Hello :P It is Wednesday and I am back with the last Christmas themed chapter of Pikachu Tales for this year. It was fun writing Eddie again and him being older than the previous chapter. It was also really fun to write a late teenaged Ben. I'm looking forward to developing them more next year hopefully. I've especially gotten pretty close to Eddie. I hope you enjoy!

Ages:

Ben: 18

Eddie: 19

Disclaimer: I own the story and Ben and Eddie :3

Driving home for Christmas.

I couldn't help but nod my head as the old 80s song filled my ears in agreement. It was an appropriate song considering that Ben and I were together in the car and driving home for Christmas. The raven haired young adult had taken me with him to Professor Oak's laboratory to wish all of his Pokémon a 'Happy Christmas' before he headed back home for the next few days.

I smiled to myself. It was nice. They were all, of course, delighted to see the junior Pokémon Trainer Ketchum and he showed his soft side from his father when he spent some time with Pokémon whose owners couldn't make it to wish them a pleasant time themselves. It really had been nice.

I was sitting on the passenger seat next to Ben and as he turned the corner to head back to Rifure Village, where he and his parents lived with the rest of their siblings, he gave me a warm smile. I knew he was agreeing with me. It really had been a lovely winter's evening.

Shutting my eyes and deciding to put all my attention towards listening to the tunes on the radio, I felt my heart and skin grow all more aglow with love. It definitely wasn't the heat from the car heating! To be sure, it was warm, but it wasn't simply that. It was another kind of simplicity. I was happy.

I knew Ben felt the same because, when he took another right turn to head home, he took his hand off the gear stick and gave me a pat. It was a clumsy one but very loving all the same. I really did love my best friend's oldest son.

After the raven haired male's chubby and tanned fingers moved from my head and headed towards the music volume knob and was about to crank it up, he opened his mouth to sing heartily. I didn't know if I should have been glad when an alert appeared on his car computer screen, causing him to stop.

I opened my eyes to see his brow furrowed as his own eyes darted between the road and the alert to read it while trying not to crash. He breathed out, his teeth lightly gritted.

"Low petrol…" he muttered as he read the notice, taking his eyes off the warning once again to look at the road ahead. After he did that, he shook his head again. His shoulders shook along with his head. "It can't be. I only just filled it up less than ten minutes ago."

I gave him a sideways glance and nodded my head in agreement. He was right. I had been there. He had indeed only just filled his tank out with petrol. But I was useless with technology. I was certainly clueless when it came to cars. I could only offer him a sympathetic look and hoped he could figure it out himself.

Ben tried not to worry as the alert continued flashing while he drove but, soon enough, that was the last of his worries. Another message from the car flashed on the screen and this time, to avoid any collisions on the road as it began to snow, he decided to pull over so he could read it properly. He shook his head again as his eyes took in the notice.

"My check engine symbol is flashing at me." He informed me with his own sideways glance before breathing heavily out of his nose, shaking his head in confusion a third time. His shoulders shrugged helplessly. "I don't know what you want from me. You got serviced as a Christmas present from my mom and dad."

I found myself blinking and my head turned to look at the young adult when I heard his voice but soon enough, I realised he wasn't talking to me. He was talking to the car. I couldn't help but smirk as he showed traits belonging to his best friend but I didn't have time to comment that. He decided to start the car up and continue his way back home.

He cranked up the volume on the radio in the hope to block out the cars problems but of course, that didn't work. After the song that was playing had played once and the second was only just beginning, all of a sudden, there was a terrible noise.

I looked at Ben and he looked at me. We both pulled faces at each other. That definitely wasn't good. That had been a clunking and squeak noise so loud that it effortlessly could be heard over the radio. That definitely wasn't nice.

The raven haired male's mouth drooped comically at me as he sensed the impending disaster but apart from that, he tried to keep his cool.

But I knew him almost more than anyone. On top of that, he was my best friend's son. And I knew his father almost as much as I knew myself. They both often kept their cool but inside, they were panicking. And more than anything, they hated things going wrong.

Like his father and his mother too, Benjamin was a stubborn male but deep down inside, he knew he could be honest with me. He looked at me with concern.

"What on earth do I do now?" he asked me or maybe he was just a rhetorical question. I didn't know. As he came to red lights to at least have some time to make a decision, his fingers ran through his hair after taking his cap off and slinging it on the back seat. In his worry, he didn't have a clear answer in his brain.

