.
"Ben I explain" I started.
"Can you?" He asked angrily, as he slammed my dorm room door shut. I jumped at the noise of it as it shocked me.
"Yes, just calm down" I told him.
"You are really telling me to calm down?" He shouted as I watched as his hands tighened on the books that were in his hands.
"Yes" I snapped.
"What did I do?" He asked as tears started to form.
"Nothing?" I answered.
"Why Mal? Why?" He asked as he let his backpack fall to the ground.
"I don't have a reason" I said quietly as I looked to the floor.
"Who is it?" He asked looking to the other side of his bed.
"Why is he hiding?" He said and he threw his books onto my desk angrily. The force of him doing this shocked me again; I had to make sure that I didn't give anything away.
"Ben" I said as he started to walk angrily towards my bed.
"Who is it?" He repeated as he pulled the covers back and I watched as his face took in the view of the pile of pillows. I smirked at him and watched as he glared at me.
"Got ya!" I teased.
"Mal that wasn't funny" he snapped.
"Yes it was, your face was a picture when you walked in" I said laughing.
"Mal" he said and he wiped a tear that had started to flow.
"That broke my heart" he said sadly.
"Baby" I said as I crawled down the bed to him.
"As if I could ever do that to you" I said as I knelt in front of him.
"I'm sorry" I said slowly as I wrapped my arms around his neck.
"You will be" he warned me sternly.
"Well I was only getting you back for last month" I said.
"Whatever" he said bluntly and he took my wrists in his hands and he removed them from his neck.
"Ben?" I questioned as he done this.
"That wasn't cool Mal" he said sadly.
"I know and I'm sorry" I said slowly as I watched his face.
"Yeah" he said and he walked away from me.
"Ben where are you going?" I asked as I watched him pick his bag up from the floor.
"I'm going to my dorm" he said as he turned to look at me.
"Why?" I asked as I started to panic.
"I just need to calm down" he told me and he opened my door.
"Ben wait, you don't need to go" I said as I quickly jumped off my bed and walked towards him.
"Yes I do" he said.
"Ben I'm sorry, I didn't think you would react like this" he said.
"Yeah" he said and he quickly walked out of my dorm and closed the door behind him. What have I done? I quickly thought. I quickly pulled my purple hoodie, shorts and flip flops on and I grabbed my phone and went to follow him.
As I got to the corridor where his dorm was I saw him go into his dorm, I quickly walked up to his dorm and tried the door but he had locked it.
"Ben let me in" I called to him and he ignored me.
"Ben I'm so sorry. We need to talk about this" I said and he ignored me again.
"Ben" I said and I kept knocking on his door but again I heard no noise coming from his room. Why did he react this way to my prank? Normally he would just laugh it off and that would be the end of it. There was more to this and I would need to get to the bottom of it.
I spent another ten minutes knocking and calling out to Ben and he continued to ignore me. People were now starting to look at me and this made me nervous; they were going to think something bigger had happened that what actually happened. I decided I would try one more time and if he didn't answer I would go back to my dorm. The urge to cry was far too strong but I was holding it all back; that's all I needed people to see - me crying outside of Ben's dorm.
"Ben come on let's talk about this" I called and I listened to his dorm and I heard nothing. I sighed and started to walk back in the direction of my dorm; as I done this I pulled my phone out and started to text Ben:
"Ben I'm sorry. If I knew you were going to react like this I wouldn't have done this prank. I'm going back to my dorm. There's only so long I can knock on your door with practically nothing on before people start asking questions. You know where I am if and when you want to talk. I'm sorry baby, you know I would never actually do that to you right? xxxxxxxxxxxx"
When I got back to my dorm I noticed that Audrey was walking past and that she had a grin on her face; I just turned away from her and quickly walked into my dorm and closed the door. I sighed as I looked around the room; I quickly walked to my bed and removed the extra pillows and threw them across onto Evie's bed. I knew that Ben was going to be annoyed but I never expected Ben to react the way he did.
