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A few hours later Ben woke up and carefully slid himself out from underneath Rey and made his way to the kitchen, his phone buzzed in his pocket but he knew it was just his reminder to take his medicine so he dry swallowed two pills before dismissing the alarm and heading upstairs. His bedroom door was closed so he knocked quietly before entering, Luke and Mr. Kenobi had built a wall of pillows to divide his bed, since Padme and Anakin were in Luke's room, which he found funny as he grabbed some clothes for that day and changed in the bathroom.
As he quietly closed his door he noticed his parent's and the office's doors were both cracked open so he slowly pushed open the door to the office. Leia was holding Ahsoka to her shoulder who when she saw Ben she kicked her legs and giggled, "Good morning sweet pea, good morning mom."
"Good morning sweetie," Leia handed Ahsoka to him, "I'm going to make her a bottle, can you bring her downstairs?"
"Sure," Ben cradled Ahsoka as he went down stairs and sat with his back to the front of the couch where Rey had shifted to take up most of the space. He quickly figured out of he streached his legs out in front of him he could rest Ahsoka there and hold her bottle with one hand leaving his other free to be on his phone. The light from his phone woke up Rey who sat up with her legs on either side of him and leaned forward to wrap her arms around his chest and kiss the top of his head, "Have you read the comments on this?"
Rey took his phone, it was the post Leia had put on his Instagram, "'You're a mother you shouldn't be encouraging you to throw her in the lake, that's abuse', 'You're abusive', 'Rey deserves better', and they started a hashtag, free Rey 2018, this is absolutely ridiculous theres like 50 comments."
"You know I wouldn't actually throw you in the lake, I know you can't swim, I swear I wouldn't have done that," he whispered turning to look at her.
"Ben, I absolutely knew that," Rey sat onto the floor next to him, "I'm not sure if these people are joking or serious but either way they can't judge our not even 24 hour relationship by something they had no context in, it's none of their business."
"But what if they're right?" Ben questioned.
"They're not, okay?" Rey sighed, "You've never been violent towards me, you're constantly trying to help me, and you don't like looking as hickeys you give me, what about that is abusive?"
"Nothing," Ben stared at her then looked back at Ahsoka who was getting to the end of her bottle.
Rey watched him burp Ahsoka for a minute before, taking a picture of him then went through his phone and tagged everyone who called him abusive and captioned it, 'Ben Solo wakes up early to make his family breakfast, likes when towels are neatly folded, and takes care of Ahsoka so his grandparents and mom can sleep, he also let's me braid his hair, calls me sweetheart, and googles cheer terms so he can listen to me ramble, obviously he's abusive, hashtag, free Rey 2018' with everyone who commented negatively tagged below and a black heart, she showed it to Ben, "Good?"
"Perfect, just like you," he leaned over and kissed her forehead, "I half expected you to ask if we could reenact the scene where Rey cuts Kylo's face and post that with the hashtag."
"Can we do that on your Instagram?" Rey's eyes lit up.
"Of course sweetheart, pull up the video on my tablet and we'll learn it," Ben laughed as Rey smiled.
When Finn and Poe woke up Rey and Ben were gone, the adults were in the dinning room. Finn was more of a morning person, "Where are Rey and Ben?"
"They ran outside with lightsabers about an hour ago, you should probably check on them," Han answered.
Rey and Ben were sitting on the dock and heard Finn and Poe open the back door, Ben yelled to them, "Check my Instagram!"
"Okay," Poe called back as they made their way to the dock, he sat down and looked at his phone with Finn, "You guys are so lame."
"If by lame you mean awesome then yes," Ben had deleted all the comments on the other post and was feeling alot better.
"So what's with hashtag, free Rey 2018?" Finn questioned.
"Some people online accused Ben of being abusive," Rey explained.
"If Ben hasn't hit Hux he wouldn't hit anyone," Poe responded.
"Solid reasoning," Finn laughed, "Did you ever open that message?"
"No, let's do that now," Rey took out her phone, the first message from Hux was a screen shot of the post Leia made and the next was a black screen that said 'Why are you dating him?' Rey held her phone up, "Take your shirt off."
"What?" Ben blushed.
"I want to send him a video of you taking your shirt off and say that's why," Rey explained.
"Okay, that's actually kinda funny," Ben took his shirt off, "Good?"
"Is that a hickey?" Poe asked.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Ben said as he put his shirt back on.
"This," Finn pulled the neck of Ben's shirt aside, "Rey depending how long ago this was it as really bad to start off."
"He fell and hit his shoulder on a table," Rey spoke as she stared at her phone seeming uninterested.
"When?" Poe questioned.
"At Chloe's party, you and Finn were too drunk to remember," Rey answered, Ben wondered if she had this excuse planned ahead of time because he was honestly impressed.
"How did you fall, Ben?" Finn asked.
"Marinette tripped me on accident when I was talking to her and Adrien," Ben answered.
"That's great," Finn laughed at his clumsy classmate but Poe was still unsure. He leaned over the side of the dock and splashed water onto Rey.
It startled her, "Poe! That's cold!"
"I can't believe that worked," Poe said as he touched Rey's neck, "It's faint but I can still see it, when did you do this Ben?"
"I don't know what you're talking about, what Rey did with other boys before we were together is none of any of our business," Ben shrugged, Rey glared at him.
"Do you still have that picture of Ben and I at the party?" Rey asked.
"Yeah, why?" Finn pulled out his phone and showed her.
"You can obviously see that the way his head is turned his mouth is on my neck, we gave each other hickeys, dad knows but told Ben it's okay as long as they're hidden," Rey got up and made her way back into the house.
The boys stared after her in shock, Poe was the first to laugh, "Still weird that you're with my sister but good job man."
"Thanks, I guess," Ben shrugged, "You're not going to beat me up?"