It was the day before Christmas Eve. He still had plenty of time to get home before Christmas, which was certain. But that wasn't acceptable to him. He said he would be home to his parents on the 23rd December and if he said that then, dammit, he would make it happen. He always tried his hardest to live up to his word.

After he looked at me with a mixture of concern and annoyance at himself and the situation, his eyes softened when he saw me smiling at him. Before speaking to him, I nodded my head. I knew the perfect solution.

Isn't Gary and Jayme's house just up there? That's where Eddie's garage is.

It took a few moments for the raven haired male to process my words and it took him mouthing them to himself first but soon enough, he understood. He nodded his head and breathed out with relief. He stopped running his fingers through his hair to give me a grateful pat.

"Oh, yeah, it is." He responded with another nod of the head, both his hands going back to the steering wheel. It was taking a while for the lights to go from red to amber. There must have been road works ahead. Ben took the time to smile. "I didn't think of that. That sure is lucky."

Upon seeing the eldest Ketchum boy's smile, I found it easy to smile back even bigger. And this invited a conversation with him. He began talking about how great it was that all of us close in the group lived near to each other and I smirked as he rambled his words. When he stopped to look at me with questioning orbs, I gestured with my head towards the road.

Yeah, it sure is great, Ben, but the traffic is starting to move. So let's go!

Ben may have been slightly dense in the brain but his actions were quick and sharp. He didn't hesitate to start the engine as promptly as possible and take back off down the lane before the car behind him beeped for his incompetence. He gave me a side smirk and grin.

"Oh, oops." He mumbled and after turning down the left towards where his best friend and his family lived, he gave me another grateful pat on the head. "What would I do without you?"

After saying these words, he focused on the road and focused even harder on getting towards Eddie's garage without the car coming to a complete stop. He was too busy looking at the road but, though they were light-hearted I know, I couldn't help but focus on what he said to me.

Ash had said them to me many a time before and when Ben said it, it warmed me just the same. Because it was funny. Because it was ironic. The truth was, what would I do without Ash? And now, what would I do without Ben?

I always thought that Ash would be the person I loved most in the world. Then when Misty and I's bond formed, I thought to myself, 'Okay, I've got room to love her too'. But then something strange happened. Those two had children. And almost like a mother's, I felt my heart expanding to love all of them too.

I was snapped out of loving thought by the car making a second horrific clunking and squeaking sound and my head turned like it did before. Ben was pulling the same worried face. That soon turned to relief when he pulled up outside Gary and Jayme's house. But that creased back to concern and annoyance when he saw the house was in darkness.

He gritted his teeth again, his jaw clenching harder than before.

"Ugh, man!" he breathed out in frustration and his head rocked so much with despair that he almost whacked his forehead on the steering wheel. I wouldn't have been surprised if it had. He was very clumsy. But thankfully, that didn't happen. "Eddie must have already left to go to my parents. What are the chances?"

I gave the raven haired male another sympathetic look but I soon looked away and had to shrug. Well, considering as everyone was gathering at the Ketchum's for Christmas that year rather than the Morgan's, there was a pretty high chance that Eddie would have left for the occasion.

But I didn't have time to tell him this. I was so frantic with the opportunity to fix the situation that at first, my words wouldn't come out. From my passenger seat, I just bulged my eyes and nodded and waved my paws obviously. Ben was quick to notice.

"What? What?" he asked, his chocolate orbs looking startled at me before they softened to concern. But almost as soon as they had melted, they went wide with realisation. And he realised at the same time I told him. "Oh!"

Look! There's Eddie!

Because Ben at worked it out for himself at the same time I got my words out, he was quick to take action. He saw the junior Oak walking halfway up the road and prayed that his car would start up again despite the rusty noises. When it did, he followed after him quickly.

The slightly older male walking up the road stupidly had his headphones on so didn't hear the car approaching quickly behind him. Not even when it was right on his tail. Not even when he made his lights flash at him.

For some reason, in that moment, I remembered how Ben's head crashed forward and nearly whacked into the steering wheel. I thought about how amusing it would've been if he had pressed the horn. And then suddenly, I knew. I had an idea. I leapt onto the car horn and made it sound very loudly indeed before jumping to Ben's shoulder for safety.

Eddie ripped the headphones off his ears and turned around in a very comical way, his hand going over his heart as it hammered with shock. I could see his breath forming in a cloud in front of his mouth as he breathed out shakily. His eyes squinted but soon enough, he realised who it was. He scowled.