I sighed as I climbed back onto my bed and rolled into a ball; tears started to flow down my face. I had never seen Ben be angry like that, yes we've argued but I've never seen him like that. I wiped my eyes to clear my face from tears and I snuggled into my pillow a little bit, I pulled my blanket around me and bit down on my lip. Had I ruined what me and Ben had? I loved him so much; I just hoped that I hadn't. I started to play memories in my mind of Ben and somewhere along the line I slipped into a peaceful slumber.
I don't know how long I had been asleep before I heard my door open again and it made me stir in my bed.
"Mal" I heard Ben say. I slowly opened my eyes and took a deep breath and sighed.
"Mal" I heard him say again, I heard the door close and I heard him turn the key in the lock. I turned over in bed and I saw Ben walking towards me.
"Ben I'm so sorry" I said sadly and I watched as he quickly walked towards me. He let his bag fall to the floor as he got to my bed and he quickly jumped on my bed and pulled me to him.
"Mal I'm sorry" he said into my hair.
"What for?" I asked as I stroked his back.
"I shouldn't have reacted the way I did" he answered back.
"Well you obviously have your reasons" I said as I tightened my arms around him. He pulled away to look at me.
"Still no excuse" he said sadly. I looked into his face and I could tell due to the redness around his eyes that he had been crying.
"Ben you reacted the way you did for a reason, I shouldn't have done what I did. If I knew I wouldn't have done it" I said sadly as I started to cry again.
"Come here" he said and he pulled me towards him again and I snuggled into his shoulder. As he held me against him I felt him kick his shoes off to the floor.
"Mal" he said and I looked up at him.
"I know we are meant to be revising" he started.
"Screw revision, I need cuddle time with you" I said. I watched as he smiled and then I quickly lay down and pulled him down with me.
"As your adamant" he joked.
"Well if you don't want to cuddle" I teased as I pulled away and looked at him, but I was braced in case he said he didn't want to.
"Yes!" he said and he quickly pressed a hungry kiss to my lips which I immediately returned to him. I felt Ben push me down and without pulling his lips away from mine he climbed on top of me.
"As your adamant" I breathed as I mimicked his voice.
"Oh behave you" he breathed as he pushed his lips against mine. We started to kiss fast and passionately and then it started to turn very wet and messy with our teeth clanging together. After kissing like this for what seemed like a blissful eternity, we pulled away and smiled at each other.
"I love you" Ben breathed.
"I love you too" I breathed back.
"Ben" I breathed as I wrapped my legs around his waist.
"Yes Mal" he answered.
"Let's do some revision" I breathed and watched as his face dropped.
"But I thought you wanted?" he said slowly.
"Ben you never let me finish" I cut him off with a grin.
"Right" he answered slowly.
"Ben I want to do some Dragon Anatomy revision" I teased. I watched as Ben's eyes darkened and he pulled me back towards him; I started to feel Ben digging into me and I grinned against his lips. I slid my hands on to his shoulders and helped him out of his blazer; Ben broke away and pulled his phone out of his pocket and threw his blazer over my couch. I pulled him back to me and became impatient; I needed to feel his skin against mine. I slithered my hands under his shirt as he slid his phone next to mine on my bedside cabinet.
"Hmmmmm" he said and he started to unbutton his shirt. I watched as he undone a couple but I then took both his hands in mine.
"Let me" I flirted and he smiled and removed his hands. I smirked at him and then I abruptly tore his shirt open; lucky no buttons came free of his shirt.
"Mal!" I heard him say but stopped what he was saying as soon as my lips touch his chest just where his heart would be. I traced kisses along his chest and up to his jaw bone.
"Yes?" I breathed as I looked up at him.
"I know your eager but you don't need to rip my clothes off" he joked.
"Sorry" I breathed and I kissed the middle of his chest again. I heard him laugh and I looked up at him again. Ben then smirked and then pushed me down and then started to trail kisses along my jaw line as I worked on his belt and pants.
"Oh god Ben!" I moaned as he sucked on a sensitive spot on my neck. I heard him growl against my neck. He pulled away and he lifted himself up a little bit and kicked his trousers off and slid his hands out of his shirt.
"Come here, my beautiful Dragon" he said before quickly pushing his lips against mine and we continued to make it up to each other for the actions that had happened today.
"Did I make it up to you?" I said as I played with his hair as he rested his head against my chest.
