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Leia woke up to her alarm and as she turned it off she noticed her phone light blinking, checking the text from Rey it said, 'I hope this doesn't wake you but I woke up and it started but my stomach is killing me and I already threw up twice, once when I woke up and then again when I tried to take a pain killer I have no idea what is happening, what do I do?' Leia called Rey as she walked into the hall, "Rey sweetie, I got your text where does it hurt?" Ben heard his mom as she walked past his door and got up and followed her down stairs. "Did you have any other pain before you threw up? Or was it just in the lower stomach? It was on both sides right?" Leia had her back to her son and didn't notice him standing at the bottom of the stairs. "Well we can rule out your appendix, and it started before you got off birth control so it has to be a food allergy, unless," Leia let out a sigh, Ben walked closer till he stood on the other side of the island from his mother, "Rey, I'm not accusing you of anything and I'm not going to question you if you say yes but just tell me honesty, are you doing this to yourself?"
The idea of Rey throwing up the food he had made yesterday made Ben sad but the idea of her purposefully throwing it up, whatever the reason, made his chest hurt, by now he was close enough to hear Rey's voice through the phone. It sounded strained and like she was out of breath, "No Leia, I would tell you if, if I was, I promise, I'll tell Dad as soon as he's up and Kanan when he gets here, I just don't want to tell Finn, he would worry and I would feel bad telling Poe and not Finn."
"Do you want to practice by telling Ben? I saw his light was on when I passed his room, when Finn was having issues talking about his anxiety he used to practice with Poe before talking to your father," leave it to his Mom to have known he was standing there the whole time.
"Yeah, that will probably help me tell my brothers," Rey agreed as Leia turned to her son an gestured him towards his room.
Ben turned and quietly ran to his room and sat at his desk and waited for his mom to enter.
Leia walked in and sat on Ben's bed, "Good morning Ben, what are you doing?"
"Certainly not illegally downloading The Last Jedi audio book," Ben responded as if he didn't know Rey was listening through the phone in his mom's hand.
"Well I have Rey on the phone and she needs to tell her dad something and she's nervous, and I asked her if she would tell you as practice so she can talk to her dad," Leia explained.
"Okay," Ben winced at how stupid his responce was as he took the phone, "Hi Rey."
"Hi Ben, first I want to say the dinner you made was amazing but sadly I threw it up."
Ben hunched over in his chair resting his elbows on his knees one hand holding the phone and the other tangled in the hair on the back of his neck, it hadn't occurred to him that he had actually caused her to throw up, "Was it too spicy? I know you don't like spicy food so I left alot of things out."
"No, it was perfect, I just," she answered quickly then trailed off then gave a shakey breath, "Your Mum thinks I'm allergic to something because I've thrown up almost every time I've eaten this week."
He looked over to his Mom, she already asked if Rey was doing this on purpose but it would be out of place if he didn't ask, "Every time you threw up it was because you felt ill and then threw up, you didn't force yourself? Because you're really pretty and you will never have to do that."
"Thanks Ben," Rey laughed and sniffled, "I think I can tell my dad now."
"Great, don't let today be sad, you were strong enough to tell my mom and I and you're stong enough to tell your dad, you get to see Jyn and start cheer too, most of the girls are really nice and Finn said Rose is really excited to meet you and most the other girls are nice," Ben thought for a second, "Except Chloe but if she's mean to you I'll beat up her boyfriend."
"Benjamin Andrew, no you will not," Leia scolded taking the phone back, "Rey if anyone is mean to you tell me and your father and we will handle it, do not tell Ben or your brothers till it is handled."
Kanan arrived at the Kenobi house to see Poe, Finn, and Rey watching the horses run around. He had gotten a call from Mr. Kenobi who said the kids could only have scrambled eggs and tea that morning which confused him but he set to work cracking eggs anyway. The teens came in and sat at the table talking about fencing, "We should spar after Cheer practice."
"That would be fun, I can't believe no other freshmen tried out," Poe said.