"Maybe later, I'm hungry," Poe got up and followed after Rey.
"We both know you'd beat yourself up better than anyone if you hurt her," Finn patted Ben on the shoulder.
Finn, Poe, Rey, and Ben sat on the couch half on top of each other playing Mario Bro's. Leia walked in and sighed, "All you kids do is play video games."
"Not true, we were playing with lightsabers earlier," Ben didn't look up from the screen.
"Alright," Leia walked over and TV and turned the Wii off, "All four of you, give me your phones and go to the park."
"We can't give you our phones, what if someone tries to kidnap us?" Finn asked.
"Sweetie, no one is going to try and kidnap you," Leia laughed.
"What if someone shoots us, kidnaps Rey, and sells her into sex slavery?" Finn added.
"Finn, you don't have to worry about what hasn't happened," Poe set his hand on his brothers shoulder, "Look, Rey's fine."
"Going to the park sounds fun, right Finn," Rey wrapped an arm around her brother, "We went to the park by the school during fencing on Thursday and there was a swing set."
"Why did you go to the park for fencing?" Poe questioned.
"We ran there and back so Cassian counted that as practice, we got bored without you guys," Rey shrugged.
"We have a competition next weekend and you guys didn't practice this week?" Ben asked.
"The first competition was a week after lessons started and I had like 4 hours of practice, plus our school is hosting it so we have a home field advantage," Rey shrugged.
"You guys can talk about this on your way to the park, you can keep your phones, but go get some sun and fresh air," Leia said as she motioned them out the door.
They made their way to the park Ben and Rey leading the way and Poe and Finn following they were all talking loudly. Finn suddenly whispered, "Guys those moms are glaring at us."
"It's fine, we'll go sit in the grass till they leave," Ben assured as they walked over to a small patch of trees. Rey stared up at the tree, "You're going to try and climb that tree aren't you?"
"Try?" Ben wished he had chosen his words more carefully as he watched his girlfriend march up to the tree and look for a good place to start.
"Give me your phone, I'll video it for Instagram," Poe said.
"Please be careful," Finn stood beside him watching nervously.
"When am I not careful?" Rey asked as she handed Poe her phone.
"Famous last words," Ben laughed as he leaned against the tree.
"Shut up," Rey said as she climbed into the tree and sat on a sturdy branch and kicked her legs back and forth near his shoulder.
"Having fun?" Ben asked.
"Yes, how do I get down?" Rey asked.
"Do you want my help?" Ben didn't move towards her till she nodded. Holding her by her waist he lowered her to the ground,she turned and started to climb the tree again, "What are you doing?"
"I want to prove that I can get down on my own," Rey answered. The video ended and Poe posted it to Rey's Instagram with the caption, 'Climbing my first tree! Videoed by my brother Poe, he's single if you want to slide into his DM's'.
About an hour later all the children and parents had left and Finn, Poe, Rey, and Ben had been sitting in the grass waiting but there were four swings so Finn and Rey jumped up and ran over with Ben and Poe walking after, Ben glanced over at Poe's phone, "Who have you been messeging?"
"As I joke I told people on Rey's Instagram to slide into my DM's and a few actually did," Poe shrugged.
"And Jessica?" Ben asked.
"Who?" Poe smirked as he walked ahead, "I bet I can jump off the swing farther than you!"
After they got tired of swinging they went to climb on the play equipment and going down slides, Ben sat on top of the monkey bars and Rey looked up at him, "How did you get up there?"
"I'm not going to tell you, you could fall and this is high enough to really hurt you," Ben answered.
"But you can be up there?" Rey questioned putting her hands on her hips.
"I'm not concerned about me falling," Ben shrugged, "Why do you think I never watch your cheer practices?"
"I've learned how to fall and not get hurt," Rey put her hands on her hips.
"I don't doubt your abilities," Ben soothed, "It just makes me nervous and I know that if I worry about you it's going to annoy you."
"Worrying doesn't bother me, you just tend to fuss," Rey rolled her eyes.
"I do not fuss," Ben defended jumping down in front of her, "When have I ever fussed?"
"Your Uncle threw a paint ball at me and you told him if he did it again you would shoot it at him," Rey crossed her arms and stared up at him.
"He hit you in the back of the head and there was blue paint in you hair," Ben copied her pose, "You were upset, you're just to much of a good girl to say that to an adult."
"He apologized and it was an accident, I wasn't upset," Rey shrugged wrapping her arms around herself.
"It's okay to be mad," Ben dropped his arms to his sides and continued to stare at her as she was looking anywhere but at him.
"We were talking about climbing on monkey bars," Rey mumbled as she glanced up at him then quickly away.
"You can sit up there, it's really easy if you put your foot here and hold there," Ben pointed at the side of the jungle gym.
Rey stared at him for a second before climbing up and looking down to him, "Are you coming?"
"I'm good down here," Ben shrugged checking his phone then pointing it at her, "Mom wants a picture."
"Of me?" Rey questioned.
"It's my parents solution to making sure we don't get into too much trouble," Ben explained blushing slightly, "More so for us to be more aware of our actions."
"Just say it's so your parents know if we're messing around," at this Ben turned absolutley red, "Don't act like this is the first time you've heard this stuff Ben, but I will admit it was smart of you to say you were going to move the condoms in your bathroom then not."
Ben couldn't say anything as he became very interested in Poe and Finn standing at the top of the highest slide, Poe pushed Finn down, "It's over Anakin, I have the high ground!"
"I hate you!" Finn yelled from the bottom of the slide where he now sat.
"That is the 6th most beautiful thing I've seen today," Ben yelled to them.
Rey took out her phone as started recording him, "Ben what are the 5 most beautiful things you've seen today?"
"My mom, my grandmother, you, Ahsoka, and the sunrise," Ben answered.