"Yes" he said against my chest.
"Did I make it up to you?" he said looking up at me.
"Of course" I said with a smile. Ben smiled at me and kissed my chest which made my smile get bigger.
"Can we agree on no more relationship pranks?" He said as he rested his head against my chest again.
"Yeah" I agreed.
"Mal I really didn't like that one" I heard him say.
"Sorry baby" I said as I kissed his head and I felt him snuggle into my chest.
"Ben I could never cheat on you; I love you far too much" I said as I ran my fingers through his hair.
"Neither could I" he answered back.
"Good" I said and I kissed his head again.
"Ben" I said.
"Yeah" he answered.
"Can I ask why you reacted the way you did? It's ok if you don't want to talk about it. I just want to know so I don't upset you like that again" I said slowly.
"Mal that's one of my worst fears" he admitted.
"What is? Me cheating on you?" I asked.
"Yeah, you finding someone better and leaving me" he explained as he stroked my side.
"Ben look at me" I said. Ben lifted his head up and looked at me.
"Ben I love you, everything that we have means the world to me. I could never sleep with anyone else" I said slowly.
"I love you too Mal. I couldn't do that either" he said as tears started to form in his eyes.
"Hey" I said and I cupped his face in both my hands and wiped away the tears with my thumbs.
"Can I admit something to you?" I asked.
"Of course" he said reluctantly.
"Ben I don't think we would ever break up, but even if we did it would affect me a lot" I started.
"Ben I was never meant to change. But you changed me; I won't be able to love anyone else like I love you. If I ever lost you I can tell you with confidence that I would never love anyone again. I wouldn't sleep with anyone or engage in anything like what I have with you. I can assure you of that" I explained slowly so he could hear every single word.
"How can you be so sure?" he asked.
"Because of the way you make me feel, the things you teach me even now. Evil is always meant to be evil; but you showed me that there is a different way to live. That is how I know" I explained.
"And the fact that I can explain that to you so easily should show you how much I mean what I am telling you" I added.
"Oh Mal" Ben said as he pushed up and quickly kissed me.
"I couldn't cheat on you either Mal. You know how much you mean to me" he said as his face was an inch away from mine.
"I know baby" I answered as I stared into his eyes.
"I know" I repeated before pushing my lips against his.
"Your phone keeps going off" Ben said as he looked over to it.
"Pass me it" I said as I looked up from him.
"I've got loads of texts and missed calls from Evie" I said as I looked at my phone.
"She's probably found out about me standing outside of your dorm" I said as I looked at him.
"Sorry" he said sadly.
"You have nothing to be sorry for" I said and I pressed a quick kiss to his lips. Evie started to ring me again and this time I answered.
"Where's the fire?" I asked her.
"Mal are you ok?" she said sounding concerned.
"Yeah of course why?" I asked her.
"Audrey is spreading a rumour that you and Ben have split up" she advised.
"Has she? Well I wondered what she was playing at when I saw her on the way back to our dorm" I answered.
"So have you and Ben split up?" she asked quickly.
"Well it doesn't look like it" I stated.
"What you mean?" she questioned.
"Well he is currently lying in bed with me snuggling into me" I said looking at Ben. He smiled at me and pulled me closer to him which made me smile.
"I see" I heard her say.
"What happened?" she asked.
"Well I pranked him and he lost his temper and went to his dorm to calm down. I followed him and was trying to get him to open his dorm door but when he wouldn't open the door I came back to our dorm. But loads of people including Audrey had already seen me, so I guessed rumours would start to go around" I explained as Ben's face dropped and I quickly kissed him to try and pacify him.
"Yeah well Audrey looks very happy" Evie stated.
"She will be, she will be trying to get to Ben to win him back" I said as I tightened my arm around Ben. I watched as Ben looks at his phone and he then showed me his phone to show that Audrey has been ringing and texting him.
"She's already tried, me and Ben have been ignoring our phones while we were talking and you've been ringing and texting me and she's been ringing and texting Ben" I advised.
"It didn't take her very long did it?" Evie noted.
"No, she always there when me and Ben argue. But don't worry I know how to fix this" I said.
