A new friend || Ben Drowned X Reader

A Love Confession

You were finishing treating Ben with his wounds, packaging everything in the aid kit up. His black eye was somewhat better, and the bruises on his hands where bandaged. Other injuries were disinfected with some alcohol you had found.
You were so worried about helping him with his wounds that you almost forgot about that weird letter... Anyways, you were focused on treating him, thinking about what may had caused that he appeared like this so sudden.
He avoided any question resembling his wounds, even though you had asked him more than once about it. You were so worried about him that when he asked a question, you didn't know how to respond—it took you by surprise.

"So, uh..." Ben said, "About what happened..."

You felt your blood ran cold, but tried to play it cool. "W—What about it?" You responded.

"Oh, well, uh—" He stuttered, "I thought we could like, you know, talk about it?"

You tried avoiding every attempt of making eye contact, your hands were sweaty and you were shaking like crazy. "What do you mean?" Your voice cracked.
Of course, you really liked Ben, and what happened moments before felt magical, but you didn't want to talk about it.

"Well, I mean..." He paused for a moment, "I like you, Y/N."
You felt a shiver ran down your spine as he speaked. "And... I would like stay with you. For me, it is a privilege to have you in my life."

"Ben, I..."

"A—And if you give me the chance I will be the best partner I can be, for you. And, I wanted you to know..."

He grabbed one of your hands, as he took a deep breath.

"My heart belongs to you. And I want to be with you." His head was low, and you could feel how he was struggling to let his words out.

You felt how tears starting falling down your cheeks, the tears clouding your vision.

"Y/N, are you crying?! I'm so sorry, a—are you okay?!"

"I'm fine," You sobbed. "It's just that nobody has ever said nothing like that  to me."

"And it surely won't be the last."  He smiled, kneeling to your level, gently touching your face wiping off your tears. "I love you."

He leaned closer to give you a quick kiss, his eyes gleamed and he smiled afterwards. You leaned closer to give him a small kiss again.

"So, can I take that as a yes?" He smirked, as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"Do I need to do it again for you to understand?"

"Maybe." He said as he gave a gentle kiss to the palm of your hand.

You pulled him close, and kissed him once again.

"I need you to know that I love you too, Ben, but... What would Slenderman say about this? And the other people in the mansion? I mean, I don't think he likes me after that first impression..."

"Trust me, he likes you."  He chucked.

"I'm not so sure about that... What would he think about this?"

"I don't care what he thinks, and you shouldn't neither. He cannot do much about it, anyways..."

"But—"

"No buts." He interrupted, "I don't care what he has to say about it, and, besides, he can't still do much about it. I'll still love you."

You smiled and were about to kiss him once again, he ran his hands through your hair, but a buzz from a cell phone interrupted you.

"Sorry, that's mine..." Ben said, searching up his phone. "Oh fuck."

"What's wrong?"

"Need to go on ANOTHER mission, they're so annoying. HE'S so annoying."

"You talking about Slenderman?"

He nodded, "He never stops commanding things and making us go on missions and stuff..."

He texted again, to then turn off his phone. "I will go later, I don't want to be wondering in the forest again."

"I don't want you to get yelled at, why don't you go now?"

"He prolly will not care." He claimed. "Besides, want to stay with youuu!"

You rolled your eyes, "you need to go!"

"If I don't go on time, he probably knows I'm here."

"I don't really want to be stopping you from your duties, besides, I don't want Slenderman to think bad of me..." A shiver ran down your spine.

Ben sighed, "Alright, just for you." He smirked.

He turned on your computer as he entered a hand through the screen. "Until we met again!"
"You're so dramatic..." You scoffed.

"But you love me!" He laughed.

"Won't you just go?!" You yelled, blushing.

He was finally gone, doing whatever he does on missions, he never gave you any explicit details about it.
Was this really happening? You just kissed him, and he declared his love to you all in the same day! Were you dreaming? It felt like a dream!
How to think that he used to throw the smoothest lines ever, and right after the first kiss he would hide his face...
And, about what he said about Slenderman... Did he actually meant it? Did Slenderman actually not hated you? Those were news to you. The tone of his voice made you shiver only by hearing it, and that first impression wasn't the best one you could offer, if Ben had told you that you were going to met "someone" Much before, you would have prepared yourself mentally. But that was not what happened.
You just wished that he was telling the truth, and that Slenderman wouldn't hate you nor Ben for it.