"Yeah, I wonder why that is, normally alot of freshmen try out," Finn added.
"Probably has something to do with that all girls school in the town over opening last year," Kanan shrugged as he set down their plates in front of them, "We'll have to leave in an hour or Rey will be late."
"I'm ready, I just need to grab my fencing bag," Rey explained shoving eggs into her mouth.
Finn looked at her red cotton shorts and Ben's black sweatshirt, "You slept in that."
"I wore what I have to wear today to sleep so I don't have to get dressed in the morning," Rey shrugged.
"Are you ever going to give that back?" Poe questioned.
"Leia said she would get him a new one," Finn and Poe looked at each other, "What?"
"Finn, are you thirsty?" asked Poe.
"Not with all this tea," Finn picked up his coffee mug and took a sip. Kanan sighed, he'll call Leia later.
Rey walked into the girls locker room with a piece of paper, it had her gym locker number and combination on it. Unlocking it quickly she put her fencing bag and sweatshirt inside and reset the lock to make it look like it was locked but it really wasn't. She heard the door open and Jyn walked in with a clip board, "Good morning Rey, are you ready?"
"Yep," Rey nodded as Jyn unlocked her office, "What are we doing today?"
"We're going to work with you and the rest of the fliers on the trampolines and some tumbling drills then do some team bonding, we're going to start learning what I expect you to learn by the end of next week so don't push yourself, okay?" Jyn answered as she led Rey out of the locker room and towards one of the schools side staircases.
"Okay," Rey nodded, one thing she was good at was running with an idea and forgetting small details, and she knew how dangerous that could be, "Do the other girls already know what I'm learning?"
"Yes, but they haven't done this with me since the first week of April so they have to work back up to it," Jyn answered as she opened the door a bunch of girls were sitting in small groups on the blue floor, as soon as they saw Jyn they got into a huge circle, Finn, Poe, and Kanan were sitting on a bench off to the side, "I see we have some foxes in the hen house."
"THAT'S OUR SISTER!" Poe yelled.
"YOU'RE DOING AMAZING, PEANUT!" Finn added.
"I had something embarrassing to say but that," Jyn waved to Finn and Poe as she and Rey joined the circle "Was alot so I'll save it for another time, this is Rey Kenobi we're going to do team bonding at the end of practice and have a more in depth inroduction, so I'm going to get some jams going and we'll start with stretches."
After 30 minutes of stretching and 30 minutes of tumbling on the trampoline and bouncing track the girls sat again in a circle on the floor, "Alright boys out, you are not on the team you don't need to bond."
"Bye Rey, love you," Finn kissed Rey on one cheek.
"We're so proud of you," Poe kissed her other cheek and they left with Kanan who just waved with an apologetic look to Jyn.
"Kanan don't look at me like that, you have to deal with them all day," Jyn called after them, "Your brothers and Ben are the reason I don't have kids, I watched them for a week the first year of my marriage and was celibate for two months, but enough about my tradgic back story, let's do names, nicknames, and grades."
Rey had alot of fun getting to know the girls in cheer, most of them were really nice and she assumed the rest just needed time to warm up to her, Rose who was Finn's friend and her sister Page were really nice and made her feel accepted, and Jessica was an old friend of Poe's and she liked to tease her about her accent but it was all in good fun. Rey took out her fencing bag and got her gear on as Rose gathered her bag from her locker and moved to hug Rey who greatly excepted, "It was so nice meeting you today."
"You too, do you have any social media I could follow?" Rey knew she had Instagram and Snapchat from Finn, she had stalked her Instagram but was careful not to like anything so she didn't scare her off. After they had exchanged socials Rey put her phone back in her locker and went off to search for her brothers and Kanan, She wasn't sure if she was allowed to walk around school carrying a sword but she did it anyway with her mask under her arm. Rey walked past the office and saw Maz's grey bun peaking over the top of the desk and decided to stop in, "Good morning Maz, have you seen my brothers?"
"Come here," Max beckoned getting up and walking into the teachers lounge and pointed to a chart on the wall, "This is Ben's cleaning schedule, you can use it to find him."
