I'm back for another one-shot. So many suggestions on pairings but I chose the majority which was Ethan x Benny.
This little story is set on the night of Re-vamped.
At the end, as Ethan is resting...
Enjoy.
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Ethan sighed again as he looked about the room.
This whole night hadn't gone according to plan, no, it changed so many aspects of their lives...especially Sarahs...
'Why did I have to get bitten?' He thought as he tried to shake off the sleepiness in his system.
"Why...? Because of me Sarah is a vampire...it's all my fault...she's lost her life now..." He muttered into the darkness.
"Hey Buddy" A voice greeted out of no where nearly startling the crap out of him.
Ethan looked about in the darkness but couldn't identify anything.
"Benny-?" He called out even though he recognized his best friend's voice.
"Yeah?" The other asked still hiding in the dark room.
"Where are you? What time is it? Are my parents-?"
"Whoa, one question at a time, Ethan" Benny retorted probably grinning. "I'm right here, it's like two in the morning, and your parents are asleep. Grandma reassured them that you were fine"
"...so, why are you here?" The drowsy boy then asked, even though he didn't know where exactly his friend was.
"Umm...Grandma told me to look after you"
*Flashback*
"Come on let's get home" Benny's grandma said as she gathered her things. "He just needs to rest" She reassured Ethan's parents after explaining a false account of a stairs incident at the dance.
"Err, maybe I should stay here" Benny had said when his grandma had already began dragging him half way out the door. She had been on his case because he wouldn't let Ethan be.
"I already told you that he'll be fine" His grandma said giving her grandson a look. Benny just shrugged shyly and looked at Ethan's parents.
"May I stay?" He asked with a kind smile. "To you know, make sure hes alright over night..."
"Of course" Ethan's mother said with a smile of gratitude. "Ethan is so lucky to have such a caring 'friend'.
Benny instantly flushed at that and looked back at his grandmother.
"Fine. Do what you like, but don't do anything rash and make sure no heart racing activities for Ethan, we can't have him overly excited in his condition" The woman said giving Benny a look of, 'I know everything', before heading off.
Benny didn't exactly know what she had meant by that, so he was fairly certain Ethan's parents wouldn't understand either.
"Do you have any idea what she was talking about-?" Ethan's father asked only earning a shrug from Benny. The man looked to his wife but the woman only giggled a bit and turned into the house with a exasperated sigh.
"Men" She muttered under her breath.
...
"Huh" Ethan said back as his eyebrows furrowed.
"What?" Benny asked.
"Oh, umm...I just kind of expected her to force you to leave, I mean earlier she was getting pretty annoyed because you were hanging about"
"...I guess she wanted someone to make sure you were fine" Benny said back a bit nervously.
Ethan moved in his bed which instantly made Benny grasp his arm in the dark.
"What are you doing?" The taller one of the two asked with a raised tone.
"Turning on the lights" The other answered.
"No" Benny blurted out making Ethan sit back.
"Why not?"
"You need to rest, just lay back down"
"Then, you turn them on" Ethan shot back.
"No"
"Why not?"
"Because..." Benny paused and thought hard but no logical reason would come to his mind so in that moment of hesitation Ethan had sat up and turned on the light, illuminating the room.
Ethan turned to look at Benny and found himself surprised.
Benny's eyes were puffy red and he had signs of tears on his cheeks, upon the tear stain cheeks was now a deep blush.
Benny instantly looked away as Ethan felt something pull within his gut.
'That face Benny made...' He thought to himself as his gut pulled once again, 'was...cu-'
"Turn off the light" Benny demanded as he kept trying to hide his face. But Ethan sat still and touched Benny's head, who by now was sitting on the floor on the side of his bed.
"Why were you crying?" He asked as he placed his hand on the others shoulder.
"I wasn't, I just had something...in my eye" The other out right lied.
"Benny" Ethan called out in a worried tone. "Why were you crying...?"
"I wasn't" The other lied once again.
"Yes, you were and I want to know why" Ethan shot back.
"I wasn't" The other shot back as his voice cracked a bit.
"Benny-"
"I wasn't crying!"
"Tell me!"
"I wasn't-"
"Stop lying and tell me why you were-"
"It was because of you" Benny suddenly blurted out before digging his face into his knees. "...I was crying because of you..."
"But why?" Ethan asked a bit shocked and embarrassed.
'Why would Benny cry for me...?'
"Your grandma said I was going to be fine"
"...I know" Benny muttered with a sob. "But watching you like...this made me realize that I could have lost my best friend..."
Ethan felt his cheeks heat up a bit as Benny looked up and rest his head on his mattress.
