Chapter 5

As Ben made his way up behind the bully planning to just make that sniveling coward beg for mercy from the small boy that he was standing over, Ben was coming up behind the bully so the first one to see him was the boy on the ground, he saw the other hulking jock coming and his eyes went wide as he curled In on himself thinking things were about to get a lot worse. Ben stopped in his tracks on his way over thee and just stared at the little thing, those eyes were like nothing he had ever seen before one was a really deep blue while the other was blood red, it was amazing and Ben wanted to see them again, he changed his course. Ben's goal was to no longer get the bully it was to protect the small boy cowering away from him.

Ben was no almost on top of the bully and kid with amazing eyes, He looked closer at the boy and his heart skipped a beat in his chest, the kid was really small, not so small that you couldn't tell he was in high school but small enough to wake up Ben's protective instincts. Ben walked up to the guy and tapped him on the shoulder, "Is there a problem here?" he asked in a gruff voice unable to remove his eyes from the boy on the floor.

"There wont be any pal if you just walk away from me and my little friend here" the jock said unaware that he was playing with fire that more than burn you, Ben's eyes light up in a dangerous way, and he dragged the idiot closer to him by the collar of his shirt and stared him straight in the eyes.

"Listen here pal I don't take to threats to kindly, just like I don't take to good for nothing bullies to well, as a matter of fact you are probably going to hit by me less if you threaten me than if you threaten someone else, but sense you, pal, did both I can assure you that you are going to regret it"

"And who the hell are you, the Nerd protector or something?" the guy sneered hiding the small amount of fear coursing through him behind bravado all of a sudden the new guy slammed him into the lockers misjudging the distance of where the boy still coward on the floor and startling him nearly slamming the big football player into him. Ben flinched and yanked the football player a safer distance from the boy.

"Call me what you what you want, Jack Ass, just know this if I ever catch you anywhere near this kid again I will personally introduce your dick to the inside of your ass," with that he let the jock fall to the ground in a heap and quickly scrambled away knowing by the look in the new guys eyes that he was getting off easy and that it was not an empty threat. With that Ben knelt down in front of the boy that was now looking at him with fear in his eyes and started to murmur comforting words to get him to calm down, and know that he was safe.

Meanwhile Ben's friends, with the exception of D, where watching him with complete and total shock. D just stood there smirking not the least bit fazed, he saw it when Ben froze on his way over and could practically see the boy toppling over with love at first sight and was laughing his ass off in his head as he watched his other two friends try to pic up their jaws of the floor as they watched their big bad friend that could probably snap the necks of over half the people in this school without even breaking a sweat coo and try to calm down this little slip of a thing cowering on the floor. D looked over at Kevin and Nat and saw them staring after the retreating football player in complete shock. D sauntered over to them.

"Who is the kid that was being bullied, I need everything you know," He said with a completely straight face although he had trouble looking Kevin in the eye, a little thing that caught Nat's attention causing him to smirk, a relieved smirk knowing that his friends love for the new guy is by no means one sided. Kevin looked at Nat knowing that if anyone knew anything it would be Nat, it wasn't uncommon to find Nat defending people from the jerks in the school and that one kid gets bullied a lot.

"Well his name is Ciel and he is a senior just like us, he is super smart and is in all advanced classes, he could have graduated when he was 12 but decided to wait until the year he is supposed to graduate, he is kinda small for being 17 but he is really fast, it is just him and his mother his father died when he was 2 and his mother is never around so he is by himself a lot, he doesn't have very many friends even though he is a very friendly person, I think it is because he intimidates other people with how smart he is, a lot of the jocks bully him into doing their homework, he goes to counseling regularly sense he made a suicide attempt last year, Now tell me why do you need to know all of this? And when are you and Kevin going on you first date? Why are those two guys over there picking there jaws up off the floor? Is that good looking blond dating anyone? If so, who? How much do you think it would take to break up whoever he is with..." Kevin put his hand over Nat's mouth stemming all of the questions that where spewing out of his mouth at an alarming rate, How the hell was he able to say all of that in only one breath? I am a swimmer I can hold my breath for over 15 minutes UNDER WATER and I can't even do that. D thought trying to take in all that he had heard but his mind was stuck on one question and all the rest became a blank in his mind. While the question kept repeating over and over in his mind Kevin was silently wishing that was the one question D DIDN"T hear.

Even though D desperately wanted to ask Nat why he thought him and Kevin would be going on a date, he refrained thinking Ben I more important at the moment, then the rest of Nat's questions soaked into his mind and he couldn't stop the smirk from forming on his face.

" Well Nat that was very informative and to answer some of you questions, David is not currently in a relationship and getting him to go on a date with you will take a lot of effort, he has been hurt a lot so if you are serious then you will need to be both pushy and patient with him, and I needed to know all of this because my friend Ben over there is probably going to be perusing that boy over there in a romantic way and I wish to help in any way that I can, and those two jokers are in shock because Ben left that guy off with just a warning and he doesn't usually take into account other people when he is trying to teach a 'lesson' and there was no blood so they are still trying to figure out what is going on with him." he said all of this fast but it in no way came close to Nat's.

Now that Ben had gotten the boy calmed down they started to make their way over to the group, most of which still had a dumbfounded look on their faces with the small boy in toe. It was quiet for a minute before D let his curiosity and overactive imagination get the best of him and couldn't stop himself from asking the question that was burning on the tip of his tongue.

"If you don't mind my asking, Nat, why would you ask when me and Kevin would be going on a date?"with that everyone turned to look at the three as Kevin's face turned as red as his hair, most of them sporting a smirk , all having known about Kevin's crush for a long time.

Edd walked over to D and tried to sling his arm around the taller boys shoulders and failing do to lack of height, shaking off the annoyance in favor of embarrassing his old rival and new friend, " well you see Double D..."