Benji's dorm

[benji]

Pretend it say Benji on the wall there, k? k.

[Esme Russel]

Esme had purchased the gerbil for Ben a couple of days ago and well, to put it as nicely as possible, she wanted the damn thing out of her house. She had gotten it from the local pet store where she and Jonathan had got Unicorn from and she was twenty percent off because she was knocked up so most people wouldn't want to take on the responsibility. She knew Ben well enough to know that he would love being 'Papa Danger' to a bunch of disgusting rodents... err beautiful gerbils. She wouldn't mind the furry little creature as much if Unicorn wasn't constantly trying to jump into the cage and eat it causing more stress to her day than she already had.

I can't give Ben a half-ate gerbil.. Or would it be half eaten..? But, how horrible would that be? You know that gerbil that I bought you? Yeah, my kitten ate it?

So she had decided to take matters into her own hands and bring the damn thing to him along with it's cage and supplies so he wouldn't have to worry about any of that and she really didn't want random gerbil crap all over her house. Jonathan was at home with Cassidy so she didn't have to worry about that either and she could just have some fun with one of her best friends while he bonded with his new little furry baby. She couldn't deny that the little thing was pretty darn cute for a rodent. She'd had a hamster once that she loved but she'd had to give it away when she got pregnant because she didn't have any time for it.

It was strange walking through these halls again.. She hadn't been on campus like this in a long time and she was suddenly really aware of how uncomfortable that it was to walk through them pregnant. It was like everyone knew and stared at her stomach because of it. Was it that obvious? She didn't think so! Though she was wearing a top that was extremely tight in the abdomen area because she was too stubborn to admit that she already needed to break out the baggy maternity shirts to cover up her bump. How could she already be showing? She was only fourteen weeks pregnant! She was sixteen weeks with Cassidy before she was showing this much! Maybe it wasn't a lie when her doctor warned her that she would start showing more the second time around.

It took her a minute to find Ben's dorm but she did eventually and she knocked twice in hopes that it would be enough and that he wasn't in there masturbating or having sex with Lulu or playing with Lulu's breasts not that she would blame him if he was.

[benji]

Benji was just sitting in his room watching Veggie Tales on his laptop and trying to figure out which takeout to get for dinner tonight. Like any normal human being on a school night, he was just rocking a pair of gym shorts and a tank top. It was like 6:30 and he hadn't even touched his homework, nor was he really planning on it.

Cause I live dangerously, baby.

He wasn't expecting anyone to come over, and it couldn't have been Lulu because he was just texting her and she said she was out having lunch with some girls on cheer. So unless she was lying...
He put his video on pause just as Larry was telling another corny joke, and went to open the door. It was Esme! He hadn't seen Es in like...well okay, he'd seen her around school a little, but they didn't have any classes together so he hadn't hung out with her in what felt like forever.

"Whoa! You're so big!" Was probably not the best thing to say to a girl upon first seeing her, but he wasn't really thinking. "I mean...you look great! All...pregnant and stuff. I mean, the rest of you is still skinny, but you know you've got the..." he placed his hand on his own stomach as if she didn't know what her was talking about.
He smiled at her, hoping she wasn't offended, and then realized that she was just standing awkwardly in the hall. "You want to come in?" There was probably a reason she was here. Maybe she wanted to talk about his girlfriend's awesome boobs again. That was almost always his favorite subject.

My other favorite subject is burritos. And hot wings. *GASP* Do they make a hot wing burrito!??! I'M INVENTING THAT! I'll call it the Dangrito. How am I not rich?

[Esme Russel]

"Whoa! You're so big!"?!?

Esme actually gasped when he said that but she tried not to get angry with him; Ben didn't live with her! He didn't realize that she was constantly teetering on the edge of emotional outburst. Her bottom lip quivered and her eyes were as wide as saucers like she was ready to start crying but then she came to the realization that he might have food and suddenly everything was okay. She was easily cheered up these days with food or even apparently the thought of food. "I know... I have been showing a lot faster with this little peanut and I'm only fourteen weeks pregnant!" She smiled and briefly forgot about the fact that she had a gerbil cage behind her back.

"Okay... How much do you love me?" She asked innocently before pulling the cage from behind her and towards him, "Look at what I bought you!" She tried to sound enthusiastic about it but she really didn't like the way that it was looking at her in the cage with it's beady little eyes and just in general evil appearance. Could gerbils be evil? "Hey Ben... Do you have anything to eat around here? I'm starving... I've only had like... Okay so I've been eating all day but I'm pregnant!"

She knew from her last pregnancy that she wasn't really 'eating for two' but she was so using that this time around. She believed that this was her last pregnancy so she was trying to fully embrace it and just enjoy herself for once in her damn life. She even tried dieting a little bit when she was pregnant with Cassidy! Not the unhealthy way, of course, but she didn't give herself the freedom to eat as she wished.