"I could have lost you Ethan" Benny stated as he patted said boy's hair.
And just then Ethan heard that thought wander into his mind. 'His face...looks so...cut-'
"And that would have...been so..." Benny paused in the middle of his sentence and felt himself lost, he had no idea on how to describe what he would've felt. It was just so hurtful and sad...and horrible...
"Terrible" He then said feeling as if that word came pretty close to what he wanted to say.
The boy patted Ethan's hair more as he broke out into a smile.
"Why didn't you tell me that then...?" Ethan asked after several more seconds and pats.
"...you know me Ethan, I don't like showing...this kind of stuff...in fact you're the only one who ever sees me like this..."
Ethan smiled a bit at that and couldn't help noting that what he had just said meant this was like his own part of Benny that no one outside of him got to experience...if he wasn't wrong then that in fact made him feel quite...special.
"I like when you show it though" Ethan said back not really knowing he was going to say it at all.
Benny gave him a curious glance but smirked again.
"Oh, and whys that?"
"I don't know" Ethan answered truthfully. "It just...makes me realize that you might actually trust me more to see it than others..."
Ethan's cheeks burned up as Benny giggled a bit.
"You're sometimes too cute for your own good" Benny muttered before he could stop himself.
"What?" Ethan asked when he had snapped out of his mind.
"Huh?" Benny asked back just as dumb struck.
"You said something?" The boy asked earning a disagreeing nod.
"No" Benny lied as his cheeks flushed once again.
The conversation had pretty much drowned on until they decided to get to bed, it turned out that Benny had been sleeping on the cold hard floor this whole time, on account that Ethan was the only one who knew where the spare blankets were.
Seeing as he didn't want his friend to sleep uncomfortably Ethan offered him half off his bed.
Benny had first refused but Ethan and dragged him forcefully before nodding off into a deep sleep.
Now,
Benny laid full awake in the comfort of Ethan's bed, quite noted on that fact that said boy, Ethan, was using him as his pillow.
It wasn't the thought of the position that made him uncomfortable, no, what made him uncomfortable was the fact that he was in fact comfortable. Yes, he was quite comfortable with Ethan resting his head on his chest, he was quite comfortable with said boy wrapping his arms around him, and he was extremely comfortable enough to kiss Ethan's forehead with a small smile.
"...you...don't know how much you mean to me..." Benny muttered as he closed his eyes to give in to the sleep that was finally trying to consume him.
"...Benny..." The other mumbled in his sleep as he tried to bury his head further into the other.
Yeah, this was okay...I mean sure this strayed from normal but hey, maybe they're just indeed that close.
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I hoped you enjoyed but if you wish for more than enjoy this small scene from somewhere out of my mind. (Don't ask about where this its in time because I have no freakin clue).
"You still listen to this?" Benny asked with a face as he grabbed one of the ear phones from his best friend, Ethan.
"Yeah" The other said casually as he pulled away slightly embarrassed. "I like it"
"But dude, it's Ke$ha, and it's an old chick song"
"It's not that old" Ethan retorted.
"But it's still a chick song" Benny said back with a grin.
Ethan rolled his eyes at him and continued to listen to it.
For an unknown reason Benny kept one of the headphone buds and listened to the song.
'Whats so great about it...' He wondered.
"What you got boy is hard to find. I think about it all the time."
"It's okay...I guess..." Benny mumbled to Ethan who smiled a bit at him.
"I'm all strung out, my heart is fried, I just can't get you off my mind."
Benny kept staring at Ethan who mouthed the lyrics softly, strangely enough his lips were like hypnotizing to him.
"Because your love your love your love is my drug. Your love your love your love."
Now this may be strange but during the song all Benny could think about were all the good times he had with Ethan, everything, even up to the vampire slayings and possessed animal attacks.
"I said your love your love your love is my drug, your love your love your love-"
The music was cut off when the Ethan exited his player suddenly.
"So, is my love your drug?" Benny heard him ask making his cheeks burn quickly.
"What!" Benny asked out in surprise and shock.
"I just said if you wanted to stay over" Ethan said with a furrowed eyebrows.
"Oh..." Benny mumbled back as he blushed even more.
'This is why Ke$ha songs are bad...' He thought bitterly.
...
And there you go, so, umm...I guess this is goodbye, but not forever, no, not forever...
I promise to be back, but until then you're the man of the house, okay? So, make sure your mom doesn't become a cheating whore and that your sister is fed regularly, you know how mommy forgets when shes wasted.
- Peace.
Oh, and sorry for any grammar mistakes, didn't proof read that much.