"Are my brothers with him?" Rey questioned.
"Heck if I know, but he'll be happy to see you," Maz smirked going back to her desk.
Rey took a mental note to take a picture of the schedule later but set off to where Ben should be now, "Thanks Maz."
"You're welcome," Maz called as the door swung closed, she spoke aloud to herself, "Looking for her brothers my foot."
Rey walked down one of the class halls till she came across a wet floor sign, figuring that was where Ben was she put her helmet on and stood with the sword across her chest. Soon after Ben mopped around a corner and saw her letting out a yep and dropping his mop, "That was terrifying, what are you doing?"
"You're my guest," Rey mimicked Kylo Ren, making Ben chuckle as he picked up his mop again.
"Okay Kylo, stay over there the floor it wet," Ben continued to mop his way down the hall.
"You don't say," he looked over her shoulder to see her staring down at the sign and smirked.
"Sarcastic much?" he shot over his shoulder as she took off her helmet, "How was practice?"
"It was fun, I think I got my round off better than Jyn expected, the other girls got to practice their aerials, I don't know if I'll ever be able to do the full splits, it's harder than it looks," Rey leaned against the wall.
"Don't say that, you just need to practice," Ben assured as he put the mop in the bucket and began rolling it down the hall, Rey followed walking next to him, he walked slower so she wouldn't have to rush and keep pace, "So how did this morning go?"
"Good, Dad is getting off work early to take me to get my blood drawn so they can test it, I haven't told Finn and Poe because and Finn would worry," Rey shrugged, "It's not a big deal to me, I've gotten shots before."
Ben unlocked the door to the janitors closet and kicked the bucket inside, "What ever you do don't look at the needle going in or the vial filling up, it will seem more painful then it is."
"I take it that comes from experience," Rey gave a small smile as Ben grabbed a pair of rubber gloves from the shelves in the closet.
"The last nurse that drew my blood made a mistake that may or may not have completely traumatized me but I don't want to scare you," Ben answered as he made sure the door closed and locked.
"If you didn't want to tell me you shouldn't have made it sound so intesting," Rey smirked making Ben sigh as he stared off down the hall.
"First off when you get your blood drawn they take it from the arm that the vein is most easily seen, and she took 5 minutes to decide which arm to do and then picked the wrong one," Ben looked down at Rey, "This is the part where it gets graphic, she put the needle in my arm and into the vein but stabbed it through the other side of the vein so there were two holes in my vein so she pulled the needle back inside the vein, if you want me to stop I can."
"No, I want to hear the rest, it's almost funny considering you're fine," Rey stopped beside Ben outside the girls locker room door.
"First can you check if there's any girls in there?" Ben gestured to the door, "Normally I have to just yell through the open door but that makes any girls in their uncomfortable."
Rey nodded and entered to locker room, not seeing anyone she wasn't back to the door, "The coast is clear."
"Thanks," Ben nodded as he propped the door open and entered the restroom part of the locker room, "Since the needle wasn't in the second hole in my vein the blood started to clot and a blood clot got stuck in the needle so the blood couldn't get into the vile and she just left the needle in my arm and went to get another nurse who came in and asked if I had a blood clotting problem and held up the vile, there was only like a table spoon of blood in it and it was almost like jello."
"I don't think I'll be able to eat jello again," Rey laughed as Ben put on his rubber gloves and entered into each stall taking out the paper bags in the small trash cans and throwing them in the larger trash can for paper towels along with the gloves, "That's the worst thing that can happen, right?"
"Probably, you could get an infection or disease but it's not likely as far as the actual blood being drawn getting stabbed in the wrong place is the only thing that can go wrong which could make it hurt but only for a few hours at the most," Ben answered as he tied up the trash bag and took paper bags out of the bottom of the can and went to put them in the the smaller trash cans, "But your dad is really good about watching for mistakes with your brothers, if a nurse does to you what she did to me he would stop them and request another nurse, I was alone and could feel she did something wrong but was too scared to say someting."
