Creation began on 12-15-14
Creation ended on 01-10-15
Ben 10
Ben and Gwen: Shame
As Gwen stepped into the kitchen the next day, she noticed a note on the table in front of her lunch. It was addressed to her from Ben, saying, "I hope you enjoy your lunch today."
Why did I do that to him? She thought, packing her lunch and stepping out of the house to head to school. Why did I do that?
She could only suspect that Ben was disgusted with her…and he had every right to be disgusted. She had masturbated him, and it made him feel dirty!
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Ben wasn't sure how to be around Gwen. He hadn't gotten over what had happened in the bathroom last night, and he felt that he couldn't really tell anyone about it. His cousin had given him his first hand job, and it felt awful, and, at the same, it felt good…in a sickening way.
I barely slept last night, he thought, barely able to focus during his classes the entire day. I can't even face Gwen about it.
As school was close to letting out, Ben was putting away the soccer balls and softball equipment when Gwen showed up.
"Ah!" Ben gasped.
"Hey, Ben," Gwen greeted him. "Look, I just wanna talk about last night."
"I can't," he said, and ran off. "I can't!"
"Ben, wait!" She called out to him, chasing him. "Ben!"
He turned a corner, but when she got there, he had disappeared.
"Ben? Ben!" She called out to him, but got no response.
Ben was gone.
-x-
"…No, I haven't seen him since I left out of school," Kevin told Gwen, working on his car in the garage. "Is something wrong?"
"No," Gwen told him, after confirming that Ben hadn't left the school with either him or Elena, and she called home earlier, only to find that Ben hadn't returned there, either. He must be somewhere…or still at the school.
-x-
The rain outside was soaking everything it could touch, but Ben didn't find a reason to care much about it. He had hid from Gwen in the storage shed until she had left, but waited too long that he was locked inside it, and he was unsure if anyone would even realize that he was in there until he either suffered from malnourishment or went crazy.
I can't believe I waited so long to leave, he thought, looking out the window above his head, his only source of light in the darkness of the shed. "Gwen, I should've just talked with you about last night."
-x-
She had checked his usual spots up until it started raining, and she was getting soaked. But Gwen refused to stop looking for her cousin.
He wasn't at the library, the arcade or the smoothie place, she thought, now feeling water had soaked her pants completely. Come on, Ben, where are you?
FLASH-CLASH! Just as a truck past her, thunder and lightning started to act up in the rainclouds over the town.
"Ah," Gwen expressed, wanting to find Ben as soon as possible. If he's nowhere else, then that could mean he's at the one place I lost sight of him.
With that possibility in mind, she immediately rushed back to the school, already feeling soaked to the bone in her pants.
-x-
"I'm sorry, Gwen! I'm sorry, Gwen!" Ben recalled a time during a previous summer when he pushed Gwen into a lake as a joke and she almost drowned. "I'm sorry, Gwen! I'm sorry, Gwen!"
Although she survived, he couldn't stop apologizing for his fault.
"I'm sorry, Gwen," he muttered in the bluish-gray darkness of the shed.
Clank. He turned to the door as it suddenly opened up, revealing a shadowed person in front of him.
With more light exposed to his eyes, he shielded them with his right hand until they adjusted to the intensity, which took a few seconds, and then he removed his hand and got a better perception of the person in front of him.
It was Gwen, soaked to the bone, panting and drenched in sweat to go along with the rainwater.
"Gwen," he expressed, getting up and approaching her.
They hugged and Gwen apologized for taking so long to find him.
"No," he told her, letting her go. "I'm the one who's sorry."
"What for?" She asked him.
"This is all my fault," he began to explain. "For a while now, I've been having unpleasant, lewd thoughts about you. Even though you're my cousin, I've been lusting after you. I couldn't face you after last night, worried about what you might think of me. I am sorry."
"It's okay," Gwen told him. "I shouldn't have done what I did to you last night. The truth is… I like you a little more than I say I do. I often worry that I might lose you to the days ahead of us, that you'll leave me and I'll never see you again."
It seemed as though both cousins had hidden fears that they just got out in front of them.
"Achoo!" Gwen suddenly sneezed.
I can't believe she caught a chill because of me, thought Ben, removing his coat and giving it to her. "Come on, let's go home."
"Yeah," she agreed.
To be continued…
A/N: The next chapter will probably be the final chapter of this story. It will escalate into what will be between the two cousins. I hope more people read it later on.