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Rey's head spun like a carousel, spinning round and round, like her brain was asleep whilst she was awake. She rolled over to face the sofa that was opposite her, searching for a head of black hair, but found nothing. Rey slithered out from under the covers, and shuffled toward the sofa. There was no sign that Ben had even been there. She turned back towards her window to see him leaning against his car with his legs crossed smoking a cigarette. He looked nice, standing out in the freshly fallen snow, taking long breathes of his cigarette, every so often running his cold hands through his hair. He looked absolutely freezing outside in nothing but a t-shirt and jeans.

Rey opened her window and yelled out to him,

"Ben, come inside its much warmer up here"

Ben turned to look up at her, and with a shy smile he dropped his cigarette and crushed it into the snow with his shoe.

When Ben finally made it to her apartment on the third floor, she had already cooked scrambled eggs for the both of them, and poured them both a cup of coffee. She tried to look lady like whilst she ate her eggs with a small fork, but she was so hungry. Rey could tell from the way Ben was ramming the food down throat that he hadn't had a hot breakfast in a long time.

"How can you afford to smoke, when you barely have any money?" Rey realised how rude her question sounded "I didn't mean to intrude I just…never mind"

"I'm not addicted, I just smoke when I need to" Ben said look down into his mug of coffee.

There was a long silence whilst they finished their breakfast, both looking anywhere except at the other. Rey knew it was stupid, letting Ben live in that old car when she had a perfectly fine sofa in her apartment. But she barely knew him, and what if someone found out they lived together? What about her rent? She could share the rent with him and she could be able to buy food for herself.

"Ben, I know it's a strange question but I have barely any money for food and have to spend it all on rent. So maybe, since you need some where to stay, maybe it would be a good idea if you-"

"If I stay with you for a bit?" Ben said smirking, taking advantage of her embarrassment. "Because I would gladly accept, but don't you think it's rather scandalous two seventeen year olds living with each other?"

Embarrassment burned hot on her face. "Well yes, but we could share the rent?"

"Rey" Ben softly said leaning forward, a genuine smile appeared on his face "You do not know how long I have been looking for somewhere to stay that wasn't on wheels"

Rey wasn't sure how to feel about the fact that she lived with another person, since it had been so long. Rey had grown up in an orphanage and hated every bit of it, from the cruel children, to the way she had been labelled as an orphan. It's probably why she ran away when she was thirteen. Sure, they had looked for her, but she had already gotten a train to the nearest city by the time they noticed she was gone. But now he lived with another seventeen year, and a boy, if she knew her grandmother she would be shocked. Ben had a few things in his car trunk, he brought those in from the cold and soon asked if he was able to use Rey's shower.

"Had to use the ones at school, but since it's the weekend could I maybe use our shower?" He had said, almost mocking her at the fact that they lived together.

"Might I add that you were the one that accepted my offer to live with me" Rey said trying not to smirk, too much.

He gave a low chuckle, "I can't say that I'm shocked"

"Excuse me?"

"I'm just saying I can be very alluring to many women, and I'm devilishly handsome"

Rey just scoffed at his remark and threw him a towel, trying to force the heat rising to her cheeks to go away.

Ben was an enigma.

One minute he's confident and suave, the next minute he's shy and sensitive. Other times he would say thinks that Rey didn't even understand. Rey had feelings for Ben, that much was true, but she wished she didn't. Anyone she had ever had feelings for had left her. She knew she would have loved her parents, but they left her. Her best friend at the orphanage was the strongest friendship she had ever had with someone, but she was adopted.

But that was friendship, and Rey knew, that whatever this was, it was more than friendship.