Cry Baby - BEN Drowned x Reader

Exchange Student

The next day I woke up at 6:30 like usual, I checked my phone, and hopped in the shower.

It felt nice to have my normal routine back.

For the most part anyways.

When I entered my room after my shower, BEN was sitting on my bed.

"BEN? What the hell are you doing here? It's only 7:30!" I said.

"I decided that the easiest way to keep track of you, is to live with you. So, I made arrangements with your college, and now I'm a student there. Taking all of your classes, and all at the same times you take them." He explained.

"You're insane." I sighed, rubbing my forehead.

"Pretty much." He chuckled.

"So anyways, since I have to be a human for more than an hour at a time, Slender made me a ring. It makes me look completely human as long as it's on. Pretty cool, huh?" He said, showing me the ring.

It was a basic black band, made of sterling silver.

"Yeah." I agreed.

"But my mom doesn't have work on Fridays or Mondays, so I don't know how you expect to sneak by her." I said.

"Oh, that's simple. She thinks I'm an exchange student, which means I'll be living with you." He said proudly.

"What?!" I yelled.

"Yep." He nodded.

"And she just agreed to that?!" I asked.

"Well, Slender manipulated her a bit, but yeah." He said.

"Oh my god. I have to live with BEN." I muttered, nearly in tears.

"Chill out, that just means that Toby will be over here a lot." He pointed out.

"Yay! Toby's the best." I said happily.

"What? Why am I not the best?" He asked.

"Because you're a perv." I said.

"Yeah but only for you." He winked.

"Shut up." I muttered, smacking him on the back of the head.

"Ow." He said, rubbing the spot where I hit him.

After we argued a bit more, I decided that it couldn't be that bad, right?

My class today was at 10, so we left the house at 9:30.

Cassie met up with us at the front door to the lecture hall, and when she saw BEN she nearly fainted.

"(Y/N)! Your boyfriend is at our school!" She whisper-yelled.

"He's not my boyfriend." I said.

"Whatever." She brushed me off, asking BEN his name.

"So what's your name?" She asked.

"BEN." He replied.

"Ben?" She questioned.

"No, BEN." He said again.

"I don't see the difference." She said.

"There's a big difference, BEN is my name, and Ben isn't." He argued.

"Whatever, I'll just call you Benny." She said, grabbing my hand.

She pulled me all the way to our classroom, and then sat me down in a corner, with BEN right next to me.

"Um- Cassie, don't you wanna sit next to me?" I asked.

"Nope! I refuse to come between true love." She said, running off to the other end of the room.

"God damn her." I muttered.

"Soooo~ (Y/N), now that we're all alone, wanna-" I cut him off by smacking the back of his head again.

"Ow! Stop hitting the same spot!" He yelled.

"Okay, everyone shut up." The professor said, setting his ice coffee down on his desk.

"We're not doing anything but notes today, they're on your e-mail, and Cassie is passing around a paper, fill it out then turn it in on my desk. And who the hell is that?" He said, looking at me and BEN.

"Um- this is BEN. He's new." I said.

"Whatever, I don't get paid enough to care." The professor said, sitting down at his desk and pulling out his laptop.

"I'll be playing Minecraft, if anyone disturbs me with anything other than a logical question, I'll be taking 5 points off the assignment." He said, taking a sip of his coffee.

"Here, (Y/N)." Cassie handed me a paper.

I passed one to BEN and opened up my computer.

"So what are we doing?" He asked.

"Weren't you listening at all?" I groaned.

"No, I was staring at your boobs." He said casually.

"What?! You little shit!" I yelled.

"Shut up." The professor yelled.

"Sorry sir." I said quickly.

"Whatever." He said, rolling his eyes.

I put my computer in between BEN and I so we could both use it, then grabbed my pen and got to work.

"What are we supposed to do?" BEN asked again.

"Just answer the questions on the paper." I said.

"Oh. Can we use the computer?" He asked.

I nodded, rolling my eyes.

"Well this should be easy." He smirked, taking the pen out of my hand.

"Asshole." I muttered, grabbing another out of my bag.

We both worked in silence, finishing the paper relatively quick.

We were the first ones to turn it in.

We both sat quietly at the back of the class, watching YouTube on my phone.

I had one earbud in while he had the other.

Class eventually ended and I packed up, ready to leave.

"Why didn't Benny bring anything to class?" Cassie asked, walking over to our desk.

"He didn't know what he would need, he's an exchange student so he doesn't really know what to do yet." I lied.

"Hm. I guess that makes sense. Where's he from?" She asked.

"The UK." BEN said.

"Why don't you have an accent then?" She asked.

"That's personal, don't ask him about it." I whispered to her.

"Oh! I'm so sorry, you don't have to answer that!" She said quickly.

"It's fine." BEN said, sounding upset.

"So how long is he staying for?" Cassie asked.

"Until he graduates." I said.

"Oh, cool! Is he going to live with you the entire time?" She questioned.

"Y'know Cassie, I think my mom said she needed me home right after class, so why don't we hold off on the questions? Welp, see ya! Gotta go, bye!" I yelled, grabbing BEN's hand and rushing away.

"Oh- uh- okay! Bye!" She yelled back, waving.

"What a cute couple."