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Chapter 7 – Finally

Katie was curious. Benny and Alex had disappeared upstairs together a few hours before and hadn't been seen since.

"Chris, what do you think is up with Alex and Benny?" she asked. Chris shrugged his shoulders.

"No idea. I really want to know though. I'm seriously confused."

"Chris, you're always confused." Katie replied, rolling her eyes at her boyfriend.

"Yeah, but that's what you love about me." Chris said, sticking his tongue out at Katie.

"Keep telling yourself that babe. I'm going upstairs to see what they're up to." Katie said, getting up from her seat on the sofa and walking towards the stairs.

"Hey, wait for me." Chris said as he grabbed his crutches from next to him and slowly stood up, relying completely on his crutches for support.

"Chris, what are you doing?" Katie asked.

"I'm coming up with you. There's no way that I am missing this. Even if it does take me an hour to get up those stairs." Chris slowly made his way to the bottom of the stairs and attempted to get up them using his crutches. He had managed to climb two of the steps in the time that it took Katie to walk up all of them.

"Come on slowcoach!" she called back down to him.

"I'll be there in a bit, go on without me. You're dying to see what's happened." Chris called back up to her. Katie nodded her head and almost ran to Alex's room. She lightly knocked on the door but didn't get any reply. She could hear the muffled sound of the TV coming from inside of the room. Unable to wait any longer she tentatively opened the door and took in the sight in front of her. Alex and Benny were both laid on the bed, Benny's head on Alex's chest and her arms around him. One of Alex's arms was around Benny's waist while the other one was tangled in her hair. Both of them had slight smiles on their faces. Katie smiled at her friends. It was about time. Ever since Benny admitted her feelings to Katie, she had been waiting for it. Chris had already told Katie about Alex's feelings towards Benny and as soon as she found out that Benny returned the feelings she began to think of ways to get the two of them together. However from the looks of things, Katie's plans wouldn't be needed. It looked like Alex and Benny would become a couple without any outside interference. Katie heard Chris come up behind her and turned around to face him.

"Chris, you've got to see this." She whispered, pushing the door open a bit further. Chris looked in the room and saw Alex and Benny.

"Awww, how sweet." He said just as Katie took off down the hall, "Where are you going?" he asked curiously.

"Where do you think? I'm getting the camera. I have to have a picture of this. Plus, you know how easily Benny gets embarrassed. We could have a lot of fun with this picture." She pointed out as she ran into hers and Chris's room and grabbed the camera off of the table. She quickly ran back to Chris and snapped a couple of pictures before turning back to face Chris.
"Done. Now come on, we've got to print this picture out tonight if my plan's going to work." She said as she carefully dragged Chris into their room and turned on the laptop. She quickly printed out the pictures before going to bed, thinking about her latest plan.

Alex woke early the next morning. He still had his arms around Benny from the night before. He looked down and smiled at her. She was still partially lying on him. Alex didn't want to have to move but he really needed something to eat. He carefully tried to manoeuvre Benny off of him but instead of letting go, her grip tightened on him meaning that he could hardly move. Alex was about to nudge her slightly to wake her up when she suddenly spoke.

"Alex…" she said sleepily. Thinking that she had woken up Alex quickly looked at her face. Her eyes were still closed and she had a smile on her face. She was clearly still asleep and in the middle of a dream. Alex smiled to himself. She had been dreaming of him. Alex was thinking about whether to wake her up or not when she spoke again.

"Love Alex." Alex's heart froze temporarily. Had he heard her right? He swore that she said, "Love Alex," but no, she couldn't have. There was no way that Benny loved him was there? Taking matters into his own hands he nudged her gently in the side repeatedly until she woke up, rubbing her eyes.

"What's going on? Why are you waking me up? I was in the middle of a good dream." She said groggily.

"Sorry Benny, but I really need something to eat but I couldn't move as, well you're kind of lying on me." Alex said. Benny blushed as she quickly moved to get off of Alex.

"I'm sorry; I really didn't mean to fall asleep. I was just really tired and you were too comfy." She apologised.

"It's alright Benny. I'm going to go and get something to eat. Do you want anything?" he asked. She nodded her head.

"Yeah, can you get me a granola bar please? I'll be in my room so drop it in on your way back." She said as she started to get off the bed. Alex pushed her back down and she fell back onto the bed, staring at Alex with a confused expression.

