Letting Go * Top 10 #SYTYCW15 * (LGBT BxB)

Part Eighteen + Epilogue - Forever

"I'm sorry I ran." I whispered, I could feel his warmth against my face and I felt happy, complete. The noise and lights surrounding us should have broken the moment, but it didn't matter we were in our little world. "And I'm sorry I hurt you."

"Jace, I dropped an anvil on your head, you reacted exactly how I would have, had the roles been reversed." Ben replied.

"I still hurt you."

"I hurt you too." He murmured, his hand ran over my cheek, his fingers traced my cheek. "And for that I'm sorry, but I don't regret loving you. I can't"

"Good." I smiled. "Never regret loving me."

Finally we pulled apart, returning to reality. Reporters came in for the kill, but before they reached us, the boys, plus Scarlett and Isla jumped down off the truck and surrounded us, effectively doing one of the things Ben was so good at. His job. Scarlett looked back at me and gave me a wink, "You guys should get out while you can, we'll take care of the mob. We will talk tomorrow when you bring back my car."

"Thank you." I mouthed yanking Ben's arm and running. We ran across the parking complex until we got to Scarlett's Car.

"I feel like a teenager." Ben laughed as I pushed him playfully against the car.

"I am a teenager." I grinned, I placed a hand on his hip, and the other on the roof of the car. "But don't hold that against me."

Ben smiled and pushed himself against me, just enough to increase the friction between us to an almost unbearable point, it sent chills down my spine, but for once I managed to compose myself. "I've got a fairly good idea of what I can hold against you Jace Jackson, but we should probably head home first."

I swallowed hard. "You moved out." I whispered, my heart was pumping hard, was home still with me? God, I hoped it was.

"It was a spur of the moment mistake." He replied, his blue eyes glinted under the carpark lights. "I moved everything back in."

Relief washed over me, if this moment hadn't solidified our union enough to reassure me that we wouldn't part again once the light of day revealed the cracks, knowing his stuff was back in our apartment did. "Home." I whispered, moving my head until it sat in the crook of his neck. I let my lips brush against the softness of his neck where I could feel his pulse and kissed just once before pulling back. "Is wherever you are."

Ben nodded, his hand pressed against my chest, and he squeezed the material of my shirt. "I'm glad we're on the same page."

"I'm glad you waited until I was ready to catch up." I whispered.

The media seemingly cottoned on to the fact that Ben and I had not left yet, they were moving their cloud of flashes toward us at an alarming rate. Before they could reach us Ben and I hopped into Scarlett's car and started it up.

"I tried to move on once." He said softly as I drove down the long road. "With Mike. For a short while I even convinced myself that it was the real thing."

I shook my head. "I never liked that slime ball." I croaked. Slime ball was still being too kind.

"I know, and you were really good to me after the break up Jace." He murmured. "But I wasn't the friend I should have been. All I thought about kissing you all the time."

I smiled and took one hand off the steering wheel, letting it interlock with his. "You didn't though, you waited for me to come up with some strange hair brained scheme. Ben you've been an amazing friend. I want you to keep being my amazing friend, but I want so much more."

"I've wanted to hear that for a while." Ben whispered squeezing my hand.

"I know."

We made it back to the apartment, and for a moment things became kind of awkward, like we were a couple on our first date. We rode up the up the elevator from the car lot in silence. I stepped out first on our floor and walked across to the door. I slipped my key in the lock and walked inside. Ben's stuff was back. He hadn't been lying, it looked like he had never left. I let out a relaxed sigh and turned around.