So a friend of mine comes up to me and tells me that she's getting married... and she's still in high school! (I will never understand the logic behind this) but who are we to judge? So I guess that's where the idea came from. H8TERS gonna hate anyway!
Chapter 8: A good girl gone bad
PLANET MECKA
"YOU LET HIM GET AWAY?" you stupid bitch, how could you let a plumber like Kevin Eleven get away? Now he'll expose us" yelled Morgg abandoning his usual calm demeanour. "And now I have to deal with this on top of preparing for the 'homicidal kids' gang who will be on us any day now"
"You told him that you were going to let him go anyway once he helped us" said Revenna chained by her arms to the leg of the chair that Morgg was sitting on.
"I was only going to release him if he joined us, Revenna and now I have to come up with a plan to get him. That's twice you have failed me now because of Kevin, clearly you still have a soft spot for him, and If I didn't know better you probably helped him escape"
"No 'sir' I didn't, I wouldn't!" she said but Morgg thought he could see right through her.
"Shut up, you useless, pathetic piece of pointless shit, I don't want to hear your fucking voice unless you're begging for your life!".
"No!I have to say this, this isn't my fault! he used his Osmosian powers to escape!" she yelled, daring to raising her voice at Morgg.
The whole filthy basement room went quiet as outraged gangsters preparing with the stolen weapons for war, looked from Morgg to Revenna because of her doing what no one had ever done before, disobey Morgg. Speak out of turn. Raise her voice at him...
"Did you just disobey a direct command? Do you want me to keep you alive long enough just for you to beg me to kill you?" he said dangerously leaning close to her face. She stared up at him in what looked like discontent. This made his blood boil, she had the beginnings of a traitor.
"S'PHOLA!" He yelled at the crowd of gangsters of which a dark thin man wearing an Arab veil around his face so only his stoned yellow eyes could be seen, who was carrying a giant steel pipe came to the front of the pack and stood before Morgg.
"Give her 'the bend over' punishment, I want to see her bleed from the inside!" he spat
"NOOOOO!" screamed Revenna in fear.
Morgg turned back to Revenna "This is your punishment Revenna, you know you deserve it!".
"Please 'sir' don't do this; I'll try harder next time!" she begged abandoning any form of bravery she had displayed earlier as she heard what her punishment was.
"I know you will, but for now" he said turning to S'phola "Bend her over, and make sure it hurts".
"No!" she exclaimed trying to get away from him by tugging on the chain that binded her to the chair as S'phola advanced on her.
"Get away from me!' she screamed as he grabbed her shoulders and taunted her "Bend over Bitch, I'm going up your ass" he said holding up the steel pipe and pinning her to the ground. He sat on her back and tore open her jumpsuit near her lower back… and she screamed in pain as the rest of the gangsters watched in amusement.
Meanwhile Morgg got up and went to Igazi puffing out a cloud of smoke from a pipe made of glass, waiting for him at the back of the basement. "You're lucky I still need you Igazi, or you would have the same fate as Revenna" he said over Revenna's screams of pain.
"We underestimated Kevin's abilities, it won't happen again" he said
"I know it won't, but anyway, Choppa went back to the supply station planet and found video footage of what happened, so here's what you're gonna do..."
LOS SOLEDAD
"Oh my God, Kevin" she said breathlessly to her boyfriend holding up a box with a ring inside.
"I'm so afraid of being apart from you again, and I'm so afraid of being alone, my mom is with someone who will make her happy, that it'll make her forget about me, you're all I have left Gwen
She nodded her head at him "Yes, Kevin Ethan Levin I will marry you" she said smiling tears of happiness, but forgetting that she was still a high school girl, she was caught up in her worldwind of emotions and if marrying Kevin was the only way to keep him from self-destruction then she was willing to do it.
He slipped the ring on her finger and she leapt into his arms as they both hugged each other in the light of the streetlamp.