"I'm third?" Rey questioned.
"You're recording this I can't put you above my mother or grandmother, and Ahsoka is to little to be seriously considered," Ben laughed.
"What's the 7th on that list?" Rey asked as she posted the video to her Snapchat.
"That tree," Ben pointed out to the distance.
"Which tree?" Rey asked, holding out her arms, "Take me there."
Ben sighed and turned around holding his hands at his sides for her to step on and slide onto his back and wrap her legs around his waist, "What is with your fascination with trees anyway?"
"I've never seen a tree in real life before I moved to America" Rey answered as he carried her into the trees, "I've never even seen grass this green or so much of it, the yard of the orphanage was mostly dirt with a few small patches of yellow grass."
"Did you know when settlers came to America they thought this part of the country was infertile because it was all grass and no trees?" Ben asked as he set her down, "This is the tree."
"Why would I know a random fact about America?" Rey asked with a smile.
"You wouldn't..." Ben turned to stare at her, "How much to you know about America?"
"You all have nice teeth, your health is all over the place, and there's too much importance placed on football," Rey thought for a second, "Personally I haven't found your accents to be as annoying as some said it was."
"You have nice teeth, and I don't have an accent, you have an accent," Ben sat on the ground and leaned against the trunk of the tree.
"My tutor joked that I was American because of my teeth, he was from Australia and taught in America till he moved to England," Rey sat next to Ben and leaned against his arm, "His accent was very clear like your parents."
"My parents don't have an accent," Ben laces their fingers together.
"Everyone has an accent, the American accent just doesn't change how you pronounce words," Rey explained, "Also everyone has different tones which determine how they are heard, so when you speak it's at a lower frequency which makes it harder for your voice to be picked up around other noises and you're easily drownd out."
"Wow, all I can say about your voice is that it's nice to listen to," Ben kissed her cheek.
Rey laughed, "You think my voice is nice to listen to?"
"Maybe it's just that I love listening to you talk in general," Ben rested his cheek on her head, "You're really smart and you say really funny things but you're not trying to be which is adorable and you're really pretty when you talk."
"When do you not think I'm pretty?" Rey asked.
"That would be a really tough question to answer," Ben laughed.
"But you have an answer," Rey grabbed onto his upper arm, "What about me do you think is unattractive?"
"I don't know, I honestly haven't thought that you weren't," Ben answered as he kissed the side of her head.
"You're lying but that's fine," Rey laughed.
"I'm not lying, you're always attractive to me," Ben lifted their connected hands and kissed the back of hers.
"What's attractive was when you raised your arm I felt the muscle," Rey squeezed his upper arm, "And you kissed my hand which is really cute."
"Thanks, I try," Ben blushed, "What's something I do that's unattractive?"
"I'll answer if you answer," Rey smiled up at him.
Ben sighed, "Sometimes I think it's unattractive that you are so okay being physically affectionate with other guys."
"Like what?" Rey questioned sitting up straighter, "Not like with my brothers right?"
"No, I'm being stupid, forget I said anything," Ben shook his head.
"That's been bothering you for a while, I can tell, please," Rey sat up on her knees and put her hands on his shoulders, "Are you mad at me?"
"Never, it's not your fault you're just a touchy person but sometimes it looks like flirting," Ben brushed some of her hair away from her eyes and held the side of her face, "I get jealous and it's my problem that I have to deal with."
"It's my problem too, I shouldn't be acting like that, I'm sorry," she looked down.
"Rey, never apologize for being yourself, I love watching you run around and be happy with them, a part of me is just insecure and feels threatened by little things," Ben admitted.
"What can I do to make it better?" Rey asked leaning into his hand.
"Just keep being you, because I love everything about you," Ben whispered and she leaned in to kiss him which he returned.
Across the park Poe was videoing them and zoomed in then turned the camera to Finn who was climbing up the ladder in front of him, "Look at these herterosexuals forcing their agenda on my son."
"Your bestfriend is making out with your sister so you call me gay when I have a girlfriend?" Finn questioned.
"Good point," Poe turned the camera back to Ben and Rey, "He can't be that good a kisser!"
"He is!" Rey yelled back and Ben covered his face with his hands, Poe posted the video to Snapchat.
Mid afternoon when the sun started to get hot they started to walk back to the house, Finn gasped, "Let's go jump in the lake."
"But Rey can't swim," Ben pointed out.
"We'll stay where she can stand," Poe shrugged.
"I could try and swim," Rey suggested.
"We can teach you, then Ben can throw you in the lake," Finn joked.
Ben sighed, "I wasn't planning on ever throwing her in the lake."
"I'd throw you in if I could," Rey smiled making him roll his eyes.
"Like to see you try, sweetheart," Ben held the gate open for them to enter the back yard, they all took off their shoes and shirts leaving him, Finn, and Poe in shorts and Rey in a sports bra which was basically her cheer uniform.
At the start of the dock Rey stepped down onto the wet sand that the water lapped over, "Wet sand is kinda gross."
"I don't like sand either, it's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere," Ben said.
"You feel very passionately about sand," Finn and Poe started to laugh hysterically, "What?"
"It's a quote from the sequel series, we're going to let you watch those with your dad because we would literally quote the entire thing," Ben explained as Finn ran off the edge of the dock, "I'll be right back."
Rey watched Poe and Ben also run off the edge of the dock and emerge from the water. They then swam to where the water was at their shoulders, Rey walked towards them till the water was at her shoulders a few feet from the boys, "Okay, how do I swim."
"Just move your arms like this," Poe moved his arms out in front of him, "And kick your legs."
"I'll show you," Finn swam over to her, "You got it?"
"I think so," Rey did a few strokes and tried to stand having to tip her head back to keep above the water, "This is the end, I'm drowning."