"Why were you scared?" Rey questioned as she climbed to sit on the bathroom counter and Ben leaned against the stall.
"I was just nervous, I don't have a problem seeing blood but the idea of something that is supposed to be inside your body on the outside freaks me out, I can't look at bleeding wounds without feeling sick," Ben admitted as he put a new trash bag in the can, "A student hurt themself in IT and there was blood all over the floor and I cleaned it up fine and then the next hour I got a paper cut and passed out."
"Am I going to get hurt in IT?" Rey asked in horror.
"No Rey, he almost cut his hand off with a table saw because he wasn't following directions, you're not that stupid," Rey still looked scared so he pulled her into a hug, "I'm sorry, listen to the teacher and he'll keep you safe, the student didn't loose his hand though, he cut the back of it so all the ligaments on the front still work."
"Stop talking," Rey mumbled into his shoulder finding more comfort in his arms and his scent then his words. They stayed like that for a minute or two before Rey spoke, "Did you say getting blood drawn hurts."
"Not alot, it's a pinch and then you can feel the needle in your arm and afterwards it feels soar, you won't want to stretch out your arm for a while but you can, it's more of a mental block," Ben ran his hand up and down her back, "Do you want to sit in here or go with me to the dumpster?"
"Go with you," Rey answered hopping off the counter and following him.
Finn tagged Poe and they both dropped their swords to the mat, Matt walked into the gym, "Where's Kenobi?"
"Probably still at practice, what time is it?" Poe asked as Matt set his helmet and sword beside their's.
"A quarter after twelve," Matt answered.
"Who do we know who would be in the school and could entertain Rey for half an hour after practice?" Finn spoke thoughtfully.
"Probably the same person who is normally at practice at this time because he stops working at 12," Poe answered as he led Matt and Finn out of the gym Kanan stayed behind.
Ben and Rey were in the office with Maz which was the first place they looked. Ben was standing behind Rey braiding her hair and looked over when the door opened, "Now I feel under dressed."
"Yeah, you're out of uniform," Matt gestured to Ben's jeans and black t-shirt.
"I'll go change now," Ben answered tying the hair tie from his wrist around Rey's hair.
"Thanks Ben," Rey called as he left the office through the back door.
"You're welcome," he called back.
"Oh Matt, you missed it, Rey kissed Ben last night," Poe smirked as they made their way back to the gym.
"Get it girl," Matt encouraged making Rey blush.
"I didn't kiss him, kiss him, it was on the cheek," Rey defended, "And it was because my Dad, Finn, and Poe hugged him."
"Is that the excuse you told him?" Finn asked wrapping an arm around his sister.
"Not an excuse but yes," Rey answered carefully as they entered the gym.
"And she wears his sweatshirt all the time, to sleep, around the house, over her cheer practice clothes, it looks like a dress on her and covers her shorts," Poe added.
"That's a look," Matt commented as Cassian and Ben entered the gym, "Never thought I would say this but YAY our fencing coach is here!"
"You dealt with Snoke for a week," Ben rolled his eyes putting his helmet on.
"He annoyed me from across the room," Rey admitted as Adrien, Felix, and Luka entered the gym.
"Cassian we love you for more reasons than just you not being Snoke," Poe laughed.
"Not today, we're going to do some conditioning," Cassian smiled as everyone groaned.
Practice ended with everyone including Cassian laying on the grass of the football field, Cassian had run with them, "I'm not as young as I used to be."
"Can we run at the end of every practice?" Rey asked, Finn and Poe both jumped on her and covered her mouth.
"You heard nothing!" Matt yelled as the rest of the team agreed.
"I think we'll run at the end of practice every other day," Cassian answered and everyone groaned again except Rey who actually liked running.
Ben, Poe, Finn left the locker room and went to the gym where Kanan, Luke, and Rey sat waiting, Poe turned to Ben and hugged him, "Bye Ben."
"Bye Poe," Ben laughed hugging him back.