"I can't believe we're doing this, I wonder what my parents will say" said Gwen
"I'm tired of waiting, my life seems to be moving backwards and I need something to look forward to that doesn't involve that gang"
THE TENNYSON HOUSE(GWEN'S HOUSE)
When Kevin pulled up to Gwen's house, she hid her left hand as she walked up the driveway and saw her brother Ken taking out the trash and staring discontentedly at her and Kevin in his car. She had completely forgotten that she had snuck out.
"Where have you been? you didn't tell us that you were leaving the house" said Ken as she passed him.
"Sorry, must have forgotten" she said simply.
Ken had had enough of her changing behaviour, and he walked to where Kevin had parked his car.
"Hey Kevin, mind if we talk a little before you go?" he asked calmly from the sidewalk.
Kevin got out of the car and followed Ken up the driveway.
"Want one?" asked Ken holding out cigarettes to him before taking one himself.
"Erm, no thanks" Kevin said
Ken lit up a smoke and puffed out a cloud of smoke before saying "It's the first time I've seen my sister so happy in a long time, and it just so happens to be when you come around".
"She's my girlfriend; I'm supposed to make her happy" said Kevin shrugging.
"Cut the bullshit Kevin" he said all of a sudden hostile. Kevin was taken aback by his sudden hostility; he had known Ken to be a rather cool person.
"I'm a guy as well and I know your type, you bad boy wannabe's think that you can get what you want from good girls like my sister until she's no longer good enough for you"
"You know I'm not like that" said Kevin defensively.
"I know good girls can't resist a bad boy, and you seem to have her conforming to your ways already".
"I don't know what you mean"
"Gwen's been sneaking out of the house, ignoring her friends, and has appeared to be miserable for a long time, the all of a sudden she's happy again in the blink of an eye and it's because you showed up". Kevin realised that she had done this because of his absence, but he couldn't tell Ken that.
"I didn't know that, I didn't tell her to do that for me, besides, I guess you don't know your sister as well as I do because I know that Gwen would never change for anybody".
"Let me give you a fair warning Kevin as an older brother, if you hurt my little sister, I will come after you"
"Sorry Ken but you're not that much of a threat to me".
Ken grabbed Kevin's neck and slammed him down on the hood of his car. "No I'm not a threat right now, but just try and test me! Your alien powers are all that give you that overconfidence." Ken sneered
Gwen who saw what was happening from the lounge window ran outside. "Ken, stop it, what are you doing?" she yelled after him
Ken let go of him and narrowed his eyes at Kevin as he got up, straightened his T- shirt and got back into his car and sped off.
"Why did you do that?" asked Gwen annoyed
"So that he knows that you've got an overprotective brother" he said walking back into the house...
The next early evening, Frank and Natalie Tennyson were in the kitchen and while Mrs Tennyson was preparing dinner, she felt the need to talk to her husband and finally discuss their daughter.
"Frank, I'm so worried about Gwen, she's not been like herself lately" said Mrs Tennyson
Frank sighed, "I know, but we need to somehow make her feel comfortable to come and talk to us, if we force her, she might rebel"
"I don't think we can wait any longer, her teachers have been calling me, telling me that she's been skipping classes, not submitting schoolwork and her grades are dropping".
He shook his head, "Man, I can't believe this is happening to our Gwen, she's such a responsible child".
When Frank saw how worried his wife was he went up to her and placed his hands on her shoulders and gave her a slight squeeze.
"Don't worry Lilli, she'll be fine, we'll talk to her when she comes home today from Karate" he said softly to her and kissed her lightly on the cheek. She smiled at him feeling reassured...
"I'm home" Gwen announced an hour later as she walked into the house feeling happy that she had skipped out on karate to spend more time with Kevin after school. She was surprised to see her parents and brother sitting on the couch looking serious faced. It looked like they had been waiting for her.