"If you drownd with the three of us standing here that would be pathetic," Ben laughed as he grabbed her arm to help her, "You have to kick your legs to keep your head up."
"Kick like this?" Rey asked as Ben let go of her arm.
"Just keep your head above water and don't kick one of us," Poe explained as he ducked under the water.
Rey screamed and her head went under too, Ben grabbed her arm again, "How am I supposed to not kick him if I can't see him?"
"Did I scare you?" Poe's head popped up on the other side of Finn.
"Next time just kick him," Finn quiped and Poe jumped on his back, "Good thing we're in water or else you would be really heavy."
"Are you calling me fat?" Poe asked in a gasp.
"We'll you're no Kylo Ren," Rey said.
"Am I like Kylo Ren?" Ben asked.
"You're closer," Rey shrugged.
"I have half a mind to actually throw you into the lake, if you were a stronger swimmer I would," Ben teased as he let go of her arm.
"No," Rey whined wrapping her arms around his shoulders.
"How are you going to become better at swimming if you keep holding onto Ben?" Finn sighed.
"I will hold her for the rest of my life weather she can swim or not," Ben tucked one of his arms under Rey being careful to keep his hand on her leg and not anywhere else.
"Awwww, you're so sweet," Rey leaned down and nuzzled her nose with Ben's whose head was level with her chest, "But put me down I want to try swimming again."
Inside the house Luke was washing a glass when he noticed the kids in the back yard, "Leia, Ben's in the lake without sun screen."
"Tattle tailing is not encouraged," Leia scolded opening a cabinet, "Obi, I think you need to have the sun screen talk with your daughter."
"Alright, let's go," Mr. Kenobi sighed as he followed Leia down to the dock.
"Ben are you wearing sun screen?" the four teens had been throwing a beach ball between them, at his mother's words Ben ducked under the water, "Rey come here so I can put sun screen on you?"
"Okay Leia," Rey swam over to the dock and peeked her head over the side, "The boys taught me how to swim."
"You're doing very well, just make sure you don't go out to far," her father warned, "And make sure you wear sun screen before you go swimming, we don't want you to damage your skin."
"Okay Dad," Rey agreed, she suddenly jumped to the side and screamed.
Ben popped out of the water, "Sorry, sweetheart, didn't see you there."
"Sure you didn't," Leia cast a sideways glance at her son as she put sun screen on Rey's face, "You're next."
"Ben you have to be a good example for Rey, she's younger than you," Mr. Kenobi smirked.
Rey laughed as Ben pouted and let his Mom put sun screen on his face, "Why are you so apposed to it?"
"Because I'm pale this keeps me pale, but the sun damages lighter skin so we have to wear sun screen especially on our faces," Ben sighed as his Mom kissed his hair, "Thank you, Mom."
"You're welcome sweetie," Leia smiled as she stood up.
"Ben, keep your hands to yourself," Mr. Kenobi called over his shoulder as he started up the path to the house.
"Of course, Sir," Ben called back as he swam towards Finn and Poe.
"Thanks Leia," as soon as her back was turned Rey tackled Ben.
"You're going to take advantage of your Dad wanting me to be more mature, aren't you?" Ben sighed.
"I'm younger than you," Rey giggled.
The next morning Rey got up before her brothers and made her way out to the barn and let the horses out, as she watched them graze her phone went off, it was Ben, 'Good morning sweetheart'.
The text made her smile, 'Good morning, I wish I could think of something to call you, how did you come up with sweetheart?'
'You can call me what ever you want, and it's what my Dad called my mom when I was younger, he stopped when my uncle moved in because he would make fun of him', Ben explained.
'You're not scared he's going to make fun of you?' Rey asked.
Ben's responce was quick, 'That's not going to stop me'.
'Why?' Rey questioned putting her phone back into her pocket as she closed all the horses stalls and headed back towards the house.
'Because I like you and I'm not embarrassed of it, I am embarrassed that you like me, I'm extremely grateful just never had someone like me before', after he hit send he rolled over and buried his head in his pillow that smelled like her, feeling stupid he then added, 'Thanks for being my girlfriend'.
That didn't help, he sighed resting his phone on his stomach as he stared up at the ceiling, when his phone finally buzzed he read, 'You're cute, I'll see you tonight'.
'Thanks, can't wait to see you', Ben responded before falling back asleep.
Rey was sitting in the living room on her phone when her dad came out of his office, "Good morning Dad, I let the horses out, did the dishes, and switched out the laundry."
"Why do I get the feeling you want something?" Mr. Kenobi gave his daughter a knowing smile.
"On Instagram there's this thing called slime that people make and play with and I want to try, but I know it's kinda messy and we only have half the ingredients in the house," Rey explained as she jumped up and showed her dad a list on her phone.
"We can get those things when we go grocery shopping after lunch okay?" Mr. Kenobi smiled as his daughter hugged him.
"Yay, thank you!"
After lunch and grocery shopping the three Kenobi children stood around the kitchen table mixing bowls of runny mush with spoons, Finn smelled the contents of his bowl and wrinkled his nose, "Are you sure we did this right?"
"Yep, it just takes a while to mix," Rey explained happily stirring her pink goo.
"I think I'm just going to touch it," Poe announced as he dipped his hands into his green liquid, "I just realized this looks like the milk in The Last Jedi."
"Gross," Finn laughed as he stirred his blue slime.
Mr. Kenobi watched his kids, "Alright smile for a picture."
"Ew," Poe held up his hands with the green slime dripping off them making Rey and Finn laugh.
"I thought mine was going to be the messiest but apparently I'm wrong," Rey poured silver glitter into her pink slime and began folding it in with her hands, after a while she held up her slime and let it string down into her other hand and whispered, "This is so cool!"