"Bye Ben," Finn pulled Ben into a hug.
"Bye Finn," Ben turned to Rey who stood on the bottom bleacher where she was a few inches taller than him, "Bye Rey."
"Bye Ben," Rey hugged him and he kissed her on the cheek.
"Alright lover boy let's go," Luke left the gym rolling his eyes and Ben followed blushing, when they got to the hallway, Luke put a hand on Ben's shoulder, "I'm proud of you, but no farther then that or you'll be grounded for a year."
"Wouldn't dream of it," Ben laughed.
Kanan took the Kenobi kids home and they all went to their rooms to clean up and then met downstairs where they ate mac'n'cheese with hot dogs for lunch. Finn, Poe, and Rey sat in the living room watching High School Musical to which Poe and Finn enthusiastically sang along. And Rey occasionally recorded them and put it on her story. When they got to Bop to the Top Poe took out his phone and recorded himself and Rey, "Sunshine, me and someone else can perform this whole song with the dance guess who?"
"Finn?" "No." "Dad?" "No!" "Kanan?" "NO! REY COME ON!"
"If I say Ben you're going to be all, 'Why are you thinking about Ben'," Rey mocked Poe's voice.
"I didn't say anything about Ben," Poe laughed and the video ended.
Ben sat at his desk chair on his phone when Luke walked into his room and threw a paint ball at him causing him to flinch, "Ow, what?"
"Do you want to help me in the garden?" Luke asked as he stood in the doorway wearing cargo shorts and a t-shirt.
"Want to? No, will I? Yes."
When Mr. Kenobi got home Rey jumped up and hugged him, Finn looked up from his phone, "You're home early."
"I'm taking your sister to get her blood drawn," Mr. Kenobi explained.
Finn slowly wrapped her arms around Rey and Poe did the same, "She's fine."
"Your sister just needs to be tested for allergies, they're only going to take a 2 vials," Mr. Kenobi comforted as he sat down beside Finn, "Rey, are you nervous?"
"Nope, Ben explained the last time he got his blood drawn which it can't be worse than that and he said it only hurts for a little bit," Rey answered.
"Did he tell you the story about the lady that stabbed the needle through his vein?" asked Poe.
"That's not going to happen, right dad?" Rey questioned.
"The doctor that always draws Finn and Poe's blood is going to draw yours, he has never made a mistake," Mr. Kenobi assured.
"He looks like a vampire and has no emotion," Finn whispered.
"Finn he has never hurt you beyond reason, it's okay, Rey is going to be fine, but we should go, the sooner we get back the better you will feel," Mr. Kenobi stood and Rey untangled herself from her brothers giving them both a kiss on the cheek.
"I'll snap you guys after," Rey promised.
Rey started nervously tapping her foot as she sat in the waiting room, her dad was filling out paper work at the desk across the room. Her phone buzzed in her sweatshirt pocket and she took it out, Rose had sent her a snap of her with a dog filter, Rey took a selfie with the same filter and a nervous face, with the caption, 'About to get my blood drawn, don't tell Finn and Poe but I'm a little scared'.
Rose sent her a message, 'I always hold my sister's hand when I get my blood drawn, what is it for?'
'To see if I have any allergies,' Rey responded, she looked up as the nurse called her name, 'Gtg wish me luck!'
Mr. Kenobi put a hand on Rey's shoulder as he led her down the hall, "There's nothing to be afraid of."
"Right," Rey took a deep breath as she sat in the chair and her father stood beside her.
"Alright Rey, so you came to see us with a concern about possible food allergies?" the nurse sat down with a clip board, "What symptoms did you have of that?"
"I've thrown up every day for the past week and I'm not in pain before it, it's mostly out of no where I all of a sudden need to throw up but it's almost every time I eat even a snack," Rey explained.
"Okay, our records say you recently moved here, from London, would you say your diet changed in the past week?" asked the nurse.
"In the orphanage we ate alot of canned and boxed food and my family eats alot of fruits and vegetables and alot of more flavorful foods, I did throw up immediately after eating ghost pepper salsa and that did make my stomach hurt," Rey admitted.
