DELICATE - TMR, Gally x OC

012: swim in the lake

After building, Ben had asked if Aria wanted to go with him for a swim in the lake.

Since she had bad memories from there, she told Gally about it.

-"Hey Gallyyyyy...."

She said when she made her way over to him.

-"Hey Ari. What's up?"

-"The sky dumbass."

He glared at her.

-"Not funny."

She slapped his shoulder.

-"No need to be so tense."

-"Well what do you need?"

Your attention.

Your warmth next to me.

You.

-"I'm going swimming with Ben and the lake.."

He nodded.

-"I have to teach you how to swim?"

She shook her head.

-"It's serious."

He immediately stood up from what he was doing and stared at her.

Since he was the only one except for the builders who knew what had happened, he cared for her.

Or maybe for other reasons too.

-"I'm scared."

She swallowed.

-"Of Ben?"

He asked, his eyebrows furrowed.

-"Well not exactly. But the thought of it."

He nodded.

-"Being in a bikini, alone with him."

-"You don't have to?"

She nodded.

-"I know. But I want too."

-"And?"

-"And I want you to know that if I whistle, I need help. Immediately."

He smiled.

-"Let me hear you whistle then."

She started whistling an old melody she slightly remembered.

He followed in.

-"I know that one too."

-"Thank you, really."

-"No problem Ari."

She turned around to go to her hut and change before she ran up to Ben, but with a towel around her of course.

-"So what have you been up too, long time no see?"

She shrugged.

-"Building, hanging out with Gally."

Her cheeks heated up at the mention of him, and Ben noticed.

-"You like him don't you?"

At first, she wanted to deny it.

But he knew already so...

-"Yeah. Kind of."

Ben smiled and put an arm around her.

-"I knew it!"

-"Well it's not like we will get together or something so."

-"Why wouldn't you?"

She sighed.

-"He isn't that type of person."

He shook his head.

-"I know that he likes you. He never smiles, he never gives nicknames, he never ever sleeps in another gladers hut.."

She smirked.

-"Because I'm so good, I'm so smart, I'm so pretty."

He nodded.

-"You really are."

He threw his towel on the ground and dove in.

When he came up she were still standing on the sand.

Overthinking what he had said.

He frowned his eyebrows as he shook his hair making water spray on her.

-"What's wrong?"

She swallowed, not wanting to be over dramatic.

-"Oh so you're finally awake."

-"Look at me Aria."

-"The fuck should I look at your ugly fuck face?"

-"Shh."

But she couldn't stop the memories from flooding back, and she almost broke down when Ben came to give her a hug.

-"Something's up, did I do something?"

She still didn't answer.

-"Was it what I said? That your smart and all that?"

She shrugged, it was kind of attention seeking after all but not if he really knew what had happened.

-"I promise I don't like you. Not to be mean, but it's good that Gally likes you, because I don't think anyone else likes you..."

He said playfully and ran into the water again, this time she followed.

They dunked each other and she once stood on his shoulders and he tossed her up in the air.

When she landed in the water she were giggling.

She missed hanging out with people, like she had done when she first arrived.

  After awhile they decided to go back and she stood drying her hair when Gally entered her hut.

Embarrassed of just being in a bikini she covered herself.

-"Oh so Ben gets to see you in a bikini but I don't?"

-"It was just an instinct."

-"Not for long."

He mumbled before shaking his head.

-"Everything went well?"

She nodded, -"Yeah. Or no, maybe."

He frowned.

  -"Yeah no maybe?"

-"I was just overreacting, but he said something that I was smart and pretty and so."

-"Well you are."

And this time she couldn't stop her blush.

He saw it and smiled when he saw how much affect he could have on her.

To make her even more red he walked closer to her grabbing her hair brush and started brushing out her knots.

-"It doesn't hurt does it?"

-"Not at all."

She said as he continued brushing her hair.

Her cheeks were probably as red as a tomato now.