"Can you help me?" Poe asked ashe tried to wipe his hands on a paper towel.
"Yeah, give me a second," Rey put her slime into a tupperware container.
Eventually all three Kenobi kids had their own slime to play with as they sat in the back of the car, "Alright, we're almost there, put the slime away and on the floor."
"Yes Dad," his kids said in unison, they were happy they got to play with it in the car because at the house they were only allowed to have it in the kitchen.
When they got out of the car the Solo's were there as well and parked next to them, Rey yelled to Ben, "Check my Instagram!"
"My mum showed me, I'll like it later," Ben spoke back as the kids followed Luke and the rest of the adults after them, Ahsoka was asleep in the baby carrier Anakin held.
"Let's just ignore the fact that Ben said Mum," Luke called as they entered the building, it was dark with black lights over them, a front counter, and places to sit with more lighting off to the side, there was a huge wall with three rows of windows that looked dark inside. Luke talked to the girl at the desk then turned to them, "Alright, everyone get a wristband."
There was one girl and one boy employee and while the adults went to the girl who was older the kids went the boy who looked around Rey's age, he looked slightly flustered as he fumbled with Rey's wristband, his coworker sighed, "Adam, you're touching her wrist not taking her home, calm down."
"This is more social interaction that I was prepared for this week," Adam mumbled as he moved onto Finn's wristband.
"It's Sunday," Finn and Adam's eyes met, "Wait, you're John and Oscar's home schooled cousin."
"I've seen you three play soccer with my cousins," Adam moved onto Ben, "You're the keeper that got his nose broken because your own team mate took a shot on you."
Ben laughed, "And that's why we don't have a co-ed soccer team at Sith High anymore."
"I forgot what you did to make Sabine so mad," Poe held out his wrist for Adam.
"Sabine as in Kanan's daughter?" Rey asked as she took Ben's hand.
"She got mad because I touched her art project and didn't mean to break my nose, we were up by 4 and it was the last 2 minutes of the game so the point didn't really matter," Ben shrugged, "My mom has the video somewhere, it's really funny."
"She got the ball away from the other teams forward and turned and kicked it straight to his face, it was great," Poe laughed, "Are you going to come to our games this year, Adam."
"I was actually going to try out, I'll be attending Sith High this year as a freshman," Adam explained.
"I'm a freshman too!" Rey offered a high five which Adam returned with a small smile before she turned to the adults, "Luke, he's going to be a freshman."
"Mr. Skywalker," Luke held out his hand for Adam to shake, "What's your last name?"
"Driver," Adam answered.
"Ah yes, I put you next to Rey on the seating chart, I look forward to having you in my class," Luke smiled.
In the latertag briefing room there was another girl and boy employee both looking about college age. Everyone had to sit on benches and watch an instructional and safety video, during which Ben leaned over to whisper something to Rey and the girl employee glared at him making him close his mouth and sit up straight. After the video the girl spoke first, "Put a vest over your head with the gun in front, clip the sides and tighten them by pulling straight back."
"Please," the male added making the girl sigh, "Would you like to play free for all, two teams, three teams or a specific game mode?"
"Free for all first so everyone can get the hang of it," Luke answered, the employ pressed a button on the control panel on the wall and the vests lit up white.
"You did your research didn't you?" Leia asked.
"Don't tell anyone but I didn't site my sources," Luke smirked back.
The female employee walked up behind Han and tapped him on the shoulder, "Your vest is backwards."
"Oh thanks," as he switched the vest around he dropped his blaster and looked up at her nervously as did the kids.
"I just died a little inside but that's fine," the employee sighed.
"Sorry," Han read her name tag, "Will? Is your name really Will?"
"No someone stole my name tag," the girl shrugged.
"Will goes to university across the state," the boy explained, he didn't even have a name tag, he walked up behind Finn and handed him the strap that he was fumbling for, "Is everybody ready?"
There were several responses of yes and the girl walked over to the door, opened it, and spoke quickly, "There is no running, jumping, sitting, kneeling laying on the ground, offensive language, or crashing into each other, hold your blaster like this or it will not fire, and if your vest turns off come find me on this lower level and I'll turn it back on for you, any questions?"
"How do you talk that fast?" Padme asked.
"Crippling anxiety, good luck!" the boy called pressing a button on the panel, each vest picked it's own color as everyone ran in opposite directions the sound of blasters going off could be heard.
"Han!" Leia screamed from somewhere below Ben.
"All's fair in love and war sweetheart," his dad yelled back.
Ben crouched by the opening to the ramp onto the third level where if he couldn't see everyone he could at least see the glow of their vests on the walls around them, "Hey babe."
"Rey!" he turned she was standing behind him, his back was now to the wall and she had her blaster pointed at him, "Why didn't you shoot me?"
"I don't think my blaster is working," she pressed on the trigger a few times and nothing happened.
"Your hand has to be over this sensor," Ben pointed, she tried shooting him again and the light of his vest turned off before lighting back up a few seconds later.
"Thanks," she ran away.
After several games on several teams they all took a break in the seating area and ate a pizza, Luke pulled out a paper and flattened it on the table, "There's a game called Space Marines where on two teams everyone gets a different task, you pick a leader and the leader picks teams for the tasks."
"Padme vs. Leia," Finn suggested.
"That's a great idea," Kenobi smiled, "I would like to see if Anakin could create a team to fair against mine."
"Fair has nothing to do with it," Anakin smirked back.
"I want Ben," Padme announced.
"Take him, I want Poe," Leia added quietly, "And to win."
"Mom!" Ben's mouth hung open.
"It's only because you're on the other team sweetie," Leia assured.
"Yeah, it's not because you're taller than the walls and everyone can see you," Poe laughed.
"We can always tell where you were because your hair is like a dark cloud just floating around," Rey laughed.