"Good," the nurse said absentmindedly as she wrote before looking up, "Not good but that is, this all seems easily treatable, why don't you take your sweatshirt off and the doctor will be in soon."
Rey took off Ben's sweatshirt and folded it nicely in her lap when her phone buzzed, it was her group chat with Finn, Poe, and Ben, it was a picture of Poe and Finn on the couch from Poe's phone saying, 'Ben, did you know Rey was about to get stabbed?'
"Dad you have to look really done for a selfie with me," Rey instructed as she snapped a picture and sent it to the chat saying, 'We are unamused with your word choice'.
Her phone buzzed with Ben's responce but she put it face down in her lap when the doctor walked through the door, he did kinda look like a vampire, tall, pale skin, short black hair, and glasses but he looked really young, "I'm Doctor Ootori, you must be Rey, it's nice to meet you."
"Rey, Kyoya is the son of a friend of mine he specializes in blood testing," Mr. Kenobi explained as Rey shook the doctor's hand.
"It's nice to meet you too," Rey smiled.
"Well I think I already know what the test is going to come out to," the doctor sat in a stool on wheels in front of Rey and turned his clipboard around for her and her dad to see, "This is a sample of the test we're going to run on your blood, it's actually a food sensitivity test to see what foods your stomach is having issues breaking down, my assumption is you are actually having trouble with foods high in acid and your body doesn't like it and gets rid of it, we can fix this with digestive enzymes and antacids for ten days then we'll test you again to see how it goes, does that sound good?"
"Are you going to take my blood now?" Rey asked shifting slightly in her seat.
"Yes, I take it your brothers had nice things to say about me," Ootori laughed as he opened a cabinet and took out a tray of things to draw her blood with, "It's not rude if you want to look away while I take your blood."
Rey nodded and looked at her dad who knelt down beside her and took her hand, "Take deep breaths, honey, it's going to be over before you know it."
"You have alot of arm definition," Ootori commented as he tied a rubber band around her arm and Rey laughed, "Alright take a deep breath in and as soon as you feel a pinch let it out slowly."
"Okay," Rey did as she was told and as she let out that first long breath she realizes how uncomfortable she was can fought the urge to squirm.
"Breath just like that you're doing great, what grade are you going into?" Ootori questioned.
"9th," Rey answered between breaths.
"And what are you studying in the fall?"
"Psychology, IT, Physics, Gym, Geometry, Spanish, American Literature, and Music."
"Is Geometry normal for your grade?"
"No I tested out of Algebra and Algebra 2," Rey answered.
"Smart girl, I'm going to switch to the second vial you're half way there, so will you be doing any sports your first year?"
"Today was my first day of cheer and fencing but I got third in my fencing competition when the team stayed up almost all night training me because someone quit."
"Your brothers do fencing as well right? How did they compete?"
"Poe got fourth in Superior and Finn got 6th in Intermediate."
"Sounds like you're going to have a really good year once we get this whole throwing up business taken care of," Ootori pressed a cotton ball to Rey's arm and pulled the needle out then taped it down, "And you're done."
"That wasn't terrible," Rey slowly pulled her sweatshirt back on.
"Yep, Mr. Kenobi I'll call you tomorrow with some recomentdations and I'll see you for another drawing in two weeks but if you have any problems we'll set up another appointment sooner," Ootori shook both their hands and left the room.
Rey followed her dad out to the front where he made another appointment with the receptionist and they made their way to the car. Opening the message from Ben it was a video of him rolling his eyes to which Poe and Finn responded the same. Rey started a video holding the camera to see both her and her dad, "Did I do good getting my blood drawn?"
"Of course, honey, I'm very proud of you," Kenobi responded and Rey saved the video and sent it to the group chat.
Poe and Finn still sat watching TV when Rey ran in, "Guys we got Arbys!"
"You're alive!" Finn jumped up and hugged her as Poe went out to help their Dad bring in the food.