"Ugh, Jesus, Ben!" he cried out dramatically before looking even more in confusion when Ben gestured with his finger for him to come to his car window. He didn't at first and it took both of us doing it to eventually make him comply. He pushed his hair from his eyes and came round to the driver's window almost in a diva-like way. "What?"

And so, Ben explained to his best friend. He gave him way too much details but that was to be expected. After all, he did take after his father. After hearing all about the Pokémon in the lab and the drive from Pallet Town to Viridian City, Edward Oak understood. He let out a loud sigh but he nodded his head.

"I see." He breathed out and gave me the one wave before he put his large headphones back around his neck. After doing that, he put his hands on his hips. "I can't say I'm surprised. Everybody seeks the help from King Oak at some point in their lives. And I should add that you are rather lucky that I might help you out considering it's the festive season and all that."

After Eddie announced this, Ben and I shared a look. My eyebrow raise was more prominent than the younger male's. Everybody knew that Eddie wasn't that much of a jerk. He would've helped out even if it wasn't December. But still, he continued.

"But I don't know though. I was on my way to your mama and papa's for the few days' holiday festivities and I really must be heading off. You just might have lucked out."

This time when he joked, my expression stayed the same but Ben's changed. He had promised that he would be at his parents' house for the 23rd and dammit, he would be! He hated not living up to his word and letting people down more than anything. Seeing the raven haired male's sour expression and Eddie's smug one, I couldn't help but come between the two adults. I continued my deadly not amused look.

Say, Eddie, if you're meant to be heading off to snazzy Christmas festivities then why are you wearing your oily work overalls still?

After the auburn and purple haired male comically looked down at himself, I saw Ben's eyes study him too. And he too noticed that his best friend was indeed wearing his work clothes under a blue baseball jacket.

He was still pouting from being messed with before but upon hearing that I had challenged Eddie with my words, this gave him the confidence to do so as well. So he went for it. But sadly for him, he shouldn't have gone for it so confidently.

"You are a dumbass." He began, causing his best friend's head to swivel towards his best friend and then down, making it obvious he was noting the height difference. But this nor the eye narrow didn't deter Ben. He continued assertively. "Surely you don't think you can walk to my house from here? I can think of millions of reasons that you will fail."

Ben's eyes were fixed on his best friend and mine swivelled back to Eddie too. I looked at him. He was a wind up merchant to be sure and a mischievous young adult too. But he let things go quicker than the raven haired male.

Eddie patted his best friend's arm to let him know that he was kidding before and he gave a sheepish smirk between us. He used his other hand to push his hair from his eyes that was slightly curly from not being blow dried like usual.

"I appreciate the concern and the insult but I parked my car at the bottom of the hill to drive out easier." He told us both with a casual shrug, his hand still in his hair. But after it came out, he couldn't help but dig Ben again. He smirked smugly. "Nice try."

I found myself shaking my head fondly when, as Ben gritted his teeth and growled like a dog, it was clear that Eddie still could rile him up just the same as when they were little children. I shrugged. I liked that. In a world that was ever changing, lots of things still stayed the same.

After Eddie moved round the back of his best friend's car while Ben drove it slowly with me, the dual haired male pushed the car towards his garage business off the family home. Now that he was fixing a car, Eddie's focus was fully on doing that rather than digging at his best friend.

But, like I said before, Ben let things go a lot slower than the older male. He bought back up a previous point.

"I still reckon you were being an idiot who thought they could actually walk from here to Rifure." He stuck his nose in the air and sneered amusedly. His hands went behind his head after he parked in the garage drive. "And I can still think of a million ways that you wouldn't succeed."

Eddie raised an eyebrow at his buddy's relentless behaviour as he gestured for him to get out of the car. He responded with a simple shrug as he shut the car door behind him after we both got out.

"And I can think of millions of reasons I could pull your sister." He announced coolly to really grind Ben's gears, contrasting it with a gentle smile in his attempts to still be adorable. He patted the shorter male on the back. "But I'd only need one."

After I gave my best friend's eldest son a quick look to not react, Eddie nodded his head smugly but airily at the tanned male. Ben responded with a stubborn glare and a childish poking out of the tongue and then, the car mechanic finally began his duties.

I watched him and, as he disappeared underneath the car with his spanner, I couldn't help but wonder if he was cold. We had snow on the ground and it was late evening at that stage. But then I realised. Cars were his passion. Like Ben didn't notice the chill when he was battling with Pokémon, Eddie didn't notice the weather when he was fixing cars. He was doing what he loved.

