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Chapter 13 – Her Diary

GWEN

Dear Diary,

I'm so glad that everything okay again. Ben's fine now, Grandpa's fine now, and we're continuing our vacation together. Nobody will ever suspect that some tragedy has actually befallen on us just a few days ago.

It's it just great? Uncle Carl and Aunt Sandra will never know about Ben's death. They're spared from all the grieve and stuff. Lucky them, huh? I wish I were that lucky too, except that I destroyed that lucky charm and the beginning of summer. Not that I'm sorry, of course.

I've never seen Grandpa this happy before. He's singing aloud all day long. He even treated us ice cream right after we all left the hospital. We didn't even have tentacles for dinner, but just plain fish and chips. It really makes a nice change.

Ben's arm is still hurting him, I'm sure. He's always wincing when he makes small movements with his left hand. I'm going to check out my spell book tomorrow to see if there's anything I can help him with.

Oh yeah, tomorrow we're going to New Mexico. We're visiting a friend of Grandpa's…Mr Green, I think. And her daughter Kai too. Not sure why, but I don't think I like this girl. I know it's obscure, seeing that I've never met her before.

Urgh…Ben's putting up a great show of being his happy-go-lucky self again. He probably thinks I'm fooled by him, but nope! I'm not going to fall for his fake smiles again! He's still feeling horrible him being the wielder of the Omnitrix and putting us in danger blah blah blah…I just hope he's going to snap out of it soon. It's not his fault, after all. He should know, of all people! He's saved at lots. Nobody has actually died because of the aliens hunting him down. Ben always comes to the rescue.

I'm going to sleep now. Funnily enough, the nightmares stopped after I told Ben about them.

Goodnight!

Gwen

Author's comments on the story –

Well, that the end of it. The story just shows how much Ben and Gwen don't about each other, right? They spend most of their childhood arguing, joking around, playing pranks etc. Seriously, they've got a lot of growing up to do. I wrote this fic about Ben and Gwen because, well, I thought that there might just be another side of them, you know, the more caring, loving side?

They really should learn to appreciate the fact that they have each other, and that they're never fighting alone. I mean, it shouldn't take a deathfic to make them understand just how much they mean to each other, right? That would be plain sad. That's one reason why I didn't kill Ben off. The two of them deserves a second chance. Another reason…well…I'm not that good at writing stuff that is too sad. I guess I'll need to train a bit more on that.