Berica One Shots (completed)

the kiss

Hey! So this is Ericas POV when she kissed Ben in SSS and also what I had hoped would come after.

Erica POV
     I never thought I would be kissing him for a reason other than a mission. But here I am. Kissing him. We were on a snow drift, ready to plummet to our deaths. It can't get worse, can it? Well, I guess it can when you are a spy-in-training for the CIA Academy of Espionage. Next to us sat a bomb. A Soviet Stalin X-43 to be exact. The time ticked down as we prepared for our past moments alive.

5..4..3..2..1...

     I reluctantly pulled away from Benjamin Ripley, the second boy I ever fell for. I realized we had only dismantled the detonator and not the timer. Realizing this, I also realized I had just kissed Ben and we weren't going to die after all.
Shit I thought. How am I supposed to explain this? I'm not.

••5 minute time skip••

     I thought about a second kiss, now that we were safe, but decided against it.
     "That kiss didn't mean anything," I told him. He looked at me, as though he knew I was trying to cover up. "We were in a tight spot, and you were about to lose it, and I didn't want your last moments on earth to be terrifying."
     He didn't say anything, only smiled. This made me uncomfortable. "Why are you smiling?"
     "Just happy to be alive," he replied dreamily.
      I told him the usual 'I'll kill you if you tell anyone' crap, then relaxed. This day wasn't too bad.
     We were pulled into the helicopter by my dad, Alexander. I'll save some time and not complain about how lousy he is and how he's a fraud and how much he sucks...
     We got into the helicopter and flew back to where my parters were.
     Everyone hugged Ben and said good job to me because they were too afraid to touch me.
I just hoped Ben wouldn't tell anyone.

344 words! Thanks for reading. See you soon.