Lies ✺ Kylo Ren

one

She awakes alone, with the space beside her cold and empty. Usually, she'd hear the sound of the shower going or something being cooked to tell her that he was awake but this time, all she heard was silence, only broken by the sound of the sea crashing onto the beach a few miles away. Sitting up, Lomana wrapped her blankets around her nude body, the sea breeze creeping in through the small gap in the windows making a small chill run up her spine.

Lomana and Ben arrived in Arcadia the day before, Ben telling her that they needed a break and go somewhere where they could be alone and relax. It was supposed to be a romantic getaway. But from what it looked like from Lomana's prospective was going to some distant place, have one night together then leaving without a note. As she sat up, Lomana's gaze fixed upon the ring upon her finger – the blue flower contrasting perfectly with her pale skin. It wasn't an engagement ring, it was a ring that proved she belonged to someone but wasn't ready to propose. It was a gift from Ben, of course, and it was one of her most treasured possessions and she always had it on her. If it wasn't on her finger, it was on a chain around her neck.

It wasn't until a few hours later of waiting for Ben to come, Lo finally decided to get up and try to find Ben. She washed before picking out a long and flowing red dress with black tights and red boots. Brushing through her long blonde curls, she tied it into one tight braid to keep it out of her face. She placed a necklace that had been a gift from her father around her neck before she left her room, determined to find Ben once and for all.

The place she was staying at was a holiday resort, of sorts; it specialized in young couples who needed to get away from everyday life for a while. It was a paradise – that was what everyone had called it. With the beach a few yards away from the pool, endless spa's and shops and the luxurious woods that surrounded it; it certainly lived up to the hype everyone was on about.

The first place Lo checked was the beach, which had quickly become their favourite place to be out of the whole resort. The beach seemed so peaceful and it really was heaven on earth. Lo didn't bother walking onto the beach, the sand would've gotten into her shoes and she could see the whole stretch of the beach from the viewing deck that was just outside the reception.

Once she saw that Ben wasn't on the beach, Lo tried in the spa's and shops but to no avail. She would've tried the woods but they had agreed to not venture into them alone, and Ben wasn't usually someone who broke agreements with Lo, even small ones like not going exploring alone.

That was their relationship; it was a series of compromises and agreements, a collection of the good mixed in with the bad. Ben was stubborn, Lo was level minded. She thought he was barking mad, he thought she was positively insane. She was dramatic, he was dynamic. He was troubled, she was carefree. He was impulsive, she was precise. He grew up on an army base, she grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere. He was the son of Leia Organa and Han Solo, she was the daughter of two farmers – from two completely different worlds but they couldn't be more perfect for each other.

They met for the first time when Lo's parents had to make a delivery to the base, and Lo had practically begged her parents to let her go with them. She was growing tired of the same crop fields and playing hopscotch with her younger sister in the backyard or play hide and seek through the corn fields. After hours of begging, Lo's parents finally gave in and allowed her to go on the only condition that Lo would help out with the deliveries. Something Lo reluctantly agreed to do.

Lo first met Ben when she was nineteen, while he was twenty-five. And they despised each other the moment the other opened their mouth. She thought he was far too rude, while he thought she was far too perfect. It took them several years to have a normal conversation with one another without wanting to start a fight and once that was achieved; the pair slowly became closer – even though they both denied it at first.

It wasn't until Lo was twenty-one when Ben finally asked her to go on a date with him – which she accepted on the one condition that she wouldn't fall in love with him. Something that was broken almost two months later. That was the only time their conditions were broken, and they'd been together ever since, despite their obvious age gap.

The pair had gone to Arcadia to get away from life for a while and to celebrate their three year anniversary. It was perfect until Lo woke up the next morning alone and with no sign of Ben anywhere, then everything slowly came crashing down around her. It wasn't in Ben's nature to abandon her without telling her where he was – it was more in his nature to take her places and not tell her where they were going.

Rolling her eyes to herself, Lo gave up on her personal search and practically marched towards the front desk. She forced her lips to turn into a smile once she arrived at the desk, her forearms resting upon it.

"Good morning, Miss Shim, how can we help you?" The attendant's smile only made Lo get angrier, her blood boiling more and more but she had to keep it contained within her until she got back to her room.

"D-do you know where Ben Solo is? I can't find him. He was with me last night, but I can't seem to find him this morning."

The attendant's eyebrows fused together in confusion. "Mr. Solo said he had to go away on business, and that he had told you before he had left. But he's paid for you to stay with us until he returns so you're welcome to stay."

Lo sighed, scratching the side of her head. "Right, yes, of course he did. Erhm, did he say when he would be coming back?" The attendant simply shook her head. Lo's arms dropped from the counter, her lips forming a grimace. "Thank you for your help," she didn't even wait for an answer before she turned away and made her way back towards her room.

Once she was back in her room, Lo kicked her shoes off and sulked in her bed for hours. She felt betrayed that the man she loved had just abandoned her for almost no apparent reason. For all she knew, he could be seeing someone else. It did fit his personality – to be cheating on her, at least. No matter how many times she told herself that he was faithful to her, a memory from long ago would surface and all the faith she had in him was starting to crumble and fall into a million tiny pieces – a million worthless tiny pieces.

The sound of thundering knocks on her door brought her out of her thinking pattern but just as she stood up from her bed after placing her shoes back on, the door came off its hinges and revealed a large group of Stormtroopers with their guns all pointing directly at her. "Lomana Shim, you are under arrest for being an undercover spy and supplying secret information about The New Order to The Resistance. Anything you say can and will be used against you during your confinement."

Note

First chapter is done! Hope you guys all liked it! I did try to put in a bit of backstory into this chapter with Lo's and Ben's relationship and their past so it'll give you an insight into their past and how their relationship plays out while at the same time keep the story going.

See you in the next one.