Sunrise
Part 1 of Sun Chapters.
"Someone mind tell me just what is going on here?" Max fumed. Gwen broke away from the kiss and sheepishly looked at him. Ben panicked and opened his mouth to explain but Gwen stopped him and began to explain herself.
"It's just what it looks like Grandpa. Ben and I have been dating for a few weeks now." Gwen said sternly. Max rubbed his temples in an attempt to clear out his mind. "How did this even happen?"
"Well we accidentally kissed, and things just progressed from there…."
"No wonder you two were acting so close," Max groaned "I should have seen this sooner. Carl and Frank are so going to kill me for this." His sons would kill him if he told them about this let alone what Sandra and Lilli would do.
"Grandpa we'll explain it to them!" Ben blurted out.
"Do I even need to say how wrong this is? Do I even need to say that the two of you can't be in a relationship because you're-"
"Related. We know but Grandpa I really do love Ben and he loves me, so!"
"Gwendolyn! That's enough!" Max's voice boomed and Gwen cringed. He only used her full name when he was completely furious with her. Max really didn't want to hear this right now. He began to pace around the Rust bucket. How could he fix this? How could he explain to them about the huge mistake they were making? He needed a plan or something. He didn't want to be the one to explain this to their parents.
"Gwen what's wrong with you? Why did you do that?" Ben whispered angrily. Everything was going so well why did Gwen have to kiss him in front of Grandpa Max? They could have gone the whole summer without telling him!
"Well I got tired of beating you senseless each time Grandpa Max came into the room!" Gwen replied turning her head away and crossing her arms.
"I could have taken it!"
"Ben I just don't want to put you in pain like that…" Gwen's voice trailed off and Ben's anger just seemed to fade away. He couldn't stay angry at her when she was only worrying about his sake. Ben wondered what would happen to the both of them. If Max took her away from him…No! He refused to think about it. If they were going to take Gwen away from him they had to go through him. Max stopped his pacing and walked towards them.
"Alright kids!" Max furrowed his brow and Ben turned the dial on the Omnitrix and was ready to smack it down when out of the blue "You can date."
"Grandpa say what?" Ben and Gwen were in unison.
"You heard me. You can date but only on one condition."
"Anything!"
"You two are coming with me to visit some old friends." Max had an unusual grin on his face but the kids were too happy to even notice it. Gwen launched herself at Ben hugging him tightly. Max looked away and went back to making his smores when suddenly both Ben and Gwen wrapped their arms around him.
"Thanks grandpa!" They both thanked him grinning from ear to ear. Max could only have a faint smile. Sorry kids, he thought feeling slightly guilty. The kids joined him and for the rest of the night they happily chatted away.
Before they went to bed, Max made a little call.
"Hey Jess. It's Max, and yeah it's good to hear from you too. Listen, I'm having a small family crisis and I need a favor." Max had been feeling a little guilty about what he was going to do. In the end the kids might hate him for it but he had to do it for their sake. He didn't know what to make of the situation. Ben and Gwen were cousins that fought over everything. For him to see them act like they were a couple and in love was a little disturbing to him.
Like when he tried to wake up the kids the next morning Ben had crawled into Gwen's bed maybe unconsciously and was hugging her tightly. Gwen seemed to enjoy it. Later that day while he drove to his destination, he could see through the mirror that Ben was playing with Gwen's hair while they cuddled on the seat. He had an urge to tell them to get way from each other but he held it in remembering the plan he had made in his head. He was going to stick to it no matter what.
When they were only about an hour away from his friend Jessica's he looked into the back mirror. Ben and Gwen seemed to have fallen asleep together. Max noticed something and stopped the vehicle. He walked up to the two and saw something he hadn't seen in a long while. They were smiling in their sleep. It's not like he never saw them smile but they were smiling because they had each other. They were contempt and that made Max feel worse. He gathered his remaining will and drove on. This plan couldn't fail.
"Kids we're here! Get up!"
"Who? What? Where? How?" Ben jumped up from the seat and instinctively his hand hovered over the Omnitrix "Is someone attacking?"
"No Ben we just arrived at wherever Grandpa is taking us," Gwen was forced to wake up, Ben's instincts could be a pain sometimes. And she was having a nice dream too.
"Yeah, places he takes us always have a tendency to have a bad guy or two."
"Come on, there are some people I want you guys to meet!" Max opened the door and a middle aged woman came out of the large white house to greet them "Jess! It's been a while."
"Too long of a while Max," her eyes were sapphire blue and her hair a scarlet red "Are these your grandchildren?"
"Yeah, this is Ben and Gwen," Both the children gave faint smiles as they waved to her "And that must be little Cherry." Grandpa Max pointed out the little girl that looked no older than ten that was shyly hiding behind her mother. She was the spitting image of her mother, blue eyes and flaming long red hair.
"Don't mind her. She is always shy to strangers but when she opens up. Boy can she be a handful." She patted her daughter on the head "Go on dear, say hi to Ben and Gwen." The little girl looked back from her mother to the two cousins.
"Um…Hi," She waved behind her mother and the two waved back with a smile.
