"And we have arrived."

Ben slowly pulled the bike to a stop in front of the café before turning it off. "Okay, I'd really like to try and sneak in so my aunt doesn't give me an earful-" Brutus suddenly ran out and came running towards them. "Dang it. So much for that plan."

Luna took her helmet off just in time for Brutus to jump on her. She laughed as the dog started nuzzling her face. "Hey there doggy dude. Still friendly as usual I see," she said scratching his head.

Ben scowled. "What the heck? Every time I come home he tackles me to-" Brutus turned and suddenly jumped on top of him, licking his face. "Oh come on! Get off of me!" he said trying to push him away. Luna burst out in laughter. "So not funny!"

"It totally is. Guess you're just his favorite huh?"

After finally managing to calm the dog down, Ben put his bike away in the garage and they made their way inside. The moment they opened the door they saw his aunt standing in front of them, with her arms crossed. Luna whistled and looked away nervously while Brutus hung his head. "Hey auntie-"

"You weren't wearing a helmet!" she said flicking his forehead. "How many times have I told you, if you're going to ride around on that death machine then at least wear a helmet! The last thing I need is you cracking your head open on the street like an egg!"

Ben scowled. "Aw c'mon. Luna needed a ride and I only had one helmet. I'm fine, it's not a big deal so quite stressing about it." Berta took a deep breath before putting her hands on his shoulders. She turned him around and suddenly pulled him into a headlock. "AH!"

He tried to pry himself loose, but she held on tightly to him. "Trying to act tough in front of your little friend huh? Don't think because she's here I won't put a beat down on you," she said with an evil smirk.

Luna watched the two awkwardly. "Uh, Ms. B?" Berta looked up towards her. "It's kind of my fault he was cruising without his headgear. I sort of asked for a ride out of nowhere, and he was just trying to make sure I was safe."

Berta suddenly smiled. "Oh, don't you worry about it sweetie. You have nothing to apologize for. I keep telling this one to buy another helmet for his brothers anyway," she said before turning back to Ben with a frown. "Hmm, since you were being a little chivalrous I'll let you off with a warning this time. But tomorrow I want you to go out and buy another helmet."

"Alright! I get it, now let me go!"

"Tap out first."

"C'mon auntie!"

"I said tap out!"

Ben sighed before tapping on her arm a few times. Berta let him go and ruffled his hair as he stumble forward. "Hah, still got it. Now, you two enjoy yourselves. I'll whip up some snacks for you," she said heading towards the kitchen. Ben scowled while Luna laughed at the scene.

He groaned. "God, I love my aunt but she's just… uh…"

"I think you're aunt's pretty cool," Luna said.

"Of course you would," he said cracking his neck. "Now I have to go out and buy a helmet."

"Want me to chip in? It is kind of my fault?" she asked.

"Nah, I was going to have to buy one eventually anyway," he said shrugging. "So, should we start practicing first, or wanna knock out some homework?"

Luna sighed. "Might as well take care of work first. Then we can jam out all we want after," she said pulling off her backpack.

The two took a seat at a nearby table and started working. Luna had to help Ben out a bit since he wasn't completely caught up with everything. Every now and then he'd start zoning out on a certain problem, and she'd find some ridiculous way to snap him out of it like pulling his cheek or blowing a raspberry next to his ear.

All and all they got through it fairly easily. Just as they were starting to finish up, Berta came back out with a tray of cupcakes. "Okay, here you go! Now don't eat too much. Can't rock out on an oversized belly."

Luna jumped up from her seat. "Now that's what I'm talking about!" she grabbed a cupcake and quickly took a bit before turning to Ben. "Let's get rocking!"

Ben scratched his head. "We haven't really practiced or anything, we should-"

Luna picked up her guitar and grabbed his wrist before pulling him towards the stage. "We don't need practice bro! We just need to go with the flow! It's like Mick Swagger says, we just need to have fun!"

Ben got the feeling arguing with her really wouldn't do any good. "Okay then, are we at least going to pick a song? Otherwise we're just playing random stuff. Don't really think the crowd is going to dig that."

"Sure dude!" She hooked her guitar up to the amps, and Ben did the same. "You should know this one. Just follow my lead and let the musical mayhem flow through you." Luna began playing her guitar before leaning into the microphone.

"Now, with nothing but a dirty bag on my back,

I'll take to the sky fly across the map!

My wings need room for spreading and I'm ready to soar,

To the place that I have longed and dreamed for!"

Ben instantly recognized the song and started playing backup for her.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah…!