"Stay here. I um … need to talk to you. I'll be back in a minute." He said as he walked out the door leaving Benny sat on the bed wondering what was wrong. Barely a minute had past before Alex entered the room again, clutching a granola bar for Benny and a couple of slices of toast for himself. He silently shut the door behind him and went and sat down on the bed next to Benny. He looked at her; she had a curious and slightly worried look on her face. Alex took a deep breath before speaking.

"Um, this morning when you were sleeping, before you woke up, you said something. Something concerning me." He said, keeping his eyes fixed on Benny's face. Benny cast her mind back to the dream she had had that night. It had involved her and Alex on the beach in Florida, walking hand in hand, talking. It was when she thought about her dream that she realised what she had said. She had told him that she loved him. Benny blushed bright red and quickly turned her head away from Alex so that he couldn't see her face. Alex noticed this and put his hand under her chin, gently moving her face so that she was facing him again. Benny hastily dropped her eyes, clearly trying to avoid eye contact with Alex.

"Benny, look at me. Please Benny, just look at me. I'm not mad or anything, I promise. Please?" Alex said softly to Benny, still holding her chin. Slowly, very slowly her eyes came up to meet his. Alex was shocked to see that there were tears sparkling in them. He quickly pulled Benny into a comforting hug.

"Benny, what's wrong?"

"I… I shouldn't have said it. It was stupid. I…" she was cut off by Alex suddenly interrupting.

"Benny, I'm going to say something now, and if you run away or freak out I don't blame you, I know I would if I were you. I just need to tell you, especially after what you said this morning. I…I love you Benny. I always have, ever since we met. I never told you before because I was worried that I would lose you as a friend, but the accident showed me that I have to make the most of my time. So, I'm telling you. I love you," he said, looking Benny right in the eye. Benny stared at him in disbelief; he loved her. She had been waiting for him to say that for years. She smiled at Alex.

"I love you too." She whispered, only just loud enough for Alex to hear.

"What?"

"I love you too." She said, slightly louder this time. She watched his face as the expression on it changed from confusion, to understanding, to happiness.

"Really?" he said, his face lighting up just like a little kids at Christmas. Benny giggled slightly as she nodded her head, keeping her eyes fixed on Alex.

"Really."

"So, um you won't mind if I do this then?" Alex asked as he slowly leaned in towards her. Benny didn't move; she had waited for this for so long, she wasn't going to stop it now. Alex slowly got closer and closer before finally, his lips met hers. Fireworks went off in Benny's head. Benny wrapped her arms around Alex's neck as the kiss continued. After about a minute the need to breathe got the best of them and they slowly parted. Benny kept her arms around Alex's neck as he bent his forehead down to meet hers. They sat like that for a moment, thinking about their kiss. Benny was the first to speak.

"Wow, um, that was …"
"Amazing." Alex finished, smiling widely at her.

"So, what's going on with us then?" Benny asked quietly.

"Well, I just told you that I love you and you said that you love me so, I'm guessing that that makes us boyfriend and girlfriend. If that's ok with you." Alex said laughing.

"That's fine with me, but can we not tell Katie and Chris. We can have some fun confusing them." she said, a mischievous glint in her eyes.

"Sounds like fun. So, do I get one more kiss before we start 'operation confuse Chris and Katie'?"

"Of course." Benny said before pressing her lips to Alex's. Their second kiss lasted longer than their first and was much more passionate. After breaking apart for the second time they gazed into each other's eyes. Before either of them could say anything, they were rudely interrupted by a loud knock at the door.

"Alex, Benny, wake up. We know that you're probably extremely comfy and everything, but we've got lots to do today. Come on lovebirds, you've got thirty seconds before we come in." they heard Katie shout from the hallway. Rolling their eyes at her, they got up from the bed.

"We better go see what she wants. Come on Alex, we've got lots of confusing to do."

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So, what do you think? I'm not too keen on the ending, but I really didn't know how to end this chapter. They've finally admitted their feelings though.

Sorry that it's taken me so long to update, I had trouble writing this chapter and then as soon as I finished it, my computer died so I wasn't able to post it. Hope you liked it though. Please review and tell me what you thought, all reviews and constructive criticism are greatly appreciated.

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