The Solo family sat and ate their dinner together talking about their days, Leia turned to Ben, "How was your day, dear?"
"It was good," Ben didn't look up from his food.
"I'll tell you all about his day," Luke smirked Ben dropped his fork and made eye contact with his dad.
"I kissed Rey on the cheek," then he blushed, picked up his fork, and shoveled food into his mouth.
"Can I add to it?" Luke asked and Ben nodded, "So Rey ends practice at 11 and wandered around the school and finds Ben, they probably have flirty conversation and spend alot of time smiling at each other, then at practice with their masks on you can still see that he looks at her like she's the most amazing thing he's ever seen and she loves the attention he gives her, and after practice she's sitting with Kanan and I on the bleachers he comes out looking like a prince with his hair styled just so and Finn and Poe do their little 'hug Ben so Rey will' routine and she stands on the bleachers and they hug, just as they pull away he kisses her cheek, he's your son Han."
"Hug Ben so Rey will?" Leia questioned.
"Last night, Mr. Kenobi, Finn, and Poe all hugged me when I answered the door so that Rey would hug me but she saw what they were doing and kissed me on the cheek," Ben admitted quietly.
"Ben, it's okay to have a crush and it's fine that you kiss each other on the cheek occasionally, and you don't have to pretend like you're not really happy about it, we raised you, we can tell that you like her," Han held up his hand and Ben gave a small smile and high fived him, "Just don't do anything else, I know the janitors closets can be tempting in High School."
"Han," Leia sighed as Ben dropped his head to the table.
Mr. Kenobi had gone to bed leaving his children at the kitchen table eating fries and scrolling through their phones, Rey glanced over at Poe's phone, "Did you just scroll past my post?"
"Wait," Poe scrolled back up and looked closely at his phone, "I thought that was an Instagram model."
"Yeah right," Rey rolled her eyes, the post in question was her drinking a milkshake looking out the window of the car with her selfie arm having a cotton ball taped to it, her caption said, 'If Vader can get his legs cut off getting your blood drawn is no big deal.'
"Seriously, have you read the comments on this?" Finn pointed out, "Alot of cheer girls have commented how pretty you look."
"And of course the fencing guys like your reference," Poe added.
"Wonder what Ben is going to say," Finn raised an eyebrow to Rey, "I'm going to tag him."
"'Thanks Finn, but I have her post notifications turned on' and theres a black heart," Rey responded with a black heart and liked both the comments.
The next day at cheer the girls who had uniforms had their fitting to make sure they didn't need to be altered and Rey was measured for hers. After that Jyn let her go but not before one of the cheer girls named Chloe called to her, "Rey, I'm having a party this Friday, you should come! I'm going to text the details to your brother later, well one of my dad's assistants will but it's the same thing."
"Sounds fun, which brother?" Rey asked with a friendly smile.
"They're both invited, all the football guys are," Chloe shrugged.
"Cool, I'll let you know if my dad says yes," Rey nodded.
"Always polite to RSVP, so European of you," Chloe pat Rey's head and walked away leaving her slightly confused as she turned towards the door.
Ben sat on the floor of the janitors office messing with a rolling chair as walked in Rey sat beside him, "What are you doing?"
"I took my chair appart and cleaned it now I'm putting it back together," Ben answered, "Why aren't you in cheer?"
"They're doing alterations, Jyn took my measurements and sent them in so she let me go, why did you take your chair appart?" Rey questioned.
"It was making a noise when I spun in it," Ben answered standing and leaning againt his desk leaving the chair free, "It started towards the end of the year and annoyed the other janitors to no end so they put it on my work day list but I didn't get to it last week."
"What's a work day list?" Rey questioned sitting in the chair and spinning in it while turning her head to keep eye contact to which Ben smiled both at the chair working and how cute she was.
"Outside of regular cleaning each janitor get's one day a week to fix things but I rarely get asked to fix things because I'm not allowed to work on electrical or plumbing," Ben explained.
