Chapter 5
Ben had spent most of the night walking around making sure that everything was still intact and that nothing was broken. If something was damaged then half of the town would have two funerals to attend on Monday morning and their mother would be behind bars. He looked around at all the people who were in his home, he knew all of them and was friends with them on Facebook but he wondered if he really knew them, they didn't know the real him that's for sure. They saw the act he put on, although most of the traits he shared with them was him just more exaggerated. The only people who knew the real him were very limited and one of those people happened to be a green eyed blond haired girl, who he realized he was in love with.
Emma Fisher had been there with him his whole life. She was there when he and Natalie got their dogs when they were six, she was there when he saved his first goal as a varsity soccer player, she was the one who defended him when the school bully punched him giving him a black eye for defending some one else (the bully punched Emma to giving her a black eye as well), she was there for countless birthdays, and vacations. She had seen him happy, sad, excited, angry, frustrated, confused, and countless other emotions that he had gone through in his life. But to him she was always just a friend a sister even. But then over the summer everything changed. Sitting outside with her every night had changed their relationship. Suddenly he wanted to pound every guy into the ground who looked at her, he never used to feel that strongly about guys looking at her that was Nate and Ryan's job to keep and eye on her. Then one night while they were out on his balcony looking up at the stars he looked at her and his stomach dropped out and suddenly he knew that he liked her. As the summer went on they kept hanging out on the balcony sharing things that neither of them had told anyone before and he found himself falling for her fast. He didn't know why he didn't realize it before after all she was perfect for him.
"Hey Benny" a voice said behind him. Ben whipped around and stared at Emma Fisher.
"Hey m's" he said coolly
"Where are you sneaking off to?" she asked motioning to how he was walking upstairs
"Um well I just don't really feel like parting so I thought I would go and sit on my balcony and get some air and think for a while"
"Oh, care if I join you?" Emma asked
" Not at all" Ben said smiling and he grabbed her hand and pulled her up the stairs behind him.
He pulled her into his room and out the window on to the balcony.
Emma walked over to the balcony's stone railing turned around so she was facing him and leaned back on her elbows and gazed up and the stars. Ben just stared at her. The moonlight was reflecting off her hair causing it to shine. Ben inhaled sharply and leaned against the wall next to her.
God she's beautiful he thought to himself.
"So Benny why don't you feel like partying?" Emma asked breaking the silence
Ben looked at her
"It's not that I don't feel like partying it's just that I needed to get away from all those people and think for a second"
"What do you need to think about?" Emma asked
"How I just realized that hardly any of those people down there know the real me and that I put on an act everywhere I go" Ben said looking away from her towards the side.
Emma moved from her position against the wall and turned herself so she was facing the same way as him.
"Ben all those people do know you, they may not know all of you but you have shown a different part of who you are to every single person down there, I know its hard to try and please everyone so you show them different sides of yourself, but its still you" Emma put her hand on his face and turned his face so he was looking at her. " But there are some lucky people out there, like myself, who have been able to see the real you and we know that your doing your best to show yourself to everyone"
Emma's green eyes had locked on to his and he could feel himself getting lost in them.
"Emma there's something I need to tell you," he whispered
Emma looked at him
"Ok" she said but he could hear the curiosity in her voice
"Emma over the summer we spent a lot of time together and I" but Ben was cut off
"HEY HARRIONGTON WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE?" A boy named John yelled up at him from down below.
Emma turned her gaze away from Ben's and starred down at John while Ben glared at him.
"I WAS TRYING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION AULT" Ben yelled back
"OH SORRY, WELL SOME OF US WERE WONDERING IF WE COULD GO SWMMING?" John yelled back
" AND YOU COULDN'T ASK SQUIRT THIS?" Ben yelled back getting frustrated
"COULDN'T FIND HER"
Emma giggled and sat down with her back against the wall
"FINE WHAT EVER" Ben yelled " JUST THE PEOPLE WHO GO IN HAVE TO HAVE SOME SORT OF CLOTHING ON NO SKINNY DIPPING!"
"COOL" John said as he ran back into the house announcing that the pool was open for business.
Ben looked down at Emma who was trying not to laugh and he sat down next to her
"So Benny what were you going to tell me before John interrupted you?" Emma asked her green eyes shining with laughter
Suddenly Ben was nervous, realization of what he was about to do hit him like a ton of bricks
"Emma what I was going to say is that I"
"Hey B and E, here you are I've been looking for you two" Ryan said clearly stumbling through the window; both Emma and Ben could tell he had one to many. He came over and sat down between them and then wrapped his arms around the two of them.
"Ryan, how many drinks have you had?" Emma asked her motherly instincts coming out
" I don't know, but what I do know is that I'm extremely wasted and… oh god" Ryan quickly stood up, leaned over the railing and threw up.
Both Ben and Emma jumped up to help him.
"Ryan, man you do this every time," Ben said once Ryan was done.
"Come on Ry, lets go lay down" Ben and Emma each grabbed one of Ryan's arms and helped him walk over to Ben's bed.
"Thanks Ben, I'm going to go and fine Nate so we can go" Emma said once she made sure Ryan was ok
"I'll help you" Ben said
Emma smiled at him
"Thanks" The two of them walked downstairs and Emma immediately spotted her brother sitting on a couch watching a movie with some girl on either side of him.