"Gwen, please will you come and take a seat here with us, we want to talk to you" said her mother. Gwen now feeling slightly intimidated walked into the lounge and sat across from her parents and brother. "What's wrong?"
"Gwen, we've been worried about you for a while now because you haven't been acting like yourself lately" said Mrs Tennyson
"What are you talking about?" she said confused.
"Your maths, science and history teachers have already called me to tell me that your grades are dropping and that you've been skipping out on school and karate for a while now. Not to mention sneaking out of the house, not eating, and ignoring your school friends" Gwen dropped her gaze when she heard what her mother was saying.
"Gwen were not mad at you, we just want to what's going on with you, please talk to us, we want to understand why you've changed so much over the past few weeks"
"Are you hanging around with a rough crowd, who want you be 'cool' like them?" asked Ken with attitude bursting in his tone.
"Ken please, you're not helping" snapped their mother.
Gwen felt cornered, she realised that it was best just to tell her family so that she doesn't lose their trust.
"It was Kevin, he'd gone missing for a few weeks and I was so afraid that he might be dead, so I skipped school to go looking for him, and I couldn't concentrate at school because of my worrying of him, but that's okay now because he's back. Which reminds me, I do actually have something to tell you" she said smiling again.
The Tennysons exchanged nervous glances that read 'I hope you're not pregnant' practically coming out of their expressions.
"Kevin and I are getting married, see" she said extending her left hand out for them to see the ring. Gwen's parents and brother all sat frozen in their seats not knowing how to react. They all stared open-mouthed at Gwen's hand before Gwen's mother shaking her head slowly finally whispered "You can't be serious".
"I am serious"
"I knew that stupid boy was up to something!" said Ken pounding his fist into the couch.
"Take that off, right now" warned their father pointing to the ring on her finger.
"What, why?"
"Do I even have to tell you, you're one of the highest achieving students at one of the top prep schools in Bellwood, and you would be naïve to think that we would allow you to throw all that away for some troublemaking, uneducated ruffian boy!" said her father raising his voice.
"Do you think I care about all that? I almost lost Kevin! I've never been so afraid in my life and he's going through a tough time right now, I need to be there for him before he somehow harms himself or gets into trouble"
"And you think that marriage is the best way to do that, you don't even know how much you have to put into a marriage to make it last" said their mother
"I'm all he has left to make him happy".
"That's not a good enough reason to marry anyone, have you thought about who will pay the bills, how will you keep up with school. It isn't like you to be so thoughtless; I never thought that you could be changed by a boy" said Mr Tennyson
"You can't stop me; I've already made up my mind" said Gwen standing up.
"No! I forbid it, I forbid you to see that boy ever again, if you want me to treat you like a spoilt child then I will" he said also standing up.
"You can't do this to me, Kevin needs me"
"He's the reason you're acting like an out of control teenager" said their mother
"I won't stay away from him, he's the only one who hasn't acted like my stuck up parents"
Gwen's father raised his hand at Gwen and was about to swing at her face before her mother yelled "FRANK, DON'T". Ken went and stood in between his sister and father with his arms outstretched keeping them apart.
"Do it dad, show us what a real man you are"... said Gwen dangerously, her mother gasped at Gwen's words, even Ken didn't know how to react.
"No, unlike your boyfriend I wont taint the prosperous lives of young girls who have everything going for them" he said surprisingly calm.
"You're not going to change my mind" said Gwen.
"GET OUT! GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE RIGHT NOW, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO OUR RULES THEN YOU DON'T GET TO STAY HERE! bellowed her father loosing any cool he had left.
Gwen ran upstairs with tears in her eyes to her room and grabbed anything that she could find in a hurry, her laptop, spare clothing, some money and her cellphone and threw them all in a sports bag, ran downstairs of which her mother and brother tried to stop her.
