Asharan: Jake and Ben ch6
#6 of Aharan Jake and Ben
Previously: The next day Ben awoke with Jake not in bed, it was nearly 11: 00 am so he wasn't too surprised. He walked out of the bedroom looking for him, but he wasn't there. It was only Ben by himself.
He walked into the kitchen and noticed a sticky note on the fridge. It read "Have gone to the city. Its about a 2 hour drive there, I wont be back until at least 6pm ill bring tea home help yourself to the food or anything else in the house."
"I can't believe that he left me here. "What an asshole!" Ben was pissed off. He didn't know what to do. He had only been in the house for like 14 hours and about 10 of that he was asleep. By the time he had cooked breakfast and ate it, it was about 11:30am. He decided he would watch TV for a while. That end up being two hours of TV. Ben felt a little fat for not doing much today except eat and watch TV, he decided he would get up and do something.
He looked around in Jakes work out area and noticed another note. It said "If you get bored and have nothing to do..." Ben paused and said "Well that's exactly what happens when you leave someone alone in your house they tend to get bored." Ben let out a little chuckle and continued reading. "You can work out or something. Just make sure that you adjust the weights to a comfortable level. Or you can do zumba, it's really good way to keep fit and sculpts tones your body and it's dancing and last night you told me that you were a pretty good dancer, see if you can keep up with them. :) Love Jake."
Ben had done zumba a few times before to see what it was like and he enjoyed it heaps. Ben went over to the TV cabinet where he saw the case sitting. He opened it up and plunked the DVD into the DVD player. As he walked back to the couch to try turning the TV and everything else on, the TV started by itself and so did the DVD player and the surround sound system.
About three and a half hours of zumba later Ben was stuffed (and no. he was not stuffed with dick like a lot of you are probably waiting for). All hot and sweaty he decided to go jump in the pool. By this time it was 5pm and only one hour left till Jake got home. As he stepped outside he saw the huge shadow of a multilevel diving platform. Of course Ben had done some diving comps back in his world, so he naturally climbed to the top. It was a good 15m in the air. He could see over the house and most of the forest trees. When he looked towards the front of the house, about 200m away there was a highway. It mustn't be a very busy highway as he hadn't heard any cars go past. He wondered what type of car Jake had, but he would have to wait and find out.
Without even looking how deep the pool was or where he was jumping to, Ben closed his eyes and did a swan dive into the pool. He felt the cold water swallow his body revitalizing him and barley making a splash the waters surface seemed nearly undisturbed. As he opened his eyes under water, his old life flashed before his eyes but it paused at point in his life. He suddenly could see his diving partner under water with him (synchronised diving) the perfect dive combination that Ben and Tom had done to win state champion. But he wasn't just his diving partner, they were even more than best friends. They were like lovers so intimate they didn't need to do anything sexual, they would tell each other everything, comfort each other, they were inseparable. But there was one thing that Ben never told him and that was that he was gay. He was afraid of getting hurt... physically and emotionally, but most of all, he was afraid of loosing him. But he lost Tom anyway...(I was going to do a side story of why he lost tom but I wouldn't feel comfortable going into detail, after all Ben is me) Ben discovered Tom murdered and it wasn't a nice way to go out either. (I'll leave it at that).
Then suddenly his old life vanished. He had almost forgotten that a few days ago he had lost everything. Sadness swept over him like a tidal wave. He started to feel very ill like he needed to vomit, so he got out and ran inside to the guest's bathroom totally forgetting about the on-suit. After he finished spewing his guts up he felt like passing out, but he knew if he ate, it would happen again. So he jumped in the shower.
This time he knew how to work it. He had the shower on as fast as it could go and it was so hot the steam was coming out of the shower head. After a good thirty minutes in there he decided to turn the temp down, it was a little cooler than warm. Ben stepped out dried himself off. He realized he had no clothes that he could put on. He didn't want to wear Jakes clothes any more he didn't like boxers. As he hung his towel back up on the towel rack, he noticed one of those tiles that you could slide open, but this one you couldn't slide it, he had to push it. When he pushed it, a big square of tiles started to come out of the wall and moved to the side, then he heard a noise coming from within the hole in the wall so he walked a little closer to see what was in it. It was his briefs all washed, ironed and folded up. He stared in amazement, he took his briefs and slid them on. He loved the feeling of the briefs stretching over his legs then firmly pressing on his thighs as he let go of the waist band.
