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Holding Ben against the wall with his legs wrapped around Mackie, they make out with each other, it was clear this was something they've missed and wanted to do for a long time. Ben yanks off Mackie's jacket, they trail kisses from their lips to their necks back to each other's lips. Moans filling the air,

Mackie carries Ben to his room laying him down on the bed, climbing between the boy's legs, neither prepared to stop what's going on.

Ben falls asleep afterward and Mackie gets dressed as he looks at him, after buckling his belt he picks his shirt up putting it on. Putting on his jacket he walks over to Ben bending down in front of him, gently caressing his hair and face "hey," Mackie whispers.

Opening his eyes Ben sees Mackie "hi" he smiles, "you're leaving?"

Mackie nods "I have to get home," his hand still rests in the boy's hair and face "I love you."

Turning his face to Mackie's palm Ben kisses it, "I love you too" Mackie stands and Ben watches him leave his bedroom.

Sitting at the table Benis having dinner with his dad and Serena when his mom walks in, "hey guys" she walks to the kitchen.

"Hey left you some food, wanna join us?" Ben's dad asks

"I'm sorry honey I can't I have to prepare, Mackenzie's hearing is this Saturday" she walks out heading for her office.

"Mackenzie?" Serena looks at Ben "as in-"

"Yes, she's Mackie's lawyer."

"How'd that happened?" His dad asks

"I asked her to."

After dinner Ben is in his room with his sister, they're laying in his bed "how'd you get mom to agree to this?"

"Lots of tears and convincing," Ben chuckles

"Think he'll go to jail?"

Ben thinks "I honestly don't know but I know none of it looks good for him, they think he's covering for his brother."

"Is he?"

"I don't know" Ben answers honestly, "Mackie is very loyal, especially to family. I know he's hiding things for his brother but I hope he knows it'd be really stupid to go to jail for someone who's screwed him over so many times."

"I'd go to jail for you Benji,"

"Would you also have locked me in a room with a girl to have sex with after I came out?"

"What?" Serena looks at him "what do you mean?"

"Remember when I invited Mackie and his little brothers over to swim in the pool with my friends?" Serena nods "well his brother showed up and Ali basically outed him, so his brother leaves with their little brothers and goes home to out Mackie to his parents. Fast forward to weeks later, Mackie gets a call in the middle of the night from his brother to pick him up at some random house. When he gets there Harley shows him a girl passed out in the bed, and he locks Mackie in the room forcing him to have sex with the girl so he'll be straight again."

"Oh my god!" Serena sits up facing Ben, "that's so fucked up."

Ben sits up too, "I know"

"Did he do it?"

Shaking his head "no and he told his parents but they didn't believe him so he moved out, he took the girl to the hospital to make sure she was ok and when he went back for her she offered him a place to stay."

"That's who he lives with?" Ben nods "holy shit," she chuckles "what is your boyfriend's life?"

Ben shrugs "Harley has put Mackie through so much and yet Mackie just always forgives him, I don't get it."

With their kids upstairs, Ben's mom and dad sit in her office "you're really doing this? Helping that kid"

"Our son is in love, honey" she smiles, "and I know we decided to keep him away from Mackenzie, but Ben believes he is innocent so I'm choosing to believe him."

"You think you can do it?"

She nods "he's going to plead not guilty, then all I have to do is drag this out until his brother is found."

"And Mackenzie doesn't know where he is?"

"He swears he doesn't but I can tell he's hiding something, there's no way he'd drive that far for him to an abandoned building and not know what he was doing."

"Maybe he's in denial about his brother."

"Or maybe there's something they both know that we don't."

Next day Ben sits in class bored as the minutes pass by before class ends. The bell finally rings and Ben gets up leaving, walking in the hall with his backpack on, Ben scrolls on his phone trying to find the perfect outfit for the dance.

"Your boyfriend in prison yet?" Jeremy walks up to Ben blocking him

Groaning annoyed "yeah and he joined a gang with guys on the outside coming to kill you if you don't leave me alone."

"You really believe those threats don't you?" He chuckles

"Jeremy why are you so dense?" He asks staring at Jeremy with a confused look, "why can't you see that nothing you do can get between Mackie and I?"

Jeremy grins "babe I think you're the dense one here, I've fucked your relationship countless times and I can do it again."