"Gwen, please don't go, your father was just angry, you just need to calm down, the both of you". She paid no attention to her mother and continued walking before Ken grabbed her arm. "Gwen, think about what you're doing, you're too smart to do this"
"Can everybody just leave me alone, clearly I'm not wanted here, so I'll go where people actually need me".
Gwen opened the front door and stormed out with her mother calling after her. "Gwen, Gwen please come back!"… But she didn't turn back at all, instead she ran as fast as she could down the street with bag in hand...
THE LEVIN HOUSE
The fear of an eminent attack from The Futha gang continued to plague the Ben Ten team especially because of the news that two more plumbers had been 'necklaced' over the past few days. Ben had decided to come and meet Kevin and Gwen who had showed up at Kevin's house a few days earlier saying that she was kicked out and asked if she could stay with him, which was approved by Mrs Levin.
"Maybe if you talk to your parents, Gwen then you'll understand how they feel" Mrs Levin said one evening before she left the house for a date with her new man Mr O'Connor
"No, thanks Mrs Levin I just can't do that right now" said Gwen opening the door for Mrs Levin as if she was already a permanent resident in the house.
"Just be easy on them, I know how hard it can be to have your child run away" she said looking at Kevin who was talking to Ben on the phone in the kitchen.
"I didn't run away, I was kicked out, so it's not like I had a choice"
"You always have a choice, just remember that," she said exiting the house and yelled goodbye to Kevin who waved at her still busy on the phone.
"Just got off the phone with Ben, he'll be here any minute" said Kevin walking to Gwen.
When Ben arrived the three of them sat in Kevin's room and Ben busied himself with Gwen's laptop.
"It says here that Morgg is still a registered inmate at Incarcetron Maximum Security prison, serving sentences for corruption, defeating the ends of justice, possession of illegal substances, drug trafficking… he should be in prison for over ten years…"
"The warden must have kept him on the sheet so as to not arouse any suspicion" said Kevin.
"But why is it that no one's noticed that there's a prisoner on the sheet but he's never present?" asked Gwen
"The warden once again must be paying the prison guards to keep quiet about it" he said
"I can't believe the level of corruption happening at the prisons, once this is all over, we have to request that the prisons be externally monitored by an independent and undercover plumber from now on" she said
"Hang on guys, I'm getting Cooper in on the Skype, Cooper are you there?" asked Ben onto the laptop.
"What are you doing?! we can't involve other people!" said Kevin
"Cooper is our friend and he's the best when it comes to his self-made technology, and, I'm just doing this our way like you asked" said Ben understanding that Kevin's hostility to Cooper was because of Cooper's crush on Gwen.
"Cooper here" said the bulky blonde haired plumber appearing on the laptop screen and blushed when he saw Gwen to which Kevin shot him a nasty look.
"Hey Cooper, did you find what I asked for?" asked Ben
"Yes and no, my intergalactic radar did pick up a strange signal coming from somewhere but, where the signal came from there was nothing, no planet, no matter at all, just empty space, and the signal vanished after a few seconds"
"That's because the planet is being hidden by a cloaking device" said Kevin
"Do you have any devices that can pick up hidden planets and their location even when they're being cloaked?" asked Ben
"Sure, but you'll have to give me a while I'll need to isolate the exact spot where the signal came from and see if I can try and tamper with the cloaking device on the planet. By the way, what's going on anyway on this hidden planet? Why is this planet hidden, why are you trying to find it?" he spewed out quickly.
"Believe me, the less you know the better, and remember, you can't tell the plumbers about this, it's undercover" said Ben of which Cooper just shrugged. "Thanks Cooper".
"I guess we'll have to wait for Cooper to respond. In the meantime I'd better get home to study, keep a watch for Cooper on your laptop Gwen" Ben said.
"By the way, you might want to talk to your parents sooner than later about this kicked out, or was it run away situation" said Ben from the doorway.
"I have nothing to say to them Ben"
"But they keep complaining to my parents who blame me for all of this" he said.
