How BEN reacts to falling in love + a short scenario (GN!Reader)
How BEN Reacts to falling in love with someone
- I write BEN as a 21 - 25 year old guy.
- ALSO, to that anon who wants a NSFW BEN scenario, I see it! I'll get on it very soon. It's like meeting a new person, and I'm still getting to know BEN.
BEN honestly doesn’t understand emotions anymore. He’s a mess 100%. Confused.
Emotions just aren’t in his forte, y’know? He doesn’t often feel the way that normal humans do.
When his heart starts thumping because something his person of interest said, he’s just ??? What???
It starts small, y’know? Their smile, the way their eyes crinkle when they laugh, their voice, how they react to him walking into the room, it all just clicks and melts together to paint a giant picture of “oh no! Feelings!”
BEN doesn’t like being too far from the strange place he’s calling home, but he can’t help but crawl out of what could possibly be considered a den when some of his friends mentioned you were joining. He doesn’t know why he jumped on that invite - to accept it. He only knows that he did.
So here he sits, on the arm of the couch, watching Toby attempt to beat Jeff at Mario Kart. They’re both horrible.
“Must be painful for you, yeah?” You say, sliding in between Jeff and the arm of the couch to look up at BEN.
The blonde haired man nods with a small hum, looking down at you. “More painful than you could ever imagine,” he says dryly, making you giggle.
You lean back and watch the two fall off the road for the umpteenth time as they struggle to make it through the third lap. “Y’know, I’m pretty decent at this,” you begin. “Why don’t I play you next?”
BEN pauses for a moment before coughing away his surprise. He waves it off. “Sure,” he finally replies with a small smile.
It’s almost a few painful more minutes of Toby and Jeff struggling to come over the finish line in which they both ended last until the controllers are handed over to both you and BEN.
Toby and Jeff get into an argument and take it to the kitchen where they can insult each other over brownies while you and BEN begin to play. Of course, he let you pick the course.
“You’re ballsy to pick the one Jeff and Toby just got served on,” he notes as the two of you choose characters.
You grin. “I just wanna see what’ll happen.”
From there, the two of you have locked in your characters and are waiting for the countdown.
And then the game starts.
And he can’t find it in himself to actually focus. It’s not that he wants to fall behind, it’s just that he’s noticing everything about you. Your laugh, your grin, the determination in your eyes, everything. It consumes him and he doesn’t understand why. But he knows that he likes it.
You tease him every now and then because you’re in first place and he’s still in second, but he’s quickly gaining on you. It’s a strange sort of flirting that he’s not even sure can count as flirting. But you’re taunting him and making light hearted jokes, roasting him in other remarks and he likes it.
You laugh triumphantly when you win. “Hell fuckin’ yeah!” You exclaim as BEN looks at the screen in shock. That hasn’t happened before, or at least, not for a long time.
“Huh,” he breathes out. “Guess you win.” He looks over at you as you brag to the other people in the house that he’s finally been beaten. BEN feels his heart beat in his chest, and it almost stops when you finally look over at him.
“Don’t be too sad,” you say as you lightly slap his shoulder. “We can always go again?”
He begins to smile back. “I’d love nothing more.”
