Gamer Boy

Gamer

 "When are you going to get here?" Your best fried Ben Schwartz sends. You look down at your phone and look at the message, contemplating the question to yourself. Ben has been your best friend for several years now, you guys are with each other all of the time to play video games or just to hang out. However, with the text you feel your heart pick up a little bit as well because what Ben didn't know is that you have had a serious crush on him for a very long time now. You never wanted to tell him because he would never feel the same, and you didn't want to mess up your friendship. You tap your thumbs quickly against the screen, typing: "ill be there in 5". 

After you send the text you jump into the car to leave. Ben lived very close to you, which is a main reason why you seemed to hang out so much, other than the fact that you got along so well. You round the final corner of your drive, revealing the tall apartment building that he lived in. 

You got out of the car holding a container of cookies you had made earlier which you figured you'd make for him for you both to share. Slamming the door with your hip, you approach the door to the building and buzz in while simultaneously trying not to drop your precious container of cookies. You hear a deep familiar voice come across the door bell phone.

"Helloooooo?" Ben says, drawn out extra long. 

"it's (y/n)!" you say into the speaker; receiving a response of,

 "come on up my lady." while buzzing you through the door. you make your way up to his apartment door, walking up WAY too many flights of stares. This does make you feel better about how many cookies you're going to eat though. You knock on the door, and the door opens before you even get a chance to knock a third time. 

"Hay what's uuuu- wait. ARE THOSE COOKIES?!" Ben exclaimed, jumping up and down like a little kid at a carnival. It was so cute when he got exited you thought to yourself. 

"Homemade baby!" you say while blushing uncontrollably. You could see Ben could tell you were blushing, but he didn't seem to acknowledge it. You walked into his apartment, which always looked very clean every time that you came over. His apartment may not have been very big, but it was very nicely decorated, and was plenty of space for Ben living by himself.  You sat the cookies down on the counter in the kitchen right inside the door; Ben immediately tearing open the lid.  

"oh my gaaad they're amaaazzanggg!" Ben groans while shoving more cookie into his mouth. 

"Why thank you!" you say pridefully, "You could probably call be a world class baker."

"No joke!" Ben exclaims, swallowing the rest of his second cookie. He looks up at you with his pretty dark eyes, and gives you a smile, "You didn't have to make these." he says gratefully. 

"Why would I not want to make cookies for my favorite guy?" you say walking towards the couch to grab a switch controller. Ben's cheeks turned a dark shade of pink after hearing this, but tried to hide it as best he could. 

"What game are we playing?" you say nestling into the couch. 

"Anything you want." Ben says sitting next to you, "we can play Mario Kart on the switch if you want?" 

"Oh YES! I can beat your ass at Mario Kart!" You say with a sudden sense of confidence. This had been your favorite game as a child when you had it for your Wii. 

"Oh you really think so?" Ben questions raising one eyebrow as if testing you. 

"Are you challenging me?" You press, lifting your eyebrow, matching his facial expression. 

"I guess so..." Ben says with a small smirk. He opens up Mario Kart, selecting two player, glancing at you intimidatingly. 

"You don't scare me Schwartz." You say jokingly, pushing his head to face the screen. You choose your lucky character Yoshi while Ben chooses Toad. You chuckle a little at his choice of character, and you see his glance at you. 

"What's so funny???" Ben questions through a confused smile. 

"Literally no one likes Toad." You say through your continuing giggles. 

"TAKE IT BACK!" he says, sitting up straight on the couch with his eyes widened at you. 

"No wayyyy." You joke back at him rocking back and forth with laughter. Ben doesn't keep up the defense for long because your laughter can't help but make him smile like a goofball. 

You play through all four tracks that you chose (one of which being rainbow road for extra challenge) and you won every single race. You look over at Ben with a smug look on you face. His elbows were rested on this knees and his head was buried in his hands in shame. 

"Told ya I'd kick your ass." you say calmly yet in a condescending way; the same smug smile plastered on your face. 

"I'm so ashamed." Ben muffles gloomily into his hands. You look at him, and want to just cuddle him so bad, though you know for a fact couldn't happen, so you do the next thing that came to mind. You stretch out your hand and gently place it on his back, rubbing gently as if to comfort him. You know that he wasn't actually really upset, but you saw this as a perfect moment to touch him, and you just couldn't help yourself. Ben's back tensed up from your touch at first, but quickly relaxed and eased into your hand. You felt him start to slowly sit up, so you let your rand fall from his back. He looked at you, more serious than you were expecting, which frightened you in the weirdest way. His chocolate brown eyes were scanning yours and his curly dark brown hair was puffing out in all direction, including straight up, making him look like some sort of a lion. You couldn't exactly tell what emotion he was feeling, and you were beginning to get worried.

"Are you okay?" you asked, concern taking over your face. Without an answer, and without warning, Ben leans in towards you while grabbing each side of your face gently and lightly kissed your lips. His lips were soft and delicate, and though it happened so fast, you could feel yourself melting into them. Ben breaks away and immediately shows a face of regret and stands up from the couch. You are at a loss for words as you hear a waterfall of words escape Ben's mouth. 

"I'm so sorry!" he says, "I shouldn't have done that. Dammit I'm such a dumb-ass.  Dammit why do I always have to ruin everything! I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to I just-" and before he could finish his sentence you wrap your arms around his neck and kiss him with more passion that you've ever put behind a kiss before. You feel him kiss you back while placing his hands on your waist and pulling you closer to him. Your fingers plunge into his dark curls, making his fingers tighten. You never wanted this moment to end, but you pulled your lips away from his; your (y/e/c) eyes looking directly into his. 

"I really like you Ben..." you say to him. Your faces were inches apart, you could almost touch noses. You could almost see a shift in his eyes from shock, to relief and joy as a smile spreads all the way across his face.

"I really like you too (y/n). I just never wanted to tell you because I thought that someone as beautiful, funny, and apparently amazing at Mario Kart would ever like me." He says dreamily. You laugh and kiss the end of this nose. The feeling of him holding you felt so good. He was so warm and comforting, you never wanted to leave. You stand in each others arms in comfortable silence for a couple more seconds until the silence was broken when Ben smirked and said,

"Wanna play another round?" 

"You're on." You say through a smile while messing his hair up with your fingertips. He smiled sweetly back at you, and you both grabbed your controllers.  

This is my first time writing ANYTHING like this. And by this I mean imagines or fanfic or whatever you wanna call this lol. This was actually kind of fun even if it sucks. If you liked this just lmk, I know that it's the most stereotypical imagine ever, but I wanted to start off with something easier to plan out. So sorry if this is written badly, I'm trying to get better at writing a cohesive story. 

SO yeahhhh, that's it for rn. If anyone ever reads this, give me any Ben Schwartz suggestions you have, I need help hahaha. BYE!