She looked away and when Ben left out of Kevin's room, Kevin turned to her sitting on his bed.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm worried about you Gwen, your brother told me last night when he tried to intimidate me, that your grades are dropping and that you've been bunking school and ignoring your friends"
"So, I when through a lot when you were kidnapped"
"But Ben's right about your parents, it's not like you to do this, please promise me that you won't change on my account, one of the reasons I love you so much is because you taught me how to be a good person by example"
She stared into his dark eyes and saw how sincere he was, this made her feel ever more attached to him.
"I promise" she said.
She didn't understand herself why she had changed so much, why she was doing things associated with bad girl tendencies but her fear of losing Kevin to a vicious street gang, or to self-destruction had something to do with it.
Kevin standing in front of her while she sat on his bed, kissed her forehead and then kissed her lips and was about to draw away from her face before Gwen closed her eyes and remembered something the female gang member once said to her "Doesn't look like she can fuck you better than I did"… Something stirred up inside her, an unexplained feeling that her old self would be ashamed of.
"Wait Kevin, please don't stop" she said pulling him back towards him.
"Are you sure?"
She responded by kissing him and drawing him closer. Kevin kissed her as well and then moved down to her neck as she tilted her head to the side and let out a stifled moan. Her soft moan gave him the confidence to move on lower to her upper chest. She nearly sent him crazy when she placed her hands on the bulge forming at the front of his jeans. "What are you tryin'a do to me Gwen" he whispered in her ear. She looked up at him like she had never done before, she gave a seductive stare that excited him along with her sexy smirk. The old Gwen was clearly not in the building...
The early sunrise woke Gwen up the next day; she didn't know why she woke up in such a peaceful mood until she remembered the night before, her first intimate encounter with her fiancé who had fallen asleep on top of her with his head still on her chest. They were both wrapped up in a tangled mess with his blanket on his bed. She remembered all the neck kissing, hair grabbing, hair clenching, name exclaiming, loud moaning, toe curling, back arching, pleasure screaming and body thrusting moments of the previous night. She remembered Kevin kissing her stomach then going lower and lower... she smiled up at the ceiling, thankful that Ben hadn't come back to check on them later that night. She let out a satisfied breath and stroked Kevin's dark hair lying on her naked chest which woke him up. The both of them said nothing to each other for a while and just smiled and chuckled and stared at each other. It was as if 'The Futha' gang had never even made an appearance.
"Good morning" he said kissing her cheek.
"Hi" was all she could muster.
"How are you feeling after last night, did I hurt you, 'cause I mean you were erm, kind of tight being a virgin and all?"
"No, I'm just trying to soak it all in really" she said sitting up as Kevin finally got off of her.
"Well I have to say you have a beautiful body" he said to her wrapping a towel over his lower body.
Gwen smiled up at him and blushed a deep red, before sinking back onto the bed, she never thought that she would ever get intimate with Kevin while she was still in school but she justified it in her head that they were due to be married anyway.
Later that morning when Mrs. Levin came down to make them all breakfast, she saw Kevin and Gwen sitting on the couch, snuggling, hugging and kissing.
"Good morning, what's going on with you two today, you're all over each other?" she said walking to the kitchen
Kevin and Gwen didn't respond but they shared the same relief that she came home late enough not to have heard what was happening in her son's bedroom. Their loving moment was interrupted by the ringing of the doorbell and a sharp knock of the door which finally separated them. Kevin got off the couch reluctantly, went to the door, opened it and was surprised to see a stern looking Magister Ghalil and a few of his officers standing at the doorway with some squad ships behind them blinking their red lights. "Kevin Ethan Levin?" he asked.
"Yes" said Kevin confused at why the Magister was asking for his name even though he knew him, but this wasn't as surprising as seeing him and other plumbers at his door. Gwen came and stood next to him when she noticed the Magister standing there.
"You are under arrest for acting as an accomplice for a robbery on planet Shayana"…