Starting that business was a long time coming. He had always thought he'd follow in his father's footsteps and become the next Professor Oak. He figured he'd get the passion to do that eventually. But it never came. He tried to force it, but it didn't work. With help from everyone, he realised he was a simple man at heart. He just wanted to be around cars. He just wanted to fix them. He had started his own chain. 'Gary's Garage' is what he had called it, after his beloved father who introduced him to cars.

Ben's eyes were reading those exact words on the sign and looking at the logo when I drifted from my thoughts. He was about to open his mouth to make a degrading comment when, Eddie slid out from under the car. He put one hand on his hip while the other scratched his head. He was stubborn but it was times like those that it was a relief that he was less stubborn than Ben.

"I don't know what to tell you, buddy; even I don't know how to fix that. In all my years of expertise and training, I really don't know what to do there."

I glanced at Benjamin and his eyes widened in surprise. At first I thought it was shock that Eddie was admitting defeat. But then I realised, it was more than that. He thought that his best friend knew everything. But like with him being a Pokémon Trainer, he realised there was more for Eddie to learn about cars.

That look of surprise soon changed. Ben almost looked like he had been punched in the gut. He eyes grew round and concerned as he shivered in the driveway.

"But… But you have to fix it." He almost stuttered to his best friend as he tossed his spanner between his hands, not dropping it once. "I need to get to my parents' house. I promised that I'd get there today and I am going to get there."

I sympathetically got onto Ben's shoulder and nuzzled him to try and comfort him. But I was feeling it too. If Ben was stuck away from them for Christmas, then I was too. I almost hesitantly glanced at Eddie.

He had been winding his shorter buddy up the entire time. Surely he was going to again, right? Wrong.

He let out his own sympathetic sigh and finished tidying his tools away. He didn't speak to Ben until he'd locked his car up for him and handed him the keys. He shrugged sadly.

"I'm sorry." He mumbled sincerely and instead of patting him to make him feel better, he reached out to stroke my cheek. But he looked at us both. He had been winding Ben up for years but he too knew him better than anyone. He knew not to mess with the emotions that were caused by being a good son. He shrugged. "I don't know what to tell you. I guess we'll leave your car parked here and we'll drive together. I just need to change first and then-"

"No." Ben interjected with a stubborn shake of the head, causing Eddie to blink and his hazel orbs to grow wider as he tugged his jacket back on to keep warm. He studied his best friend's face but couldn't read anything. So he asked.

"No?" he repeated the raven haired male's words to get an answer from him, letting me climb on his shoulder when I figured his almost curly locks were warmer than Ben's messy ones. He resumed stroking my paw. "What do you mean 'no'? C'mon, Ben, we know you'll just sulk here for a bit and then go so we might as well cut the crap and just go now."

"You mean after you change." Ben pointed his words back out to his best friend and after Eddie nodded, he shook his head again in response. His brow furrowed. "No."

Glancing at Ben and then at Eddie and then back to Ben again, I couldn't help but feel like he was being childish. I didn't know why, for once. And for once, Eddie didn't either. He was about to open his mouth to ask his childhood rival more when, once again, the younger male interjected.

He stuffed his hands in his pockets and sighed out heavily.

"I know you said I'm just going to hang about here and huff and you're right. That's what I'm going to do. And I feel like I need to do that."

I blinked upon hearing this. Sure he was often stubborn and relentless and childish, but he was sweet and gentle and forgiving too. And for once again, I wasn't the one who understood him. But Eddie was.

He was looking at him with his own brow furrowed in confusion and almost concern in his eyes but he soon made that melt away while the snow froze more. He smiled at his best friend.

"Sure. I understand." He told Ben and those words were easy to say but it was the look in his eyes that made the shorter male believe him. His shoulders relaxed and he breathed out gratefully. "Let's go."

After the junior Ketchum nodded his head, I found myself blinking. They didn't say where they were going to go but they both knew, as if it was a secret language between them. I shouldn't have been surprised when Eddie let Ben go first and he began climbing the piping to get onto the car garage roof. I shrugged to myself as the junior Oak followed when Ben was seated.

Ash and Gary certainly had childhood places that they went to that only they knew about. I shouldn't have been surprised that Eddie and Ben had them too. But then again, that day had been surprising to me. It was odd that Eddie had understood my best friend's son before I had.

But it was Christmas. So I decided to let it go. And I sat on the roof with them both.

