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The next morning Rey woke up with her back pressed to Poe's side with one of his arm's hugged to her chest and her legs starched over Finn's lap who was leaning his head onto her shoulder, they were all bundled up in blankets. Wiggling slightly to get her phone out of her jeans pocket she saw the time was 4 in the morning, not even Obi would be up for at least another hour or two so she settled for going through Instagram. It didn't take long to figure out that the little bust icon in the bottom left side of pictures ment you could click on them and it would show you the names of the accounts tagged in the picture going back to Poe's profile she scrolled down till she found a picture of Ben, he, Poe, and Finn were in their soccer uniforms standing on a boat dock with a lake behind them, swiping to the right they were mid air off the edge of the dock, and lastly in the water with their hair sticking to their faces splashing each other. Rey smiled at the pictures before going to Ben's profile and following him he didn't have many pictures mostly in sports uniforms and with one or both of his parents, his uncle, or Finn and Poe.
Ben Solo rolled over in his bed to his phone buzzing every few seconds on the nightstand next to him. Taking his phone off the charger he unlocked it to see that his Instagram notifications were filled with memos saying "Rey Kenobi liked your post" covering the entire screen. Taking a screen shot he went to Rey's profile and looked at her profile picture because she hadn't posted anything yet, it was her sitting in the seat of a car smiling at the camera to the side of her, probably taken by Poe or Finn, her hair was in the same pony tail and she was wearing the same shirt that she had been wearing the day before at his fencing practice. Pushing away the fact that she had watched him argue with Hux and the chance that Finn had overheard them talking about her he followed her profile and then posted the picture of her spamming him and tagged her in it, after typing and retyping and reading over the caption multiple times he finally posted it reading, "Got woken up way to early this morning by Rey Kenobi, P.S. She's pretty." ending the message with a black heart emoji.
Immediately regretting what he had said but still being stoked about his bravery to do so he left his phone on his bed as he got up to go to the bathroom.
Rey continued scrolling through Ben's Instagram and when she got to the bottom she noticed she had gotten a notification. Clicking on the heart at the bottom of the screen with a red dot beside it she saw Ben Solo had followed and tagged her in a post clicking on the post she red the caption and blushed. Going to her DM page she opened the thread to Ben, "I saw your post, sorry for waking you, but thanks for calling me pretty!" she found the same black heart emoji that he had used and sent that in a message following.
As soon she pressed send the blush that had previously been in her cheeks grew to cover the entire bridge of her nose. Untangling herself from her brothers and blankets she went to the kitchen and found an orange in the fruit basket on the table and pealed it, throwing the peal in the trash, she ate the orange as she nervously waited for a response.
When her phone buzzed she picked it up quicker than she would like to admit, "Lol, it's fine, I'm sorry about practice yesterday, if you come watch today hopefully you'll get to see Poe and Finn spar."
Ben hoped she would come watch today, he loved seeing her and any excuse was good enough for him. He made his way downstairs and put on a pot of coffee then turned to the fridge and took out eggs and bacon. He turned his head as he heard someone walk into the room but got a pan out from the cabinet before turning to see Luke looking over his phone that was left in the island, "You have an Instagram message from Rey."
"Stop smiling at me like that," Ben turned back to making breakfast for his family.
"Like what?" Luke questioned as he climbed onto one of the island stools.
"Like you want to make fun of me but you're not going to because you think I'll stop doing what is amusing you," Ben answered as he turned to glare at his uncle.
"Can I read the messages?" Luke asked holding his phone out to Ben who sighed and unlocked it handing it back, the family had a rule that he and his parent's could go through Ben's phone just to check up on him. After a minute of reading silently he read aloud in a high pitched bad English accent, "I probably will, I have nothing better to do, also sorry to ask but what does lol mean?"
"Just tell her lol means laugh out loud," Ben crossed the kitchen to put toast in the toaster.
"Lol means laugh out loud," Luke repeated in a mocked deep voice, "So what did happen with Armitage?"
Ben sighed as he cracked eggs into the pan, "He was just saying that he wants to get to know her and that on top of going after Matt set me off."
"Matt looks at you the same way you looked at Ezra," Luke commented changing the subject.
"I asked him if we could spar 30 minutes before practice today, maybe I'll send a letter to Ezra and ask for tips on how to help him," Ben shrugged as he set four plates of sunny side up eggs, bacon, and toast on each plate on the island. as he sat down his parents walked into the room his mother with hair in rollers and a bath robe and his father wearing a t-shirt and jeans, "Good morning."
"Thank you for making breakfast sweetie Leia kissed Ben on the cheek before sitting down next to him, "Why are you up this early?"
"He was woken up by a little Rey of Sunlight," Luke smirked.
"Ben do you want to tell us about that?" Han asked as he poured himself a cup of coffee.
"She found my Instagram early this morning and liked all my pictures so my phone kept going off," Ben explained as Luke handed Ben's phone to Leia and she and Han looked at it.
Leia took her phone out and opened her Instagram, "How do I follow her?"
Rey held the gate open for BB to enter his stall when her phone buzzed in her pocket, "Leia Solo followed me on Instagram."
"Did Ben?" Finn asked as he walked over to Rey and looked over her shoulder.
"Yeah, I accidentally woke him up this morning liking all his pictures," Rey explained.
Poe took out his phone, looked at his feed, and laughed, "Ben posted about it and called you pretty."
"Really?" Finn look out his phone as well.
Kanan walked into the barn and sighed, "You teens and your phones, breakfast is ready."