He walked out and headed towards the master bedroom. He was still feeling a little bit ill from spewing his guts up, so he laid down on the bed. His mind started wandering, thinking of everything he had was now gone. But anytime he thought of something he loved in his old life was now replaced with Jake. This actually made him sad, would he forget everything about his old life and then one day suddenly wake up to find himself back in his world. Letting go of his two best friends was the hardest thing to do. They were always with each other, the comforting each other. But what brought them so close together was the unfortunate event I mentioned earlier.
Hearing Jake pull up seemed to push him over the edge of just emotional pain to the point where emotional pain became physical. Ben screaming in pain as tears rolled down his face clenching his chest, his heart it was the most injured pat in his body after all the things he had been through it was a surprise that he was able to act like he wasn't hurt. The pain made his chest start cramping up, it felt like his heart was being crushed. The pain was agonizing emotionally and physically.
Jake pulling up in the garage turning his car off he could hear a strange noise. When he opened the car door it became clear what it was. His lover's screams. They filled his ears, smashing the doors open that were in his way. He started yelling "BEN!!!!!!!!!" repeatedly. Ben heard but couldn't call back out for help, nor did he want to. For some reason he felt like dying. What if it didn't work out between him and Jake, he really would have no one, nothing worth living for.
Jake finally reached the bed and picked up Ben and cradled him, holding him close. Seeing his partner in so much pain felt like someone was trying to rip his heart and soul out. "Ben... I'm here for you. But you have to be strong... strong enough to let me in and help you." Jake said barley being able to get that much out as he was so worried.
Ben opened his eyes and saw Jake. His face, it looked as if some one was pointing a gun at his head about to kill him, Ben closed his eyes again . "Ben...please... you have to let me in." As Jake said this Ben felt something cold drip on his shoulder. He knew what it was, and felt so bad for making Jake go through this pain as well. Ben turned his body slightly and hugged Jake so tightly, burying his head into Jake neck he whisper "Jake *sniffle* I'm... *screams in pain* I'm sorry."
Ben couldn't stop crying or the pain from hurting as much as he tried, it just wouldn't stop. "Ben I love you... I truly love you and I won't let anything like this happen again...... I promise." Jake whispered softly. Ben felt something cold drip on his shoulder. He knew what it was. He angled his body towards Jakes and hugged him, burying his face into Jakes chest fur.
"Jake *sob*... You can't stop everything. This... this pain, it had to come sooner or later *sob*. Im just sad that I lost everything that I had ever known... It hurts to loose everything you loved." Ben's chest cramped up in pain again.
Jake continued holding his partner tightly until the pain stopped. Ben was exhausted from his days work out, and not to mention spewing his guts up and having his heart nearly crushed in his own chest, so a few minutes after the pain disappeared he trailed off to sleep. Jake nearly fell asleep to, until he remembered he left dinner in the car.
"Ben. Wake up." Jake said as he gently shook his love.
"Can't I just stay asleep?" Ben asked still to sleepy to even open his eyes.
"Well after you come and eat." Jake replied smiling as Ben opened his eyes.
Jake carried Ben to the couch and sat him up on that. "You stay awake now Ben. I'll be back I gotta go get tea out of the car." Jake said as he rushed down the hall way.
After they had finished eating and getting ready for bed Jake felt like he had explaining to do. As they laid down embracing each other, he began "I'm sorry I left you here."
Ben didn't say anything but he could tell that Jake needed to explain why he did not take him although this would have happened eventually. "The city is a really dangerous place now that there is a civil war going on. There are three sides to this war. The government, which is what I feel we should stay with, it's a democracy but it has a few problems but nothing major. Then there is the Galldan Empire, at first they were only a group of ten people and somehow managed to convince people to join them, but they will rule with cruelty, all they want is power. Finally there is, well they don't actually have a name the media just calls them rebels, if they win this war Asharan will become an every man for himself country, no laws, no consequences and no safety. And now that most of the authorities have left major cities to fight, the crime rate has increased dramatically. And it is not small crimes being committed, murders, rape, torture and even being eaten. Those are the things that have befallen even major cities. And if you came with me and something happened to you, I couldn't live with myself" Jake stressing the last couple of sentences to Ben.
"Jake, I'm so sorry. I didn't know." Ben is all he could gather to reply to that chunk of information.
"It's ok Ben. As long as you are ok... nothing else matters to me." Jake said as he snuggled his partner in tightly. "Let's just get some sleep." Jake added. And they both drifted off in each others arms.
TBC
This chapter was so boring so I kinda rushed it a fair bit so if its crap that's why. Every is gonna love the next chapter believe me.