"How?" she asked.
"You'll see" I advised.
"Evie I'm going to go, I still need to talk to Ben" I said quickly.
"Good you hope things are ok" she said.
"They will be" I said.
"Speak soon M" she said
"Speak soon E" I said and I ended the call.
"What's wrong?" Ben asked.
"Audrey is spreading rumours" I told him.
"What?" he asked.
"She is telling everyone that we have broken up. However she wasn't the only one that saw me outside your dorm so if it wasn't her it would be someone else" I said as I reached over to the side of my bed to get my sleeping vest.
"What's she been saying to you?" I asked as I pulled it on.
"That she's always here for me if I want to talk. Asking me whether it's true that you've cheated on me. There's loads" he said as he started to scroll through them.
"What are you going to say to her?" I asked.
"Nothing at the moment." he told me.
"People are going to think that I've cheated on you, it was only meant to be a prank between us. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in the papers by the end of the week" I said sadly.
"I know. I probably shouldn't have reacted the way I did" he said sadly.
"Ben you have your reasons, don't worry about it. At least I know a lot more now, so I can understand" I said before kissing the top of his head.
"Come here" I said as I pulled him to me and we shared a long and loving kiss.
"You need to put a shirt on" I advised.
"Why?" he said sounding confused.
"So I can fix this once and all" I said.
"Ok" he answered as he sat up and opened his bag and pulled a t-shirt out and quickly pulled it on.
"Ok come here" I instructed.
"Ok what do you want me to do?" he asked as he moved closer to me.
"I'm going to take a photo, so do whatever you want" I said.
"Ok" he said. He quickly moved behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist and rested his chin on my shoulder.
"Ready?" I asked.
"Yeah" he said. I flipped the camera so I could take a selfie and held the phone up and quickly smiled so I could take a picture.
"Happy with that?" I said showing him the photo.
"Yeah I like that photo" he said smiling down at it.
"I'll send you it in a min" I said as I opened Facebook.
"Ok what are you going to do" he asked.
"Watch" I said as I posted the photo onto Facebook with the below caption:
"This guy here isn't just my boyfriend, he's my best friend. Best friends sometimes argue, but we will always be there for each other. Thank you for being the on going presence in my life that I need to keep me grounded. And thank you for always loving me through my darkest days and being patient with me through the thick and thin. I love you to the moon and back baby xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
"Is that just for Audrey's benefit?" he asked as he read it on his phone.
"No I actually meant it" I said before kissing him.
"It's a bonus that it will annoy her as well" I laughed. I watched as Ben smiled at me and he quickly pressed a kiss to my lips.
"You've made it look like it was all your fault" he noted.
"Because it is" I stated.
"Well I'm going to help things slightly" he advised.
"How?" I asked.
"Watch" he said. I went to look at his phone but he pulled his phone away so I couldn't see what he was typing.
"Bear with me" he advised.
"Ben" I whined.
"It's a surprise" he said with a smile.
"Fine" I sighed.
"Nearly done" he said.
"What are you typing war and peace?" I teased.
"Maybe" he joked.
"There" he said. I heard my phone go off and I looked down at it and unlocked my phone and read the notification. I noticed that Ben had loved the photo and left the below comment:
"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond for my control. You make me complete baby, you make me smile when I have no reason to. When everything in my life may appear that it is going wrong, I call you and you make everything better. I love you so much and I promise that I will always be there for you, just like you are for me xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
"I bet it's going to be awkward when we walk into class on Monday" I said wincing.
"Just ignore everyone" he stated.
"I will" I said.
"Anyway I'll wait for you outside your class, and we will go to the library together" he said with a smirk.
"Sounds like a date" I teased.
"Yes another revision one" he joked back.
"Yeah" I said.
"Hmmm" he replied.
"My nerd" he said.
"My dweeb" I said which made Ben laugh.
"So what do you want for tea?" I asked.
"Erm" he said.
"Well we will have to order it soon, because it will take appropriately 30 mins to get here" I advised.
"Pizza and chips?" I suggested.
"Score" he said as he pulled me to him.
"I love you" he said.
"I love you too" I answered before I pressed a kiss to his lips.