"Why is that?" Rey wheeled the chairover and started look at the papers on his desk, map of the school, sticky notes with all different handwriting lined up off to one side, and his computer.
"Because I'm a student, the only reason I get my own desk is because it's technically two of my classes during the year, we're allowed a study hall and Teachers Assistant hour so I take my study hall in here with one janitor and I'm an aid to another, so for almost two hours a day I do mostly whatever I want, do you want me to braid your hair?" he asked moving to stand behind her.
"Of course, I tried this morning and failed miserably," Rey laughed as Ben gently took her hair out of it's high ponytail, "As much as I love you braiding my hair I can't depend on you to do it every fencing practice."
"They also braid hair for cheer, I'm sure I could teach you," Ben ran his fingers through her hair lightly to unwind any tangles.
"And let me practice on your hair?" Rey turned her head slightly to smile at him over her shoulder.
Ben leaned over to look at her and sighed, "How can I say no to you?"
"If I figure it out I probably won't tell you," Rey laughed as he rolled his eyes.
"So how did the blood draw go yesterday?" asked Ben.
"Good, I took some antacids this morning and I have to take a digestive enzyme before dinner for a while then I get tested again to see if I can handle food without help," Rey answered, "The doctor was right, it was just the sudden change in food that upset my stomach."
"That's good to hear," Ben answered as he finished her braid and started to move stuff around his desk, "You can sit up here while you play with my hair."
"Practice," Rey corrected as they switched seats.
"Right, practice," Ben responded as he rested his head on the back of the chair and closed his eyes.
Rey was shocked how soft his hair was as she threaded it through her fingers, "Okay so from what I gathered you divide the hair in three sections then alternate which section gets tucked into the middle and add hair as you go."
"Correct, good job," Ben held his hand back and she high fived him before going back to his hair.
"Oh yeah, I got invited to a party by a girl in cheer, her name is Chloe, she's...nice-ish," Rey shrugged.
"Yeah she's really popular and her dad let's her have parties with alcohol and half the school get's drunk," Ben shrugged.
"That's illegal here," Rey paused and though for a second, "Do you and my brothers get drunk?"
"Not much, your dad and my mom let Finn, Poe, and I go but we don't get black out drunk and one of us has a three drink limit so we can communicate with them because they pick us up and drop us off," Ben explained, "Do you want to go?"
"I've never gone to a party but drinking doesn't sound entirely fun," Rey admitted as she ran her fingers through Ben's hair to unravel it then went back to braiding.
"I normally don't drink alot, being hungover it's fun, and it's my turn to be somewhat responsible so watching your brothers is really entertaining," Ben laughed, "I'm sure the other cheer girls will be there and when they start to get drunk and annoying you could hang out with me."
"But what if they make fun of me for not drinking?" Rey questioned.
"It's a personal choice, if you don't want to you don't have to," Ben shrugged, "You could try a little of what they're drinking but absolutely only if you watch them make it or it's unopened."
"I'm pretty sure you're not the Ben allowed to make the rules," Rey spoke playfully.
"It's exactly what he told Finn this time last year," Ben leaned his chair back to make eye contact with her, "I just want to keep you safe."
Rey searched his eyes for a second and smiled, "Thanks Ben."
When Mr. Kenobi got home his children were waiting for him in the kitchen, Rey hopped up to hug him, "Dad, can I go to a party?"
"A big high school party?" Obi sighed, raising son's to behave was one thing but trusting teenage boys with his daughter was another, "We would have to set some rules for you."
"Don't go off alone, keep your phone on you, watch out for suspicious floor spills," Poe listed off.
"If you feel uncomfortable tell us or Ben, don't leave your drink unattended, drink a glass of water every hour," Finn added.
"And Ben said only drink something I watched be opened or made," Rey added.
Kenobi looked at all his children, "You have a two drink limit and Ben has to know where you are at all times."
Fun fact, my birthday is August 30th so for my birthday I gave you this giant plot reveal for the next chapter.
What do you think is going to go down?
I know what is going to go down so I'm not going to answer but I would appreciate if you did!