It's the middle of the night, but I haven't slept. I can't. He loves me. The thought bounces around in my head, and I need to tell someone. Rose. I need Rose. I get up, put in something a little more appropriate for walking around in, and tiptoe down the hall to her room. I open the door, walk in, and kick her bed.
"Rose!"
"Rey! What in the world?"
"I need to tell you something."
"That's why you kick my bed and wake me up in the middle of the night?"
"It's important."
"What is it?"
"It's Ben."
"What about him?" She asks. "Geez I'm having deja vu. Didn't we have this conversation when I woke up from my coma?"
"Yes, but it's different now."
"How so?"
"Rose, he loves me."
"How do you know?"
"It says so on his file."
"Well. That's not subtle."
I sit down on her bed. "No. No it's not. What do I do?"
"Confront him?"
"How?"
"Call him in, and talk to him about it?"
"But Rose, I only like him. I don't love him yet."
"Oh. So you don't think you can talk to him about it."
"He loses his mind if things don't go the way he hopes. He'd bring the entire resistance if I told him I didn't love him yet."
"So then why are you still with him?"
"Because- oh Rose you're a genius!" I hug her, and run back to my own room where I get a good night's sleep.
The next day, I summon Ben.
"How are the files going?"
"Good, good. You were the last one so now I have to wait for Rose to finish with the tech."
I show him the design for the bracelet. "Interesting." He says when he sees it.
"Ben, we need to talk about something serious." I say. "I saw what you wrote on your file. That you loved me." His face goes red. "Ben, I love you too."
His face loses all color. "No." He gets up and runs. Towards the escape pods.
"Ben!" I follow him into the escape pod.
"You can't love me."
"Why not?"
"Because you said so yourself. I'm a monster." He says as he pushes me out of the pod and launches into space.
"NO!" I jump up and run to the window where I can see the pod, flying away from me.