"Now come on in, it'll be great to catch up on old times. Cherry you can play with them ok?" She gave her mother a slow nod as they made their way to the house. The house was much larger than an average house. It was almost if they were rich. The Adults made their way to the kitchen and left the kids to watch Tv in the living room.
For some reason Ben could feel like he was being watched. He turned around a saw that Cherry was smiling at him. Ben blinked a couple times and turned back "Okay…"
"What?" Gwen asked mindlessly staring at the T.V.
"It's nothing," Ben lied. He looked again and she was still staring which made him feel uncomfortable.
"So Ben, ummm what do you do for fun?" Cherry suddenly asked sitting down next to him. Ben moved away.
"Um, I dunno lots of stuff. Video games, Sumo Slammers, making fun Gwen," He looked over to Gwen who only glared at him before returning to the T.V.
"Well I got a Sumo Slammers Smack Down 4 for my Games Station in my room. We could play if you wanted." Ben turned to her, his jaw almost dropped to the ground.
"Wait…you… A girl, like Sumo Slammers and Video games?"
"You make it sound like that's a bad thing. Is it?" She asked a bit worriedly and Ben jumped up from his seat.
"No! It's cool! It's awesome! I didn't think girls could possibly like both of them at the same time!" Ben couldn't help but grin. This was a rare find indeed "Who is your favorite Sumo? Wait, I haven't even played that game yet! Oh man, wait do you have the cards too?" Cherry was just as excited as he was. She nodded vigorously and grabbed Ben's hand.
"Come on! I'll show you my room! My cards and games are in there!" Ben happily followed as the two disappeared from the room. Gwen sat there blinking; stupefied at the scene that unfolded before her.
"What…What just happened?"
Soon after she got up and tried to find them. From the moment she met Cherry she had a bad feeling about her. Was it womanly instinct? Who cares, she thought as she went from room to room. She cursed the house for being this big. When she finally found them, cards were scattered across the room and Ben was playing a video game with Cherry extremely close to him. That grated Gwen's nerves.
She knew Ben could be a mindless idiot sometimes but this was going a bit too far. She was practically cuddling up to him and he didn't even notice!
"Well you two seem to be having fun," She said grimly.
"Oh Gwen, I was wondering where you were," Ben mindlessly continued tapping away at the buttons. Sure you did, she thought. Only Cherry turned to her with a slight smile on her face.
"Oh hey Gwen was it? I'm just teaching Ben how to play. Do you want to play too?"
"No I'm fine I'll just watch," Just then Gwen could notice a smug grin on Cherry's face "On second thought, I'll play." Gwen inched her way on the other side of Ben and Cherry gave her a controller. The three began playing and every so often Gwen could see Cherry inch up to Ben. She did the same. Ben's mind wasn't there but in the game, so he didn't even notice how close the girls were.
"Cherry what are you doing?" Gwen asked fed up with her moves on Ben.
"What? I'm just playing a game." Cherry defended herself.
"Don't play innocent with me, why are you moved onto Ben like that?"
"I could ask you the same thing." Cherry raised an eyebrow at Gwen.
"Well I'm Ben's…" Girlfriend "…cousin and I don't appreciate you making a move on my cousin like that!" Cherry's eyes momentarily widened before her face grew angry.
"You're just his cousin, you don't own him! He could do what he wants!" The girls hadn't noticed that they stopped playing. Ben oblivious to any sounds besides the game just sat there like a zombie.
"Well…" Gwen couldn't say anything "He doesn't have to hang around you if he doesn't want to!"
"If you haven't noticed Ben seems to be having fun around me," She pointed at zombie Ben "Besides, you're acting like you're jealous or something."
"I'm not jealous!" Gwen raised her voice immediately blocking her mouth with her hand "I just don't like you."
"I don't like you either."
"So how about you just say away from my cousin until we leave and no one will get hurt." Gwen threatened.
"Hurt? Please," Cherry chuckled "Besides you guys are spending the weekend here. Didn't your Grandfather tell you?"
"Unfortunately he didn't." Gwen's face grew angry. She felt like he had planned all this but Grandpa would never do something like that. Not to them, right? Both girls glared daggers at each other. You could practically see the lightning surging between them. Wait, Gwen paused there is lightning! White lightning! What the-? Who is this girl?
"Listen, I don't want to cause any trouble. I just want to hang out with Ben, ok? If you're going to be jealous about it, that's your problem." The lightning stopped and Gwen wondered if the lightning was a result from her magic. She has perfect control over it so it couldn't be her.
"Why do you want to hang out with this Dweeb?" She grabbed Ben and pulled him up knocking him out of his trance. If the lightning didn't come from her then it had to be…
"Who? What? Where am I?" Ben lazily looked around.
"I like him, ok?" Cherry blurted out turning her face away out of embarrassment.
"Huh?" Both Ben and Gwen were surprised. Ben was more surprised than Gwen.
"What? But…I just met you! For like 10 minutes!" It was true. He only talked with her for about five minutes before they started playing video games. After that everything was a blank.
"I know what you're like." She smiled sweetly at Ben "I know everything about you. I know how you're a hero and how you save people every day."
"How did you...?" Ben grew pale.
"I read your mind." Ben and Gwen's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates "What? Did my mom forget to mention that I have psychic powers?"
Never intrude on a man while he is playing his games! It's rude.
