AN: Thank you so much for all the lovely reviews and yes there was people saying that Ben isn't the type of person that would get cheerleaders drunk in his car, but remember that Rey has never really talked to him before and is just assuming he is that type of guy. I don't think he is that type but this is Rey's opinion. Also, you find out what the blanket and beer in his car means, so hopefully you will be happy with the explanation! Anyway, onto the next chapter! Please leave a review and tell me what you thought.

Rey had managed to find an exhaust at a reasonable price and she had a maths test coming up. Ben had come over to the mechanics to help her with trigonometry, but she could tell he was losing his patience when Rey kept getting the answers wrong. She could see sweat appearing on his forehead and he was tapping his pencil off the edge of the table so much Rey thought the thing wold eventually snap in two.

"Why don't I work on the car now?" Rey said rising from her seat in hopes of escaping the tension of the situation.

"Yeah that's a good idea" His voice was shaking while he said it, he was clearly trying to calm himself but it wasn't working to well as far as Rey could tell.

Rey slid under the car and began removing the old exhaust. She couldn't see him staring at her, but she could feel his eyes on her.

Rey was definitely not friends with Ben, definitely not. He was laid back and he just had a cool guy attitude. Most people were open books, they wore their emotions like the blurb, giving them a description of who they were. Poe was loving and loyal, Finn was curious and sensitive, Unkar was anger and impatient. Ben was nothing. He was locked up and never let anything show, only the odd embarrassed look or angry outburst. He was angry and embarrassed, he was only ever angry at someone else or at himself. He tore himself and others apart, piece by piece.

He barely has a mother or a father, he's just like me. He must be alone like me, lonely, crying myself to sleep at night, maybe he does that too? No, he has an uncle and he is smart and god damn he has better hair than me.

Oh God do I like him?

"What's your name?" Ben's voice interrupted Rey from her thoughts of, well, him.

"What?" Rey said shaking her head "Oh, my names Rey, but you already knew that?" She said confused.

"Yeah but what's your full name" Ben said leaning forward to rest his elbows on his knees.

Rey gulped at his question. She had thought of many names, but when it came to filling out forms or signing her signature, she always went for one name in particular.

"Rey… Domenia" She hated the way lying tasted in her mouth, it tasted like salt, it stung her tongue and made her teeth rattle. "Why do you ask?"

"Well if I'm gonna have to help you study, I might as well know something about you" He said with a small shrug of his shoulders.

"It will take me a while to fit the new exhaust, so you'll need to leave your car here" She said sliding out from under the car.

"No!" Ben said loudly. "I mean I-I can't"

Rey stood with her hands on her hips. Her eye brows had quirked up when he snapped at her. Well, actually, he didn't snap at her he just said it rather loudly and rather quickly. It was more of a reflex or defence, like he knew she would ask him that.

"And why not?" Rey said deliberately pulling all the syllables of her words.

"I just can't" His tongue stumbled over his teeth slurring his words together like a soup of speech.

"Ben" Rey said softly, telling he was getting embarrassed. "Why is the car so important?"

"I-I…" Ben hung his head in shame "I live in it"

"You live in your car?"

Ben explained everything to Rey, how he was always getting in arguments with his uncle and it caused him to leave, with nowhere to go he made his car his home. The heavy blanket was his bed and the beer was to drink his loneliness away. Rey offered for him to park his car outside her apartment so that he had a permanent place to stay.

"Your apartment?" Ben said quirking up an eyebrow. "You live…alone?"

Rey gulped and felt her face go hot.

Ben gave a low chuckle at her crimson flushed cheeks.

"Phasma was right, you are just like me, you are alone"

Suddenly, Rey knew she would be spending a lot more time than she wanted with Ben Solo.