The Rock City Girl!

Oh baby strum strum

I'm breaking down the walls with my guitar

Oh yeah, screaming out reaching far

Just music that's all that you need

I dedicate this to you straight from me!"

Luna turned towards Ben with a smirk, bumping his hip lightly with her own. Ben laughed as she continued to sing.

"We're really not so different, you and me

We'll just live and we'll dance and we'll sing

There's no place that I'd rather be

Chasing to be free, my perfect dream!"

Ben stepped forward and began singing into the mic as well.

"Yeah yeah yeah

The Rock City Girl!

Doesn't matter if we're asleep

Doesn't matter if we're awake,

We will never ever forget,

What's at stake!"

Luna stepped back and gestured towards Ben who kept singing.

"I wanna believe that singing on beat

Most recently is like recess for me

Pretty pretty please, no birds and the bees

But ecstasy with extra cheese

Rhyming rhino sounding like bono

All smacked up with a black jack bottle

When I say "ho" you say "hey"

I bet you wanna know what I'm really trying to say!"

The song came to an end and both Luna and Ben cheered. They turned towards each other and high fived. "That was awesome! You were killing it with the backup dude!"

"Me?! Are you kidding?! Your playing was freaking epic! And I didn't know you could sing like that! You got some pipes on you Loud!"

"Yeah, well you were totally amazing with that last part! I always screw it up but you just breezed right through!"

They heard clapping and turned towards Berta, who was applauding the both of them. "Nice, very nice," she said giving them a thumbs up.

"Okay, so we know we can jam together. We just need to come up with a few songs. I can bring some songs I've been working on tomorrow, but why don't we check out what you got written up already?"

"Sure. I'll bring them down and we can-"

"Nah, let's just head up to your room," she said casually. "That way you don't have to drag it all down. And hey, you could give me a tour of the place while you're at it."

Ben was silent for a moment. There were a number of reasons that he did not want Luna in his room. For one it was a mess. The Brittle brothers had never been the cleanliest bunch. The second reason was one he really didn't want to say out loud, which was that his aunt had never let them have girls in their room alone.

Bruno had broken this rule once with his girlfriend, and the entire family ended up having to watch a video on about the consequences of unprotected sex. It hadn't been a fun night for anyone. "Are you sure, my room is kind of-"

"I usually don't let them take girls to their room, but I like you, I'll give you a pass," Berta said cutting him off.

"Sweet." Luna said heading for the stairs.

Ben looked back at his aunt slightly surprised. That was… strange of her. He slowly followed after Luna only to have a hand grab his shoulder. "But keep the door open. I don't want you two getting up to anything naughty," she said with a mischievous smirk.

At this point Ben was pretty sure his face was beet red by now. He ignored his aunt and kept making his way up the stairs. When he caught up to Luna she looked at him confused. "Are you okay?" she asked. "Your face is all red."

"Nothing…" Ben said simply. Luna raised an eyebrow, but followed after him. He made his way down the hall before opening the closest door. The room inside looked like a tornado hit it. There were video games, comics, and sports equipment all over the place. "That's the twins' room. As you can see it's just as chaotic as they are."

Luna whistled. "Little dudes really look like they know how to party."

He opened the next door, which was entirely card themed. There were playing card decks laying over the desk in the corner of the room, and even the bed sheet looked like a giant playing card. "Guess who's room this is?" he asked smirking.

"Wow, Beck really is serious with the whole card thing huh?" Luna said. The next room was filled with computers, video game consoles, and all types of musical and computer equipment. "Whoa, this looks like a CIA science lab or something. Whose room is this?"

"It's Bruce's. May not say much but he's really into computers and all that stuff. He does a lot of programming, and I think he's working on his own video game or something. Now we should probably get out of here. He doesn't like people in his room and I'm pretty sure he has cameras around here somewhere."

The next room was fill with work out equipment. There were lifting weights, a punching bag, and a wrestling matt in the middle of the room. "Gotta be Bruno's right?" Luna guessed.

"Bingo. Big bro's got sports on the brain."

"So, that just leaves your room right?" Luna asked smirking.

He hummed. "Yep, guess it does… let's skip that one." Suddenly Brutus came running by them and towards his room. He jumped up and pushed the door opened with his front paws before running in. "Brutus! Bad dog! Get out of there!"

Luna laughed and walked towards his room. "Let's see what the most rocking Brittle brother's room looks like shall we?" He quickly scrambled after her. Once he got inside he paled. His room really was still a mess.