"Can I have Rey?" Padme asked.
"Sure, I want Han," Leia responded.
"There's a first time for everything," Han quipped making Leia swat at his arm.
"I guess if you take Han I have to take Anakin," Padme smiled.
Leia turned to Finn and he gasped, "I'm not last!"
"Being last isn't a huge deal," Luke shrugged.
"Okay then, Obi is on my team," Padme smiled.
"You're stuck with me, sister," Luke laughed.
"Good, you're the only man in the house that knows how to hang up pants," Leia laughed.
"You just fold them and throw them in a drawer," Han and Ben said in unison.
"That argument started like 4 years ago," Obi sighed, "Why can't you both just learn to hang pants."
"Oh I can, I just refuse to because they're fine in the drawer," Ben shrugged.
"But then they're creased," Luke argued.
"So you throw them in the dryer with a wet towel," Han shot back.
"You're an innovator," Anakin commented.
"That might be the nicest thing you've ever said to me," Han pressed his hand to his chest.
"I gave you my blessing, I don't have to be nice to you," Anakin smirked back.
Leia's team consisting of her, Poe, Han, Finn, and Luke stood on the outside of the arena with the male employee. Leia told him which roll her team members would play and and he assigned their vests. The employee went back to sitting on the floor in front of Ahsoka's baby carrier the arena door was knocked on and he reached up to open it, the female employee stepped out, "Alright you can go to your base and I'll start the game in 20 seconds."
Padme, Ben, Rey, Anakin, and Obi were on one end of the second floor and waited for the other team to get into place, "Anakin and Obi, are going to find a hiding place with Rey and she'll find Ben and I and tell us where that is, Ben is guarding our base and I'm going to attack theirs."
"Yes ma'am!" Padme's team saluted her as the game started.
Ben watched the rest of the team walk in between the walls and waited, other than the loud music there was rarely any sounds of blasters firing, eerie in comparison to the games where every player had unlimited shots, there were a few shots and some yelling in the upper far corner of the arena from him, straightening up to peer over the wall closest to him he could see the other team start to disperse through the arena. Suddenly a small hand wrapped around his elbow, Ben turned and pointed his blaster at Rey with a gasp, "Sweetheart, you have to stop sneaking up on me like that."
"Sorry," Rey giggled, before turning and pointing, "Your grandfather and my dad are over in that corner and if they get ambushed they're going to run this way."
"Okay, it seems like the other team stayed grouped to figure out what we were doing and now they broke up but my grandmother is close to the back wall over there and I haven't seen anyone go over there yet," Ben answered looking over the wall again.
"Babe," Ben turned his head to the side to show that he was listening, "No, Ben."
"Yes?" Ben leaned down and Rey stood on her toes to kiss him on the cheek.
"Stop being so serious, it's just a game," she laughed before running away. Ben sighed and watched the other team, shooting at a few that wandered where Rey and Padme or Anakin and Obi would be. There was alot of firing from the direction Rey had gone and she ran back followed by Poe, "Frick, frick, frick, frick, frick."
"What did you do?" Ben shot at Poe who disappeared again before turning to Rey.
"I took out your dad," Rey answered, "But they're planning an ambush so I'm going to go get the medic and ammo carrier and bring them here so you can guard them while Padme and I can attack their base."
"You just said I was taking this too seriously," Ben teased.
"But I'm having fun, your shoulders are tensed and you seem stressed," Rey explained as she passed him, he watched her walk away and took a breath forcing his muscles to relax.
An hour later, Poe, Finn, Ben, and Rey sat in the eating area while the adults were still playing lazertag. Ahsoka's carrier was on the table and Rey was making faces at her to get her to laugh, "I'm going to miss being in the same house as her."
"She kept me up all night, we can switch for the rest of the week," Ben offered as he watched her with his chin in his hand.
"I can't just live at your house forever," Rey laughed.
"I wouldn't mind," Ben shrugged.
"We're going to the bathroom," Poe announced loudly pulling Finn along with him.
"No matter how many times Dad tells them not to leave us alone they still do," Rey laughed.
"I'm glad they did because you never told me what I do that you find unattractive," Ben smirked making Rey sigh.
"Okay fine, I have to say this carefully because you're probably going to pout about it," Ben's mouth fell open, "See, you're already offended, at least you're cute when you pout."
Ben leaned down and pressed his forehead to her shoulder, "You were saying before?"
"I don't like that you don't push your hair back unless it's wet, you look really hot when you do, it's not like you look unattractive with your hair in your face you just look better with it pushed back," Rey explained leaning her cheek on his head, "Maybe it's just because you're wet."
"Rey," Ben snorted sitting up, "There is a child present."
"You know what I ment," Rey rolled her eyes.
"So wait like this?" Ben asked running a hand through his hair.
"Something like that," Rey blushed and stood up to lift Ahsoka out of the carrier, "Who is the cutest little girl?"
"You," Ben answered, resting his arm on the back of the booth they were in.
"No, Ahsoka is," Rey cooed as she held the baby to her chest.
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" Ben asked, Rey looked at him sideways, "I was going to say you would be a great mom but that's anti-feminist."
"You don't want to impose your misogynistic fantasies on me?" Rey smirked.
"I don't know about fantasies," Ben laughed, "What do you want to be?"
"I honestly never thought of it, I at least know I don't want to be a prostitute, I was constantly told that's all I'd be good for," Ben turned completely towards her.
"Who told you that?" Ben fumed, "You're smart and talented, and worth so much more then that, if anyone tells you otherwise, I'll make prostitution not an option for them."
"Prostitution isn't an option for him, he smells worse than a garbage truck," Rey cupped his face, "You don't have to get mad, but thank you."
Ben took a deep breath and replied softly, "How can I not get mad?"