[benji]

Ben was confused for a second, but he couldn't believe it when Esme pulled the gerbil cage out from behind her back. She bought him a gerbil!!! A living, breathing, hairy, gerbil!
"SO MUCH!" He shouted and then took the cage from her, shutting the door as she walked in. "YOU ARE SO MUCH COOLER THAN MY MOM!" He was still yelling, staring right in the gerbil's eyes, probably scarring the poor creature.

In order to keep himself from shaking the little thing, he sat it on his desk and then sat in his desk chair to look at it. He wasn't even entirely sure what he was supposed to do now. It was so small, he didn't think he could exactly take it out and play with it. He'd probably lose it and then it'd show up in the lounge or something and someone would step on it and oh god, my poor Henrietta!

"It's is a boy for a girl? I think I was to name it Henrietta. Or you know...Henry if it's a boy but..." he looked back at Esme and then realized that she was still waiting for an answer.
"Oh, food! I was actually just about to order something. I was thinking since Captain Burrito down the road delivers, you know..." he shrugged. "Unless you want something else. I've got uncrustables in the fridge, you know those peanut butter and jelly things?" He actually kind of thought they sucked but...why not offer them, right? He generally had a lot of food, but since it was the end of the month and his mom didn't send him grocery money until the first, he was running a bit low on the goodies.
Plus, spending all of his band money on weed and tacos was probably not the best investment.

He went back to staring at his gerbil who was rubbing it's little paws on its face. "Oh my gosh, wook! It's washing it's wittle face, Esme, wook!" He didn't notice that he was speaking baby talk, he was just so overwhelmed by how absolutely adorable it was!

[Esme Russel]

Esme was actually surprised by Ben's reaction to the geril! She knew that he would be excited but she didn't imagine that he would be this excited especially since she had literally just been thinking that it looked like the gerbil version of Satan. "It's a girl, Ben, and she's pregnant. I took her to the vet and the vet said that it should be anywhere between one and like five babies but he couldn't do any ultrasound or anything because well she's a gerbil and they just apparently can't do those on them so you'll just to wait and see but she should be giving birth within the next week or so which means you'll be Papa Danger and the Danger babies well and Lulu will obviously be Mama Danger." She didn't actually think he'd call them that but you never know.

Whoa.. Whoa.. Did he mention Captain Burrito? "They deliver? Oh my God! I've been having Jon go and pick up for me but I didn't know that they delivered.. This changes everything! Okay, I will buy you a hundred gerbils and one unicorn if you buy me a burrito. I've been craving one of their buffalo chicken burritos all fucking day but I didn't want to go and get one." She was incredibly lazy in that regard, wasn't she? She glanced over to the devil gerbil and raised a brow, "It's... cute, Ben." She couldn't help but smile at his adorable baby talk though.

It was nice that she had been able to obviously make someone really happy. She just wanted everyone around her to be as happy as they possibly could be and this gerbil was step one in that process. She didn't know what the next step was going to be but she figured that it would come to her naturally like the gerbil thing had. "I don't know why we don't hang out more, Ben... I mean I'm awesome and you're awesome so together it's like super awesome but we never hang out! I mean you need to be around Cici to influence her and the baby in belly so they know all about uncle Danger." She had been trying to teach Cassidy how to say it for the past few weeks but it was failing miserably.

Maybe she was too young?

[benji]

Ben laughed and then walked over to his bed to grab his phone, "Heck yes Captain Burrito delivers! You haven't been living, gurl. Hang with Danger, and I'll introduce you to a whole new world of take out food."
He called them, and since he ordered from them so frequently, the stoner who picked up the phone knew his voice and put in his usual. Ben also ordered a few for Esme as well, and then a few apple pie burritos and some churros. He didn't even care if Esme wasn't all that hungry. He could eat it all by himself if he had to. He was willing to take one for the team.

When he hung up, he rolled over from his belly to his back and looked up at her. "They'll be here in twenty, so we can make this our 'Danger finally got a gerbil' feast!" He laughed and looked over at the gerbil sitting on his desk.
"You're an awesome friend, Esme. Not only did you get be a cute little animal, but you got me a pregnant animal! Lulu and I are parents!" He threw his fist in the air in celebration, and then thought about how he was going to break the news to his girlfriend.
"Do you think she'd believe me if I told her I was pregnant? I mean, technically it's my my womb, but...basically I'm going to be having a litter of rodent babies. Someone should probably throw me a baby shower, I'm just saying."

If it were any other paring, a guy and a girl sitting alone on a bed would probably look really, really bad. But Esme was married, and Ben had a smoking hot girlfriend who he'd never dream of messing things up with. No matter how hot Esme was, even with a fetus in her tummy, Ben wouldn't do that. And he was sure she wouldn't either. They were just two badass platonic friends.

And we're both pregnant. Don't forget that.