They were both not really dressed for winter as such. Benjamin was wearing a long sleeved t shirt under a faded red hoodie and he had left his blue and white baseball cap in the car. Eddie must've been warmer in his navy blue overalls and lighter blue baseball jacket. But they still weren't dressed accordingly.

Despite this, I didn't hear a peep out of them about the weather. I sat near the chimney to give them space while they sat next to each other, their legs dangling off the roof. They didn't say anything for quite some time. They didn't smile either. But once in a while, their eyes would meet. And they'd nod to each other before going back to surveying the view.

I could tell that Eddie's eyes were watching the traffic in the distance that was joining the main road towards Cerulean City. I nodded my head. Now that was appropriate. My eyes moved to Ben.

I could tell that his eyes were watching the neighbours lights in the distance, flickering to all the different colours. Red. Green. Blue. Purple. Orange. Yellow. White. He mumbled the names of the colours as they registered in his brain.

Shortly after, his mouth spoke actual words. He let out a quiet sigh and his arms went behind his head. He looked at his best friend.

"So how has this last year been for you, then?" he asked Eddie, surprising the older male and causing his eyes to widen as he looked at him. He continued. "Has it been… Good?"

I listened as Ben's brain and mouth almost struggled to say the last word of his sentence. Eddie's eyes seemed to agree. He looked away from his best friend, his head nodding slowly. His finger drew a swirl in the snow on the roof.

"It's been… Tough." He breathed out and I noted that he almost struggled to say the final word of his sentence just like Ben had. Before he continued, the brown eyed male nodded his head softly. He understood. "Has yours been… Good? Or tough?"

Ben was quick to answer.

"Both." He replied with a truthful nod and Eddie nodded too, not needing to hear anymore. He agreed with him. But he continued listening. "I don't know. I guess that's to be expected as you get older. I mean, nothing's expected or guaranteed anymore like how we knew we'd get a Pokémon when we were ten."

I listened as hard as Eddie. Those words intrigued me. Nothing had been guaranteed when he was ten. Nothing in life could possibly be guaranteed. But maybe now that almost a decade had passed, he was realising that. And that was okay.

I turned my attention away from the raven haired male and toward the dual haired male when he chuckled quietly in agreement. He wrinkled his nose as a snowflake fell on the tip but he continued.

"I know what you mean. I guess as a little kid I had visions of who I would be at this age and sometimes it doesn't match up to reality. Some of it does. But some of it really doesn't."

Ben nodded his head like he really understood. I smiled softly to myself. Who would have thought it? Eddie Oak being surprised? Eddie Oak being caught off guard? Eddie Oak not always being totally awesome? Of course he still was. He was just realising that he could be awesome as a simple mechanic rather than a Pokémon Professor.

Like Eddie had before him, Ben chuckled softly at his best friend's words. But for some reason, then his own words seemed to trail off thoughtfully.

"Yeah…" he mumbled quietly and Eddie acted like he didn't notice this but I knew he had. And Ben knew too. And he didn't mind. In fact, he was sort of glad. He continued, deciding to go back to being playful like they had before. He briefly looked at him and gave off a slight smirk. "At least I'm not you though. All goo goo eyed for someone way younger."

Eddie's cheeks were often naturally rosy but they flushed even more so upon hearing this. Right away he knew what – or who – Ben was referring to. I did too. I couldn't decide if I was more amused by it or the fact the junior Ketchum had noticed potentially romantic feelings.

The hazel eyed Oak scoffed as he looked up at the sky.

"It's not like that. I just think she's sweet, that's all." He responded, proving me wrong and making me wonder who was actually more stubborn out of the two. He wouldn't even say her name. He tried to deny it but his best friend had been honest with him for years and even more so as they got older. He couldn't help but continue. "She has great eyes. You just know they've been around for a while and seen so much."

Ben rolled his own eyes upon hearing this and he smirked to himself but you could tell he was listening. I could tell he was listening when I shuffled back over to their side to keep warm on his lap. I was soon delighted as both their hands went to me for a stroke. I enjoyed their touch and the silence for quite a few moments.

But, once again, it was Ben who broke it.

"So what to do reckon you want out of the up and coming year?" he asked his best friend, causing him to look round from rubbing his neck and wishing he had bought a scarf out. Eddie looked hesitant. I knew he already knew. But he wasn't sure whether to say. He was answering too slowly. So Ben answered first with a sheepish smirk. "I can't believe I'm saying this but I think I just want happiness."

