When He Sees Me [Draft]

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"Good morning, Mrs. James." Said Ellie as the middle-aged woman let Ellie into the large two story home.
"Hi sweetheart! Andy's upstairs in his room. I doubt he's awake, but you can try."
Ellie nodded and slowly walked up the stairs, taking slow and deep breaths.
She slowly opened the door to see Andy playing some video game on his Xbox and then noticed Ben sitting on her boyfriends bed.
"Andy?" Ellie said quietly, shutting the door behind her.
Both Ben and Andrew looked up at Ellie, Andy pausing his video game.
"Oh, uhh, hey Ell's. Ben's over hanging out, is there something you needed?" Andrew asked as Ellie sat down in his lap.
"I need to talk to you. It's really important." She said quietly, wrapping her arms around the back of Andrews neck.
"Oh, okay... Ben?" Andrew puts his hands on Ellie's sides.
Ben stands up "I should get going anyways. Bye Andy." Ben grabs his sweatshirt and puts on his shoes, quickly leaving the room and heading down the stairs.

Ben sighed when he remembered his car was still at school, and began the walk down the street.
"This is gonna take forever."
Ben thought to himself as he walked in the cold morning air.

Once Ben got home, his mother greeted him with a loving hug.
"Benji! I feel like I haven't seen my baby in forever!" Betty said, kissing all over Ben's face.
Ben smiled and wrapped his arms around his mom. "I know! I have so much to tell you!" And so he did. He told his mom all about him and Andrew and what they've been up to over this past episode.
"Well, Benny... That's quite the weekend you've had. But I'm so happy that you've found someone finally." "Me too, mom. I'm the happiest I've ever been." he says quietly.
"But I'm worried. Ellie seemed... Weird. I think she suspects something is up with me and Andy."
"I'm sure it'll be okay babyface." Betty smiles at her son.
"Yeah..." Ben nodded.

The two spent almost the whole night talking about boys, but especially Andrew.

The next morning, Ben woke up on the couch next to his mom, and got ready for school without waking her. He kissed her cheek on the way out quietly.
"Bye mom." He whispered and walked out the door.
"Shoot..." He mumbled when he remembered, once again, that he didn't have his car. Ben texted Andrew to ask him if he could pick him up, but after 30 minutes, there was still no response. It was freezing, Ben was late for school, and his mom didn't have time to take him, because she had work today.
"Benny?" Betty asked, coming outside in her full waitress uniform.
"I don't have my car. And I know you need yours." He says, standing up from the spot on the curb he'd been sitting on.
"Sweetie, you should've come and woken me up. Let's go, I'll drive you." She says.
"You don't have time, mom." He says.
"You're more important to me. Come on." Betty says, getting into the car with her son.

They got to school, and Ben said goodbye and disappeared into a crowd of students. As his first few classes flew by, he went to the black box to meet Andrew. When he didn't show up, Ben knew something was wrong.

Ben texted him 'hey, are you okay? I saw you earlier so I know you're here. Please talk to me.'