There were lyric sheets spread all over the place and he had dirty clothes just thrown around. There were a few music posters spread out on the wall. Brutus was sitting on his bed, which wasn't made at all. The only thing that looked neat were his instruments, which were carefully placed on their stands or cases. "Didn't have time to clean up," he said chuckling nervously.

Luna looked around the place. "Yep, this is definitely a rocker's room. Is that a Love Handel poster? You listen to those guys? Retro," she said nodding in approval.

She started looking through the rest of his room. "Wow, just going to go straight to the snooping huh?" he asked.

"Got something to hide?" she asked amused.

"Well, nothing in particular. But you probably shouldn't look under the bed. You have a brother, you should know what's under there," he shocked.

She playfully punched his arm before turning towards his desk. She glanced over all the papers on it. Some of them were unfinished, and some of them were crumpled up. "So these are the songs you work on right?"

"Yeah. Just something to do when I'm bored or down," he said shrugging.

Luna looked over them for a few more seconds before noticing an open book on the desk. She looked down at it. "Pfft, is that you?" she asked laughing.

Ben looked down at the picture and blushed. He'd forgotten he'd had that there. It was a photo book he'd kept. Usually it was to make sure his aunt didn't show embarrassing pictures to their guest. But sometimes he liked to browse through it to remember the old days. He must have just tossed it on his desk and forgot about it when he unpacked.

The cover of the book had a picture of him and his brothers, all much younger than they were now. Berta looked like she was around nineteen or twenty. She was holding two identical looking two year olds in her arms, which Luna guessed were the twins. Bruno looked like he was around seven or eight and actually had hair. He was flexing his muscles.

Bruce looked younger, but was still tall for his age. He was just standing beside his aunt looking as stoic as always. Beck, who looked like he was around four, was holding out a set of playing cards. Ben who was around five was missing his two front teeth and holding up his hands in a rocker pose.

"Aw, even back then you were rocking out."

"Yeah, guess I was. Now I'll just take that-"

Luna pulled it away as he tried to grab it. "No way bro. I wanna see what Ben Brittle was like as a kid," she said as she started flipping through he book.

"No way! There are things in that book never meant to see the light of day!"

Luna kept the book out of his reach as he grabbed for it once more. "Ah c'mon, you're being dramatic. We all got embarrassing baby photos and junk. Just a quick little peek? Please?" she asked sweetly.

He stared at her for a few seconds before sighing. He really didn't want her to go through the book, but he couldn't bring himself to say no. Not when she was looking at him like that. "A quick one…" he muttered.

"Yes!" she quickly began flipping through the book. She stopped on one page and smiled towards him. "Oh, look at you in this one. Hubba-hubba," she teased wiggling her eyebrows.

Ben turned red as she showed him a picture of him from last year. He was shirtless flexing his arms, showing off the tattoos on his arms and back. He was smiling, but it looked pained. There even looked like there were a few tears in his eyes. "I-I'd just got my tattoos..."

"Were you crying?" she asked amused.

"I'd just finished having a sea shell carving my skin for a week. You'd be crying too."

She moved on to another photo. "What are you guys doing here?" she asked curiously. This one was of all six of the Brittle brothers. They were once again shirtless and wearing red shorts and grass necklaces. They looked like they were stomping their feet or something. "Are you dancing? And what's with the get up?"

"It was the twin's first Siva Tau," Ben explained. Luna looked at him confused. "Oh! Right, sorry. It's Samoan for 'War Dance'. It's like a traditional thing we do for sports events and stuff. The twins were playing their first basketball game and we decided to do one before the game."

Luna looked at it curiously. "Sounds pretty cool. I bet Lynn would love doing something like that before a game. She's all about superstitions and stuff." She flipped to another page. "Aw, this one is sweet." It was one of Ben holding Brutus. Though the Great Dane was obviously a puppy at this point.

Ben snorted. "Never should have let the twins have a dog. They don't even take care of him besides playing. It's like having another brother," he said right as Brutus came over and nudged him. He reluctantly patted him on the head.

"You totally love him though," Luna said moving on.

Ben was honestly a little relieved. She hadn't come across anything to embarrassing yet. Maybe if he got lucky then… he saw her stiffen suddenly. He glanced down at the next picture and then grew wide eyed. He'd thought he'd taken this one out of the album. It was another picture of him and his brothers. They were even younger in this one. The twins looked like infants.

There was a man and woman in the photo. The man was large and muscular, and had tattoos all over his arms. He was carrying the twins and had what looked like a young Beck clinging onto his back. He looked a lot like Bruno. He was wearing a big smile on his face.