"Nate it's time to go" Emma said standing in front of him
"No way, I'm watching a movie with these lovely ladies" Nate said smiling cockily up at her
" Nathanial, we have one brother who's passed out up stairs and needs to get home, and since I was the only one of the three of us who drove here I say that its time to go" the girls sitting on either side of him snickered at her and Ben saw Emma glare at them
" Well Emma, I really don't want to leave right now I want to stay here," Nate said holding his ground trying to impress the girls who he was with
" Dude, Ry needs to get home and Emma's going to need help I think you should go with her" Ben added
"No, I really want to stay here" Nate said turning his eyes to Ben.
"Fine, stay here with your blond floozies" Emma said stomping off but after a few feet she turned around " Oh and Nate if your not back by six P.M tomorrow I'm going to tell mom about what's in your closet"
Nate turned white but didn't get up
"I'll be back before then," Nate said
"Good" Emma said as she walked away and Ben followed her up the stairs
"What does Nate have in his closet?" He asked curious
Emma giggled to herself
" Nothing that I can tell you about, you wouldn't find it interesting but our mother would"
Ben looked at her now he wanted to know what was in his closet but she just looked at him smiled and winked.
When they reached his room they both looked at Ryan who was snoring loudly. Emma mumbled something under her breath
"What was that?" Ben asked
"I said he looks so innocent when he's passed out"
Ben laughed
" How should we move him?" Emma asked
The tried a few different ways but eventually they decided that each of them grabbing one of his arms and simi dragging him was the way to go. The drug Ryan out to Emma's car and put him in the back seat. Emma walked over to Ben.
"Well I guess I'm off, I'll call you when"
But Ben cut her off
"I'm coming with you" Emma looked at him quizzically "You wont be able to get him into your house alone we had enough trouble getting him out with there being two of us"
"Ok, hop in" Emma said as she started the car
Ben slid into the passenger seat and Emma rolled down the windows in the back so Ryan could get some fresh air. When the air hit Ryan's face he groaned and stuck his head out the window
"Ryan Christopher Fisher, if you though up in or on my car I will kill you, if you have to puke let me know and I will pull over, got that," Ryan moaned in response
It took them twenty minutes to make the normally five minute trip to the Fisher home due to the frequent stops for Ryan. The two of them got Ryan out of the car and up stairs to his bedroom, Emma forced him to drink two glasses of water and then striped him down to his boxers and laid him down in his bed where he immediate fell asleep.
Emma and Ben went downs stairs and into the kitchen where they got something to drink.
"You were really good with him M's" Ben said
"Thanks, that wasn't the first time, just the first time you haven't been sober enough to help" Emma said
Ben laughed
"So Benny do you want me to take you home or do you want to sleep in Nate's bed tonight?" Emma asked
"M's you look exhausted so I guess I just stay here" Ben replied
" No, its no problem if you want to go home I could take you"
"No, its fine I'll just stay here, I'm tired myself"
Emma smiled at him and rinsed out her glass
"Ok I guess if that's what you want, I do feel better that someone else is in the house and not just me just incase something happens with Ry and I need help, come on lets go check on him"
The two of them walked up stairs and into Ryan's room where he was still sleeping peacefully (if you call peacefully snoring like a chainsaw).
"Benny I think I'm going to stay in here tonight just incase he needs something" Emma said as she sat down on the floor with her back against the wall " You can go to Nate's or my room if you want I don't care"
Ben sat down next to her
"No M's I'm going to stay here with you, I don't want you to be alone with him just incase something happens"
"Thanks" Emma said and she laid her head on his shoulder and he wrapped his arm around her shoulders pulling her closer. They were silent for a few minutes but Ben broke the silence
"Emma do you remember what we were talking about when were out on the balcony?" Ben asked
"Mhum" Emma said sleepily into his shoulder
"Well I never got to finish and I though I would now" Ben said getting nervous but he knew that now was the best time to tell her how he felt.
"So" He paused trying to find the right words to tell her " Emma I want you to know that over the summer I developed feelings for you, not brotherly feelings… and what I'm trying to say is that I like you Emma, I like you a lot." Ben held his breath waiting for her response, but she said nothing. Ben's stomach sank.
"Emma did you hear me?" his whispered franticly. There was no reply. Ben's heart begin to race, he looked down at her and tilted her face so he could see her eyes, but her eye's were closed and she was breathing deeply.
She's aslee,p Ben thought, I just confessed that I liked her and she fell asleep before I could tell her. Ben laughed nervously to himself. I have the worst luck. He took a deep breath and stood up. He bent down and scooped Emma up into his arms and carried her over to he couch Ryan had in his room. Ben laid down and then laid Emma down next to him so her head was resting on his chest. He wrapped his arms around her torso and got comfortable. Absentmindedly he stroked her hair as he fell into a peaceful sleep.
Hey guys I didn't have much to do today so I wrote another chapter. I don't think that the next chapter will be out nearly as fast since the week is about to begin and I have school and such, but I'll do my best to have the next chapter up on Wednesday. I really like this chapter and I hope that you guys do as well. Review and let me know if you like it or make suggestions on what I could to to make this a better story. Thanks to every one who has reviewed i heart you all!