Eddie's hazel eyes grew wide upon hearing his answer but soon smiled, realising that they both wanted the same thing. Ben saw this in his best friend's face and smiled back again, his mouth softened out of his smirk. He continued.

"I just want happiness, can you believe that? For me and everyone else. Who would have thought it? It feels like yesterday we were slapping each other with your hair gel and running each other over with our toy cars. And battling 24/7. But here we are now. Just asking for happiness."

The junior Oak pondered Ben's words but soon, all he could do was nod his head. He nodded his head and pushed his hair from his eyes. Silence befell them once again but then, Eddie opened his mouth to respond.

"Those two little monsters are inside us still. And those weird wise adults are too, somehow." He said with a light chuckle, almost moving closer to his best friend. He looked at him and his eyes met his back. They were both really listening. "I guess that's a strange part of life. We – even us with our immature games as children and our bickering and rivalry – we all grow up. And we do it so fast that we only notice once we've done it."

Like Eddie had before, Ben went quiet after his best friend's words. He nodded his head slowly, his eyes filled with almost sadness. I moved closer to him. But then he smiled again. He nodded his head, in agreement this time, and continued smiling. He looked warmly at Eddie.

"Yeah. And sometimes it takes sitting on a cold and soggy roof with your best friend when you should be with your parents to realise that things have changed. Things haven't changed at the same time too, but, things have changed. And you've grown up."

Ben had copied Eddie's actions before but this time, Eddie didn't copy Ben. He didn't nod his head slowly. He nodded his head quickly. And he laughed in agreement. But after that, his eyes changed too. They softened to show his true, gentler side.

"Indeed, Ben. And you wouldn't have it any other way." He told his best friend with a playful head tilt before his eyes softened to something greater. They melted to sincerity. He smiled at him. "I wouldn't have it any other way."

The raven haired male, once again, nodded his head slowly. He was almost caught off guard by the soft side of Eddie that was being shown to him. But then he shook his head at himself. He had always known it was in there, even before Eddie showed it to many people.

They were both not afraid to be themselves when they were with each other. They were both not afraid to be best friends.

Ben moved closer to Eddie and Eddie moved closer to Ben. Ben offered his tanned hand to fist bump his best friend and Eddie happily obliged. When their fingers collided, the raven haired male was the first to speak.

"Merry Christmas, Eddie." He told his best friend and childhood rival, using his first name rather than his last name to show his sincerity. Eddie didn't hesitate to copy as their fists remained touching.

"Merry Christmas, Ben." He told his childhood rival and best friend, him too using his first name rather than his last name to show his warmth.

And after these words were said and done, both boys slid down the piping and climbed down from the roof to begin their holiday festivities with all of their family members and most importantly – each other.

I stayed on that roof for a while, just thinking, and with a lump in my throat. I realised that it was so simple. It was so simple. Friendship was a thing so often taken for granted. It's so often a thing that ends in romance which is a beautiful thing but just remaining a friendship is just as much of a gift. And I believed that Ben and Eddie summed up the wonderful simplicity of a friendship.

They teased each other. They insulted one and other. They wound each other up something chronic. But then, they could sit on a roof for hours and just talk. About themselves. About each other. About life. It didn't matter what they were talking about. As long as they were talking. As long as they had each other. And they would always have each other. And I knew that their upcoming yearly wish would come true as long as they kept one and other by their side.

That's exactly what the universe needed. It needed Ben. And it needed Eddie. But most importantly, it needed them together. It needed their friendship. Their friendship with insults. Their friendship with deep chats. Their friendship with tears. Their friendship with belly laughs. Their friendship that made them better people and made other people better when they witnessed their bond. The world needed friendships like that. And I knew, with Eddie and Ben around, the universe would always be smiling. And everyone around them would too.

The End.

There you go! Thanks so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed :3 This was fun for me to write. My only concern is that I hope it wasn't too long. I had to fit in a lot of details about the boys characters separately and together. I also couldn't help but mentioning Eddie's little soft spot for Morgan (Jordan's little sister) and how even though he likes her, she ends up getting with his little brother. Painful. Maybe I'll write about that one day. I've also got stuff in mind that I want to tackle with Ben but it's all just ideas for now :P Thanks again for reading and I'll be back tomorrow with a Christmas and New Year chapter of The Diary of Baby Rey. I hope you had a great festive season and see you very soon!

AmyBieberKetchum signing out :3