"Because it doesn't matter what people who never cared about me say, at the time I didn't have a family that loves me and I still didn't believe them and I'm certainly not going to now that I do," Rey answered, looking back to Ahsoka, "Do you think I could be one?"
"We're not having this conversation," Ben gave a small smile as he reached out to the baby and let her hold onto his finger.
"Or a stripper?" Rey smirked as Ben blushed.
"Okay, this is going to sound misogynistic but you will be a house wife before anything like that," Ben answered.
"Are you offering?" Rey questioned.
"Of course," Ben answered before thinking, "Don't tell anyone I said that, your Dad would kill me."
"Why is my dad going to kill you?" Finn asked as he and Poe sat down on the other side of the booth.
"He said he'd rather me be his house wife then a sex worker," Rey answered.
"If I could say same with out it being weird I would," Poe shrugged.
The cheer girls had practice outside on the track around the football field which ended in all the girls sweating profusely, Kanan, Poe, and Finn had gone inside to avoid the heat. Rey was thankful to follow the rest of the girls inside the air conditioned school when Maz waved her into the office, "Your boyfriend is fixing the printer, he may need your help."
"What makes you say that?" Rey asked the peaked into the teachers lounge where Ben was laying on the floor, "Babe, you okay?"
"I can't get the ink cartridge out because for years they've just been refilling it with a needle but someone bumped it and now it's set wrong and the printer thinks it's missing but it's not and I can't get it out," Ben huffed covering his face.
Rey stepped over him and bent down to look into the open side of the printer, "Okay I have an idea, can you get me a towel?"
"Um, sure," Ben got up and grabbed a rag from the toolbox and Rey picked up a skrew driver.
"I'm going to hand it to you, I'm not sure if this is going to leak when I get it out," Rey explained. Ben watched Rey stand close to the opening with both her hands inside and felt for something before taking a deep breath. Ink splattered out of the printer and onto her stomach, hands, and forearms as she handed the cartridge to him, "I hoped this wouldn't happen good thing I'm wearing black."
"Thank you sweetheart, I could have done that," Ben set the cartridge down and dampened a paper towel in the sink and handed it to her, the ink was just little droplets that wouldn't drip into the floor.
"We wouldn't want to ruin one of your many color full shirts," Rey joked as she wiped the ink from her stomach then crossed the room to scrub her hands in the sink, "This is definitely going to stain for a few days."
"That's the last think I had to do today, let's see if I can find something that might clean that up a bit better," Ben spoke as he put the cartridge back in correctly and the printer gave a happy beep, "You're welcome."
"Babe, did you not sleep well?" Rey asked with a small smile.
"Why do you ask?" Ben gathered up the things he was using to fix the printer in one arm, and ordered his hand to Rey, "Shall we?"
Rey sighed and took his hand and they walked down the hall, "Ben, you were almost in tears on the floor because of a printer."
"I love Ahsoka and that's all I will say," Ben responded as he dropped her hand and walked into the janitors office and started going through the back shelves.
"You can let your mom or grandmother take care of her at night so you can sleep," Rey scolded lightly as she sat on his desk.
"Yes but when she cries I wake up, and as soon as I get her back to sleep I try and fall asleep but as soon as I do she cries again, I ended up just moving her crib into my room and that seems to help her so maybe if we start off with that she'll sleep through the night," Ben explained, as he walked back to her and sat in his desk chair, "This is going to be cold but it should work, and tell me if it starts to burn."
"Wait, wh-that is very cold!" Rey gasped.
"It worked," Ben held up the paper towel he had wiped on her stomach with a blotch of ink on it, "Now let me see your arms."
"So how was practice today?" he asked as she rested her feet on either side of his legs on his desk chair.
"It was good, we started to work on our routines for football games, so you'll get to see me do that in the fall, you probably won't like it because we do a small stunt," Rey explained, "But it's really safe."
"What is it?" Ben asked as examined her hand to make sure he got all the ink off.
"The flyers are on one of the bases shoulders for half of it, but it's the second half so it's not like me getting down is timed which is safer," Rey shrugged, "Page isn't going to drop me."
"Page, Rose's sister?" Ben asked as he moved to her other arm.
"Yes, you know her?" Rey asked.
"She's in my grade," Ben explained, "Freshmen year her group dropped a girl but Page fell with her, the girl probably would have cracked her head open if Page hadn't, so I trust her."
"Good, you don't have to worry about me you know," Rey laugh running her clean hand through his hair, "We should show you the video of all the times they have dropped me, I'm fine."
"I would not appreciate that," Ben sighed leaning into her hand, "I don't want you to get hurt, whether it's an accident or not."
"How am I ever going to learn?" Rey asked.
Ben sighed and threw the paper towel in the trash, "I'll just have to get over it and get it into my head that you're capable and not as fragile as I make you out to be."
"You're great," Rey pulled him into an awkward hug with him between her legs and his head at her chest.
"Thanks," Ben blushed wrapping his arms around her uncovered middle.
"Are you uncomfortable?" Rey laughed.
"No, you just make me," he though for a second, "Nervous."
"Nervous how?" Rey questioned lightly touching her nose to his neck.
"Like my stomach is weightless and my head feels hallow, my heart starts to beat rapidly while being drawn to you," Ben answered breathlessly placing his hands on her back.
Rey slid off the desk onto his lap and kissed him deeply, "Do you still feel tired?"
"Not particularly," Ben admitted leaning forward to trail kisses down her jaw line.
"Good, see you at practice, babe," Rey jumped off his lap and went towards the door.
"Sweetheart, teasing people isn't nice," Ben called after her.
"Just because I like you doesn't mean I have to be nice all the time," Rey smirked over her shoulder.
Rey and Matt sat on one of the fencing mats laughing when Poe and Finn entered with Ben trailing behind them with his mask on. Matt laughed, "Ben, are you mad at Rey?"