The woman had long black hair and a slim figure. She wore a stoic, almost bored, expression on her face as she held what looked like a young Ben. Bruno and Bruce were standing in front of her, grabbing her legs. What had really stuck out to Luna however was her eyes, along with the eyes of the one she was holding.

She hadn't really been looking before, so she hadn't noticed. But now that she had a chance to look at them all closely, she realized that Ben's eyes were different from the rest of his brothers. They were all brown, while Ben's was green. Just like the woman holding him. "Is that…?"

Ben looked down at the picture for a few moments. Luna thought he might have been zoning out again, but she wasn't exactly sure if she should snap him out of it. This had to be a touchy subject. What would she say? What should she say?

"That's my mother," Ben said simply. Brutus whined and nudged his hand, and he simply rubbed the dog's head. He chuckled slightly. "Six kids. Six. And somehow I end up the only one who got her eyes. That's some pretty dang good odds right?" he asked.

Luna couldn't tell what that feeling in his voice was. It sounded like sorrow, anger, and nostalgia all rolled into one. Whatever it was she thought it was better if they'd stopped now. She didn't want to open up any old wounds. "We can stop now if you want."

Ben just kept staring at the photo, then suddenly looked up towards her. "It's fine. Hey, you mind if we pick up practice tomorrow?" he asked.

Luna groaned. "I'm sorry dude. I totally ruined the mood didn't I?"

Ben raised his hands. "No, it's not you, honest. I just think it'd be better if we both had our songs here to compare," he said trying to reassure her.

Luna still didn't look all that convinced. But she nodded. "Yeah, sure dude," she said rubbing her arm nervously. "But you know, if you ever want to talk about personal stuff or just want to vent, I'm all ears. I mean, what are friends for right?" she said raising her fist.

He hummed before bumping her fist. "Thanks." Brutus suddenly pushed against his leg and barked. "Alright, I get it you dumb mutt. I'm not sad."

"He really likes you huh?" Luna said kneeling down and patting him.

As if to prove her point Brutus jumped up on top of him, knocking him to the floor before licking his face. "Too much…" Ben said clearly annoyed. He shoved Brutus off of him and got up. "You want to get out of here and grab something to eat?"

Luna raised an eyebrow. "Isn't your aunt making dinner or something?"

"Yeah, but you don't want to be here for dinner. Trust me, when the Brittle brothers chow down it's more like a battle than a meal," he warned. "You got to know decent fast food joints right? I'll buy."

She beamed. "Well, if you're offering to pay then I'm sure I can think of a few places!"

"You're not planning on draining my wallet are-?"

"No take backs!" she said heading out of the door.

"Dang it!"

A/N: What up guys! How did you enjoy this chapter? It had actually been a little long than I intended, but that was fine since the last one was a little shorter. So I guess I broke even. You know there just had to be a chapter with embarrassing old photos. I just couldn't resist.

The song used in this chapter was 'The Rock City Boy' by Jamil. (Since Luna was the one singing I changed it to girl) But the lyrics are from the cover done by Nathan Sharp, who you should definitely check out on YouTube. He makes some serious awesome covers and even a few originals.

I juggled back and forth between adding the picture of their mother and father in it, but eventually decided to add it in. I just didn't want it to be the main focus of the chapter. Just a little set up for later. I had wanted to try and get some focus on the other Brittle brother in a dinner scene, but I thought that would drag on a little long, so I'll save that for later.

But don't worry, they'll be some more interactions with the other Brittles next chapter.

Time for some reviewer responses!

BlankBlankBlankityMcBlank: Thanks! I'll do my best to make sure I keep it up. And yeah, there seem to be a lot of fics with OC's somehow seducing the Loud sisters and every other women in town. It gets really awkward. That's why I planned from the start just for it to be between Ben and Luna. Any drama involving them won't involve any of the other sisters. At least not on a romantic level anyway.

Starshine89: Thanks for the review! And while I haven't check out your fic with Adam, I have read with one with Lawrence. I wanted to make sure I actually knew what was going on. It's pretty good. Lawrence is an interesting character too!

tylerchavis97: I'm always willing to hear out ideas from reviews. I can't guarantee I'll use all of them of course, but hearing them out sometimes strikes me with a new idea. Prom might be a little while away, but there will definately be some school dances to look forward too. Thanks for reviewing!

HardWrapping: Thanks. I did my best to make sure Ben's personality shined through before his quirk did. And I hope I'm going a good job showing the chemistry with Ben and Luna. I want it to feel organic.