[Esme Russel]

Sometimes Esme actually wondered how Jonathan could possibly trust her so much that he didn't suspect a thing when she was hanging out with attractive guys but maybe that was just because she trusted him with attractive women... Sort of. She didn't want him, Wyatt and Kegan to go to like, say, a strip club and slip dollar bills in some whore's g-string but she wasn't going to try and stop him if that's what he really wanted to do. Why was she thinking about this now? Jonathan would never go to a strip club, Wyatt was likely forbidden and Kegan was also probably forbidden... At least she wasn't forbidding him from anything! She just didn't see what that really did except make whatever it was that you don't want them to look more appealing than it otherwise would be.

She knew that some guys wouldn't trust their wife if she was sitting on some handsome guy's bed alone in his dorm well technically his gerbil was here so maybe that counted as supervision? "I don't know.... Don't you have to have sex to get pregnant? Oh Benny-Boo-Boo Bear! Did you and Lulu do the dirty?" She had gotten that nickname from that movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 days.. That was how it went, right?

Oh well, she'd just have to make Jon watch it with her tonight! She didn't think that he would mind since he never seemed to at least and it was always nice to curl up in their bed and snuggle while watching a cheesy chick flick about a woman who doesn't want to fall in love and does it anyway and the guy who's trying to sign a diamond deal... Oh and the way that she names his penis is classic!

Why hadn't she given Jon's penis a better name? Was it too late to change it to something like Sir Penis?

[benji]

Benji blushed and that gave it away. He didn't know if Lulu had told anyone yet, but the only people he'd told were Alex and Jeremy, and that was just so he could brag.
"Yeah, uhm...Homecoming night...on my drum set," he laughed and placed a hand over his eyes. It was badass to tell that to his guy friends, but seemed almost embarrassing to tell a girl. Sure, they'd had sex more than just then, but that was clearly the most memorable. He couldn't really think of a better way for a person to lose their virginity.

He parted his fingers to look up at her, and he hoped she couldn't tell that his face was a crazy shade of red. "Don't tell anyone I told you. I don't know if she wants people knowing or not yet," Ben had way too much respect for Lulu to let something like this get out if she didn't want it to.
He was biting his tongue on any kind of details, but he wanted to tell Esme a little something. Something that would be easier to tell a girl than it would the guys.
"Lulu's...I didn't think I could ever feel like this, you know?" He said moving his hand away from his eyes. "I'd do anything for her. Which is why I'm so protective of her. I never want to lose her. I don't think...I can't imagine not having her in my life. It's like I need her." He shook his head at himself. "I know that sounds dumb, because we've only been official for a few months, but...I don't know. When I first met her, there was like this giant ah-ha moment and it was like...' Oh, there you are. I've been looking everywhere for you.'"

He'd mostly been looking at the ceiling as he said all of this, so he looked back at Esme and smiled a little. "I think she's the one."

This is the most serious I've been in like...months. Wait. Most serious? Seriouser? Seriousest? Is that a word? Serial? Forget it. I'm writing my own dictionary. Danger's Dictionary of Words and Stuff.

[Esme Russel]

Esme could understand Ben's feelings on Lulu because she felt that same exact way about Jonathan even though she had called him the wrong name the first time they had sex. "I wasn't that drunk... When Jon and I first had sex, I wasn't that drunk and I knew his name... I just... It was different and I didn't like feeling like that right then so I moaned the first name that came to mind and that was Kegan. I didn't even like Kegan but I was thinking about pizza and Kegan kind of smelled like pizza when we had sex... But anyway! My point is that I get it, it's like magical kind of when you meet the person that you know you want to be with for the rest of your life." She nodded slowly as if she had just come to some great discovery when in reality, most people already do this.

"Have you ever thought about how strange it is that there's like a thousand people at this school and we both managed to meet people who make us really happy? Just think of how different that your life would be if you hadn't met Lulu or if I hadn't met Jonathan. I wouldn't be a wife and I wouldn't be a mother and I wouldn't be this happy or this complete." Sure teenage pregnancy wasn't typically celebrated in this part of the world but it had honestly been the best thing that could have happened to her. Cassidy was the missing piece in her life and now she felt like she was a whole person again - a whole happy person who couldn't imagine doing anything to hurt the tiny being inside of her. Dieting and working out could happen when she had time.. She could be thin when the kids were moved out but she could never get these precious moments back.

Why was she thinking about all of this now? It was like all of her thoughts always went back to the one person who centered her life - Cassidy. She missed her when she wasn't there, plain and simple. It wasn't that she didn't think that Jon had things under control with their own daughter. She just wanted to be there with her to watch all of the little moments in her life. Sure the big things like first step and first word matter a lot but so do the smaller things like being there when they wake up scared because they don't see you or when they fall trying to stand on their own and you manage to catch them. (because motherhood makes you somewhat of a ninja in that regard)