"Okay, after we eat we still have to go through the cloths that Rey has," Poe answered as they followed Kanan into the house.
After breakfast Poe and Finn sat on Rey's bed as she stood next to her open walk in closet, "I have 10 plain t-shirts, so I think I'm good on shirts because I can wear that those for cheer."
"In Cheer they wear sports bras instead of shirts," Poe explained.
"Okay I have three of those," Rey turned to open one of the drawers in her built in dresser.
"I feel really weird asking but what color?" asked Finn.
"Black," Rey answered.
"Okay, we could get a few more black and then the shorts could be colored," Poe suggested.
"That sounds cute," Rey shrugged.
"Okay, how many jeans do you have?" asked Finn.
"Three, black, dark blue, and these," Rey kicked out her light blue clad leg, "I don't think I'll need anymore.
"What other pants do you have?" asked Poe.
"Two pairs of black leggings," Rey answered opening another drawer.
"Okay we'll need to get you some jean shorts," Poe took out his phone and started texting, "I'm sending dad our outline so he knows how much we're going to spend."
"Okay so you have black converse, you'll need white cheer shoes and probably some regular running shoes and new converse, you could either get black or a color," Finn explained, "Poe and I both have red converse."
"Red sounds good, we could all match," Rey suggested as she climbed on the bed beside Poe.
Later that day Rey, Kanan, and Luke walked into the gym where Ben and Matt were sparing, at half the speed they normally would. Neither had their helmet's on and their hair stuck to their faces with sweat. Ben landed a tag on Matt before dropping his defensive stance, "I think you've got it, today should go alot better than yesterday."
"Thanks for your help, you're a really good teacher," Matt beamed up at Ben who gave him a smile before putting his helmet on with the mask down. As Hux and Snoke entered the gym Matt copied him and they both walked over to Rey, "Hey Kenobi!"
"Hey Matt, Hi Ben," Rey smiled and waved.
"I like your hair like that, it looks nice," Ben spoke through his mask, Rey had pulled back the top half of her hair and left the rest down.
"Oh, thanks," Rey blushed slightly tucking some stray hairs behind her ear.
Poe and Finn walked into the gym carrying their helmets. Setting down their swords they wrapped their arms around Ben's shoulder who sighed, "Oh no."
"Zombie dead weight!" Finn and Poe yelled in unison before all three of them dropped to the ground.
"What just happened?" Rey laughed as Kanan and Luke chuckled.
"Zombie dead weight is a game where you hug someone then go limp and drag them to the ground," Matt explained, "I'm always being dragged to the ground because I don't weigh enough to drag anyone down."
"Rayd, Solo, Dameron, Kenobi! If you four are done playing footsie we can start practice!" Snoke yelled from across the gym, "Dameron, and one of the Agrestes on the mat, I don't care which one."
Rey noticed the taller of the two tensed his shoulders and she leaned over to Kanan and Luke, "Felix is a senior, why is he acting like he and Adrien are inter changeable?"
"He doesn't like Felix because he doesn't blindly follow like Armitage, it's favoratism," Kanan explained.
"In football Snoke used to pretend he couldn't tell them apart just to bring them down," Luke added with disgust.
Adrien and Poe hit the front of their helmets together before stepping onto the mat and bowing to each other. Rey took out her phone and sent a text to Ben who had given her his phone number over Instagram messages, "Why do you guys knock your helmets together?" She knew he wouldn't respond till after practice but she was using it as an excuse to text him.
Obi came home at the normal time of 6:30 when Rey, Poe, and Finn were watching Ghost Adventures. As soon as the garage door opened they all jumped and huddled together on the couch with their arms and legs tucked to them. Obi walked in and his kids gave a sigh of relief, "Did I scare you?"
"I'm not scared," Rey announced as she walked into the kitchen to hug her father. The timer on the oven went off and she let out a small yelp and buried her face in Mr. Kenobi chest.
"Boys are you scaring your sister?" Poe and Finn immediately launched of the couches and embraced Rey.
"How could you say such a thing we are her protectors!" Finn declared making Rey laugh.
"We are educating her about the ways of the paranormal, it's going to ease her into horror movies," Poe explained.
"I don't want you up all night like last night, Rey has a doctor's appointment early tomorrow for Cheer," Mr. Kenobi turned the oven off and pulled out the pizza his kids had made with Kanan.
"Let me take a picture before you cut it," Rey ran and got her phone from the couch and took a picture of the pizza, "Now we can eat it!"
Ben sat on the floor in front of the couch with his family as they watched tv. Leia absentmindedly reached out to touch his hair, "Did you see Rey's first Instagram post?"
"No," Ben took his phone out of his pocket and opened the app seeing a picture of Rey, Finn, and Poe putting toppings on a pizza smiling at each other with another picture of the finished pizza, Ben read the caption aloud, "Making pizza for dad with my brothers! #candid."
"The other one," Leia smirked slightly as Ben liked the picture and clicked on Rey's profile, without clicking her first picture he threw his phone across the floor making the adults in the room laugh as he crawled over to pick it back up. The picture was a mirror selfie of Rey in her closet floor length mirror wearing just a sports bra and green spandex shorts smiling with one hip out and holding her phone up while Poe and Finn had their arms around her grinning and the caption was just a black heart.
Thank you for reading! Fun question, if you could follow anyone in this stories Instagram's who would it be? I personally would follow Leia's!
P.S. My Instagram's are thelonleycrouton and reylynnkenobi if you want to follow them, I make jokes about this story on it and show secret inspirations for it!