"I could never be mad at Rey," Ben responded.
"Then why did we walk into the locker room to see you sulking in the corner with you're mask on?" Poe questioned.
"Leave him alone, I was teasing him and he's probably still embarrassed," Rey giggled, she could tell Ben was glaring at her under his mask, "Do you want me to let you win today to make you feel better?"
"Beating you is not going to make me feel better, whether you let me win or not," Ben spoke back as Luka walked up to them.
"The Ben Solo admits he can be beaten by a girl?" Finn gasped.
Ben lifted his mask, "Are you implying my girlfriend can't do something because she's a girl?"
"What are you going to do, beat him up?" Luka laughed, "You can't beat up your girlfriend's brother, it's the one thing that saves me from Rosie."
"Rosie is 5'4", apologizes when her bases drop her, and cries when she finds dead bugs," Rey clarified, "I however am 5'7", my bases dropped me on my head and I laughed, and I can beat up my brothers myself, thank you."
"That was one time," Poe defended.
"What do you mean on your head?" Ben questioned.
"Oh look, coach is here," Matt pointed out saving his best friend.
At the end of the week the fencing team had another competition so they were gathered in the Kenobi's living room watching the new Jumanji movie. The Solo's house was too crowded with Anakin, Padme, and Ahsoka so Mr. Kenobi volunteered to host the boys joking that he could 'keep an eye on Ben'. Their first week of dating wasn't much different then they usually were, there was just an increase in hand holding and arms around shoulders. Rey and Matt had watched Jumanji a few times the week before and were mostly waiting for their team mates reactions, them, Ben, and Felix were sitting on the floor and Adrien, Luka, Finn, and Poe were on the couch above them. As Ruby Roundhouse beat up the guards, Matt and Rey yelled along with Jack Black, "Yas Queen!"
"Do kids still say that?" Luke asked from where he sat with Kanan and Mr. Kenobi from the kitchen.
"Not really but it's still funny," Rey shrugged as she went back to her phone and screamed, "Chloe and Kim broke up, and Chloe said she's so distraught she's not coming tomorrow."
"I give it three days and they'd be together again," Ben brushed a stray hair from her forehead to calm her.
"That's not what I'm worried about Jyn cut our stunt routine so now we only get to cheer," Rey pouted.
"You can't at least do the floor routine?" Matt asked, he knew alot about cheer from hanging out with the cheer girls and Rey.
"No there would be an odd number," Rey thought for a second, the smiled at Matt, "Unless..."
"I can't," Matt cringed.
"Yes you can," Rey shook her shoulder.
"He can what?" Poe questioned pausing the movie because everyone was paying more attention to Rey and Matt.
"I taught him the entire floor routine and he can do it better than me!" Rey exclained.
"But I could never do it in front of people, I'm not a cheerleader," Matt crossed his arms.
"You wish you could, the worst Jyn can say is no," Rey raised and eyebrow.
Matt let out a huge sigh, "Fine."
"Yay!" Rey jumped up, grabbed his hand and dragged him upstairs. Poe played the movie and they didn't see them again till it was over and they ran back down stairs, "She said yes, meet the temporary first male cheerleader since 1989!"
"This is going to be terrible," Matt shook his head.
"Why were you up there so long?" Luke questioned.
"We had to do the dance and record it and we kept bumping into each other," Matt explained.
"Why didn't you just go in the back yard?" Felix asked.
"That would have been a better idea," Rey admitted.
"You can still show us in the back yard," Finn suggested.
"I want to see you guys, I love watching the cheer girls perform, in a supportive way, not a weird way," Adrien smiled.
The fencing guys all sat in a row on the grass, Luke, Kanan, and Mr. Kenobi stood on the deck, and Rey and Matt stood next to each other facing all of them. Finn started the music and the first move was them back hand springing away which everyone cheered at. At the end of their routine everyone complimented them and Matt blushed, "I messed up a little."
"You did that better than me and you know it," Rey punched his arm lightly.
"That's not true," Matt rolled his eyes.
"Which one of us hesitated on our bridge up?" Rey questioned.
Finn and Poe looked at Ben, "When their hands and feet are on the ground and their stomachs are in the air."
"Ben's our Rey translator when she talks about cheer stuff," Finn explained.
"Just make all the other cheer boyfriends look bad," Felix rolled his eyes.
"I can send you all the screenshots of the definitions to the floor routine but Bridgette is a base so I can't help you with that," Ben explained.
"To be completely honest I don't care," Felix shrugged, "You can be the best cheer boyfriend."
"I'm not trying to be the best cheer boyfriend, I'm trying to be a good boyfriend," Rey 'aww'ed and knelt beside him to hug him and everyone groaned.
"Is any one else bored with their relationship?" Poe asked. Ben opened his mouth to say something then closed it, "What?"
"Nothing, it's mean," Ben shook his head.
"Now you have to tell us," Matt encouraged.
"Let me guess, you were going to say he's bored because he's never been in a relationship longer than a week," Finn suggested, Poe gasped.
"But I didn't," Ben defended.
"You still thought it," Poe threw his hands up.
"Well, we all thought it," Felix shrugged.
"I didn't," Rey raised her hand, "I was going to say as long as Ben isn't bored of me I don't care."
"I could never get bored of you," Ben assured and everyone groaned.
"Let's go watch an action movie before I throw up," Matt rolled his eyes.
"Oh really Mister 'you and Ben are so cute, goals, do it for all of us, do him for all of us'," Ben stared at Rey in concern.
"That's out of context!" Matt laughed.
"The context doesn't help you!" Rey giggled.
"Dinner's ready!" Obi called from the back door and the kids all jumped up and ran in.
Happy Halloween! I'm going to be Kylo Ren, what are you going to be?