"What?" Jeremy walks away and Ben chases him yanking him to turn around, "what the hell are you talking about?"

"You sure you want to know?"

"Talk Jeremy" he stands waiting for an explanation.

"Harley and I planned what happened at Ali's party," he admits proudly.

Ben stares at him finding it hard to understand what he just said, "I'm sorry what?"

"He said if I gave him the opportunity he could make everyone see who Denver really is, so I suggested Ali's party. He invited those thugs, knew they'd fight Denver and he'd be there to help him which would get him his brother back, and you'd come right back to me." Ben's jaw drops shocked "I mean it worked perfectly but I guess I doubted the hold that dirtbag had over you."

"Jeremy, are you fucking joking?" He shakes his head sporting an unapologetic smile, feeling every emotion rush over him as he stares at Jeremy's face, Ben reacts unexpectedly. Swinging his fist it hits Jeremy in the face and Ben shrieks "fuck!" He didn't expect it to hurt so much "you're such a piece of shit!" He shoves Jeremy walking away.

It's his next class and as much as he thought about skipping, Ben decides to go to gym, but it's outside and he hates that so he doesn't even bother going to the locker room to change. "Why aren't you dressed, Ben?" The gym teacher asks when he joins his classmates on the field

"Injured," he shows his bruised fist using it as the perfect excuse.

"That's a zero for the day, Ben,"

"I'll go cry about it on the bleachers" he walks away climbing the bleachers all the way to the top.

Plugging his headphones in his ears he lays down shutting his eyes thinking. How's he supposed to tell Mackie about this on top of everything else he's going through? But maybe if he tells him what Harley did, it'll make him not protect Harley anymore. Ben knows this'll piss him off but he'll feel like he's siding with Jeremy if he hides this from Mackie.

As he's laying there his phone starts to ring, lifting it he sees Mackie's name and gets a little nervous. It's like Mackie knew he was thinking about him, "hello?" Ben answers

"I'm so disappointed in you," Mackie says on the other end of the line.

Sitting up "what? Why?"

"Why aren't you participating in gym?"

"Are you-" he looks around until he spots Mackie standing far next to the parking lot, "you're here"

"Yeah I was bored as hell at home, my mom won't let me go back to work, so I figured I'd come steal you away for lunch."

"Ok stay there I'm coming" he hangs up. Getting off the bleachers Ben sneaks off the field when the teacher isn't looking. Rushing out to Mackie "hey," he gets to the boy and kisses him.

"So I got us burgers, figured we could have lunch on rocket since we pretty much always go to McLaren."

"Okay" Ben nods agreeing, "but I need to tell you something." Ben is stuck between just blurting out what happened and swallowing it all to not make things worse.

"Are we breaking up again?" Mackie asks joking

"Are we even back together?" Thinking about how harsh the question came off Ben sighs, "sorry I just... something happened earlier and if I don't tell you right now I never will."

"All right" Mackie waits but Ben doesn't continue, "well what happened?" Not knowing where to start Ben holds out his sore hand and Mackie sees how red his knuckles are, "woah" he smiles carefully grabbing Ben's hand examining it. "Who'd you deck?" He asks kissing his boyfriend's hurt knuckles

"Jeremy," Ben answers as Mackie lets go of his hand.

Rolling his eyes "what'd he do now?"

Ben gulps, "if I tell you I need you to promise me you won't go crazy because I already took care of that."

"What'd he do Ben?" Mackie gets impatient to find out

"So apparently the fight that broke out between you and those guys during Ali's party, Harley and Jeremy set it up."

"What the fuck?" Mackie smiles not comprehending what Ben said, "wait what?"

"He said that they knew it would break us up and Jeremy would get me back, and you'd forgive Harley because he had your back," Ben watches the hurt flash across Mackie's face. "Are you surprised? Because I'm not"

Feeling betrayed Mackie turns taking out his mom's phone because the detectives still had his, he dials his brother's number but he knows it'll go straight to voicemail. So he leaves a final one, "I've spent seventeen years having your back and you've done nothing but fucked me over! Every fucking chance you got to be a real brother you fucked up, Harley, and I let a lot of shit go but that's it. SO FUCK YOU! FUCK EVERYTHING I PROMISED, I'M NOT GOING DOWN FOR YOU ANYMORE GOT IT? I hope they fucking find you wherever you're hiding you weak bitch." He hangs up

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