Disclaimer: I do not own Ben 10 or any of the characters. I own a TV that features Ben 10.

BTW: the dates are followed by my ... old diary... so the days that are skipped were the days I didn't write any entries on my ... old diary...

And the date and time isn't important. And again I followed that old diary thing... just the date and time... not the entry l you get what I mean.

Same goes for the previous chapters.

Bold and centered are part of Ben's journal.

One summer

28th June 2006; 4.37am

Ok I know I'm not writing at a reasonable time but it wasn't safe to take this out with Grandpa and Gwen awake. I hate to admit it, but sometimes I feel that I have nothing in common with Grandpa or Gwen. Mostly Grandpa. I don't know why though. Just feel like it…

Anyway, we went to an amusement park earlier. It was so totally awesome. I got on some rides that were just heart ripping. Gwen looked really green. She must have felt sick because of those rides I dragged her to. Well she deserved it. Forced Grandpa and me to go to the mall. What is it with girls and shopping?

Ben, Gwen and Grandpa Max walked through the pathway of the shopping mall. Grandpa had the look that ached as he forced himself to smile. Gwen was smiling happily while she strolled in front of shops with shopping bags in her palms. Ben looked as though he was going to be sick if he stepped inside another shop selling clothes again.

It was hell for me. Grandpa got away soon. He said he was going to find some cans of food for the food supply. Does that make sense? Meanwhile I got stuck with Gwen and her shopping.

"Come on Ben, just one more shop until Grandpa comes back!" yelled Gwen, dragging her cousin alongside her. "If you don't, I'll tell Grandpa and you won't get to go to that amusement park you've been bragging about.

Thinking what she said was true; Ben followed Gwen into the final shop for the day. At least that's what Ben thought. "Fine. But just because I'm here doesn't mean you can boss me around."

"Ok. What is it with you and shops?"

"I could ask you the same thing."

Once in the shop, Gwen began browsing through the clothes. Ben sat down on some seats, his back facing the dressing room while Gwen went in. "This is such a waste of time…" muttered Ben under his breath. A while later, the door of the dressing room Gwen was in opened and Gwen asked, "How do I look?"

Man you should have seen her. She looked really awesome. By that, I mean really pretty. That white sundress with green highlights totally brought out her eyes. Hey! What am I talking about here…

Gwen raised an eyebrow thinking why Ben hasn't responded. 'He's just looking at me like that. Why is he looking at me like that?'

"Ben? Ben? Earth to Ben. Are you there?"

"What?" Ben snapping out of his daydream responded quickly, "Oh yeah. Cool. You look- great."

I'm such a cheese head!!

"Thanks Ben," Gwen implied changing back into her usual wear.

Now that's the best part about going shopping with Gwen. Seeing her wear her new clothes. And especially when Grandpa isn't there, I'm the one she asks. Isn't that so cool. Um, I mean in a sisterly way…

"Great! Now it's my turn to enjoy and your turn to suffer!" criticised Ben.

"Yeah right, whatever. Just don't drag me along those rides."

"Drag you along? That's a great idea!"

"What!? Ben no!"

"Come on Gwen. You know you want to. Especially when there's a tunnel of love," Ben grinned at the insult and all Gwen could do was yell, "Pervert!"

"Now Gwen, you know Ben was just kidding. Weren't you Ben?" piped in Grandpa.

Still grinning, Ben replied, "Yeah, of course I was…"

Gwen gave Ben a disgusted look.

Well, about that tunnel of love thing, I was not kidding. Well, part of me was. And yippee…Gwen took the idea of going to the tunnel of love with me- wondrously…

While on the way to the park, Gwen kept eyeing Ben. She couldn't stand going on rides. It always made her feel sick. Her eyes lingered to his face, then down to his wrist. The omnitrix, according to aliens that had tried to steal it a few days ago held secrets. Over the past few days, a number of aliens had tried to take the omnitrix. All those times they tried but they failed. Not only did Ben use the omnitrix to get rid of those aliens, but he also helps people. That thought made Gwen smiled to herself. Unfortunately, Ben caught her staring at him. Giving a puzzled look, he asked, "What?"

I could have sworn she was looking straight at me. And she was smiling. What was her deal anyway?

Ben looked at his cousin that seemed offended to his harsh tone. Seeing that, he added, "You ok?"

Woah she seemed really sad or something. Maybe I sounded really rude. Gwen, come on. Say something…

"Yeah, I'm fine."

Sometimes I miss her voice. When she doesn't talk that is.

Before Ben could say anything else, Grandpa piped in, "We're here. Steel City amusement park." (Steel City is from Teen Titans :)

"Great! Come on Gwen," exclaimed Ben excitedly as Grandpa smiled happily to himself.

Grandpa left me and Gwen alone because he saw one of his friends there, those retired plumber guys… But it was kinda boring there. You know, the usual… Enterprise, tilt- a- whirl and 'the' graviton. Those rides are so kindergarten. But the roller coaster was Fun! That's where Gwen looked all sick.

"Come on Gwen, hurry up! Just one more ride," Ben asked, more like begged.

"Fine. But this is the last ride I'm going to go on. Got it?"

"Yeah, ok whatever. Let's go!" Ben exclaimed, pulling his cousin into the line. "This is going to take forever!" Ben cried as he peeked to the front of the line, which was barely visible through the crowd of people standing in front of him.

"Guess we'll go then. Maybe next time Ben," Gwen alleged hopefully. Before she could step out of line, Ben grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him.

Whoa! Her arm is so soft.

Face only inches apart, Ben sneered, "Sorry. There's no backing out Gwen."

"So that's why I feel hopeless…" Gwen whispered sarcastically to herself.

After a few moments of waiting, they finally got in the ride. Ben pulled Gwen to the seat at the front. During the whole ride, Gwen kept squeezing the metal bar and screaming like it was the end of the world.

I guess that 'Kangaroo Commando' ride that we took last time really made an effect on her. This calls for extreme measures.

Ben took Gwen's hand and squeezed it lightly while whispering into her ear, "It's alright. You're gonna be fine." Gwen held out her breath that she didn't know she had been holding and braced for impact as the ride went down, making it look as though they were about to crash. She squeezed Ben's hand tightly as the ride went crashing down.

Ok. So if we don't get to go into the tunnel of love, it's still ok. Because Gwen held my hand throughout the whole ride! Which was like 5 minutes or more or something.

As the ride came to a stop, Ben asked a shaking Gwen, "You alright?"

"Yeah. I'm fine. Thanks Ben," she replied staring into his eyes. He did the same. After a few seconds, Gwen realised what she was doing and tore her gaze towards the crowd, only to see Grandpa walking towards them.

"Ready to go kids?"

"Yeah," Gwen simply replied. Looking at Ben, she asked, "Um, Ben. Can I have my hand back?"

"What?" Bern answered, looking down to their still interlocked hands, he laughed slyly, "Yeah. Sure. Sorry."

Gwen giggled and followed Grandpa to the RV.

Ben stared dreamily at Gwen. Soon enough, he started to make his move back to the RV.

Some day, I swear I'm gonna drag her to the tunnel of love. Someday…

-Ben

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